Peck School of the Arts

📽 Rounding up connections to Milwaukee Film Festival 2025 📽

Several alums, students and faculty are screening films as part of the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival. Among them is “Brady Street: A Portrait of a Neighborhood,” a feature-length documentary made by docUWM. More than 80 students worked on the film!

We’ve rounded up some PSOA connections among the festival selections. Congratulations filmmakers, and we'll see you at !

Read the story at News & Stories link in bio.

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee UWM Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres docUWM University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Alumni Association Brady Street Milwaukee Film

🎶 👏 Congratulations, award winners! 👏 🎶

Civic Music MKE has announced its 2025 award recipients, and there are several honorees with ties to the Peck School of the Arts. Timothy Klabunde and Dr. Zachary Durlam will receive Citizen Awards, while Trinny Schumann and Cassie Wilson were recipients of the organization’s Education Awards.

Klabunde and Durlam will receive their awards on May 7 at Live at the Ivy, a free community event showcasing musicians and community leaders from around Milwaukee.

Read the full story at News & Stories link in bio!

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Civic Music Association of Milwaukee University of Wisconsin Milwaukee University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Alumni Association

This Week in the Arts | Apr 21-27

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✨ Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (M**F) starts today! ✨
The UWM Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres present the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (M**F) this week. One of PSOA’s most popular courses in the film program, M**F is a student-run film festival devoted to screening independent, artist-driven films.

“I thought it would be really interesting to have experience from the inside to see how a festival is built up,” said senior film major Anders Waage. “I wanted to get a feel for how to present films professionally.”

Read the full story at News & Stories link in bio.

🗓 M**F runs through April 19.
📍 milwaukeeundergroundfilm.org

💛 414 for UWM Giving Days 💛

Join us as we celebrate and raise support for the Peck School of the Arts during 414 for UWM Giving Days. This year, please consider helping us meet one (or both!) of our challenges:

✨ Dance Scholarship Challenge ✨
Connie Tresch will unlock $20,000 for dance scholarships when 5 donors give to any dance fund.

✨ Design & Visual Communication (DVC) Challenge ✨
An anonymous donor will give $1,000 when 10 donors give to the DVC Scholarship Fund.

You can also choose to support any PSOA fund of your choice during 414 for UWM Giving Days. Every gift, no matter the size, makes an impact.

Make your gift anytime before April 15 at 11:59 p.m. to help unlock critical funding.

Thank you for your support!

This Week in the Arts | April 14-20

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🎶 Join us May 3 for a Choral Collage Concert 🎶

UW-Milwaukee's five choral ensembles present a thrilling evening of music in their final concert of the year. The concert also features the premiere of a new work by UWM composition professor Phillip Sink.

🗓 May 3, 2025 | Bader Hall + Livestream
🎫 Tickets and more info at link in bio!

Featuring
Alta Voce, Sara Mokrzycka, director
Kameraden, Zack Durlam, director
Kameraden Plus, Joe Phillips, director
Bella Voce, Jenny Hutton, director
Concert Chorale, Zack Durlam, director

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ARTWORK: “Slice of Cake” (2024) McKenna Fox, Design & Visual Communication BFA student

Art & Design BA/BFA Spring Exhibition opens May 3!

Join us to celebrate the incredibly talented Department of Art & Design BA and BFA graduating class.

May 3-17 | Kenilworth Square East Gallery
Reception May 3 at 5 p.m.

More info and hours at arts.uwm.edu/events (Link in bio!)

Featured here:
02 Samson Xavier Biely
03 Siying Chen
04 Reese Hadzima
05 Elizabeth Hogan
06 Evan Kuhn
07 Sarah Liz Lothian
08 Belle Meyer
09 Avery Saginak
10 Hannah Belle Smith
11 Calea Sowell
12 Rory Sterbenz
13 Ang Van Den Eeden
14 Lucas Wick
15 Maddie Winters
16 Maria Ziegelbauer

This Week in the Arts | April 7-13

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✨ Chris, Alexandra and Megan share what excites them most ✨

This weekend, the UWM Music Department will present Mozart’s Le Nozze Di Figaro (edited by Ludwig Finscher) at the Zelazo Center’s Bader Hall.

With a wide array of student performers and live accompaniment by UWM’s Symphony Orchestra, there is a lot for audiences to be excited about. We caught up with three members of the cast to learn more about what excites them most about performing in this production.

✨ Read the full story at News & Stories link in bio.
✨ "Le Nozze Di Figaro" runs through April 5.

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Photos by Mark Frohna

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time opens April 30!

15-year-old Christopher has an extraordinary brain: he excels at mathematics but struggles to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, he detests being touched, and he distrusts strangers. One night, at seven minutes after midnight, Christopher discovers his neighbor’s dog, Wellington, has been speared with a garden fork. Suspected of the crime, Christopher is determined to solve the mystery. His detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a thrilling journey that upturns his world.

🗓 April 30-May 3, 2025 | Mainstage Theatre
🎫 Tickets and more info at link in bio!

A play by Simon Stephens
Based on the novel by Mark Haddon
Directed by Ralph Janes

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ARTWORK: Emmanuel Guerra (MFA 2024, Art), “Whistling for My Dog for Protection” (2024)

✨ Elizabeth and Ambrose take us behind the scenes ✨

The UWM Department of Theatre’s production of “The Ballad of Maria Marten” opens tonight, directed by Robin Mello. Elizabeth Riley and Ambrose Schulte, both aspiring directors and juniors in the Theatre Practices program, served as Assistant Directors.

A highlight of their creative research on the project was when Professor Mello connected them with Beth Flintoff, the playwright, for a conversation about the play.

✨ Read the story at News & Stories link in bio!
✨ "The Ballad of Maria Marten" runs through April 6.

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Photo by Cameron Wise '26 (BFA Film)

This Week in the Arts | Mar 31-Apr 6

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👏 Congratulations, Elizabeth! 👏

Peck School of the Arts students are taught the importance of research in the arts. As an arts school within a leading research university, nearly all the art that students create comes as the result of thorough research.

Elizabeth Lappano, a junior studying Theatre Production, has taken her ongoing research project on equity and inclusion in the arts to great heights. Currently focused on aspects of neurodivergence, Lappano will present her findings at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2025 in Pittsburgh next month. This is the second consecutive year that Lappano’s research was accepted for the conference.

Read the full story at News & Stories link in bio!

Springdances 2025 opens April 24!

Springdances: Revel & Reckon premieres five bold new dance works that capture the beauty and contradictions of contemporary life. Through visceral movement and compelling imagery, these performances navigate themes of memory, displacement, embodied resistance, environmental justice, consumerism, judgment, community, and unfiltered joy. Each piece invites audiences to reflect on the ways we move through the world—how dance becomes a force of resilience, humanity, and transformation.

Apr 24-27 | Kenilworth Square East
Livestream option also available

Featuring choreography by NYC-based genderqueer artist Katy Pyle, alongside UWM Dance faculty Mair Culbreth, Maria Gillespie, Ishmael Konney, and Gina Laurenzi, Springdances offers an evening of urgent, evocative, and boundary-pushing performance.

Tickets and more info at arts.uwm.edu/events

This Week in the Arts | Mar 24-30

arts.uwm.edu/events (Link in bio!)

✨ Makers! 25 + Sculpture 25 + Focus!25 Student Exhibitions ✨

These “best of” exhibitions feature student work from all levels of Jewelry & Metalsmithing, Sculpture, Photography, and Digital Fabrication & Design courses taught during 2024-25 academic year at UW-Milwaukee. Join us to celebrate the remarkable work!

Opening Reception and Awards
🗓 Friday, April 4 | 6-8 p.m.

On View at Kenilworth Square East
🗓 April 4-28 | 3rd Floor Gallery

The Goundie Awards, Harold A. Milbrath Memorial Jewelry & Metalsmithing Prizes and multiple other awards will be announced during the opening reception.

More info and gallery hours at Events Calendar link in bio!

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Image: Abigail Tran (Studio Art BFA student), "Play", Sterling Silver, Patina, Diamond, Construction, and Fabrication, 2024