Please join us for the Hostile Terrains exhibition at the Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery, Mitchell Hall room 170. The exhibition will run through February 24, 2022. Hostile Terrains visually explores the intersection of landscape, policy, and violence in Milwaukee...
This exhibit displays religious and political artworks with the Kebra Nagast, Ethiopia’s sacred Christian text. Most of these works date from the twentieth century, but the religious motifs are ancient. Ethiopian emperors claim political authority through a lineage traced to...
What was the first object you bought with your own money? What did your parents' living room look like? What dish are you afraid to break? Claim, Consume, Curate examines the material culture of modern life in three contexts. “The Home,” “The Boutique,” and “The Museum” include over fifty...
A new exhibition is now open at the UWM Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery!
This innovative exhibition explores how artists portrayed water as a site of labor in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art. Drawing from UWM’s rich collections, it shows how artists worked to promote a wide variety of maritime endeavors, from shipping and...
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Please join us for the First Annual Friends of Art History Lecture! Special guest Grace Lavery (UC Berkeley English Department) will be presenting the lecture entitled Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan.
April 9, 2019 at 1 – 2pm
Please join us for an exciting *MYSTERY* object presentation by Mathis Gallery Intern Melissa Michaud in the Emile H. Mathis Gallery.
February 28 to April 4, 2019
Please join the Department of Art History for the opening of Graduate Student Youngchul Shin’s Thesis Exhibition. Distorted Norms: German Expressionist Prints and the Legacy of the Early German Masters explores the legacy of early German printmaking among German Expressionist artists.
February 28 to April 4, 2019
Please join the Department of Art History for the opening of Graduate Student Samantha Maloney’s Thesis Exhibition. Face. Off. Faceoff: Mapping African Representations in Western Art Museums aims to investigate how influential representations of African art objects, cultures, and histories within Western art museums impact contemporary museum audiences.