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
An exhibition of work by Chicago-area artist Judith Joseph is now on display through August 31, 2017 in the UWM Libraries’ Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons and Hillel Milwaukee’s Joseph & Vera Zilber Building, 3053 N. Stowell Ave. The dual-venue… Read More
The 2016 Ettinger Book Artist Lecture Series, featuring Jim Moran, Museum Director at the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, will be held on Tuesday, November 15 at 7 p.m. in the fourth floor Conference Center of the UWM… Read More
New York Investor Gives Book Collection to UWM
George Brumder, through his Germania Publishing Company, was the largest producer of German-language materials in the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This exhibition offers an overview of UWM Special Collections’ comprehensive collection of publications by Brumder… Read More