Offering more than 20 undergraduate and graduate programs while serving more than 2,100 students the Peck School is Wisconsin's leading comprehensive arts institution and has been in the business of developing arts professionals and leaders for nearly fifty years. The school's alumni in the fields of art and design, dance, film, music, and theatre have played influential roles in arts organizations, schools, and businesses, particularly in Milwaukee and Wisconsin but also across the country and throughout the world.
Offering the single best on-line source of information for UWM course materials, the UWM Bookstore offers a wide variety of goods and services to the UWM community: Rental, new , used and electronic texts, school and course supplies, art supplies, gifts, trade books & magazines, snacks, backpacks, computer bags, a wide array of personal electronics, audio and computing supplies, recordable media, calculators and the best collection of UWM gear in the known universe.
The gallery holds exhibitions organized through graduate seminars and thesis exhibitions planned and curated by M.A. candidates. It also hosts outside exhibits organized by other departments of the University and members of the wider Milwaukee community. Additionally, the gallery is used to highlight selections from the permanent collection. The UWM Art Collection encompasses 7,000 artworks – prints, paintings, drawings, sculptures and decorative arts. The diverse works that comprise the collection include Western and Non-western art, and span a time frame from ancient to contemporary art, including fine collections of Russian icons, 15th-20th century prints, modern European art, American Folk Art, Ancient and Oriental decorative arts, and African art. Notable among the artists represented are Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, William Hogarth, James Abbott-McNeill Whistler, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alexander Calder, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Claus Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jim Dine.
**All of our event and exhibitions are FREE and open to the public.** The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union Art Gallery (UAG) is an art space dedicated to the exhibition of diverse, contemporary art. The UAG presents a broad range of visual art by exhibiting work in all mediums by local, regional, and national emerging and established artists. In addition, the Union Art Gallery prides itself on being an accessible space for UWM student artists to exhibit and learn. The UWM Student Union is accessible for those with special needs. For group tours or special hours, please call our office.
Offering 53 master’s, 33 doctoral, and 32 graduate certificate programs, the Graduate School is central to UWM's renowned and growing research enterprise.
Special Collections consists primarily of rare and special printed materials that hold long-term, historical research potential for UWM academic programs. The collections support a broad range of research and teaching activities in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
The UWM Women's Resource Center is focused on serving the student body, primarily female-identified students, and encourage the participation of allies.
The Golda Meir Library, located in Milwaukee, in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, is the main library of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. The library has more than 4.5 million catalogued items, many of which are available electronically through Electronic Reserve, web-based online catalog, searchable databases and indices.The building was first constructed in 1967 and then expanded with the addition of the East Wing in 1974 and conference center in 1987. The library was named for Golda Meir, the fourth Prime Minister of Israel, who graduated in 1917 from the Milwaukee State Normal School, an institution to which UWM traces its lineage.CollectionsThe library's largest collection is the American Geographical Society Library, the "foremost geography and map collections" in the US, which houses a vast number of historical and detailed maps, many rare and valuable books, research and technical reports, photographs, satellite images, digital data, and relevant serials.Other special collections of the library include the Morris Fromkin Memorial Collection, Hebraica and Judaica Collection, the Slichter and Hohlweck Civil War Collections, the Frank and Mary Ermenc Slovenian music collection, the Harry and Dorothy Jagodzinski Franklin Delano Roosevelt Collection, the George Hardie Aerospace Collection, the Gerald Meyers classical music collection, the John Otis Collection on Wisconsin churches, the Seventeenth Century Research Collection, the Layton Art Library.
The Student Success Center is the one stop where new students can find information about all of the valuable resources on campus. The mission of the SSC is to provide comprehensive services to new first-year and transfer students enrolled at UWM. The SSC is also home base to the First Year Center (FYC), and First Year Mentors who meet one-on-one and maintain communication with first-year students and assist in the development of targeted programming. Contact with their Mentor during the academic year as a way of enhancing their social and academic experience. Bolton 120 (414) 229-5385 [email protected] www.FYC.uwm.edu
Personal, Academic and Professional Success at UWM. Transitioning to campus life can be challenging for any student. These challenges are even more pronounced for military and student veterans, especially those of you who are returning from a recent deployment and/or a combat situation. Our center is committed to providing the most current and useful information to assist you with the transition from warrior to scholar to graduate. The Center has strong and supportive relationships with key UWM departments to ensure that military and student veterans have personal contacts when they are in need of campus support services. Our space has computer access, study space and is a relaxing and peaceful retreat for meeting and hanging out with others who may have had similar experiences and who understand military culture.
The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee is the principal life sciences department at one of North America’s premier urban research universities. We support internationally recognized research in diverse areas of biology from molecular and cell biology and microbiology to ecology and conservation biology. Our commitment to research excellence is the foundation of the Department's high-quality educational programs at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels. We also provide scientific expertise that benefits the Southeastern Wisconsin community in several ways, including health and life sciences, business, industry, education, and the public.
The UWM Women's Resource Center is focused on serving the student body, primarily female-identified students, and encourage the participation of allies.
Personal, Academic and Professional Success at UWM. Transitioning to campus life can be challenging for any student. These challenges are even more pronounced for military and student veterans, especially those of you who are returning from a recent deployment and/or a combat situation. Our center is committed to providing the most current and useful information to assist you with the transition from warrior to scholar to graduate. The Center has strong and supportive relationships with key UWM departments to ensure that military and student veterans have personal contacts when they are in need of campus support services. Our space has computer access, study space and is a relaxing and peaceful retreat for meeting and hanging out with others who may have had similar experiences and who understand military culture.
Transportation Services at UW-Milwaukee provides a variety of transportation and parking services to help make sure students, faculty, staff, and visitors may travel safely and efficiently to and from the University. Director: Prasanna Nanda | [email protected]
Offering 53 master’s, 33 doctoral, and 32 graduate certificate programs, the Graduate School is central to UWM's renowned and growing research enterprise.
Special Collections consists primarily of rare and special printed materials that hold long-term, historical research potential for UWM academic programs. The collections support a broad range of research and teaching activities in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Offering more than 20 undergraduate and graduate programs while serving more than 2,100 students the Peck School is Wisconsin's leading comprehensive arts institution and has been in the business of developing arts professionals and leaders for nearly fifty years. The school's alumni in the fields of art and design, dance, film, music, and theatre have played influential roles in arts organizations, schools, and businesses, particularly in Milwaukee and Wisconsin but also across the country and throughout the world.
The Peck School of the Arts offers more than 20 undergraduate and graduate programs serving more than 2,100 students, making it one of the largest and most comprehensive arts schools in the region. The PSoA's Music Composition and Technology program fosters development in instrumental, vocal, and electroacoustic composition, with an emphasis on contemporary and experimental techniques. Students refine their craft and evolve their musical voice through individual weekly lessons with a faculty member, working on projects ranging from instrumental and vocal chamber music to electroacoustic music, electronic instrument design, and multimedia production. Studies in pencil-and-paper composition cover a variety of traditional and contemporary approaches to notation, rhythm, harmony, texture, orchestration, and large-scale form. At the same time, coursework in music technology includes analog and digital synthesis, surround sound and spatialization, algorithmic composition, creative applications of recording and editing, and computer programming for audio and interactive applications. The Electro-Acoustic Music Center, operating at UWM since its founding in 1982, makes a variety of studio spaces, electronic instruments, and software applications available to qualified students. Practical experience is a key component of the program. Concerts each semester provide opportunities to realize student compositions in performance. Ensembles including TORCH (the TC-11 Orchestra), MiLO (the Milwaukee Laptop Orchestra), and the Contemporary Music Ensemble develop skill in contemporary improvisation with both acoustic and electronic instruments. The Unruly Music festival presents three concerts of contemporary music with guest artists each semester, and offers performance opportunities for advanced students. And there are frequent occasions for collaboration with students and faculty in the Peck School of the Arts programs in Art + Design, Dance, Film, Interdisciplinary Arts and Technology, and Theater. Through the development of both creative imagination and musical technique, Music Composition and Technology degrees prepare students for professional careers in music and a variety of allied fields. Recent graduates are working in music publishing, multimedia production, film and television composition, software development, and arts management, as well as pursuing graduate study and academic careers in composition.
We support the UWM campus needs for Music materials - printed & digital scores, CDs, LPs, Books about music, and streaming audio. In addition we help train new music librarians through our work with the Coordinated Program in Music Librarianship - a joint degree between the School of Information Studies and the Peck School of the Arts Department of Music. Members of the Milwaukee community are welcome to use the Music Library. If you would like to check materials out, you may do so by joining the Friends of The Golda Meir Library. $35/year will get you access to books and scores, $150/year will allow you to take out CDs and use InterLibrary Loan. Details are here http://www4.uwm.edu/library_friends/membership/index.cfm