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ARTSUW Roundup: newly launched ARTSUW website, JACK Quartet performance, Heisenberg, Print Sale, Screening at LANGSTON, MFA Dance Concert, and more!
This week in the arts, partake in an audio augmented reality (AR) experience with hundreds of others on Red Square, explore the newly redesigned ARTSUW website, and more!
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Seattle's hometown film hero opens SIFF again
Lynn Shelton (BA, Drama, 1987) talks about how she landed Marc Maron for her new movie.
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Icelandic cellist Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir performs music that reflects nature and exile
Cellist Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir performs with orchestras and smaller ensembles all around the globe and teaches at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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Exploring Blackness through Art
The Black Embodiments Studio examines how definitions of blackness are produced and expressed through the arts.
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Rainn Wilson of ‘The Office’ was a Seattle nerd before it was cool
Rainn Wilson (BA, Drama, 1989) gained fame as Dwight Kurt Schrute III on NBC sitcom The Office, but not many know that the actor is a born-and-bred Seattleite.
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ARTSUW Roundup: Peruvian Textiles, This Moment, Innovation the Nordic Way, International Experimental Music Ensemble, MFA Concert, and more!
This week in the arts, examine up-close a selection of Peruvian textiles from the Henry’s collection, attend a lecture about Nordic innovation at the Nordic Museum, and more!
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5 Cool Courses for Autumn 2019
Why not sign up for something unexpected during autumn quarter registration? Consider these intriguing offerings.
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Dani Tirrell moves through space
Dani Tirrell (Dance lecturer) is a self-described "movement guide," and mines both his personal life and the culture around him to create dance performances with something to say.
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These musicians use cardboard boxes, books and rocks to create music focusing on wrongfully convicted prisoners
Allen Otte and John Lane will lead a lecture-performance, with UW Percussion Ensemble, and discussion.
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Bats evolved diverse skull shapes due to echolocation, diet
Postdoctoral researchers Jessica Arbour and Abigail Curtis and Sharlene Santana, associate professor at the Burke Museum, focused on the diversity among bat skulls.
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Inspiring Arts Exploration
“We want the arts to be part of the DNA of every student’s experience." – Catherine Cole, Divisional Dean of the Arts.
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Flowering plants, new teeth and no dinosaurs: New study sheds light on the rise of mammals
A new study identified three factors critical in the rise of mammal communities since they first emerged during the Age of Dinosaurs.
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Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for May 2019
The Seattle Times arts writers dish on next month’s most buzzworthy arts and entertainment events, which include several College of Arts & Sciences faculty and alumni.
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Think opera is just for hoity-toity rich people? Not so! Here’s a beginner’s guide to this grand art form.
The region’s universities, including the University of Washington, put on opera performances ranging from inexpensive to free.
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These artists want to draw the Chinese railroad workers back into history
An artist’s inspiration can come from anywhere. For UW Painting + Drawing Professor Lin Zhi, it happened in August 2001, on a road trip from Missouri to Seattle.