Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Lauren Mabry

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Philadelphia-based artist Lauren Mabry is recognized internationally for her bold, dynamic glazes and inventive use of ceramic material, color, and form. Her work embraces experimentation as a way to investigate physical states of matter in relationship to objects, landscape, and abstraction.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Nina Ghanbarzadeh

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Nina Ghanbarzadeh (Afkhamian) is a visual artist whose work is informed by the geometric and biomorphic patterns, colors, and textures of her Persian cultural traditions. Ghanbarzadeh emigrated from Tehran, Iran in 2001. She earned her BFA in painting, drawing and graphic design from the UW-Milwaukee in 2013 and completed a two-year Artist in Residence Program with Redline Milwaukee in 2015.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Jovanny Hernandez Caballero

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Jovanny Hernandez Caballero is a community artist and photographer based in Milwaukee. He is a first-generation American and descendant of Mixtecs, an Indigenous people based in present-day Mexico. His work centers around themes of cultural heritage and identity. Jovanny documents the beauty of Milwaukee's South Side and his family's native land of Oaxaca, Mexico. He completed his BFA in Photography & Imaging at UW-Milwaukee in 2023.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Justin Favela

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Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, and known for large-scale installations and sculptures that manifest his interactions with American pop culture and the LatinX experience, Favela is the recipient of the 2018 Alan Turing LGTBIQ Award for International Artist. Favela hosts two podcasts, “Latinos Who Lunch” and “The Art People Podcast.”

Crossing Over

UWM Union Art Gallery 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Please join us for the Crossing Over exhibition showcasing work created by undergraduate Sophomore through Senior students of UWM Peck School of the Arts, Department of Art & Design who have received a departmental scholarship award in 2024.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Vivian Beer

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Vivian is a furniture designer, maker, sculptor based in New England. Her sleek, abstracted metal and concrete furniture combines the aesthetic sensibilities of contemporary design, craft, and sculpture to create furniture that alter expectations of and interface with the domestic landscape.

Art & Design BA/BFA Fall Exhibition

Kenilworth Square East 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

Join the Department of Art & Design in celebrating the incredibly talented BA and BFA graduating class.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Nicholas Perry

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Nicholas Perry is a painter based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received a BFA from UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts in 2018. Nicholas makes figurative paintings that draw on art-historical influences, personal photography, and other visual languages.

Contemporary Craft Exhibition & Sale

Kenilworth Square East, 5th Floor Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

The 2024 Contemporary Craft Exhibition & Sale will feature handmade student work from across many disciplines within the Peck School of the Arts, including Jewelry & Metalsmithing, Blacksmithing, Ceramics, Digital Fabrication, Sculpture, Design & Visual Communication, Fibers and Printmaking.

Design & Visual Communication Showcase

Kenilworth Square East, 3rd Floor Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

Join us in celebrating the hard work of the Design & Visual Communication seniors as they explore themes of speculative, campaign, and exhibition design in their work. They have spent the last three months researching, planning, and designing what our futures may look like and also what it might take to get us to these outcomes.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Raquel de Anda

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Raquel de Anda is an independent curator and cultural producer raised on the US-Mexico border of Laredo, TX. Recent exhibitions include Like The Waters We Rise: Climate Justice in Print (New York, NY). She is currently designing an initiative to support the cultural and artistic production of Borderlands communities on both sides of the US-Mexico border.

Fiber//Form 2025

Kenilworth Square East, 3rd Floor Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

Exhibition of selected pieces from Fibers courses in the Department of Art & Design with an opening reception on Friday, February 2 from 5-7 p.m.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Priya Kambli

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Priya Kambli was born in India. She moved to the United States at age 18 carrying her entire life in one suitcase that weighed 20 lbs. She is currently Professor of Art at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. In 2008 PhotoLucida awarded her a book publication prize for her project Color Falls Down, published in 2010.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Amy O’Neill

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The work of Amy O’Neill investigates the intersections and balances between community and isolation, and the collaborative effort to build and maintain shared commonalities. Her paintings explore the invisible structures that support, improve, or divide specific communities. Her work has been included in juried and invitational exhibitions across the US and locally at the Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Charles Allis Art Museum.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

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Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is a London/Berlin-based black trans artist, game developer and mother. Through video game aesthetics and technologies, Brathwaite-Shirley aims to bring to the forefront the experiences of Black trans women and, more generally, to archive the Black trans experience.

Union Art Gallery Annual Juried Exhibition

UWM Union Art Gallery 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

The Union Art Gallery presents the 52nd Annual Juried Exhibition, a showcase of artwork in a variety of mediums by college student artists from around the Greater Milwaukee area. Juried by a panel of three Milwaukee arts professionals, the top exhibiting artists will be announced and awarded cash prizes during the opening reception.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Hollis Hammonds

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Hollis Hammonds is a multimedia artist whose work, built on memory and utilizing evidence from the public collective consciousness, investigates social issues ranging from economic disparity and state violence to environmental degradation and human-made disasters. Her dystopian drawings and found-object installations have been widely exhibited throughout the US.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Sulo Bee

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Sulo Bee is a co-founder of Queer Metalsmiths where they seek to uplift queer voices in the field of metalsmithing and craft. They hold a BFA in Metals and Jewelry from Texas State University in 2018 and an MFA from SUNY New Paltz in 2022. Bee currently teaches in Metals and Foundations the School of Art and Design at Texas State University.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Tina Rivers Ryan

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Tina Rivers Ryan is currently Editor in Chief of Artforum magazine. Her expertise is in the field of media art, including video, digital, and internet art. She has received some of the most prestigious honors for curators and critics including: Association of Art Museum Curators Award for Excellence (2022).

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Siara Berry

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Siara Berry is a sculptor working in a wide array of mediums. Her work has been exhibited in the Woman Made Gallery, Chicago; Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend; and Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH. In addition to her art practice, Berry serves as the Arts/Industry Program Director for the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan.