Learning about the state we serve
A round of applause for our communications intern, Bethany Prochnow! She graduated in the Class of 2020 with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies and Life Sciences Communication. Bethany joined our team in January of 2018, shortly after studying abroad in the Netherlands, and has been doing amazing work with us ever since. Her wanderlust …
Dispatches from Our Own Wisconsin: Dani Lind of Rooted Spoon Dani Lind, owner and head chef of Rooted Spoon, leverages her local agricultural connections to bring quality ingredients to the small town of Viroqua, Wisconsin. She has spent the last 20 years or so cooking, gardening, preserving, exploring, and developing relationships with local food and farmers. …
Marianne Fairbanks, textile artist and assistant professor of Design Studies, recently launched a new weaving loom in response to a previous social practice project. Her new hand-held looms work to extend access to weaving so that new ideas can be explored in relation to textiles, community, and making. Fairbanks teaches a weaving course, where students …
Residents, government officials, and storytellers recently gathered together at the Kickapoo Valley Reserve in La Farge to celebrate a story-telling project focused on the area flooding in late 2018. Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, a UW-Madison professor, brought undergraduate students together with the Driftless Writing Center to collaborate with local Kickapoo Valley residents affected by the floods, …
The Wisconsin Idea Seminar team is seeking a communications intern! Our communications intern will hone their writing and image-making skills and meet folks across the state who are making a difference in their communities. The Wisconsin Idea Seminar Communications Internship offers the opportunity to: Dates of Internship Beginning in January, 2019. Hours offered during academic breaks (winter, …
Our 2018 Wisconsin Idea Seminar collaborators Ian Karl and Toben Lafrancois talk to ‘Central Time’ about how youth in a an underwater therapeutic photography program at Northwest Passage, a residential mental health facility in northern Wisconsin, capture breathtaking images that have eluded professional researchers for years. Karl and Lafrancois will team up to lead the …