The Arts at Wisconsin

The Arts At Wisconsin Arthur Hove Editor, principal author About the Author Art Hove, special assistant emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, served in a number of capacities during an association with the university that began when he enrolled as an undergraduate in the fall of 1952. He served as assistant to the chancellor and director of public information from 1970 to 1989. From 1989 until his retirement in 1996 he was special assistant to the provost. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, he also taught courses in the School of Business, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and the Department of Art. He is a 1992 Distinguished Alumni Award winner, author of The University of Wisconsin: A Pictorial History (1991) and co-author, with Warrington Colescott, of Progressive Printmakers: Wisconsin Artists and the Print Renaissance (1999). Acknowledgements Art Hove would like to thank Interim Chancellor David Ward; Provost Paul DeLuca; Prof. Norma Saldivar, Theatre and Drama and Executive Director, Arts Institute; Emeritus Prof. Tino Balio, Communication Arts; Ken Chraca, Associate Director, Arts Institute; Tim Hamilton, Project Assistant, Arts Institute; Eileen Fitzgerald, Assistant Director, University Communications and Marketing; Earl Madden, Art Director, University Communications and Marketing; Nancy Brower and Toni Good, Senior Editors, University Communications and Marketing, and Susannah Brooks, Writer, University Communications and Marketing, for their support and contributions to The Arts at Wisconsin. The UW Arts Institute Created in 1998, the UW Arts Institute is an intercollege unit of the College of Letters & Science, the School of Education, and the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Mission Statement The University of Wisconsin–Madison Arts Institute represents the collective voice and vision of the arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. We advance the arts as an invaluable resource to a vital university, and we promote all forms of artistic expression, experience, and interpretation as fundamental paths to engaging and understanding our world. Interim Chancellor David Ward Provost Paul DeLuca Deans’ Council Robin Douthitt, Dean, School of Human Ecology Gary Sandefur, Dean, College of Letters & Science Julie Underwood (Chair), Dean, School of Education UW Arts Institute Executive Committee Norma Saldivar, Executive Director Ann Archbold, Chair, Department of Theatre and Drama Li Chiao-Ping, Chair, Dance Department Thomas Dale, Chair, Department of Art History Wei Dong, Chair, Design Studies Department David Furumoto, Director, University Theatre Lea Jacobs, Director, UW Film Vance Kepley, Department of Communication Arts Tom Loeser, Chair, Department of Art Judith Mitchell, Creative Writing Program William Ney, Director, Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives Russell Panczenko, Director, Chazen Museum of Art Ralph Russo, Cultural Arts Director, Memorial Union, Wisconsin Union Theater John Stevens, Director, School of Music Andrew Taylor, Director, Bolz Center for Arts Administration Copyright © 2012 University of Wisconsin–Madison Board of Regents 2 Table of Contents Introduction by Norma Saldivar 4 Arts on Campus 64 Arts Institute Overview by Tino Balio 5 Wisconsin Union Shining a Light on the Arts at Wisconsin 6 Chazen Museum by Arthur Hove Tandem Press The Year of the Arts 8 Bolz Center Art 14 Creative Arts and Design Community Art History 20 The Wisconsin Idea at Work 72 Communication Arts 26 Artists-in-Residence 74 Dance 32 The Future of the Arts on Campus 76 Music 38 Theatre and Drama 44 Arts Programs 50 Creative Writing Design Studies OMAI/First Wave Above: Sam Gilliam, For the Fog 15, 2010 Relief, digital, acrylic paint, polymer varnish, rivits, Japanese paper, wood veneer, hand sewing, 28 x 43 1/2 inches Courtesy of Tandem Press Left: Spring 2011 interdisciplinary artist-in-residence Lynda Barry works with a student. 3 s the executive director of the Arts students and to reinforce the idea that arts can make a difference in Institute, it is a pleasure and a privilege the cultural lives of our students, not only while at UW–Madison, but for me to introduce you to University Wisconsin– throughout their lives. Madison Arts on Campus. In the spring of 2009, the As a final gesture begun during the 2010–2011 Year of the executive committee of the institute began planning Arts, we offer you University Wisconsin–Madison Arts on Campus, aA celebration of the arts on campus that came to be known as UW– a chronicle of the arts on campus. We hope that this collection Madison’s 2010–2011 Year of the Arts. This campuswide celebration of historical and present-day tales will give you more insight into was designed to provide context to the amazing number of events, the commitment we have for bringing all kinds of inquiry to our performances, studio presentations, and tours that happen each year students. We are thankful to the passion and efforts of Art Hove, at UW–Madison. In doing so, we hoped to raise the visibility of the who has been a longtime contributor to the histories of the campus, work of our students, faculty, and staff; to broaden the awareness for presenting a perspective of the history of the arts on campus. of the arts on campus; to broaden the scope of the impact across He has been a wonderful collaborator, and he helped us realize our campus boundaries to exemplify the Wisconsin Idea; and to shed light dream that is now this book. We’re also grateful to Tino Balio and on the amazing impact our alumni have locally, regionally, nationally, Susan Cook for their leadership of the Arts Institute and to all of and globally. the dozens of faculty who have served on the executive committee Initially, our hopes were modest for the year’s activities, but for their generosity and creativity. We must acknowledge the Arts shortly after announcing the yearlong celebration, we discovered Institute staff, who work tirelessly to bring all of the programming that there was a great deal of interest from all corners of the campus, to life, and members of the Year of the Arts Committee, as well as Madison community, and Dane County. In the spirit of the Wisconsin the arts community who were supremely dedicated to the idea of Idea, we modified the campus celebration to embrace more inclusivity celebrating the arts and sharing the amazing work of our faculty, and re-focused the celebration as “open source,” providing any orga- staff, and students. We honor our alumni and emeriti who have nization associated with the arts within the vicinity of the campus, or contributed to the strength of the arts on our campus through associated through partnership, the chance to participate. We enlisted the years and who have gone on to blaze trails. Finally, I would be the aid of campus partners such as University Communications and remiss not to acknowledge the support of the chancellor, provost, the Wisconsin Alumni Association to help us spread the word. They and deans for the arts on campus. Their support and commitment came through with such resounding support that we can never demonstrate our shared belief that the arts are truly essential to the adequately show the kind of appreciation deserved. In addition, we life of the campus. employed new social media and the Web to contact alumni and knit together city events with campus events, expanding the reach and Enjoy! impact of the celebration. Norma Saldivar The yearlong celebration allowed the arts community to bring Executive Director, Arts Institute prominent alumni back to campus to exchange ideas with current Professor, Department of Theatre and Drama 4 UW–MADISON YEAR OF THE ARTS 2010–11 his tribute to the arts at Wisconsin has programs that have flourished to this day. At the start of the recon- its roots in 1994, when Chancellor David stituted Arts Consortium, the chancellor’s office and the University of Ward reconstituted the Arts Consortium and gave it Wisconsin Foundation turned over the administration of significant a mandate to review and make recommendations to arts-related bequests that led to the creation of the Arts Awards promote and strengthen the university’s arts programs. program to help support the research and creative endeavors of ChancellorT Ward’s action was a response to a 1993 Arts Consortium the university’s arts faculty, staff, and students. The annual awards report titled The Future of the Arts, which concluded that the “historic ceremonies showcase the achievements of the recipients and demon- dispersion” of the arts among several administrative units “often strate the place of the arts in a research institution. In 1998, the Arts results in programmatic weakness, inhibits cooperation, and dimin- Institute successfully competed for funding from the Cluster Hire ishes resources and influence.” The report advocated the creation of a Initiative. The funding led to the creation of the Interdisciplinary Arts college of the arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison by the end Residency Program which brings world-class artists to campus for of the decade. Because the costs of establishing a new college would semester-long residencies. Nick Cave, visual and performance artist be prohibitive given the declining amount of state support for higher and designer, inaugurated the program in 1999. The same year, the education, the chancellor encouraged the committee to search for Arts Institute founded the Wisconsin Film Festival. It was run mostly alternatives to unify the university’s arts programs. I served as chair of by graduate students the first year to test the water. The turnout the new Arts Consortium and was fortunate to work with an impres- during a beautiful spring weekend confirmed our hunch—that sive number of arts faculty and staff who were more than eager to take Madison was ripe for a film festival. The Wisconsin Film Festival has up the challenge.

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