Arts and Entertainment

Adaptations of Henrik Ibsen’s emotional and political play, “Rosmersholm,” are no small task — especially over Vimeo livestream. But third-year MFA director Andrew Coopman was up for the challenge, and with the help of an accomplished cast, their UW School of Drama production proved to be a well-illustrated and inventive take on surprisingly relevant issues.

A new course explores rap music and its musical influences, with guest musicians and creative assignments.

Jerred Mace, an industrial design student in his third year, has founded the W/ Joy Project to spread joy through uplifting messages inside coffee sleeves.

Incoming assistant professor of industrial design Meichun Liu discusses her career in design.

This week at the UW, attend a Sports & Civil Rights History Panel, Drive-In at On the Boards, and more.

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.

This week at the UW, watch the play Rosmersholm, attend a book talk, and more.

This week at the UW, attend a talk on Gender in the E.U, visit the Henry Art Gallery, and more.

Two books published by the University of Washington Press are featured on this book list of books showing the ways that Asian Americans have organized.

Seattle’s Sam Clover is a digital sculptor, known as Planttdaddii, who was struggling to pay her bills as a working artist. But in October, she started selling some of her colorful, ethereal digital art work as NFTs. James Coupe, associate professor of digital arts and experimental media at the UW, is quoted.

Astronomers wax romantic talking about the joys of traveling to remote places to observe the heavens. With today's technology, those kinds of trips are less and less necessary. What is gained and what is lost? Emily Levesque, associate professor of astronomy at the UW, is interviewed.

MFA in directing candidate Kristie Post Wallace's thesis production of "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" is a "graceful piece of art which made connecting with the story a piece of cake."

This week at the UW, attend the first art graduation exhibition, a talk entitled Filming Ethnographic Textures: Representing the Atmospheric Politics of Peruvian Cultural Practices, and more.

Jared Mace, a design student at the UW, is uplifting spirits by including an inspirational message with each coffee purchase at a cafe in Edmonds.

Valerie Curtis-Newton misses live theater. The head of directing and playwriting at the University of Washington School of Drama and the founding artistic director for Seattle-based theater company The Hansberry Project, Curtis-Newton is firm in this belief: The magic of theater is untranslatable to another medium.