The Department of Bands is hosting the UWM High School Concert Band Festival. This event will include performances of high school bands and to showcase their hard work as student musicians. Concert bands will have the opportunity to perform in UWM's Bader Hall, receive feedback from wind band experts, and work with a clinician after their performance. We hope you join us for this festival of concert bands!
Join the UWM Department of Bands for our concert as part of the High School Concert Band Festival Weekend!
UWM’s Pop Ensemble returns to the Recital Hall in the spring with a polished, high-energy concert. You’ll hear new repertoire, see how much the students have grown, and enjoy a full show with live band and great sound.
Enter a wild aviary asylum, which boldly juxtaposes avant-garde music theater, Baroque opera, and 1960s surf rock!
Cappy Counard creates jewelry and sculptural objects that explores the notions of work, care, storytelling and repair in the objects she makes. Counard is a Professor of Jewelry and Metals at Edinboro University and has taught workshops in universities across the country as well as at Penland School of Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Peter’s Valley School of Craft and Touchstone Center for Crafts.
The UWM Piano Recital Series presents the Varshavski and Shapiro Piano duo. Program TBD closer to the date of performance.
This exhibition is an opportunity for first year students to showcase work created during a time of significant artistic and personal development.
UWM Piano Faculty Elena Abend performs with Chicago based KAIA String Quartet presenting a program of chamber music. The program will feature Dvorak's "American" String Quartet and Shostakovich's Piano Quintet in G Minor.
Bridget Conn is an Indiana-based photographic artist who investigates photography as both a chemical and physical medium through camera-less and experimental processes. Addressing themes of societal struggle, awe, miscommunication, digital versus tactile experience, and the value of embracing mistakes, she expands the boundaries of the medium through prints, installations, and sculptural works.
UWM’s spring opera production brings a fully staged work to Bader Hall at the Zelazo Center, featuring our singers alongside the UWM Symphony Orchestra. With full sets, costumes, and live orchestral accompaniment, this production offers a complete operatic experience, combining music, drama, and collaboration on a larger stage. It’s a highlight of the season and a chance to see the full scope of what our students create together.
Delve into the captivating work by Jewelry & Metalsmithing, Sculpture, Photography, and Digital Fabrication & Design students and discover the intricate beauty and craftsmanship of this timeless art form.
The New Dramaworks Short Play Festival is back! The UWM Department of Theatre presents an enthralling showcase of original plays celebrating hope and resistance. Don't miss the premiere of these brand-new works written, directed, acted and produced by UWM students.
Niki Johnson is a Milwaukee-based artist whose practice combines sculpture, collage, and women’s traditional craft to examine democracy, identity, and structures of power affecting our lives today. Drawing from histories of voting rights, reproductive justice, and social justice, her work considers who is represented, who holds power, and how individuals participate in shaping the systems that govern their lives. Her projects often create opportunities for public participation and dialogue, extending these questions beyond the artwork itself. Johnson’s work has been exhibited nationally and is held in public and private collections.
Come hear music hot off of the presses! The Composition and Technology area will present exciting new works by UWM's student composers featuring works for acoustic groups and electronics.
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.
The Spring First-Year Musical Theatre Showcase brings our newest students back to the stage, building on the work they’ve done throughout the year. Featuring a fresh set of songs and scenes, this performance highlights their growth, confidence, and developing artistry, while giving audiences another chance to get to know each performer.
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.