Martha Glowacki is a Wisconsin- based artist who focuses mainly on the natural world and the history of science in her work. She currently has a show of installations and sculptures at the Chazen Museum of Art, Martha Glowacki’s Natural History, Observations and Reflections, which is on view until May 14. The works in this […]
Chali Pittman Joins WORT as Talk Producer
WORT 89.9 FM welcomes Ms. Chali Pittman as our newest Talk Producer. Pittman was formerly the station manager of WSUM, UW Madison’s student radio. She also interned for Wisconsin Public Radio, was a WORT DJ and talk producer for the Eight O’Clock Buzz, as well as a contributor to Tone Madison. She graduated from UW […]
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When you think of “historic preservation,” you probably think a lot about buildings. That’s certainly how people in charge of local historic preservation efforts in Madison have tended to think about it for many years. The people behind a new project at the city of Madison are hoping to change that, making historic preservation more […]
West Side DMVs’ Consolidation Drives Civil Rights Complaint
Two DMV service centers on Madison’s west side, at Sheboygan Avenue and Odana Road, are being closed and consolidated into a singular service center at 8417 Excelsior Drive this month. While the soon-to-be-defunct service centers are directly on Metro Transit’s bus lines, the new Excelsior Drive service center will not be directly accessible by public […]
Teixeira ‘On Exile’ at MMoCA
José Carlos Teixeira is a Portuguese visual and video artist and Professor of 4D Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His current show is called “On Exile,” and it is on view at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in the Imprint gallery until May 20th, 2018. The installation consists of two films, which both consist […]
Peter Dominguez On Richard Davis & His Foundation for Young Bassi...
Peter Dominguez is Professor of Jazz Studies and Bass Performance at Oberlin conservatory and College Director of the Milt Hinton Institute for studio bass. He was Richard Davis’ first graduate student at the university and the mastermind behind the Richard Davis Foundation for Young Bassists. He joins us in advance of “A Concert for Richard,” […]