A documentary by PSOA alum Sky聽Hopinka聽(MFA 2016, Performing Arts) has been selected as one of the first 10 selections for this year鈥檚 Milwaukee Film Festival.聽Hopinka鈥檚聽film,聽Powwow People, explores the traditions and culture of the powwow.聽聽
Alum Kiersten Hoff (BFA 2024,聽Film)聽won Best Student Film at the Door County Film Festival last Thursday. Hoff presented their senior thesis film,聽Mindframe, competing against films from across the Midwest.聽This success follows聽a series of wins at the Milwaukee Independent Film Awards …
Peck School of the Arts is well represented at the Museum of Wisconsin Art鈥檚 (MOWA) 2026 Biennial. Artists with ties to PSOA include First Year Program lecturer and Studio Art MFA graduate Tanner MacArthur, Painting & Drawing faculty and alum Cynthia Hayes, Art & Design graduate candidate Aaron Boyd, and Painting & Drawing associate professor and co-chair Angela Piehl. Several alumni are also exhibiting.
Alum Kiersten Hoff鈥檚 (BFA 2024, Film) senior film, Mindframe, is to be featured in the Door County Film Festival. Hoff鈥檚 film will screen in the Student Films category and will be showing February 12 at Fish Creek鈥檚 Northern Sky Gould Theatre. To read the full announcement, visit Door County Pulse.聽聽
Assistant Professor聽Alex Wier聽and聽Associate Professor聽Jennifer Clippert聽(BFA 1999,聽Music Performance) are performers聽on聽鈥淰oiceless Mass,鈥澛燼n聽album聽that made it聽onto聽Bandcamp鈥檚 Best of 2025 list聽in the Best of Contemporary Classical Music category.聽
Gillian Waldo (MFA, 2024) has been named a recipient of a 2026 Creative Capital Award. This year’s awardees were selected from a pool of 4,546 applications from all 50 states and regions in the United States via a democratic, national open call.聽
Vocal Performance alum Brian Manternach (MM 1999, Music) celebrates the publication of his first book, 鈥淰oices of Influence: The Journey of a Teacher and Student in the Voice Studio,鈥� with Bloomsbury Publishing.
Peck School of the Arts Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres is a partner on a new experimental film series called 鈥淭he Great Lakes Listening Series,鈥� which will be held at 51猎奇鈥檚 Union Cinema.
Jeffery Mosser and his mentee, Mizha Lee Overn, were featured on聽Arts Educators Save the World, a podcast that highlights the experiences and聽achievements behind art educators and their mentees.聽 On the podcast, Mosser and Overn聽discuss the mentorship process, the business side …
Akira Harris (Sophomore BFA, Versatile Voice) was awarded at the Wisconsin Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Harris won first place for the Classical Music category and second in the Commercial Music category.聽聽
Assistant Professor Jesse Malmed (Film, Video, Animation and New Genres) marks ten years of his Chicago-based project Western Pole with the exhibition POST POST POST: A Decade of Western Pole at Patient Info, Chicago. Since 2015, Malmed has featured more …
Kyle Khembunjong, a recent graduate of the classical guitar program, has been awarded second prize in the M.E. Brune Guitar Competition at the The University of Rhode Island Guitar and Mandolin Festival, one of the world鈥檚 premier classical guitar competitions. …
In October, PSOA hosted the Patricia Crump Vocal Competition for the first time. Among the competition鈥檚 11 finalists were current graduate students Alexandra Smith and Emily Bergeron and alum Kaisa Herrmann (BFA 2019, Music).聽 The competition honors Patricia Crump, founder …
Peck School of the Arts theatre alum Connor Nekich (BFA 2023) has been selected for the Emerging Professional Residency at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, a highly competitive program that accepts only eight actors each year from more than 200 applicants. Nekich …
51猎奇 alum Geo Rutherford (MFA 2021, Art) debuts the 2025 edition of her viral TikTok series 鈥淪pooky Lake Month.鈥� Each day of October, Rutherford posts a new video about spooky lakes, historical events, a natural phenomenon, educating viewers on a …