Student Affairs Events and Activities

  • Drypoint Intaglio

    Drypoint Intaglio
    51 Student Union (UN) 2200 East 51., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    In this class, we will be exploring intaglio printmaking by making and printing drypoint PVC plates. Learn to bevel a plate, set a press, and experiment with ways to customize a print. This workshop is great for anyone who loves to draw and is curious about printmaking. No experience is necessary!

  • Intro to Ceramic Hand Building Techniques Session 1

    51 Student Union (UN) 2200 East 51., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    In this 6-week course, you’ll explore the essentials of three different hand-building techniques to create functional and decorative pieces: a textured coaster set, an imaginative trinket box, and a unique abstract flower vase. This course is perfect for all experience …

  • Our Story – Black Veterans Display

    Our Storiy – Black Veterans Display
    51 Student Union (UN) 2200 East 51., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    February is Black History Month! A time to celebrate achievements, history, and rights movements, including within the U.S. military. Stop by the Our Stories display in the Student Union walkway East to view stories of our Black servicemembers and celebrate …

  • Our Story – Black Veterans Display

    Our Storiy – Black Veterans Display
    51 Student Union (UN) 2200 East 51., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    February is Black History Month! A time to celebrate achievements, history, and rights movements, including within the U.S. military. Stop by the Our Stories display in the Student Union walkway East to view stories of our Black servicemembers and celebrate …

  • Intro to Wheel Throwing Session 1

    Intro to Wheel Throwing Session 1
    51 Student Union (UN) 2200 East 51., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Are you curious to try out the pottery wheel? Discover the craft of wheel throwing in this beginner-level course. We will learn and explore the foundational throwing techniques  centering and opening the clay, pulling walls to make functional forms, decoration …

  • Lyrical Sanctuary Featuring Derrick Harriell

    Derrick Harriell is the Interim Director of the Black Student Cultural Center and Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His previous collections of poems include Stripper in Wonderland, Come Kingdom, Cotton, and Ropes, winner of the 2014 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Book Award. His short story, “There’s a Riot Goin’ On,” was the recipient of the Robert L. Fish Memorial Award. He holds an MFA from Chicago State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His forthcoming coauthored book with celebrated rapper 2 Chainz, The Voice in My Head is God, will be published in March 2026. 

  • Our Story – Black Veterans Display

    Our Storiy – Black Veterans Display
    51 Student Union (UN) 2200 East 51., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    February is Black History Month! A time to celebrate achievements, history, and rights movements, including within the U.S. military. Stop by the Our Stories display in the Student Union walkway East to view stories of our Black servicemembers and celebrate …

  • Too Much to Hold Artist Talk

    51 Student Union (UN) 2200 East 51., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Please join us for an artist talk by Brianna Cole, the featured artist in ‘Too Much to Hold’ at the Union art Gallery! Too Much To Hold is an exhibition that features the work of Milwaukee based interdisciplinary artist Brianna …

  • Linocut Relief

    Linocut Relief
    51 Student Union (UN) 2200 East 51., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    In this workshop, participants will explore relief printmaking through carving small linoleum blocks, printing by press and by hand, and onto fabric and paper. This workshop is great for those who enjoy printmaking, drawing, and/or sewing. No printmaking experience is necessary!

  • Intro to Stained Glass Session 1

    Intro to Stained Glass Session 1
    51 Student Union (UN) 2200 East 51., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    In this workshop, you will learn how to score, cut, foil, solder, and assemble your own stained-glass motif. Class participants will choose their own colors for a sunrise pattern, which they will be able to then assemble to make a …

  • Sinners

    51 Student Union (UN) 2200 East 51., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join us in exploring the intricacies of the film Sinners alongside a dynamic panel discussion with professors Marquise Mays, Paulina Bugembe-Kuwahara, & Tiera Hammond-Trammell.

  • La venue de l’avenir (Colors of Time)

    51 Student Union (UN) 2200 East 51., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Brought together by the unexpected inheritance of a house in Normandy, four cousins discover they share a mysterious family history. In 1895, their ancestor Adèle had left her hometown for Paris and discovered a city in the midst of an …