• UWM Vocal Showcase Recital

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

    Listen to a recital of 15-16 of UWM's outstanding undergraduate voice majors perform a variety of classical, musical theater, and commercial music repertoire. This recital is presented as part of the annual UWM Vocal Arts Festival and is 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

    The final concert of the 2027 UWM Vocal Arts Festival featuring the UWM Concert Chorale and outstanding high school vocalists from around Wisconsin and Illinois.

  • Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Nicole Marroquin

    Virtual Event

    Nicole Marroquin is a transdisciplinary artist and educator who explores Black and Latinx Midwest histories of youth resistance movements, belonging and spatial justice. In 2019 she began a social media project called Chicago Raza Research Consortium. In 2020 Marroquin was the recipient of the USA Fellowship. She is Professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.

  • Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Gerhardt Knodel

    Virtual Event

    Gerhardt Knodel is an American contemporary textile artist, academic administrator, and educator. He was the head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art from 1970 to 1997 and served as the director from 1997 to 2007. His work has gained international recognition and has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Japan-American Friendship Fellowship, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the James Renwick Alliance, and the State of Michigan. Knodel was awarded the Gold Medal by the American Craft Council.

  • UWM Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band Concert

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

    Join the UWM Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band for our concert featuring Italian music students and conductors from cultural exchange programs as part of the International Music Project. We’re also thrilled to welcome select high school band students as they sit in with the Wind Ensemble for a side-by-side performance experience with UW–Milwaukee graduate and undergraduate music students.

  • Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Jamie Ho

    Virtual Event

    Jamie Ho is an interdisciplinary artist who is currently based in Tallahassee, Florida. Her art practice engages with GIFs, photography, and installation to investigate the long-term impact of assimilation and cultural bereavement through references of ancestral Chinese traditions and artifacts. Her work troubles the history of public spectacle and display of Asian American women, using performance and lighting studio to challenge societal expectations of gender roles and norms. She has been included in the 2023 Silver List, was a Critical Mass Finalist and was awarded the 40th Center Annual Beth Block Honorarium by Houston Center for Photography.

  • Youth Wind Ensemble (UWAY) – Connections Concert

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

    This concert by the UW-Milwaukee Youth Wind and Percussion Ensembles program will feature the UWAY "All-Stars" musicians and other special guests!

  • Union Art Gallery Annual Juried Exhibition

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

    This juried exhibition showcases student artists from around the Greater Milwaukee area working in a variety of mediums.

  • Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Paolo Pedercini

    Virtual Event

    Paolo Pedercini is an Italian game designer known for making Flash videogames based on socio-political points of view, on topics such as labour market flexibility and queer theory, in explicit opposition with the mainstream video game industry. He is known under the pseudonym Molleindustria, the name of his website. He created games such as Queer Power, Faith Fighter and the McDonald's Video Game. The games are often offered as freeware under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial license.

  • 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

    Twins must survive shipwreck, revenge plots and romantic entanglements in Shakespeare's beloved comedy!

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.