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Wisconsin People & Ideas – Summer/Fall 2020

In this special double issue: Meet Chef Elena Terry, who draws on her Ho-Chunk roots to create foods that educate and satiate, and learn about Natural Climate Solutions that cleverly take advantage of our woods, farmlands, and urban green spaces. Examine the origins of warfarin, one of the most-prescribed drugs in the world, and trace the history of the Wisconsin Idea in the arts. We offer a sneak peek at the four Watrous Gallery exhibitions rescheduled for 2022, due to the closure of Overture Center, and proudly share the award-winning works from our 2020 fiction and poetry contests.

Volume:

66

Issue Number:

3

Photo of Jane Elder

From the Director

Living with Ambiguity

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One of the signs of good mental health is the ability to tolerate ambiguity.

Photo of Jason A. Smith

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At just over $10 billion, or 3.1% of Wisconsin’s GDP, you might think that the arts and culture sector is doing pretty darn well. It's not.

Chef Elena Terry holds ancestral corn seeds. Photo by Tom Jones. No reproduction without permission.

Wisconsin Table

Seeds of Change

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Candice Wagener

For Chef Elena Terry, seeds represent both the past and the future of her people.

This 24-acre stretch of land along the Menomonee River in Milwaukee used to be an abandoned rail yard. In 2013 a group of state and local partners completed its transformation into an urban green space. Today, Three Bridges Park is home to an urban ecology center and bike paths, and hosts over 50,000 visitors every year. Photo by Jon Elliott/MKE Drones.

Natural Climate Solutions

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Natural climate solutions are pragmatic options for sequestering greenhouse gases. But where to start?

Karl Paul Link (right), the biochemist who discovered warfarin, and Mark A. Stahmann (left) perform a laboratory procedure at the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station in 1949. UW Digital Collections/ID S05108

The Clot Thickens

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Jacqueline Houtman

The story of warfarin begins on a farm in St. Croix County with a dead cow, a milk can full of blood, and a hundred pounds of sweet clover.

Looking Back to Look Forward: The Wisconsin Idea in the Arts

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Maryo Gard Ewell

Imagine a theater whose walls are the boundaries of the State of Wisconsin, whose stage is as large as all the stages in the state put together.

The cover of the Spring 1983 issue of Wisconsin Academy Review (today’s Wisconsin People & Ideas) featured a fold-out reproduction of Warrington Colescott’s 1982 large color intaglio print, The Hollandale Tapes: The Court Is Now in Session. As an Academy Board member in the 1980s, Colescott actively encouraged and contributed to the Academy’s work in the visual arts.

Wisconsin Academy in the Arts

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It took nearly eighty years after its founding for the Academy to give more than lip service to the arts.

Andrew Redington, Roundabout, 2016. Sculpture, upcycled furniture, canvas, 70 by 70 by 30 inches.

@ the Watrous Gallery

Four Exhibitions, Deferred

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Andrew Redington, Robin Jebavy, Kyoung Ae Cho, Dakota Mace

Works by Robin Jebavy, Andrew Redington, Kyoung Ae Cho, Dakota Mace—all of whom should have shown at the gallery in late 2020-early 20201.

Illustration by Laura Ovberg

Junk Shed

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Jacquelyn Thomas

My father eats braunschweiger sandwiches, thick ones he squeezes tight to hold together. He holds them with the hand that’s missing a finger.

Cover of MAIDS and photo of the author, Abby Frucht

Maids, by Abby Frucht

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Maids is Abby Frucht’s first collection of poetry, and, as she says on her website, probably her last.

Photo of the book reviewed along with author

In the Unsettled Homeland of Dreams

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A semi-fictional narrative about a slave settlement on Washington Island changes our understanding of Door County.

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