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SUMMARY:Language as Collaborator: Co-Creating with Thinking Machines
DESCRIPTION:Kenilworth Square East Gallery\, 2155 N Prospect Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI 53202\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public; prior registration required\n\n\n\nFebruary 12\, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout\n\n\n\nTo coincide with the exhibition Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies by Nathaniel Stern and Sasha Stiles\, this workshop with the artists explores language as a vital creative material and as a medium for collaborative authorship. Through hands-on experimentation\, participants will engage questions of imagination\, translation\, and meaning-making in the age of AI. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of the Center for 21st Century Studies’ Aesthetics\, Art\, & AI series\, produced in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison\, with support from the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI). \n\n\n\nSpace is limited to 25 participants. Prior registration is required.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSasha Stiles\n\n\n\nSasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet\, artist and AI researcher whose work bridges tradition and innovation through hybrid poetics\, generative imagination and collaborative intelligence. Her transmedia practice reframes poetry as both art and technology — a means of encoding human experience across space and time — and blends word\, image and algorithm to explore the role of human voice in a digital age.  \n\n\n\nSince 2018\, Stiles has been at the forefront of human-machine co-creation\, using language as a lens to probe the promise and peril of creative technologies like machine learning and blockchain. Her experiments and insights have established her as a leading voice in creative AI\, and a thoughtful contributor to the global conversation about the future of art\, technology\, and humanity. From Technelegy (2021) — a first-of-its-kind poetry and art collection co-authored with a personalized AI model and praised by Ray Kurzweil — to award-winning projects such as “Cursive Binary” and “Repetae\,” Stiles continually pushes the boundaries of expression\, situating AI within the broader question of what it means to be human in an increasingly posthuman world. Stiles’ work has been recognized by the Prix Ars Electronica\, Sigg Art Prize\, Lumen Prize\, Women in AI Awards\, and Future.Art.Awards; featured in Artforum\, Christie’s\, NPR\, The Washington Post\, and Poets & Writers; and exhibited and performed internationally\, from Lincoln Center and the V&A to MoMA\, Art Basel\, Kunsthalle Zurich\, Outernet London\, New York’s Times Square\, and Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNathaniel Stern\n\n\n\nNathaniel Stern is an artist and writer\, Fulbright and NSF grantee and professor\, interventionist and public citizen. He has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from ecological\, participatory\, and online interventions\, interactive\, immersive\, and mixed reality environments\, to prints\, sculptures\, videos\, performances. and hybrid forms. His first book\, Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance (Gylphi 2013)\, takes a close look at the stakes for interactive and digital art\, and Ecological Aesthetics: artful tactics for humans\, nature\, and politics (Dartmouth 2018) is a creative and scholarly collection of stories about art\, artists\, and their materials\, which argues that ecology\, aesthetics\, and ethics are inherently interconnected\, and together act as the cornerstone for all contemporary arts practices. Stern’s ongoing work with startups and industry\, on the other hand\, has helped launch dozens of new businesses\, products\, and ideas. He has been featured in the likes of the Wall Street Journal\, Guardian UK\, Huffington Post\, Daily Mail\, Washington Post\, Daily News\, BBC’s Today show\, WIRED\, Boing Boing\, Gizmodo\, PetaPixel\, M Magazine\, Time\, Forbes\, Fast Company\, Scientific American\, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\, Leonardo Journal of Art\, Science and Technology\, Rhizome\, Furtherfield\, Turbulence\, and more. According to Chicago’s widely popular Bad at Sports art podcast\, Stern has “the most varied and strange bio of maybe anyone ever on the show\,” and South Africa’s Live Out Loud magazine calls him a “prolific scholar” as well as artist\, whose work is “quite possibly some of the most relevant around.” “Technological\, thought-provoking and unexpected” (NPR) he’s been dubbed one of Milwaukee’s “avant-garde” (Journal Sentinel)\, called ”an interesting and prolific fixture” (Artthrob.co.za) behind many “multimedia experiments” (Time.com)\, “accessible and abstract simultaneously” (Art and Electronic Media web site)\, someone “with starry\, starry eyes” (Wired.com) who “makes an obscene amount of work in an obscene amount of ways” (Bad at Sports) – both “bizarre and beautiful” (Gizmodo). According to Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing\, Stern makes “beautiful\, glitched out art-images\,” and Caleb A. Scharf at Scientific American says Stern’s art is “tremendous fun\,” and “fascinating” in how it is “investigating the possibilities of human interaction and art.”
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/aaai-workshop/
LOCATION:Kenilworth Square East Gallery\, 2155 N. Prospect Ave.\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aesthetics, Art, & AI,Arts and Culture,Arts and Culture,Faculty and Staff,Faculty and Staff,Graduate Students,Public,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,UWM Campus Events,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies (Opening Day)
DESCRIPTION:Kenilworth Square East Gallery\, 2155 N Prospect Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI 53202\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public\n\n\n\nFebruary 12\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOpening Day EventsWorkshop (registration required)11:00 AM – 12:00 PMGallery Walkthrough2:00 PM – 3:00 PMPanel Discussion (registration requested)3:00 PM – 4:30 PMOpening Reception5:00 PM – 7:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout\n\n\n\nArtists Sasha Stiles and Nathaniel Stern install their show Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies for a week-long run at Kenilworth Square East Gallery from February 12 to 20. Join Stern\, Stiles\, and The Brooklyn Rail editor-at-large Charlotte Kent for a workshop\, gallery walk\, panel on AI and contemporary art\, and opening reception with light refreshments on Thursday\, February 12.    \n\n\n\nAI is a transformational force in human history\, akin to the rise of language itself\, the printing press or our harnessing of electricity\, unlocking new realms of imagination and awareness. Yet its discourse is fraught with fear\, misunderstanding\, and disconnection. By blending Artificial Intelligence with more traditional artistic expression\, Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies cultivates new pathways for imagination while nurturing the roots of our creative inheritance\, and the always-evolving dialogue between art and innovation.   \n\n\n\nThis groundbreaking exhibition illuminates the intertwined evolution of humanity and technology\, inviting viewers to reconsider the relationship between humans and the tools we invent through an immersive fusion of sculptures\, prints\, electronics\, music\, movement\, and poetry\, all born from creative collaboration with AI.  \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is part of the Center for 21st Century Studies’ Aesthetics\, Art\, & AI series\, produced in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison\, with support from the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGallery Hours\n\n\n\n\nFeb 12: 11 AM – 7 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 13: 11 AM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 14: 11 AM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 17: 12 PM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 18: 12 PM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 19: 12 PM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 20: 11 AM – 6 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\n\n\nSasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet\, artist and AI researcher whose work bridges tradition and innovation through hybrid poetics\, generative imagination and collaborative intelligence. Her transmedia practice reframes poetry as both art and technology — a means of encoding human experience across space and time — and blends word\, image and algorithm to explore the role of human voice in a digital age.  \n\n\n\nSince 2018\, Stiles has been at the forefront of human-machine co-creation\, using language as a lens to probe the promise and peril of creative technologies like machine learning and blockchain. Her experiments and insights have established her as a leading voice in creative AI\, and a thoughtful contributor to the global conversation about the future of art\, technology\, and humanity. From Technelegy (2021) — a first-of-its-kind poetry and art collection co-authored with a personalized AI model and praised by Ray Kurzweil — to award-winning projects such as “Cursive Binary” and “Repetae\,” Stiles continually pushes the boundaries of expression\, situating AI within the broader question of what it means to be human in an increasingly posthuman world. Stiles’ work has been recognized by the Prix Ars Electronica\, Sigg Art Prize\, Lumen Prize\, Women in AI Awards\, and Future.Art.Awards; featured in Artforum\, Christie’s\, NPR\, The Washington Post\, and Poets & Writers; and exhibited and performed internationally\, from Lincoln Center and the V&A to MoMA\, Art Basel\, Kunsthalle Zurich\, Outernet London\, New York’s Times Square\, and Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNathaniel Stern is an artist and writer\, Fulbright and NSF grantee and professor\, interventionist and public citizen. He has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from ecological\, participatory\, and online interventions\, interactive\, immersive\, and mixed reality environments\, to prints\, sculptures\, videos\, performances. and hybrid forms. His first book\, Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance (Gylphi 2013)\, takes a close look at the stakes for interactive and digital art\, and Ecological Aesthetics: artful tactics for humans\, nature\, and politics (Dartmouth 2018) is a creative and scholarly collection of stories about art\, artists\, and their materials\, which argues that ecology\, aesthetics\, and ethics are inherently interconnected\, and together act as the cornerstone for all contemporary arts practices. Stern’s ongoing work with startups and industry\, on the other hand\, has helped launch dozens of new businesses\, products\, and ideas. He has been featured in the likes of the Wall Street Journal\, Guardian UK\, Huffington Post\, Daily Mail\, Washington Post\, Daily News\, BBC’s Today show\, WIRED\, Boing Boing\, Gizmodo\, PetaPixel\, M Magazine\, Time\, Forbes\, Fast Company\, Scientific American\, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\, Leonardo Journal of Art\, Science and Technology\, Rhizome\, Furtherfield\, Turbulence\, and more. According to Chicago’s widely popular Bad at Sports art podcast\, Stern has “the most varied and strange bio of maybe anyone ever on the show\,” and South Africa’s Live Out Loud magazine calls him a “prolific scholar” as well as artist\, whose work is “quite possibly some of the most relevant around.” “Technological\, thought-provoking and unexpected” (NPR) he’s been dubbed one of Milwaukee’s “avant-garde” (Journal Sentinel)\, called ”an interesting and prolific fixture” (Artthrob.co.za) behind many “multimedia experiments” (Time.com)\, “accessible and abstract simultaneously” (Art and Electronic Media web site)\, someone “with starry\, starry eyes” (Wired.com) who “makes an obscene amount of work in an obscene amount of ways” (Bad at Sports) – both “bizarre and beautiful” (Gizmodo). According to Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing\, Stern makes “beautiful\, glitched out art-images\,” and Caleb A. Scharf at Scientific American says Stern’s art is “tremendous fun\,” and “fascinating” in how it is “investigating the possibilities of human interaction and art.”
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/gen-to-gen-opening/
LOCATION:Kenilworth Square East Gallery\, 2155 N. Prospect Ave.\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aesthetics, Art, & AI,Arts and Culture,Arts and Culture,Exhibit,Faculty and Staff,Faculty and Staff,Public,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,Students,Students,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:Generations and Generativity: Post-AI Aesthetics in Practice
DESCRIPTION:Kenilworth Square East Gallery\, 2155 N Prospect Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI 53202\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public\, prior registration requested\n\n\n\nFebruary 12\, 3:00 – 4:30 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout\n\n\n\nJoin the Center for 21st Century Studies\, artist-technologist Nathaniel Stern\, poet-researcher Sasha Stiles\, and The Brooklyn Rail editor-at-large Charlotte Kent for a panel discussion about the boundaries between human and machine-generated cultural production.    \n\n\n\nAfter the panel\, catch the opening reception for  Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies\, a collaborative contemporary art exhibition by Nathaniel Stern and Sasha Stiles. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of the Center for 21st Century Studies’ Aesthetics\, Art\, & AI series\, produced in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison\, with support from the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI). \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER NOW\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSasha Stiles\n\n\n\nSasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet\, artist and AI researcher whose work bridges tradition and innovation through hybrid poetics\, generative imagination and collaborative intelligence. Her transmedia practice reframes poetry as both art and technology — a means of encoding human experience across space and time — and blends word\, image and algorithm to explore the role of human voice in a digital age.  \n\n\n\nSince 2018\, Stiles has been at the forefront of human-machine co-creation\, using language as a lens to probe the promise and peril of creative technologies like machine learning and blockchain. Her experiments and insights have established her as a leading voice in creative AI\, and a thoughtful contributor to the global conversation about the future of art\, technology\, and humanity. From Technelegy (2021) — a first-of-its-kind poetry and art collection co-authored with a personalized AI model and praised by Ray Kurzweil — to award-winning projects such as “Cursive Binary” and “Repetae\,” Stiles continually pushes the boundaries of expression\, situating AI within the broader question of what it means to be human in an increasingly posthuman world. Stiles’ work has been recognized by the Prix Ars Electronica\, Sigg Art Prize\, Lumen Prize\, Women in AI Awards\, and Future.Art.Awards; featured in Artforum\, Christie’s\, NPR\, The Washington Post\, and Poets & Writers; and exhibited and performed internationally\, from Lincoln Center and the V&A to MoMA\, Art Basel\, Kunsthalle Zurich\, Outernet London\, New York’s Times Square\, and Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNathaniel Stern\n\n\n\nNathaniel Stern is an artist and writer\, Fulbright and NSF grantee and professor\, interventionist and public citizen. He has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from ecological\, participatory\, and online interventions\, interactive\, immersive\, and mixed reality environments\, to prints\, sculptures\, videos\, performances. and hybrid forms. His first book\, Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance (Gylphi 2013)\, takes a close look at the stakes for interactive and digital art\, and Ecological Aesthetics: artful tactics for humans\, nature\, and politics (Dartmouth 2018) is a creative and scholarly collection of stories about art\, artists\, and their materials\, which argues that ecology\, aesthetics\, and ethics are inherently interconnected\, and together act as the cornerstone for all contemporary arts practices. Stern’s ongoing work with startups and industry\, on the other hand\, has helped launch dozens of new businesses\, products\, and ideas. He has been featured in the likes of the Wall Street Journal\, Guardian UK\, Huffington Post\, Daily Mail\, Washington Post\, Daily News\, BBC’s Today show\, WIRED\, Boing Boing\, Gizmodo\, PetaPixel\, M Magazine\, Time\, Forbes\, Fast Company\, Scientific American\, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\, Leonardo Journal of Art\, Science and Technology\, Rhizome\, Furtherfield\, Turbulence\, and more. According to Chicago’s widely popular Bad at Sports art podcast\, Stern has “the most varied and strange bio of maybe anyone ever on the show\,” and South Africa’s Live Out Loud magazine calls him a “prolific scholar” as well as artist\, whose work is “quite possibly some of the most relevant around.” “Technological\, thought-provoking and unexpected” (NPR) he’s been dubbed one of Milwaukee’s “avant-garde” (Journal Sentinel)\, called ”an interesting and prolific fixture” (Artthrob.co.za) behind many “multimedia experiments” (Time.com)\, “accessible and abstract simultaneously” (Art and Electronic Media web site)\, someone “with starry\, starry eyes” (Wired.com) who “makes an obscene amount of work in an obscene amount of ways” (Bad at Sports) – both “bizarre and beautiful” (Gizmodo). According to Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing\, Stern makes “beautiful\, glitched out art-images\,” and Caleb A. Scharf at Scientific American says Stern’s art is “tremendous fun\,” and “fascinating” in how it is “investigating the possibilities of human interaction and art.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCharlotte Kent\n\n\n\nCharlotte Kent\, PhD\, is Associate Professor of Visual Culture and Head of Visual and Critical Studies at Montclair State University. She is co-editor with Katherine Guinness of the book\, “Contemporary Absurdities\, Existential Crises\, and Visual Art” (Intellect Books) and an Editor-at-Large for The Brooklyn Rail with a monthly column on Art & Technology\, contributing to many arts magazines and academic journals about the intersection of contemporary art\, digital culture\, and ecological systems. Raised abroad and near Times Square\, she most recently co-authored “Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists in Times Square” (Phaidon Press\, 2024). Her research on the social implications of contemporary art’s creative misuse of 21st century technologies continues with “Contemporary Art and Technology: Rethinking Systems\, Crises\, and the Absurd” (forthcoming\, Routledge’s Art and Science After 1750 series). She is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (2024-2026) for research on concepts of agency as exhibited in arts intersection with “AI” as well as the term’s diverse meanings across disciplines; this research has also been supported by Google’s Artist + Machine Intelligence program (2023\, 2024). In 2023\, she was the inaugural Scholar-in-Residence at NXT Museum\, where she co-curated with Jesse Damiani the RealTime exhibit\, “Lilypads: Mediating Exponential Systems.”  
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/gen-to-gen-panel/
LOCATION:Kenilworth Square East Gallery\, 2155 N. Prospect Ave.\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aesthetics, Art, & AI,Arts and Culture,Arts and Culture,Faculty and Staff,Faculty and Staff,Lectures Conferences and Symposiums,Panel,Public,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies
DESCRIPTION:Kenilworth Square East Gallery\, 2155 N Prospect Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI 53202\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public\n\n\n\nFebruary 12-20\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nFeb 12: 11 AM – 7 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 13: 11 AM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 14: 11 AM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 17: 12 PM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 18: 12 PM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 19: 12 PM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 20: 11 AM – 6 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout\n\n\n\nArtists Sasha Stiles and Nathaniel Stern install their show Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies for a week-long run at Kenilworth Square East Gallery from February 12 to 20.     \n\n\n\nAI is a transformational force in human history\, akin to the rise of language itself\, the printing press or our harnessing of electricity\, unlocking new realms of imagination and awareness. Yet its discourse is fraught with fear\, misunderstanding\, and disconnection. By blending Artificial Intelligence with more traditional artistic expression\, Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies cultivates new pathways for imagination while nurturing the roots of our creative inheritance\, and the always-evolving dialogue between art and innovation.   \n\n\n\nThis groundbreaking exhibition illuminates the intertwined evolution of humanity and technology\, inviting viewers to reconsider the relationship between humans and the tools we invent through an immersive fusion of sculptures\, prints\, electronics\, music\, movement\, and poetry\, all born from creative collaboration with AI.  \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is part of the Center for 21st Century Studies’ Aesthetics\, Art\, & AI series\, produced in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison\, with support from the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSasha Stiles\n\n\n\nSasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet\, artist and AI researcher whose work bridges tradition and innovation through hybrid poetics\, generative imagination and collaborative intelligence. Her transmedia practice reframes poetry as both art and technology — a means of encoding human experience across space and time — and blends word\, image and algorithm to explore the role of human voice in a digital age.  \n\n\n\nSince 2018\, Stiles has been at the forefront of human-machine co-creation\, using language as a lens to probe the promise and peril of creative technologies like machine learning and blockchain. Her experiments and insights have established her as a leading voice in creative AI\, and a thoughtful contributor to the global conversation about the future of art\, technology\, and humanity. From Technelegy (2021) — a first-of-its-kind poetry and art collection co-authored with a personalized AI model and praised by Ray Kurzweil — to award-winning projects such as “Cursive Binary” and “Repetae\,” Stiles continually pushes the boundaries of expression\, situating AI within the broader question of what it means to be human in an increasingly posthuman world. Stiles’ work has been recognized by the Prix Ars Electronica\, Sigg Art Prize\, Lumen Prize\, Women in AI Awards\, and Future.Art.Awards; featured in Artforum\, Christie’s\, NPR\, The Washington Post\, and Poets & Writers; and exhibited and performed internationally\, from Lincoln Center and the V&A to MoMA\, Art Basel\, Kunsthalle Zurich\, Outernet London\, New York’s Times Square\, and Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNathaniel Stern\n\n\n\nNathaniel Stern is an artist and writer\, Fulbright and NSF grantee and professor\, interventionist and public citizen. He has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from ecological\, participatory\, and online interventions\, interactive\, immersive\, and mixed reality environments\, to prints\, sculptures\, videos\, performances. and hybrid forms. His first book\, Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance (Gylphi 2013)\, takes a close look at the stakes for interactive and digital art\, and Ecological Aesthetics: artful tactics for humans\, nature\, and politics (Dartmouth 2018) is a creative and scholarly collection of stories about art\, artists\, and their materials\, which argues that ecology\, aesthetics\, and ethics are inherently interconnected\, and together act as the cornerstone for all contemporary arts practices. Stern’s ongoing work with startups and industry\, on the other hand\, has helped launch dozens of new businesses\, products\, and ideas. He has been featured in the likes of the Wall Street Journal\, Guardian UK\, Huffington Post\, Daily Mail\, Washington Post\, Daily News\, BBC’s Today show\, WIRED\, Boing Boing\, Gizmodo\, PetaPixel\, M Magazine\, Time\, Forbes\, Fast Company\, Scientific American\, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\, Leonardo Journal of Art\, Science and Technology\, Rhizome\, Furtherfield\, Turbulence\, and more. According to Chicago’s widely popular Bad at Sports art podcast\, Stern has “the most varied and strange bio of maybe anyone ever on the show\,” and South Africa’s Live Out Loud magazine calls him a “prolific scholar” as well as artist\, whose work is “quite possibly some of the most relevant around.” “Technological\, thought-provoking and unexpected” (NPR) he’s been dubbed one of Milwaukee’s “avant-garde” (Journal Sentinel)\, called ”an interesting and prolific fixture” (Artthrob.co.za) behind many “multimedia experiments” (Time.com)\, “accessible and abstract simultaneously” (Art and Electronic Media web site)\, someone “with starry\, starry eyes” (Wired.com) who “makes an obscene amount of work in an obscene amount of ways” (Bad at Sports) – both “bizarre and beautiful” (Gizmodo). According to Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing\, Stern makes “beautiful\, glitched out art-images\,” and Caleb A. Scharf at Scientific American says Stern’s art is “tremendous fun\,” and “fascinating” in how it is “investigating the possibilities of human interaction and art.”
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/aaai-gen-to-gen-2/
LOCATION:Kenilworth Square East Gallery\, 2155 N. Prospect Ave.\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aesthetics, Art, & AI,Arts and Culture,Arts and Culture,Exhibit,Faculty and Staff,Faculty and Staff,Public,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,Students,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:Story Cart With Adam Carr - Crystal Quest
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, February 14\, 10:00am-12:00pm\n\n\n\nThomas A. Greene Geological Museum\, Lapham Hall\, Room 3663209 N. Maryland Ave.\n\n\n\nPart of Darwin Day (10:00am-3:00pm); free and open to the public\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrystal Quest\n\n\n\nAt the Greene Geological Museum’s Darwin Day celebration\, we’ll ask you to find the mineral that moves you the most. Who knows? Maybe you’ll glean some ancient wisdom from a rock of ages. \n\n\n\nThen\, we’ll ask you to talk about it with Story Fellow Adam Carr while we record your conversation for the Story Cart’s digital archive. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Adam Carr\n\n\n\nAdam  Carr  is an independent writer\, artist\, journalist\, community historian and organizer based in Milwaukee. Carr was director of strategic partnerships at Milwaukee Park Foundation from 2022-2025 and producer at 88Nine RadioMilwaukee from 2008-2011. Working in communities throughout Milwaukee\, his work ranges from journalism to public art\, film/photography to coalition building\, dialogue facilitation to community history\, writing to in-depth tours.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Darwin Day\n\n\n\nThomas A. Greene Geological Museum invites you to celebrate Darwin Day\, a public outreach event celebrating the life and times of one of the most brilliant and influential Victorian naturalists\, Charles R. Darwin. Darwin was an avid geologist and biologist who most famously developed the theory of natural selection—one of the driving mechanisms behind biological evolution—published in his seminal work: On the Origin of Species. Today\, this theory forms the foundation for many of our natural sciences. Darwin Day is a national celebration of Darwin’s scientific legacy typically held on (or near) his birthday. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to guests of all ages. Many wonderful geological and biological specimens will be available to observe\, with volunteers on hand to explain their fascinating histories. Learning tables will focus on the natural history of Wisconsin and the contributions of the Thomas A. Greene to our understanding of local geology\, with many rare and beautiful samples on display in the Greene Geological Museum. Other activities will be available throughout the day\, including scientific lectures presented by UWM scientists and guest speakers\, coloring and crafts for young kids\, and free planetarium shows. See this activities list and schedule of events for more information. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Story Cart\n\n\n\nStory Cart is a mobile story collection program that travels to community spaces and engages Milwaukeeans in conversations about their lived experiences. Our Story Fellows craft questions related to the current C21 research theme\, record participant responses to those questions\, and add them to our Story Cart digital archive (forthcoming). Supported by the Wisconsin Institute for Citizenship and Civil Dialogue\, Story Cart’s current run introduces Milwaukeeans to practices of radical attention. From September 2025 through May 2026\, our community Story Fellows will lead workshop pop-ups throughout the city and will record discussions with participants about the experience of paying attention.
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/crystal-quest/
LOCATION:Thomas A. Greene Geological Museum\, 3209 N. Maryland Ave.\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, 53211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni & Community,Alumni & Community,Arts and Culture,Arts and Culture,Attention,Co-Promotional,Exhibit,Public,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,Story Cart,Students,Students,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:Practices\, Not Prophecies: An Interdisciplinary AI Conversation 
DESCRIPTION:Kenilworth Square East Galley\, 2155 N Prospect Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI 53202\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public\n\n\n\nFebruary 18\, 6:00 – 7:30 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout\n\n\n\nIn response to Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies\, this interdisciplinary panel brings together Shana Ponelis\, Nathaniel Stern\, Brooke Slavens\, and Ilya Avdeev for an open\, practice-driven conversation about what it actually means to work with AI today. Rather than rehearsing familiar hype or fear narratives\, the discussion centers on lived experience across art\, design\, engineering\, and research—where AI creates real opportunities\, introduces tangible risks\, and is often misunderstood. The panel invites the audience into a candid exchange about agency\, responsibility\, and how we might move beyond spectacle toward more intentional and ethical engagements with intelligent systems.  \n\n\n\nPractices Not Prophecies: An Interdisciplinary AI Conversation is supported by the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center. This event is part of the Center for 21st Century Studies’ Aesthetics\, Art\, & AI series\, produced in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison\, with support from the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI).
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/aaai-panel-practices/
CATEGORIES:Aesthetics, Art, & AI,Arts and Culture,Arts and Culture,Co-Sponsored,Faculty and Staff,Faculty and Staff,Lectures Conferences and Symposiums,Lectures Conferences and Symposiums,Panel,Public,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies
DESCRIPTION:Kenilworth Square East Gallery\, 2155 N Prospect Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI 53202\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public\n\n\n\nFebruary 12-20; opening reception Feb. 12\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nFeb 12: 11 AM – 7 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 13: 11 AM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 14: 11 AM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 17: 12 PM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 18: 12 PM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 19: 12 PM – 6 PM\n\n\n\nFeb 20: 11 AM – 6 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout\n\n\n\nArtists Sasha Stiles and Nathaniel Stern install their show Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies for a week-long run at Kenilworth Square East Gallery from February 12 to 20.     \n\n\n\nAI is a transformational force in human history\, akin to the rise of language itself\, the printing press or our harnessing of electricity\, unlocking new realms of imagination and awareness. Yet its discourse is fraught with fear\, misunderstanding\, and disconnection. By blending Artificial Intelligence with more traditional artistic expression\, Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies cultivates new pathways for imagination while nurturing the roots of our creative inheritance\, and the always-evolving dialogue between art and innovation.   \n\n\n\nThis groundbreaking exhibition illuminates the intertwined evolution of humanity and technology\, inviting viewers to reconsider the relationship between humans and the tools we invent through an immersive fusion of sculptures\, prints\, electronics\, music\, movement\, and poetry\, all born from creative collaboration with AI.  \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is part of the Center for 21st Century Studies’ Aesthetics\, Art\, & AI series\, produced in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison\, with support from the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSasha Stiles\n\n\n\nSasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet\, artist and AI researcher whose work bridges tradition and innovation through hybrid poetics\, generative imagination and collaborative intelligence. Her transmedia practice reframes poetry as both art and technology — a means of encoding human experience across space and time — and blends word\, image and algorithm to explore the role of human voice in a digital age.  \n\n\n\nSince 2018\, Stiles has been at the forefront of human-machine co-creation\, using language as a lens to probe the promise and peril of creative technologies like machine learning and blockchain. Her experiments and insights have established her as a leading voice in creative AI\, and a thoughtful contributor to the global conversation about the future of art\, technology\, and humanity. From Technelegy (2021) — a first-of-its-kind poetry and art collection co-authored with a personalized AI model and praised by Ray Kurzweil — to award-winning projects such as “Cursive Binary” and “Repetae\,” Stiles continually pushes the boundaries of expression\, situating AI within the broader question of what it means to be human in an increasingly posthuman world. Stiles’ work has been recognized by the Prix Ars Electronica\, Sigg Art Prize\, Lumen Prize\, Women in AI Awards\, and Future.Art.Awards; featured in Artforum\, Christie’s\, NPR\, The Washington Post\, and Poets & Writers; and exhibited and performed internationally\, from Lincoln Center and the V&A to MoMA\, Art Basel\, Kunsthalle Zurich\, Outernet London\, New York’s Times Square\, and Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNathaniel Stern\n\n\n\nNathaniel Stern is an artist and writer\, Fulbright and NSF grantee and professor\, interventionist and public citizen. He has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from ecological\, participatory\, and online interventions\, interactive\, immersive\, and mixed reality environments\, to prints\, sculptures\, videos\, performances. and hybrid forms. His first book\, Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance (Gylphi 2013)\, takes a close look at the stakes for interactive and digital art\, and Ecological Aesthetics: artful tactics for humans\, nature\, and politics (Dartmouth 2018) is a creative and scholarly collection of stories about art\, artists\, and their materials\, which argues that ecology\, aesthetics\, and ethics are inherently interconnected\, and together act as the cornerstone for all contemporary arts practices. Stern’s ongoing work with startups and industry\, on the other hand\, has helped launch dozens of new businesses\, products\, and ideas. He has been featured in the likes of the Wall Street Journal\, Guardian UK\, Huffington Post\, Daily Mail\, Washington Post\, Daily News\, BBC’s Today show\, WIRED\, Boing Boing\, Gizmodo\, PetaPixel\, M Magazine\, Time\, Forbes\, Fast Company\, Scientific American\, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\, Leonardo Journal of Art\, Science and Technology\, Rhizome\, Furtherfield\, Turbulence\, and more. According to Chicago’s widely popular Bad at Sports art podcast\, Stern has “the most varied and strange bio of maybe anyone ever on the show\,” and South Africa’s Live Out Loud magazine calls him a “prolific scholar” as well as artist\, whose work is “quite possibly some of the most relevant around.” “Technological\, thought-provoking and unexpected” (NPR) he’s been dubbed one of Milwaukee’s “avant-garde” (Journal Sentinel)\, called ”an interesting and prolific fixture” (Artthrob.co.za) behind many “multimedia experiments” (Time.com)\, “accessible and abstract simultaneously” (Art and Electronic Media web site)\, someone “with starry\, starry eyes” (Wired.com) who “makes an obscene amount of work in an obscene amount of ways” (Bad at Sports) – both “bizarre and beautiful” (Gizmodo). According to Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing\, Stern makes “beautiful\, glitched out art-images\,” and Caleb A. Scharf at Scientific American says Stern’s art is “tremendous fun\,” and “fascinating” in how it is “investigating the possibilities of human interaction and art.”
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/aaai-exhibition/
LOCATION:Kenilworth Square East Gallery\, 2155 N. Prospect Ave.\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aesthetics, Art, & AI,Arts and Culture,Arts and Culture,Exhibit,Faculty and Staff,Faculty and Staff,Public,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,Students,Students,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:Human Club: MUD Potluck
DESCRIPTION:Come eat\, share\, and grow with Human Club and the Milwaukee Urban Demo Farms (MUD) Network! \n\n\n\nGuests are invited to bring a potluck-style dish or a recipe to share as we gather for food and conversation. Participants will also have the chance to plant seeds with the MUD Network and get their hands a little dirty while thinking about care and connection in Milwaukee. Optional donations of unopened\, unexpired non-perishables will be collected for UWM’s campus food pantry. \n\n\n\nLet’s mix\, mingle\, and dig in – literally and figuratively. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout MUD \n\n\n\nAs part of the major outreach arm of Wisconsin’s public universities\, UW-Extension has offered gardening expertise and educational programming on urban agriculture topics in Milwaukee County since the early 20th century. Today\, the UW-Extension Milwaukee County’s Urban Agriculture Team offers educational programming on sustainable growing practices and provides affordable land access to hundreds of Milwaukee-area farmers and gardeners across 70 acres of community garden space. With a focus on community food security\, climate adaptation\, and soil health\, Extension Milwaukee County Urban Agriculture delivers rigorous instruction on a variety of topics at the intersection of food access and responsible land stewardship. Whether running an ambitious USDA demonstration farm network project\, supporting a longstanding sustainable beekeeping course\, or showcasing innovative techniques in urban agroforestry\, the Extension Milwaukee County Urban Ag team works hard to support the gardening and farming needs of all who call Milwaukee County home. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public. All are welcome. Bring a dish and a friend!
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/human-club-mud-potluck/
LOCATION:Curtin 939\, 3243 N Downer Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture,Arts and Culture,Faculty and Staff,Faculty and Staff,Graduate Students,Health and Well-being,Health and Well-being,Human Club,Public,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,Student Life,Student Life,Students,Students,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:Information Session: C21 Collaboratory Applications
DESCRIPTION:C21 Leadership Team will host an information session about the FY27 collaborative project application in person\, at C21\, with a virtual option on Tuesday\, March 3\, 9-10 AM.  \n\n\n\n\nIn-person: 939 Curtin Hall \n\n\n\nVirtual: https://tinyurl.com/registercollabinfo27 \n\n\n\n\nC21 believes that the complex challenges we face in the 21st century are best met through collaborations across areas of expertise and experience\, and that the humanities are a vital part of addressing these challenges. Collaborative project funding provides an opportunity to bring together teams of scholars across disciplines\, across university and community partnerships\, and across emerging and established scholars (students / staff / faculty) to generate new ideas and knowledge.  \n\n\n\nC21 offers funding for two distinct categories of collaborative projects: working groups and collaboratories. Working groups provide opportunities for collaborative study\, research\, and discussion of a common subject of interest. Collaboratories provide opportunities to bring new\, humanities-informed ideas and knowledge to many different audiences both on and off campus. Collaboratories are also foundational to the Center’s annual programming.   \n\n\n\nWhile the criteria for working groups will remain largely unchanged from previous years\, collaboratory proposals must include a contribution to C21’s Day of Action\, slated for the Spring 2027 semester. The Day of Action will celebrate the culmination of SLOW\, C21’s 2024-27 thematic cycle\, and will align with C21’s 2026-27 theme\, Slow Action. Slow Action will explore how the practices\, methodologies\, histories\, and theories of collective organizing across communities and institutions might provide insight for building values-rooted systems and deliberate actionable pathways that endure over time to support shared goals.  \n\n\n\nThis session will cover information on the Slow Action theme\, the Day of Action\, programming\, tips on writing a strong application\, and frequently asked questions.   \n\n\n\nAttending the information session is not required to apply but is highly encouraged.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuestions?\n\n\n\nC21 strongly encourages questions and inquiries in advance of proposals. Please contact C21 Managing Director Katie Waddell with questions at waddelke@uwm.edu.  
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/info-c21collab27/
LOCATION:Center for 21st Century Studies\, 3243 N. Downer Ave.\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Dates and Deadlines,Collaboratory,Faculty and Staff,Faculty and Staff,SLOW,Virtual Event,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Aesthetics\, Art\, & AI: Kite
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 12\, 5:30 to 7:00 PM\n\n\n\nRegistration requested\, 2400 East Kenwood Boulevard\, Milwaukee\, WI\, Room 120\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public; reception to follow.\n\n\n\nRegistration requested\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER NOW\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) for an artist talk with Kite (a.k.a. Suzanne Kite); part of C21’s Aesthetics\, Art\, & AI program series. \n\n\n\nKite is an Oglála Lakȟóta artist\, composer\, and scholar. Her groundbreaking scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation\, computational media\, and performance\, often working in collaboration with family and community members. Kite develops body interfaces for machine learning driven performance\, sculptures generated by dreams\, and experimental sound and video work. Working with machine learning techniques since 2017 and developing body interfaces for performance since 2013\, Kite is a first American Indian artist to utilize Machine Learning in art practice.  \n\n\n\nKite has been included in numerous publications such as Atlas of Anomalous AI\, Indigenous Futurisms\, Creative AI Database from Serpentine Gallery\, the American Indian Culture and Research Journal\, the Journal of Design and Science (MIT Press)\, with the award winning article\, “Making Kin with Machines”\, and the sculpture Ínyan Iyé (Telling Rock) (2019) was featured on the cover of Canadian Art. Kite was the Global Coordinator for the Indigenous Protocols and Artificial Intelligence Workshops supported by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research\, resulting in the publication of the Indigenous Protocols and Artificial Intelligence Position Paper.  \n\n\n\nHer artworks and performances have recently been featured at the 2024 Whitney Biennial; Haus der Kulturen der Welt\, Berlin; Center for Art\, Research and Alliances (CARA)\, New York; and the 2024 Shanghai Biennial; among other venues. Her awards and honors include a Ruth Award\, a 2023 United States Artist Fellowship\, a Creative Time open call commission (with Alisha Wormsley)\, and a Creative Capital grant. She is currently Director of Wihanble S’a Lab\, Distinguished Artist in Residence\, and Assistant Professor of American and Indigenous Studies at Bard College. Kite holds degrees from California Institute of the Arts\, Bard College\, and received her PhD from Concordia University.  \n\n\n\nKite’s work will also be on display in the exhibition\, This Side of the Stars\, at the Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee\, WI from January 23 – May 16\, 2026.  \n\n\n\nQ&A and reception with light refreshments to follow talk. Registration requested. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDirections & Parking\n\n\n\n\nPaid parking is available at the Student Union Parking Garage (Lot 22). \n\nUnion Parking is $1 each 20 min for the 1st hour; then pay $1 per hour. Maximum charge is $12 total. \n\n\n\n\n\nTime-limited street parking is available on neighborhood streets surrounding campus.\n\n\n\nIf using the Union Parking Garage\, you can find the Arts Center Lecture Hall (ACL) by taking the Peck School of the Arts stairways to exit.\n\n\n\nACL 120 is located across the covered walkway from the UWM Mainstage Theater.\n\n\n\n\nCheck parking availability with the UWM Parking Finder. \n\n\n\nUse our campus map to find the Union Parking Garage (Lot 22) or Arts Center Lecture Hall (ACL). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Aesthetics\, Art\, & AI\n\n\n\nWith support from the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI)\, the Center for 21st Century Studies and the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison present a collaborative series of public programming that focuses the relationship between AI and artistic practice\, exploring how AI-generated aesthetics reshape creative production\, authorship\, and interpretation. By engaging scholars\, artists\, and technologists\, we examine the ethical and aesthetic implications of computational creativity\, raising fundamental questions about artistic agency\, originality\, and the boundaries between human and machine-generated cultural production.  
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/aaai-kite/
LOCATION:Arts Center Lecture Hall\, 2400 East Kenwood Boulevard\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, 53211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aesthetics, Art, & AI,Arts and Culture,Arts and Culture,Lecture,Lectures Conferences and Symposiums,Lectures Conferences and Symposiums,Public,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:Story Cart with Symphony Swan – (W)rites of Spring
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 21\, 12:00 – 2:00 PM\n\n\n\nHavenwoods State Forest\, 6141 N Hopkins St\, Milwaukee\, WI 53209\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public; registration required\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\nC21’s Story Cart project and Symphony Swan\, ’25-’26 Story Fellow present W(rites) of Spring\, a radical attention workshop with artist Mia Rimmer. \n\n\n\nAs the land transitions out of winter into bloom\, W(rites) of Spring calls us to communicate at the speed of a flower’s unfurling. Rooted in the implosion work central to Mia Rimmer’s interdisciplinary practice\, the project invites us to notice the changing of season as both external and internal ritual. The project halts the urgency of our technological correspondence\, asking us to instead transcribe emotion to paper in three forms: long form letter writing\, found object collage\, and postcards featuring artwork from THE CR8TV HOUSE pen pal project. \n\n\n\nThis activation aims to step out of the anthropocene’s blurred speed and walk in tune with the pace of nature; a sentiment echoed across each component of the project\, down to our chosen site of a NorthWest Side urban forest. (W)rites of Spring engages the participant as the creator and revealer of the rich layers of our inter-personal and -species relations. \n\n\n\nThe open and close of the space gathers participants together to reflect upon the weight and shape of words left unsaid— to a loved one\, a lost one\, and/or the self. In between\, each person will explore the grounds and let these messages surface in conjunction with the forest’s reawakening; they are also invited to mindfully gather resonant ephemera for collaging. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe duration of (W)rites of Spring will be accompanied by a soundbath\, commissioned from memory worker and sonic griot Harlem Masimba: \n\n\n\nHarlem Masimba · spring equinox soundscape\n\n\n\n\nOpen in SoundCloud\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Symphony Swan\n\n\n\nSymphony Swan Zawadi is an artist\, cultural strategist\, and founder of THE CR8TV HOUSE\, an arts and community institution reimagining space\, storytelling\, support and memory keeping for Black and Brown creatives. With over a decade of experience spanning arts education\, nonprofit leadership\, and philanthropy\, Symphony brings a deep commitment to equity\, imagination\, and community care.   \n\n\n\nSymphony channels her interdisciplinary expertise into building creative ecosystems that honor legacy\, foster healing\, and invest in future generations. Her work has earned her recognition as the 2023 Milwaukeean of the Year by Shepherd Express\, 2024 Gener8tor Art Fellowship Recipient and most recently the 2025 City of Milwaukee Friends of the Arts. She also serves as a trustee for the Milwaukee Art Museum. She continues to advocate for artist-led systems change that reflect the communities they serve.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Mia Rimmer\n\n\n\nMia Rimmer is a Milwaukee-based multidisciplinary artist digging in archives\, crates\, and occasionally the nose. Their self-taught practice utilizes personal and heritage material histories to examine themes of remembrance and permanence. Through analog collage and the pen\, Mia activates nostalgia as a speculative tool for imploding and reconstructing memories. \n\n\n\nMia’s work has been exhibited in Tooth + Nail Gallery\, the Logan Center for the Arts\, and the Charles Allis Art Museum\, featuring recent collaborations with Black Girls in Archives and Chicago Public Art Group. Mia currently serves as the Resident ART Curator and Writer at THE CR8TV HOUSE. You can follow Mia on Instagram at @snottystudio. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Story Cart\n\n\n\nStory Cart is a mobile story collection program that travels to community spaces and engages Milwaukeeans in conversations about their lived experiences. Our Story Fellows craft questions related to the current C21 research theme\, record participant responses to those questions\, and add them to our Story Cart digital archive (forthcoming). Supported by the Wisconsin Institute for Citizenship and Civil Dialogue\, Story Cart’s current run introduces Milwaukeeans to practices of radical attention. From September 2025 through May 2026\, our community Story Fellows will lead workshop pop-ups throughout the city and will record discussions with participants about the experience of paying attention.
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/sc-writes-of-spring/
LOCATION:Havenwoods State Forest\, 6141 N Hopkins St\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, 53209\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture,Attention,Health and Well-being,Off-campus,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,Story Cart,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Story Cart With Adam Carr - Skyward Ho!
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 28\, 12:00-2:00pm\n\n\n\nMKE Winter Farmers Market\, 5305 W. Capitol Drive Milwaukee\, WI 53216\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSkyward Ho!\n\n\n\nAt Milwaukee Winter Farmer’s Market\, we’ll meditate on the sky with our mind\, body and soul with Story Fellow Adam Carr and yogi Matthew Lewis (@stillhoneyblk)\, gathering thoughts on sanctuary and refuge\, especially for attention. \n\n\n\nThen\, we’ll talk about it on the record for the Story Cart digital archive.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Adam Carr\n\n\n\nAdam  Carr  is an independent writer\, artist\, journalist\, community historian and organizer based in Milwaukee. Carr was director of strategic partnerships at Milwaukee Park Foundation from 2022-2025 and producer at 88Nine RadioMilwaukee from 2008-2011. Working in communities throughout Milwaukee\, his work ranges from journalism to public art\, film/photography to coalition building\, dialogue facilitation to community history\, writing to in-depth tours.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Milwaukee Winter Farmers Market\n\n\n\nFondy’s Milwaukee Winter Farmers Market exists to support local producers and to help our community eat local longer. Agricultural vendors offer high quality fruit\, vegetables\, meat\, eggs\, poultry and dairy products. SNAP benefits are accepted at our market. Local food vendors also bring a wide variety of freshly baked goods\, jams\, cider\, honey\, maple syrup\, sauces and soups\, as well as delicious global cuisine. The market also offers health and wellness\, and body products\, such as soaps\, body creams\, and more. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Story Cart\n\n\n\nStory Cart is a mobile story collection program that travels to community spaces and engages Milwaukeeans in conversations about their lived experiences. Our Story Fellows craft questions related to the current C21 research theme\, record participant responses to those questions\, and add them to our Story Cart digital archive (forthcoming). Supported by the Wisconsin Institute for Citizenship and Civil Dialogue\, Story Cart’s current run introduces Milwaukeeans to practices of radical attention. From September 2025 through May 2026\, our community Story Fellows will lead workshop pop-ups throughout the city and will record discussions with participants about the experience of paying attention.
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/sc-carr-skyward/
LOCATION:Milwaukee Winter Farmers Market\, 5305 W. Capitol Drive Milwaukee\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, 53216\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni & Community,Arts and Culture,Attention,Co-Promotional,Health and Well-being,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,Story Cart,Students
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SUMMARY:Cactus Book Club with C21: Attensity!
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 1\, 5:30-7:30 PM\n\n\n\nCactus Club\, 2496 S. Wentworth Ave.\, Milwaukee\, WI 53207\n\n\n\nFree & open to the public; no registration required\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nC21’s Story Cart program invites you to join Katie Waddell\, C21 Managing Director\, for the April 2026 edition of the Cactus Book Club.  \n\n\n\nCactus Book Club meets on the first Wednesday of the month from 5:30-7:30 in the back room at Cactus Club. Each month a different community organization\, collective\, mutual aid group\, or business chooses a book and recommended bookseller\, then leads the discussion.  \n\n\n\nThe April selection\, Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement by The Friends of Attention\, expands upon the attention activist manifesto championed by C21’s partners at the Strother School of Radical Attention\, and offers an opportunity for the attention activism-curious to explore why our attention matters\, how to choose attentional agency over digital enthrallment\, and why awareness is even better with friends. \n\n\n\nC21’s recommended bookseller is Boswell Book Company. Mention Cactus Book Club at checkout to receive a 10% discount! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResources\n\n\n\nCheck out our Slow Digest post about Attensity! for a teaser.  \n\n\n\nDon’t have time to finish the book before April 1? Fill in the gaps with the Strother School for Radical Attention’s  Toolkit for Attention Activism and their Attention Lab podcast on Apple Podcasts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout\n\n\n\nAbout Attensity!: A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement\n\n\n\n“We all feel it: something is seriously wrong. Our attention—that essential ability to give our minds and senses to the world—is being trapped\, gutted\, and sold out from under us by an industry of immense technological and financial power. The heedless exploitation of this vital capacity by a handful of tech companies is harming us all\, reducing our very selfhood to that which can be quantified\, bought\, and sold—and shaking the foundations of our democracy. \n\n\n\nTo push back against this “human fracking\,” we need more than individual willpower or isolated efforts. We need a movement of collective resistance. Such a movement is beginning to bloom\, and in this radical\, first-of-its-kind guide\, The Friends of Attention show us how to join the fight. We meet welders\, nurses\, poets\, and surfers\, all of whom are engaged in attentional practices. We learn to seek out sanctuaries—theaters and museums\, houses of worship\, dance parties—where together we can take refuge from the frackers. Attention Activism takes our apocalyptic present\, turns it on its head\, and reveals new vistas of human flourishing.Drawing on a rich legacy of critical intellectuals and the creative wisdom of diverse traditions\, Attensity! calls on us to come together to defeat the greedy dehumanizing forces of brute instrumentalization—and re-enchant the world.” Read on… \n\n\n\nThe Friends of Attention is a collective of activists\, artists\, and thinkers. Three editors and long-standing “Friends” helped Attensity! take shape: D. Graham Burnett is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of history of science at Princeton University. Alyssa Loh\, a filmmaker\, co-directed the short film “Twelve Theses on Attention.” Peter Schmidt is the Program Director of the Strother School of Radical Attention. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Cactus Club\n\n\n\nCactus Book Club (CBC)\, organized by Cactus+\, meets on the first Wednesday of the month from 5:30-7:30 in the back room at Cactus Club. Each month a different community organization\, collective\, mutual aid group\, or business chooses the book and recommended bookseller\, then leads the discussion. CBC covers sociopolitical fiction and non-fiction\, with a focus on works by women\, LGBTQ+\, BIPOC\, and/or otherwise under-published groups. Members don’t have to finish reading the book to attend. All book club meetings are free. Registration is not required. 18+. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Story Cart: Attention\n\n\n\nStory Cart is a mobile story collection program that travels to community spaces and engages Milwaukeeans in conversations about their lived experiences. Our Story Fellows craft questions related to the current C21 research theme\, record participant responses to those questions\, and add them to our Story Cart digital archive (forthcoming). Supported by the Wisconsin Institute for Citizenship and Civil Dialogue\, Story Cart’s current run introduces Milwaukeeans to practices of radical attention. From September 2025 through May 2026\, our community Story Fellows will lead workshop pop-ups throughout the city and will record discussions with participants about the experience of paying attention.
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/attensity/
LOCATION:Cactus Club\, 2496 S Wentworth Ave\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, 53207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni & Community,Arts and Culture,Attention,Co-Promotional,Graduate Students,Health and Well-being,Off-campus,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,Story Cart,Students
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SUMMARY:Collaboratory & Working Group Applications Due
DESCRIPTION:Application deadline: Friday\, April 3\, 11:59 PM\n\n\n\nAccess complete application instructions here.\n\n\n\nHybrid information session: This event has passed. Watch the recording via Teams (UWM login required).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout\n\n\n\nC21 believes that the complex challenges we face in the 21st century are best met through collaborations across areas of expertise and experience\, and that the humanities are a vital part of addressing these challenges. Collaborative project funding provides an opportunity to bring together teams of scholars across disciplines\, across university and community partnerships\, and across emerging and established scholars (students / staff / faculty) to generate new ideas and knowledge.  \n\n\n\nC21 offers funding for two distinct categories of collaborative projects: working groups and collaboratories. Working groups provide opportunities for collaborative study\, research\, and discussion of a common subject of interest. Collaboratories provide opportunities to bring new\, humanities-informed ideas and knowledge to many different audiences both on and off campus. Collaboratories are also foundational to the Center’s annual programming.   \n\n\n\nWhile the criteria for working groups will remain largely unchanged from previous years\, collaboratory proposals must include a contribution to C21’s Day of Action\, slated for the Spring 2027 semester. The Day of Action will celebrate the culmination of SLOW\, C21’s 2024-27 thematic cycle\, and will align with C21’s 2026-27 theme\, Slow Action. Slow Action will explore how the practices\, methodologies\, histories\, and theories of collective organizing across communities and institutions might provide insight for building values-rooted systems and deliberate actionable pathways that endure over time to support shared goals.  \n\n\n\nC21 offers two distinct funding tiers for collaborative research projects: \n\n\n\nCollaboratories are collaborative projects devised with a specific project or public outcome in mind. Priority will be given to projects with budgets of up to $5\,000.  A portion of awarded funds must be used to support programming for the Day of Action and/or related contributions.   \n\n\n\nWorking Groups gather for ongoing discussions\, networking\, and idea generation. They may be newly formed or pre-existing groups with an ongoing dialogic process or collaborative project. They do not necessarily have to have a fully formed project plan with a final deliverable in mind. Working groups are awarded $500. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuestions?\n\n\n\nC21 strongly encourages questions and inquiries in advance of proposals. Please review application details in full and contact C21 Managing Director Katie Waddell with questions at waddelke@uwm.edu.
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/collab-deadline-2026/
CATEGORIES:Academic Dates and Deadlines,Academic Dates and Deadlines,Alumni & Community,Collaboratory,Faculty and Staff,Faculty and Staff,SLOW,Virtual Event,Workshops
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SUMMARY:En-Vision Embodied Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) co-founder Milo Miller\, this workshop will blend mindfulness and creative writing to explore themes of slowing down\, radical self-care\, critical disability studies\, and fostering networks of mutual support and caregiving. The workshop will include time for creative exploration through collaging\, blackout poetry\, and more. Supplies will be provided\, but participants are welcome to bring their own collage\, paper\, and zine-making materials to share. \n\n\n\nWorkshop participants and the broader campus community are invited to submit artwork and creative writing pieces to a collaborative community zine project on a queer ethics of slow care. Those interested in submitting to the En-Vision Zine can find more information and submission requirements here. \n\n\n\nThis event is a part of our inaugural graduate-led public humanities program En-Vision: Toward a Queer Ethics of Slow Care. “En-Vision” explores creative practices and embodied experiences of slow care for individuals living with chronic illness and impairments.  \n\n\n\nFree and open to the public. Held in-person and online. Food and light snacks will be provided for in-person attendees. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor those attending virtually – please click here to join the Virtual Session for the En-Vision Embodied Writing Workshop. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDirections\, Parking & Accessibility\n\n\n\n\nPaid parking is available within the Lubar Garage.\n\nLubar Parking is $1 each 20 min for the 1st hour; then pay $1 per hour. The maximum charge is $12 total.\n\n\n\n\n\nTime-limited street parking is available on neighborhood streets surrounding campus.\n\n\n\nIf using the Lubar Garage\, you can find the Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex (KIRC) across N. Maryland Ave.\n\nThe Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex is located between the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center/UWM Welcome Center and Lapham Hall. There are two accessible entrances to the East and the West of the building.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCheck parking availability with the UWM Parking Finder. \n\n\n\nUse our campus map to find the Lubar  Garage (Lot 3) or the Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex. \n\n\n\nUWM makes every effort to ensure campus events and activities are accessible. If you foresee needing accommodations for this event\, please contact the Center for 21st Century Studies during normal business hours. Advanced notice of 5 business days is preferred.
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/en-vision-2/
LOCATION:Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex\, Room 1150\, 3135 N Maryland Ave\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, 53211
CATEGORIES:Alumni & Community,Arts and Culture,Arts and Culture,C21 Research Workshops,Graduate Students,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,Student Life,Students,UWM Campus Events,Virtual Event,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Story Cart with Symphony Swan – Stills in Milwaukee
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 11\, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM\n\n\n\nFruition MKE\, 819 N 27th St\, Milwaukee\, WI 53208\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\nC21’s Story Cart project and C21 Story Fellow Symphony Swan present Stills in Milwaukee\, a radical attention workshop and portrait session with photographer Terrance Sims. \n\n\n\nStills in Milwaukee is a documentary-style photography project aimed at capturing the diverse stories and voices of locals around the city. It’s an exploration of the people who shape the everyday life of Milwaukee\, and the nuances that make this place so unique. Guests are invited to bring an artifact that represents them and their story. Guests will share their artifact in conversation with the photographer\, who will craft individual portraits in response.  \n\n\n\nStills in Milwaukee is about active listening as much as it is about portraiture. Terrance Sims will spend time with his subjects\, hear their stories\, and allow space for the moments to unfold naturally. The goal is not to rush through\, but to take a deliberate approach that will bring out deeper narratives. Each image\, each conversation\, is an opportunity for reflection and connection. \n\n\n\nThis method is integral to the work’s authenticity. The beauty of Milwaukee lies not just in its landmarks\, but in its people—often in the quiet\, overlooked spaces. By taking the time to truly engage with his subjects and let the photos emerge over time\, Sims hopes to create a more genuine\, reflective portrayal of the city. \n\n\n\nPlease note that the guest artist for this event has changed from Samuel Allen to Terrance Sims. The event’s format will remain the same. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Symphony Swan\n\n\n\nSymphony Swan Zawadi is an artist\, cultural strategist\, and founder of THE CR8TV HOUSE\, an arts and community institution reimagining space\, storytelling\, support and memory keeping for Black and Brown creatives. With over a decade of experience spanning arts education\, nonprofit leadership\, and philanthropy\, Symphony brings a deep commitment to equity\, imagination\, and community care.   \n\n\n\nSymphony channels her interdisciplinary expertise into building creative ecosystems that honor legacy\, foster healing\, and invest in future generations. Her work has earned her recognition as the 2023 Milwaukeean of the Year by Shepherd Express\, 2024 Gener8tor Art Fellowship Recipient and most recently the 2025 City of Milwaukee Friends of the Arts. She also serves as a trustee for the Milwaukee Art Museum. She continues to advocate for artist-led systems change that reflect the communities they serve.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Story Cart\n\n\n\nStory Cart is a mobile story collection program that travels to community spaces and engages Milwaukeeans in conversations about their lived experiences. Our Story Fellows craft questions related to the current C21 research theme\, record participant responses to those questions\, and add them to our Story Cart digital archive (forthcoming). Supported by the Wisconsin Institute for Citizenship and Civil Dialogue\, Story Cart’s current run introduces Milwaukeeans to practices of radical attention. From September 2025 through May 2026\, our community Story Fellows will lead workshop pop-ups throughout the city and will record discussions with participants about the experience of paying attention.
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/sc-swan-stills-mke/
LOCATION:Fruition MKE\, 819 N 27th St\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, 53208\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture,Attention,Health and Well-being,Off-campus,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,Story Cart,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: A Conversation About Black Feminist Resistance in Trying Times
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 17\, 11am-1pm\n\n\n\nKuumba Juice & Coffee\, 274 E. Keefe Ave.\, Milwaukee\n\n\n\nFree & open to the public; RSVP Requested\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOverview\n\n\n\nWe welcome Dr. Stacie McCormick and Dr. Nessette Falu to a conversation around Black Feminist Resistance and the power of storytelling. \n\n\n\nIn conjunction with Black Maternal Health Week (April 11-17)\, UWM’s C21 Reproductive Justice Collaboratory and La Revo Books are pleased to cohost this community conversation around the role of stories in our esteemed authors’ own work. The authors will join us virtually\, and we invite the community to come in to the space at Kuumba to share in this important conversation. \n\n\n\nPlease RSVP by Monday\, March 30th. Refreshments from Kuumba will be provided. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP ON EVENTBRITE NOW\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks\n\n\n\nYou don’t need to read the books in order to participate in this event\, but both are available through our partners at La Revo. \n\n\n\nPurchase Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil by Nessette Falu. \n\n\n\nPurchase We Are Pregnant with Freedom: Black Feminist Storytelling for Reproductive Justice by Stacie McCormick. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout\n\n\n\nNessette Falu\, Ph.D. is a Black queer feminist and cultural anthropologist with sub-disciplinary specializations in medical anthropology\, Black queer studies\, Black feminist studies\, and reproductive justice studies. Her intellectual work analyzes the intersections of anti-Blackness\, heteronormativity\, medicine\, trauma\, resistance\, and freedom. She intervenes\, broadly\, to understand forms of hidden\, silenced power and the abuse of power in gynecology and medicine. Her past clinical practice of seventeen years as a Physician Assistant (neurosurgery\, internal medicine\, HIV care\, hematology/oncology\, and pain management) critically informs her research\, publications\, collaborations\, and public phasing\, and design work. The convergence of her clinical expertise with a social science\, humanistic scholarly endeavors is an invaluable\, unique asset for intellectual and public impact into the Austin community as well as with international and transnational far-reaching outcomes. Her research and professional trajectories inform her public engagement and creative work\, which is steered toward social justice in medicine and raising public awareness. At UT Austin\, she developed Gxnecologx Justice Lab (https://www.gxnecologx.org)\, a Black feminist laboratory for research and design\, publicly launched in December 2023.   \n\n\n\nDr. Stacie McCormick is a Mississippi-raised Black feminist scholar and writer. She is an Associate Professor of English\, Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies and Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University (TCU). Her work takes up a number of subjects such as: representations of the body\, land\, sexuality\, and the ongoing resonance of slavery in contemporary Black writing and performance. She is the author of Staging Black Fugitivity and co-Editor of the Special Issue of College Literature\, Toni Morrison and Adaptation. Central to her work is community. Whether it is in the classroom\, in the organizing space\, or in her scholarly work\, McCormick sees community building as a key form of resistance and liberation.  \n\n\n\nOperating since 2022\, Reproductive Justice works to create a space where researchers at UWM and reproductive justice community advocates in Milwaukee can work together to address systemic injustices disproportionately affecting Black\, Latinx\, and other women and trans people of color. As a collective\, we have held a variety of events in both academic and community spaces\, and seek to continue this important work in the face of uncertainty in the reproductive justice space. We work across various aspects of reproductive injustices\, including issues of access across zip codes\, early childhood education\, birth justice\, and physical environment — to name just a few. We have learned alongside our community partners how important it is to not silo this work\, and aim to continue bringing attention to reproductive injustices in Milwaukee and act as a resource for making substantial changes to improve the conditions within which individuals can exercise their “human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy\, have children\, not have children\, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities” (SisterSong). \n\n\n\nLa Revo Books offers new and used books for and by Black\, Indigenous\, and People of Color (BIPOC)\, and Latinx readers.
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/book-talk-a-conversation-about-black-feminist-resistance-in-trying-times/
LOCATION:Kuumba Juice & Coffee\, 274 East Keefe Avenue\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, 53212\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture,Co-Promotional,Co-Sponsored,Collaboratory,Faculty and Staff,Health and Well-being,Lecture,Off-campus,Public,SLOW,Slow Care
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SUMMARY:Human Club: Little Free Library Walking Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a walk with the Human Club to explore the Little Free Libraries in our campus community! \n\n\n\nWe will start our journey at the UWM Center for Student Experience and Talent in the Student Union. Then\, we will head north through the campus neighborhoods\, making stops at the Little Free Libraries we find along the way. We will hear from local Little Free Library volunteers about how they set up their libraries and what motivated them to start this project! \n\n\n\nThe Little Free Library motto is\, “Take a Book\, Leave a Book.” In the spirit of this motto\, we ask that you bring a book (or two!) to donate to a library. Your donation will help keep these neighborhood libraries stocked with stories.  \n\n\n\nWe invite both pets and children to join us on this adventure. Please be prepared to walk at least a mile as we explore the neighborhood around UWM and share the joy of books! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat are Little Free Libraries?\n\n\n\nLittle Free Library is a nonprofit organization based in St. Paul\, Minnesota. Their mission is to be a catalyst for building community\, inspiring readers\, and expanding book access for all through a global network of volunteer-led Little Free Library book-exchange boxes. \n\n\n\nTheir vision is a Little Free Library in every community and a book for every reader. They believe all people are empowered when the opportunity to discover a personally relevant book to read is not limited by time\, space\, or privilege. Through Little Free Library book exchanges\, millions of books are exchanged each year\, profoundly increasing access to books for readers of all ages and backgrounds. \n\n\n\nAbout Human Club\n\n\n\nHuman Club is the Center for 21st Century Studies’ newest initiative\, which features free field trips around Milwaukee and humanities gatherings with your fellow humans. Comes with a membership punch-card!
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/human-club-little-free-library-walking-tour/
LOCATION:UWM Union SET Office\, Student Union E153\, 2200 E Kenwood Blvd.\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, 53211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni & Community,Arts and Culture,Human Club,Off-campus,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,Student Life,Student Life,Students,Students,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:C21 Research Fellows Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 15\, 3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n939 Curtin Hall\, 3243 N. Downer Ave.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout\n\n\n\nJoin the Center for 21st Century Studies for concluding presentations from our 2025-26 cohort of research fellows. \n\n\n\nCentering the humanities in the belief that groundbreaking ideas come from diversity of opinions\, disciplines\, and experiences\, each year\, C21 offers fellowships that provide the time\, space\, and collegial support to generate new knowledge and ideas. This year’s cohort conducted research and developed interdisciplinary projects that aligned with Slow Care\, C21’s 2025-26 research and programming theme.  \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2025-26 Research Fellows\n\n\n\nSharity Bassett (Women’s & Gender Studies)\n\n\n\nDuring this fellowship\, Bassett worked on multivocal and collaborative autofiction\, a project she began in summer 2025 with EQI/MMSD interns and a workshop series at Ring Lake Ranch in Wyoming. This work is focused on creating connected futures by engaging with difficult stories\, fostering empathy\, and facilitating productive conversations. \n\n\n\nKatharine Elizabeth Beutner (English)\n\n\n\nIn the 2025-2026 fellowship year\, Beutner revised the follow-up novel to Killingly\, her second novel\, and initiated a new environmental writing project.  \n\n\n\nKidiocus King-Carroll (African & African Diaspora Studies)\n\n\n\nCarroll researched and developed a podcast that situates Black migration to Milwaukee as a lens for exploring slow care and its impacts. \n\n\n\nLynn Goerdt (Social Work\, UW-Superior)\n\n\n\nGoerdt developed a well-being innovation lab through UW-Superior’s Pruitt Center for Mindfulness and Well-being that supports change-making efforts on innovative ideas to address the most challenging barriers to well-being\, prioritizing projects that support youth and young adults in northwest Wisconsin. \n\n\n\nYevgeniya Kaganovich (Art & Design)\n\n\n\nKaganovich continued an ongoing project that integrates fungi into and around and sculpture\, focusing on a review of literature relevant to the project\, experimentation with wild and domesticated fungal material\, and field and forest work to enable sharing the experience of the project with colleagues.  \n\n\n\nNan Kim (Anthropology)\n\n\n\nKim worked on a project about how narratives and interpretations that center the Anthropocene persist as dissenting forms of environmental memory. \n\n\n\nGabriela Nagy (Psychology)\n\n\n\nNagy is an immigration researcher who examines how the social contexts in which immigrants reside affect their wellbeing. During her fellowship\, Nagy sought to submit to publications\, code recordings of intervention sessions\, and leverage community-engaged methods to refine and optimize her work.
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/c21-rf-presentation/
LOCATION:939 Curtin Hall\, 3243 N Downer Ave\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, 53211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty and Staff,Faculty and Staff,Lecture,Lectures Conferences and Symposiums,Lectures Conferences and Symposiums,Public,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:Book Talkback - Muslims in Milwaukee: Placemaking\, Belonging\, and Activism 
DESCRIPTION:Overview\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, May 20\, 7:00-8:30 PM\n\n\n\nIslamic Resource Center\, 5235 S 27th St\, Greenfield\, WI 53221\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Center for 21st Century Studies and the Muslim Milwaukee Project for the launch of a new book on the Muslim communities in Milwaukee by UWM professors Anna Mansson McGinty\, Caroline Seymour-Jorn\, and Kristin Sziarto. There will be a panel talkback featuring prominent members of Milwaukee’s Muslim community—Waheed Ahmed\, Othman Atta\, Amal Azzam\, Janan Najeeb\, and Brother Will Perry—moderated by Fahed Masalkhi\, PhD.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Muslims in Milwaukee: Placemaking\, Belonging\, and Activism\n\n\n\nMuslims in Milwaukee explores the everyday lives\, identities\, and activism of Muslims in a midsized Midwestern city. Milwaukee is one of America’s most segregated cities\, yet within its boundaries\, a vibrant Muslim community is reshaping narratives and embodied practices of belonging\, civic engagement\, and urban placemaking. While considerable scholarship on Muslim Americans has concentrated on larger metropolitan centers like New York\, Los Angeles\, and Chicago\, or on Detroit’s historic Arab neighborhoods\, this book turns our attention to an understudied city where Muslim communities are small but rapidly growing\, and where their experiences unfold within distinct local landscapes of race\, segregation\, and opportunity.  \n\n\n\nDrawing on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork\, surveys\, and extensive interviews with community members\, students\, artists\, activists\, and leaders\, the authors examine how local political\, economic\, and historical structures shape Muslim American experiences and civic participation\, situating their analysis within the dual dynamics of belonging on one hand and exclusion and discrimination on the other.  \n\n\n\n\nPurchase your copy from Syracuse University Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Panelists\n\n\n\nExpand All\nWaheeduddin Ahmed \n\n\n\n\n\nM. Sc.\, PhD.\, University of London. Scientist (retired). \n\n\n\nFounder president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee\, 1983. \n\n\n\nFounder of Islamic Information Service Inc.\, 1985. \n\n\n\nFounder Milwaukee Islamic Dawah Center\, 1993. \n\n\n\nEdited various journals including: Islamicus\, The Commentator and Shahadah. \n\n\n\nInitiated the demographic survey of Muslims in Milwaukee with mutual agreement between the Dawah Center and the Chancellor of UWM\, 2010/11. The project was developed by the team that authored the book: “Muslims in Milwaukee”.\n\n\n\n\n\nOthman M. Atta \n\nServed as President of the Executive Board of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and currently serves as its Executive Director and primary spokesman. The ISM is the largest Muslim organization in Wisconsin and operates three Mosques in the greater Milwaukee area as well as the largest Islamic school in the nation.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorked as an attorney in private practice for over 20 years. \n\n\n\nFormer Advisory Board Member\, Marquette University Law School \n\n\n\nFormer Representative of the Islamic Society on the Board of the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee \n\n\n\nFormer Adjunct Faculty Member at Cardinal Stritch University (taught courses on Religious Culture of Islam). Also taught courses on Islam and Middle-East Politics for UW-Extension. \n\n\n\nRecipient of the Wisconsin Chapter – ACLU “Civil Libertarian of the Year Award” \n\n\n\nRecipient of Wisconsin Law Journal’s “Leader in the Law Award” \n\n\n\nFormer Member\, FBI Civil Rights Advisory Group. Graduate of FBI Citizen Academy and Milwaukee Police Department’s Citizen’s Academy \n\n\n\nFormer Commissioner\, Milwaukee Commission on Police-Community Relations \n\n\n\nFormer Board Member\, Wisconsin Chapter of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee \n\n\n\nDelivered hundreds of speeches to business\, interfaith and other groups and participated in numerous lectures\, panel discussions and debates at local universities.  \n\n\n\nMarried with four children. \n\n\n\n\n\nAmal Azzam\nAmal Azzam is a Muslim American interdisciplinary artist based in Milwaukee\, WI. Her practice explores the layered complexities of identity\, trauma\, and freedom through mediums including screen printing\, found objects\, fiber\, and photography. She aims to reflect society back onto itself\, showing its contradictions and the struggles of belonging.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 2025\, Azzam was awarded the Mildred L. Harpole Artist of the Year by the Milwaukee Arts Board. Her work has been nationally exhibited at the Hunter Museum of American Art (Chattanooga\, TN)\, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan\, WI)\, Woman Made Gallery (Chicago\, IL)\, and the James Watrous Gallery (Madison\, WI). She has also co-curated exhibitions such as Wherever Home Is at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences\, Arts & Letters and Al-Nisa at Walker’s Point Center for the Arts.   \n\n\n\nAmal is also the co-founder of Fanana Banana (“Fanana” meaning female artist in Arabic)\, a Milwaukee-based arts movement that creates space for Muslim\, MENA\, and underserved artists to share their work. Fanana Banana has grown into a community hub for exhibitions\, panels\, and collaborations.   \n\n\n\nHer work and story have been featured in WUWM – Milwaukee’s NPR\, PBS Wisconsin\, Artdose Magazine\, Milwaukee Magazine\, and Cream City Review\, where her art appeared on the cover in 2024.  \n\n\n\n\nJanan Najeeb\nJanan Najeeb is a pioneering Muslim community leader\, advocate\, and educator\, widely recognized for her work at the intersections of faith\, justice\, gender and civic engagement. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Muslim Women’s Coalition (MWC)\, and the Islamic Resource Center\, Wisconsin’s first Muslim library and cultural hub.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNajeeb has founded several groundbreaking initiatives\, including the Wisconsin Muslim Journal\, Wisconsin Muslim Civic Alliance\, Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival\, and the Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine. She also serves on the Governor’s Council on Domestic Abuse and holds board positions with the Rotary Club of Milwaukee\, Wisconsin Public Radio\, and the Wisconsin Historical Society. She chairs both the Religious Leaders Caucus of MICAH and the City of Milwaukee Commission on Community Wellness and Safety. For more than two decades\, she has co-chaired and emceed Milwaukee’s citywide Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.  \n\n\n\nA frequent media voice and public speaker\, Najeeb has delivered more than 2\,000 presentations across the country on Muslim identity\, civil rights\, women’s rights\, refugees\, and interfaith dialogue. Her published works include contributions to The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies\, The Journal of Disability & Religion\, Interfaith Engagement in Milwaukee\, as well as training manuals for statewide agencies. She has been featured in major outlets including the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\, The New York Times\, Islamic Horizons\, Aljazeera\, Wisconsin Public Radio\, among many others.   \n\n\n\nHer trailblazing leadership has earned her numerous awards\, including the 2025 City of Milwaukee Lifetime Achievement Award\, 2024 Milwaukee Magazine Woman of Distinction Award\, the 2023 Lucille Berrien Humanitarian Award\, the 2022 Milwaukee Rotary Person of the Year Award\, and the 2019 Frank Zeidler Award for Social Justice and Activism.  \n\n\n\nNajeeb is married to Dr. Waleed Najeeb and is the proud mother of five and grandmother of six.  \n\n\n\n\nBrother Will Perry \nWill Perry is a lifelong Milwaukee resident whose career reflects a deep commitment to faith‑based civic engagement and community building. He holds a master’s degree in management and is widely known for his long tenure as Executive Director of the Milwaukee Islamic Dawah Center (MIDC)\, where he played a key role in strengthening community institutions\, expanding social services\, and fostering collaboration across Milwaukee’s diverse neighborhoods.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUnder his leadership\, MIDC became a vital hub for outreach\, re-entry service\, and support for individuals and families facing social and economic challenges.  \n\n\n\nIn addition to his work at MIDC\, Will currently serves on the Board of the Muslim Community Health Center\, supporting efforts to improve access to culturally responsive healthcare. His broader leadership experience includes previously serving as Director of the Milwaukee Muslim Funeral Home\, as well as serving as Past President of the Wisconsin Muslim Civic Alliance.  \n\n\n\nWill is a retired member of the Milwaukee Fire Department and an honorably discharged Sergeant of the United States Marine Corps. He is widely respected for his integrity\, steady leadership\, and commitment to dialogue\, belonging\, and compassionate community care.  \n\n\n\nWill Perry is a devoted family man\, serving as a husband\, father\, and grandfather.  \n\n\n\n\nFahed Masalkhi\, Ph.D. (Moderator)\nDr. Fahed is a Senior Teaching Faculty member in the Department of Global Studies at UW-Milwaukee and serves as the coordinator of the Arabic Program. His academic and professional path has been anything but conventional.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInitially trained in the STEM disciplines\, he holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees in Engineering and spent a significant portion of his early career in the corporate sector. While that chapter provided valuable experience\, it ultimately left him searching for deeper intellectual fulfillment and a greater sense of purpose.  \n\n\n\nThis pursuit led him back to academia\, where he transitioned into the humanities. He earned an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and went on to complete a PhD in Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2021. His interdisciplinary training—spanning technical\, literary\, and theological fields—continues to shape both his teaching and his scholarship in meaningful ways.  \n\n\n\nHis work is anchored in two main areas of inquiry; both rooted in Qur’anic Studies. The first centers on Arabic language instruction\, with a particular emphasis on pedagogical approaches that make the language accessible and meaningful across diverse learning environments. The second engages the field of Islamic Studies more broadly\, with a focus on how it can respond thoughtfully to the intellectual and cultural needs of students in Western educational contexts.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Islamic Resource Center & Muslim Women’s Coalition\n\n\n\nThe Islamic Resource Center\, a project of Muslim Women’s Coalition\, is Wisconsin’s only Islamic cultural center and lending library. \n\n\n\nThe Muslim Women’s Coalition (MWC) is dedicated to building an equitable and inclusive Wisconsin\, where diversity is celebrated and all individuals are valued. Their mission is to empower Muslim women and girls through education\, leadership\, outreach\, and wellness programs\, helping them reach their fullest potential while creating a positive impact on the broader community. \n\n\n\nFounded in 1994\, MWC began as a local resource organization with the goal of promoting a more accurate understanding of Islam and Muslim women. Over the years\, MWC has remained committed to leading positive community change through advocacy\, dialogue\, education\, and outreach\, using faith-based values to ensure dignity and equity for all.
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/book-talkback-muslims-in-mke/
LOCATION:Islamic Resource Center\, 5235 S 27th St\, Greenfield\, Wisconsin\, 53221\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni & Community,Collaboratory,Faculty and Staff,Off-campus,Panel,Public,SLOW,Slow Care
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SUMMARY:mycollective: Slow Growing in the Time of Trees - Artist Reception
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Saturday\, June 6\, 2 – 5 PM\n\n\n\nExhibition: May 23\, 2026 – June 7\, 2026\n\n\n\nLynden Sculpture Garden\, 2145 West Brown Deer RoadMilwaukee\, WI 53217\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtist reception for mycollective: Slow Growing in the Time of Trees exhibition at Lynden Sculpture Garden with an unveiling of Matthew Vivirito’s Framework\, the second work in Lynden’s MATERIALIZE series of outdoor projects. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Exhibition\n\n\n\nSlow Growing in the Time of Trees presents speculative objects produced over the course of two growing seasons by mycollective\, a mycology-focused artist collective that brings together four creative practitioners and mushroom enthusiasts: Jim Charles\, Lane Hall\, Yevgeniya Kaganovich\, and Lisa Moline. Together\, they examine the durational nature of trees\, mushrooms and humans\, the symbiosis between trees and their human and non-human partners\, and interactions between natural and reclaimed materials over time. Experimenting with both naturally occurring and cultivated living mushroom cultures\, mycollective generates work with visible fungal fruits and invisible mycelial networks intertwined with trees. mycollective will be joined by guest Kate Beutner. \n\n\n\nWorking at the Lynden Sculpture Garden\, where Yevgeniya Kaganovich has long been an artist in residence\, mycollective bridges the space between humans\, sculpture\, and the landscape. To grow mushrooms\, the artists have been making sculptural forms out of accessible materials—recycled plastic bags\, cardboard\, birch bark\, tree branches—and filling them with spore-inoculated grain and straw. These forms are then installed in and around the tree-sculptures that Kaganovich began in 2019 as part of her residency\, Tree Intuits Chair. While these experiments are always visible on the grounds\, Kaganovich and her collaborators also offers programs\, such as a fall tree and mushroom walk\, that introduce the public to the specifics of their project. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\n\n\nmycollective is a mycology-focused artist collective that brings together four creative practitioners and mushroom enthusiasts: Jim Charles\, Lane Hall\, Yevgeniya Kaganovich\, and Lisa Moline.  Kaganovich is currently in her second artist residency at the Lynden Sculpture Garden\, where she is working on Tree Intuit Chair\, a portion of her divergent fates project. She has a longstanding working relationship with Lynden\, which was home to grow\, a previous durational project. Kaganovich\, Charles\, Hall\, and Moline were colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for many years\, and began working together as mycollective\, experimenting with myceliated sculptures\, more recently. Kaganovich was a 2025-2026 C21 (UWM College of Letters & Sciences Center for 21st Century Studies) Fellow\, and mycollective began their work at Lynden as part of a 2024-2025 C21 Collaboratory that included Kate Beutner. Hall and Moline have been pursuing creative research as the collaborative team badscience for over 25 years. They are also the co-founders of the Overpass Light Brigade.
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/mycollective-slow-growing-in-the-time-of-trees-artist-reception/
LOCATION:Lynden Sculpture Garden\, 2145 West Brown Deer Road  Milwaukee\, WI 53217
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture,Exhibit,Faculty and Staff,Off-campus,Public,Research Fellows,SLOW,Slow Care
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