Alum takes home big win at Door County Film Festival 

Alum Kiersten Hoff (BFA 2024, Film) won Best Student Film at the Door County Film Festival last Thursday. Hoff presented their senior thesis film, Mindframe, competing against films from across the Midwest. This success follows a series of wins at the Milwaukee Independent Film Awards …

MOWA Wisconsin Artist Biennial features several UWM faculty, students and alumni

Peck School of the Arts is well represented at the Museum of Wisconsin Art’s (MOWA) 2026 Biennial. Artists with ties to PSOA include First Year Program lecturer and Studio Art MFA graduate Tanner MacArthur, Painting & Drawing faculty and alum Cynthia Hayes, Art & Design graduate candidate Aaron Boyd, and Painting & Drawing associate professor and co-chair Angela Piehl. Several alumni are also exhibiting.

Film alum’s senior film to be featured in Door County Film Festival 

Alum Kiersten Hoff’s (BFA 2024, Film) senior film, Mindframe, is to be featured in the Door County Film Festival. Hoff’s film will screen in the Student Films category and will be showing February 12 at Fish Creek’s Northern Sky Gould Theatre.   To read the full announcement, visit Door County Pulse.  

UWM talent spotlighted on Bandcamp’s Best of 2025

Assistant Professor Alex Wier and Associate Professor Jennifer Clippert (BFA 1999, Music Performance) are performers on “Voiceless Mass,” an album that made it onto Bandcamp’s Best of 2025 list in the Best of Contemporary Classical Music category. 

Film MFA alum receives 2026 Creative Capital Award

Gillian Waldo (MFA, 2024) has been named a recipient of a 2026 Creative Capital Award. This year’s awardees were selected from a pool of 4,546 applications from all 50 states and regions in the United States via a democratic, national open call. 

Theatre lecturer featured on Arts Educators Save the World podcast 

Jeffery Mosser and his mentee, Mizha Lee Overn, were featured on Arts Educators Save the World, a podcast that highlights the experiences and achievements behind art educators and their mentees.  On the podcast, Mosser and Overn discuss the mentorship process, the business side …

Alum joins Milwaukee Rep Emerging Professional Residency

Peck School of the Arts theatre alum Connor Nekich (BFA 2023) has been selected for the Emerging Professional Residency at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, a highly competitive program that accepts only eight actors each year from more than 200 applicants. Nekich …

UWM alums take part in Latino Heritage Month Pop-Up event 

UWM alums Thom Romero (BFA 2011, Art) and Emmanuel Guerra (MFA 2024, Art) feature their work as part of the Whitewater Cultural Arts Center’s Latino Heritage Month Pop-Up event. The exhibition will honor the contributions of Latino artists to Wisconsin’s art community.   To read the full article, visit the Daily …