Mary Louise Schumacher
May 17, 2016
Tap Milwaukee
Milwaukee filmmaker Chris Smith is tapping his inner Mark Zuckerberg and his Hollywood tastemaker friends to launch a new app that's about sharing cool stuff.
Called Rex, the free app launches officially Wednesday and allows chums to share — and keep track of — recommendations for books, movies, podcasts, restaurants and cultural doings like plays and museum exhibits.
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Clarinetist and UWM Music alumna Katherine Kohler on winning the 2nd Clarinet audition with the prestigious Phoenix Symphony!
Katherine had been performing with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (even subbing while an undergraduate student) and the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra.
UWM Dance MFA candidate Davalois Fearon pictured in last weekend's New York Times paper in anticipation of her upcoming performance of Trisha Brown's "Glacial Decoy" with the Petronio company at the 2016 American Dance Festival.
Also featured on the same page is a preview of an upcoming premiere by current UWM Dance MFA candidate, Ephrat Sherie. A collaboration with jazz pianist/composer Ehud Asherie, "Riff This, Riff That" will be performed at NYC's 2016 River to River Festival.
Mary Louise Schumacher
May 12, 2016
Street art has taken on a new life in the digital age. Once the domain of guerrilla artists working in the cover of night for the delight of unsuspecting local audiences, it is now a global phenomenon in which artists become internet famous fast.
A new annual street art festival — the Black Cat Alley — intends to bring that global community of artists, many of whom remain anonymous, to a Milwaukee alley each fall.
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Rob Hullum
May 10, 2016
Shepherd Express
Hometown Established began in 2014 as a general store run by husband and wife Michael Reese and Laurie Viduski. The couple wanted to help bring local artists and makers with a focus on utilitarian home goods to a retail location.
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Ralph Chapoco
May 2, 2016
Star Tribune
Fans watching TV's "The Walking Dead" are definitely aware of Michonne, a character shrouded in mystery. She joined the show near the end of the second season as a hooded figure who saves another individual from harm by using a sword known as a katana.
Many characteristics contribute to Michonne's persona and a large part of that identity is tied to props created by Mark Grzybowski of Slinger.
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Variety Staff
April 27, 2016
Variety
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Peck School of the Arts Milwaukee
The Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres at UWM focuses on maintaining artistic and intellectual curiosity among its students. The school partners with the Milwaukee Intl. Film Festival, Milwaukee LGBT Film and Video Festival and other groups throughout the university and community.
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Allison Plitt
April 11, 2016
Times Ledger
In the world of art, Woodside resident Karen Fitzgerald is something of an anomaly. Most painters prefer to work on rectangular canvases, but Fitzgerald feels more comfortable working with the tondo, an Italian Renaissance term for “round panel.”
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Gia Kourlas
March 2, 2016
New York Times
During this age of reality television and its aggressive pursuit of chaos, it doesn’t seem a coincidence that the choreographer Juliana F. May has created “Adult Documentary,” a work constructed of real and fictional stories by its performers. Those stories serve as raw material, distorted over time and replayed on an incessant loop as Ms. May drains and fills in her choreographic terrain. That, by the way, is an expanse of sandy brown carpet — just thick enough that if you walked into a hotel room covered with it you’d think twice before taking off your socks.
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Duane Dudek
February 8, 2016
Tap Milwaukee
No one plans to fill a niche.
Rather, people have a passion or obscure skill that no one cares about until they discover a need for it.
The niches filled by Kenosha native Caroline Kastelic are puppetry and stop-motion animation.
And the techniques she learned at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee led directly to working on the Oscar-nominated stop-motion film "Anomalisa."
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