{"id":38292,"date":"2016-09-22T16:36:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T21:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?post_type=uwmnewsgallery&#038;p=38292"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:57:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:57:52","slug":"anne-basting-named-uwms-first-macarthur-genius","status":"publish","type":"uwmnewsgallery","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/gallery\/anne-basting-named-uwms-first-macarthur-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Basting named UWM\u2019s first MacArthur \u2018genius\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theater professor Anne Basting has been <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/theater-professor-anne-basting-wins-macarthur-fellowship\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">named a 2016 MacArthur Fellow<\/a>, making her the first UWM faculty member to earn the esteemed MacArthur Foundation\u2019s highest honor.<\/p>\n<p>Basting\u2019s focus at UWM\u2019s Peck School of the Arts is on community-engaged performance, and she\u2019s an expert on integrating arts into aging services and long-term care. She\u2019s founder of the Creative Trust, an alliance that fosters lifelong learning through the arts, and which supports a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/creativetrustmke.com\/projects\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Student Artists in Residence<\/a>\u00a0program that trains and embeds students with aging services organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Among Basting\u2019s many other projects are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslips.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TimeSlips Creative Storytelling<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepenelopeproject.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Penelope Project<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.islandsofmilwaukee.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Islands of Milwaukee<\/a>. They all exhibit the kind of creativity and community involvement to which Basting has devoted her professional career, and which ultimately drew the foundation\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theater professor Anne Basting has been named a 2016 MacArthur Fellow, making her the first UWM faculty member to earn the esteemed MacArthur Foundation\u2019s highest honor. Basting\u2019s focus at UWM\u2019s Peck School of the Arts is on community-engaged performance, and she\u2019s an expert on integrating arts into aging services and long-term care. 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