by Megan Link | Jun 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
by Faisal Abdu'Allah, Amy Quan Barry, Howard Fuller, Karen Ann Hoffman, Mrill Ingram, Marie Kohler, David Ullrich | Apr 17, 2025 | Magazine Article
This winter, we asked some of the newly inducted 2024 Academy Fellows to recommend books, documentaries, podcasts, records, or plays. Here’s the list of what’s currently inspiring Wisconsin’s most inspiring thought leaders. Faisal Abdu’Allah Faisal Abdu’Allah, PhD,...
by Brady Foust | Apr 17, 2025 | Magazine Article
Academy Fellow James Brady Foust died on November 27, 2024, in Eau Claire at the age of 81. Foust was an accomplished geographer, inventor, professor, and patron of arts who revolutionized insurance geospatial databases, patented new technology, served as a professor...
by Jacqueline Houtman | Jul 31, 2024 | Magazine Article
When visitors enter the building where Ahna Skop works, the first thing they see is a large art installation on the lobby wall. Looming overhead are what appear to be leaves, bubbles, an enormous multicolored Easter egg, and a worm. But this building is not an art...
by B.J. Hollars | Jul 31, 2024 | Magazine Article
In 1929, as much of the country began to feel the pain of The Great Depression, German emigrant Ellis Huntsinger—a traveling lightning-rod salesman—found a new fortune in the ground beneath his feet just south of Eau Claire. No, not corn or soybeans, but a more...
