Molly Hassler is an interdisciplinary artist, often embracing collaboration and primarily using drawing and fibers techniques to mine the complex relation between representation and identity as a queer person in the Midwest.
Musicians of the UWM Wind Ensemble and selected studio ensembles will present a varied program of chamber music for winds by contemporary composers.
Join the students of the UWM Opera Workshop as they present a program of opera, operetta, and musical scenes.
The UWM Percussion Ensemble presents its annual Fall concert, featuring a wide variety of instruments, sounds, and compositions from different periods.
The University Community Orchestra, a full symphony orchestra comprised of students and community members, led by conductor Margery Deutsch, performs works from classical and pops repertoire.
Join the UWM University-Community Band for our Fall semester concert!
UWM Students Perform! A variety of chamber music masterpieces.
UWM Classical Guitar Studio end of the semester performance.
Curated by MFA candidate Sarah Ballard, this program will feature 16mm prints from the UWM Film Department's Cinema Arts Archive.
A Hamlet inspired story centering around a man’s challenges running the family brewery after the sudden and suspicious death of his father. A new play, written by UWM Theatre’s own Alvaro Saar Rios, Piggsville takes place in Milwaukee’s Menomonee Valley.
Join the Department of Art and Design in celebrating the incredibly talented BA and BFA graduating class of Fall 2022.
Emily Belknap is a sculptor with experience in a broad range of craft techniques. She welds metal, carves wood, sews fabric, models clay, and all these processes contribute to her love for the material of the natural world.
In the Popular Music Ensemble students collaborate by exploring music from Pop, Rock and related genres.
Join us for an evening of chamber music featuring members of the saxophone studio!
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Design and Visual Communication seniors embarked on a semester-long challenge to develop solutions that help foster healthier cities. The goal is to use design thinking to launch products, services, and community initiatives that can make our cities more equitable, inclusive, sustainable, ecological, and ultimately, whole. Until we can collectively—each and every one of us—participate in the promise of a thriving city, we can’t call it healthy.
UWM Symphony Orchestra Concert II
This variety showcase of upper-level musical theatre majors explores their development at UWM and the promising futures in store.
Join the UWM Concert Chorale, Bella Voce, Kameraden, and Alta Voce choirs for an evening of eclectic choral music from around the world.
Stefan Kartman, cello, Jeannie Yu, piano and special guest Jonah Kartman, violin perform as members of the Antioch Trio
UWAY's first concert since the program went on hiatus, due to the global pandemic.
The UWM Jazz Ensemble is a 20+ musician jazz big band comprised of undergraduate and graduate students and regularly features student vocalists performing jazz standards by legendary songwriters such as Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, the Gershwin’s, Jerome Kern, and others. Original compositions and arrangements created by students for the Jazz Ensemble are showcased at a majority of concerts.
In our second annual post-modern holiday "caroling" event, PM invites you to join us on an evening walk about the city with boomboxes and smart phones creating a constantly morphing sound sculpture by Phil Kline.
This end of the term showing features works by the African Dance, Salsa/Merengue and Hip Hop classes.
Join Suzuki and Pre-College Guitar Students on Sunday, December 18th for a Winter Concert.
Kill Joy's family is originally from and partly based in the archipelago known as the Philippines and partly in Texas.
Winterdances concert features an evening of premieres from our faculty and guest artist Kia Smith, artistic director of South Chicago Dance Theatre. The evening will feature original music composed by Andy Miller. Join dance faculty choreographers Daniel Burkholder, Mair Culbreth, Karlies Kelley, and guest artist Kia Smith for an evening of kineticism, imagination and hope.
Exhibition of selected pieces from Fibers courses in the Department of Art & Design.
High School Workshop Day is the best way for high school groups and classes to learn from our internationally known faculty. This event is great for students curious and interested in becoming a dance major at Peck School of the Arts, the University of Wisconsin’s only School of the Arts.
Presented as part of the 2023 Vocal Arts Festival, UWM students perform a varied and fast-moving recital of songs from a variety of genres and styles.
Studio Workshop Day is the best way for high school students to learn from our internationally known faculty. This event is great for students curious and interested in becoming a dance major at Peck School of the Arts, the University of Wisconsin’s only School of the Arts.
This final event of the 2023 UWM Vocal Arts Festival features performances by Concert Chorale, UWM's flagship mixed choir, and the VAF Honor Choir, comprising 120 of the finest high school singers from around Wisconsin and Illinois.
Julia Galloway is a utilitarian potter and professor. She teaches ceramics at the University of Montana, Missoula.
The UWM Jazz Ensemble is a 20+ musician jazz big band comprised of undergraduate and graduate students and regularly features student vocalists performing jazz standards by legendary songwriters such as Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, the Gershwin’s, Jerome Kern, and others. Original compositions and arrangements created by students for the Jazz Ensemble are showcased at a majority of concerts.
Miscast is a style of musical theatre cabaret that leans into the comedy of playing outside of one’s preconceived “type.”
Dana Fritz uses photography to investigate the ways we shape and represent the natural world in cultivated and constructed landscapes.
UWM Piano Faculty and guest pianist Melinda Lee Masur will present a piano duo recital featuring the Schubert Fantasy in F minor for four hands and Brahms Haydn Variations for two pianos.
Composer and singer Leila Adu joins Present Music as soloist in her own Freedom Suite.
The UWM Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band will share this program of wind band music. We strive to include music from a variety of style periods and performance practices, build on the rich tradition of the wind-band but also represent composers of a diverse background, and provide students with musical experiences that best suit each ensemble and facilitate their musical aspirations.
Join us as the first and second year students in the UWM voice program present a extremely varied showcase of solo performances from many different genres, styles, and time periods. See and support our talented up and coming students!
Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, artist and AI researcher whose work probes what it means to be human in a nearly post-human era.
UWM Symphony Orchestra Concert featuring the competition winners
This exciting program featuring UWM students and staff alongside vibrant Milwaukee community ensembles will showcase music from Brazil, Guatemala, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Recorder and Guitar Concert.
The musicians of the UWM Youth Wind and Percussion Ensembles program (UWAY) will share this program with selected musicians from the UWM Middle School Honor Bands Festival held back in November.
Barbara Miner is a writer, photographer and multimedia artist, currently in her third year of the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Called “contemporary chamber trailblazers” by the Boston Globe, Hub New Music is a “nimble quartet of winds and strings” (NPR) forging new paths in 21st-century repertoire. The ensemble’s ambitious commissioning projects and “appealing programs” (New Yorker) celebrate the rich diversity of today’s classical music landscape.
UWM Piano Faculty Elena Abend is joined by clarinetist Orlando Pimentel and cellist Peter Thomas for an evening of chamber music. The program includes Brahms' Clarinet trio in A minor.
Join the UWM Concert Chorale and two of the finest area high school choirs for an evening of choral music. This is the final event of the day-long UWM Choral Invitational featuring a special guest composer and closing with a joint piece performed by all three ensembles.
Join the UWM Bella Voce, Kameraden, Alta Voce, and Kameraden Plus choirs for a fun and eclectic evening of choral music.
This concert will feature Stas Venglevski, virtuoso performer on bayan (accordion) in premieres and other works by Milwaukee composers David Bohn, Jerome Kitzke and Yehuda Yannay.
This musical weaves together popular swing, jazz, blues, and bebop of the 1930’s and 40’s in a review that moves from the Great Depression into the post-World War II boom. Filled with standards from The American Songbook, the Gershwins, Hoagy Carmichael, and Duke Ellington (amongst many others) are featured.
Tanekeya Word (b. 1983, Clarksdale, Mississippi) creates multimedia visual art: paintings, drawings, fine art prints and book art. She is an art educator, cultural arts organizer and scholar based in Milwaukee, WI.
The UWM Jazz Ensemble is a 20+ musician jazz big band comprised of undergraduate and graduate students and regularly features student vocalists performing jazz standards by legendary songwriters such as Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, the Gershwin’s, Jerome Kern, and others. Original compositions and arrangements created by students for the Jazz Ensemble are showcased at a majority of concerts.
Edie Fake’s multi-media work — drawings, paintings, installations, comics, books and zines — has been written about and featured in Artforum, New York Times, The Paris Review, Art News, Art 21, Juxtapoz, Hyperallergic, The Comics Journal, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.
The UWM Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band will share this program of wind band music. We strive to include music from a variety of style periods and performance practices, build on the rich tradition of the wind-band but also represent composers of a diverse background, and provide students with musical experiences that best suit each ensemble and facilitate their musical aspirations.
The UWM Piano Studio will perform an evening of solo and collaborative piano repertoire.
Raoul Deal is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who often works collaboratively in community settings.
Join the UWM opera students and symphony orchestra for a mainstage opera production conducted by Dr. Jun Kim.
Sarah FitzSimons is a visual artist who makes sculpture which interacts with and derives meaning from its surroundings.
The Composition and Technology program will present a concert of original works by UWM students. The program will include freshly composed pieces for acoustic and electronic mediums.
Join Present Music for two world premieres in one evening! Midden Find by Dan Trueman, featuring star Irish fiddler Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh playing the Norwegian Hardanger d’Amore; and new commission performed by multi-genre Brazilian composer, singer, and pianist Clarice Assad.
A “best of” exhibition highlighting award-winning jewelry and metalwork, sculpture and digital fabrication projects from rising student artists in the Peck School of the Arts. The Goundie Awards, Harold A. Milbrath Memorial Jewelry & Metalsmithing Prizes and multiple other awards will be announced during the opening reception.
Join the Department of Art and Design in celebrating the incredibly talented BA and BFA graduating class of Spring 2023.
Saxophonist Jack Thorpe is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in saxophone performance and literature from the University of Illinois where he serves as the saxophone studio teaching assistant.
Lyndsay Rice received an MFA from the University of Oregon in 2012 and BFA from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee in 2006.
The UWM Jazz Ensemble is a 20+ musician jazz big band comprised of undergraduate and graduate students and regularly features student vocalists performing jazz standards by legendary songwriters such as Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, the Gershwin’s, Jerome Kern, and others. Original compositions and arrangements created by students for the Jazz Ensemble are showcased at a majority of concerts.
Classical Guitar Duo Concert. UWM Guitar Series
UWM Piano Faculty Elena Abend is joined by Baritone John Daugherty for an evening of Art Songs!
Lynn Nottage’s play enters the heart of working-class America, exploring the effects the loss of heavy industry and the changing ethnic composition of Reading, PA has on two friends. This deep examination of race, economics, and the human condition during the 2016 presidential election ramp up was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2017.
Anna Natter is a Hungarian designer currently living in Germany. After studying fine art and animation, she worked for the largest commercial television company in Hungary before transitioning to freelance work.
The University Community Orchestra, a full symphony orchestra comprised of students and community members, led by conductor Margery Deutsch, performs works from classical and pops repertoire.
Join the UWM University-Community Band for our season send-off, our Spring Concert!
Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay works in photography, video, installation, sculpture, and new media, investigating shifting meanings within post and neocolonialism while still reflecting on the very mediums of representation that he uses.
The UWM Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band will share this program of wind band music. We strive to include music from a variety of style periods and performance practices, build on the rich tradition of the wind-band but also represent composers of a diverse background, and provide students with musical experiences that best suit each ensemble and facilitate their musical aspirations.
The UWM Percussion Ensemble presents its annual Spring concert, featuring a wide variety of instruments, sounds, and compositions from different periods.
The classic romantic comedy of manners about the lengths people will go to obtain true love closes out the 2022-23’ UWM Theatre season. Filled with comic characters, The Rivals features deep emotional resonances to augment its sharp wit.
Adam Hawk is a studio artist and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The annual Design & Visual Communication BFA exhibition at UWM Peck School of the Arts manifests itself through individuality, equity-centered community projects, and students working collaboratively to find common ground.
UWM Symphony Orchestra Season Final Concert
Please join the Department of Art and Design and explore the “Kenilworth Square East” galleries and studios. The building is a 6-floor, 500,000-square-foot, industrial artist studio space and home to award-winning graduate students and faculty in Art and Design.
Join the UWM Concert Chorale, Bella Voce, Kameraden, and Alta Voce choirs for their final concert of the year. Featuring a wide variety of repertoire and voicings, hear the UWM choirs at their best!
Join Suzuki and Pre-College guitar students on Sunday, May 7th for a Spring Concert.
The UWM Youth Wind and Percussion Ensembles program (UWAY) will present its final concert of season. We will celebrate our Graduates as well as hear a performance by the Winner(s) of the annual UWAY Concerto Competition!
The UWM Jazz Ensemble is a 20+ musician jazz big band comprised of undergraduate and graduate students and regularly features student vocalists performing jazz standards by legendary songwriters such as Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, the Gershwin's, Jerome Kern, and others. Original compositions and arrangements created by students for the Jazz Ensemble are showcased at a majority of concerts.
Springdances concert features an evening of premieres from our faculty and guest artist Alfonso Cervera, artistic director of Primera Generación Dance Collective. Join dance faculty choreographers Zakiya Cornish, Maria Gillespie, Dan Schuchart, and guest artist Alfonso Cervera for an evening of kineticism, imagination and hope.
This end of the term showing features works by the African Dance, Salsa/Merengue & Hip Hop classes.
Singer/songwriter Gabriel Kahane performs a new version of his introspective solo work Magnificent Bird with Present Music, and the ensemble premieres a newly commissioned work from chamber music superstar and cellist, Paul Wiancko
The University Community Orchestra, a full symphony orchestra comprised of students and community members, led by conductor Margery Deutsch, performs works from classical and pops repertoire.