A collaborative team led by Ann Hanlon, head of Digital Collections and Initiatives at the UWM Libraries, and Dan Siercks, interim director for Web and Data Services in the UWM College of Letters & Science, has received a $50,000 Andrew… Read More
This November, the UWM Libraries’ Special Collections celebrates Native American Heritage Month with an exhibit of works by Native American women poets in the Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons, located on the first floor west wing of the Golda Meir… Read More
Richard Wagner, author of the recently published We’ve Been Here All Along: Wisconsin’s Early Gay History (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2019), will give a presentation about his book at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 in the fourth floor… Read More
An exhibition of photographs of the Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, on loan from the Consulado de México en Milwaukee, will be on view in the Fourth Floor Exhibition Gallery of the UWM Golda Meir Library, 2311 E…. Read More
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
Ryan Holifield, associate professor in the UWM Department of Geography, has been awarded the 2018 Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Research Grant and Lectureship for his proposal “When Visions of Justice Collide: Critique, Justification, and the ‘Box Tunnel Controversy’ at Milwaukee’s… 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
Book artists, papermakers, and letterpress printers Peter and Donna Thomas of Santa Cruz, California, formed their business partnership in 1977. Over the next forty years they produced more than 500 editioned, one-of-a-kind, and collaborative books and broadsides, establishing a prominent place in… Read More
Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, Assistant Professor, UWM Department of Africology, will present the 48th annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture on Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 4 p.m. in the fourth floor Conference Center of the UWM Golda Meir Library, 2311 E. Hartford… Read More