Story Cart featured on Spectrum News
The Mobile Story Cart and Summer Story Team was featured on Spectrum News on July 26, 2023. The feature includes an interview with Story Team facilitator, Jamee Pritchard. Watch it here!
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Story Experience Showcase featured in UWM Report
The UWM Report featured the work of the Story Experience fellows from last month’s showcase event. Read more here! Story Experience Fellow applications are still being accepted on a rolling basis. Apply here!
Former C21 Fellow, Derek Handley, receives NEH Summer Stipend Award
From the NEH: “In this highly competitive funding cycle, NEH funded fourteen percent of the Summer Stipend proposals that it received.” Handley’s “application was selected for support after completing a rigorous three-step review process.”
C21 Director Anne Basting announced as 2023 Unstoppable Voters Fellow
The Center for Artistic Activism’s Unstoppable Voters program views creative risk-taking as an opportunity for engaging civic dialogue. Each year, the program supports fellows in carrying out projects that mobilize voters and confront “anti-voter attacks.” C21’s Director, Anne Basting, has… Read more
C21 Director Anne Basting featured on NYT First Person Podcast
The New York Times podcast First Person explores the diversity of opinions through the stories they originate from. This week, C21 Director Anne Basting discusses her experiences working in a locked Alzheimer’s unit, and how she came up with a… Read more
History Doctoral Student Matilda Ansah will represent UWM-C21 at HWW Workshop
Humanities Without Walls (HWW) is a program that seeks to invigorate collaborative research, teaching, and scholarship in the humanities by fostering interdisciplinary research. We are pleased to announce that UWM History Doctoral Student Matilda Ansah was selected to be a… Read more
Story Experience Fellow Program receives Chancellor’s Challenge Funding
Led by C21 Director Anne Basting with Marquette faculty Andrew Kim and Sarah Wadsworth – the Story Experience Program received the President and Chancellor’s Challenge award to address poverty. Learn more about the program and other funded projects in this… Read more
Alannah Ray, one of C21’s programming consultants, featured in Unstoppable Voters spotlight
Alannah Ray has been part of C21’s programming cohort for the upcoming 2024 symposia, Trust the Vote. This year, Alannah is one of the 2022 Unstoppable Voters Fellows. Read her spotlight on the Unstoppable Voters website here!
C21 Director Anne Basting to present for Duke University’s How Artists Work, Now series
Duke University’s How Artists Work, Now series is focusing on collaboration in the fields of art and health. Basting will be presenting on her award-winning Timeslips project, which brings meaning & purpose into the lives of elders through creative engagement…. Read more
C21 Director Anne Basting to present at UCSC All-In Conference
The All-In Conference brings together scholars, students, community members, artists, and activists to exchange stories and share strategies for building trusting relationships for collaborative research and social change. Anne Basting will be presenting Can a Humanities Center Co-Create? Expounding upon… Read more