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ARTSUW Roundup: Eleventh Improvised Music Project Festival (IMPFest XI), Graduation Exhibitions, The Learned Ladies, and more!
This week, stop by Graduation Exhibitions, attend IMPFest XI, featuring UW Jazz Studies faculty, students and seasoned professionals of international renown, and more!
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The Surprising History of Musical Theater
A new course highlights how disenfranchised communities created a distinctly American art form.
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A Piece of Art to Sit Inside of on a Summer Day
James Turrell's Light Reign, at the Henry Art Gallery, inspires deep thoughts. It's also nice and shady.
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Help by design: Art assists science at UW Design Help Desk
Sometimes when science gets a little stuck, art can come to the rescue.
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5 Questions to Juan Pampin and Richard Karpen (Creative Fellowships Initiative: JACK Quartet)
In 2016, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation made a generous grant that seeded the new Creative Fellowships Initiative.
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Larger Than Life Ceramic Wonders at Reflect and Gather
MadArt's latest exhibition, Reflect and Gather, features work by Seattle-based ceramic sculptor George Rodriguez (MFA, Interdisciplinary Visual Arts, 2009).
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Faculty Friday: Selim Kuru
Selim Kuru's love of literature all started with his mother, "she was an avid reader and had a library under lock and key and would release books for me according to my age."
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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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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.