Arts Division

This week enjoy a variety of events happening across campus with a highlight being an inside look at the "Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia" at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

With the new year come new events to entertain and inspire you including the School of Music's Littlefield Organ concert and a piano performance by Garrick Ohlsson presented by the UW World Series.

Three creative thinkers—an artist, an art historian, and a neuroscientist—are collaborating on Art and the Brain, a DXARTS course that explores the potential melding of art and neuroscience.

This week the arts roundup wraps up the end of fall quarter-- and the last Arts Roundup of 2013-- with a nice bow. During the roundup's winter hiatus, they encourage you to check out some of the ongoing exhibits on campus before they also come to a close.

In the Seattle Times year-long series highlighting 13 people poised to shape the future of the arts in the Northwest, we meet UW alumna Holly Arsenault (BA '01), executive director of Teen Tix.

This coming week, attend the UW Opera Theater to brush up on your "Le Nozze di Figaro," or enjoy the final weekend of the Undergraduate Theater Society's performance of "Woyzeck."

After 20 years as executive director of the UW's School of Drama, Sarah Nash Gates is retiring at the end of this year. However, Gates isn't putting her feet up, instead she's pursuing her passion for costume design.

Don't miss your last chance to see School of Drama's 'Fifth of July' or venture to the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture to explore their new exhibit "Elwha: A River Reborn."

DXARTS and the School of Music offer an electro-acoustic concert, the UW World Series presents the SITI Company in collaboration with the School of Drama, the Burke Museum has its Meet the Mammals day.

Huskies John Timu, Hau'oli Kikaha and Danny Shelton take a weekly independent-study class at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

A preview with director Valerie Curtis-Newton about what Arts Dawgs can expect at the upcoming School of Drama's performance "Fifth of July."

The School of Music has lured Bill Frisell, one of modern jazz's premier guitarists, to a position on the faculty.

University of Washington piano professor Sheppard presents the final recital in his 'Mostly Brahms' series, featuring early and late works by Brahms, plus Schumann's Fantasy in C, on Nov. 5, 2013.

An art exhibit called "Stir Fry: A Visual Arts Feast of Nature and Cultural Diversity" is currently on display at the University of Washington School of Social Work gallery.

TeenTix, an arts access and engagement program for teenagers, announces the addition of its fiftieth partner organization, University of Washington Undergraduate Theatre Society.