People in Action: TMA ambassador wins award
The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block announced Thomas A. Philabaum [MA ’73] as the 2018 recipient of the museum’s Ambassador Circle Lifetime Achievement Award. The Ambassador Circle is a component of TMA’s Leadership Circle, the museum’s foremost...
UW-Madison to honor six outstanding women of color on Thursday, Feb. 22
The tenth annual class of Outstanding Women of Color awardees will honored at a reception on Thursday, Feb. 22 from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Alumni Lounge of the Pyle Center, 716 Langdon Street. The event to celebrate this year’s honorees is open to the campus and...
The Violent Environments of the Mexico-U.S. Border By: J. Leigh Garcia, MFA ’18
I have always been fascinated by tales of my grandfather swimming across the Rio Grande to move to the United States. As a child, I was enchanted by the symbolism of swimming into a new life. Like a natural baptismal font, the Rio Grande cleanses immigrants of their...