UW and the Community

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.

Stephen Groening, a professor of Comparative Literature, Cinema, and Media, has been studying this phenomenon in the context of in-flight entertainment for years.

King County execs respond to concerns raised by a report from the Jackson School's Center for Human Rights.

This week in the arts, attend an original, gender-expansive adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet; see the dancer-illusionists of MOMIX, and more . . .

Through the Task Force program, students in the Jackson School of International Studies tackle critical policy challenges — and set their career paths in motion.

The Seattle Symphony's 2018-19 composer in residence Derek Bermel collaborates with Marcin Paczkowsky, a research associate in DXARTS.

Meet the American Ethnic Studies alum whose new gallery in White Center celebrates Latinx art and a home for the 'in-between.'

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. 

This week, attend opening night of “Romeo and Jules”, witness musicians perform with their brains, drop in at the library for a lunchtime concert . . . 

Chadwick Allen, a professor of English and the Russell F. Stark University Professor, commented on the emergence of Indigenous studies programs in higher education.

Artist Sara Siestreem speaks at the Henry Art Gallery about what it means to be a tribe member, artist, educator

Seattle choreographer Mark Haim, a Department of Dance lecturer, crowdsources a new performance.

Sol Moravia-Rosenberg (BA, American Ethnic Studies | Comparative History of Ideas, 2011), celebrates his new album with an April 12 release show at the Showbox.

From the University of Washington, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Theodore Roethke  and a pioneer of "theater in the round" Glenn Hughes, are celebrated in National Poetry Month.

Actress Pamela Reed (BA, Drama, 1975) takes on a sequel to the classic Ibsen play at Seattle Rep.