HEX-U

Our multifaceted and talented HEX-U students continue to make strides and impact as scholars! 🎉Congratulations to HEX-U Scholar, Sophia Abrams, on receiving a Lyman S.V. Judson and Ellen Mackechnie Judson Student Award in the Creative Arts!!!!

Sophia Abrams (she/her/hers) is a senior from Minneapolis, MN, and is a Powers-Knapp Scholar. Sophia is majoring in Journalism and Afro-American Studies and minoring in Art History. On campus, she has been involved with the Wisconsin Black Student Union and WSUM. She is currently the UW Archives Student Historian in Residence, where she is developing an oral history project on Black artists who went to UW-Madison.

For her HEX-U project, Sophia is partnering with Little Picassos to develop art classes based on her Student Historian Research on Black artists in Madison. Little Picassos is an arts enrichment nonprofit in Madison. Integral to its mission is that every child is an artist when granted access to art materials and education. With the impetus of Sophia’s project stemming from understanding that for there to be Black artists access to art education and support is imperative, Little Picasso’s mission powerfully aligns with Sophia’s work. Sophia is looking forward to working with the kids and teaching about the importance of Black artists through developing an arts curriculum.

Learn more about HEX-U, our scholars and application process here: https://humanities.wisc.edu/public-humanities/hexu

UW-Madison Arts on Campus
Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin—Madison

The Division of the Arts Announces Recipients of the 2022 Creative Arts Awards Each May, the UW–Madison Division of the Arts celebrates artistic achievement, recognizes service to the arts, and supports arts research by bestowing the Creative Arts Awards. The call for applications and nominations was released in …