Steel pan ensembles and individual performers from around Wisconsin and Illinois will come together to form the 2027 MKE Mass Steel Band, hosted by the UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band. Involving over seventy performers, the event will fill the stage with steel pans and feature a lively combination of traditional music and pop transcriptions.
Join UWM's Kameraden, Carthage College's Vox Ignis, and high school tenor-bass ensembles from around the region for an afternoon of tenor-bass choral music.
Della Wells is a nationally recognized collage artist whose work is in the collections of the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Chazen Museum of Art, the Museum of Wisconsin Art, the Intuit Art Museum, and many private collections. Evelyn Terry’s book art, oil portraits, found-object assemblages, and marked-up sewn recycled drawings can be found in over 500 collections worldwide. She has exhibited in Spain, Germany, Japan, and Russia, and has created public art projects for her neighborhood in Milwaukee and for the Mitchell International Airport.
Wildly popular and entirely student-run, this annual international film festival is dedicated to showcasing contemporary works of film and video that innovate in form, technique, and content.
The UWM Wind Ensemble will perform their final concert of the academic year featuring the Wind Band Concerto Competition Winner, Britni Cohen-Wichner.
The University Community Orchestra presents an engaging and wide-ranging program under the direction of Dr. Jun Kim and the assistant conductor, Dr. Jeong-In Kim. Bringing together students and community musicians, this ensemble celebrates the shared joy of music-making through a dynamic selection of repertoire.
Join the University Community Band for our spring semester concert!
The Animation Showcase returns to the Union Cinema for its 2027 event, featuring the latest and greatest from our Animation/Film students. This year’s edition features student work across all forms of storytelling. From digital to traditional, claymation to cutout, 2D to 3D, see what the next generation of animators and filmmakers are creating!
Megan Olson is an abstract painter whose practice has evolved over the past twenty years between the fine art world and the culture of graffiti. Drawing from modernist traditions and the improvisational energy of street-based mark making, she has developed a visual language rooted in abstraction and automatic gesture. Olson is currently the Chair of the Archives Committee for the American Abstract Artists.
Springdances marks the Department of Dance’s annual spring concert, presenting new choreographic works by faculty and guest artists in a dynamic expression of creative growth and renewal.
The hit West End musical about learning who you are - and loving it! Everybody's Talking About Jamie won two WhatsOnStage awards (Best West End Show and Best New Musical) and was a nominee for five Laurence Olivier Awards in 2018, including Best New Musical.
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 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.
The UWM Percussion Ensemble presents its annual Spring concert, featuring a wide variety of instruments, sounds, and compositions from different periods.
Join Design & Visual Communication BFA Students in an interactive exhibition of their Capstone Thesis projects.
Join Suzuki and Pre-College Guitar Students for their Spring Concert.
This program by the UW-Milwaukee Youth Wind and Percussion Ensembles program will feature a performance by our annual UWAY Concerto Competition Winner and celebrate the UWAY Seniors who will graduate this Spring!
Nathaniel Stern is an interdisciplinary artist, engineer, and researcher whose work explores how humans co-evolve with technology - especially artificial intelligence. His recent work focuses on how art can support thinking, creating, and making meaning with and about AI. Stern is a Professor of Art & Design (Creative Technologies) at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM), with a joint appointment in Mechanical Engineering. He is also Director of Academic Engagement and Creative Impact at UWM’s Lubar Entrepreneurship Center (LEC).
Brahms composed two sextets for strings in the 1860s. Though they were composed within five years of each other, in the same genre of string sextet, and both in major keys, they are remarkably different in character with the G major, Op. 36 having a very ethereal character, heralding the aura of resignation that haunted his more mature works while the Bb major, Op. 18 is genial, warm, rich, and bold.
A semiannual exhibition showcasing the work of graduating students in the BA and BFA programs. The exhibition traditionally takes place at the end of fall and spring semesters.
Join the UWM Symphony Orchestra for its season finale on May 7 in Bader Concert Hall.