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  • A close up of Jean Carlo Ureña Gonzalez holding a gold rimmed snare drum.

    Jean Carlo Ureña Gonzalez – Percussion Guest Artist

    Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Room 250 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

    Jean Carlo is a versatile performer, composer and educator that connects western and nonwestern tradition into concert settings. He has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Santo Domingo, Jackson Symphony, Toledo Symphony and Adrian Symphony. He has performed on multiple occasions in New Music Detroit’s, Strange Beautiful Music (SBM) annual concert series. He is the founder and co-director of the first Dominican percussion ensemble that combines western and Caribbean musical traditions, ATEZA’O. Ureña González, joins the faculty of the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music as a Assistant Professor of Percussion in the Fall of 2023.

  • A woman rests her head in her arm while one eye looks directly into the camera.

    Experimental Tuesdays: Iva Radivojević

    UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

    Iva Radivojević was born in Belgrade and spent her early years in Yugoslavia, Cyprus and NYC. She is an artist and filmmaker who currently divides her time between Athens and Lesbos. Her work presents itself as a collection of fragments {observations, poetry, images, sounds, melodies, languages}  which collage together to connect into a ruminating whole. The work circles around dislocation, migration and belonging, seeking to connect to the metaphysical or the magical. 

  • Artist Wes Larsen's work depicting a person with wild hair covering their face with their forearm.

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Wes Larsen

    Virtual Event

    Wes Larsen is an assistant professor of design at UWM. His work spans graphic art, performance, writing and publishing, focusing on obfuscation and irreverence to explore meaning. He uses diverse print and media methods and previously ran the indie design studio Tocco in Fort Worth, Texas.

  • Event graphic for a talk titled ‘Special Features’ featuring details and a speaker portrait.

    Special Features: OFFICIAL SELECTION | Film Festival Strategies & Campaigns

    Mitchell Hall, Fine Arts Cinema Room B91 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI

    Looking to learn more insight and practical knowledge on our larger art industries, and how to prepare for an art-life post-graduation? Special Features is an artist talk and workshop series that is meant to provide filmmakers and artists with practical and insightful advice and skills as they navigate a variety of film industries.

  • UWM Jazz Ensemble led by Director Dave Bayles performing in Kenilworth Square East Jan Serr Studio.

    Jazz Ensembles

    Kenilworth Square East, Jan Serr Studio 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI

    Join us for an evening of jazz featuring the UWM Jazz Ensemble, the UWM Afro-Caribbean Jazz Orchestra and the UWM Youth Jazz Ensemble (UJAY).

  • A close-up photo of the neck of a classical guitar with text next to it promoting the UWM Classical Guitar Concert Series.

    Canceled Classical Guitar Studio Concert

    Music Building, Recital Hall 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

    Please join us to celebrate our student's performances of Solo and Chamber Music works.

  • Large orchestra performing on stage with string, brass, and percussion instruments in a concert hall

    Wisconsin Intergenerational Orchestra Presents: Celebration of Storytellers

    Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

    If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many do you think a song is worth? Join us at our "Celebration of Storytellers" concert to find out as we explore composers artfully conveying stories through song.

  • The University Community Orchestra stand and receive applause from the audience at the UWM Zelazo Center.

    University Community Orchestra Fall Concert

    Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
    Hybrid Event

    Join the University Community Orchestra for a vibrant and festive December concert.

  • Layered photo of dancers moving on metal platforms over a sunset sky and empty studio.

    The Body Speaks: Scribing and Scoring Autoethnography

    Mitchell Hall, Studio 254 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI

    Department of Dance Student Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF) Kasey Eckhardt, Paloma Kong-Ndoumbe, Elise Leonard, and Brooke Allison Parkinson collaborate with faculty mentor Maria Gillespie to present an informal showing of their choreographic research. Music performance by Paul Westfahl.

  • A pile of audio cables circles the copy "UW-MESS" on a black background

    UW-MESS Interactive Electronic Music Showcase

    Music Building, Electronic Music Studios B60 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

    Students 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!

  • Music Department Student Recitals

    Music Department Student Recitals

    Hybrid Event

    Students showcase musical technique and skill, while audience members enjoy expert performances by Milwaukee’s emerging musicians. Recitals are streaming, free and open to the public.

  • Blurry face beneath rippling water with light reflections across the surface.

    Experimental Tuesdays: Weather, or Not

    UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

    The weather moves around as the clouds imagine their own nephology: wondering what these people see when they see what they see. Fluttering by, attention pulls focus from the movement of the cloud, to the movement of the wind, to the movement of the eye, to the movement of the mind, without ever moving an inch. All the while, we’re watching seeing, or observing looking, or something like that. A program of short works that explore place, space and the weather, in all its sublime, mundane and chaotic glory.

  • Artist Linda Fleming's sculpture with four large steel rings circumscribing multiple angled shapes.

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Linda Fleming

    Virtual Event

    Linda Fleming, born 1945 in Pittsburgh, is a renowned sculptor and educator. Location is vital to her work which comes from three studios: a geodesic dome at Libre artist community in Colorado, Wall Spring in Nevada’s Smoke Creek Desert, and The Brewery in Benicia, CA, where she creates most of her large-scale sculptures.

  • Kathryn Boyd-Batstone adjusting camera equipment on a film set.

    Special Features | Real to Reel: Industry Standards for Cinematographers

    Virtual Event

    Join us virtually for our first workshop of the semester offers students, staff and community members with a practical, industry-focused look at working as a cinematographer on professional film and television sets. Designed for emerging filmmakers, the workshop demystifies the role of the cinematographer and equips attendees with actionable knowledge they can apply immediately—whether on student sets or professional productions.

  • A tornado funnel forms beneath dark storm clouds over an open rural landscape.

    Experimental Tuesdays: A Brief History of Chasing Storms

    UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

    The weather moves around as the clouds imagine their own nephology: wondering what these people see when they see what they see. Fluttering by, attention pulls focus from the movement of the cloud, to the movement of the wind, to the movement of the eye, to the movement of the mind, without ever moving an inch. All the while, we’re watching seeing, or observing looking, or something like that. A program of short works that explore place, space and the weather, in all its sublime, mundane and chaotic glory.

  • PSOA Fall Kick-Off Event Promo Image

    Peck School of Arts Winterfest

    Theatre Building, Mainstage Theatre 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

    Please join us in the Mainstage Theatre Lobby for Peck School of the Arts Winterfest! Learn about Peck School of the Arts resources: student organizations, study abroad, careers and internships, programs and classes for majors, minors, and non-majors. This opportunity is available to all UWM students. Free food, activities, and giveaways!

  • Artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya's work showing an obscured nude male and female upper torso while one holds a film camera over his face.

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Paul Mpagi Sepuya

    Virtual Event

    Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s photography explores the studio as a performative space, focusing on intimate, creative exchanges. His work has been shown at the Studio Museum Harlem, MoMA, and MCA Chicago. He won the 2017 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant and lives in Los Angeles.

  • Person standing in front of a sculptural installation made of broken white electronics and tangled wires.

    Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies

    Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI

    Artists Nathaniel Stern, a UWM Professor of Art and Engineering, and Sasha Stiles, who has a concurrent solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, independently developed this groundbreaking exhibition illuminating the intertwined evolution of humanity and technology, inviting viewers to reconsider the relationship between humans and the tools we invent.

  • Poster for "Avant-Garden of Love 2nd edition" by Present Music, featuring illustrated flowers and photos of flowers and a person’s face on stems.

    Present Music Presents: Avant-Garden of Love (2nd Edition)

    Kenilworth Square East, Jan Serr Studio 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI

    Composer/singer/songwriter Corey Dargel writes quirky, unclassifiable art songs which explore both the roses and the thorns of relationships; he’s writing a new set of songs for Present Music inspired by conversations with AI— how Artificial Intelligence might (mis)understand what love means. A thinking-person’s Valentines concert, with more surprises than a box of chocolates (you never know what you’re going to get!

  • Three people in black outfits wearing pig noses, standing on stage with a fourth person in a pink jacket at the side.

    Miscast 2026

    Music Building, Recital Hall 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 Performing Arts students play against their “type”!