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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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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 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…
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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: 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 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
UWM Symphony Orchestra Concerto Winners’ Concert
UWM Symphony Orchestra will perform a concert featuring the winners of the annual concerto competition as the soloists.
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."
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hip-Hop Showcase
End of the term Hip-Hop Showcase with the performance of local crews.
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
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
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
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.