Video poetry gives creators an opportunity to use one of our newest art forms–film–to transform one of our oldest art forms—poetry. This emerging and exciting format is adding to the rapidly growing audience for poetry in America. MVPF will be the first of its kind in Wisconsin and will present the work of local, national, […]
Discussing the Women Artists Forward Fund’s Forward Art Prize on...
The mission of the Women Artists Forward Fund is to address gender disparity issues that exist for women artists, by providing them with financial resources to strengthen their work, along with recognition and community support to leverage their creative capital. Bird Ross, Brenda Baker, Angie Contreras, and Karin Wolf talk with Friday Buzz host Jonathan […]
How the Theater Community is Responding to COVID-19
Today on the show, we take a look at the impact of coronavirus on theater arts with Jennifer Uphoff Gray, artistic director of Forward Theater Company, and Carey Cannon, associate artistic director at American Players Theatre. Together with Carousel, they share personal stories about how theater has affected their lives and discuss the importance of […]
Highlighting UW–Madison’s First Wave Scholarship Program
For today’s show, Ali highlights the work of Sofia Snow, a community leader, writer, and performing artist who was recently named the director of the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI) at UW–Madison. Sofia, herself a graduate of OMAI’s First Wave hip-hop scholarship program, discusses her path from the East Coast to Madison, her extensive […]
Holiday Show: 2019 Arts & Culture Roundup
For today’s holiday edition, co-hosts Richelle Wilson and Nate Carlin look back on some of the notable moments in arts and culture in 2019—the books, movies, and TV that generated important conversations about what we value in society. With the input of listeners, they take up the effect of mega box-office hits on cinema and […]
“Of Water, Air, and Poetry” Perspectives en Plein Air by Diane Was...
Award-winning plein air painter, Diane Washa, captures the varying atmospheres of midwestern landscapes. Often painterly and dreamlike, Washa’s paintings not only depict the formal structure and color of these scenes but manifest the indescribable aura and presence of the spaces. Borrowing her exhibition title from twentieth-century, Wisconsin objectivist poet, Lorine Niedecker, Washa too creates works […]
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