The Look Here! Initiative is calling for poster designs by UWM academic staff or instructors and UWM students. Three poster designs will be selected to promote the Look Here! Initiative–a collaboration between the UWM Libraries and local artists–and related events. Artists submitting …
The Look Here! initiative is a pilot project initiated by the UWM Libraries that asks artists to create projects that reimagine, transform, and engage with the objects in our collections, especially our Digital Collections, in ways that were unimagined before the digital turn. …
On August 28, 1967, activists and community members, including Alderperson Vel Phillips, Father James Groppi, and the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council Commandos, marched to demand a fair housing ordinance for Milwaukee and an end to segregated housing in the city. …
The launch of a series of events, “200 Nights of Freedom,” marking the 50th anniversary of Milwaukee’s 1967 open housing marches, was held at the Wisconsin Black Historical Society Museum on August 5. A “History Harvest,” coordinated by the March …
A 90 x 10 foot mural unveiled this May on Milwaukee’s south side—honoring the 50-year history of United Migrant Opportunity Services (UMOS) and migrant workers in southeastern Wisconsin—was nurtured early on in its creative life in the UWM Libraries Archives. …
The UWM Libraries are excited to join Doors Open Milwaukee for the first time Saturday, September 17, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.As part of Open Archives Milwaukee, three collections located in the Golda Meir Library, 2311 E. Hartford …