Past Events

Thursday, February 27 2020 - Thursday, May 14 2020

Claim, Consume, Curate

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...

Thursday, January 23 2020 - Thursday, February 13 2020

Faceless Figures: Obscurity within the UWM Art Collection

A new exhibition is now open at the UWM Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery!

Thursday, September 12 2019 - Thursday, December 19 2019 5:30pm

Water + Work Exhibition Opening

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 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

First Annual Friends of Art History Lecture: Grace Lavery

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.

Thursday, April 18 2019 - Thursday, May 16 2019
Tuesday, April 9 2019 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Art Exposé

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.

Thursday, February 28 2019 - Thursday, April 4 2019

Distorted Norms: German Expressionist Prints and the Legacy of the Early German Masters

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.

Thursday, February 28 2019 - Thursday, April 4 2019

Face. Off. Faceoff: Mapping African Representations in Western Art Museums

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.

Thursday, November 15 2018 - Thursday, February 14 2019 5 pm - 7 pm

Humor and Quiet Resistance: The Graphic Work of Wilhelm Hopfner and Stanley William Hayter & the Death of Hektor

Humor and Quiet Resistance: The Graphic Work of Wilhelm Hopfner and Stanley William Hayter & the Death of Hektor. November 15, 2018 – February 14, 2019.

Final Art Exposé of the Fall 23 semester

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 a...