UW-Madison’s Odyssey Project provides 30 students each year with a challenging college humanities class, taught by award-winning faculty. Students — many facing significant life challenges — receive free tuition, textbooks, childcare, and a weekly dinner.

Students read, write about, and engage in lively discussions of Emily Dickinson, Martin Luther King, Walt Whitman, Shakespeare, Gandhi and more. Through exposure to these great works of literature, philosophy, history, and art, Odyssey students gain six credits in English…skills in critical thinking, a sense of empowerment, and a voice. 

Tonight, the class visited the Chazen Museum of Art, and I was lucky enough to capture a few shots of students interacting with the exhibits. The Chazen is home to the second-largest collection of art in Wisconsin: more than 20,000 works include paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, and decorative arts.

Click on the gallery below, or see my Flickr album