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SUMMARY:Information Session: C21 Collaboratory Applications
DESCRIPTION:C21 Leadership Team will host an information session about the FY27 collaborative project application in person\, at C21\, with a virtual option on Tuesday\, March 3\, 9-10 AM.  \n\n\n\n\nIn-person: 939 Curtin Hall \n\n\n\nVirtual: https://tinyurl.com/registercollabinfo27 \n\n\n\n\nC21 believes that the complex challenges we face in the 21st century are best met through collaborations across areas of expertise and experience\, and that the humanities are a vital part of addressing these challenges. Collaborative project funding provides an opportunity to bring together teams of scholars across disciplines\, across university and community partnerships\, and across emerging and established scholars (students / staff / faculty) to generate new ideas and knowledge.  \n\n\n\nC21 offers funding for two distinct categories of collaborative projects: working groups and collaboratories. Working groups provide opportunities for collaborative study\, research\, and discussion of a common subject of interest. Collaboratories provide opportunities to bring new\, humanities-informed ideas and knowledge to many different audiences both on and off campus. Collaboratories are also foundational to the Center’s annual programming.   \n\n\n\nWhile the criteria for working groups will remain largely unchanged from previous years\, collaboratory proposals must include a contribution to C21’s Day of Action\, slated for the Spring 2027 semester. The Day of Action will celebrate the culmination of SLOW\, C21’s 2024-27 thematic cycle\, and will align with C21’s 2026-27 theme\, Slow Action. Slow Action will explore how the practices\, methodologies\, histories\, and theories of collective organizing across communities and institutions might provide insight for building values-rooted systems and deliberate actionable pathways that endure over time to support shared goals.  \n\n\n\nThis session will cover information on the Slow Action theme\, the Day of Action\, programming\, tips on writing a strong application\, and frequently asked questions.   \n\n\n\nAttending the information session is not required to apply but is highly encouraged.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuestions?\n\n\n\nC21 strongly encourages questions and inquiries in advance of proposals. Please contact C21 Managing Director Katie Waddell with questions at waddelke@uwm.edu.  
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/info-c21collab27/
LOCATION:Center for 21st Century Studies\, 3243 N. Downer Ave.\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Dates and Deadlines,Collaboratory,Faculty and Staff,Faculty and Staff,SLOW,Virtual Event,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Aesthetics\, Art\, & AI: Kite
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 12\, 5:30 to 7:00 PM\n\n\n\nRegistration requested\, 2400 East Kenwood Boulevard\, Milwaukee\, WI\, Room 120\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public; reception to follow.\n\n\n\nRegistration requested\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER NOW\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) for an artist talk with Kite (a.k.a. Suzanne Kite); part of C21’s Aesthetics\, Art\, & AI program series. \n\n\n\nKite is an Oglála Lakȟóta artist\, composer\, and scholar. Her groundbreaking scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation\, computational media\, and performance\, often working in collaboration with family and community members. Kite develops body interfaces for machine learning driven performance\, sculptures generated by dreams\, and experimental sound and video work. Working with machine learning techniques since 2017 and developing body interfaces for performance since 2013\, Kite is a first American Indian artist to utilize Machine Learning in art practice.  \n\n\n\nKite has been included in numerous publications such as Atlas of Anomalous AI\, Indigenous Futurisms\, Creative AI Database from Serpentine Gallery\, the American Indian Culture and Research Journal\, the Journal of Design and Science (MIT Press)\, with the award winning article\, “Making Kin with Machines”\, and the sculpture Ínyan Iyé (Telling Rock) (2019) was featured on the cover of Canadian Art. Kite was the Global Coordinator for the Indigenous Protocols and Artificial Intelligence Workshops supported by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research\, resulting in the publication of the Indigenous Protocols and Artificial Intelligence Position Paper.  \n\n\n\nHer artworks and performances have recently been featured at the 2024 Whitney Biennial; Haus der Kulturen der Welt\, Berlin; Center for Art\, Research and Alliances (CARA)\, New York; and the 2024 Shanghai Biennial; among other venues. Her awards and honors include a Ruth Award\, a 2023 United States Artist Fellowship\, a Creative Time open call commission (with Alisha Wormsley)\, and a Creative Capital grant. She is currently Director of Wihanble S’a Lab\, Distinguished Artist in Residence\, and Assistant Professor of American and Indigenous Studies at Bard College. Kite holds degrees from California Institute of the Arts\, Bard College\, and received her PhD from Concordia University.  \n\n\n\nKite’s work will also be on display in the exhibition\, This Side of the Stars\, at the Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee\, WI from January 23 – May 16\, 2026.  \n\n\n\nQ&A and reception with light refreshments to follow talk. Registration requested. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDirections & Parking\n\n\n\n\nPaid parking is available at the Student Union Parking Garage (Lot 22). \n\nUnion Parking is $1 each 20 min for the 1st hour; then pay $1 per hour. Maximum charge is $12 total. \n\n\n\n\n\nTime-limited street parking is available on neighborhood streets surrounding campus.\n\n\n\nIf using the Union Parking Garage\, you can find the Arts Center Lecture Hall (ACL) by taking the Peck School of the Arts stairways to exit.\n\n\n\nACL 120 is located across the covered walkway from the UWM Mainstage Theater.\n\n\n\n\nCheck parking availability with the UWM Parking Finder. \n\n\n\nUse our campus map to find the Union Parking Garage (Lot 22) or Arts Center Lecture Hall (ACL). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Aesthetics\, Art\, & AI\n\n\n\nWith support from the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI)\, the Center for 21st Century Studies and the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison present a collaborative series of public programming that focuses the relationship between AI and artistic practice\, exploring how AI-generated aesthetics reshape creative production\, authorship\, and interpretation. By engaging scholars\, artists\, and technologists\, we examine the ethical and aesthetic implications of computational creativity\, raising fundamental questions about artistic agency\, originality\, and the boundaries between human and machine-generated cultural production.  
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/aaai-kite/
LOCATION:Arts Center Lecture Hall\, 2400 East Kenwood Boulevard\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, 53211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aesthetics, Art, & AI,Arts and Culture,Arts and Culture,Lecture,Lectures Conferences and Symposiums,Lectures Conferences and Symposiums,Public,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:Story Cart with Symphony Swan – (W)rites of Spring
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 21\, 12:00 – 2:00 PM\n\n\n\nHavenwoods State Forest\, 6141 N Hopkins St\, Milwaukee\, WI 53209\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public; registration required\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\nC21’s Story Cart project and Symphony Swan\, ’25-’26 Story Fellow present W(rites) of Spring\, a radical attention workshop with artist Mia Rimmer. \n\n\n\nAs the land transitions out of winter into bloom\, W(rites) of Spring calls us to communicate at the speed of a flower’s unfurling. Rooted in the implosion work central to Mia Rimmer’s interdisciplinary practice\, the project invites us to notice the changing of season as both external and internal ritual. The project halts the urgency of our technological correspondence\, asking us to instead transcribe emotion to paper in three forms: long form letter writing\, found object collage\, and postcards featuring artwork from THE CR8TV HOUSE pen pal project. \n\n\n\nThis activation aims to step out of the anthropocene’s blurred speed and walk in tune with the pace of nature; a sentiment echoed across each component of the project\, down to our chosen site of a NorthWest Side urban forest. (W)rites of Spring engages the participant as the creator and revealer of the rich layers of our inter-personal and -species relations. \n\n\n\nThe open and close of the space gathers participants together to reflect upon the weight and shape of words left unsaid— to a loved one\, a lost one\, and/or the self. In between\, each person will explore the grounds and let these messages surface in conjunction with the forest’s reawakening; they are also invited to mindfully gather resonant ephemera for collaging. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe duration of (W)rites of Spring will be accompanied by a soundbath\, commissioned from memory worker and sonic griot Harlem Masimba: \n\n\n\nHarlem Masimba · spring equinox soundscape\n\n\n\n\nOpen in SoundCloud\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Symphony Swan\n\n\n\nSymphony Swan Zawadi is an artist\, cultural strategist\, and founder of THE CR8TV HOUSE\, an arts and community institution reimagining space\, storytelling\, support and memory keeping for Black and Brown creatives. With over a decade of experience spanning arts education\, nonprofit leadership\, and philanthropy\, Symphony brings a deep commitment to equity\, imagination\, and community care.   \n\n\n\nSymphony channels her interdisciplinary expertise into building creative ecosystems that honor legacy\, foster healing\, and invest in future generations. Her work has earned her recognition as the 2023 Milwaukeean of the Year by Shepherd Express\, 2024 Gener8tor Art Fellowship Recipient and most recently the 2025 City of Milwaukee Friends of the Arts. She also serves as a trustee for the Milwaukee Art Museum. She continues to advocate for artist-led systems change that reflect the communities they serve.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Mia Rimmer\n\n\n\nMia Rimmer is a Milwaukee-based multidisciplinary artist digging in archives\, crates\, and occasionally the nose. Their self-taught practice utilizes personal and heritage material histories to examine themes of remembrance and permanence. Through analog collage and the pen\, Mia activates nostalgia as a speculative tool for imploding and reconstructing memories. \n\n\n\nMia’s work has been exhibited in Tooth + Nail Gallery\, the Logan Center for the Arts\, and the Charles Allis Art Museum\, featuring recent collaborations with Black Girls in Archives and Chicago Public Art Group. Mia currently serves as the Resident ART Curator and Writer at THE CR8TV HOUSE. You can follow Mia on Instagram at @snottystudio. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Story Cart\n\n\n\nStory Cart is a mobile story collection program that travels to community spaces and engages Milwaukeeans in conversations about their lived experiences. Our Story Fellows craft questions related to the current C21 research theme\, record participant responses to those questions\, and add them to our Story Cart digital archive (forthcoming). Supported by the Wisconsin Institute for Citizenship and Civil Dialogue\, Story Cart’s current run introduces Milwaukeeans to practices of radical attention. From September 2025 through May 2026\, our community Story Fellows will lead workshop pop-ups throughout the city and will record discussions with participants about the experience of paying attention.
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/sc-writes-of-spring/
LOCATION:Havenwoods State Forest\, 6141 N Hopkins St\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, 53209\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture,Attention,Health and Well-being,Off-campus,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,Story Cart,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Story Cart With Adam Carr - Skyward Ho!
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 28\, 12:00-2:00pm\n\n\n\nMKE Winter Farmers Market\, 5305 W. Capitol Drive Milwaukee\, WI 53216\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSkyward Ho!\n\n\n\nAt Milwaukee Winter Farmer’s Market\, we’ll meditate on the sky with our mind\, body and soul with Story Fellow Adam Carr and yogi Matthew Lewis (@stillhoneyblk)\, gathering thoughts on sanctuary and refuge\, especially for attention. \n\n\n\nThen\, we’ll talk about it on the record for the Story Cart digital archive.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Adam Carr\n\n\n\nAdam  Carr  is an independent writer\, artist\, journalist\, community historian and organizer based in Milwaukee. Carr was director of strategic partnerships at Milwaukee Park Foundation from 2022-2025 and producer at 88Nine RadioMilwaukee from 2008-2011. Working in communities throughout Milwaukee\, his work ranges from journalism to public art\, film/photography to coalition building\, dialogue facilitation to community history\, writing to in-depth tours.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Milwaukee Winter Farmers Market\n\n\n\nFondy’s Milwaukee Winter Farmers Market exists to support local producers and to help our community eat local longer. Agricultural vendors offer high quality fruit\, vegetables\, meat\, eggs\, poultry and dairy products. SNAP benefits are accepted at our market. Local food vendors also bring a wide variety of freshly baked goods\, jams\, cider\, honey\, maple syrup\, sauces and soups\, as well as delicious global cuisine. The market also offers health and wellness\, and body products\, such as soaps\, body creams\, and more. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Story Cart\n\n\n\nStory Cart is a mobile story collection program that travels to community spaces and engages Milwaukeeans in conversations about their lived experiences. Our Story Fellows craft questions related to the current C21 research theme\, record participant responses to those questions\, and add them to our Story Cart digital archive (forthcoming). Supported by the Wisconsin Institute for Citizenship and Civil Dialogue\, Story Cart’s current run introduces Milwaukeeans to practices of radical attention. From September 2025 through May 2026\, our community Story Fellows will lead workshop pop-ups throughout the city and will record discussions with participants about the experience of paying attention.
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/sc-carr-skyward/
LOCATION:Milwaukee Winter Farmers Market\, 5305 W. Capitol Drive Milwaukee\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, 53216\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni & Community,Arts and Culture,Attention,Co-Promotional,Health and Well-being,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,Story Cart,Students
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