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.
These “Best of” Exhibitions feature student work from all levels of Jewelry & Metalsmithing, Sculpture, Photography, and Digital Fabrication & Design courses taught during 2024-25 academic year at UWM.
A dating app called Ten Minutes On a Bench is the latest match-making craze, placing singles on a park bench to find common ground. The clock is ticking, but there’s no limit to the variety of quirky, sexy, heartbreaking and humane conversations between dozens of characters looking for love. A new speed-dating romantic comedy about first impressions, dogs and cats, drinkers and smokers, impulse and caution, conversation and chemistry. Laugh, cheer and cringe witnessing the universal urge to connect. Sometimes, it only takes ten minutes.
Springdances: Revel & Reckon premieres five bold new dance works that capture the beauty and contradictions of contemporary life. Through visceral movement and compelling imagery, these performances navigate themes of memory, displacement, embodied resistance, environmental justice, consumerism, judgment, community, and unfiltered joy. Each piece invites audiences to reflect on the ways we move through the world—how dance becomes a force of resilience, humanity, and transformation.Featuring choreography by NYC-based genderqueer artist Katy Pyle, alongside UWM Dance faculty Mair Culbreth, Maria Gillespie, Ishmael Konney, and Gina Laurenzi, Springdances offers an evening of urgent, evocative, and boundary-pushing performance.
The UWM Wind Ensemble will perform their final concert of the academic year featuring the Wind Band Concerto Competition Winner, Britni Cohen-Wichner.
The University Community Orchestra, made up of UWM students and community musicians, will present the Spring Concert with a vibrant program featuring both classical masterpieces and popular favorites. Highlights include Sibelius’s Finlandia, Strauss’s Radetzky March, selections from the Forrest Gump Suite, Salute to Cinema, and much more!
This end of the term showing features works by the African Dance, Salsa/Merengue & Hip Hop classes.
The University Community Band is comprised of music majors, non-music majors, and Milwaukee community musicians of all ages. Join us as we end the academic year performing exciting repertoire for all!
An experiment in cooperation, exhibition and pedagogy, Give Chance a Chance is a collaboratively-conceived and –constructed program devised by the participants in the Indeterminacy graduate seminar. Unexpect the expected.
15-year-old Christopher has an extraordinary brain: he excels at mathematics but struggles to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, he detests being touched, and he distrusts strangers. One night, at seven minutes after midnight, Christopher discovers his neighbor's dog, Wellington, has been speared with a garden fork. Suspected of the crime, Christopher is determined to solve the mystery. His detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a thrilling journey that upturns his world. Based on the best-selling novel by Mark Haddon and winner of Tony and Olivier Awards for best play in New York and London.
Oksana Kryzhanivska’s interactive art installations, sculptures, and screen-based works have been exhibited in Canada, the USA, Australia, Germany, Italy, China, and numerous online exhibitions. Oksana’s work explores the extension of a human body with technology, investigating our norms of perception.
The UWM Piano Studio will present a recital of solo and chamber music. Program will be announced at a later date.
The UWM Percussion Ensemble presents its annual Spring concert, featuring a wide variety of instruments, sounds, and compositions for chamber groups of two to four performers. The program will feature works by Ayanna Woods, Elliot Cole, Susan Powell, Devonté Hynes, Matt Moore and Emmanuel Séjourné in addition to a premiere of a new student composition by Logan Kinoshita.
The UWM Symphony Orchestra’s season finale features a powerful and diverse program, featuring Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 3, “Eroica,” a groundbreaking work that redefined the symphonic form and marked the beginning of musical Romanticism. UWM trumpet professor Kevin Hartman (Interim Dean, College of the Arts & Architecture) takes the spotlight as soloist in another groundbreaking piece, Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major, a brilliant and virtuosic showcase of the instrument’s expressive range and agility. The program also includes Linda Robbins Coleman’s For a Beautiful Land, a lush symphonic poem that celebrates the natural beauty and enduring spirit of the landscape and its people.
Join the Department of Art & Design in celebrating the incredibly talented BA and BFA graduating class.
Join the 2025 Design & Visual Communication BFA Students in an exhibition of their Capstone Thesis projects.
Join UWM's five choral ensembles for a thrilling evening of music in their final concert of the year. Featuring the premiere of a new work by UWM composition professor Phillip Sink.
Join students of the Suzuki & Pre-College Guitar Program for the end-of-the-semester concert.
The UW-Milwaukee Youth Wind and Percussion Ensembles program ("UWAY") will present a concert of chamber ensemble pieces and repertoire for a large, symphonic wind-band.
The New Music Ensemble will perform works by contemporary and living composers. This eclectic musical group will also perform compositions for chamber ensembles and large ensembles mixing winds, brass, and percussion. Featured pieces are by student composers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
