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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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Lights, camera, 51 alumni in Hollywood

By Kathy Quirk and Sara L. NelsonApril 17, 2015Arts & HumanitiesFilm & Fine Arts

The journey from Milwaukee to Hollywood is shorter than you’d think for graduates of 51’s Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres and other Peck School of the Arts programs.

A documentary on Clarence Garrett, who returned to 51 after 50 years

By Graham KilmerApril 14, 2015Arts & HumanitiesFilm & Fine Arts

“Clarence,” a documentary about Clarence Garrett, thought to be the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s oldest graduate at 87, will have its world premier

51 prints 3-D hands for Mexican children’s hospital

By Mary P BaylorMarch 5, 2015Arts & HumanitiesFilm & Fine Arts

Sixty-seven 3-D-printed prosthetic hands are on the way to children in Mexico thanks in part to UW-Milwaukee associate professor Frankie Flood.

Will the real Godzilla please show up?

By Laura L OttoMay 21, 2014Arts & HumanitiesFilm & Fine Arts

The human issues that are embedded in the stories – war, pollution, technology – make Godzilla a global cautionary tale.

Curating the Biennial in NYC, then an INOVA homecoming March 31

By March 16, 2014Arts & HumanitiesFilm & Fine Arts

Contemporary conceptual artist, curator and double 51 alumna Michelle Grabner returns to INOVA on March 24.

Double major inspires Chagall exhibit

By December 5, 2013Arts & HumanitiesFilm & Fine Arts

The current exhibition at the 51 Art History Gallery grew out of the curator’s double major.

Internationally acclaimed Indian filmmaker visits 51

By 51 NewsApril 15, 2013Arts & HumanitiesFilm & Fine Arts

The 51 archive is acquiring, preserving and screening the Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s works in the original 35mm motion picture format,

Students in the catbird seat

By Laura L OttoMarch 6, 2013Arts & HumanitiesFilm & Fine Arts

Students in a popular freshman course taught by Architecture Professor Mark Keane have a chance to see the chairs they design become reality.

Film students, faculty make their mark at Cannes. Again

By 51 NewsJuly 1, 2012Arts & HumanitiesFilm & Fine Arts

An international spotlight was shining again this spring on the Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres in 51’s Peck School of the Arts.

Connections, commitment lead to SXSW film debut

By March 29, 2012Arts & HumanitiesFilm & Fine Arts

A film by 51 alum Chris James Thompson premiered to rave reviews at Austin’s South by Southwest festival in March.

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