Go London recently featured the work of UW-Madison’s Faisal Abdu’Allah and his work in the group exhibition, “Hogarth: London Voices, London Lives,” which aims to depict the social conditions of London in 2020. Abdu’Allah’s work in the exhibition, which Go London calls the main event, features an actual haircut in a barber’s chair. An associate …
Isthmus published an article featuring UW-Madison’s Lynda Barry and her latest book, “Making Comics,” which is “part memoir, part self-help, and a passionate call for introspection,” reports the Madison newspaper. Barry, a professor of interdisciplinary creativity with the School of Education’s Art Department, holds the Chazen Family Distinguished Chair in Art. She is widely known for …
UW–Madison’s School of Education and several of its programs are once again ranked among the very best in the nation in the 2021 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools rankings released Tuesday, March 17. UW-Madison is home to the No. 1-ranked public school of education in the nation, a distinction it is sharing …
According to a recent report from Isthmus, the School of Education’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) left a lasting impression on the 2020 Children’s Literature Legacy Award winner Kevin Henkes, who was once a student at UW-Madison. Henkes, who studied with the School of Education’s Art Department, took on a work-study job at the CCBC while he …
UW-Madison’s Lisa Gralnick was recently recognized by the American Craft Council (ACC) as a 2020 College of Fellows Honoree. According to an ACC news release, Gralnick “is a contemporary American metalsmith, studio jeweler, and academic whose work challenges the monetary, cultural, and personal value of objects by transforming metals into objects of thought provoking visual …
UW-Madison alumnus Emanuele Corso recently published a book titled, “Schools and Society: In Defense of Public Education.” Corso earned a master’s degree from the School of Education’s Art Department in 1967, and a Ph.D. from the School’s Department of Educational Policy Studies in 1972. His book addresses the increasing attack faced by public schools and public school teachers in the …
UW-Madison’s Tom Loeser, a professor with the School of Education’s Art Department, recently created an artistic seating area for the new Pinney Library in Madison. According to a news release from the Madison Public Library Foundation (MPLF), the seating area “was constructed from ash trees decimated by the emerald ash borer infestation.” Funded by a $12,000 …
The UW–Madison Division of the Arts announced its 2020 Awards in the Creative Arts and two faculty members from the School of Education garnered recognition. Fred Stonehouse, a professor with the Art Department, received the Creative Arts Award, while Leslie Smith III, an associate professor with the Art Department, earned the Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative …
James Patterson, the world’s top-selling author of the past 20 years, will give the charge to graduates as keynote speaker for spring commencement at UW-Madison. Joining him on stage will be this year’s alumni speaker, John Felder, a retired labor union administrator and one of the primary organizers of the Black Student Strike of 1969 at UW–Madison. …
As a part of the campus-wide faculty show at UW-Madison’s Chazen Museum, Derrick Buisch, a professor with the School of Education’s Art Department, and a team of helpers moved his 38.75-foot-long painting from the Art Lofts to the Museum across major streets on campus. Scott Gordon, a writer for Tone Madison, was a part of that …