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  • A collage featuring vertical panels of four distinct artworks: a painted ceramic vessel, a black-and-white zebra-stripe pattern, a detailed marbled abstract texture, and a mossy green sculpture with wire details.

    Common Ground – Exhibition Run

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Common Ground explores the possibilities of working with natural materials, bringing together artists whose practices engage with these mediums. The featured works demonstrate the diverse ways artists transform raw materials into objects of beauty, meaning, and innovation. Each work reflects …

  • Fall 2026 VA Mobile Vet Center banner showing a mobile clinic vehicle parked on Maryland Ave between Lapham Hall and the Architecture building, operating from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM.

    VA Mobile Vet Center – Campus Visit

    VA Mobile Vet Center – Campus Visit
    Architecture & Urban Planning (AUP) 2131 East Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The VA Mobile Vet Center (MVC) visits UW-Milwaukee monthly; Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, from 9 am to 3 pm. The MVC offers free, confidential, non-medical counseling for depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the psychological impacts of military sexual trauma …

  • High-angle view of dancers in colorful traditional skirts and musicians performing for a surrounding crowd at the Latine Diversity Festival.

    Latine Diversity Festival

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Food, crafts, entertainment, and more! Join us in celebrating the diversity that is the Latine community! Come learn about the different Latin American and Caribbean countries while enjoying a snack! 

  • Banner for "Our Stories Display" featuring the text "Honoring Service, Sacrifice, and Spirit" over a blue background with an open book illustration.

    Our Stories – Latine Veterans Display

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The Latine Veterans Display will be available for view during the Latine Diversity Festival. You can find it on the north side of the Concourse, next to the Information Desk.

  • Panthers Vote with a checkmark in a gold box

    Panthers Vote Educational Table

    Panthers Vote Educational Table
    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join Panthers Vote for a voter information tabling event designed to help you prepare for upcoming elections. Panthers Vote will provide step-by-step guidance on how to register to vote, check your registration status, and update your information if needed. Attendees can also learn about important deadlines, identification requirements, early voting options, mail-in ballots, and what to expect on Election Day. Stop by to get your questions answered and access reliable, nonpartisan resources to ensure you’re ready to participate in the voting process.

  • Hands holding up a solid blue crocheted yarn square in front of a colorful backdrop of textured crochet squares.

    Fibers Made Easy: Granny Squares Session 3

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Interested in learning the foundations of crochet? Granny squares are a great place to build or hone skills in fiber art! Individual squares can be displayed or combined to create larger objects like scarves, blankets, or clothing pieces! Join us for this one-night course, to learn the basics, including successfully selecting yarn, reading a pattern, planning your project, and creating foundation stitches! Fiber arts like crochet and knitting are a great tool to manage stress and anxiety and an even greater way to meet people while engaging in a fun communal activity.

  • Overhead view of a white collagraph printing plate layered with dried botanical elements, leaves, green mesh, and pink netting on a craft table next to red scissors.

    Collagraph Printmaking

    Collagraph Printmaking
    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Explore the creative possibilities of collagraph printmaking by building a textured printing plate from everyday materials such as cardboard, fabric, lace, leaves, and other found objects. Over two sessions, participants will design, ink, and print their unique plates while experimenting with this sustainable and versatile printmaking technique. Whether creating abstract or representational imagery, everyone will leave with a collection of original prints ready to display and share.

  • Hands holding up a solid blue crocheted yarn square in front of a colorful backdrop of textured crochet squares.

    Fibers Made Easy: Granny Squares Session 4

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Interested in learning the foundations of crochet? Granny squares are a great place to build or hone skills in fiber art! Individual squares can be displayed or combined to create larger objects like scarves, blankets, or clothing pieces! Join us for this one-night course, to learn the basics, including successfully selecting yarn, reading a pattern, planning your project, and creating foundation stitches! Fiber arts like crochet and knitting are a great tool to manage stress and anxiety and an even greater way to meet people while engaging in a fun communal activity. 

  • An animated movie scene from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs showing the characters Flint Lockwood and Sam Sparks standing together under a bright blue sky. They are looking upward in awe and surprise as a downpour of giant, cooked meatballs falls from the sky around them.

    Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs: An Interactive Movie Experience

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Spaghetti storms, cheesburger showers and ice cream skies, step into Swallow Falls where food falls from the sky! Join us for an interactive movie night featuring Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs! Experience the film like never before with themed treats, and fun surprises as the story unfolds.

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    16mm Student Showcase

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join us for a showcase of exemplary student-made films born out of the various 16mm classes in the Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres: a celebration of the diverse creative approaches, from experimental photochemistry to sync-sound narrative, of the talented young filmmakers working to keep celluloid alive.

  • Narrative Movie Still

    Narrative | Milwaukee premiere!

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Anocha Suwichakornpong’s latest shape-shifting excavation of Thai history examines the still-palpable events of the military crackdown that left ninety dead and thousands injured during Bangkok's 2010 pro-democracy protests.

  • Holy Mountain Movie Still

    The Holy Mountain | 35mm print!

    The Holy Mountain | 35mm print!
    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Scandal of Cannes 1973, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism is a spiritual quest for enlightenment pitting illusion against truth. The Alchemist (Jodorowsky) recruits a group of people from all walks of life to divest themselves of their worldly baggage and embark on a journey to ascend the Holy Mountain and displace the gods who rule from its terrible shadow. Preceded each night by a surprise short by the Mexican experimental film collective, Colectivo los Ingrávidos.