The Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres at UWM is home to a celebrated group of faculty and staff whose creative work spans disciplines, genres, and modes of production. They are not only exceptional educators but also accomplished artists whose films have screened at festivals, museums, and galleries around the world. This special program is a chance to experience the breadth and vitality of their work.
Join UWM's Bella Voce, Kameraden, Alta Voce, and Kameraden Plus choirs for their first performance of the year!
Join UWM's flagship Concert Chorale along with guest high school choirs for their first performance of the year!
Are you a high school student with a passion for the Arts? Whether you’re interested in Studio Art, Design, Art Education or Digital Arts, we have an exciting and informative event just for you. It’s called “Making Your Mark: A Day in the Life of an Art & Design Major,” and it’s completely FREE.
Drawing upon a background in painting and the Fine Arts, Julie Murray has made over 25 beguiling and beautiful moving image works, equally invested in metaphysics as they are in material. Murray will be present to share a program of her recent short work on 16mm and digital.
Perpetually single Bobby confronts his fear of intimacy and commitment while his married friends push him to accept the messy reality of love rather than remaining safely alone. This groundbreaking touching musical is one of Stephen Sondheim's most sophisticated, pertinent, and tuneful scores.
Are you a high school student with a passion for theatre? Whether you're a seasoned performer, a behind-the-scenes enthusiast, or simply someone who loves the art of theatre (like all of us here!), we have an exciting event just for you. It's called "The Green Room and Beyond," and it's completely FREE.
Brennen Steines constructs abstract topographies that embody the alchemical nature of painting’s materiality. Through utilizing various excavational processes and emulsive solutions, Steines produces visceral terrains that speak to geologic time and the haunting awe of material transformation. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at DIMIN (NYC), Chilli Art Projects (London), Museum of Wisconsin Art. Jeffrey Deitch (NYC), The Alice Wilds (Milwaukee), and Usable Space (Milwaukee). He is currently based in New Haven, CT.
The Korean American Faculty & Staff Association at UWM and the Korean American Association of Milwaukee host the 2026 Milwaukee Korea Day (밀워키 한국의 날) Celebration & Concert.
Karthik Pandian’s work in film, installation and intervention renders mythologies of the present through forgotten, fragmentary and futuristic pasts, unsettling the ground of history.
Laura Farahzad Mayer is a Milwaukee-based artist and educator. Her experience growing up as the daughter of an Iranian immigrant in a small town informs her work, which navigates through the grief of losing her father while seeking to connect two generations - her father and her children - who were never living at the same time. Her work explores themes of memory, grief, culture, and generational storytelling. Mayer is a professor at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and is a recipient of the 2026 Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists.
Join us at the Union Cinema for a showcase of student made 16mm films! this screening presents a selection of films completed in the various 16mm classes taught by the Department of Film, Video, Animation, & New Genres. Spanning from experimental photochemical works to sync-sound short narratives, come witness the various creative approaches of UWM students working with celluloid!
You’ve heard this before, but the whimsically named Jonathan Scales Fourchestra is really tough to describe. Veering from in-your-face, jaw dropping chops and passion, to those quiet moments when the background noise disappears and you hold your breath to take in a soundscape of solitude, the power trio of electric bass (E'Lon JD), drums (Maison Guidry), and steel pans (Jonathan Scales) combines elements of jazz, classical, and progressive rock, peppered with Latin rhythms and soulful outbursts of funk.
Join the Department of Bands in the first concert of the new academic year.
The UW-Milwaukee Voice Area is proud to collaborate once again with the Supporters of Opera Singers (SOS) in hosting the final round of the 4th Annual Patricia Crump Vocal Competition. This competition honors Patricia Crump, founder of SOS, and celebrates young singers with strong ties to Wisconsin as they take important first steps into professional careers.
The UWM Piano Studio will present a program of solo, vocal and chamber music repertoire.
The UW-Milwaukee Youth Wind and Percussion Ensembles program kicks off the 2026-27 Concert Season with this afternoon performance!
UWM’s Pop Ensemble kicks off the fall with a fun, high-energy show in the Recital Hall. Expect a mix of pop, rock, R&B, and more, all backed by a live band. It’s a great chance to hear a variety of styles and see our singers bring their own personality to the stage.
Curated by MFA candidates from the Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres, these programs feature a unique opportunity to see some of the incredible 16mm prints from the UWM Cinema Arts Archive. For each program, the curator is invited to program a selection of films around a theme of their choosing.
Mikey Yates was born in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Germany. His drawings and paintings have been exhibited in shows in New York, Los Angeles, Marfa, Boston, Sydney, London, Marrakech, Hong Kong, and Seoul. Yates has been awarded two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grants and has participated in art residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Charlotte Street Foundation Studio Residency, and the Adventure Painting Residency.