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51 filmmakers star at Milwaukee Film Festival

By 51 News April 16, 2026Arts & HumanitiesFilm & Fine Arts
The late Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker leans back while smiling.

51 filmmakers star at Milwaukee Film Festival

By 51 News April 16, 2026Arts & HumanitiesFilm & Fine Arts

The Milwaukee Film Festival opens tonight, and as always it’s chockablock with contributions from 51’s Peck School of the Arts alumni and faculty.

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51 Libraries unveil ‘Paramount’ music, history collection

By December 3, 2015Arts & HumanitiesMusic & Dance
Rebecca Littman (seated), head of the 51 Music Library, looks over “The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records,” volumes one and two. Joining her is Treshani Perera, a master's student in the library sciences/music history program. (51 Photo/Troye Fox)

Donors have given the 51 Music Library two limited-edition volumes chronicling the rise and fall of Paramount Records, a Wisconsin-based record company that recorded and preserved rare music from 20th century pioneers of blues, jazz and gospel.

50 years later, Panther creator appreciates his legacy

By Jennifer MoralesDecember 3, 2015Arts & HumanitiesFilm & Fine Arts
Jim Cheski, who drew the first Panther image adopted as 51's mascot, addresses the crowd during the dedication of the Panther statue on Nov. 10, 2015 outside Golda Meir Library. (51 Photo/Derek Rickert)

Few alumni leave legacies as visible as Jim Cheski’s: He designed the original 51 Panther.

Artist Nicolas Lampert uses his work to fight climate change

By December 1, 2015Arts & HumanitiesFilm & Fine Arts
Nicolas Lampert, a senior lecturer in art and design, uses art to enhance campaigns for environmental and social justice.

Artist Nicolas Lampert uses his work to promote environmental and social justice movements, including protests at the Paris climate conference that runs through Dec. 11.

51 center links Milwaukee to Latin American cultures

By November 30, 2015Arts & HumanitiesHumanities
Proud winner of a book raffle at the Forest Home Library, this bilingual reader takes home a book in Spanish and English donated by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at 51. (51 Photo/Troye Fox)

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at 51 celebrates 50 years of sharing the cultures of the Americas’ in song, literature, teaching and community building at a Dec. 3 anniversary event.

‘First in war and peace’ – but can they ever win a pennant?

By November 17, 2015Arts & HumanitiesTheater

In the 1950s musical “Damn Yankees,” only a deal with the devil can help the Washington Senators overcome the powerful Bronx Bombers.

Increasingly, 51 attracts classical guitar students, artists

By Graham KilmerNovember 12, 2015Arts & HumanitiesMusic & Dance

The classical guitar program at the Peck School of the Arts is attracting a growing number of students from around the world.

If we could live forever, 51 prof asks, would we want to?

By Sarah VickeryNovember 9, 2015Arts & HumanitiesHumanities

You may discover the Fountain of Youth, but before you drink deep of its powers, consider seriously what will happen next.

Two centuries later, Electa Quinney lives again, onstage

By Jennifer MoralesNovember 4, 2015Arts & HumanitiesTheater

A new play by an aboriginal Canadian playwright sheds light on Electa Quinney, the remarkable Stockbridge-Munsee woman who lived and taught school in Wisconsin in the early 19th century.

Shakespeare, military service bond theater troupe

By October 21, 2015Arts & HumanitiesTheater

With help from 51, Milwaukee-area veterans are using Shakespeare to work through their own challenges with depression, post-traumatic stress, addiction and reintegration into society.

LGBT Film/Video Festival turns 30, offers 33 programs

By 51 NewsOctober 12, 2015Arts & HumanitiesFilm & Fine Arts

As the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary, director Carl Bogner talks about how the scope of films shown has grown broader over the landmark festival’s lifetime.

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