By Kari Dickinson This summer and fall, University Theatre will launch its 2024-25 season with the staging of Tony Kushner’s acclaimed two-part play, “Angels in America.” “Angels in America” is widely regarded as one of the most important American plays of the last century. The two-part epic, which spans various locations including New York City …
An article in the summer 2024 issue of On Wisconsin magazine, headlined “Art for All,” shines a light on public art across the UW–Madison campus. The article includes several works by artists with ties to the School of Education’s Art Department. They are: James Watrous James Watrous, who earned a bachelor’s degree in art as …
The Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA) featured Art Department alumnus Rodney Lambright II in a recent story that is headlined, “The Art of Story: Rodney Lambright II Uses Visual Media to Sketch Out Narratives.” Lambright, who graduated in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in art and communication arts, is a storyboard artist, designer, and animator for BUCK, a …
In May 2024, Made at the UW, a Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA) event, brought visitors to the Art Lofts, home to several of the Art Department’s workshops, faculty and student studios, and gallery spaces. Groups toured the facility and spent time with five faculty members as they brought them into their workspaces. WAA shared an article about the event, spotlighting …
Abby Sunde is one of 10 emerging craft artists nationwide who were selected for the Center for Craft’s prestigious Windgate-Lamar Fellowship for 2024. Sunde graduated with a BFA from the UW–Madison School of Education’s Art Department in May, concentrating on glass and drawing. “The materiality of glass — its liveness, and its ability to embed meaning in …
UW–Madison alumnus Brian Counselman, a science teacher at Malcolm Shabazz City High School, is one of five educators from across the state who have been named 2025 Wisconsin Teachers of the Year. These educators received the honor for their dedication to the education profession and for the impact they have on their students as learners …
UW–Madison alumna Devon Stackonis, who earlier this month graduated with an MFA in printmaking from the School of Education’s Art Department, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue research in Wrocław, Poland, furthering work she started as a student at UW–Madison. Stackonis will head to Wroclaw in Sept. 2024, where she will spend 10 …
The Capital Times published a Q&A with the new director of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMOCA), Paul Baker Prindle, a Wisconsin native and UW–Madison alumnus. Prindle, who earned his MFA in printmaking from the School of Education’s Art Department, recently returned to Wisconsin to head the museum, starting his role on May 9. …
UW–Madison alumna Erin Hastey, who graduated with a PhD from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 2023, has received the Dissertation of the Year Award from the Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC). For over a decade, Hastey “has empowered organizational leaders to move from conflict to …
The Wisconsin State Journal utilizes the expertise of UW–Madison’s Mariana Castro in a recent article examining the impact of a new law in Wisconsin that overhauls reading education. The law, Act 20, aims to improve low reading proficiency rates by requiring instruction to be grounded in “the science of reading,” the article explains. Among other …