• World Percussion Night

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

    The UWM Percussion Area hosts World Percussion Night in the beautiful Jan Serr Studio, featuring special guest Bembe Drum and Dance alongside the UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band and other student ensembles. Audiences will love the upbeat, exciting energy of Brazilian Samba, Puerto Rican Bomba, and West African drumming in addition to traditional and arranged music for Trinidadian steel pans performed by UWM students and faculty with vibrant community ensembles.

  • Spring Choral Invitational

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

    Join the flagship UWM Concert Chorale and several guest area high school choirs for an exciting evening of choral music!

  • Sing Into Spring Choral Concert

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

    Join UWM's Bella Voce, Kameraden, Alta Voce, and Kameraden Plus choirs for their first performance of spring semester!

  • Twelfth Night

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

    Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is a sparkling romantic comedy filled with mistaken identities, mischievous schemes, and heartfelt confessions where each twist of fate brings another burst of laughter. When Viola is separated from her twin Sebastian, she disguises herself as a young man to survive—only to find herself entangled in a whirlwind of unrequited love, playful deception, and unexpected joy! You will not want to miss this beloved tale.

  • Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Soumya Netrabile

    Virtual Event

    Soumya Netrabile is a Chicago-based painter who has exhibited at Anat Ebgi (Los Angeles), Rachel Uffner (NYC), Trinta Gallery (Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Indigo + Madder (London), and Karma (NYC). Her forthcoming solo exhibition will take place at Anat Ebgi in New York.

  • 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).

  • Khemia Ensemble

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

    The Khemia Ensemble will perform a dynamic program featuring all new dynamic works including the Wisconsin premiere of Dr. Phillip Sink’s, Bite!

  • Art & Design MFA Thesis Exhibition

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

    Witness the culmination of years of artistic development and intensive research as Master of Fine Arts graduate students unveil their captivating works.

  • High School Concert Band Festival

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

    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. The concert bands will have the opportunity to work with expert clinicians to help them improve based on their level and performance. We hope you can join us for this festival of concert bands!

  • UWM Wind Ensemble Concert

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

    Join the UWM Department of Bands for our concert as part of the High School Concert Band Festival Weekend!

  • UWM Pop Ensemble

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

    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.

  • Present Music Presents: Bird is the Werd

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

    Enter a wild aviary asylum, which boldly juxtaposes avant-garde music theater, Baroque opera, and 1960s surf rock!

  • Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Cappy Counard

    Virtual Event

    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.

  • Art & Design First Year Experience Exhibition

    UWM Union Art Gallery 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

    This exhibition is an opportunity for first year students to showcase work created during a time of significant artistic and personal development.

  • Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Bridget Conn

    Virtual Event

    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.

  • Spring Opera

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

    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.

  • Makers + Sculpture + Focus + DigiFab Student Exhibitions

    Kenilworth Square East, 3rd Floor Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

    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.

  • New Dramaworks: Short Play Festival

    Arts Center Gallery Theatre Building 2nd Floor | 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

    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.

  • Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Niki Johnson

    Virtual Event

    Niki Johnson is a Milwaukee-based artist, curator and Executive Director of Forward Art Initiative. For the past decade, Johnson has run her studio full-time, exhibiting her art and curating local and national exhibitions. Her artwork is in the permanent collections of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Madison Central Public Library, UW-Health’s American Center Hospital and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

  • MKE Mass Steel Band

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

    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.