Arts & Humanities
UWM alum gets people talking with documentary on homelessness
UWM alumna Jessica Farrell will see her documentary on homelessness, “30 Seconds Away: Breaking the Cycle,” debut Tuesday, Sept. 29, at the Milwaukee Film Festival. Her goal is to draw widespread attention to a tough problem. “It’s not an easy film, there’s not an easy way out,” she says. But, “as a community, we can stop turning the other way and come together to make change.”
UWM’s Mulroy translates Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex trilogy
David Mulroy, professor emeritus of classics at UWM, recently completed a translation of the Greek tragic trilogy known as the Theban plays, about Oedipus Rex and his family. He discusses why these plays still fascinate readers and audiences today.
Professional dancers come to UWM to enhance their careers
One of only three like it in the country, UWM’s MFA in performing arts: dance, allows dancers who still perform professionally to earn a degree through online work and two summer residencies.
UWM choir performs with Rolling Stones at Summerfest
When the Rolling Stones wanted a choir to sing with them during Tuesday’s performance at Summerfest, the legendary rockers found what they needed at UWM. Two dozen members of the school’s elite choral group joined them on stage at the world’s largest music festival.
Lights, camera, UWM alumni in Hollywood
The journey from Milwaukee to Hollywood is shorter than you’d think for graduates of UWM’s Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres and other Peck School of the Arts programs.
A conversation with the writer of UWM’s ‘Slightly Bigger Women’
Theater education major Tina Binns and Peck School of the Arts professor Anne Basting collaborated on a new play, “Slightly Bigger Women.”
A documentary on Clarence Garrett, who returned to UWM after 50 years
“Clarence,” a documentary about Clarence Garrett, thought to be the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s oldest graduate at 87, will have its world premier
UWM prints 3-D hands for Mexican children’s hospital
Sixty-seven 3-D-printed prosthetic hands are on the way to children in Mexico thanks in part to UW-Milwaukee associate professor Frankie Flood.
At UWM, students speak Milwaukee’s native language
UWM has worked to build a strong American Indian Studies program, in which students can learn Anishinaabe, the ancient language that gave Milwaukee its name.
Digital Humanities Lab launches first exhibit
UWM researchers help tell story of dress designer killed in Holocaust