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  • The University Community Orchestra stand and receive applause from the audience at the UWM Zelazo Center.

    Canceled University Community Orchestra Summer Concert

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

    Join the University Community Orchestra for an evening of inspiring orchestral music featuring talented musicians from the university and the greater Milwaukee community. The concert showcases a diverse program of beloved classical favorites and audience-pleasing selections.

  • Illustrated figure in a white dress facing the ocean, long dark hair blowing in a purple-hued sky.

    New Play Reading – Gloria in Excelsis Deo by Joy Heatherly

    Theatre Building 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Glory Dewitt is sent to an estate on the seaside for her "health" and made to recover in solitude. When Adelaide Rose washes up on the beach, the house and its inhabitants, maids, nurse, and young Glory alike, are thrown into disarray. Addressing the harsh realities of women across the class divide in the Victorian era, this new play asks how deeply society has truly changed.

  • Mid-century style wooden console table with cabinet doors and long top against white background

    Continuum 2026

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

    Continuum 2026 brings together two compelling exhibitions—one honoring the enduring influence of landscape through Kevin Giese’s work, and the other reflecting on the lasting impact of mentorship and cultural exchange through a historic UWM study abroad experience.

  • PSOA Fall Kick-Off Event Promo Image

    Peck School of Arts Fall Student Welcome

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

    Please join us in the Mainstage Theatre lobby for our annual Fall welcome event. New and returning students are invited for pizza, games, crafts and a chance to meet representatives from Milwaukee area arts organizations.

  • Close-up of bundled natural fiber ropes stacked in layers and secured with plastic ties.

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Geornica Daniels

    Virtual Event

    Geornica Daniels is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture and site-specific installation who has exhibited in group and solo shows, regionally and nationally, including at the ARC Gallery (Chicago), John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan), Portrait Society Gallery (Milwaukee), Rahr-West Art Museum (Manitowoc). Daniels received her MFA from UWM.

  • Black-and-white diptych showing a seated portrait and a behind-the-scenes outdoor photo shoot.

    ChemLight 2026

    Kenilworth Square East, 4th Floor Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

    Curated by advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this exhibition brings together traditional and experimental photographic techniques alongside images that investigate the nuanced use of light within the studio environment.

  • Group of artists pose in workshop before large black-and-white artwork on fabric.

    Printers Sin Fronteras

    Arts Center Gallery Theatre Building 2nd Floor | 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

    Printers Sin Fronteras is a special collaboration and exhibition by artists who view communities without edges and are bound by curiosity, not geography. We are related by our shared passion and commitments to meaningful exchanges through printmaking and papermaking.

  • Red and black woven textile pattern with overlaid text reading “WOVEN IMAGES 2026”.

    Woven Images

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

    Exhibition of selected hand-woven pieces from Fibers courses in the Department of Art & Design.

  • 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: Being Where

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

    Location, location, location. A neighborhood of experimental shorts, drawn from the UWM Cinema Arts Archive and the world at large, focusing on place. We are where we are, often here, sometimes there, always where. And the cinema too is a there, a where, a place we share to gather paradise and expand our sense of the possible.

  • Black ceramic bowl lined with concentric rings of handwritten white text against a gray background.

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Tanya Crane

    Virtual Event

    Tanya Crane is a metalsmithing and jewelry artist whose work is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Stewart Foundation for Modern Design, Enamel Arts Foundation, and the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, TN. Crane was named a 2024 United States Artist Fellow in Craft and is also the recipient of The Doris Prouty Foundation Artist Grant which is offered to BIPOC/AAPI women artists in Massachusetts and North Carolina. Crane is an Assistant Professor of 3D Foundations, Jewelry and Sculpture at Long Beach City College.

  • Title card reading "Special feature: Doc to Cut" over a black and white image of film editing software.

    Special Features: Doc to Cut: Producing & Editing Documentary Films

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

    Documentary filmmaking takes more than a great story—it takes a plan. Doc to Cut is a workshop that explores the practical side of documentary production, from budgeting and line producing to managing a shoot and shaping footage in the edit. Students will gain tools for turning a documentary idea into a realistic production and navigating the filmmaking process from planning through post-production, alongside our guest, award-winning filmmaker Amber Love.

  • Large group rehearsal in an auditorium, with a conductor and pianist onstage as participants stand closely together holding sheet music.

    Sing Out! Tenor-Bass Festival

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

    Sing Out brings together 750+ 9th-12th grade and 350+ 7th-8th grade tenor-bass singers from over 60 schools from around Wisconsin and Illinois. No advance preparation is required; students learn pieces at the festival and conclude the morning with the high school and middle school choirs singing for one another and together. Additional activities include performances by the UWM Tenor-Bass Choir and interest and reading sessions for directors.

  • Abstract painting with layered blue, teal, orange, yellow, and white brushstrokes forming rich geometric shapes.

    Shadds Tone Orchestra

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

    UW-Milwaukee alumni, stone sculptor/painter SHADDSTONE©️ collaborates with alumni master percussionist Martin Shadd and friends, to present an experience of abstract/impressionism as music. The musical journey will be performed on unique and traditional instruments to create a series of “sound-escapes."

  • Close-up portrait of a musician holding a French horn, wearing a dark formal outfit and necklace.

    Gail Williams Horn Masterclass

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

    Gail Williams will be working with UWM horn students in this free and public masterclass.

  • Black-and-white image of a person operating a large video camera, illuminated against a dark background in a studio or stage setting.

    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.

  • Abstract mixed-media sculpture featuring black geometric forms and pale flowing structures on a textured base.

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Adam Shiverdecker

    Virtual Event

    Adam Shiverdecker is a ceramics sculptor and educator living in Oakland, California. He is currently Professor of Spatial Art at San José State University where he specializes in experimental processes and ceramic sculpture. His work has been shown in venues such as The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City), Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse), Museum of Craft and Design (San Francisco) and Mindy Solomon Gallery (Miami).

  • Black-and-white portrait of a seated person wearing a patterned vest against a backdrop of curtains and pinned papers.

    Experimental Tuesdays: TCB with Louis Messiah

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

    TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing is a biography of the influential writer, filmmaker and cultural worker, who with humor and deep insight, inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to community empowerment. The film is structured as a series of lessons on cultural organizing, gleaned from Bambara's life and shared by her friends, colleagues and students. Join us in-person for a dialogue with the Producer/Director, Louis Messiah and Marquise Mays.

  • Title card reading "Special Features: Real People, Real Performances" over a black and white image of a discussion being filmed between four people around a table, one wears a lab coat.

    Special Features: Real People, Real Performances: Directing Non-Actors

    Virtual or Hybrid
    Virtual Event

    What happens when your actors have little or no acting experience? This workshop explores techniques for directing non-actors and first-time performers, building trust, communicating effectively, and creating natural, compelling performances. Students will learn approaches for working with performers while allowing authenticity and spontaneity to remain at the center of the scene.