UWM film student, prof to present work in Toronto, New York

The work of a UWM film student will be featured at two prestigious and selective North American platforms for avant-garde film and video, and he’ll be joined at one by a UWM assistant professor. Grad student Sky Hopinka and Jesse McLean will present their work at the Projections portion of the New York Film Festival in October. McLean […]

Alvaro Saar Rios is honored for ‘Luchadora’

UW-Milwaukee’s Alvaro Saar Rios, assistant professor of playwriting and analysis in the Peck School of the Arts, received a Distinguished Play Award as the author of “Luchadora” – a play about a young girl who explores her family’s heritage after she discovers a pink wrestling mask from the world of Mexican wrestling, known as lucha […]

Grants will help fund faculty members’ projects

Several UW-Milwaukee faculty members recently received good news about grant funding for projects. Theatre Professor Anne Basting’s TimeSlips, a nonprofit that brings creativity into care relationships, received an NEA ArtWorks grant to share the stories and imaginations of people across Wisconsin. The grant will support live performance and visual/sound installations inspired by stories created by […]

Student-produced PSA up for top honors in New York

A television commercial made by students in the Peck School of the Arts is a finalist at the prestigious Art & Technique of the American Commercial show June 9 in New York. In the form of a public service announcement, “Campus Safe Ride Stalker” was chosen from United States and international entries. If it is […]