An artist’s vision for the city
MICHIGAN CITY – A local artist wants to bring her vision for what Michigan City could be to the City Council. Laurel Izard [MFA ’81], a retired art teacher, announced her intention this week to run for the Michigan City Common Council representing the 3rd Ward....
UW-Madison’s Rosenberg to receive Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research
UW-Madison’s Douglas Rosenberg, who edited the 2016 publication, “The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies,” is receiving the prestigious 2018 Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research. The prize, from the Dance Studies Association, is awarded to the best book...
Printmaking Resurgence at Peninsula School of Art: New exhibit highlights possibilities of printmaking by Alissa Ehmke
If you’ve paid attention to upcoming events at the Peninsula School of Art (PenArt), you may have noticed a common theme: printmaking. The first exhibit of 2019 is Midwest Made: Contemporary Print Invitational, and the first fundraiser of the year is Winter Print....
Witnessing Dance: Mediation and the Technologies of Representation* by Douglas Rosenberg
It is my intent today to be unashamedly utopian, to address how we look at, how we discuss, how we circulate and inscribe images of dancing bodies in a pluralistic world, a world that is increasingly mediated by technologies of representation, by social media, and by...