Please join us for the Crossing Over exhibition showcasing work created by undergraduate Sophomore through Senior students of UWM Peck School of the Arts, Department of Art & Design who have received a departmental scholarship award in 2023. This exciting annual exhibition highlights the exceptional artwork produced by these promising emerging artist in a wide range of media and themes.
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.
The UWM Youth Wind & Percussion Ensembles program (UWAY) opens the 2023-24 season with a program of music for smaller groups and meaningful music experiences. The Moraine Symphonic Band from UWM-Washington County will also perform on this concert, and the ensembles will combine for a Sousa march finale!
On the desolate English moors, two sisters and a dog pass their days dreaming of love and power. However, when a hapless governess and a moor-hen appear, the trio's lives take a strange and dangerous turn. A new contemporary classic sweeping stages across the country, The Moors is a wild, romantic, vicious and frighteningly funny black comedy that pitches camp in the dark romantic world of 1840s England, then increasingly blows that world apart in a genre-busting mix of Gothic revenge, existential philosophy and quantum physics.
A Wisconsin-based artist and educator, Salas blends landscape, portraiture, architecture, and country music into artwork evoking a strange, rural poetry. He holds board positions with the Wisconsin Arts Board, Museum of Wisconsin Art, and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.
The 20th annual Double Reed Day will include a performance with double reed guest artists and UW-Milwaukee oboe and bassoon faculty, lectures and masterclasses, reed-making guidance, and opportunities to explore and shop the vendors from across the United States.
Showcase of songs from the musical theatre canon performed by first year music theatre students.
UW-Milwaukee Classical Guitar Master's student Kevin Loh will give a solo recital featuring works by Bach, Tedesco, Brouwer, Berkeley, and Regondi among others. This recital is in preparation for the "66th Tokyo International Guitar Competition" happening in late November.
An artist, writer, curator, and educator, Grant’s artworks have been exhibited nationally and internationally and are held in collections across the country. She has won numerous awards and grants, including being named on the Silver Eye Center for Photography’s 2022 Silver List.
Join the combined UWM choirs and symphony orchestra for performances of four major works exploring the changeable and unchangeable.
Are you a high school student with a passion for film or animation? Whether you’re already experimenting with movie making and animating or you’re simply a curious film or animation buff, we’re hosting an exciting event that provides a glimpse inside of our Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres! Join us for a series of hands-on workshops for a taste of what it feels like to get creative at the Peck School of the Arts.
UW-Milwaukee’s Department of Dance presents an evening of deeply engaging dances that will surprise, uplift, and inspire the audience. These dances, choreographed by the department’s graduating seniors, incorporate a range of dance styles, from Modern/Contemporary to Ballet, Hip Hop, and Jazz.
A self-taught interdisciplinary visual artist, curator and gallery owner-operator, Fatima Laster (2023 Mary L. Nohl Emerging Artist Fellow) broaches social-political subject matter from a Black American vantage point. Her goal is to produce resistance art imbued with humor or irony to disarmingly reveal rejected or overlooked perspectives and people.
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.
The UWM Middle School Honors Band Festival is one of the longest standing events of its kind. Our festival provides the region’s most motivated and accomplished middle school instrumentalists an opportunity to work with each other and with regionally and nationally recognized wind band conductors. In addition, students interact with UWM performance staff and experience performances by UWM ensembles.
The 2023 Contemporary Craft Exhibition and Sale features handmade student work from across many disciplines within the Peck School of the Arts, including Jewelry & Metalsmithing, Ceramics, Photography, Digital Fabrication, and Design & Visual Communication.
Join UWM piano faculty Elena Abend and Kaia String Quartet (DePaul University) violinist Victoria Moreira, in an evening of music for violin and piano. The program will include the monumental Franck sonata.
The UWM Wind Ensemble & Symphony Band will perform a shared concert during the annual UWM Middle School Honors Band Festival weekend. The concert is open to all of our supporters, and is free for the participating festival students and one parent/guardian. The program will be a showcase of our outstanding UWM Bands!
The UWM Piano Studio will present a recital of solo and chamber music.
As a Swedish jeweler with intimate material knowledge, Pettersson identifies and isolates preciousness. This is done not with the tense precision of a goldsmith, but rather with the gut reaction of a laborer. Her contemporary explorations embody the sublime and transcendent nature of jewelry.
Look Again takes the audience through a journey of shifting perspectives, bouncing from gameplay to memories moving the body and internal rhythms that bind us together. Hindsight, desires, and past dances are source material for an evening of new works as we look again at what moves us.
The UW-Milwaukee Saxophone Studio presents an evening of chamber music featuring our saxophone quartets and saxophone ensemble.
The Musical Theatre Capstone Recital is a variety showcase of upper-level musical theatre majors.
The UWM Wind Ensemble & Symphony Band will perform a program of traditional and contemporary wind-band music. Be sure to join us a little early at 7 p.m. for a free Chamber Wind Music presentation.
Join UWM's Opera Workshop for a performance of opera scenes featuring talented UWM singers in a variety of roles.
The UWM Percussion Ensemble presents its annual fall concert featuring a wide variety of instruments, sounds, and compositions from the past 25 years. The program will include recent works by Emma O’Halloran, Jason Treuting, Annika Socolofsky, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Ellen Reid. Other works will include Takayoshi Yoshioka’s “Square Dance,” Nigel Westlake’s “Moving Air,” and Emmanuel Séjourné’s “Akadinda Trio.”