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    Art Works: Recent Donations to the UWM Art Collection

    Art Works: Recent Donations to the UWM Art Collection
    Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Monday–Thursday, 10:00am–4:00pm
    The exhibit features pieces by well-known artists such as Dale Chihuly, Andy Warhol, and Alexander Calder. Lesser-known - but no less significant - artists including Max Arthur Cohn, Karen Fitzgerald, and Carlos Hermosilla Alvarez are also presented. Art Works highlights the key players that make the Mathis Art Gallery a rich resource for all.

    Free

  • Who Will Remain? (film screening and talkback)

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

    A documentary film from the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project follows one woman's journey to understand her grandfather. In an attempt to better understand her grandfather (Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever), Israeli actress Hadas Kalderon travels to Lithuania and …

    Free

  • Celts on Campus

    UWM Union Concourse 2200 East Kenwood Boulevard, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join the Center for Celtic Studies in celebrating Celtic culture. “Celts on Campus” will feature local organizations demonstrating music, dance, and sports originating from Celtic Nations. Other local organizations will share student scholarship opportunities. Learn more about the history and …

    Free

  • What’s Next? A Community Story Circle

    Growing Resistance: Untold Stories of Milwaukee’s Community Guardians
    Milwaukee Public Library - Washington Park location 2121 N Sherman Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Part of the “Growing Resistance: Untold Stories of Milwaukee’s Community Guardians” exhibit currently showing at the Brooks Stevens Gallery at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD), Community guardians are common folks—homeowners, renters, block leaders, elders, and civic minded …

    Free

  • Insignificant Things in the Archives of Atlantic Slavery

    UWM Mitchell Hall, Room 195 3203 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    A Friends of Art History Lecture: What forms of visual evidence can, and should, one use to materialize and memorialize the history of Atlantic slavery? In this talk, Matthew Rarey argues that this question, far from being a contemporary ethical …

    Free

  • Fourth Unhopped Iron Brewer Challenge: Unhopped and Unplugged Brews

    UWM Honors House, Room 196 3363 North Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The Hortus Academicus/Brew Garden initiative at UWM will hold a tasting competition of six entries. These brews all have archaeological/historical pedigrees. The story of each brew will be available in a short power point. Three judges will choose the top …

    Free

  • Saintly: Christian Women in Early Modern Europe (Art Exhibition)

    Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Saintly: Christian Women in Early Modern Europe explores the relationship between laywomen and holy women from the Christian canon by examining depictions of the Virgin Mary and Women Saints in works from the 16th through 18th centuries. Curated by graduate student Nikki …

    Free

  • What the Folk? (Art Exhibition)

    Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Accompanying a course on American Folk Art taught by the UWM Art History Department, What the Folk? explores the terminology and history that have shaped understandings of folk art, self-taught art, Americana, outsider art, and visionary art. It asks which artists and …

    Free

  • Deep Listening – Interactive Storytelling – Insect Perception – Weaving Voices

    UWM Curtin Hall, Room 368 3243 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Kristine Diekman, visiting artist and “multi-sensory storyteller”, will present about her fascinating work that incorporates narrative and interactive tabletop installations. Explore her website, https://www.kristinediekman.net/ Kristine Diekman is Emeritus Professor in the Art, Media & Design Department at California State University.

    Free

  • Visiting Writer: Nicky Beer

    Visiting Writer: Nicky Beer
    UWM Curtin Hall, Room 175 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Nicky Beer visits UWM as part of the Creative Writing program's visiting writer series. Craft Talk @ 3 pm - to livestream: https://tinyurl.com/47xam2et Reading @ 7 pm - to livestream: https://tinyurl.com/mr3tdhx7 Nicky is a bi/queer writer, and the author of …

    Free

  • The Importance of Being Earnest

    The Importance of Being Earnest
    UWM Honors House, Room 196 3363 North Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Come see the UWM Honors College Drama Club's production of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde! It will be held in Honors 196, and doors will open a half hour prior to the show. All performances are open …

    Free

  • Saintly: Christian Women in Early Modern Europe (Art Exhibition)

    Saintly: Christian Women in Early Modern Europe (Art Exhibition)
    Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Saintly: Christian Women in Early Modern Europe explores the relationship between laywomen and holy women from the Christian canon by examining depictions of the Virgin Mary and Women Saints in works from the 16th through 18th centuries. Curated by graduate student Nikki …

    Free

  • What the Folk? (Art Exhibition)

    What the Folk? (Art Exhibition)
    Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Accompanying a course on American Folk Art taught by the UWM Art History Department, What the Folk? explores the terminology and history that have shaped understandings of folk art, self-taught art, Americana, outsider art, and visionary art. It asks which artists and …

    Free

  • Nobunaga Concerto – screening with subtitles

    UWM Union Alumni Fireside Lounge 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    UWM students in Japan 361: Translating Japanese Media will showcase their subtitling skills through showings of episodes of Nobunaga Concerto. Nobunaga Concerto tells the story of a contemporary high school student who travels back in time and takes the place …

    Free

  • Coded Bias – a Science on Screen presentation as part of Milwaukee Film

    Oriental Theater 2230 N. Farwell Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that many facial recognition technologies misclassify women and darker-skinned faces, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in algorithms. "Coded Bias" explores the fallout and Joy's journey to push for the …

    $13

  • UWM Gallery Night

    Explore galleries across UWM’s campus with six exhibitions to peruse. Celebrate the work of Milwaukee’s Latine-identified artists at Union Art Gallery. Think politics with two shows that examine the ways we engage with modern political systems. Check out pins and …

    Free

  • Creative Writing Program Visiting Writer: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

    TBD UWM Campus, Exact Room To Be Determined, WI, United States

    Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is the visiting writing for Fall 2024. Mecca is an award-winning fiction writer and critic. The craft talk will be at 3 pm and a reading and Q&A will be at 7 pm. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan’s fiction …

    Free

  • Literature in the Age of Automated Cognition

    UWM Union Wisconsin Room 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The 2024 Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities welcomes Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar, returning to Wisconsin after having grown up in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over …

    Free

  • Modern Impacts: Celebrating 50 Years of the Rosenberg Collection at UWM

    Modern Impacts: Celebrating 50 Years of the Rosenberg Collection at UWM
    Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Modern Impacts: Celebrating 50 Years of the Rosenberg Collection at UWM honors the fiftieth anniversary of the foundational bequest of the Blanche and Henry Rosenberg Art Collection to UWM. In 1974, the UWM Art Collection was much like the young …

    Free

  • Puerto Rican bomba: free drum-and-dance workshop

    UWM Zelazo Center, Room 250 2419 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    De-stress with a drum-and-dance workshop as we wrap up the semester! Join renowned percussionist and Bembé Artist-in-Residence Beto Torrens for a hands-on workshop on Puerto Rican bomba, an Afro-Indigenous genre that is the island's oldest music and dance tradition. Try …

    Free

  • Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution – Art Exhibition Opening Reception

    Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution explores the traditions of print and portraiture in 20th-century Mexico and their influence in other Latin American countries. This exhibition examines the visual language of revolution, labor, and identity following the …

    Free

  • Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution – Art Exhibition

    Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution – Art Exhibition
    Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution explores the traditions of print and portraiture in 20th-century Mexico and their influence in other Latin American countries. This exhibition examines the visual language of revolution, labor, and identity following the …

    Free

  • Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution – Art Exhibition

    Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution – Art Exhibition
    Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution explores the traditions of print and portraiture in 20th-century Mexico and their influence in other Latin American countries. This exhibition examines the visual language of revolution, labor, and identity following the …

    Free

  • 46th Annual Latin American Film Series

    46th Annual Latin American Film Series
    UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Presented by The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, with UWM Union Student Involvement and Union Cinema UWM’s Latin American Film Series (LAFS) returns this April for its 46th year, showcasing recent feature-length films from across Latin America and …

  • United We Read - Student/Faculty Reading Series

    United We Read: Creative Writing Faculty and Graduate Student Reading Series

    Boswell Book Company 2559 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The UWM Creatuve Writing Program Graduate Student-Faculty Series: United We Read will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, November 14 at Boswell Book Company (2559 N. Downer Avenue) with Sam Wingfield-Karpowitz, Sophie Nunberg, Kurt Olsson, and Prof. Katharine Beutner. …

  • Rebellious Stripes: The American Flag in Activist Art, 1960–2025

    Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The American flag originated as an act of protest. That status intensified in the second half of the twentieth century, as protest movements have used and manipulated the flag in provocative ways. Activists and artists have continued to mobilize the …

  • American Icons: Sacralizing A Nation

    Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    This exhibition explores the ways that religion has been deeply interwoven into the iconography of the United States. Historically, the term ‘icon’ (Greek for ‘image’) is associated with Christian traditions, aligning most notably with venerated religious figures. Today, ‘icon’ is …

  • Rebellious Stripes: The American Flag in Activist Art, 1960–2025

    Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The American flag originated as an act of protest. That status intensified in the second half of the twentieth century, as protest movements have used and manipulated the flag in provocative ways. Activists and artists have continued to mobilize the …

  • A person stands in front of a pile of e-waste.

    Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies

    Artists 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. AI is a transformational force in human history, akin to the rise …

  • A person stands in front of a pile of e-waste.

    Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies Opening Event

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

    Artists 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 …

  • Four people walking away from the camera. On the right side a child holds hands with a teenager.

    29th Festival of Films in French

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

    Join us for the 29th Annual Festival of Films in French which showcases stories of resistance, artistic expression, justice, and freedom. The Festival of Films in French returns this February with an array of contemporary and classic fiction, animation and …

  • Four people walking away from the camera. On the right side a child holds hands with a teenager.

    29th Festival of Films in French

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

    Join us for the 29th Annual Festival of Films in French which showcases stories of resistance, artistic expression, justice, and freedom. The Festival of Films in French returns this February with an array of contemporary and classic fiction, animation and …

  • Chef Gregory León and Professor Julia Roncoroni

    Cocina Libre: Building Community through Immigrant Stories & Food Cultures

    UWM Lubar Entrepreneurship Center 2100 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join us on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 6:00 p.m. for an evening of food, film, and connection. Our guests are Professor and licensed therapist Julia Roncoroni (University of Denver; Cocina Libre founder) and James Beard finalist Chef Gregory León (Amilinda …

  • Artist Kite sitting on next to a dog.

    Aesthetics, Art, & AI: Kite

    Join the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) on March 12 for an artist talk with Kite (a.k.a. Suzanne Kite), an Oglála Lakȟóta artist, composer, and scholar. Her groundbreaking scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance. Kite develops body interfaces for machine learning-driven performance, …

  • The Vera C. Rubin Observatory silhouetted against a purple sky

    The Vera C. Rubin Observatory: It’s About (Space and) Time

    UWM Lubar Entrepreneurship Center 2100 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Learn how the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and its 3.2 Gpix camera will change our view of the Universe. The Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics, in partnership with the Manfred Olson Planetarium, invites you to an …

  • photo of Jennifer Caplan on a stylized background. Overlaid text reads: 2026 Faye Greenberg Sigman "Woman of Valor" Lecture Jennifer Caplan Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Jews, Comedy, and Gender Wednesday, March 18, 2026 at 7:00 pm Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Zoom registration link: https://bit.ly/3VmLcxE Made possible by the generosity of the Taxman and Temkin families.

    Jennifer Caplan, “Funny, You Don’t Look Funny: Jews, Comedy, and Gender”

    UWM Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Faye Greenberg Sigman “Woman of Valor” Lecture Wednesday, March 18, 2026 at 7:00 pm Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor or via Zoom Register at https://bit.ly/3VmLcxE This talk examines trends in the way Jewish institutions have typically “counted” Jewish engagement in …

  • a person with beads in their hair looks at the viewer

    Story Cart with Symphony Swan – (W)rites of Spring

    Havenwoods State Forest 6141 N Hopkins St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    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, this nature walk and writing workshop at Havenwoods State Forest invites us to notice the …

  • collage image of antique postcards, butterflies, mushrooms, and paper with deckled edges

    En-Vision Embodied Writing Workshop

    UWM Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex, Room 1150 3135 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Hosted by the Center for 21st Century Studies and 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 …

  • Tropical plants growing in pots in a greenhouse

    UWM Biological Sciences Greenhouse Open House

    UWM Greenhouse 3209 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    In celebration of Earth Week, the NWQ Biological Sciences Greenhouse will hold its 8th annual Open House. Enjoy and explore our unique instructional collection, look at plants from a new perspective, and learn about the cutting-edge NSF and USDA funding taking place in the facility. Free …

  • A little free library - a glass-fronted box with an angled roof filled with books for people to take or leave

    Little Free Library Walking Tour With C21

    UWM Union - E153 2200 E Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join the Center for 21st Century Studies for a walk with the Human Club to explore the Little Free Libraries in our campus community! We will start our journey at the UWM Center for Student Experience and Talent in the Student Union. Then, …

  • Maria Peralta-Arellano

    Behind the Mic: Two Generations of Journalists in Conversation

    UWM Union Wisconsin Room 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Fresh Air’s Tonya Mosley joins WUWM’s Eric Von Fellow and UWM alumna, Maria Peralta-Arellano for an insightful discussion on their journeys as journalists. From reporting in local communities to covering national conversations, through their experiences, they will explore the challenges, …

  • Cherry blossoms against a blue sky

    Japanese Program Spring Festival

    Mitchell Hall, Room 191 3203 N. Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join the Japanese Program for our annual Spring Festival! Enjoy games, activities, entertaining performances by our wonderful students, and showcases of work by students in the Japanese Program.