Arts and Culture

Projects

• UW–Madison Writers’ Institute

  About 200 fiction and nonfiction writers meet by Lake Mendota in Madison each summer to learn about publishing trends, improve their craft and discove...

• Deadly Writers Patrol

  UW-Madison Professor Craig Werner works with this Vietnam veterans writing group, which does public readings and puts out a magazine featuring veteran...

• Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society

  Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society is an independent, summer chamber music festival. Its performances are in June each year, and take place in Madison...

• Wheelhouse Studios - Wisconsin Union

  Wheelhouse Studios provides hands-on, multi-layered engagement opportunities in the arts. Formerly Wisconsin Union Mini Courses and the the Wisconsin...

• American Languages: Our Nation's Many Voices Online

  At least a dozen Wisconsin counties have had outreach presentations from the American Languages: Our Nation's Many Voices Online project of UW–Madison...

• Public Folk Arts and Folklife Projects in the Upper Midwest

  The Public Folk Arts and Folklife Projects of the Upper Midwest series of project collection guides highlights public folklore field documentation und...

• Wisconsin Union Theater

  The Wisconsin Union Theater presents its own season and also serves as the university's main and largest public venue. The audience and artists includ...

• How German Is American? Poster and Interpretive Brochure Project

  Free outreach events in seven Wisconsin counties were held for the How German is American? project, for which UW-Madison faculty and staff produced a...

• French 595: Theory and Practice of French & Francophone Drama

  Every other year, students enrolled in the French theatre course 595 produce a full-length play in French that is performed in one of the UW-Madison c...

• Western Wisconsin Cultural Initiative

  This program helped enrich the musical offerings of several rural school districts in western Wisconsin by way of a brass trio ensemble, school progra...

• Online Courses for Professional Development and Enrichment

  On any given day more than 100 Wisconsin residents are working one-on-one over the Internet with UW-Madison instructors in a wide variety of online co...

• Great World Texts in Wisconsin

  Great World Texts in Wisconsin connects scholars at UW-Madison with thousands of high school students and teachers in dozens of school districts throu...

• German Words—American Voices

  Drawing on recently digitized interviews from the North American German Dialect Archive at the UW–Madison Max Kade Institute, "German Words, American...

• Belgian-American Research Collection

  One of the country's largest concentrations of Walloon-speaking Belgians is found in northeastern Wisconsin, resulting in a unique cultural and social...

• Great Lakes Maritime History Project

  Wisconsin has a proud and colorful history, and one of its richest and most romantic chapters is its maritime history, staged on the waters of Lake Mi...

• Applied Learning Projects (ALPs) for Arts Administration MBA Students

  MBA students in the Arts Administration program participate in hands-on projects with leading nonprofit arts and cultural institutions and statewide m...

• University of Wisconsin Press

  Since 1937, UW Press has published thousands of books, including hundreds that document the culture, heritage, natural history and people of Wisconsin...

• Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE)

  The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE, 1985-2013, Harvard University Press) documents the language of the American people, recording the w...

• Winds of Wisconsin

  Winds of Wisconsin is a premier high-school-level wind ensemble with the goal of providing outstanding young musicians with the opportunity to learn w...

• Wisconsin Film Festival

  The Wisconsin Film Festival is presented by the UW–Madison Division of the Arts in association with the Department of Communication Arts. Founded in 1...

• Wisconsin Folksong Collection

  The Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946, represents materials from two collections housed in three discrete but closely related repositories. Th...

• World Cinema Day

  World Cinema Day is a free, annual event held in conjunction with the Wisconsin Film Festival that brings high-school and middle-school students and t...

• The UW Historic Aerial Protography of Wisconsin Project

  The UW Map Library owns an extensive and popular collection of historic aerial photography of Wisconsin, dating back to the 1930s. The project will pr...

• UW Cinematheque

  The Cinematheque is dedicated to showcasing the best in international cinema history and contemporary movies which would otherwise never reach Madison...

• Writers' Institute Conference

  In this award-winning national program, named one of the best writing conferences in the country by THE WRITER magazine, the latest information in wri...

• Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells

  "Picturing Indians" is a fascinating book about the late 19th century photographer Henry Hamilton Bennett (who made the Wisconsin Dells famous through...

• Linguistic Voices on Campus

  Linguistic Voices on Campusis a podcast series, in which Anja Wanner invites scholars and students from the UW-Madison to discuss common beliefs abou...

• Wisconsin Singers Performances, Workshops and Outreach

  Since 1967, Wisconsin Singers has been traveling to more than 35 communities annually, helping service organizations and music booster groups raise do...

• School of Music Wind Ensemble Tour

  The UW School of Music Wind Ensemble makes it a practice to engage in several tours, performing for talented high school musicians in Wisconsin, Minne...

• Recollection Wisconsin

  The mission of Recollection Wisconsin is to create opportunities for people to discover personal connections to the past. Our program offers free acce...

• The Prints of Warrington Colescott: Sixty Years of Art & Satire

  Since the 1940's, Wisconsin printmaker Warrington Colescott has trained his artistic eye on the fashions and foibles of human behavior. The University...

• Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Town Center

  The Town Center, located on the main floor of the Discovery building, welcomes visitors to Explore.Engage.Discover and fits with both the campus strat...

• Evenings of American Indian Storytelling

  Each winter, the American Indian Studies program at UW-Madison joins the Wunk Sheek student group in hosting the Annual Evenings of American Indian St...

• Collegiate Poetry Slam

  The fourth annual Collegiate Poetry Slam, held by the Multicultural Student Coalition, creates a unique space on campus for UW-Madison students, facul...

• Syntax Untangler

  "Teach your students how to figure out tricky texts in any language." UW-Madison released Syntax Untangler for public use in August 2011. This is an o...

• Exploring interfaces between science and the humanities

  Carrie Roy, post-doctorate coordinator of Humanities Research Bridge, was one of the dozen winners of the Emerging Interface Awards from the Wisconsin...

• Art graduate connects campus, schools with outreach endowment

  Developed by Tom Loeser and funded by Helen Burish, these art workshops seek to provide high school art teachers with hands-on professional developmen...

• Bad River Global Health/Tribal Youth Program

  This program is a field course in the Undergraduate Certificate in Global Health (UCGH). It connects UW-Madison with people in programs on the Bad Riv...

• The Mapuche Indigenous Community of Nicolas Ailio and the Chilean State

  Professor Florencia Mallon carried out a collaborative ethnography with the people of the Mapuche community of Nicolas Ailior and the Chilean State. S...

• Write-by-the-Lake Writer's Workshop & Retreat

  Public school teachers and writers from across the state attend this annual June writing week sponsored through UW-Madison Continuing Studies to impro...

• Wisconsin Regional Artist Program

  The Wisconsin Regional Art Program (WRAP) provides statewide art workshops and exhibits for nonprofessional artists. It was begun in 1940 (by the nati...

• Teacher Training Workshop: The Hmong in Contemporary and Historical Perspective (Appleton/Madison)

  In June 2013, UW-Madison's Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Center for East Asian Studies collaborated with the Appleton, Oshkosh, and Madison H...

• Wisconsin Idea Scholar Program (2012-13)

  From Feburary 3, 2012 to February 15, 2013, a group of 31 community leaders from all over the state convened at the University of Wisconsin-Madison an...

• Midwest Review

  Midwest Review is an annual literary and arts magazine that embodies the Wisconsin Idea by providing a venue for thoughtful and thought-provoking writ...

• Paper on the Law of Intellectual Property Exhaustion

  Extending the Wisconsin idea of engaged scholarship globally, this project entailed preparing a comprehensive study of the rights to resell and reuse...

• GLS Center Playsquads

  Through games, the Games Learning Society Center makes scientific discovery visible to the public by creating digital games for learning science. Whil...

• UW Press

  The UW Press publishes books (including ebooks) for Wisconsin and internationally. This page (http://uwpress.wisc.edu/WIRegional.html) contains a smal...

• SoundWaves

  Professor Daniel Grabois created the SoundWaves series in 2012 as a way to bring scientific knowledge and music to the Madison community. SoundWaves e...

• Chazen Museum of Art Online Collection Database

  In the spirit of the Wisconsin Idea, the Chazen Museum of Art has virtually opened its doors to allow access to the entire collection of over 22,000 a...

• Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Volunteer

  Professor Janet Jensen has been volunteering with one of the younger Milwaukee Youth Symphony orchestras, Sinfonia, during their rehearsals on Thursda...

• Pennsylvania Dutch Documentation Project

  Pennsylvania Dutch is one of America's oldest thriving heritage languages, spoken by over 300,000 people, mainly Old Order Amish. Wisconsin, with the...

• Pro Arte Quartet and UW Arts Outreach

  Each year the Pro Arte Quartet makes a minimum of ten excursions throughout Wisconsin. These excursions range from recitals at arts venues to performa...

• Wisconsin 101: Our History in Objects

  Wisconsin 101 is a statewide collaborative public history project based on an interactive website (wi101.wisc.edu) and featuring radio programs and po...

• Nonprofit Board Leadership and Development

  This course is designed to provide an opportunity for graduate students to serve on nonprofit boards, learn about the roles and responsibilities of bo...

• Books about Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin

  The University of Wisconsin Press has published several books about Frank Lloyd Wright that contribute to the international interest in Wright that br...

• Wiigwaasi-Jiimaan: These Canoes Carry Culture

  Wayne Valliere was the Windgate artist in residence from September to November 2013. He built a birchbark canoe in the woodshop in the Art Department,...

• Oakhill Prison Humanities Project

  OPHP is a collective of volunteers who provide educational programming to individuals incarcerated at Oakhill Correctional Institution, a minimum-secu...

• Public Humanities Fellowship

  The Center for the Humanities’ Public Humanities Fellowship Program provides humanities graduate students with enriching experiences outside of academ...

• Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters Roadmap Marketing

  The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, is an independent, nonprofit organization since 1870 with the tagline, “We connect Wisconsin peop...

• Wisconsin Science Festival

  The award-winning, annual Wisconsin Science Festival, based on the UW-Madison campus and featuring events in more than 30 locations around the state,...

• Sustainability and All that Jazz

  A group of Madison entrepreneurs is considering a concept for a new bar/restaurant which would brew local beer, serve tapas, and offer live jazz. The...

• Public Humanities Exchange

  In 2005, the Center for the Humanities began supporting a select number of graduate student projects, convened outside the boundaries of academia. Eac...

• Public Archaeology: Unearthing Wisconsin's First Town in Trempealeau, WI/ The Trempealeau Interpretive Path (TRIP)

  The Trempealeau Interpretive Path (TRIP) is a series of three inter-­connected exhibit venues that explores the unique archaeology of the Trempealeau...

• Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Field School

  In this joint summer course held alternatively at UW-Milwaukee and UW-Madison, students, faculty, scholars and community members explore ways to see a...

• Student Hometown Projects - Cross Plains

  Four undergraduate students have been given the opportunity to identify and solve an issue in their hometowns by partnering with a community organizat...

• Student Hometown Projects - Green Bay

  Four undergraduate students have been given the opportunity to identify and solve an issue in their hometowns by partnering with a community organizat...

• Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937–1946

  James Leary, UW-Madison professor of Folklore and of Scandinavian Studies, is a native of Rice Lake, Wisconsin, and has been documenting the music and...

• Recovering Analog and Digital Data (RADD)

  The iSchool at UW-Madison spent 2016-17 rescuing Wisconsin history in audiovisual form. Oral histories and video documentaries in the Mineral Point Li...

• The Quill literary journal

  The Quill, a literary journal for middle school and high school students in Green Bay, was one of four projects selected by the Wisconsin Open Educati...

• Cultural mediator for Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities

  Mark Louden, Professor of German and Director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, is a cultural mediator for the Amish and Old Orde...

• Strategic Impact Consulting Projects

  2nd year Bolz Center for Arts Administration MBA students, in the Wisconsin School of Business, serve statewide communities and their creative organiz...

• Uncovering Ancient Life at Aztalan: New Explorations at One of Wisconsin’s Most Important Prehistoric Native American Communities

  Aztalan State Park, outside of Lake Mills, WI, was inhabited by two distinct groups of Native Americans nearly a millennium ago. Over three years, we...

• Great World Texts

  Great World Texts is a program through the Center for the Humanities. It creates a relationship between scholars at the university and high school tea...

• Lands We Share (initiative of the Wisconsin Farms Oral History Project)

  The Lands We Share (LWS) was a complex, multi-campus project built upon the Wisconsin Farms Oral History Project (OHP). The OHP, founded at Whitewater...

• Best. Friday. Ever. event series

  At Allen Centennial Garden we believe gardeners, through their gardens, can save the world. Best. Friday. Ever. embraces the Wisconsin Idea and celebr...

• Neighbors Past and Present: The Wisconsin German Experience

  With generous funding from the Wisconsin Humanities Council, the Max Kade Institute has produced this traveling exhibit, “Neighbors Past and Present:...

• Partnering with the Hmong Community to Build Better Medical Translation Tools and Preserve Hmong Narratives to Reduce Health Disparities

  The Hmong experience many health disparities. An important step toward addressing these health disparities is overcoming poor communication, language...

• Retrofitting Latinxs into the Wisconsin Historical Narrative

  Latina/o/xs have a long-rooted presence in Wisconsin but their histories are largely absent in institutional archives. To provide more visibility to L...