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Learn about quilting by contributing a stitch to finish the backing of a quilt. Featuring artists Heidi Parkes and Molly Hassler. Visit and contribute a stitch, no experience is necessary, and supplies are provided. From 10:00 AM until 12:30 PM, …
via Zoom https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/j/92665911603
In 1951 in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive on time. No road connects Africo with other villages. In the wake of this tragedy, all …
Come speak French! Practice conversational skills! Meet other students! All levels welcome! The French Table occurs most Wednesdays and Thursdays during the Spring 2023 semester. Click the Event Series at the top of the page to see all of the …
Negotiating Authenticity: Reproducing the Past for the Present explores how reproductions connect us to the past. From Rembrandt restrikes to plastic souvenirs, reproductions occupy an important chapter in an objectβs biography. This exhibition explores the complex relationships between βoriginalβ artifacts …
This exhibition explores the diversity and heterogeneity of late nineteenth and early twentieth Chinese calligraphy and painting from Zhou Cezongβs donation. It suggests that the long-established terms such as βtraditionalityβ and βmodernityβ can no longer be seen as mutually exclusive …
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The exhibit features pieces by well-known artists such as Dale Chihuly, Andy Warhol, and Alexander Calder. Lesser-known - but no less significant - artists including Max Arthur Cohn, Karen Fitzgerald, and Carlos Hermosilla Alvarez are also presented. Art WorksΒ highlights the key players that make the Mathis Art Gallery a richΒ resource for all.
A documentary film from the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project follows one woman's journey to understand her grandfather. In an attempt to better understand her grandfather (Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever), Israeli actress Hadas Kalderon travels to Lithuania and …
Join the Center for Celtic Studies in celebrating Celtic culture. βCelts on Campusβ will feature local organizations demonstrating music, dance, and sports originating from Celtic Nations. Other local organizations will share student scholarship opportunities. Learn more about the history and …
Boswell welcomes 51ΑΤΖζ Professor of English Jason Puskar for an event featuring his latest work,Β The Switch, in which he considers how the development of binary switching, the telegraph to the touchscreen, has transformed everyday life and changed the shape of …
Featuring Professor Liam Callanan and graduate students Nora Boxer, Danielle Harms, and Nancy Nguyen.
Part of the βGrowing Resistance: Untold Stories of Milwaukeeβs Community Guardiansβ exhibit currently showing at the Brooks Stevens Gallery at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD), Community guardians are common folksβhomeowners, renters, block leaders, elders, and civic minded …
Featuring Professor Liam Callanan and graduate studentsΒ Jessica Lynn Drake-Thomas, Camilla Lee, and Sophie Nunberg.
A Friends of Art History Lecture: What forms of visual evidence can, and should, one use to materialize and memorialize the history of Atlantic slavery? In this talk, Matthew Rarey argues that this question, far from being a contemporary ethical …
The Hortus Academicus/Brew Garden initiative at 51ΑΤΖζ will hold a tasting competition of six entries. These brews all have archaeological/historical pedigrees. The story of each brew will be available in a short power point. Three judges will choose the top …
Saintly: Christian Women in Early Modern EuropeΒ explores the relationship between laywomen and holy women from the Christian canon by examining depictions of the Virgin Mary and Women Saints in works from the 16th through 18th centuries.Β Curated by graduate student Nikki …
Accompanying a course on American Folk Art taught by the 51ΑΤΖζ Art History Department,Β What the Folk?Β explores the terminology and history that have shaped understandings of folk art, self-taught art, Americana, outsider art, and visionary art. It asks which artists and …
Kristine Diekman, visiting artist and βmulti-sensory storytellerβ, will present about her fascinating work that incorporates narrative and interactive tabletop installations. Explore her website, https://www.kristinediekman.net/ Kristine Diekman is Emeritus Professor in the Art, Media & Design Department at California State University.
Featuring Professor Brenda CΓ‘rdenas and graduates students Beck Behnke, Sean Enfield, and Ty Newcomb.
Nicky Beer visits 51ΑΤΖζ as part of the Creative Writing program's visiting writer series. Craft Talk @ 3 pm - to livestream: https://tinyurl.com/47xam2et Reading @ 7 pm - to livestream: https://tinyurl.com/mr3tdhx7 Nicky is a bi/queer writer, and the author of …
Come see the 51ΑΤΖζ Honors College Drama Club's production of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde! It will be held in Honors 196, and doors will open a half hour prior to the show. All performances are open …
Saintly: Christian Women in Early Modern EuropeΒ explores the relationship between laywomen and holy women from the Christian canon by examining depictions of the Virgin Mary and Women Saints in works from the 16th through 18th centuries.Β Curated by graduate student Nikki …
Accompanying a course on American Folk Art taught by the 51ΑΤΖζ Art History Department,Β What the Folk?Β explores the terminology and history that have shaped understandings of folk art, self-taught art, Americana, outsider art, and visionary art. It asks which artists and …
51ΑΤΖζ students in Japan 361: Translating Japanese Media will showcase their subtitling skills through showings of episodes of Nobunaga Concerto. Nobunaga Concerto tells the story of a contemporary high school student who travels back in time and takes the place …
When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that many facial recognition technologies misclassify women and darker-skinned faces, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in algorithms. "Coded Bias" explores the fallout and Joy's journey to push for the …
Explore galleries across 51ΑΤΖζβs campus with six exhibitions to peruse. Celebrate the work of Milwaukeeβs Latine-identified artists at Union Art Gallery. Think politics with two shows that examine the ways we engage with modern political systems. Check out pins and …
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is the visiting writing for Fall 2024. Mecca is an award-winning fiction writer and critic. The craft talk will be at 3 pm and a reading and Q&A will be at 7 pm. Mecca Jamilah Sullivanβs fiction …
The 2024 Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities welcomes Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar, returning to Wisconsin after having grown up in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over …
Modern Impacts: Celebrating 50 Years of the Rosenberg Collection at 51ΑΤΖζ honors the fiftieth anniversary of the foundational bequest of the Blanche and Henry Rosenberg Art Collection to 51ΑΤΖζ. In 1974, the 51ΑΤΖζ Art Collection was much like the young …
De-stress with a drum-and-dance workshop as we wrap up the semester! Join renowned percussionist and BembΓ© Artist-in-Residence Beto Torrens for a hands-on workshop on Puerto Rican bomba, an Afro-Indigenous genre that is the island's oldest music and dance tradition. Try …
Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution explores the traditions of print and portraiture in 20th-century Mexico and their influence in other Latin American countries. This exhibition examines the visual language of revolution, labor, and identity following the …
Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution explores the traditions of print and portraiture in 20th-century Mexico and their influence in other Latin American countries. This exhibition examines the visual language of revolution, labor, and identity following the …
Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution explores the traditions of print and portraiture in 20th-century Mexico and their influence in other Latin American countries. This exhibition examines the visual language of revolution, labor, and identity following the …
Presented by The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, with 51ΑΤΖζ Union Student Involvement and Union Cinema 51ΑΤΖζβs Latin American Film Series (LAFS) returns this April for its 46th year, showcasing recent feature-length films from across Latin America and …
The 51ΑΤΖζ Creatuve Writing Program Graduate Student-Faculty Series: United We Read will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, November 14 at Boswell Book Company (2559 N. Downer Avenue) with Sam Wingfield-Karpowitz, Sophie Nunberg, Kurt Olsson, and Prof. Katharine Beutner. …
The American flag originated as an act of protest. That status intensified in the second half of the twentieth century, as protest movements have used and manipulated the flag in provocative ways. Activists and artists have continued to mobilize the …
This exhibition explores the ways that religion has been deeply interwoven into the iconography of the United States. Historically, the term βiconβ (Greek for βimageβ) is associated with Christian traditions, aligning most notably with venerated religious figures. Today, βiconβ is …
The American flag originated as an act of protest. That status intensified in the second half of the twentieth century, as protest movements have used and manipulated the flag in provocative ways. Activists and artists have continued to mobilize the …
Artists Sasha Stiles and Nathaniel Stern install their showβ―Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred TechnologiesΒ for a week-long run at Kenilworth Square East Gallery from February 12 to 20. AI is a transformational force in human history, akin to the rise …
Artists Sasha Stiles and Nathaniel Stern install their showβ―Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred TechnologiesΒ for a week-long run at Kenilworth Square East Gallery from February 12 to 20. Join Stern, Stiles, andΒ TheΒ Brooklyn Rail editor-at-large Charlotte Kent for a workshop, gallery …
Join us for the 29th Annual Festival of Films in French which showcases stories of resistance, artistic expression, justice, and freedom. The Festival of Films in French returns this February with an array of contemporary and classic fiction, animation and …
United We Read - 51ΑΤΖζ Creative Writing Graduate Program Student-Faculty Series February 13, 2026 Woodland Pattern (720 E. Locust Street) 7:00-8:15 p.m. With: Chelsea Tokuno-Lynk, Sam Niven Jessica Lynn Drake-Thomas Prof. Valerie Laken Free and Open to the Public
Join us for the 29th Annual Festival of Films in French which showcases stories of resistance, artistic expression, justice, and freedom. The Festival of Films in French returns this February with an array of contemporary and classic fiction, animation and …
Join us on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 6:00 p.m. for an evening of food, film, and connection. Our guests are Professor and licensed therapist Julia Roncoroni (University of Denver; Cocina Libre founder) and James Beard finalist Chef Gregory LeΓ³n (Amilinda …
Join the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) on March 12 for an artist talk withΒ KiteΒ (a.k.a. Suzanne Kite),Β anΒ OglΓ‘laΒ LakΘΓ³taΒ artist, composer, and scholar. Her groundbreaking scholarship and practiceΒ investigateΒ contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance. Kite develops body interfaces for machineΒ learning-drivenΒ performance, …
Learn how the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and its 3.2 Gpix camera will change our view of the Universe. The Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics, in partnership with the Manfred Olson Planetarium, invites you to an …
Faye Greenberg Sigman βWoman of Valorβ Lecture Wednesday, March 18, 2026 at 7:00 pm Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor or via Zoom Register at https://bit.ly/3VmLcxE This talk examines trends in the way Jewish institutions have typically βcountedβ Jewish engagement in …
W(rites) of Spring calls us to communicate at the speed of a flowerβs unfurling. Rooted in the implosion work central to Mia Rimmerβs interdisciplinary practice, this nature walk and writing workshop at Havenwoods State Forest invites us to notice the …
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, in partnership with 51ΑΤΖζ Union Student Involvement and Union Cinema, presents: 47th Annual Latin American Film Series March 31-April 4, 2026 UW-Milwaukee Union Cinema (2200 E. 51ΑΤΖζ.) Free admission to all! …
Hosted by the Center for 21st Century Studies and Queer Zine Archive ProjectΒ (QZAP) co-founderΒ Milo Miller, this workshop will blend mindfulness and creative writing to explore themes of slowing down, radical self-care, critical disability studies, and fostering networks of mutual support …