Arts Division

A seven-hour, unfinished epic play about Nero? Daredevil playwright Anne Washburn might be the only one who could pull it off.

Dean and Tomilynn McManus's gifts to the UW Costume Shop range from donating vintage clothing to establishing a support fund.

Mary and Allan Kollar have combined their passions for writing and art through a graduate fellowship that honors both disciplines. 

The National Endowment for the Arts announces $30 million in fall grants to artists and arts organizations across the country — with $975,000 headed for Washington state.

Playwright Qui Nguyen has two plays running simultaneously in December:Vietgone at Seattle Rep and The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G at the UW.

More than 40 players will perform works composed or inspired by the experimental composer John Cage, all around Town Hall Seattle on Nov. 19. There will even be amplified plants. 

"To be a great innovator, you have to do things – bring people together, explore ideas and experiment with different forms of realization," writes Axel Roesler.

Timea Tihanyi with the UW's School of Art and Jayadev Athreya, associate professor of mathematics at the UW, say art and math are much more similar than we often think. 

“Looking at a little 3-inch screen is just some weird thing we do at the moment,” says Axel Roesler, professor of interaction design at the UW.

Teachers at the Burke's DIG Field School in Montana had a close encounter with a long-buried T. rex.

Dance major Angel Langley celebrates women dancing in the hip hop style known as popping.

Grad students in diverse creative fields collaborated through a summer colloquium, Multiplying Mediums. 

Paleontologists from the UW's Burke Museum have unearthed an extremely rare Tyrannosaurus rex fossil during an expedition in Montana's Hell Creek Formation.