Summer open studios are available to current intermediate/advanced Jewelry & Metalsmithing and Digital Fabrication & Design students and alumni who have had previous studio training and are seeking access to help make their own self-guided projects.
Glory Dewitt is sent to an estate on the seaside for her "health" and made to recover in solitude. When Adelaide Rose washes up on the beach, the house and its inhabitants, maids, nurse, and young Glory alike, are thrown into disarray. Addressing the harsh realities of women across the class divide in the Victorian era, this new play asks how deeply society has truly changed.
Continuum 2026 brings together two compelling exhibitions—one honoring the enduring influence of landscape through Kevin Giese’s work, and the other reflecting on the lasting impact of mentorship and cultural exchange through a historic UWM study abroad experience.
Please join us in the Mainstage Theatre lobby for our annual Fall welcome event. New and returning students are invited for pizza, games, crafts and a chance to meet representatives from Milwaukee area arts organizations.
Geornica Daniels is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture and site-specific installation who has exhibited in group and solo shows, regionally and nationally, including at the ARC Gallery (Chicago), John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan), Portrait Society Gallery (Milwaukee), Rahr-West Art Museum (Manitowoc). Daniels received her MFA from UWM.
Curated by advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this exhibition brings together traditional and experimental photographic techniques alongside images that investigate the nuanced use of light within the studio environment.
Printers Sin Fronteras is a special collaboration and exhibition by artists who view communities without edges and are bound by curiosity, not geography. We are related by our shared passion and commitments to meaningful exchanges through printmaking and papermaking.
Exhibition of selected hand-woven pieces from Fibers courses in the Department of Art & Design.
Location, location, location. A neighborhood of experimental shorts, drawn from our Cinema Arts Archive and the world at large, focusing on place. We are where we are, often here, sometimes there, always where. And the cinema too is a there, a where, a place we share to gather paradise and expand our sense of the possible.
Tanya Crane is a metalsmithing and jewelry artist whose work is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Stewart Foundation for Modern Design, Enamel Arts Foundation, and the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, TN. Crane was named a 2024 United States Artist Fellow in Craft and is also the recipient of The Doris Prouty Foundation Artist Grant which is offered to BIPOC/AAPI women artists in Massachusetts and North Carolina. Crane is an Assistant Professor of 3D Foundations, Jewelry and Sculpture at Long Beach City College.
Sing Out brings together 750+ 9th-12th grade and 350+ 7th-8th grade tenor-bass singers from over 60 schools from around Wisconsin and Illinois. No advance preparation is required; students learn pieces at the festival and conclude the morning with the high school and middle school choirs singing for one another and together. Additional activities include performances by the UWM Tenor-Bass Choir and interest and reading sessions for directors.
UW-Milwaukee alumni, stone sculptor/painter SHADDSTONE©️ collaborates with alumni master percussionist Martin Shadd and friends, to present an experience of abstract/impressionism as music. The musical journey will be performed on unique and traditional instruments to create a series of “sound-escapes."
Join archivist Shiraz Bhathena in conversation with Dick Blau to celebrate a major archiving and remastering project. Blau—a co-founder of the UWM Film Department, longtime professor and fixture of the Milwaukee art community—works across film, photography and video producing a varied body of work that includes psychological portraiture, experimental narrative, devised performance, ethnomusicology and the domestic.
Adam Shiverdecker is a ceramics sculptor and educator living in Oakland, California. He is currently Professor of Spatial Art at San José State University where he specializes in experimental processes and ceramic sculpture. His work has been shown in venues such as The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City), Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse), Museum of Craft and Design (San Francisco) and Mindy Solomon Gallery (Miami).
TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing is a biography of the influential writer, filmmaker and cultural worker, who with humor and deep insight, inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to community empowerment. The film is structured as a series of lessons on cultural organizing, gleaned from Bambara's life and shared by her friends, colleagues and students. Join us in-person for a dialogue with the Producer/Director, Louis Messiah and Marquise Mays.
Join UWM's Bella Voce, Kameraden, Alta Voce, and Kameraden Plus choirs for their first performance of the year!
Join UWM's flagship Concert Chorale along with guest high school choirs for their first performance of the year!
Are you a high school student with a passion for the Arts? Whether you’re interested in Studio Art, Design, Art Education or Digital Arts, we have an exciting and informative event just for you. It’s called “Making Your Mark: A Day in the Life of an Art & Design Major,” and it’s completely FREE.
Drawing upon a background in painting and the Fine Arts, Julie Murray has made over 25 beguiling and beautiful moving image works, equally invested in metaphysics as they are in material. Murray will be present to share a program of her recent short work on 16mm and digital.
Written by George Furth and Stephen Sondheim, Company is a game-changing musical that takes an honest look at modern adult relationships. A winner of six Tony Awards (Best Musical, Best Score, Best Lyrics and Best Book), the energetic score contains many of Stephen Sondheim's best known songs.