The UWM Libraries are substantial contributors to two remarkable exhibitions in Milwaukee museums this summer—Photographing Nature’s Cathedrals: Carleton Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge, and H.H. Bennett at the Milwaukee Art Museum and Look Here! at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum. Look Here!… Read More
The Look Here! Project is an experiment initiated by the UWM Libraries and aimed at encouraging artists from the community and the UWM Peck School of the Arts to work with and create art from our digitized cultural heritage holdings – archival materials, photographs,… Read More
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… Read More
Nearly the entire run – 62 issues – of Milwaukee’s Art Muscle Magazine (1986-1996) is now fully accessible in our Digital Collections. Art Muscle was a bi-monthly art publication that documents the arts scene in Milwaukee during the last decade of the 20th… Read More
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…. Read More
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…. Read More
The UWM Libraries have partnered with Umbra Search African American History at the University of Minnesota — a program that makes African American culture and history more broadly available through a freely available search tool (umbrasearch.org), strategic digitization, and public… Read More