BA/BFA Fall Exhibition
Kenilworth Square East 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WIJoin the Department of Art & Design in celebrating the incredibly talented BA and BFA graduating class of Fall 2023.
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Events
Popular Music Ensemble
Kenilworth Square East, Jan Serr Studio 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Popular Music Ensemble will perform music from the Pop/Rock/Folk genres. You will hear songs from the 1950's to the present day. Students work in small groups to create a unique take on each song, learning how to collaborate and bring something new to the audience.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Mary Tremonte
Virtual
Virtual Event
An artist, educator, and DJ based in Pittsburgh, Tremonte is a member of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative. She works with "printmaking in the expanded field," including printstallation, interactive silkscreen printing in public space, and wearable artist multiples such as queer scout badges.
UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band & University Community World Music Ensemble
Kenilworth Square East, Jan Serr Studio 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
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.
UWM Symphony Orchestra with Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIThe UWM Symphony Orchestra presents a concert featuring Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff, a viola professor who will perform a recently discovered Viola Concerto by J.S. Bach with harpsichordist David Schrader. Under the baton of Jun Kim, the orchestra will perform Haydn's final Symphony No. 104, the crowning of all of Haydn's symphonic works, also known as "London", and the Eight miniature pieces by Stravinsky.
Sounds of the Season Choral Concert
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Join UWM's Concert Chorale, Bella Voce, Kameraden, Alta Voce, and Kameraden Plus choirs for the final concert of the semester. Enjoy a fun and varied evening of choral music!
UWAY Concert- Holiday Traditions
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
The UWM Youth Wind & Percussion Ensembles program (UWAY) presents a concert featuring music that we have traditionally performed during our December performance!
Cellists of the MSO
Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WICellists Lynn Kabat, Peter Thomas, and Adrien Zitoun join Stefan Kartman and Jeannie Yu for an evening of beautiful cello music including works by Poulenc, Chopin, Debussy, Beethoven, Klengel, and others.
Jazz Concert
Kenilworth Square East, Jan Serr Studio 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WIThe 18-member UWM Jazz Ensemble performs music written or arranged specifically for a large jazz orchestra. The repertoire includes music from Duke Ellington and Count Basie as well as contemporary composers such as Maria Schneider, Tom Matta and Bob Mintzer.
Classical Guitar Solo concert
Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
End of the semester Classical Guitar Solo Concert.
African, Salsa/Merengue, and Hip Hop
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIThis end of the term showing features works by the African Dance, Salsa/Merengue & Hip Hop classes.
New Music Ensemble Concert
Kenilworth Square East, Jan Serr Studio 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WIThe New Music Ensemble will perform works by contemporary and living composers. This eclectic musical group will also perform compositions for chamber ensembles and large ensembles mixing winds, brass, and percussion. Featured pieces are by student composers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
UW-MESS Interactive Electronic Music Showcase
Music Building, Electronic Music Studios B60 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIStudents enrolled in Interactive Electronic Music, representing UW-MESS (UWM Electroacoustic Sound Studios), will showcase their final projects in a concert featuring all-new works of interactive electronic music!
Suzuki & Pre-College Guitar Student Concert
Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Join Suzuki and Pre-College Guitar Students for their Winter Concert.
Vocal Arts Festival
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIThe Vocal Arts Festival provides an opportunity for talented singers to interact with, perform for, and join their voices with peers from around the region as they learn and grow as both soloists and choral artists. The festival also includes the UWM Vocal Showcase Recital and the Final Concert with UWM Concert Chorale.
Vocal Showcase Recital
Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Join us for a recital featuring a wide variety of UWM's outstanding undergraduate voice majors singing pieces from a variety of styles and genres. The recital is presented as part of the UWM Vocal Arts Festival but is free and open to the public.
Vocal Arts Festival Final Concert
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
This final performance of the Vocal Arts Festival features the UWM Concert Chorale and the VAF Festival Choir of 120 of the finest high school singers from around Wisconsin and Illinois.
Percussion guest artist Dr. Michael Vercelli
Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIPercussion guest artist Dr. Michael Vercelli will be presenting a lecture and performance on the Ghanaian gyil, a 14-note xylophone from West Africa.
An Evening with Rhayne Vermette and Inney Prakash
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIRhayne Vermette was born in Notre Dame de Lourdes, Manitoba. It was while studying architecture at the University of Manitoba, that she fell into the practices of image making and storytelling. Primarily self taught, Rhayne’s films are opulent collages of fiction, animation, documentary, reenactments and divine interruption. Ste. Anne is her first feature narrative. Inney Prakash is a film curator based in New York City. He is a Cinema Programmer at Maysles Documentary Center, Curatorial Lead for the San Diego Asian Film Festival, and Founder/Director of Prismatic Ground, a NY festival centered on experimental documentary and avant-garde film.
Present Music Presents: Cello Cello
Kenilworth Square East, Jan Serr Studio 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WIThis concert features two World Premieres. 'Cellist and composer Paul Wiancko of the prestigious Kronos Quartet has written a brand new work for Present Music, and will perform some of his other compositions, including American Haiku, When the Night, and Closed Universe. Pamela Z performs her solo works for voice and an array of electronics, and contributes another World Premiere to the program, Raise, a stirring tribute to the people who raised us, written for 'cellist Nick Photinos (founding member of 8th Blackbird) and three additional cellists, plus voice samples and multi-media. Is the plural of cello "cellos" or "celli"? We say Cello Cello!
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Oliver Ressler
Virtual
Virtual Event
An Austrian-based artist and filmmaker, Ressler produces installations, public projects, and films on economics, democracy, migration, the climate crisis, forms of resistance and social alternatives. He has exhibited internationally and has completed forty-one films that are screened widely.
Film Faculty & Staff Screenings
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIGet to know the creative work of the Film, Video, Animation & New Genres faculty and staff at this all-star screening. Expect drama, documentary, experimentation, comedy, appropriation, and the unexpected. Many of the artists, your teachers, will be in attendance.
Fiber//Form 2024
Kenilworth Square East, 3rd Floor Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WIExhibition of selected pieces from Fibers courses in the Department of Art & Design with an opening reception on Friday, February 2 from 5-7 p.m.
High School Winterdances Matinee & Talkback
Theatre Building, Mainstage Theatre 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIPresenting a special matinee performance of Winterdances 2024 for high school groups and high school students. This show features world premiere dance works, where artists present their newest ideas made with their casts and collaborators.
Dance High School Workshop Day
Mitchell Hall, Studio 254 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WIHigh 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 those curious and interested in becoming a dance major at UW-Milwaukee's Peck School of the Arts. High school groups, High School dance programs, and individuals (accompanied by a chaperone) are welcome to register.
Experimental Tuesdays: to sense, to animate, to enliven
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WILetting etymology lead, this program brings together works of animation as a kind of animating spirit: films that expand beyond the frame and films that sense and are sense. As an archival activation, we ask the films what they’ve been dreaming about in their hibernation and ask an audience to meet and mingle.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Mo Zell
Virtual
Virtual Event
An award-winning architect, educator and author, Zell’s transformative programs connect art, architecture, and community engagement. With notable research, she fosters design thinking and creativity in both architectural practice and education. She holds degrees from University of Virginia and Yale.
Resonance (Jasmine Uras Dance MFA Thesis)
Kenilworth Square East, Kenilworth Five-0-Eight 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WIResonance is a multi-sensory exploration of how we experience sound throughout the course of our lives within texture, color and embodiment. Choreographer Jasmine Uras in collaboration with Emma Becker, Ashley Ray Garcia, Allison Haase, Kalista Roling, Libby Steckmesser, and Katie Speltz display how every movement is a reverberation of emotion, rhythm, and connection. How do we get from hear to there?
Experimental Tuesdays: Selina Trepp – I Work With What I Have
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIJoin us for an evening with Selina Trepp who will be in attendance at the screening.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Julie Chen
Virtual
Virtual Event
An internationally known book artist who has been publishing limited edition artists’ books under the Flying Fish Press imprint for over 20 years, Chen’s work is known for combining three-dimensional and movable book structures with fine letterpress printing and inspired artistic vision.
UWM Wind Ensemble & Symphony Band
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
The UWM Wind Ensemble & Symphony Band will perform on respective halves of this concert.
Miscast 2024
Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Miscast is a style of musical theatre cabaret that leans into the comedy of playing outside of one’s preconceived “type.” Think of “Cell Block Tango” from Chicago performed by square-dancing country singers. Come join in the fun as the UWM Theatre students play against their “type”!
First and Second Year Voice Recital
Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
The talented first and second year voice majors present a recital of music from a wide variety of styles and genres.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: kathryn e. martin
Virtual
Virtual Event
Interested in the potential of the everyday, martin draws from formal characteristics to make instinctive, calculated decisions that dissect, interpret, repeat and re-assemble inspiration into new landscapes and interactions intended to connect with place and audience.
Melissa Foster: Voice Artist-in-Residence
Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIWe are thrilled to announce that the UW-Milwaukee Voice Program will be hosting our esteemed artist-in-residence, Melissa Foster, for two full days. As a renowned figure in the commercial music industry, Foster will be conducting a series of engaging events including lectures, clinics, and masterclasses. Her expertise spans across various genres such as Rock, R&B, Motown, Disco, and Rap, providing invaluable insights into these dynamic fields.
Union Art Gallery Annual Juried Exhibition
UWM Union Art Gallery 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIThe Union Art Gallery presents the 51st Annual Juried Exhibition, a showcase of artwork in a variety of mediums by college student artists from around the Greater Milwaukee area. Juried by a panel of three Milwaukee arts professionals, the top exhibiting artists will be announced and awarded cash prizes during the opening reception. This is a great opportunity to see and support the incredible talent of emerging contemporary artists right in our local area!
Marculescu-Stern Vocal Competition
Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIUW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts is pleased to announce the 2023-24 Marculescu-Stern Scholarship Competition for voice students. The scholarship endowment was established through a gift to the UWM Foundation to honor the memory of Yolanda Marculescu-Stern, and the intentions of Sandu Stern, to support programming and scholarships, especially those in vocal arts.
UWM Symphony Concerto Competition Winners’ Concert
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIUWM Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition Winners' Concert.
Wisconsin Saxophone Clinic
Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIThe Wisconsin Saxophone Clinic (WiSC) aims to empower and inspire saxophonists of all ages to pursue musical excellence through an accessible and inclusive day of learning.
UWAY “All-Stars” In Concert!
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
This concert features two outstanding ensembles. The resident UW-Milwaukee Youth Wind and Percussion Ensemble (UWAY) and the UWAY “All-Star” Band, an ensemble made up of the most select members of our recent UWM Middle School Honors Band Festival.