• Student musicians focus on positive energy during a busy end to the semester
    As the Fall semester winds down, many PSOA students have the opportunity to display their talents in public settings. For student musicians, this comes in the form of a whirlwind of concerts spanning nearly every evening during the final stretch of the semester. With the stress of finals in full swing, now is a time for music students at the Peck School to come together and support one another, reminding themselves and their peers of …


  • Theater lecturer to direct several productions in 2024-25 season 
    Marcella Kearns (Lecturer, Acting) is preparing for a busy remainder of the 2024-25 theater season with three different productions both in and out of Wisconsin.  From Dec. 6 until Dec. 15, Kearns will direct a production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest at Milwaukee’s First Stage, which is a Young Company Performance …
  • Film faculty receives honorable mention for voter advocacy film 
    Sean Kafer (Teaching Faculty II, Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres) recently received an honorary mention in the Spark the Vote Challenge by the Why Do You Vote? Social Action Campaign. This mention recognized "Don't Tell Me Your Vote Doesn’t Matter," a short film directed and produced by Kafer and activist …
  • PSOA faculty and alums come together for voting advocacy art installation  
    From now until November 30th, an art installation about modern politics and voting from Kim Cosier (Professor Emeritus, Art) and the artist collective Art Build Workers is on display at the University YMCA. This piece, entitled This is What Democracy Looks Like, was made in collaboration with Joe Brusky (BS …
  • Viola professor Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff plays Carnegie Hall
    Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff (Adjunct Professor, Viola) performed at Carnegie Hall in New York as principal viola of the Chicago Philharmonic. The October 24th concert featured New York premieres of two works written for the Chicago Philharmonic by American composers Nicholas Hubbell and Jonathan Bingham, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliette Fantasy and multiple …

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