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Events:
Students and visitors MUST wear a mask while indoors at SARUP, even after hours.
February 22, 2022 @ 10:45 AM – AIAS Community Build Days at the SARUP Woodhshop
AIAS has some upcoming Community Build Days at SARUP through our Freedom by Design Committee. The project is helping to build stools for an elementary school. Beginners are welcome, and demonstrations will be provided!
Please feel free to reach out to Walter Moran at wjmoran@uwm.edu or Cameron Neubauer at neubau33@uwm.edu with any questions about this event and/or the Freedom by Design Committee.
February 23, 2022 @ 12 PM – Innovative Cities Lecture Series – Water Conservation Policy Options for Cities presentation by Tracy Ann Boyer – SARUP Student Lounge and online – Register Here
This presentation will provide an overview of differing approaches to water conservation and management for municipal water based on Dr. Boyer’s past research on water conservation in the Southern Midwest. It will suggest alternative pricing and non-priced policies and practices that are used in arid and semi-arid parts of the United States and how these applications could apply in Wisconsin.
February 25, 2022 @ 12 PM – Graduate Colloquium – Amber MacCracken – March Commons
Amber MacCracken is an Associate Principal and award-winning designer for Kahler Slater. For 15 years, Amber has built a diverse portfolio with a passion for the interior architecture and design of the corporate workplace, hospitality, education, historic structures, and sophisticated culinary spaces.
Focusing on several high-profile projects, she has been helping shape the future of Milwaukee with the completion of the BMO Tower, the reimagined Milwaukee Athletic Club, and the Bacchus renovation with the Bartolotta Restaurants. She works collaboratively with her clients developing a rapport that enables understanding of how design choices impact project goals and brand, the overall experience, and the wellbeing of the building’s inhabitants.
Amber is passionate about design education and women in the field of architecture. She attends Women in Design events and has been featured as a speaker in their Pecha Kucha series. Amber teaches software design tools, hands-on drawing skills, and studio curriculum to middle, high school, and college students. She has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, School of Architecture and Urban Planning.
February 25, 2022 @ 1:30 PM – Women In Design Virtual Speed Mentoring Event
Join us for the Women In Design Virtual Speed Mentoring event on February 25th from 1:30-3 PM. This is a great opportunity that connects students with professionals in design fields from around the state of Wisconsin in a fun, fast-paced, virtual platform. Each match will last for 6 minutes for a total of 10 sessions. Sample questions will be provided upon registration to spark conversation.
February 25, 2022 @ 3:30 PM – Now What?! Curatorial Team Gallery Talk – SARUP Gallery and online
Now What?! Advocacy, Activism & Alliances in American Architecture since 1968 is a traveling exhibition that links the design community to larger social and political movements of the late 20th century, placing design practice in the foreground and engaging viewers in critical conversations around history, progress, and the built environment. After appearing in cities across North America and abroad, this lecture marks the opening of Now What?! at the School of Architecture & Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee by discussing highlights from the history of activism and the process of writing a collective history of the discipline.
Trip:
Japan 2022 – 6 Credit Foreign Study Opportunity
May 25 to June 22. Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto
$5,950 (Airfare not included) Group of 12 people
Contact Professor Matt Jarosz if you are interested: mjarosz@uwm.edu
RECOMMENDED BY FACULTY:
February 24 2022 @ 12 – 1:30 PM CT – Culturally Aware Research Mentoring in STEMM fields: A workshop for mentors.
This 90-minute virtual workshop is aimed at those who are engaged in the mentorship of graduate student researchers in STEMM fields, with a focus on best practices of mentors to support mentee success. Both faculty and graduate students are welcome to attend.
February 28, 2022 @ 5:30 PM CT – Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life hosted by Yale School of Architecture
Sigurd Lewerentz is probably the most significant architect of the modern period in Sweden. Best known for his poetic cemetery landscapes, and for the two extraordinary churches of St Mark’s, Björkhagen and St Peter’s, Klippan, Lewerentz’s work has always been shrouded in myth and has provoked passionate reactions in critics and architects around the world. Kieran Long, director of ArkDes, Sweden’s national museum for architecture and design, will speak about the museum’s four year research project on Lewerentz’s archive, culminating in September 2021 with a major book and an exhibition at ArkDes in Stockholm. He will show a selection of Lewerentz’s drawings, much of it never before published, and talk about new discoveries the project has made, and Lewerentz’s significance in the history of modern architecture in Sweden and the world.
March 1, 2022 @ 5:30 PM CT – Lecture by Lesley Lokko hosted by Harvard GSD
Lesley Lokko is the founder and director of the African Futures Institute (AFI) in Accra, Ghana, an independent postgraduate school of architecture and public events platform. She was the founder and director of the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg (2014—2019) and the Dean of Architecture at The Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture (2019—2020), CCNY. She is the editor of White Papers, Black Marks: Race, Culture, Architecture (University of Minnesota Press, 2000) and the editor-in-chief of FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture, published by the AFI.
On Deck:
March 4, 2022 – Trauma-Informed Care Workshop
March 4, 2022 – Lecture by Kimberly Dowdell
March 8, 2022 – ICL – Michael Mehaffy – Innovation and Public Space: A ‘New Urban Agenda’ for Next-Generation Cities
March 18, 2022 – Graduate Colloquium – Richie Hands
March 18, 2022 – Lecture by Julia Gamolina
OTHER OPPORTUNITIES:
Women In Design Scholarship – March 1, 2022 deadline – Application Info Here
The Women In Design Scholarship supports the advancement of women in design-related fields. The applicant must exhibit leadership potential and demonstrate the ability to be a positive ambassador for the scholarship and women in the field.
APT Detroit 2022 Conference Scholarship – Apply by March 4, 2022 – More info here
Students from all areas of study in historic preservation and conservation are encouraged to apply for an APT Student Scholarship to participate in the APT Detroit 2022 Conference. Applications are accepted by submitting an abstract that summarizes research and/or a project that addresses one of the 2022 conference tracks as described on the conference website.
HDP Summer Employment – Applications due March 7, 2022
Heritage Documentation Programs, in collaboration with the National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE), seeks applications from qualified students and recent graduates for 2022 summer employment documenting historic sites and structures of architectural, landscape, and technological significance throughout the United States. Duties involve on-site field work and the preparation of measured and interpretive drawings and written historical reports for the HABS/HAER/HALS Collection at the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Projects last 12 weeks, beginning in late May or early June.
Don’t forget to apply for 2022-2023 SARUP Scholarships.
The UWM Panther Scholarship Portal is your one-stop to find and apply to most scholarships offered at UWM! There is one General Application to complete, and much of your application carries over to the next awarding cycle, so you simply have to make minor updates and sign and date your application to resubmit it each year. After completing your applications, you’ll receive a list of scholarships that you may be eligible for! For more information about the portal, please read the Panther Portal FAQ.
Most of our non-internship/scholarships close on March 15, 2022. We encourage you to apply earlier!
SARUP Summer Camp Design/Build College Counselors (June 6 – July 1) Apply by March 14th.
Do you like to build things? Are you interested in hands-on construction? Working in the woodshop or makerspace? Making an impact in the community? Working with high school students? If so, apply for the SARUP summer college counselor position. More details found here.
Greenspace Steward Certificate Program Internship – More information here
The Greenspace Stewardship Certificate Program is a 10-week service-learning opportunity for folks of all experience levels! Greenspace stewards commit to 70 hours of hands-on skills learning in Milwaukee Grows Community Gardens, connecting their work in the field with topics in environmental justice & food systems through cohort discussions and field trips. Three sessions of the program are being offered: SPRING: April 3, 2022 – June 11, 2022 | SUMMER: June 4, 2022 – August 13, 2022 | FALL: August 7, 2022 – October 15, 2022
Application Deadline – March 21, 2022 – Summer Studio in Classical Architecture hosted by Institute of Classical Architecture & Art – learn more
The ICAA Summer Studio in Classical Architecture is a four-week immersive program introducing students to skills, knowledge, and resources essential to the practice and appreciation of classical design. Students build a foundation in classical architectural design through coursework in a variety of areas.
‘T’ Space Rhinebeck’s Virtual Summer Architecture Residency – Applications due March 27, 2022 – Learn more
Each year, five residents are selected on a competitive basis for the Steven Myron Holl Foundation / ‘T’ Space Summer Architectural Residency.
The 25-day virtual intensive studio challenges participants to think and design critically. Residents enjoy theoretical and experimental freedom as they design a site-specific project unique to their program. The program includes design critiques, pin-ups, lectures and conversations with invited professionals, as well as virtual field trips in Dutchess County to destinations of acclaimed architectural and artistic interest.
RAMSA Fellowship – Applications due March 30, 2022 – Learn more
The RAMSA Fellowship is a $10,000 prize awarded annually by Robert A.M. Stern Architects for travel and research. The fellowship seeks to promote investigations into the perpetuation of tradition through invention—key to the firm’s own work—and is given to an individual who has proven insight and interest in the profession and its future, as well as the ability to carry forth in-depth research.
The fellows complete their travel in the summer and present their research to RAMSA’s office in New York City the following spring. This year the jury recognizes that summer travel may be postponed due to COVID-19 restrictions; if safe travel to the proposed location is not feasible in 2022, RAMSA will work with the fellow to determine an alternate timeline and/or proposal. Download the 2022 fellowship application package below and submit your application before March 30th! The fellowship is administered by RAMSA Research. Email fellowship@ramsa.com with any questions.
