An Evening with Dick Blau

As part of the UWM Union Cinema’s Experimental Tuesdays series, on April 14 at 7 p.m., the UWM Union Cinema will be presenting An Evening with Dick Blau, presented in conjunction with the UWM Archives. Dick Blau, a local photographer, artist, and filmmaker, has been making films and video works for over 40 years, and recently donated his archival collection to the UWM Archives. The evening will highlight his film and video works, including three 2K restorations remastered from original elements stored at the UWM Archives. The event will also include discussion about his career, and stories about working in the Milwaukee art community. The event is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres. 

Dick Blau (BA Harvard 1965; PhD Yale 1973) is professor emeritus and founder of the UWM Department of Film, Video, Animation, & New Genres. He is the author of six photo books and numerous films on many different subjects: from interpersonal family dynamics to the music and culture of the Roma of northern Greece. Covering a wide number of subjects and styles, Blau’s work ranges across the genres — from documentaries to fairytales to studies in pure abstraction. Blau’s films show internationally and his photographs can be found in major collections both here and abroad: in the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Thessaloniki Museum of Contemporary Art, and locally at the Milwaukee Art Museum and Museum of Wisconsin Art.

See the Student Affairs Events and Activities Calendar for more information about An Evening with Dick Blau.