Each spring semester since 2017, DAC 661 Digital Engagement Seminar students create comprehensive projects which demonstrate their mastery of the Digital Arts and Culture learning goals. In the Spring 2020 semester, the cohort of this DAC capstone course had been planning a final showcase of projects they had been developing. The COVID-19 pandemic brought an end to in-person gatherings on campus and in Wisconsin after spring break, and unfortunately, the plan to share these works in a public event had to be canceled and reconfigured.

Instead of a physical showcase situated in space, the 2020 showcase is now published here on UWM’s Digital Commons. Being resilient, creative individuals, the students represented here demonstrated remarkable flexibility during a time when several unfamiliar obstacles were being hurled at them. Despite the sudden disruption of their lives, the DAC students represented here not only completed their capstone projects but did so with stunning results.

In each of the project pages linked to below, you’ll find a discussion of the semester’s work. In considering these projects, they also shared their experiences, their processes, and reflected upon moments of success (and sometimes failure).

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Thanks to the following students in DAC Capstone Cohort of 2020 for sharing their gifts with us:

  • Student Profile: William Barnes
    This is one of a series of profiles featuring the DAC Capstone cohort of Spring 2020. My name is William Barnes, I live in West Bend, Wisconsin, and I play an abhorrent amount of video games.   I have some technical background in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere, and am currently working on Movie Studio 16. I …
  • Student Profile: Stephen Jensen
    This is one of a series of profiles featuring the DAC Capstone cohort of Spring 2020. I grew up in the Milwaukee area and have been a creative person just about my entire life. I started playing piano when I was four and a handful of years later started to play the cello. A few …
  • Student Profile: Jack Feltes
    This is one of a series of profiles featuring the DAC Capstone cohort of Spring 2020. My name is Jack Feltes and I am from Brookfield, Wisconsin. I am currently a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee pursuing a BA in Digital Arts and Culture with a minor in Studio Art. The DAC major has …
  • Student Profile: Bethany Deyo
    This is one of a series of profiles featuring the DAC Capstone cohort of Spring 2020. My name is Bethany Deyo. I was born and raised in Baraboo, Wisconsin and spent my entire lifetime living there up until 3 years ago when I moved to Milwaukee for school. Some of my interests include, music, film, …
  • Student Profile: Brehme Quidzinski
    This is one of a series of profiles featuring the DAC Capstone cohort of Spring 2020. For as long as I can remember sports has always been a part of my life, my parents were collegiate athletes, I was a multi-sport athlete for most of my life. It wasn’t until late middle school that I …
  • Student Profile: Juliana Rattin
    This is one of a series of profiles featuring the DAC Capstone cohort of Spring 2020. My name is Juliana Rattin and I am from Grayslake, Illinois. I am currently a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee completing a BA in Digital Arts and Culture with a minor in Design. I love anything creative – …