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ArtSci Roundup: Vikram Prakash: “One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash,” Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity Annual Conference: Quarantining While Black, and More
This week at the UW, attend a concert with the UW Percussion Ensemble and Steel Band, the MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition, and more.
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Meet the 2020-21 UW MAP award recipients
Since 1994, alumni and friends in the Multicultural Alumni Partnership have worked together to promote diversity at the UW and address issues of equity and diversity on our campuses and in our community. This year’s promising scholars range from early undergraduates who are still zeroing in on a major to those pursuing graduate and professional degrees.
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Digging into the Roots of Rap
A new course explores rap music and its musical influences, with guest musicians and creative assignments.
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ArtSci Roundup: Drive-In at On the Boards, The Engine Room Residencies: The Black Tones, and More
This week at the UW, attend a Sports & Civil Rights History Panel, Drive-In at On the Boards, and more.
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Faculty/staff honors: Golden Apple, Leading the Narrative awards
Patricia Shehan Campbell, professor and chair of music education in the UW School of Music, has received a 2021 Golden Apple Award for her work on musical education.
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Jazz Appreciation Month: Defining a music genre that's always changing
Jazz is a music based on improvisation, and evolution. Moving through Dixieland, swing, bebop, free jazz, fusion and beyond can make describing what jazz is a difficult proposition. Michael Brockman, the co-artistic director of Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra and an artist in residence at the UW School of Music, is interviewed.
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ArtSci Roundup: Music of Today: Indigo Mist, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and More
This week at the UW, attend the Kollar Symposium in American Art History: Legacies and Futures, Music of Today: Indigo Mist, and more.
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Upgrade on the horizon for Art and Music Buildings
The art and music buildings will be undergoing renovations beginning in early 2022.
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Singing your pandemic heart out, whatever it takes
Each week, the UW chorale practices for a half-hour in a parking garage, standing 6 feet apart while wearing masks. The story includes audio of the chorale singing a South African Sesotho wedding song.
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Lifelong Fascination Inspires Gift
Paul Fritts, whose company built the UW's Littlefield Organ three decades ago, has now made a major gift to the School of Music.
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ArtSci Roundup: Bambitchell: Dolphins, ships and other vessels, Illustrating Injustice: The Power of Print, and More
This week at the UW, attend the final lecture in the Protest, Race, and Citizenship Across African Worlds series, UW Dance Presents, and more.
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Origins of music and the effects of sound on a developing mind
Ethnomusicology professor Shannon Dudley discusses sound and music immersion.
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ArtSci Roundup: UW Museums Reopen, Uncharted Waters, UW Dance Presents, and More
This week at the UW, join music history Professor Dr. Anne Searcy for a lecture about the dance of Hamilton, and visit UW museums that have recently reopened.
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Deems Tsutakawa, in-demand Seattle jazz pianist, dies at 69
Deems Tsutakawa, a superb pianist who studied ethnomusicology at the UW, has passed away.
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You’ve heard of garage bands – now you can hear the ‘UW garage chorale’
Giselle Wyers, chair of the Voice & Chorale departments explains how the UW Chorale has found an unlikely practice space in the campus parking garage.