Art – Division of Student Affairs

Clay Hand Building Open Studio

Emily Frances Brokmeier — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Student Involvement invites students from all backgrounds to participate in a free clay hand building open studio in the Studio Arts and Crafts Centre. The event runs from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Clay is provided!

Hand building is a form of sculpting without the use of throwing wheel or cast so it’s easy to do at any skill level from complete beginners to advanced students. So come ready to create and mingle with other students.

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Contours of Becoming Opening Reception

berry28@uwm.edu — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:00:00 +0000

Countours of Becoming brings together the work of Caroline Calvano and Keelie Murphy-Besaw, two Milwaukee-based artists whose practices center the body as a site of labor, adornment, and self-definition. Working primarily in metal sculpture, Calvano engages material processes that demand physical strength and endurance. Her work explores adornment and the feminine body not as passive objects of decoration, but as sites shaped by labor–where effort, weight, and time become inseparable from value. Rooted in a commitment to care, consent, and accessibility, Murphy-Besaw’s practice reimagines tattooing as a space of trust and affirmation, particularly for those who have felt marginalized or unheard in traditional tattoo enviroments. Together these artists consider adornment as an act of agency. Whether forged in metal or inked into skin, their works insist that decoration is never superficial–it carries out stories of labor, identity, and choice. This exhibition invites viewers to reflect on how bodies are shaped, marked, and valued, and how making can become a means of reclaiming space, power, and visibility.

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Coffee With a Cop

Samuel J Gobert — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:30:00 +0000

Join SHAW and 51��PD for coffee, treats, crafts, and a break with Ezmae!

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Experimental Tuesdays Presents: The Great Lakes Listening Series

rnlilla@uwm.edu — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Free For Everyone! Artists in Attendance!

Experimental Tuesdays is proud to present the inaugural Great Lakes Listening Series a new annual listening event that presents multichannel sonic artworks within a cinema space.

This year’s edition will feature new works of sound art that respond to the natural, ecological, political, and cultural complexities of the Great Lakes Region, and explore the potential of the cinematic listening experience as a uniquely immersive and arresting means of engaging with these complexities.

Cosponsored by the Dept. of Film/Video/Animation/New Genres & The Midwest Society of Acoustic Ecology

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Forgetting Vietnam

rnlilla@uwm.edu — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

One of the myths surrounding the creation of Vietnam involves a fight between two dragons whose intertwined bodies fell into the South China Sea and formed Vietnam’s curving S-shaped coastline. Influential feminist theorist and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha’s lyrical film essay commemorating the 40th anniversary of the end of the war draws inspiration from ancient legend and from water as a force evoked in every aspect of Vietnamese culture. Minh-ha’s classic Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989) used no original footage shot in the country; in Forgetting Vietnam images of contemporary life unfold as a dialogue between land and water—the elements that form the term “country”. Fragments of text and song evoke the echoes and traces of a trauma of international proportions. The encounter between the ancient as related to the solid earth, and the new as related to the liquid changes in a time of rapid globalization, creates a third space of historical and cultural re-memory—what local inhabitants, immigrants and veterans remember of yesterday’s stories to comment on today’s events.

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Special Event: Blue House

rnlilla@uwm.edu — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Blue House Film Screening is a D.I.Y. film organization showcasing short films and building cinematic connections in Milwaukee.

Join us at the Union Cinema for a shorts program curated by the members of the Blue House collective!

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Two By Black Audio Film Collective: Handsworth Songs

rnlilla@uwm.edu — Fri, 08 May 2026 23:00:00 +0000

In October 1985 Britain witnessed a spate of civil disturbances in the Birmingham district of Handsworth and in urban centres of London. These were violent, tragic events, marked by the death of an elderly black woman, Joy Gardner and a white policeman, Keith Blakelock . Handsworth Songs takes as its point of departure these events and the inability of the British media to go beyond its concern with demonising or rationalising the rioters and their motives, to break the anxiety-driven loop of morbid responses to the presence of black people in Britain.

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Two By Black Audio Film Collective: Who Needs a Heart

rnlilla@uwm.edu — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:30:00 +0000

Who Needs A Heart is a parable of political becoming and subjective transformation and remains BAFC’s most controversial film. Akin to a sophisticated home-movie history, a record of life on the fringes in London between 1965 and 1975, the film explores the forgotten history of British Black Power through the fictional lives of a group of friends caught up in the metamorphoses of the movement’s central figure; the counter-cultural anti-hero, activist and charismatic social bandit Michael Abdul Malik . Formerly known as Michael X and christened Michael De Freitas , he left England in 1970 and was tried and executed for his role in an unsolved murder in Trinidad in 1975. The film nevertheless holds him at a distance, tracing his career through contemporary TV and radio bulletins which counterpoint and parallel the lives of the group.

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Senior Screenings

rnlilla@uwm.edu — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Free For Everyone!

Join us in celebrating the class of 2026 and their fantastic films! Seniors work all year on writing, producing, editing, and polishing short films of their own design. Come see some of the most unique and exciting films coming out of Milwaukee! Join the Union Cinema and Student Involvement an hour before the film screenings for drinks, snacks and gold carpet photos. Dress up a little, schmooze a little, and then enjoy the amazing creative work of 51��’s student filmmakers from our nationally recognized Department of Film/Video/Animation/New Genres. For full schedule & further information please visit: /arts/event/senior-screenings-2/

Cosponsored by the Dept. of Film/Video/Animation/New Genres

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Sustainability Sips

Emily Frances Brokmeier — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:00:00 +0000

51�� students and staff are working to reinvigorate campus’s largest rain garden with the help of Corrigan Eckert, a local artist and current 51�� graduate student in the MFA program. This team hopes to engage the campus community and educate passersby on the ecological benefits of the garden through the installation of a mural on the rain garden’s 20ft tall cisterns. Join us at Sustainability Sips in the Union Art Gallery from 2-3 PM and share your design thoughts and learn more about the project!

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