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  • Promotional image for UWM’s New Music Ensemble, featuring colorful abstract art with text that reads: “New Music Ensemble — Featuring Music by UWM Composition Students.”

    New Music Ensemble Fall Concert

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

    The New Music Ensemble (NME) will perform contemporary music ranging from avant-garde, world premieres, and student compositions. The NME is excited to perform this concert full of experimental and challenging music.

  • A UWM voice student singing energetically into a microphone during a Pop Ensemble performance at the Recital Hall.

    UWM Pop Ensemble – Live at Jan Serr Studio

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

    UWM’s Pop Ensemble brings chart-topping commercial music to life with student-led performances featuring rock, R&B, funk, and more. Don’t miss this dynamic showcase of tomorrow’s top talent!

  • Two UWM Dance BFA students dance the salsa as the male dips the female backward energetically.

    African, Salsa/Merengue, and Hip-Hop Showcase

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

    This end of the term showing features works by the African Dance, Salsa/Merengue & Hip Hop classes.

  • 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!

  • Director Scott Corley stands on a podium with his baton in front of the UWM Youth Wind Ensemble (UWAY) at the spacious Bader Hall.

    Youth Wind Ensemble (UWAY) Concert

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

    The UW-Milwaukee Youth Wind and Percussion Ensembles program ("UWAY") presents a program of contemporary and traditional symphonic band and wind ensemble repertoire. This concert will include some season favorites that are a UWAY tradition!

  • 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.

  • Hands in dynamic motion encircle a person's face against a vibrant purple backdrop with geometric frames and text for Winterdances Resilience.

    Winterdances

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

    Winterdances: Resilience will present dance works that uplift the human connection through storytelling, joy, and resilience. The world premiere dances dive into our shared humanity and offer a vision of how we gather strength through community. This evening features new works by dance faculty Mair Culbreth, Ishmael Konney,  Dawn Springer, and a premiere work by acclaimed choreographer and special guest artist David Roussève.

  • 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.

  • Vocal Arts Festival Warm-Up

    Vocal Arts Festival

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

    The Vocal Arts Festival provides an opportunity for skilled high school singers to interact with, perform for, and join their voices with peers from around the region. Participants have the chance to learn and grow as both soloists and choral artists.

  • A round woven rug displaying a colorful spiral pattern emanating from the center with yellow, orange, red, indigo and blue tones.

    Fiber//Form 2026

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

    Join us for an exhibition of selected pieces from Fibers courses taught by Peck School of the Arts faculty Jamie Bertsch and Kyoung Ae Cho. The Department of Art & Design hosts an opening reception on Friday, February 6 from 5-7 p.m.

  • Winterdances Matinee and Talkback Promo Image

    High School Winterdances Matinee, Talkback & Workshops

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

    Presenting a special matinee performance of Winterdances for high school groups and students featuring world premiere dance works, where artists present their newest ideas made with their casts and collaborators. Following the performance is a question and answer session with the students and choreographers. A short sack lunch will be followed by two workshops with UWM internationally known faculty in two techniques.

  • A UWM opera student with a beard, dressed in a suit performs the Dido and Aeneas opera.

    UWM Vocal Showcase Recital

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

    Presented as part of the Vocal Arts Festival but open to the public, the Vocal Showcase Recital is 75 minutes of solo singing in a wide variety of styles (classical, musical theatre, commercial music, and jazz) from 16 undergraduate UWM voice majors. Join us to hear these exceptional singers present a professional-quality, entertaining, and engaging performance!

  • A diverse group of students singing together at the UWM Vocal Arts Festival.

    Vocal Arts Festival Final Concert

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

    The 2026 UWM Vocal Arts Festival concludes with a final free concert open to the public. Join us to hear UWM's flagship Concert Chorale and the UWM Vocal Arts Festival Honor Choir comprising 120 select students from around Wisconsin and …

  • 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.