Murals of the UW Rathskeller
The UW Memorial Union opened in 1928 as a meeting place for students and soon after, in 1933, the Rathskeller started serving beer. “Rathskeller” is the name of the room found in the basement of a traditional Bavarian town hall…
Who Was Floyd McBurney?
Students may be familiar with the name McBurney as it is the name’s sake of the Disability Resource Center at the UW Madison campus. However, they probably do not know much about his life or why the office is named…
Printing is the Inseparable Companion of Achievement
In February 2020, right before everyone moved to online classes because of COVID, the university installed a new mural in the Conrad Elvehjem building. This 18-foot long, 500-pound mural was originally in the Democrat Printing Co. plant in another part…
Art on Campus
During the Great Depression, John Steuart Curry was commissioned by the federal government to design and produce a mural for the Department of Justice in Washington, DC. While his design was rejected for the subject matter being too controversial, a…
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