Past Events

Wednesday, February 21 2024 6:30pm - 7;45PM

“Unveiling Black Milwaukee: Perspectives on Music, Art, and Sports” panel

Please join the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies for “Unveiling Black Milwaukee: Perspectives on Music, Art, and Sports” on February 21st, 6:30-7:45pm in the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center. Panelists include Dr. Kidiocus King Carroll, Assistant Professor in AADS; Jamila...

Wednesday, November 15 2023 11:30am - 12:30pm

Friends of Art History Meet and Greet

You are invited on Wednesday, November 15 from 11:30am to 12:30pm for an Art History meet and greet in Mitchell Hall 159! Dear Friends of Art History and Auditors, Join fellow art lovers and Art History faculty and staff members to learn more about the UWM...

Tuesday, November 14 2023 3:30 pm

Gorfinkel Lecture: Sleeping in the Movie Theater

Sleeping in the Movie Theater (After Wanda Goronski) Navigating recent interest in nocturnal imaginaries and the valence of sleep for understanding cinematic spectatorship, this talk takes up the sleeping spectator as it figures in Barbara Loden’s landmark independent film Wanda (1970) to...

Thursday, October 19 2023 4:30 pm

Lecture by Sinclair Bell, Professor of Art History, University of Northern Illinois

The visual and material culture of the Roman Empire provides an abundant record of encounters with or simply imaginings of foreign peoples. These images render visible complex formulations of ethnicity, social hierarchies, and power. This lecture surveys the ways in...

Tuesday, April 18 2023 6:00pm

Public Talk on Craft and Globalism

Folk-arts for peace: HemisFair '68 and the Cultural Olympics in México’s 1968 Olympiad during the Global Cold War Guest: Dr. Deborah Dorotinsky Alperstein Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas of the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) This lecture will center on folk...

Thursday, April 13 2023 5 pm

Negotiating Authenticity: Reproducing the Past for the Present

Please join us Thursday, April 13th at 5PM for the graduate thesis exhibition opening of Negotiating Authenticity: Reproducing the Past for the Present curated by David Symanzik-Stock. The exhibit will be open until May 11th, 2023 and, as always, the...

Open Parameters Poster
Thursday, April 13 2023 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Open Parameters—late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s Chinese calligraphy and painting from the Zhou Cezong’s donation

Please join us Thursday, April 13th at 5PM for the graduate thesis exhibition opening of Open Parameters---late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s Chinese calligraphy and painting from the Zhou Cezong’s donation curated by Jingwei Zeng. This exhibition explores the diversity...

Body Bound Exhibition Announcement
Thursday, February 23 2023 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Mathis Art Gallery Exhibition: Body Bound

Body Bound traces the historically grounded and long-standing tradition of using bodily material as the basis for bookmaking. This practice has not subsided entirely in its traditional form but has also branched off and informed contemporary book-making practices. Contemporary books,...

Tuesday, December 13 2022 1:00pm - 1:30pm

4th Art Exposé

The Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery invites you to a series of “Art Exposé” Gallery Talks   In these 15-minute presentations, Mathis Gallery Interns will discuss a mystery art object in the gallery collection that they have researched this semester. This is...

Material Agents Exhibition
Thursday, December 8 2022 5pm

Material Agents: Objects as Intermediaries

We are pleased to announce a new art exhibition, Material Agents: Objects as Intermediaries, at The Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery. It was curated as part of the course Introduction to Art Museum Studies II. The show will run from December 8, 2022, to...