Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Arielle Romano
Arielle Romano is a Milwaukee-based Painter who is pursuing her MFA at UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts. She is a recent graduate from UW-Parkside where she earned her BFA in 2018.
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Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Katrina Andry
Virtual Event
A native of New Orleans, LA, Katrina Andry received an M.F.A in printmaking in 2010. She currently lives and works in New Orleans where she maintains a studio. Andry’s work is often in dialogue with the viewer, asking them to confront their own race and gender biases and to consider how it affects the quality of life of their community writ large.
Two Films by Ana Vaz & Nicolas Pereda
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIThis program pairs two films by Nicolas Pereda & Ana Vaz. Nicolas Pereda's My Skin Luminous, originally commissioned by the Mexican Ministry of Education, is a hypnotically mysterious, hybrid object that unravels and metamorphoses within the walls of a school.
Winterdances 2022: All That You Touch You Change
Mainstage Theatre 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Winterdances 2022: All That You Touch You Change Winterdances: All That You Touch You Change features new works investigating the experience of our impact on the environment. Choreographers offer moving meditations on the perception of time, the archive of experience in our... Read More
Winterdances 2022: High School Matinee & High School Day
Mainstage Theatre 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIUWM High School Dance Day is the best way for high school students to learn about the life of a dance major at the esteemed Peck School of the Arts. Individuals and groups are welcome to register.
Vocal Showcase Recital
Music Recital Hall Music Building Room 175 | 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIJoin us for a recital featuring outstanding student vocalists from the UWM voice area. This recital, presented as a part of the 2022 Vocal Arts Festival.
Winterdances Studio Workshop Day
Mainstage Theatre 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIUWM Dance Studio Workshop Day is the best way for high school students to learn about the life of a dance major at Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin’s only School of the Arts. Individuals and groups are welcome to register.
Vocal Arts Festival Final Concert
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts - Helen Bader Concert Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Join us in a free choral concert featuring Concert Chorale, UWM's premier choral ensemble, and the Vocal Arts Festival Choir, a group comprising 120 of the finest high school singers from around the region.
Short Films by Morgan Quaintance
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIThis program presents a selection of recent short films from one of the most exciting emerging voices in artist-made cinema. Morgan Quaintance is a London-based writer, musician, broadcaster, and curator.
Stefanie Jacob, Piano Masterclass Series
Music Recital Hall Music Building Room 175 | 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Stefanie Jacob made her solo debut with the Boston Pops at age 17 and her Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1984. An avid chamber musician, she was twice awarded Second Prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and received Indiana University's Leo Weiner Prize for Chamber Music.
Jazz Ensemble
Jan Serr Studio 2155 N Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
The UWM Jazz Ensemble is 20-member jazz big band that studies and performs the music of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Charles Mingus, Quincy Jones, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Maria Schneider.
Wind Ensemble/Symphony Band Concert
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts - Helen Bader Concert Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Join us for an amazing evening of music.
Two Videos by Charlotte Prodger
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WICharlotte Prodger is a British artist working with moving image, printed image, sculpture and writing.
Timber – Cross//Hatch Percussion
Jan Serr Studio 2155 N Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WIIn this memorable evening presented by both Chamber Music Milwaukee and MKE Unplugged, Cross//Hatch will present the Milwaukee premiere of Michael Gordon’s stirring evening-length minimalist score for six amplified simantras (2x4’s), Timber.
World Percussion Night
Jan Serr Studio 2155 N Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
The UWM Percussion Area hosts World Percussion Night in the beautiful Jan Serr Studio, featuring special guest Samba da Vida MKE alongside the UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band and other student ensembles.
Make a Distinction by Kera MacKenzie & Andrew Mausert-Mooney
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIA family has lunch under the shade of a C-47 warcraft.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Arielle Romano
Arielle Romano is a Milwaukee-based Painter who is pursuing her MFA at UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts. She is a recent graduate from UW-Parkside where she earned her BFA in 2018.
Quartet Samod
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts (Room 250) 2419 East Kenwood Boulevard, Milwaukee, WIQuartet Samod is a saxophone quartet consisting of graduate students from Michigan State University: Nathan Salazar (MM), Kaylee Bernard (MM), Evan Harris (DMA), and Emmet Harris (MM), studying with Professor Joseph Lulloff. Quartet Samod was recently selected as finalist for the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) 2022 Chamber Winds Competition, as well as a semifinalist for the North American Saxophone Alliance 2022 Saxophone Quartet Competition.
Ste. Anne by Rhayne Vermette
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIThis stirring debut feature by Manitoban filmmaker and artist Rhayne Vermette is a formally alluring examination of home by way of places and people.
This is Modern Art
Kenilworth Five-0-Eight 2155 N Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WIThis Is Modern Art takes you racing over the rooftops, through the history of graffiti art, and face-to-face with the question: Where does art belong? Graffiti crews are willing to risk anything for their art.
Dr. Eli Kalman, Piano Masterclass Series
Music Recital Hall Music Building Room 175 | 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Romanian-born pianist Eli Kalman has performed extensively in Romania, Israel, Germany, Hungary, Japan, United States and Canada.
Animation Showcase!
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIThe Animation Showcase is back on! This year's showcase theme “whimsical and atmospheric” opens the possibility for manifold forms of animation. Curated by Terrance Corwin Gordon, animator/filmmaker from the department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres.
Jazz Ensemble
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts (Room 250) 2419 East Kenwood Boulevard, Milwaukee, WIThe UWM Jazz Ensemble is a 20-musician jazz big band that performs the music of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Charles Mingus, Melba Liston, Thad Jones, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Lennie Niehaus, and Maria Schneider.
Sing into Spring Choral Concert
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts - Helen Bader Concert Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
UWM's Bella Voce, Kameraden, and Alta Voce choirs for an evening of choral music featuring selections from a variety of styles, time periods, and cultures.
UWM Concert Chorale Winter Concert
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts - Helen Bader Concert Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Join UWM’s flagship choral ensemble for an evening of engaging and emotional choral music. Hear compositions from Finland, South Korea, and South Africa, music of Bruckner, Weelkes, Brian Edward Galante, and the Beatles, two spiritual settings, and movements from Joel Thompson’s Seven Last Words of the Unarmed.
Films by Sandra Lahire
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WISandra Lahire (1950-2001) was a central member of the feminist and experimental filmmaking community in London in the 1980s and 1990s. Lesbian, Jewish, feminist – Lahire was a proud queer activist in a troubled time of British history, Thatcher’s 1980s.
Chamber Music Milwaukee
Music Recital Hall Music Building Room 175 | 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Chamber Music Milwaukee presents an evening of works by UWM faculty composers Will Heinrichs, Phillip Sink, Josh Backes, and Nathan Nokes.
American College Dance Association – Livestream Concerts
The UWM Dance Department hosts the American College Dance Association (ACDA) North-Central Regional Conference, March 18-22, 2022. 26 schools from across the Midwest and beyond will gather to share their creative work over 6 different concerts.
Wind Ensemble & Symphony Band
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts - Helen Bader Concert Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
A new double concerto by composer Stacy Garrop, Alpenglow follows the sun’s journey over soaring mountains, from the slow pre-dawn hour through the shimmering twilight.
Prince of Denmark
Kenilworth Five-0-Eight 2155 N Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WIAn imagined prequel to Shakespeare's HAMLET. Michael Lesslie's play explores the world of a younger Hamlet and gives us answers to many of the questions that Shakespeare left up in the air.
Michael Mizrahi, Piano Masterclass Series
Music Recital Hall Music Building Room 175 | 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIPianist MICHAEL MIZRAHI has appeared as concerto soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and teaching artist in major concert halls around the world. A first prize winner in several international competitions, he has been praised as "intrepid" (Philadelphia Inquirer), "engaging" (Houston Chronicle), and "endlessly fascinating" (WQXR New York).
UWM Opera Theatre presents “Little Women” by Mark Adamo
Music Recital Hall Music Building Room 175 | 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIThe students of UWM Opera Theatre and pianist Joseph Hauer present composer Mark Adamo's brilliant take on the classic American coming-of-age story by Louisa May Alcott. First performed by the Houston Grand Opera Studio in 1998, this piece has since become an important part of the American opera repertoire.
Makers! 22 Annual Juried + Sculpture 22 Student Exhibitions
Kenilworth Square East 3rd Floor Gallery 2155 N Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WIA “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.
UWM Symphony Orchestra with Ken-David Masur
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts - Helen Bader Concert Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Join us for an amazing evening of music.
Arcomusical with Matt Ulery
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts (Room 250) 2419 East Kenwood Boulevard, Milwaukee, WIArcomusical is a world music chamber ensemble reimagining the Afro-Brazilian berimbau through a repertoire of unique, powerful concert music. Arcomusical formed in 2013 specifically to interpret MeiaMeia, the collaborative composition cycle co-composed by ensemble members Gregory Beyer and Alexis C. Lamb.
Tower Duo
Music Recital Hall Music Building Room 175 | 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Please join us for an evening with Tower Duo, featuring Erin Helgeson Torres (flute) and Michael Rene Torres (saxophone). Their innovative program will include works by Harrison, Kernohan, Lamb, Redman, Torres, Weait, Williams, and Zilinick.
Simon Gollo, Chamber Music Masterclass – Piano Masterclass Series
Music Recital Hall Music Building Room 175 | 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIAssociate Professor of Violin and Orchestral Conducting at New Mexico State University, Simon Gollo will conduct a chamber music class for pianists and string players. Selected as the recipient of Spring 2021 College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Faculty Achievement in Scholarship, New Mexico State University.
Cosmo Reed Quintet Premieres
Music Recital Hall Music Building Room 175 | 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
The graduate Cosmo Reed Quintet will premiere new works by UWM composers Barbara Howe, Gavin Roberts, Adam Taylor, Ben Piette, Eli Drews, and Clark Hudec.
Jazz Ensemble
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts (Room 250) 2419 East Kenwood Boulevard, Milwaukee, WIThe UWM Jazz Ensemble is a 20-musician jazz big band that performs music from Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Charles Mingus, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Lennie Niehaus, and Maria Schneider.
The Laramie Project
Kenilworth Square East 5th Floor Gallery 2155 N Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WIThe Laramie Project, one of the most-performed theatre pieces in America, is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.
University Community Orchestra Concert
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts - Helen Bader Concert Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
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.
Chamber Music Milwaukee
Music Recital Hall Music Building Room 175 | 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Chamber Music Milwaukee
Enjoy an evening of chamber music performed by UWM faculty members Jennifer Clippert (flute), Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff (viola) and guest Lauren Hayes (harp).
Springdances 2022: The Ground Is Not Our Only Home
Jan Serr Studio 2155 N Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Springdances 2022: The Ground is Not Our Only Home brings together four unique dancemakers reflecting on the nature of being, bridging and belonging. These dances explore aerial apparatus, bold video projections, repetition and the subtlety of touch. Through a broad... Read More
Art & Design MFA Exhibition: Echoes in Time
INOVA Gallery at Kenilworth Square East 2155 N Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WICelebrate with our graduating MFA artists, who exhibit their finest work and share their creative journeys.
**CANCELED** UWM Dance Studio Workshop Day
Jan Serr Studio 2155 N Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WIUWM Dance Studio Workshop Day is the best way for high school students to learn about the life of a dance major at the esteemed Peck School of the Arts. Individuals and groups are welcome to register.
Wind Ensemble/Symphony Band Concert
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts - Helen Bader Concert Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Join us for an amazing evening of music.
Into The Woods
Mainstage Theatre 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIJames Lapine and Stephen Sondheim takes everyone's favorite storybook characters and bring them together for a timeless, musically sophisticated event. The Tony Award-winning book and score are both enchanting and touching.
BA / BFA Exhibitions and Reception
Kenilworth Square East 4th Floor Gallery 2155 N Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WIThe Department of Art and Design will host the Spring 2022 BA / BFA Exhibition at Kenilworth Square East.
UWM Percussion Ensemble
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts - Helen Bader Concert Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
The UWM Percussion Ensemble presents its annual Spring concert, featuring a wide variety of instruments, sounds, and compositions from different periods.
Jazz Ensemble
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts (Room 250) 2419 East Kenwood Boulevard, Milwaukee, WIThe UWM Jazz Ensemble is a 20-musician jazz big band that performs the music of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Thad Jones, Charles Mingus, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Maria Schneider.
UWM Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition Winners’ Concert with David Bloom
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts - Helen Bader Concert Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
UWM Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition Winners' Concert with David Bloom Noted for his “rockstar energy” (Urban Milwaukee) and “graceful sensitivity” (I Care If You Listen), guest conductor David Bloom of Present Music and Contemporaneous joins student soloists for the Concerto... Read More
Art and Design Open Studios
Kenilworth Square East 2155 N Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WIPlease 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.
David Russell Classical Guitar Recital
Music Recital Hall Music Building Room 175 | 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIGrammy Award-winning guitarist David Russell concert at UW-Milwaukee. PSOA School of Art
Choral Collage Concert
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts - Helen Bader Concert Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
UWM Concert Chorale, Bella Voce, Kameraden, and Alta Voce for their final performance of the 2021-2022 school year. The program features diverse choral music spanning a variety of styles, time periods, and cultures.
MKE Mass Steel Band
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts - Helen Bader Concert Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Steel pan ensembles and individual performers from around Wisconsin will come together to form the 2022 MKE Mass Steel Band, hosted by the UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band. The event will feature a lively combination of traditional music and pop transcriptions performed by the large, joint ensemble. The concert will be headlined by guest artist Alex Fragiskatos, who arranged a majority of the music to be performed.
**CANCELED** Dance Improvisation – End of the Term Showing
Mitchell Hall (Studio 254) 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WICANCELED
**CANCELED**Francisco Flores, Chamber Music Masterclass – Piano Masterclass Series
Music Recital Hall Music Building Room 175 | 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI**CANCELED** Francisco Flores, Chamber Music Masterclass - Piano Masterclass Series Francisco Flores was awarded First Prize in the “Maurice André” International Contest, the most renowned trumpet Contest in the world, as well as First Prize in the “Philip Jones” International... Read More
African, Salsa/Merengue, and Hip Hop – End of the Term Showing
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts - Helen Bader Concert Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIThis end of the term showing features works by the African Dance & Salsa/Merengue classes.
**CANCELED**Hip-Hop – End of the Term Showing
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts - Helen Bader Concert Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIEnd of the Term Showing of Hip-Hop classes with the participation of groups and crews from Milwaukee and Southeastern Wisconsin.
UWM Electronic Music Concert
Kenilworth Square East 2155 N Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WIThe UWM Composition & Technology Program presents the electroacoustic works of student composers. Featuring improvised live performances by Jack Lusk on guitar and electronics, and Samwise Baker on drums; the premier of an 8-channel work by Benjamin Piette; and two fixed-media works by Lawton Hall.
**CANCELED** Elena Abend and Francisco Flores – Collaborative Recital
Music Recital Hall Music Building Room 175 | 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI**CANCELED** Elena Abend and Francisco Flores - Collaborative Recital UWM Piano Faculty Elena Abend and fellow Venezuelan trumpet virtuoso Francisco Flores, join forces in a recital of exciting Latin American and Spanish music. Date/Time: Thursday, May 12, 2022 7:30 p.m.... Read More
UpStart: An MFA Dance Research Concert
Mitchell Hall (Studio 254) 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WIUpStart: An MFA Dance Research Concert Second-year MFA in Dance students present an evening of new, experimental works in preparation for their culminating thesis projects. Featuring a wide array of approaches to the choreograph method, from deeply embodying tradition to... Read More
University Community Orchestra Concert
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts - Helen Bader Concert Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
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.