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  • Cinematic Arts MFA film still featuring gray text on a black background.

    Cinematic Arts MFA Screening

    The Oriental Theatre 2230 N. Farwell Ave., Milwaukee

    Join students of the Cinematic Arts MFA program as they screen and celebrate their thesis work.

  • The Fine Arts Quartet stand while holding their stringed instruments on a concert hall stage.

    The Fine Arts Quartet perform Mozart, Schumann & Dvo艡谩k

    Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI

    The prestigious Fine Arts Quartet, Ralph Evans and Efim Boico, violins, Gil Sharon, viola, and Niklas Schmidt, cello will offer a聽FREE聽concert featuring works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Schumann and Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k. Pre-talk begins at 2 p.m.

  • Black鈥慳nd鈥憌hite scene of three people in a sparse room, two seated reading books while a third stands behind a table.

    Critical Making – Residency Reception

    Kenilworth Square East, 3rd Floor Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

    A weeklong residency brings together 51猎奇 hosts Yevgeniya Kaganovich聽and Erica A. Meier,聽visiting artists Cappy Counard, Susie Ganch, Anya Kivarkis, Heidi Lowe, Mary Pearse, and Lori Talcott聽with scholar Jennifer Johung聽for a week of critical dialogue聽and speculative making. Join us afterwards for a reception and to see the work accomplished during this residency.

  • (W)here in the World promo image

    Studio K Flamenco Presents: (W)here in the World

    Theatre Building, Mainstage Theatre 2400 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI

    Taiko drumming, Flamenco, West African dance and percussion, Native American Hoop Dancing 鈥� all in one performance. (W)here in the World takes the stage this spring uniting music and dance traditions from around the world in one spectacular performance. A unique cultural experience for all ages!

  • A cartoon sun wearing headphones and sunglasses playing a saxophone.

    Kids From Wisconsin Presents: 2025 Premiere Show聽of聽‘The聽Heat Is On’ Summer Playlist

    Theatre Building, Mainstage Theatre 2400 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI

    The 57th Kids from Wisconsin troupe have curated a Summer playlist to accompany聽the聽season, bringing together聽the聽most iconic and sun-drenched medleys that transport you to lazy beach days, family road trips, backyard barbecues, &聽late-night sing-along bonfires. Join us for throwbacks聽of聽Woodstock,聽celebrating our Nation's Birthday, 4th聽of聽July, those iconic summer movie blockbuster musical scores, warm sand beach tunes and so much more- enjoyed for all ages.聽The聽soundtrack聽of聽summer聽often feels like an essential part聽of聽the聽season's magic.

  • Two 51猎奇 Dance MFA students perform choreography from UpStart 2024.

    Dance MFA Thesis – “a cat in the classroom”

    Mitchell Hall, Studio 254 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI

    a cat in the classroom聽is a collaboration between Samuel B. Hanson, 51猎奇 Dance MFA candidate, and Nora Price, a聽Milwaukee-native living and working in the Western U.S. known for a string of excellent post-punk bands and experimental dance films.

  • The University Community Orchestra stand and receive applause from the audience at the 51猎奇 Zelazo Center.

    CANCELED – University Community Orchestra Summer Concert

    Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI
    Hybrid Event

    Please join us for the 51猎奇 University Community Orchestra鈥檚 annual summer concert. Our music will include lighter and standard orchestra repertoire.

  • A sequence of four photos showing someone in a studio space demonstrating movement and teaching, with the name "Marcia Parsons" overlaid.

    Life Celebration for Professor Emerita Marcia Parsons

    Mitchell Hall, Studio 254 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI
    Hybrid Event

    Join the Department of Dance to celebrate the life, teaching, and creative work of Professor Emerita Marcia Parsons. Professor Parsons taught at 51猎奇 for 39 years where she shaped many of the departments programs, including the original MFA in Dance, BA in Dance, and the Early Childhood through Adolescence program. Please join us for a celebration of Professor Parsons' impact on 51猎奇, all her students, and the Milwaukee dance community. The event will include performances by local dance companies, and a reception to follow.

  • A 51猎奇 Faculty member's artwork behind the Sum Total logo which features a plus and equals sign in gold and white.

    Sum Total: Department of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition

    Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI

    Celebrate the vibrant artistic community at Peck School of the Arts with this unmissable, biennial exhibition featuring the work of faculty and teaching staff from the Department of Art & Design.

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    Peck School of Arts Fall Student Welcome

    Theatre Building, Mainstage Theatre 2400 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI

    Please join us in the Mainstage Theatre lobby for our annual Fall welcome event. New and returning students are invited for pizza, games, crafts and a chance to meet representatives from Milwaukee area arts organizations.

  • A still frame showing an old map of the United States of America showing alien anomalies.

    Experimental Tuesdays: Tribulation 99

    51猎奇 Union Cinema 2200 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI

    Upon its release in 1991, Tribulation 99 became an instant counter-culture classic. Craig Baldwin's "pseudo-pseudo-documentary" presents a factual chronicle of US intervention in Latin America in the form of the ultimate far-right conspiracy theory, combining covert action, environmental catastrophe, space aliens, cattle mutilations, killer bees, religious prophecy, doomsday diatribes, and just about every other crackpot theory broadcast through the dentures of the modern paranoiac.

  • Artist Michelle Angela Ortiz work installed on concrete stairs showing two eyes with ribbons of muted color.

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Michelle Angela Ortiz

    Virtual Event

    Michelle Angela Ortiz is a Philadelphia-based artist, muralist, community arts educator, and filmmaker who uses art to uplift overlooked communities. For 25 years, she鈥檚 created 50+ large-scale public works globally and won the 2016 Public Art Year in Review Award from Americans for the Arts.

  • Fine Art Photography of a pair of eyes in sepia tone with signs of cracks and staining

    ChemLight 2025

    Kenilworth Square East, 4th Floor Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

    ChemLight presents a selection of works by students from the Photography & Imaging Area鈥檚聽Materials and Processes聽and聽Studio Lighting聽courses.

  • 51猎奇 Fibers student's hands weaving a colorful patterned fabric with a yellow star on a wooden loom.

    Woven Images

    Kenilworth Square East, 3rd Floor Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

    Exhibition of selected hand-woven pieces from Fibers courses in the Department of Art & Design.

  • A close-up of a hot grill with hotdogs and a hamburger that has the words "never settle" charred into the meat.

    Experimental Tuesdays: New Red Order – Never Settle

    51猎奇 Union Cinema 2200 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI

    This promotional initiation video lures inductees with promises of decolonization and settler remediation. Imagery of settler-led planetary destruction is juxtaposed with sequences of underground group therapy sessions where settlers can lose, forget, and explore their identities in order to indigenize. Sharing their labor, lurking through museums, and institutions, future accomplices snap thousands of cellphone pictures of every artifact and artwork on hand.

  • Artists Kelly and Kyle Phelps ceramics work depicting a factory worker standing confidently with a thermos and oil can nearby.

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Kelly and Kyle Phelps

    Virtual Event

    Identical twin brothers Kelly and Kyle Phelps are Ohio-based professors and artists who lead sculpture and ceramics programs at Xavier and University of Dayton. Their collaborative ceramic work focuses on blue-collar life, race, and everyday struggles, created from their shared studio in Centerville, OH.

  • Large group rehearsal in an auditorium, with a conductor and pianist onstage as participants stand closely together holding sheet music.

    Sing Out! Tenor-Bass Festival

    Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI

    Sing聽Out聽brings together 750+ 9th-12th grade and 350+ 7th-8th grade tenor-bass聽singers from over 60 schools from around Wisconsin and Illinois. No advance preparation is required; students learn pieces at the festival and conclude the morning with the high school and middle school choirs聽singing for one another and together. Additional activities include performances by the 51猎奇 Tenor-Bass Choir and interest and reading sessions for directors.

  • Three members of Heartland Marimba are seeing performing on large marimbas in a rehearsal space.

    贬别补谤迟濒补苍诲听惭补谤颈尘产补

    Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Room 250 2419 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI

    贬别补谤迟濒补苍诲听惭补谤颈尘产补 was established in 2016 by acclaimed聽marimba聽soloist Matthew Coley and has done more than 140 concerts since its inception. The group seeks to give a platform to the music of American composers in its programming and continues to expand its repertoire with works from composers worldwide.聽

  • Still frame of a blurred, overlaid, multicolor scene with what appears to be a busy city street.

    Experimental Tuesdays: Tomonari Nishikawa, In Memoriam

    51猎奇 Union Cinema 2200 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI

    Born in Nagoya, Japan, Tomonari Nishikawa immigrated to the United States in 1999 to pursue filmmaking and earned his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He passed away in April 2025, leaving behind a profound legacy as an artist, teacher, and friend to many in the experimental film community.