Speaker
Chris Walker
Director of the Division of the Arts and Professor of Dance at UW–Madison
Chris Walker, M.F.A., is the director of the Division of the Arts at UW, a professor in the School of Education’s Department of Dance and founding artistic director of First Wave, a nationally prominent scholarship program known for pushing the boundaries of poetry, dance, theater and art. Walker is a multi-hyphenate contemporary dance and performance artist. Rooted in “Resistance Aesthetics,” Walker’s work draws upon the danced rituals, mas traditions, and embodied performance history of the African diaspora. His research intersects dance choreography for the concert stage with collaborations with visual and performance artists for museum, alternate spaces, professional theatre, and film.
Speaking in
Activism and the Arts: Building Legacies in Wisconsin and Beyond
Prof. Chris Walker, director of the Division of the Arts and founding artistic director of the First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Scholarship Program, will moderate a panel discussion featuring a diverse array of Madison-area artists and members of the UW–Madison faculty and staff who work in and across genres, media and programs.
Co-sponsored by the UW–Madison Division of the Arts.