Several faculty and students from the School of Education have been named as recipients of 2026 UW–Madison Division of the Arts Creative Arts Awards.
The Creative Arts Awards recognize and support artistic research and outreach across campus, honoring artists, researchers, and students from a wide range of disciplines and creative practices.
The School of Education recipients are:
Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts
The Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts (established in 1997) recognizes and honors extraordinary artistic projects and endeavors of the highest quality carried out by tenured members of the UW–Madison arts faculty.
- Christina West, Associate Professor, Art
David and Edith Sinaiko Frank Graduate Fellowship for a Woman in the Arts
The David and Edith Sinaiko Frank Graduate Fellowship (established in 2000) is designed to support and encourage graduate students in the visual and performing arts who identify as a woman by providing them with an opportunity to present their work in public.
- Nika McKagen, MFA in Photography
Graduate Student Creative Arts Awards
Thanks to an allocation of the Anonymous Fund, the Graduate Student Creative Arts Award (established in 2020) supports artistic performances, exhibitions (including curatorial exhibitions), readings, and research necessary to develop arts programming.
- Tanya Habjouqa, MFA in Photography
- Tina Rose Rea Meister, MFA in Painting/Interdisciplinary Art
- BLUE NAGA, MFA in 4D/Fine Art & Aida Arosoaie, PhD in Anthropology
- Christie Tirado, MFA in Print, Book, and Paper
Lyman S.V. Judson and Ellen Mackechnie Judson Graduate Student Award in the Creative Arts
The Lyman S.V. Judson and Ellen Mackechnie Judson Student Award in the Creative Arts (established in 1997) is presented to an undergraduate and graduate student in the creative arts “who has made the greatest contribution to the field(s) of study covered.”
- Emily Nott, Curriculum and Instruction
- Anne E. Stoner, MFA in 4D/Fine Art
Lyman S.V. Judson and Ellen Mackechnie Judson Undergraduate Student Award in the Creative Arts
The Lyman S.V. Judson and Ellen Mackechnie Judson Student Award in the Creative Arts (established in 1997) is presented to an undergraduate and graduate student in the creative arts “who has made the greatest contribution to the field(s) of study covered.”
- Elizabeth Larson, Computer Science, Philosophy, Photography (Certificate)
- Jameson Milhaupt, Theatre and Drama
Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Arts Awards
Funded by the Division of the Arts, the Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Arts Award (established in 2022) supports undergraduate students working across disciplines to create work and/or to conduct scholarly research.
- Ahema Odeng-Otu, Art, Graphic Design
- Justin Russell, Elementary Education
- Vivian Ye, Art
The 2026 Creative Arts Awards ceremony will take place on Monday, April 20, at 5 p.m. in the H.F. DeLuca Forum at the Discovery Building, with a reception to follow.