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Design, art thesis projects fill Henry Art Gallery for eclectic annual exhibition
The School of Art + Art History + Design annual MFA + MDes thesis exhibition brings together the dreamy and the practical to cohabit at the Henry Art Gallery.
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UW Books in brief: Mindful travel in an unequal world, day laborers in Brooklyn, activist educators
Recent notable books by UW faculty, several from Arts & Sciences. explore mindful international travel, men seeking work as day laborers, and activist teachers.
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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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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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Exploring Blackness through Art
The Black Embodiments Studio examines how definitions of blackness are produced and expressed through the arts.
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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.
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These artists want to draw the Chinese railroad workers back into history
An artist’s inspiration can come from anywhere. For UW Painting + Drawing Professor Lin Zhi, it happened in August 2001, on a road trip from Missouri to Seattle.
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Why you're more likely to cry on an airplane
Stephen Groening, a professor of Comparative Literature, Cinema, and Media, has been studying this phenomenon in the context of in-flight entertainment for years.
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Policy in Action
Through the Task Force program, students in the Jackson School of International Studies tackle critical policy challenges — and set their career paths in motion.
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New experiences shape the music of Seattle Symphony’s composer in residence
The Seattle Symphony's 2018-19 composer in residence Derek Bermel collaborates with Marcin Paczkowsky, a research associate in DXARTS.
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With ‘Nina Simone: Four Women,’ director Valerie Curtis-Newton wants audiences to see the work of black women
Valerie Curtis-Newton, head of directing program in the School of Drama, is the director of "Nina Simone: Four Women" at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, on stage April 26.
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Indigenous weaving as resistance
Artist Sara Siestreem speaks at the Henry Art Gallery about what it means to be a tribe member, artist, educator
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UW, Microsoft, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory establish new Northwest Quantum Nexus
Learn about how this exciting new coalition aimed at bringing about a revolution in quantum research and technology.
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Social Media Data as Research Tool
The public may balk at the sharing of social media data, but social scientists use the information to understand our world.