by Jane Elder | Mar 3, 2021 | Magazine Article
Last fall, I had what our friends at public radio call a “driveway moment” (although mine was in the living room). I stopped what I was doing and listened intently to a television program featuring Danielle Allen, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at...
by Jason Smith | Mar 3, 2021 | Magazine Article
When I first began working at the Academy, I mistook her for a spirit. I would catch just a glimpse of a small figure clad in a long fur coat gliding past the open doorway of the kitchen as I microwaved my leftovers. One day, with a mouthful of spaghetti, I...
by Kim Suhr, Chris Fink | Jan 11, 2021 | Magazine Article
“Who’s native and who’s been introduced?” asks a character in Chris Fink’s story, “The Bush Robin Sings.” The question in many ways fits tidily into the other stories within his new collection, Add This to the List of Things...
by Andrew Redington, Robin Jebavy, Kyoung Ae Cho, Dakota Mace | Oct 1, 2020 | Magazine Article
If this were a normal 2020, the James Watrous Gallery would be featuring solo shows by artists Robin Jebavy and Andrew Redington over the summer months and then Kyoung Ae Cho and Dakota Mace in the fall. However, as the gallery will be closed until Overture Center for...
by Jody Clowes | Oct 1, 2020 | Magazine Article
While cocooned at home during this coronavirus pandemic, I have spent hours on my laptop engaging with art. I’ve raised a glass at online receptions, tuned into social media for studio tours, explored the digital collections of the Rijksmuseum and the Forbidden City,...
by Maryo Gard Ewell | Oct 1, 2020 | Magazine Article
On October 3, 1914, over 4,000 people gathered in rural Sauk City to attend the opening of a play. Written, organized, and directed by Ethel Rockwell, the University of Wisconsin Extension’s director of community drama, A Social Center Pageant promised attendees a...
