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UW’s Pacific Northwest English Study seeking new group of research parti
Posted 06/10/2019
Is there a Northwest accent? The Pacific Northwest English Study is about to begin a new, three-year research project listening to voices from
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Interrupting Privilege
Posted 06/12/2019
UW professor Ralina Joesph is teaching people to talk about race across generational and racial lines
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Going beyond guilt trips
Posted 06/05/2019
KUOW interviews Anu Taranath, faculty member in English and Comparative History of Ideas departments, about her new book called Beyond Guilt Trips
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Woman in Seattle's Central District to preserve music history with
Posted 06/04/2019
Yolanda Barton (BA, Laws, Societies, and Justice, 2004 | MC, Digital Media, 2018) wants to use virtual reality to preserve the music history of
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Dani Tirrell moves through space
Posted 05/03/2019
Dani Tirrell (Dance lecturer) is a self-described "movement guide," and mines both his personal life and the culture around him to create dance
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Exploring Blackness through Art
Posted 05/09/2019
The Black Embodiments Studio examines how definitions of blackness are produced and expressed through the arts.
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These musicians use cardboard boxes, books and rocks to create music foc
Posted 05/03/2019
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 histor
Posted 04/29/2019
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
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Alumni Spotlight: Jake Prendez
Posted 04/18/2019
Meet the American Ethnic Studies alum whose new gallery in White Center celebrates Latinx art and a home for the 'in-between.'
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With ‘Nina Simone: Four Women,’ director Valerie Curtis-Newton wants aud
Posted 04/17/2019
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
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Indigenous weaving as resistance
Posted 04/14/2019
Artist Sara Siestreem speaks at the Henry Art Gallery about what it means to be a tribe member, artist, educator
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Jackson School’s Devin Naar featured in documentary premiering March 24
Posted 03/20/2019
Naar and others trace their hidden Sephardic Jewish roots in a new documentary showing at the Seattle Jewish Film Festival.
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A Puget Sound Language Returns
Posted 03/18/2019
The Southern Lushootseed language, once spoken where the UW now sits, is finding new speakers through a UW course.
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Interview: Chinese culture inspires designer in creating uniforms for ma
Posted 02/28/2019
"Everything I do is influenced by my Chinese background," said Luly Yang (BFA, Graphic Design, 1990), about the cultural elements in her project with
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Uncanny Mex-Men
Posted 02/27/2019
Alaniz, a professor in the department of Slavic languages and literatures, spoke about Mexican-American representation in comics from the 1950s to the
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