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  • The UWM Composition & Technology program logo featuring audio cables and a repeating banner with the words "new music"

    Premieres of New Music

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

    The Composition & Technology program will present a concert of original works by UWM students. The program will include freshly composed pieces for acoustic and electronic mediums.

  • Ocean and sunrise painting with the title ‘Songs for a New World’ in bold blue text.

    Songs for a New World

    Kenilworth Square East, Kenilworth Five-0-Eight 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

    The first musical from three-time Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, Songs for a New World is a moving collection of powerful songs examining life, love and the pivotal choices people make when facing defining moments. Join a group of reunited friends considering quirks and challenges of adult life when confronted by a turning point that requires a leap into the beautiful unknown. With a soaring, contemporary score, this intimate song cycle explores the beauty, heartbreak and hope of ordinary people facing extraordinary change.

  • Artist Monika Plioplyte's work with abstract figures and shapes on a sage-green background.

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Monika Plioplyte

    Virtual Event

    Monika Plioplyte is a Chicago-based artist born in Lithuania. Her work draws on Baltic folklore, female archetypes, personal rituals, and the uncanny. She collages paper, photographs, and other materials into narrative structures that explore the past, the transmission of information, gender, and states of "in-betweenness" as they relate to her immigrant experience.

  • Camera operator filming, person gesturing on set, and another sitting outdoors in sunlight.

    Special Features | Producing Magic

    Virtual Event

    This virtual workshop focuses on the producing and pre-production strategies that set short films up for creative and logistical success. Students will learn how to break down a script, build a realistic budget and schedule, assemble a strong team, and plan for production with intention. Emphasizing preparation, communication, and problem-solving, the session equips emerging filmmakers with practical tools to move from idea to set efficiently—maximizing limited resources while protecting the story.

  • An illustration of a blue electric guitar with curved lines emanating from behind it.

    A ROCKIN’ Midsummer Night’s Dream

    Skylight Music Theatre 158 N. Broadway, Milwaukee

    In a first-time collaboration between Skylight Music Theatre and the UWM Department of Theatre, A ROCKIN’ Midsummer Night’s Dream takes the stage in the beautiful Cabot Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center in Milwaukee’s Third Ward. Experience a brand-new take on William Shakespeare’s beloved comedy. Journey from ancient Athens, into the woods, and back again, as we follow impassioned lovers, hilarious rustics, fantastical spirits and feuding royalty in this magical, rock-and-roll rendition of one of the greatest and most-performed plays of all time.

  • A closeup of UWM's Concert Chorale performing in black attire on risers in the Zelazo Center.

    UWM Alta Voce treble choir concert

    Whitefish Bay United Methodist Church 819 E. Silver Spring Dr., Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin

    Join UWM's Alta Voce with a guest treble choir from Round Lake High School.

  • Orchestra performs on concert hall stage under text listing Schubert, Mozart, Bartok, Larsson.

    UWM Symphony Orchestra

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

    The UWM Symphony Orchestra performs on April 10 in Bader Concert Hall in a program featuring Dana Sherman, Professor of Horn, as soloist in Larsson’s Horn Concerto under the direction of Dr. Jun Kim.

  • Black-and-white photograph of a person holding a boxy handheld device or camera, lit dramatically against a dark background.

    Experimental Tuesdays: An Evening with Dick Blau

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

    Join archivist Shiraz Bhathena in conversation with Dick Blau to celebrate a major archiving and remastering project. Blau—a co-founder of the UWM Film Department, longtime professor and fixture of the Milwaukee art community—works across film, photography and video producing a varied body of work that includes psychological portraiture, experimental narrative, devised performance, ethnomusicology and the domestic.

  • Artist Kill Joy's work with bright colors being painted on an exterior building featuring flowers and a toucan.

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Kill Joy

    Virtual Event

    Born in West Texas, Kill Joy explores global mythology and ancient symbols through printmaking, murals, bookmaking, and puppetry. Based in Houston, she has created community murals worldwide.

  • Person walking beside a roadway at night, wearing a sandwich-board sign with the bold text “SILK TIES”; a parked car is visible nearby.

    Experimental Tuesdays: Vision Machines – An Evening with Peggy Ahwesh

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

    Peggy Ahwesh’s wildly heterogeneous body of work—across moving image formats (from Pixelvision to machinima to super-8 and everywhere between), in installation and as object and through the ephemeral—engages with the political, the social, genre and identity in fascinatingly idiosyncratic, oneiric, visceral and rigorous ways.

  • Artist Tomiko Jones' artwork featuring a woman on a beach with triangular shapes overlaid including colorful motifs and patterns.

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Tomiko Jones

    Virtual Event

    Tomiko Jones is an Associate Professor at UW-Madison whose photography and multidisciplinary installations explore social, cultural, and geopolitical transitions – considering the twin crises of too much and too little amid climate change. Narratives unfold in sculptural video installations and fictional photographs.

  • A geometric painting in the style Pablo Picaso with reds, blues and blacks depicting a string instrument.

    Chamber Music Milwaukee – UWM Master Alumni Perform Masterworks

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

    Chamber Music Milwaukee presents a program featuring UWM alumni Elena Abend, piano, John Schultz and Pamela Simmons, violins, and Olga Tuzhilkov, viola as they join Stefan Kartman, cello in performances of dearly beloved masterpieces of the chamber music literature including Dvorak’s epic Eb major Piano Quartet Op. 87 and Mozart’s introspective “Dissonance” String Quartet in C major K. 465. Please join us for an evening of chamber music and support our alumni in this musical adventure.

  • Charcoal collage artwork of fragmented faces with the title “The Three Sisters”

    The Three Sisters

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

    Master dramatist and storyteller Anton Chekhov bookends the spring semester with The Three Sisters, offering a poignant contrast to the comedy and farce of Neil Simon’s The Good Doctor. In this tour de force of love, longing and heartbreak, sisters Olga, Masha and Irina languish in a provincial town, far from their beloved Moscow. There, they yearn for the sparkling city of their childhood, where they dream all wishes can be fulfilled. A masterful look at a family navigating the space between reality and dreams, The Three Sisters envelops you with exquisite moments of humor and hope.

  • Rodney Lambright II drawing animated characters on a digital tablet at a workspace.

    Special Features | Chalk Zone

    Mitchell Hall, Fine Arts Cinema Room B91 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI

    This workshop offers emerging animators an industry-informed look at building a sustainable creative path beyond school. Through practical tips and real-world insight, students will explore animation workflows, professional expectations, and strategies for navigating freelance and studio environments. The session also centers on finding and refining your artistic voice—balancing personal expression with industry demands—while offering guidance on portfolios, networking, and post-graduation next steps for launching a career in animation.

  • Artist Cynthia Brinich Langlois printmaking of a collection of rock-like materials.

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Cynthia Brinich-Langlois

    Virtual Event

    Cynthia Brinich-Langlois explores altered topographies, cartographic systems of ordering space, and metaphorical interpretations of ecological systems through prints, books, and video. She’s exhibited widely and held residencies at Elsewhere and Ucross. She teaches Printmaking & Book Arts at UWM.

  • UWM String Academy students perform with violins at the UWM Recital Hall with piano, teachers, and audience.

    UWM String Academy Spring Concert

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

    Spend the morning with the UWM String Academy as students ages 4 through 18 perform an engaging program of music from around the world. This concert showcases the talent and hard work they’ve put in throughout the semester.

  • Artists Corrigan Eckert and Jack Lehtinen's current artwork focusing on the human's relationship to the word.

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: MFA Candidates Corrigan Eckert & Jack Lehtinen

    Virtual Event

    MFA candidates Corrigan Eckert and Jack Lehtinen explore philosophical questions facing the human race and their connection to the world around them. Eckert focuses on place-based art’s role in community and land stewardship, while Lehtinen critiques AI by contrasting machine-made works with hands-on print and papermaking.

  • UWM Classical Guitar Studio faculty recital poster with four artist portraits.

    Classical Guitar Studio: Faculty Concert

    St. Paul's Episcopal Church 914 E. Knapp St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Join us for a free faculty performance featuring René  Izquierdo, Elina Chekan, Kevin Loh and Alberto Daniel Quintanilla.

  • The Fine Arts Quartet stand while holding their stringed instruments on a concert hall stage.

    The Fine Arts Quartet 80th Anniversary Series – Complete Mozart String Quintets & Beethoven Early Quartets

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

    The quartet will perform an ambitious FREE series in May of twelve masterworks over six concerts, opening with: Beethoven String Quartet No. 5 in A Major — Beethoven wrote this as a conscious love letter to Mozart, studying and modeling a specific Mozart quartet so carefully that this is the most intimate and refined music in the set — elegant, shimmering, and at times almost fragile. AND Mozart String Quintet in C Major, K. 515 (1787) — The grandest of the six, opening with the longest chamber music movement Mozart ever wrote. Settle in and let its radiant confidence and symphonic scale carry you.

  • The Fine Arts Quartet stand while holding their stringed instruments on a concert hall stage.

    The Fine Arts Quartet 80th Anniversary Series – Complete Mozart String Quintets & Beethoven Early Quartets

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

    The quartet will perform an ambitious FREE series in May of twelve masterworks over six concerts, including on May 21: Beethoven Beethoven String Quartet No. 2 in G Major — The most charming and witty of the set, full of courtly elegance and Haydnesque humor, with a slow movement that pulls off a delightful trick: a playful scherzo suddenly bursts through the middle of a tender operatic aria. AND Mozart String Quintet in D Major, K. 593 (1790) — The most intellectually rigorous of the six, leaner and more concentrated than its predecessors. Listen for the stately opening that keeps returning like a philosophical refrain, and a slow movement that ends with what one reviewer called "a sad smile."