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  • 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 …

  • 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 …

  • 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 …

  • 5th Annual Darwin Day

    Thomas A. Greene Geological Museum (Lapham 168) 3209 North Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Darwin Day is 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 …

  • Borges, Joyce, and the Not-Quite-First Spanish-Language Review of Ulysses

    UWM Golda Meir Library, AGS Library (3rd Floor, East Wing) 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Jorge Luis Borges famously claimed himself to be the first hispano to embark upon the odyssey of reading and reviewing James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922). Along with his 1925 review, he also translated the last two pages of the novel, Molly …

  • 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 …

  • 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 …

  • 13th Annual Japanese Speech & Recitation Contest

    Curtin Hall 175

    Participating institutions: UWM, Carthage College, and Milwaukee Doyokai Sponsors: Anime Milwaukee, Japan Foundation Los Angeles, Milwaukee Japanese Association, Japan America Society of Wisconsin, and UWM Department of World Languages and Cultures

  • 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 …