Events
Visiting Lecture Series
The Bolz Center’s visiting lecture series plays an essential role in connecting program curriculum with professional practice. Each year, some of the most innovative and connected cultural professionals join us from around the country, bringing insight and experience to inform the business curriculum. This format has proven particularly successful in building professional networks, and in ensuring individual attention to the broad career and field interests of our students.
A Sampling of Recent Guest Speaker Visits Include:
Bear Bellinger
Actor
Jodi Beznoska
Senior Director
WETA
Tom Borrup
Principal
Creative Community Builders
Sarah Brailey
Professional singer and Grammy Award-Winner
Lauren Collins Peterson
Author and Political Speech Writer
Brian Cowing
Artistic Director
Children’s Theater of Madison
Olivia Dahlquist
Marketing Manager, Brand & Strategy
NINE dot Arts
Matt Dreier
Senior Director
Project Success
Alice Ferris
Executive Director
Lied Center of Kansas
Noel Miranda and Alejandro Miranda Cruz
Co-Founders
Bravebird
Jennifer Roche
Senior Director
Branigan
Jennifer Uphoff Gray
Artistic Director
Forward Theater Company
Bolz Center Collegium
For over 50 years, the Bolz Center has invited our alumni, guest presenters, practitioners, and students to the Bolz Center Collegium, a convening and connection opportunity for learning and discussion on current topics and trends in and outside of the arts and nonprofit sectors.
Arts Business Competition
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Arts Business Competition encourages new thinking and innovative ideas. The campus-wide competition provides support for student-driven projects. Entrants develop and submit a detailed proposal for an arts event, exhibition, series, commercial venture, or other artistic project. The Division of the Arts is the presenter of the Arts Business Competition with support from the Bolz Center for Arts Administration.