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Continuum 2018: After 25 years
Continuum 2018: After 25 years Celebrating Associate Professor Emerita Kay Knight’s 25 year of teaching Wed. Sep 5 ~Wed. Sep 19, 2018 Opening Reception: Friday, Sep. 7, 2018, 5-7 pm KSE Gallery | Gallery Hours: Wed-Fri: 2-7PM/ Sat: 11-3PM Continuum…
Woven Images 2018
Woven Images 2018 showcases selected woven pieces from the Woven Structure and Introduction to Fibers courses in the Department of Art and Design.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Ariana Vaeth
Ariana Vaeth, a 2017 Nohl Fellow in the Emerging category, is a representational painter focused on personal narrative. A graduate of the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Vaeth recently completed the first artist-in-residence program offered by her alma mater.
Real Men Sing!
1,100 7th-12th grade men from around the region come together for a morning of singing! The festival is divided into two choirs - an 800-voice 9th-12th grade choir and a 300-voice 7th and 8th grade choir.
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Draw the nude male or female figure from a variety of poses! Short Poses range from 1 minute to 25 minutes long. Non-instructional session. Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies. Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$10* per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
*This price includes Box Office Fees
Fall Experiment
The Fall Experiment is THE place for Wisconsin’s aspiring artists, inventors, engineers and technologists to meet, learn and create together.
Experimental Tuesdays
From the Archives:
Forward, Sideways, Upward, Backward, Downward, Diagonal
Tonight’s program features a collection of films centered on the desires to build, create, establish, name, delineate, and progress, desires both generative and destructive. Drawing from early cinema through more recent work, the roster of films shared will enable us to glean something about these forces.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Xavier Monsalvatje
Xavier Monsalvatje’s work includes ceramic sculpture, painting, and installations mainly focusing on the study of industrial architecture, architectural recovery, and the aesthetic impact of these elements on the landscape.
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Draw the nude male or female figure from a variety of poses! Short Poses range from 1 minute to 25 minutes long. Non-instructional session. Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies. Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$10* per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
*This price includes Box Office Fees
Chamber Music Milwaukee
This outstanding 8 member brass ensemble will present a full concert program that includes music from the baroque, romantic and 20th century. Members of the ensemble play with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Elgin Symphony and the Milwaukee Symphony.
The Green Fog
Comprised entirely of appropriated footage, The Green Fog offers, per filmmaker Guy Maddin, a “parallel-universe version” of Hitchcock’s Vertigo, cinema’s oneiric Rosetta Stone and a film which, when out of official circulation and only shown in stealth screenings, was referred to, secret-code like, as “the San Francisco Film.”
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Marianne Fairbanks
Marianne Fairbanks is an assistant professor in the Design Studies department at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in venues including The Museum of Art and Design, NY, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, and Museum London, Ontario.
Instruments, Ideas, and Improvisation: An Evening with Susan Alcorn
The evening will begin with a pre-concert talk by Dr. Tim Sterner Miller at 6:30PM. At 7:30, Alcorn will play a solo set of her original compositions, transcriptions, and improvisations. Alcorn will then be joined by several Milwaukee-based improvising musicians (TBD) for a group improvisation.
UWM Korea Day Celebration
Korean American Faculty & Staff Association at UWM and Korean American Association of Milwaukee are hosting the 2018 KOREA DAY (한국의 날) Celebration on Friday, October 5, 2018, 4:30-10pm at the Helen Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts.
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Draw the nude male or female figure from a variety of poses! Short Poses range from 1 minute to 25 minutes long. Non-instructional session. Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies. Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$10* per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
*This price includes Box Office Fees
UWM Symphony Orchestra Concert “Inmo Yang plays Paganini”
UWM Symphony Orchestra will perform a community concert in conjunction with UWM's Korea Day Festival. Details to follow.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Ian van Coller
Ian van Coller was born in 1970, in Johannesburg, South Africa, and grew up in the country during a time of great political turmoil. These formative years became integral to the subject matter van Coller has pursued throughout his artistic career.
Everyday Care: An Evening of Stories, Histories, the News
Join the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival for this ranging parade of short films and videos, a genuine mélange of portraiture, non-fiction, romance, animation, and singularly expressive gestures, activist and poetic.
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Draw the nude male or female figure from a variety of poses! Short Poses range from 1 minute to 25 minutes long. Non-instructional session. Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies. Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$10* per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
*This price includes Box Office Fees
UW Milwaukee Chorale and UW Whitewater Chamber Singers in Concert
The UW Whitewater Chamber Singers travel to Milwaukee to join the UW Milwaukee Chorale in an evening of choral music from a variety of styles, locations, and historical periods.
Fall Choral Showcase
Join the UWM Advanced Women's Choir, Men's Choir, Women's Chorus, and Chamber Choir for an eclectic afternoon of choral music from a variety of styles, locations, and time periods.
Leonard Sorkin Institute of Chamber Music
Enjoy an evening of chamber music with our esteemed graduate scholars for the ICM Leonard Sorkin International Institute of Chamber Music. Works composed by Beethoven, Crusell, Martinu, and Morlacchi.
Experimental Tuesday: A Sea Change
A Sea Change evolves around the IBIS maritime boarding school in Ostend (BE). In the buildings that look out towards the sea, boys from six to sixteen sleep, eat and play. They learn how to read the sea, sail with a fishing boat and help haul in the catch.
Red Velvet
Red Velvet is an exciting journey through a little known historical moment, engaging questions along the way of racism, sexism and the responsibility and value of art in the face of social change.
Crossing Over 2018
Crossing Over showcases works created by undergraduate students of the UWM Peck School of the Arts Department of Art and Design who are receiving scholarship in this school year. This exciting annual event includes artwork produced by these emerging artists in a wide range of mediums and covering a variety of topics.
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Draw the nude male or female figure from a variety of poses! Short Poses range from 1 minute to 25 minutes long. Non-instructional session. Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies. Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$10* per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
*This price includes Box Office Fees
Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will be holding a Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band Concert. Come join us for a night filled with wonderful music!
UWM Youth Wind Ensemble (UWAY) Concert
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will be hosting the UWM Youth Wind Ensemble Concert (UWAY). Come join us for a pleasant afternoon filled with music!
The Journey Through History is Often a Bumpy Ride for Queer Traveler: An Evening with artist Frédéric Moffet
Experimental Tuesdays & the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival are thrilled to welcome Frédéric Moffet up from Chicago to share a program of his film and video work.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Emory Douglas
Emory Douglas created the visual identity for the Black Panther Party and his iconic images came to symbolise the struggles of the movement. As the Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until the 1980s, Douglas’s work, described as ‘Militant Chic’, featured in most issues of the newspaper The Black Panther.
Josh Graham Percussion Recital
Solo Percussion Recital presented by Guest Artist Josh Graham featuring works by previously under-represented composers, including Thomas Kotcheff, Kristin Kuster, Lera Auerbach, and José Miguel Arellano.
Guest Artist Bladislav Blaha Classical Guitar Concert
Internationally renowned Czech guitarist Bladislav Blaha will be performing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Draw the nude male or female figure from a variety of poses! Short Poses range from 1 minute to 25 minutes long. Non-instructional session. Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies. Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$10* per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
*This price includes Box Office Fees
Gospel Choir Performance
The UWM Gospel Choir will perform at Berea Lutheran Church in Milwaukee.
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Draw the nude male or female figure from a variety of poses! Short Poses range from 1 minute to 25 minutes long. Non-instructional session. Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies. Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$10* per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
*This price includes Box Office Fees
17th Annual Double Reed Day at UWM
Join the UWM Music Department's double reed faculty and your fellow players for a day of master classes, workshops, and faculty and ensemble performances.
Saxophone Studio Recital
The UWM Saxophone Studio presents an evening of solo and chamber music. Featuring the students of Dr. Nicki Roman.
UWM Jazz Ensemble and UJAY
Join the UWM Jazz Ensemble and Youth Jazz Ensemble (UJAY) for their first concert of the year.
Cymbeline
A new take on this rarely performed Shakespearean romance and comedy puts women in the seats of power and takes an unflinching look at the things people do for love, dominance and forgiveness when facing the threat of war.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: John Hitchcock
Indigenous printmaker John Hitchcock uses the print medium with its long history of social and political commentary to explore relationships of community, land, and culture.
The Electric Flute
A recital featuring UWM Professor Jennifer Clippert and her students in an evening of music for flute and electronics
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Draw the nude male or female figure from a variety of poses! Short Poses range from 1 minute to 25 minutes long. Non-instructional session. Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies. Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$10* per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
*This price includes Box Office Fees
Beethoven Symphony #9
Jun Kim conducts the UWM Symphony Orchestra, the UWM choirs under the direction of Zack Durlam, Karen Wysocky, and Tony Mudra, and guest soloists in a performance of Beethoven's legendary 9th Symphony.
Beethoven Symphony #9
Jun Kim conducts the UWM Symphony Orchestra, the UWM choirs under the direction of Zack Durlam, Karen Wysocky, and Tony Mudra, and guest soloists in a performance of Beethoven's legendary 9th Symphony.
Gospel Choir Performance
The UWM Gospel Choir performs at Brookfield Lutheran Church. Free and open to the public! Visit the Box Office
Gospel Choir Performance
The UWM Gospel Choir performs at Brookfield Lutheran Church. Free and open to the public! Visit the Box Office
Chamber Music Milwaukee: “Present & Future Music”
Chamber Music Milwaukee presents "Present & Future Music," featuring UWM faulty composers, faculty performers & guests, to include acoustic ensemble and computer generated compositions.
Vandoren Reed and Mouthpiece Clinic
Vandoren artist Andrew Somerville presents a clinic on woodwinds and reeds.
Guest Artist Recital: Andrew Somerville
Andrew Somerville seeks to promote the saxophone through performance, pedagogy and scholarship. His research explores intersections between his instrument and homeland, and his recital performances have included Scottish premieres of major repertoire.
The Tempest
The players are all met, the stage is set, and Prospero is being cued for his grand entrance to meet his enemies who have been washed ashore on the strange and fantastical island he rules over. Now, with power beyond imagination at his fingertips, Prospero must choose which story will truly set him free: one that ends in revenge he craves or one that ends in forgiveness.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Cappy Counard
Cappy Counard creates jewelry and vessels that honor detail and interconnection. The content of her pieces reflect on memory, observation, potential and realization: what we notice, what persists, the things we hold and the things that hold us.
UWM Middle School Honor Bands Festival
The UWM Middle School Honor 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 an opportunity to work with each other and with regionally and nationally recognized wind band conductor
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Draw the nude male or female figure from a variety of poses! Short Poses range from 1 minute to 25 minutes long. Non-instructional session. Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies. Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$10* per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
*This price includes Box Office Fees
Object Contemporary Craft Sale
Metals, Printmaking, Sculpture, and other UWM student organizations collaborate and showcase their work in a Contemporary Craft Exhibition and Sale.
Object Contemporary Craft Preview
The Jewelry and Metalsmithing student organization will be holding its annual sale to show the innovative student work in the art and design program
Milwaukee Music Festival High School Honor Band
Renowned composer Frank Ticheli leads the finest high school musicians in the region in the finale of the Milwaukee Music Festival. The UWM Wind Ensemble & Symphony Band will open the program with a special performance. General- $10* *Prices include…
Classical Guitar Studio Concert
End of the Semester Studio solo performance!
New Dancemakers
Nine emerging undergraduate dance-makers challenge the concept of bodies in place-making. Come join us for a day of beautiful and exciting dance!
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Neil Horsky
Neil Horsky is a community artist, educator, musician, and amateur people’s art historian working to cultivate creativity and solidarity among the young and young at heart. He creates clever and biting studio art and public art to protest injustice and to envision a more just world.
UWM Symphony Orchestra Classical Treasures
The UWM symphony Orchestra will perform a concert, "Classical Treasures", that will be featuring UWM's own Stefan Kartman performing Haydn Cello Concerto.
So, you think you can Opera? – A UWM Opera Theatre Audition Presentation
This semester UWM Opera Theatre will explore the Art of Auditioning and The Business of Singing. The students public presentation will consist of audition repertoire selections -- songs, arias, and monologues -- which they will study, prepare, and perform for an audition panel of Guest Professionals
Leonard Sorkin Institute of Chamber Music
Join us for an evening of chamber music masterpieces. The esteemed graduate students of the Leonard Sorkin International Institute of Chamber Music present a recital of music by Bruch, Glinka, Mozart, and Brahms.
University Community Band
Join us for the inaugural concert of the University Community Band! The program is titled "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed and Something Blue" and includes works by Gustav Holst, J.S. Bach, Steven Bryant, George Gershwin and more.
Saxophone Studio Recital
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Saxophone Studio will present an evening of solo and chamber music. This night will feature the students of Dr. Nicki Roman.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Sky Hopinka
Sky Hopinka, a 2017 Nohl Fellow in the Emerging category, is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and a descendant of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians. His talk will consider the production of these videos and their influences using selections from his work, as well as adjacent writings, responses, and problems around their existence.
Percussion Ensemble Concert
The UWM Percussion Ensemble presents its annual December concert featuring a variety of instruments, sounds, and music from different periods.
Wind Ensemble Chamber Music
Wind Ensemble Chamber Music Concert. Come join us for an evening of wonderful music!
Sounds of the Season Choral Concert
Join the UWM Concert Chorale, Advanced Women's Choir, Men's Choir, Women's Chorus, and Chamber Choir for an evening of seasonal choral music from a variety of styles, cultures, and time periods.
University Community Orchestra Concert
University Community Orchestra, led by conductor Margery Deutsch, performs works from classical and pops repertoires.
UWM Symphony Band & Friends
The UWM Youth Wind Ensemble program joins forces with the UWM Symphony Band for a shared Tuesday night concert.
Africa & the Diaspora and Salsa/Merengue Showcase
End of the term showcase of Africa & the Diaspora and Salsa/Merengue classes.
Hip-Hop Showcase
End of the term Hip-Hop Showcase with the performance of local crews.
UWM Youth Wind Ensembles
The UWAY program presents their second concert of the 2018-19 season.
UWM Jazz Ensemble and UJAY
Join the UWM Jazz Ensemble and Youth Jazz Ensemble (UJAY) for their final concert of the fall semester.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Cleo Barnett from Amplifier
With ten years experience curating art in public spaces internationally, Cleo Barnett now works as the Program Director of The Amplifier Foundation. As Amplifier’s first employee, Cleo has co-produced and co-curated multiple global public art campaigns including the iconic We The People Campaign, Women’s March on Washington, and March For Our Lives.
Vocal Arts Festival
90 10th-12th grade vocalists are selected to participate in UWM's annual Vocal Arts Festival designed for accomplished singers who enjoy both solo and choral performance. Activities include choral rehearsals and concerts, solo masterclasses and lessons, and interest sessions by UWM voice, choral, and music ed faculty.
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Draw the nude male or female figure from a variety of poses! Short Poses range from 1 minute to 25 minutes long. Non-instructional session. Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies. Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$10* per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
*This price includes Box Office fees
Vocal Showcase Recital
A recital of classical, musical theater, and CCM vocal solos and ensembles performed by UWM students and faculty. This performance is presented as part of the UWM Vocal Arts Festival.
Vocal Arts Festival Final Concert
The final performance of the 2019 UWM Vocal Arts Festival featuring the UWM Concert Chorale and the Vocal Arts Festival High School Honor Choir.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Ecological Aesthetics panel
The 2018 book, "Ecological Aesthetics: artful tactics for humans, nature, and politics" by Nathaniel Stern, is poetic and scholarly collection of stories about art, artists, and their materials, arguing that ecology, aesthetics, and ethics are inherently entwined, and together act as the cornerstone for all contemporary arts practices.
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Draw the nude male or female figure from a variety of poses! Short Poses range from 1 minute to 25 minutes long. Non-instructional session. Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies. Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$10* per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
*This price includes Box Office fees
UWM Jazz Ensemble and UJAY
Join the UWM Jazz Ensemble and Youth Jazz Ensemble (UJAY) as they welcome in the spring semester.
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Draw the nude male or female figure from a variety of poses! Short Poses range from 1 minute to 25 minutes long. Non-instructional session. Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies. Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$10* per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
*This price includes Box Office fees
Chamber Music Milwaukee
A Valentine's Treat! Join UWM Music Faculty Elena Abend, Bernard Zinck, Rene Izquierdo and Elina Chekan along with invited guests for an afternoon of Romantic Chamber Music!
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Glenn Williams
Glenn Williams explores constructs: political, social, or environmental in nature. He deconstructs, reconstructs, and sometimes simply reflects various accepted norms in an effort to expose and on occasion question their impact on varying social realities.
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Draw the nude male or female figure from a variety of poses! Short Poses range from 1 minute to 25 minutes long. Non-instructional session. Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies. Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$10* per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
*This price includes Box Office fees
UWAY & Middle School All-Stars
The UWM Youth Wind Ensemble program (UWAY) welcomes selected students who participated in the UWM Honor Bands Festival (Nov. 16-18, 2018). The select group of middle school students will form an "All-Star" Band and perform on the same concert as their high school counterparts, the members of "UWAY."
Broken Hallelujah
Set in a pause in the fighting in the American Civil War, the stress of survival leads some to a broken Hallelujah, others to a renewed sense of belief in their cause.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Kevin Bradley and The Church of Type
The Church of Type is the new Letterpress Studio of Kevin Bradley, one of America’s most prolific letterpress printmakers.
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Draw the nude male or female figure from a variety of poses! Short Poses range from 1 minute to 25 minutes long. Non-instructional session. Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies. Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$10* per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
*This price includes Box Office fees
UWM Choral Invitational
Three of the finest area high school choirs join the UWM Concert Chorale for a day of high-quality choral music in the Zelazo Center of the Arts. Clinics are free and open to the public. The final concert requires a ticket - tickets can be purchased from the UWM box office.
All My Sons
Winner of the Drama Critics' Award for Best New Play in 1947, All My Sons established Arthur Miller as a leading voice in the American theater. All My Sons introduced themes that thread through Miller's work as a whole: the relationships between fathers and sons, the conflict between business and personal ethics, and the haunting reminder that the past is not dead. It’s not even past.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Melissa Wagner-Lawler
Melissa Wagner-Lawler's work explores the perception of landscape and place, documenting the moments before change and destruction through artist books and prints.
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Draw the nude male or female figure from a variety of poses! Short Poses range from 1 minute to 25 minutes long. Non-instructional session. Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies. Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$10* per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
*This price includes Box Office fees
Clarinet and Piano Recital
UWM piano faculty Elena Abend and UWM Alumni Orlando Pimentel will present a recital for clarinet and piano, entitled “Fantasy, Song and Dance" featuring music from European and Latin American composers.
The Food of Love – UWM Men’s and Women’s Choirs
Join the UWM Advanced Women's Choir, Men's Choir, Women's Chorus, and Chamber Choir for a concert of songs about food, love, and music!
Treble Fest
Hundreds of young people from all around the region come together for a morning of joining their voices in song!
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Draw the nude male or female figure from a variety of poses! Short Poses range from 1 minute to 25 minutes long. Non-instructional session. Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies. Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$10* per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
*This price includes Box Office fees
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Draw the nude male or female figure from a variety of poses! Short Poses range from 1 minute to 25 minutes long. Non-instructional session. Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies. Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$10* per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
*This price includes Box Office fees
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Claudia Hart
Claudia Hart's work deals with issues of representation, and the role of the computer in shifting contemporary values about identity and what might be called the natural. Her project is to de-masculinze the culture of corporate technology by inserting the irrational and the personal into the slick, overly-determined Cartesian world of digital design.
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Draw the nude male or female figure from a variety of poses! Short Poses range from 1 minute to 25 minutes long. Non-instructional session. Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies. Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$10* per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
*This price includes Box Office fees
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Lucy Derickson
In the studio, Lucy Derickson transforms found pewter serviceware in order to dissect complex human relationships and the objects tangled in that mess. The environmental benefits of using found material is essential to her current studio practice.
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Draw the nude male or female figure from a variety of poses! Short Poses range from 1 minute to 25 minutes long. Non-instructional session. Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies. Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$10* per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
*This price includes Box Office fees
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Tomory Dodge
Tomory Dodge is an internationally recognized contemporary painter, much of this early work depicted scenes of wind blown detritus in desert-like settings, often exhibiting surreal or apocalyptic undertones while maintaining a sense of playfulness.
Wind Ensemble
The UWM Wind Ensemble presents the world premiere of Roger Zare's new oboe concerto featuring Katherine Young Steele, principal oboist of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
UWM Flute Day
Join us for a day of classes, workshops and performances featuring UWM faculty, students, and alumni. A concluding recital will feature performances by our guest presenters, UWM faculty and students. Bring your flute and be prepared to play! Visit the Box Office
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Jay Wolke
Jay Wolke lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. He has had solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the St. Louis Art Museum, Harvard University and the California Museum of Photography.
INVADER? I Hardly Know Her!
Take one clueless groom, add an alien disguised as his bride, mix in a few secret agents, throw in more aliens (and a few surprises) and you end up with an incredibly funny musical romp! Written by the prolific Jason Powell of Milwaukee, this comic space pop opera had it's world premiere in Milwaukee (2009) and subsequently had a successful run at the New York Fringe Festival (2010).
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Zachery Lechtenberg
Zachery Lechtenberg is an artist who "appreciates the shelf ready object," as an avid collector of toys and other items. His highly stylized enamel works take the form of jewelry and narrative plates, with original packaging covered in hand drawn illustrations.
UWM Flute Ensemble Recital
This recital will be featuring students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and alumni performing a flute ensemble repertoire.
The Children’s Hour
The Broadway revival in 1952 played in the shadow of the House for Un-American Activities, one of the first theatre productions to challenge that group’s vicious allegations, and what can happen when accusations are left unchecked by critical thinking. Originally produced in 1934, the play was banned in several major cities, amid controversial questions of “indecency”.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Mutope Johnson
Mutope Johnson has a rich and diverse background in the visual arts. His practice has led him to consider his role as an artist and how creative thinking can serve as a useful tool to establish points of contact between artists and community.
DVC BFA: Senior Design Capstone Showcase
The seniors in the Design & Visual Communication program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will be showcasing their work from the spring semester.
UWM Symphony Orchestra Season Finale
UWM Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Jun Kim, will conclude its season performing one of the most popular symphonies by Bruckner, Symphony No. 4 "Romantic". Join us for an evening of beautiful music!
Spring Choral Collage Concert
Join the UWM Concert Chorale, Advanced Women's Choir, Men's Choir, Women's Chorus, and Chamber Choir in their final concert of the 2018-2019 school year as they explore choral literature from a variety of styles, locations, and time periods.
UWAY Soloists and Celebrations
The final concert performance of 2018-19 by the UWM Youth Wind Ensemble program (UWAY) will feature winner(s) of the Annual UWAY Concerto/Solo Competition and a recognition of students who will soon graduate from high school and from the UWAY program.
University Community Orchestra Concert
University Community Orchestra, led by conductor Margery Deutsch, performs works from classical and pops repertoires.
Africa & the Diaspora and Salsa/Merengue Showcase
End of the term showcase of Africa & the Diaspora and Salsa/Merengue classes.
Percussion Ensemble Concert
The UWM Percussion Ensemble presents its annual Spring concert featuring a variety of instruments, sounds, and music from different periods.
UWM Jazz Ensemble and UJAY
Join the UWM Jazz Ensemble and Youth Jazz Ensemble (UJAY) for their final concert of the year.
Hip-Hop Showcase
End of the term Hip-Hop Showcase with the performance of local crews.
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Non-instructional session for drawing the nude male or female figure (Long Poses for summer sessions.) Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies (traditional non-digital drawing materials only). Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$8 per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Non-instructional session for drawing the nude male or female figure (Long Poses for summer sessions.) Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies (traditional non-digital drawing materials only). Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$8 per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Non-instructional session for drawing the nude male or female figure (Long Poses for summer sessions.) Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies (traditional non-digital drawing materials only). Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$8 per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Non-instructional session for drawing the nude male or female figure (Long Poses for summer sessions.) Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies (traditional non-digital drawing materials only). Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$8 per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
UWM Friday Night Figure-Drawing
Non-instructional session for drawing the nude male or female figure (Long Poses for summer sessions.) Open to artists of all skill levels! Bring your own supplies (traditional non-digital drawing materials only). Drawing horses are available.
Instructor: Mario Nissen
Fees payable at the door
$8 per single session – Cash & Credit Card (Visa, MC) only
Dancemakers
Every year we welcome a wonderfully eclectic and talented group of nationally and internationally recognized dancers and choreographers form around the world to Milwaukee to participate in our graduate Dance M.F.A. program.
University Community Orchestra Concert
University Community Orchestra, led by conductor Margery Deutsch, performs works from classical and pops repertoires.