Arts Institute Creative Arts Award
The Arts Institute Creative Arts Award recognizes and honors extraordinary artistic projects and endeavors of the highest quality carried out by tenured members of the UW-Madison arts faculty in the areas of Art, Communication Arts, Creative Writing, Dance, Environment, Textile and Design, Music Composition and Performance, and Theater & Drama.
The award provides $30,000 of general research support to a faculty member in the creative arts.
Past recipients of the Creative Arts Award
- Linda Essig (Theatre & Drama, 1995)
- David H. Becker (Art, 1996)
- Phillip Zarrilli (Theatre & Drama, 1997)
- Li Chiao-Ping (Dance, 1998)
- Uri Vardi (Music, 1999)
- Steve Feren (Art, 2000)
- Patricia Boyette (Theatre & Drama, 2001)
- John Stevens (Music, 2002)
- Nietzchka Keene (Comm Arts, 2003)
- Thomas Loeser (Art, 2004)
- Catherine Kautsky (Music, 2005)
- Norma Saldivar (Theatre & Drama, 2006)
- Judith Mitchell (Creative Writing, 2007)
- Laurie Beth Clark (Art, 2008)
- Jin-Wen Yu (Dance, 2009)