Renaissance Theaterworks appoints Bailey Wegner new production manager
Renaissance Theaterworks (RTW) announced the addition of Bailey Wegner to the staff as the company’s new production manager. Wegner is a recent graduate of UW-Milwaukee’s Theatre Department, and joins...
View Article‘Dancing on the Ceiling’ is a Fabulous Protest by Women of Stature
Years ago, when the internationally acclaimed dancer, choreographer, scholar and teacher Simone Ferro agreed to chair UW-Milwaukee’s dance program, she would sometimes lie on the studio floor after the...
View ArticleAnne Basting named an Ashoka fellow
UWM professor Anne Basting was named an Ashoka Fellow on Oct. 25. She was recognized for her work with dementia patients, particularly for her creation of TimeSlips, which harnesses the power of...
View ArticleUWM faculty member awarded residency
Chicago Dramatists awarded UWM Theatre assistant professor Alvaro Saar Rios one of seven new residencies in 2017. Read the full article at Chicago Dramatists The post UWM faculty member awarded...
View Article‘Othello – Deployed’: Shakespeare With Veterans
In a neon-lit rehearsal room in the basement of the UW-Milwaukee theatre building, a troupe of actors is blocking a scene from Othello. As Shakespeare’s words fill the room, you begin to notice the...
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Kenilworth Open Studios
Explore Kenilworth Square East – a 6-floor, 500,000-square-foot, industrial artist studio space home to over 100 award-winning graduate students and faculty of UWM’s Peck School of the Arts. During...
View ArticleMilwaukee Film, UWM among tenants of new film industry incubator
The newly-launched Milwaukee Filmmaker Alliance, Milwaukee Film and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are among the first tenants to sign on to the new film industry incubator in The Brewery...
View Article2017 Nohl Fellowship winners include Lois Bielefeld and Sky Hopinka
Five artists, including photographer Lois Bielefeld and video artist Sky Hopinka, have won southeastern Wisconsin’s prestigious prize for individual artists – the Mary L. Nohl Fellowship. The Nohl fund...
View ArticleEmbodied Truth in ‘Major Barbara’ and Beyond
This week, Off the Cuff spoke with UW-Milwaukee theater professor Rebecca Holderness about her background, artistic philosophy and UWM’s upcoming production of George Bernard Shaw’s astute 1906 comedy,...
View ArticleUWM alum scores by writing, directing musical
Though there are notable exceptions, many high school musicals are filled with fun and frivolity. A Green Bay high school, however, with the help of a UWM alumnus, is tackling drunken driving and...
View ArticleArt & Design alumna and current lecturer work exhibited in India
With support from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Suitcase Export Fund for Visual Art, Art & Design alumna and lecturer Cynthia Hayes is currently exhibiting a new body of work...
View ArticleUWM Dance lecturer featured in national periodical for the Iyengar Yoga...
Dance lecturer Ann Melchior authored a three-page article on UWM yoga practice in the winter 2018 edition of Yoga Samachar, a national periodical of the Iyengar Yoga National Association of U.S. Read...
View ArticleCommunity Arts Senior Lecturer presented in MIAD exhibition
In our current divisive social and political landscape, the newest exhibit at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) asks viewers to do what lately seems rather difficult: feel empathy....
View ArticleFilm alumni screen work at Slamdance Film Festival
Several UWM alumni will screened work at the 2018 Slamdance Film Festival. The festival is in Park City, Utah, and runs in concurrence with the Sundance Film Festival. Read the full article from the...
View ArticleFine Arts Quartet marks 55th and final season and vows to play on
The Fine Arts Quartet wraps up its 55th and final season at UWM with concerts Saturday and Sunday, but the group will continue to play on outside of the university setting. Read more at the Milwaukee...
View ArticleMusic alumnus explores the art of sound in Sweden
Warren Enström creates art with sound, using computers, synthesizers and musical instruments to build compositions. Enström, who graduated with a bachelor of fine arts degree in music composition and...
View Article‘Winterdances’ features hip-hop choreographer D. Sabela Grimes
D. Sabela Grimes — an assistant professor of practice at the University of Southern California’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and a 2014 Rockefeller Fellow — will be the guest artist for 2018...
View ArticleThe 730 Project
Dick Blau, Professor Emeritus and co-founder of the Film department, donated 200 photographs to the Milwaukee County Historical Society to be displayed at a local restaurant this week. Learn more about...
View ArticleArtist explores social themes through ants in UW-Sheboygan exhibit
Painting & Drawing alumnus Kiefer Ledell’s childhood interest in entomology is now the subject of a new exhibition currently showing at UW-Sheboygan. Learn more about his exhibition here. The post...
View ArticleThe Value of Arts Education
Dance lecturer and alumna Gina Laurenzi featured in story that covers successful artists who have emerged from local arts education programs. Read more about Gina, and other Milwaukee art...
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