Students showcase musical technique and skill, while audience members enjoy expert performances by Milwaukee’s emerging musicians. Recitals are streaming, free and open to the public.
Art & Design's biannual student painting exhibition featuring current undergraduate and graduate level Painting & Drawing students. Curated by MFA candidates Allison Westbrook and Mollie Greenberg.
Students who received scholarships in the previous year are invited to display work in this exciting exhibition that spans a wide range of mediums and topics from emerging artists.
Micah Alhadeff is a digital artist, curator, and educator whose work explores glitch aesthetics, virtual embodiment, and speculative transformation. Alhadeff’s work has been exhibited at Sotheby's in New York City, The Royal Institute in London, NFT.NYC, NFT Show Europe in Valencia, Spain, Tech Contemporary in Copenhagen, and across 1000 billboards in Belgium through Art Crush Gallery. Alhadeff is as Assistant Professor of Kinetic Imaging at Western Michigan University where he teaches experimental approaches to game engines, worldbuilding, and emerging technologies in digital art.
No Man’s Land is an exhibition curated by students in Photography & Imaging’s Fall 2026 Contemporary Issues in Photography course.
The UWM Piano Studio will present a recital of solo and collaborative works. Program TBD.
The UWM Symphony Orchestra and Choirs join forces for an evening of powerful choral-orchestral masterworks. In recognition of the 250th anniversary of the United States, the program features American works that reflect on the nation’s history and ideals, including Florence Price’s Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight and Aaron Copland’s iconic Fanfare for the Common Man. The program also features Mozart’s radiant Coronation Mass, bringing together orchestra, chorus, and soloists in one of his most celebrated sacred works.
Spend the morning with the UWM String Academy as students ages 4 through 18 perform an engaging program of music from around the world. This concert showcases the talent and hard work they’ve put in throughout the semester. Free and open to the public.
Guest Adam Unsworth, Professor of Horn at Northwestern University, visits UWM’s campus to present a horn recital with Yasuko Oura, piano.
Curated by MFA candidates from the Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres, these programs feature a unique opportunity to see some of the incredible 16mm prints from the UWM Cinema Arts Archive. For each program, the curator is invited to program a selection of films around a theme of their choosing.
New Dancemakers 2026: Passing Through presents an evening of deeply engaging dances that will reframe and expand your view of dance. Choreographed by eight of the department’s graduating seniors, these works explore topics ranging from addiction and humanity’s relationship with nature to quantum mechanics, marginalization, and the desire for agency and freedom. Come support these emerging dance artists as they bring all the skills and knowledge they acquired as part of UWM Dance for a remarkable evening of dance!
This exhibition offers a unique opportunity to explore the vibrant intersections of creativity and technology, connecting the Milwaukee community with the next frontier of artistic expression.
In this tragicomic play, a grotesquely wealthy person returns to her hometown, which has suffered an economic downturn. In exchange for reversing their plight, she demands a high price—one that shakes the very bedrock of society. This landmark play premiered in New York 70 years ago in a production directed by Peter Brook and starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
Rachel David is a North Carolina-based blacksmith, sculptor, designer, and maker. Her metalwork practice is holistic; encompassing art, furniture, architectural elements, activism, collaborations, and gardening. Using the physical and technically demanding processes of forging, forming, and machining steel, Rachel addresses broader issues of “body” and “landscape” through the lens of social and environmental justice. David's work is in the collections of the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery, the City of New Orleans, the City of Asheville, the Simone Benetton Foundation, and numerous private collections.
This exciting night of music will feature music from Guatemala and Trinidad and Tobago performed by UWM students and Milwaukee community members. The UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band and the new University Community World Music Ensemble will join forces on a program highlighting traditional and arranged music played on Guatemalan marimba doble and Trinidadian steel pans.
The High School Honors Band & String Orchestra Festival provides the region’s most motivated and accomplished high school band and orchestra students an opportunity to work with each other and with regionally and nationally recognized conductors. Students also interact with UWM performance faculty and experience performances by UWM ensembles. This year, the High School Honors Band will be conducted by guest conductor Dr. Brett Bawcum of the University of Georgia, and the High School Honors String Orchestra will be conducted by Dr. Jun Kim, Director of Orchestral Activities at UWM.
The UWM Middle School Honors Band Festival is one of the longest-standing events of its kind. Our festival provides the region’s most motivated and accomplished middle school instrumentalists with an opportunity to work with one another and with regionally and nationally recognized wind band conductors. In addition, students interact with UWM performance staff and experience performances by UWM ensembles.
The UWM Middle School Honors Band Festival is one of the longest-standing events of its kind. Our festival provides the region’s most motivated and accomplished middle school instrumentalists with an opportunity to work with one another and with regionally and nationally recognized wind band conductors. In addition, students interact with UWM performance staff and experience performances by UWM ensembles.
UWM Opera Scenes offers an evening of fully staged excerpts from some of opera’s most compelling works. Featuring a range of styles, languages, and characters, this performance highlights the work of our singers as they bring dramatic storytelling and music together on stage. It’s a chance to experience a variety of scenes in one engaging program.
This performance begins with a unique collaboration between the high school students selected for the 2026 UWM Honors String Orchestra and the UWM Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Prof. Jun Kim. The 2026 UWM High School Honors Band will perform on the second half of the concert, and led by our featured guest conductor, Dr. Brett Bawcum of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia. This Saturday evening concert is a culmination of a weekend of rehearsals, lessons and experiences meant to show festival students what it's like to be a musician at UW-Milwaukee.