by Tim Abler | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
In 2007, the Wisconsin Arts Board’s Percent for Art program commissioned six photographers to create portraits of contemporary Wisconsin worker. These photographs by Dick Blau and Tim Abler (Milwaukee), David Heberlein (River Falls), John Shimon and Julie...
by Allison Slavick, Jessi Peterson, John Lehman, Kathleen Dale, Kathryn Gahl, Marysa LaRowe, Michael Kriesel | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
Wisconsin People & Ideas editor Jason A. Smith and literary editor John Lehman host an evening of the best poetry and fiction by up-and-coming Wisconsin writers at the Wisconsin People & Ideas/Wisconsin Book Festival Short Story and Poetry Contest reading...
by Janine Geske, Scott Straus | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
Can victims, their families, and communities—even countries—heal after unspeakable acts of violence? In this Academy Evenings “Talk to Me” series of discussions, Janine Geske, a Distinguished Professor of Law at Marquette University and former Wisconsin...
by Jane Simon, John DeMain, Valerie Laken | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
In Part III of the Wisconsin Academy’s “Perspectives on a Post-9/11 World” Academy Evenings event on September 11, 2011, panelists consider how the arts can provide new ways of understanding tragedy: John DeMain, music director of the Madison...
by Charles Cohen, Louise Cainkar | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
In Part II of the Wisconsin Academy’s “Perspectives on a Post-9/11 World” Academy Evenings event on September 11, 2011, three panelists reflect on the meaning of citizenship in America: Charles Cohen, UW–Madison professor of history and religious...
by David Broder | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
How do we resolve America’s problems in ways liberals and conservatives will embrace? In Part I of the Wisconsin Academy’s “Getting to Purple: Beyond the Red and Blue of Partisan Politics” series of Academy Evenings talks, Washington Post...
