First Gen Art Competition Celebration

Join us for a celebratory party as we select winning designs to be featured in our Fall 2026 First-Gen Week Celebration! Light refreshments will be provided. Open to all!

Contours of Becoming Opening Reception

Countours of Becoming brings together the work of Caroline Calvano and Keelie Murphy-Besaw, two Milwaukee-based artists whose practices center the body as a site of labor, adornment, and self-definition. Working primarily in metal sculpture, Calvano engages material processes that demand …

Self-Care Celebration

End your year with a celebration of self-care! Join us to finish off the semester and participate in: journal decorating, write a letter to your future self, lawn games, arts and crafts, and so much more!

Coffee With a Cop

Join SHAW and UWMPD for coffee, treats, crafts, and a break with Ezmae!

Experimental Tuesdays Presents: The Great Lakes Listening Series

Free For Everyone! Artists in Attendance! Experimental Tuesdays is proud to present the inaugural Great Lakes Listening Series a new annual listening event that presents multichannel sonic artworks within a cinema space. This year’s edition will feature new works of …

Forgetting Vietnam

One of the myths surrounding the creation of Vietnam involves a fight between two dragons whose intertwined bodies fell into the South China Sea and formed Vietnam’s curving S-shaped coastline. Influential feminist theorist and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha’s lyrical film …

Special Event: Blue House

Blue House Film Screening is a D.I.Y. film organization showcasing short films and building cinematic connections in Milwaukee. Join us at the Union Cinema for a shorts program curated by the members of the Blue House collective!

Two By Black Audio Film Collective: Handsworth Songs

In October 1985 Britain witnessed a spate of civil disturbances in the Birmingham district of Handsworth and in urban centres of London. These were violent, tragic events, marked by the death of an elderly black woman, Joy Gardner and a …

Two By Black Audio Film Collective: Who Needs a Heart

Who Needs A Heart is a parable of political becoming and subjective transformation and remains BAFC’s most controversial film. Akin to a sophisticated home-movie history, a record of life on the fringes in London between 1965 and 1975, the film …

Senior Screenings

Thursday, May 14th - 4:30pm reception 6pm screening Friday, May 15th – 1:30pm reception 3pm screening Friday, May 15th - 4:30pm reception 6pm screening Saturday, May 16th – 10:30am reception 12pm screening Saturday, May 16th – 1:30pm reception 3pm screening Free For …