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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
Vocal Performance alum Brian Manternach (MM 1999, Music) celebrates the publication of his first book, “Voices of Influence: The Journey of a Teacher and Student in the Voice Studio,” with Bloomsbury Publishing.
Peck School of the Arts Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres is a partner on a new experimental film series called “The Great Lakes Listening Series,” which will be held at UWM’s Union Cinema.
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 …
Akira Harris (Sophomore BFA, Versatile Voice) was awarded at the Wisconsin Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Harris won first place for the Classical Music category and second in the Commercial Music category.
Assistant Professor Jesse Malmed (Film, Video, Animation and New Genres) marks ten years of his Chicago-based project Western Pole with the exhibition POST POST POST: A Decade of Western Pole at Patient Info, Chicago. Since 2015, Malmed has featured more …
Kyle Khembunjong, a recent graduate of the classical guitar program, has been awarded second prize in the M.E. Brune Guitar Competition at the The University of Rhode Island Guitar and Mandolin Festival, one of the world’s premier classical guitar competitions. …
In October, PSOA hosted the Patricia Crump Vocal Competition for the first time. Among the competition’s 11 finalists were current graduate students Alexandra Smith and Emily Bergeron and alum Kaisa Herrmann (BFA 2019, Music). The competition honors Patricia Crump, founder …
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 alum Geo Rutherford (MFA 2021, Art) debuts the 2025 edition of her viral TikTok series “Spooky Lake Month.” Each day of October, Rutherford posts a new video about spooky lakes, historical events, a natural phenomenon, educating viewers on a …
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 …