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Once Upon a Mattress

Theatre Building, Mainstage Theatre 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Once Upon a Mattress, a comic masterpiece based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Princess and the Pea, propelled Carol Burnett to stardom as Winnifred the Woebegone, a simple swamp princess hoping to win the hand of the prince despite all odds. This hilariously wacky romp is filled with witty, charming, and wonderfully romantic songs and dance numbers composed by Mary Rodgers. It serves as a delightful bookend to a season that began with a neglected gem by her father, Richard Rodgers.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: MFA Candidates Eric Skadson & Andrew McConville

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McConville is an artist, designer, and programmer who applies design thinking methodologies to build digital and physical experiences. Skadson is a Navy veteran and educator-turned-artist who uncovered his ancestral Punjabi roots during a backpacking adventure through Nepal and India.

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Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (MUFF)

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

The Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (MUFF) is a student run film festival devoted to showcasing independent, artist driven cinema. For two decades we have been programming filmmakers that defy convention in an attempt to amplify unheard voices. Our festival celebrates the potential of cinema to imbue a community with excitement, critical discussion, and open-mindedness through the presentation of new artistic forms.

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Art & Design MFA Exhibition: Determinant Reflections

Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI

Celebrate with our graduating MFA artists, who exhibit their finest work and share their creative journeys. Featuring work by Lilly Dyer, Emmanuel Guerra, Kristy Lisle, Thomas C. Romero and Eric Skadson.

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UWM Bands – Celebrations!

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

The UWM Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band will share a concert that celebrates the end of the academic year and feature a performance of the winning entry from the UWM Bands annual Concerto Competition.

UWM String Academy Spring Concert

Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

Join us for a delightful afternoon at the UWM Peck School of the Arts Recital Hall, where the String Academy of Wisconsin will present its Spring Concert. This event showcases the talents of young violinists and violists, ages 4 to 18, who have been working diligently all semester. Admission is free, and no tickets are required, offering a great opportunity for the community to enjoy the musical accomplishments of these dedicated young performers.

UWM Percussion Ensemble

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

The UWM Percussion Ensemble presents its annual spring concert featuring a combination of historically significant works with recent, cutting-edge compositions. The program will include Juri Seo’s “VV” and Andy Akiho’s “Pillar 1” alongside John Cage’s “Living Room Music,” Alan Hovhaness’ “October Mountain,” and Lynn Glassock’s “No Exit.” This concert will also feature the return of the UWM Marimba Band, which has been on hiatus since the pandemic shutdown.

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University Community String Orchestra (UCSO)

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

University Community String Orchestra (UCSO) is proud to preset it's inaugural concert! Tonight's program will consist of works from Corelli, Resphigi, Grainger and Mozart. Please join us and support our very first combined student and community member string ensemble.

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University Community Band Spring Concert

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

The UWM University-Community Band wraps up its year with a Spring Concert featuring a number of musical styles and traditions.

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Experimental Tuesdays: Three Films by Kevin Jerome Everson

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

This screening will serve as a prelude to Kevin Jerome Everson’s on-campus visit the following Friday and Saturday. The program will feature two medium-length films, Ten Five in the Grass and Company Line, as well as one short film, Undefeated.

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Classical Guitar Chamber Music concert

Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

Classical Guitar end of the semester Chamber Music concert.

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2024 BA/BFA Spring Exhibition

Kenilworth Square East, 4th Floor Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

Join the Department of Art & Design in celebrating the incredibly talented BA and BFA graduating class of Spring 2024.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Erica A. Meier

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As a resident designer and frame builder at Waterford Precision Cycles, Meier created internationally renowned and award-winning bicycle frames. A Wisconsin-based artist and educator, she has taught jewelry and metalsmithing at many universities and exhibits her work nationally and internationally.

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Saxophone Studio Recital

Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

The UW-Milwaukee Saxophone Studio presents an evening of chamber music featuring our saxophone quartets and saxophone ensemble.

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Springdances 2024

Kenilworth Square East, Jan Serr Studio 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

Springdances 2024 presents an evening of premieres from guest artist Vershawn Sanders Ward, artistic director of Chicago-based Red Clay Dance Company and Dance faculty choreographers Daniel Burkholder, Mair Culbreth, and Rich Ashworth. Join us in an evening that dances with the elemental forces of nature, ancestry, hope, and tenderness.

UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band & University Community World Music Ensemble

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Room 250 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

This exciting night of music will feature music from Guatemala and Trinidad and Tobago performed by UWM students and Milwaukee community members. The UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band and the new University Community World Music Ensemble will join forces on a program highlighting traditional and arranged music played on Guatemalan marimba doble and Trinidadian steel pans.

Short Ends presents: Recent Short films by Kevin Jerome Everson

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Any conversation about the most important artists and experimental filmmakers working over the past quarter century would be incomplete without the name Kevin Jerome Everson. His distinctive and singularly nuanced work blends documentary and fiction to articulate the profound within the ordinariness of everyday life. Kevin will be present to introduce and discuss a collection of his short works, ranging primarily from 2022-2024.

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UWM Symphony Orchestra Season Finale – Beethoven Triple Concerto

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

The UWM Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Jun Kim, concludes its season with Beethoven's Triple Concerto, featuring violinist Bernard Zinck, cellist Adrien Zitoun, and pianist Jean-Louis Haguenauer. The concert also features Symphony No. 5 by Ralph Vaughn Williams, a beautiful, powerful, and hopeful work by one of England’s greatest composers.

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Kenilworth Open Studios

Kenilworth Square East 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

Immerse yourself in creativity when Peck School of the Arts student and faculty artists open their studios to the public. From exhibitions and studio visits to live performances and family-friendly art activities, you’ll find something to excite you at Kenilworth Open Studios.

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Design & Visual Communication BFA Capstone Exhibition

Kenilworth Square East, 3rd Floor Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

Join the 2024 Design & Visual Communication BFA Students in an interactive exhibition of their Capstone Thesis projects.

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Choral Collage Concert

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

Join UWM's five choral ensembles for a thrilling evening of music in their final concert of the year.

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Short Ends presents: Lago Gatún by Kevin Jerome Everson

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Lago Gatún, Kevin Jerome Everson’s 2021 feature, is an entrancing journey north through the Panama Canal—a juncture of commerce between two vast oceans. Abstract and spare, the film’s meditative play with light and shadow opens up reflection on the colonial trade histories that lie below the surface. (MoMA) 

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UWAY Concert – Celebration Time

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

The UWM Youth Wind & Percussion Ensembles program (UWAY) will perform a concert to celebrate UWAY graduates, feature our annual UWAY Concert Competition Winner, and wrap-up the concert season!

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African, Salsa/Merengue, and Hip Hop

Kenilworth Square East, Jan Serr Studio 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI

This end of the term showing features works by the African Dance, Salsa/Merengue & Hip Hop classes.

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Piano Faculty Elena Abend with the KAIA String Quartet

Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

UWM piano faculty Elena Abend is joined by the KAIA String Quartet (DePaul University) performing music by women composers.

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Zen Film Festival

Arts Center Lecture Hall 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Join us for a collection of student made short films from the class Zen and the Art of Filmmaking, which focuses on developing the artistic sensibility through the Zen art of practice and automatic principles. These films are funny, odd, thoughtful, frightening, and most of all full of Zen.

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Classical Guitar Studio Solo Recital

Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

Classical Guitar Studio end-of-semester Solo Recital.

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New Music Ensemble Concert

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Room 250 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Join the UWM New Music Ensemble as they perform original music written by UWM Composition students and featuring Louis Andriessen's Workers Union. 

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Popular Music Ensemble

Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

Popular Music Ensemble will perform music from the Pop/Rock/Folk genres. You will hear songs from the 1950's to the present day. Students work in small groups to create a unique take on each song, learning how to collaborate and bring something new to the audience.

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UW-MESS 2.0: Advanced Electronic Music Showcase

Music Building, Electronic Music Studios B60 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Students enrolled in Advanced Electronic Music and Sound Art, representing UW-MESS (UWM Electroacoustic Sound Studios), will showcase their final projects in a concert featuring all-new works of interactive electronic music!

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Senior Screenings

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

The Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres is proud to celebrate the graduating class of 2024 and their fantastic thesis films! Seniors work all year on their thesis films; writing, directing, producing, editing, and polishing these films. Come celebrate their hard work and watch some of the most unique and exciting films from the next generation of artists and filmmakers coming out of Milwaukee!

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Convocation

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Room 250 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

You are cordially invited to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts graduation convocation for Fall 2023, Winterim 2024, Spring 2024 and Summer 2023 baccalaureate and master’s degree recipients.

Art and Design Summer Open Studios

Art & Design Summer Open Studios

Kenilworth Square East 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

Summer open studios are available to current intermediate/advanced Jewelry & Metalsmithing and Digital Fabrication & Design students and alumni who have had previous studio training and are seeking access to help make their own self-guided projects.

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Art & Design Summer Workshops

Kenilworth Square East 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

Investigate a variety of topics, techniques and strategies while learning new ways to solve problems in the studio and developing new ideas while exploring your creative potential!

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Film Summer Camps

Kenilworth Square East 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

The Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres at UWM’s Peck School of the Arts welcomes young filmmakers to develop their skills at a week-long day camp this summer! Choose from two comprehensive experiences: film camp (with optional overnight accommodations) and advanced film camp. Both camps include hands-on workshops and sessions led by practicing artists and professors, so participants gain knowledge from experienced professionals.

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Film Summer Camps

Kenilworth Square East 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

The Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres at UWM’s Peck School of the Arts welcomes young filmmakers to develop their skills at a week-long day camp this summer! Choose from two comprehensive experiences: film camp (with optional overnight accommodations) and advanced film camp. Both camps include hands-on workshops and sessions led by practicing artists and professors, so participants gain knowledge from experienced professionals.

Summer Dance Intensive for High School Students & Young Artists

Dance Summer Intensive for High School Students & Young Artists

Mitchell Hall, Studio 254 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI

Our three-day summer intensive is designed for young dance artists seeking to deepen their dance practice, discover new techniques and build bridges that lead to pursuing dance professionally and in higher education. Dancers cultivate creativity and technique in a variety of dance forms taught by nationally renowned dance educators from UW-Milwaukee and beyond.

UpStart – Dance MFA Concert 2024

Mitchell Hall, Studio 254 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

Join MFA in Dance students for an evening of original, experimental choreography developed in collaboration with MKE dance artists and mentored by UW-Milwaukee Dance faculty. These dance works explore diverse choreographic interests that range from surrealism and world building, to identity and memory. UpStart is a unique opportunity to experience choreography from dance artists from across the nation.

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University Community Orchestra Summer Concert

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

Please join us for the UWM University Community Orchestra's annual summer concert. Our music will include lighter pop selections and standard orchestra repertoire.