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First Year Spring Musical Theatre Showcase
First Year Spring Musical Theatre Showcase
Showcase of songs from the musical theatre canon performed by first year musical theatre students.
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Pipeline
Compassionate and lyrical, Pipeline brings an urgent, powerful conversation to the intimacy of the Kenilworth Five-0-Eight stage. Written by Dominique Morisseau, one of America’s most thoughtful and widely produced contemporary playwrights, Pipeline raises challenging questions about race, class, parental responsibility and the state of American education in a profoundly moving story of a mother's struggle to secure a brighter future for her son while remaining loyal to the community that molded him.
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Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Emily Wiethorn
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Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Emily Wiethorn
A Cincinnati artist and educator, Wiethorn’s work is rooted in familial experiences and how those relationships reflect our identities. They have attended the New York Times Portfolio Review, presented at the Society for Photographic Education Conferences, and had their work published online by Vogue Italia.
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Premieres of New Music
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Premieres of New Music
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.
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Art & Design First Year Program Exhibition
The First Year Program in Art & Design at UWM’s Peck School of the Arts prepares students to be creative, engaged, and ready to advance in their chosen areas of study. The first year is a time of artistic and personal development during which students choose their areas of concentration and begin to see themselves becoming practitioners in their field. The Union Art Gallery’s First Year Exhibition is an opportunity for these students to showcase the work they have created during this process. Join us in celebrating the work of these talented artists!
Makers! 24 + Sculpture 24 + Focus!24 Student Exhibitions
These “Best of” Exhibitions feature student work from all levels of Jewelry & Metalsmithing, Sculpture, Photography, and Digital Fabrication & Design courses taught during 2023-24 academic year at UWM.
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UWM Symphony Orchestra: An Evening of Opera Arias with Aaron Agulay
UWM Symphony Orchestra: An Evening of Opera Arias with Aaron Agulay
The UWM Symphony Orchestra is hosting a concert titled An Evening of Opera Arias with Aaron Agulay, which will showcase the talents of Dr. Aaron Agulay, an award-winning Baritone and UWM's newest faculty member.
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The Fine Arts Quartet perform Schumann & Dohnányi
The Fine Arts Quartet perform Schumann & Dohnányi
The prestigious Fine Arts Quartet, Ralph Evans and Efim Boico, violins, Gil Sharon, viola, and Niklas Schmidt, cello will offer a FREE concert featuring works by Robert Schumann and Ernst von Dohnányi. Pre-concert talk begins at 2 p.m.
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Cross Connections 2024: International Exhibition and Competition of Visual Communication Design and Emerging Media Design
The Cross Connections 2024 International Exhibition and Competition of Visual Communication Design and Emerging Media Design is a global event that showcases the creative works of students and faculty from over ten higher education institutions worldwide.
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Experimental Tuesdays: Short films by Shambhavi Kaul
Experimental Tuesdays: Short films by Shambhavi Kaul
Join us for a collection of shorts by Shambhavi Kaul and stay for a Q&A after the screening.
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Animation Showcase
Animation Showcase
The Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres presents their annual Animation Showcase featuring the latest work of prospective BAs. Programmed by Ethereal Animation prize winner, Elizabeth Whelan, the theme for the animated showcase this year is expression. Student work demonstrates creative expression and highlights their passion for animation in all forms: 2D, stop motion, cutout and 3D animation. Come and show your support for the animation area and the future animators of today!
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Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Melis Agabigum & Josh Kosker
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Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Melis Agabigum & Josh Kosker
Agabigum’s work in jewelry/metals and sculptural textiles examines how emotional weight affects perceived connection to others, bodies, and space. Kosker is a contemporary jeweler and visual artist who explores impermanence and counterintuitive methodologies, while examining craft and materiality.
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One-Act Operas | Suor Angelica and Curlew River
Join us for UWM's Spring Opera Production featuring a double bill of one-act operas!
MKE Percussion Festival
The MKE Percussion Festival brings together percussionists of all ages for a weekend of educational and performance opportunities. Attendees will be able to learn from guest artists about a variety of topics, instruments, techniques, and musical styles related to percussion in addition to listening to, and participating in, performances and workshops. All events are designed to be accessible and inclusive to empower and inspire all participants on their percussive journey.
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MKE Mass Steel Band
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MKE Mass Steel Band
Steel pan ensembles and individual performers from around Wisconsin and Illinois will come together to form the 2024 MKE Mass Steel Band, hosted by the UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band. Involving over fifty performers, the event will fill the stage with steel pans and feature a lively combination of traditional music and pop transcriptions.
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Piano Studio Recital
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Piano Studio Recital
Join the UWM piano studio for an evening of solo and chamber music.
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Moving Between Tongues: Choreographing Translation
Moving Between Tongues: Choreographing Translation
Department of Dance Student Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF) Lia Smith-Redmann, Libby Steckmesser, and Rae Zimmerli collaborate with faculty mentor Maria Gillespie to present an informal showing of their choreographic research. Moving Between Tongues developed from choreographic research exploring meaning making in the pre and post lingual forms of dance. The dancers share the products of their aesthetic practice as a nexus in which auto-ethnography, embodied storytelling, and interdisciplinary performance practice reveal how translation is an embodied and ongoing practice.
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Jazz Concert Featuring Mitch Towne
Jazz Concert Featuring Mitch Towne
Join us for a collection of Jazz performances featuring Mitch Towne on Jazz Organ.
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Chamber Music Milwaukee Presents Across the Grain: A Bassoon & Percussion Duo Recital
Chamber Music Milwaukee Presents Across the Grain: A Bassoon & Percussion Duo Recital
Chamber Music Milwaukee will present Across the Grain, a program of works that explore the sound possibilities for bassoon and percussion. All pieces on the program are contemporary and have been written within the last 15 years.
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Experimental Tuesdays: An Evening with Parastoo Anoushapour
Experimental Tuesdays: An Evening with Parastoo Anoushapour
DatesLocationApril 16, 2024 (7–9 p.m.)UWM Union Cinema Join us for an evening of short films by Parastoo Anoushahpour and stay for a Q&A after the screening. Anoushahpour is an Iranian artist based in Toronto with a moving image practice working …
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The Fine Arts Quartet perform Mozart
The Fine Arts Quartet perform Mozart
The prestigious Fine Arts Quartet, Ralph Evans and Efim Boico, violins, Gil Sharon, viola, and Niklas Schmidt, cello will offer a FREE concert featuring concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. There will be no pre-talk for this event as works will be introduced during the concert.
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New Dramaworks: Short Play Festival
Bold, funny, moving, provocative, original and fresh! View the world we’re living in today through the eyes of some of the newest emerging voices in the American Theatre. The premiere of what will be an ongoing feature of the Theatre Department season, this New Dramaworks series celebrates a collection of original, short dramatic work by UWM students and others that stimulates the imagination and prompts deep conversations.
Viewsheds
Bringing together architects, landscape architects, theorists, activists/organizers, artists, and students across a series of panels, dinners, workshops, and screenings hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Viewsheds will be presented in conjunction with the Site Unseen exhibition and the “territorial” scale studio in SARUP’s new core studio sequence, framing the importance of new, speculative aesthetics within emerging pedagogies and practices, particularly as architecture schools around North America increasingly contend with the climate crisis within their curricula.
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Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: AYDO (A young Yu & Nicholas Oh)
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Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: AYDO (A young Yu & Nicholas Oh)
AYDO is a collaborative duo based in New York. They have both exhibited extensively throughout the world, including the Museum of Art and Design, Christie’s Inc, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Time Square Space, the Jewish Museum, and the Smithsonian.
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Chamber Music Milwaukee
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Chamber Music Milwaukee
Join UWM Faculty Nicki Roman and Elena Abend for an evening of chamber music for saxophone and piano.
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Wind Band Conducting Symposium Concert
Wind Band Conducting Symposium Concert
The UWM Wind Band Conducting Symposium Concert is a culmination of conducting, score study, and wind band teaching. Participants will conduct the Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band after two days of study under Dr. Thomas Gamboa, Director of Bands at UW-Milwaukee; Dr. Scott Corley, Associate Director of Bands at UW-Milwaukee; and guest clinician, Col. Jason K. Fettig, Director of “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band and Chamber Orchestra and Director of Bands Designate at the University of Michigan.
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University Community Orchestra Spring Concert
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University Community Orchestra Spring Concert
Please join the UWM University Community Orchestra as they present their annual Spring concert. Our concert starts at 3pm and will feature the UCO Concert Chorale as well as the orchestra.
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Concert Chorale Performance
Concert Chorale Performance
The UWM Concert Chorale travels to Sheboygan! Join us for an afternoon of choral music at First Congregational Church in Sheboygan.
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Once Upon a Mattress
Once Upon a Mattress, a comic masterpiece based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Princess and the Pea, propelled Carol Burnett to stardom as Winnifred the Woebegone, a simple swamp princess hoping to win the hand of the prince despite all odds. This hilariously wacky romp is filled with witty, charming, and wonderfully romantic songs and dance numbers composed by Mary Rodgers. It serves as a delightful bookend to a season that began with a neglected gem by her father, Richard Rodgers.
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Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: MFA Candidates Eric Skadson & Andrew McConville
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Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: MFA Candidates Eric Skadson & Andrew McConville
McConville is an artist, designer, and programmer who applies design thinking methodologies to build digital and physical experiences. Skadson is a Navy veteran and educator-turned-artist who uncovered his ancestral Punjabi roots during a backpacking adventure through Nepal and India.
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Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (MUFF)
The Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (MUFF) is a student run film festival devoted to showcasing independent, artist driven cinema. For two decades we have been programming filmmakers that defy convention in an attempt to amplify unheard voices. Our festival celebrates the potential of cinema to imbue a community with excitement, critical discussion, and open-mindedness through the presentation of new artistic forms.
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Art & Design MFA Exhibition: Determinant Reflections
Celebrate with our graduating MFA artists, who exhibit their finest work and share their creative journeys. Featuring work by Lilly Dyer, Emmanuel Guerra, Kristy Lisle, Thomas C. Romero and Eric Skadson.
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UWM Bands – Celebrations!
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UWM Bands – Celebrations!
The UWM Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band will share a concert that celebrates the end of the academic year and feature a performance of the winning entry from the UWM Bands annual Concerto Competition.
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UWM String Academy Spring Concert
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UWM String Academy Spring Concert
Join us for a delightful afternoon at the UWM Peck School of the Arts Recital Hall, where the String Academy of Wisconsin will present its Spring Concert. This event showcases the talents of young violinists and violists, ages 4 to 18, who have been working diligently all semester. Admission is free, and no tickets are required, offering a great opportunity for the community to enjoy the musical accomplishments of these dedicated young performers.
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UWM Percussion Ensemble
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UWM Percussion Ensemble
The UWM Percussion Ensemble presents its annual spring concert featuring a combination of historically significant works with recent, cutting-edge compositions. The program will include Juri Seo’s “VV” and Andy Akiho’s “Pillar 1” alongside John Cage’s “Living Room Music,” Alan Hovhaness’ “October Mountain,” and Lynn Glassock’s “No Exit.” This concert will also feature the return of the UWM Marimba Band, which has been on hiatus since the pandemic shutdown.
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University Community String Orchestra (UCSO)
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University Community String Orchestra (UCSO)
University Community String Orchestra (UCSO) is proud to preset it's inaugural concert! Tonight's program will consist of works from Corelli, Resphigi, Grainger and Mozart. Please join us and support our very first combined student and community member string ensemble.
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University Community Band Spring Concert
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University Community Band Spring Concert
The UWM University-Community Band wraps up its year with a Spring Concert featuring a number of musical styles and traditions.
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Experimental Tuesdays: Three Films by Kevin Jerome Everson
Experimental Tuesdays: Three Films by Kevin Jerome Everson
This screening will serve as a prelude to Kevin Jerome Everson’s on-campus visit the following Friday and Saturday. The program will feature two medium-length films, Ten Five in the Grass and Company Line, as well as one short film, Undefeated.
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Classical Guitar Chamber Music concert
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Classical Guitar Chamber Music concert
Classical Guitar end of the semester Chamber Music concert.
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2024 BA/BFA Spring Exhibition
Join the Department of Art & Design in celebrating the incredibly talented BA and BFA graduating class of Spring 2024.
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Saxophone Studio Recital
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Saxophone Studio Recital
The UW-Milwaukee Saxophone Studio presents an evening of chamber music featuring our saxophone quartets and saxophone ensemble.
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Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Erica A. Meier
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Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Erica A. Meier
As a resident designer and frame builder at Waterford Precision Cycles, Meier created internationally renowned and award-winning bicycle frames. A Wisconsin-based artist and educator, she has taught jewelry and metalsmithing at many universities and exhibits her work nationally and internationally.
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Springdances 2024
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.
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UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band & University Community World Music Ensemble
UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band & University Community World Music Ensemble
This exciting night of music will feature music from Guatemala and Trinidad and Tobago performed by UWM students and Milwaukee community members. The UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band and the new University Community World Music Ensemble will join forces on a program highlighting traditional and arranged music played on Guatemalan marimba doble and Trinidadian steel pans.
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Short Ends presents: Recent Short films by Kevin Jerome Everson
Short Ends presents: Recent Short films by Kevin Jerome Everson
Any conversation about the most important artists and experimental filmmakers working over the past quarter century would be incomplete without the name Kevin Jerome Everson. His distinctive and singularly nuanced work blends documentary and fiction to articulate the profound within the ordinariness of everyday life. Kevin will be present to introduce and discuss a collection of his short works, ranging primarily from 2022-2024.
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UWM Symphony Orchestra Season Finale – Beethoven Triple Concerto
UWM Symphony Orchestra Season Finale – Beethoven Triple Concerto
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.
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Short Ends presents: Artist Presentation by Kevin Jerome Everson
Short Ends presents: Artist Presentation by Kevin Jerome Everson
Any conversation about the most important artists and experimental filmmakers working over the past quarter century would be incomplete without the name Kevin Jerome Everson. His distinctive and singularly nuanced work blends documentary and fiction to articulate the profound within the ordinariness of everyday life. Kevin will present an artist talk on his practice and celebrated filmography.
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Design & Visual Communication BFA Capstone Exhibition
Design & Visual Communication BFA Capstone Exhibition
Join the 2024 Design & Visual Communication BFA Students in an interactive exhibition of their Capstone Thesis projects.
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Choral Collage Concert
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Choral Collage Concert
Join UWM's five choral ensembles for a thrilling evening of music in their final concert of the year.
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Short Ends presents: Lago Gatún by Kevin Jerome Everson
Short Ends presents: Lago Gatún by Kevin Jerome Everson
Lago Gatún, Kevin Jerome Everson’s 2021 feature, is an entrancing journey north through the Panama Canal—a juncture of commerce between two vast oceans. Abstract and spare, the film’s meditative play with light and shadow opens up reflection on the colonial trade histories that lie below the surface. (MoMA)