On Monday, October 27, Communication Arts hosted an informal discussion with Bill Siemering, NPR’s founding program director. Bill Siemering is a Madison native who started his career right here at WHA. He went on to WBFO …
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Professor Gray joins the George Foster Peabody Awards Board!
Professor Jonathan Gray has been selected as a member of the George Foster Peabody Awards Board. He is one of three new members, including Martha Nelson of New York and Naibe Reynoso of Los Angeles. …
Jill Soloway’s New Show “Transparent”
Jill Soloway’s new show Transparent premiered this past Friday on Amazon Prime. Soloway, who is a Comm Arts alumna, previously produced and wrote for HBO’s Six Feet Under and recently won the Sundance 2013 Directing …
WCFTR Film Archive Named One of Madison’s 100 Defining Objects by WSJ
The film archive of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research was recognized and praised last week by the Wisconsin State Journal as one of the “100 defining objects of Madison.” In daily columns …
Comm Arts Alumnus Eric Rusch Launches a New Show, “Wayward Nation”
Eric Rusch (BA ’05) spent last summer touring the country to film his new show Wayward Nation. The show, co-hosted by Mikey McManus and Ethan Amarant, searches for young people across America who are changing …
Communication Arts Courses Benefit from New Equipment
The Hamel family has been a benefactor to Comm Arts for many years. This past winter, they made another substantial gift to the department that greatly improved the equipment resources for advanced film production courses at …
Rob Asen: Distinguished Scholar 2014
Communication Arts professor Rob Asen has been given the 2014 Distinguished Scholar Award by the Rhetoric and Communication Theory (RCT) Division of the National Communication Association (NCA). As explained by the RCT, the Distinguished Scholar …
Comm Arts Emmys!
Two Comm Arts grads, Aaron Cohen and Gabe Gronli, won Emmys for their writing on The Colbert Report! The Creative Arts Emmy awards were presented on Saturday, August 16th and aired last night, August 24th …
Commercials for the Liberal Arts
Professor Eric Hoyt’s course, CA 609: Internet TV and Video, has been busy producing content this summer. The students were asked to produce 30-60 second web commercials that demonstrate the value of a liberal arts …
A Trip to China
Communication Arts Professors Zhongdang Pan and Jonathan Gray recently completed a speaking trip in China. Over six days, Pan and Gray teamed up with Professor Lewis Friedland of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, …