• 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.

  • First Year Musical Theatre Showcase

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

    The Spring First-Year Musical Theatre Showcase brings our newest students back to the stage, building on the work they’ve done throughout the year. Featuring a fresh set of songs and scenes, this performance highlights their growth, confidence, and developing artistry, while giving audiences another chance to get to know each performer.

  • 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 exciting showcase of original plays celebrating hope and resistance. Don't miss the premiere of these brand-new works written, directed 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 Percussion Festival

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

    The MKE Percussion Festival brings together percussionists of all ages for a weekend of educational and performance opportunities. Attendees will be able to learn from guest artists about a variety of topics, instruments, techniques, and musical styles related to percussion in addition to listening to, and participating in, performances and workshops. All events are designed to be accessible and inclusive to empower and inspire all participants on their percussive journey.

  • 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.

  • Tenor/Bass Choral Invitational

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

    Join UWM's Kameraden, Carthage College's Vox Ignis, and high school tenor-bass ensembles from around the region for an afternoon of tenor-bass choral music.

  • Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Della Wells and Evelyn Terry

    Virtual Event

    Della Wells is a nationally recognized collage artist whose work is in the collections of the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Chazen Museum of Art, the Museum of Wisconsin Art, the Intuit Art Museum, and many private collections. Evelyn Terry’s book art, oil portraits, found-object assemblages, and marked-up sewn recycled drawings can be found in over 500 collections worldwide. She has exhibited in Spain, Germany, Japan, and Russia, and has created public art projects for her neighborhood in Milwaukee and for the Mitchell International Airport.

  • Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (MUFF)

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

    Wildly popular and entirely student-run, this annual international film festival is dedicated to showcasing contemporary works of film and video that innovate in form, technique, and content.

  • UWM Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band Concert Featuring Concert Chorale

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

    The UWM Wind Ensemble will perform their final concert of the academic year featuring the Wind Band Concerto Competition Winner, Britni Cohen-Wichner.

  • University Community Orchestra Spring Concert

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

    The University Community Orchestra presents an engaging and wide-ranging program under the direction of Dr. Jun Kim and the assistant conductor, Dr. Jeong-In Kim. Bringing together students and community musicians, this ensemble celebrates the shared joy of music-making through a dynamic selection of repertoire.

  • University Community Band Spring Concert

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

    Join the University Community Band for our spring semester concert!

  • Animation Showcase

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

    The Animation Showcase returns to the Union Cinema for its 2027 event, featuring the latest and greatest from our Animation/Film students. This year’s edition features student work across all forms of storytelling. From digital to traditional, claymation to cutout, 2D to 3D, see what the next generation of animators and filmmakers are creating!

  • Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Megan Olson

    Virtual Event

    Megan Olson is an abstract painter whose practice has evolved over the past twenty years between the fine art world and the culture of graffiti. Drawing from modernist traditions and the improvisational energy of street-based mark making, she has developed a visual language rooted in abstraction and automatic gesture. Olson is currently the Chair of the Archives Committee for the American Abstract Artists.

  • Springdances

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

    Springdances marks the Department of Dance’s annual spring concert, presenting new choreographic works by faculty and guest artists in a dynamic expression of creative growth and renewal.

  • Everybody’s Talking About Jamie

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

    The hit West End musical about learning who you are - and loving it! Everybody's Talking About Jamie won two WhatsOnStage awards (Best West End Show and Best New Musical) and was a nominee for five Laurence Olivier Awards in 2018, including Best New Musical.

  • UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band & Community World Music Ensemble

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

    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 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.