by Margaret Lewis | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Why should you join us in celebrating the election of seven new Wisconsin Academy Fellows this November 6? The answer is simple: They are the superstars of their respective fields, worthy of the attention showered on our states finest athletes. So who are Wisconsin...
by Victoria Statz | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Annie Randall may say her golden retriever Nellie is the main reason people keep coming to her Village Booksmith store in downtown Baraboo, but more likely it’s cozy atmosphere and diverse collection of used books. Wedged between crowded bookshelves, stuffed armchairs...
by Bruce Jacobs, Larry Watson | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Larry Watson was born in 1947 in Rugby, North Dakota, and grew up in Bismarck. He completed his BA and MA degrees at the University of North Dakota, and went on to receive his PhD from the University of Utah’s creative writing program before moving to Wisconsin....
by Amy Chaloupka, Victoria Statz | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.” Writer Amy Tan thinks about memory in a different way, noting that “memory feeds imagination.” These two viewpoints nicely illustrate the very different and...
by Jason Smith | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
A lot of folks have asked me what the wheel spoke-like emblem on our Wisconsin Academy logo and Wisconsin People & Ideas masthead represents. For those of you who don’t know, the seventy-two orange rays represent the seventy-two counties of our fine state. Their...
by Jason Smith, JoAnna Poehlmann, Lee Weiss | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
They had never met, these two grande dames of Wisconsin art. Though they are scheduled to have a joint exhibition at the James Watrous Gallery this fall (see below), Milwaukee artist JoAnna Poehlmann and Madison artist Lee Weiss didn’t know much at all about...
