Dan Schuchart (Teaching Faculty III, Dance; BFA 2004, Art) is working with PSOA alumni and Wild Space Dance Company members Kaetlyn Altmann (BFA 2019, Dance) and Ashley Ray Garcia (BFA 2022, Dance) to produce “A Room Shaped Story,” a multi-narrative …
Emmy-nominated writer Maria Pretzl (BFA 2014, Film; BA 2014, Theater Studies) will have her play, “Naked Tuesday,” featured at Renaissance Theaterworks’ eleventh annual Br!NK New Play Festival. The story follows the exploits of a writer, an actor, and a writer’s …
Art & Design MFA 2025 graduate students Mich Dillon, Howard Leu, Tanner MacArthur, Andrew McConville (BA 2013, Art), William Justice “Bucko Crooks” Mueller II, and Rachel Sanders exhibited work in “Shape and Shadow,” a showcase of talent and effort that blends academia and …
Art alum Laura Lynne (BFA 2021, Painting & Drawing) was recently featured in a Chicago Tribune article featuring her Midwest nature-inspired curriculum. Over the past four years, Lynne has developed this curriculum and has explored themes such as wetland art, …
Sean Kafer (Teaching Faculty II, FVANG; Program Director, docUWM) spoke to Wisconsin Public Radio about his new documentary, “Brady Street: A Portrait of a Neighborhood.” The project was conceived to get students out into the community and to honor the …
Wisconsin-based radio program The Todd Allbaugh Show featured theatre students Abby McBee, Alyna Williams, and Lucas Drube to talk about the musical theatre program and their experiences with the recent UWM production of “Dames at Sea.” According to the host, …
“Brady Street: A Portrait of a Neighborhood,” a documentary feature created as part of UWM’s documentary film program docUWM was recently featured in a WISN article. Sean Kafer (Teaching Faculty II; Program Director, docUWM) enlisted the help of students to film …
Jamin Hoffman (MM 1990, Music) was recently featured in a Shepherd Express highlighting his work with the Concord Chamber Orchestra in Milwaukee. Hoffman joined the orchestra in 1989 as a French horn player before putting his instrument aside to become …
Shepherd Express recently published a positive review of the PSOA Theatre Department’s production of “Dames at Sea.” The production was notable for its cavalcade of quick changes, something Shepherd Express praised. “The entire ensemble, save the sailors in their trademarked …
Maria Gillespie’s (Professor, Dance; Graduate Program Representative, Dance) ongoing project “Wild Tongue,” which was funded in part by a UWM Advancing Research Creativity (ARC) Grant, was recently featured in a Milwaukee Magazine feature. “Wild Tongue” stems from Gillespie’s decades-long collaboration and friendship …
Victoria Crowley-Washington, a six-year-old violinist also known as the Wavie Princess Victoria, recently made history by becoming the youngest African American musician to perform the Black National Anthem at a Milwaukee Bucks Game. “I get to inspire other people to …
Basha Harris (BFA 2016, Art) was recently in an MKE Lifestyle feature that discussed her jewelry work showcased in the John Michael Kohler Art Center’s museum shop in Sheboygan. The feature details Harris’ work and life that led her to …
Noah Meister’s (BFA 2021, Film) directorial debut, “All That Glitters,” is now able to stream, as featured in an article from The Verona Press. “All That Glitters” is described as a 75-minute crime drama that follows a high school student …
Mike Martino (BFA 1977, Art: Sculpture) is involved in the 30th annual Winterfest, which features complex snow sculptures that serve as the festival’s centerpiece. These sculptures are being built in Lake Geneva. Martino is competing on one of the Wisconsin …
Alvaro Saar Rios (Associate Professor, Playwriting; Area Head, Theatre Practices) is premiering his latest play, “Quetzali and the Comic Book Queen vs. the Alebrije of Darkness: Live in the School Cafeteria” at Kentucky’s Lexington Children’s Theatre. American Theatre magazine profiled the work. …
