Film & Fine Arts
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 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.
Will the real Godzilla please show up?
The human issues that are embedded in the stories – war, pollution, technology – make Godzilla a global cautionary tale.
Curating the Biennial in NYC, then an INOVA homecoming March 31
Contemporary conceptual artist, curator and double UWM alumna Michelle Grabner returns to INOVA on March 24.
Double major inspires Chagall exhibit
The current exhibition at the UWM Art History Gallery grew out of the curator’s double major.
Internationally acclaimed Indian filmmaker visits UWM
The UWM archive is acquiring, preserving and screening the Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s works in the original 35mm motion picture format,
Students in the catbird seat
Students in a popular freshman course taught by Architecture Professor Mark Keane have a chance to see the chairs they design become reality.
Film students, faculty make their mark at Cannes. Again
An international spotlight was shining again this spring on the Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres in UWM’s Peck School of the Arts.
Connections, commitment lead to SXSW film debut
A film by UWM alum Chris James Thompson premiered to rave reviews at Austin’s South by Southwest festival in March.