Remember what it was like when you first picked up your instrument or sang in front of an audience? That moment was the beginning of your life as a musician. And now that your skills are strengthening in high school, it’s time to think about college as your next step to lifelong success in the music industry. See for yourself what it is like to be a music major at UW-Milwaukee.
The UW-Milwaukee dance department invites high school student dancers to attend A Day in the Life of a Dance Major where attendees will be paired with a first year dance major to shadow a typical day’s activities as a student. Parents/guardians are welcome to join us for the morning welcome and the afternoon tour.
Are you a high school student with a passion for film or animation? Whether you’re already experimenting with movie making and animating or you’re simply a curious film or animation buff, we’re hosting an exciting event that provides a glimpse inside of our Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres! Join us for a series of hands-on workshops for a taste of what it feels like to get creative at the Peck School of the Arts.
Join the Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres as we celebrate the faculty-nominated student works created in the 25-26 academic year. Celebrated works feature students from Freshmen to Seniors and showcase various genres, topics and coursework created within department courses.
The inaugural Milwaukee Sonic Arts Festival presents experimental electronic music and sonic art that engages with technology as a means of sonic expression. It will feature performers Alex Wier, percussion and Jennifer Clippert, flute along with three concerts and two presentation/workshop sessions.
Alisi Telengut is a Canadian artist of Mongolian roots living between Berlin and Montréal/Tiohtià:ke. She creates frame-by-frame, under-the-camera animations using mixed media, including oil pastel, sand, stones, crystals, and found materials. Through handmade and painterly processes, her work explores human-nature relationships, animistic worldviews, and Indigenous knowledge systems of Mongolian peoples.
Brett Lysne is an artist working in printmaking, drawing, artist books, and mixed media. His work is inspired by mapmaking, language, knowledge, and queer record-keeping. Currently Brett is living in Minneapolis, MN and is a co-op member at Highpoint Center for Printmaking.
International members of the Chicago Cabaret Connexion will present an concert of music showcasing the eclectic world of Cabaret. Featuring Anne Fromm, Amandine Larachiche, and Julie Morel with Wilfried Touati on the accordion.
Yinan Wang 王一男 is a filmmaker born and raised in Beijing. His recent work, 甜腻腻 Thick & Sweet, reconstructs both personal and collective memories of a local Chinese restaurant through cutouts, reenactments, found footage, and fragments of earlier films, quietly probing how images form—and deform—cultural identity. Wang received his BFA from UWM and is a recipient of the 2026 Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists.
UW-Milwaukee alumni, stone sculptor/painter SHADDSTONE©️ collaborates with alumni master percussionist Martin Shadd and friends, to present an experience of abstract/impressionism as music. The musical journey will be performed on unique and traditional instruments to create a series of “sound-escapes."
The UWM Percussion Ensemble presents its annual Spring concert, featuring a wide variety of instruments, sounds, and compositions from different periods.
Students who received scholarships in the previous year are invited to display work in this exciting exhibition that spans a wide range of mediums and topics from emerging artists.
Micah Alhadeff is a digital artist, curator, and educator whose work explores glitch aesthetics, virtual embodiment, and speculative transformation. Alhadeff’s work has been exhibited at Sotheby's in New York City, The Royal Institute in London, NFT.NYC, NFT Show Europe in Valencia, Spain, Tech Contemporary in Copenhagen, and across 1000 billboards in Belgium through Art Crush Gallery. Alhadeff is as Assistant Professor of Kinetic Imaging at Western Michigan University where he teaches experimental approaches to game engines, worldbuilding, and emerging technologies in digital art.
Join the UWM Choirs and Symphony Orchestra for their annual Masterworks Concert.
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.
Featuring original choreography by our graduating seniors, this annual event reflects months of focused research, experimentation, and creative development. Over an intensive two-and-a-half-month process, students bring their artistic visions to life in performance. Come celebrate and support the next generation of artists.
This exhibition offers a unique opportunity to explore the vibrant intersections of creativity and technology, connecting the Milwaukee community with the next frontier of artistic expression.
In this tragi-comic play, a grotesquely wealthy person returns to their hometown which has suffered an economic downturn. In exchange for a reversal of their plight, she demands a high price – one that shakes the very bedrock of the society. This play premiered in New York 70 years ago, directed by Peter Brook and starred Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
Rachel David is a North Carolina-based blacksmith, sculptor, designer, and maker. Her metalwork practice is holistic; encompassing art, furniture, architectural elements, activism, collaborations, and gardening. Using the physical and technically demanding processes of forging, forming, and machining steel, Rachel addresses broader issues of “body” and “landscape” through the lens of social and environmental justice. David's work is in the collections of the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery, the City of New Orleans, the City of Asheville, the Simone Benetton Foundation, and numerous private collections.
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.