Special Features: MOVIE POSTER MAGIC feat. Dante Nash
An art development workshop for PSOA students, faculty, staff and the greater Milwaukee community.
20 events found.
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Mitchell Hall, Fine Arts Cinema Room B91 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI
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in^set
Music Building, Recital Hall 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIHybrid Eventin^set is a flexible chamber ensemble dedicated to creation, improvisation and experimentation. Founded in 2018 by David Aguila (trumpet), Teresa Díaz de Cossio (flute), and Ilana Waniuk (violin), in^set is committed to commissioning and performing existing compositions which extends their respective instrumental practices beyond the confines of contemporary classical music. Their collaborative creative work seeks to explore the sonic and visual possibilities of everyday objects, digital and analog visual components and hacked electronics. As advocates for music of the present, they aim to foster artistic partnerships and alternative modes of concert presentation. Their activities include outreach workshops and performances geared towards sharing their passion for expanded methods of sound production.
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Experimental Tuesdays: Marianna Milhorat, Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIA poetic portrait of contemporary wildlife conservation, JUST ABOVE THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH reflects on empathy, agency, and the role of hope in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. A visceral, sensory meditation on what it means to live in a broken world. Marianna Milhorat is an American-Canadian filmmaker and artist based in Montréal.
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First Year Project: Ten Minutes On a Bench
Kenilworth Square East, Kenilworth Five-0-Eight 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WIA dating app called Ten Minutes On a Bench is the latest match-making craze, placing singles on a park bench to find common ground. The clock is ticking, but there’s no limit to the variety of quirky, sexy, heartbreaking and humane conversations between dozens of characters looking for love. A new speed-dating romantic comedy about first impressions, dogs and cats, drinkers and smokers, impulse and caution, conversation and chemistry. Laugh, cheer and cringe witnessing the universal urge to connect. Sometimes, it only takes ten minutes.
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Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: MFA Candidates: Benjamin Tanner MacArthur / Howard Leu
Virtual EventTanner MacArthur is a painter and mixed-media artist exploring connections between urban disorder, collage, and traditional modes of abstraction. Howard Leu is an interdisciplinary artist. His current work explores his recollection of growing up as a child of Taiwanese immigrants in the United States.
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UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band & Community World Music Ensemble
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Room 250 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIThis 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 Community World Music Ensemble will join forces on a program highlighting traditional and arranged music played on Guatemalan marimba doble and Trinidadian steel pans.
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Experimental Tuesdays: Give Chance a Chance
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIAn experiment in cooperation, exhibition and pedagogy, Give Chance a Chance is a collaboratively-conceived and –constructed program devised by the participants in the Indeterminacy graduate seminar. Unexpect the expected.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Theatre Building, Mainstage Theatre 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI15-year-old Christopher has an extraordinary brain: he excels at mathematics but struggles to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, he detests being touched, and he distrusts strangers. One night, at seven minutes after midnight, Christopher discovers his neighbor's dog, Wellington, has been speared with a garden fork. Suspected of the crime, Christopher is determined to solve the mystery. His detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a thrilling journey that upturns his world. Based on the best-selling novel by Mark Haddon and winner of Tony and Olivier Awards for best play in New York and London.
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Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Oksana Kryzhanivska
Virtual EventOksana Kryzhanivska’s interactive art installations, sculptures, and screen-based works have been exhibited in Canada, the USA, Australia, Germany, Italy, China, and numerous online exhibitions. Oksana’s work explores the extension of a human body with technology, investigating our norms of perception.
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Popular Music Ensemble
Kenilworth Square East, Jan Serr Studio 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WIHybrid EventStep right up and get ready to be electrified by the explosive energy of the Popular Music Ensemble! Embark on a sonic journey spanning decades of musical evolution, from the rocking rhythms of the 1950s to the chart-topping hits of today!
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Critical Making – Residency Reception
Kenilworth Square East, 3rd Floor Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WIA weeklong residency brings together UWM hosts Yevgeniya Kaganovich and Erica A. Meier, visiting artists Cappy Counard, Susie Ganch, Anya Kivarkis, Heidi Lowe, Mary Pearse, and Lori Talcott with scholar Jennifer Johung for a week of critical dialogue and speculative making. Join us afterwards for a reception and to see the work accomplished during this residency.
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Studio K Flamenco Presents: (W)here in the World
Theatre Building, Mainstage Theatre 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WITaiko drumming, Flamenco, West African dance and percussion, Native American Hoop Dancing – all in one performance. (W)here in the World takes the stage this spring uniting music and dance traditions from around the world in one spectacular performance. A unique cultural experience for all ages!
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Kids From Wisconsin Presents: 2025 Premiere Show of ‘The Heat Is On’ Summer Playlist
Theatre Building, Mainstage Theatre 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIThe 57th Kids from Wisconsin troupe have curated a Summer playlist to accompany the season, bringing together the most iconic and sun-drenched medleys that transport you to lazy beach days, family road trips, backyard barbecues, & late-night sing-along bonfires. Join us for throwbacks of Woodstock, celebrating our Nation's Birthday, 4th of July, those iconic summer movie blockbuster musical scores, warm sand beach tunes and so much more- enjoyed for all ages. The soundtrack of summer often feels like an essential part of the season's magic.
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Dance MFA Thesis – “a cat in the classroom”
Mitchell Hall, Studio 254 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WIa cat in the classroom is a collaboration between Samuel B. Hanson, UWM Dance MFA candidate, and Nora Price, a Milwaukee-native living and working in the Western U.S. known for a string of excellent post-punk bands and experimental dance films.
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Life Celebration for Professor Emerita Marcia Parsons
Mitchell Hall, Studio 254 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WIHybrid EventJoin the Department of Dance to celebrate the life, teaching, and creative work of Professor Emerita Marcia Parsons. Professor Parsons taught at UWM for 39 years where she shaped many of the departments programs, including the original MFA in Dance, BA in Dance, and the Early Childhood through Adolescence program. Please join us for a celebration of Professor Parsons' impact on UWM, all her students, and the Milwaukee dance community. The event will include performances by local dance companies, and a reception to follow.
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CANCELED – Telling Our Life Stories in Words & Gesture: Workshop with Choreographer and Director David Roussève
Diverse & Resilient 2439 N Holton Street, MilwaukeeJoin us for a community workshop taught by guest artist and acclaimed choreographer David Roussève as he explores his process for excavating narratives from life experiences though the voice and the body.
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Sum Total: Department of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition
Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WICelebrate the vibrant artistic community at Peck School of the Arts with this unmissable, biennial exhibition featuring the work of faculty and teaching staff from the Department of Art & Design.
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Experimental Tuesdays: Tribulation 99
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIUpon its release in 1991, Tribulation 99 became an instant counter-culture classic. Craig Baldwin's "pseudo-pseudo-documentary" presents a factual chronicle of US intervention in Latin America in the form of the ultimate far-right conspiracy theory, combining covert action, environmental catastrophe, space aliens, cattle mutilations, killer bees, religious prophecy, doomsday diatribes, and just about every other crackpot theory broadcast through the dentures of the modern paranoiac.
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Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Michelle Angela Ortiz
Virtual EventMichelle Angela Ortiz is a Philadelphia-based artist, muralist, community arts educator, and filmmaker who uses art to uplift overlooked communities. For 25 years, she’s created 50+ large-scale public works globally and won the 2016 Public Art Year in Review Award from Americans for the Arts.
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Experimental Tuesdays: New Red Order – Never Settle
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIThis promotional initiation video lures inductees with promises of decolonization and settler remediation. Imagery of settler-led planetary destruction is juxtaposed with sequences of underground group therapy sessions where settlers can lose, forget, and explore their identities in order to indigenize. Sharing their labor, lurking through museums, and institutions, future accomplices snap thousands of cellphone pictures of every artifact and artwork on hand.