University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Alumni News

UW–Madison alum and MMOCA director shares vision for 2025 Wisconsin Triennial

UW–Madison alumnus Paul Braker Prindle, director of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMOCA), recently spoke with the Capital Times about his vision for the 2025 Wisconsin Triennial. Baker Prindle, who earned his MFA from the School of Education’s Art Department, first participated in the Triennial as an artist in 2013. Now, as MMOCA’s head, …

Moonshine 2025 brings guest artists Sargeant and Merrit-Brown for annual Black History Month performance celebration

The UW–Madison Dance Department and Professor Chris Walker are delighted to present Moonshine, Friday, Feb. 28, at 3:30 p.m. in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall. This free event brings together campus, community, alumni, and students in performance to celebrate Black artistic scholarship and the Black experience with live music, contemporary theater, and dance …

University Theatre presents ‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’ Feb. 27 to March 9

By Kari Dickinson “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” a classic American play by August Wilson, is University Theatre’s latest production, opening Feb. 27.  Set in a Pittsburgh boarding house in 1911, the play captures the lives of Black migrants seeking new opportunities in the North during the Great Migration, as well as people running from their …

UW–Madison’s Baldacchino is author of new book examining Malta’s ‘anomolous state’

UW–Madison’s John Baldacchino has released his 17th book, “Secular Reflections: On a Nation’s Anomaly.” Baldacchino is a professor in the School of Education’s Art Department and an affiliate of the Department of Educational Policy Studies. His work explores art, philosophy, and education, with a particular focus on political theory and cultural critique. In his latest work, …