News @ the Peck School of the Arts

ART & DESIGN FACULTY - Sending Your Tweets To Space Could Help Find Extraterrestrial Life

By Yi Chen
PSFK
May 9, 2012

Soon, users on Twitter could have followers from a completely different planet. A new project called ‘Tweets in Space’ hopes to transmit a stream of tweets to a planet that’s 22 light years way. The planet known as Gliese 667 is ‘Earth-equivalent’ and has the potential to host extraterrestrial life forms.

Tweets in Space is organized by the two artists Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern who hope to use a high-powered communication system to beam the messages into space. Tweets with the hashtag #tweetsinspace will be sent to space during a live performance at the Albuquerque Balloon Museum on 21 September, 2012. The artists are also discussing the project with scientists who are interested in contributing...

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ART & DESIGN GRAD STUDENT - 3D Printed Glove Is A Wearable Mobile Phone

By Emma Hutchings
PSFK
May 9, 2012

Milwaukee-based designer Bryan Cera has created a piece of wearable tech in the form of a 3D printed glove that functions as a mobile communication device. Glove One is a functional design prototype, which features number, power and call keys on the fingers. It was designed as part of a series called Gadgets for Remembering the Future, which showcased as part of the UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts MA/MFA Thesis Exhibition...

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ART & DESIGN GRAD STUDENT - You have to hand it to the maker of this cell phone glove

By Tecca
Today in Tech
May 4, 2012

Futurists predict that we'll one day have gadgets like cell phones as part of our bodies. Designer Bryan Cera asks "Why wait?" Cera has designed a literal phone handset that you wear like a glove.

The Glove One is only a prototype, but it works, albeit in a limited fashion. Looking like a gauntlet belonging to a futuristic suit of armor, it features jointed fingers that have physical dialing buttons on their undersides. While wearing it, you simply tap in the number you want to call using them, then hold the glove up to your ear using your thumb and pinky finger as the speaker and microphone, respectively. It charges using a mini USB port and has a SIM card slot...

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Beth Lipman brings her still-life decadence to UWM

By Mary Louise Schumacher
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
April 30, 2012

If I were cornered and asked which living Wisconsin artist people would still be talking about a century from now, Beth Lipman would be at or near the top of the list.

Her still-life projects seem to exist out of time, yet address the many ways the world is rapidly changing. Her glass works, made, composed and photographed before being destroyed or recycled, are inspired by 17th century still-life paintings, which were reflections of wealth. The visually mesmerizing, crystal-clear objects seem to be emptied of the rich color you'd expect from a 17th-century painting and explore issues of desire and contemporary modes of consumption...

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Metals!12 Student work

By Theresa D Abelew
Art Jewelry Magazine
Apr 23 2012

Last week my husband's alma mater, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, hosted an opening reception for Metals!12, a juried student exhibition running from April 19–May 9, 2012. Any UWM student that has produced a piece in a Jewelry or Metalsmithing class is eligible to enter their work. Not only was this the tenth annual exhibition, but this year was also the inauguration of the Herald A. Milbrath Memorial Jewelry and Metalsmithing prizes...

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Undergraduate research surprises at symposium

By Angela McManaman
UWM New
April 19, 2012

More than 150 students and a panel of 85 judges made for the largest and most dramatic Undergraduate Research Symposium in the event’s four-year history Friday afternoon in the Union Wisconsin Room.

Nigel Rothfels, director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, had to extend his speech by several minutes as the final tabulations were made and names of the winning student researchers were passed to the stage.

Four state fair-style ribbons were to be awarded to one winner, each, in first through third place, plus the inaugural OUR award for best oral presentation. Instead, there were ties in three categories. Ribbons were shared, but every student walked away with a prize between $50 and $200, supported by the Graduate School...

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Kenilworth Open Studios April 21

By Beth Stafford
UWM News
April 16, 2012

It’s free! It’s fun! It has something for everyone!

Visitors to last year’s Open Studios toured one of Kenilworth’s art studios. (Photo by Alan Magayne-Roshak)

Kenilworth Open Studios is an opportunity for the entire community to celebrate and experience the work created by Peck School of the Arts faculty, alumni and students. The fun happens on Saturday, April 21, from 11a.m.-2 p.m. throughout the building at Kenilworth Square East, 1925 E. Kenilworth Pl.

Lively and hands-on, the event includes art and film exhibits, live music, dance, theatre performances and more...

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Open Studios: TCD’s Guide to Gallery Night

By Carly Rubach
ThirdCoast Digest
April 16, 2012

Get ready for Gallery Night with TCD’s hand-picked list for exhibits and events. Spring Gallery Night is Friday, April 20, and remember, the gallery gallivanting doesn’t have to stop on Friday night!

Be sure to check out the Peck School of the Arts‘ (PSOA) Kenilworth Open Studios event from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. on Gallery Day. The exhibit will be packed with five floors of action and will feature more than 100 artists.

“This is the best way to get a taste of everything the school has to offer,” says Ellen Schupper, Director of Marketing and Community Relations for the PSOA. “Students, faculty and alum will all be hosting, presenting and showing their work.”

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Recommendations for Gallery Night & Day

By Mary Louise Schumacher
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
April 12, 2012

...If you are planning to go to Gallery Night & Day this weekend and are readying your itinerary, I offer you a CliffsNotes-esque version of your options. Of the many exhibits and events you have to choose from, here are a few I’d recommend.

Brooke Thiele and UWM’s Kenilworth Building
2155 N. Prospect Ave.

Brooke Thiele, an adjunct professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has been a deer hunter since she was 12 and an artist all of her life. For her “Serving Still Hunting” art installation, she brings the male-dominated sport into a domestic context, the cozy, sweet-smelling, cake-baking world often associated with women.

UWM Shows Husbands 'Hiding in the Light'

By Peggy Sue Dunigan
Shepherd Express
April 10, 2012
 
Husband and husband describes the relationship between Chicago artists Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger, creative and life partners for almost 20 years. Through unique multimedia images, the pair explores nuances in human relationships—invisibility and visibility, separateness and togetherness, pain and protection—while pondering gender equality in marriage. At the Inova/Arts Center, UW-Milwaukee's Peck School of the Arts presents the exhibition “Miller & Shellabarger: Hiding in the Light” through July 15...

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