Springdances 2024 presents an evening of premieres from guest artist Vershawn Sanders Ward, artistic director of Chicago-based Red Clay Dance Company and Dance faculty choreographers Daniel Burkholder, Mair Culbreth, and Rich Ashworth. Join us in an evening that dances with the elemental forces of nature, ancestry, hope, and tenderness.
The UWM Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Jun Kim, concludes its season with Beethoven's Triple Concerto, featuring violinist Bernard Zinck, cellist Adrien Zitoun, and pianist Jean-Louis Haguenauer. The concert also features Symphony No. 5 by Ralph Vaughn Williams, a beautiful, powerful, and hopeful work by one of England’s greatest composers.
Immerse yourself in creativity when Peck School of the Arts student and faculty artists open their studios to the public. From exhibitions and studio visits to live performances and family-friendly art activities, you’ll find something to excite you at Kenilworth Open Studios.
Join us for a collection of student made short films from the class Zen and the Art of Filmmaking, which focuses on developing the artistic sensibility through the Zen art of practice and automatic principles. These films are funny, odd, thoughtful, frightening, and most of all full of Zen.
You are cordially invited to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts graduation convocation for Fall 2023, Winterim 2024, Spring 2024 and Summer 2023 baccalaureate and master’s degree recipients.
Investigate a variety of topics, techniques and strategies while learning new ways to solve problems in the studio and developing new ideas while exploring your creative potential!
The Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres at UWM’s Peck School of the Arts welcomes young filmmakers to develop their skills at a week-long day camp this summer! Choose from two comprehensive experiences: film camp (with optional overnight accommodations) and advanced film camp. Both camps include hands-on workshops and sessions led by practicing artists and professors, so participants gain knowledge from experienced professionals.
Our three-day summer intensive is designed for young dance artists seeking to deepen their dance practice, discover new techniques and build bridges that lead to pursuing dance professionally and in higher education. Dancers cultivate creativity and technique in a variety of dance forms taught by nationally renowned dance educators from UW-Milwaukee and beyond.
Join MFA in Dance students for an evening of original, experimental choreography developed in collaboration with MKE dance artists and mentored by UW-Milwaukee Dance faculty. These dance works explore diverse choreographic interests that range from surrealism and world building, to identity and memory. UpStart is a unique opportunity to experience choreography from dance artists from across the nation.
Continuum 24: Where Everything Begins combines selected pieces from distinct bodies of work by Raoul Deal created both individually and in collaboration with other artists and communities in the United States and Mexico over a period of 35 years.
Remember what it was like when you first picked up your instrument or sang in front of an audience? That moment was the beginning of your life as a musician. And now that your skills are strengthening in high school, it’s time to think about college as your next step to lifelong success in the music industry. See for yourself what it is like to be a music major at UW-Milwaukee.
An epic tale of shipwreck and devastating loss, love and redemption across the Ancient Mediterranean. One of William Shakespeare's later plays, Pericles is ultimately a story of the triumph of the human spirit, exploring themes that dominate headlines today: the Middle East, refugees, perilous sea crossings and sex trafficking. It offers spectacular grace and one of the most beautiful reunions this master of the theatrical stage ever wrote.
UW-Milwaukee’s Department of Dance presents an evening of deeply engaging dances that will surprise, uplift, and inspire the audience. These dances, choreographed by the department’s graduating seniors, incorporate a range of dance styles, from Modern/Contemporary to Ballet, Hip Hop, and Jazz.
Join the Department of Art & Design in celebrating the incredibly talented BA and BFA graduating class of Fall 2024. With a reception held on Saturday, December 14 from 5–7 p.m.
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.
Winterdances features an evening of world-premiere dance works by guest artist LA-based choreographer Jackie Lopez and UW-Milwaukee dance faculty Daniel Burkholder, Tiffany Kadani, and Dan Schuchart with original music by Milwaukee-based composers.
The show that launched Bernadette Peters as a Broadway star, this delightful, funny, tongue-in-cheek love letter to Hollywood musicals of the 1930s tells the story of sweet Ruby's journey from her small hometown to New York City to become a Broadway star. There, she meets Dick, a sailor with ambitions as a songwriter. In grand Hollywood fashion, they tap dance their way from the chorus to stardom on the deck of a passing battleship. Dames at Sea is a non-stop ride of romance, laughs, dance and musical delights.
“It’s been a year since I died and still nobody has found me.” Thus begins Maria Marten’s tale of her own murder in 1827 in the village of Polstead, Suffolk, England. “I could tell you that story,” she says, “but I don’t want to yet.” The notorious “Red Barn Murder” sent shockwaves throughout England, retold over the years by playwrights, filmmakers, and balladeers. While the story has all the hallmarks of a classic crime drama—a missing body, a country location, a disreputable squire, a village stuck in its age-old traditions—it is not just a murder story. Told from the victim's perspective, Maria Marten reveals “who I really was. Before.” in an unexpectedly joyous story of female friendship and resilience.
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.