News @ the Peck School of the Arts

Interview with an Animator

Jack Fennimore

UWM Post

January 27, 2016

 

Had a favorite animated film as a child? It’s likely that Owen Klatte has had a hand in creating it.

Owen Klatte brings a wealth of animation and visual effects experience to the classes that he instructs here at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Klatte, a graduate of UWM himself, is credited with working on “James and the Giant Peach,” “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron,” Disney’s “Dinosaur,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt. 1” and academy award-nominated “Anomalisa”.

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Milwaukee woman competes on 'Face Off' on Syfy network

Tim Elliott

January 20, 2016

WISN 12

MILWAUKEE —A Milwaukee woman is showing off her creative talents on reality TV.

The longtime artist is making all kinds of cool creations for a national audience.

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Art & Design - Melissa Ebbe to Compete on Syfy's "Face Off"

1/7/16

Syfy

Ever since seeing Michael Jackson's Thriller video at a very young age, Melissa Ebbe has longed to work in special effects. After pursuing more traditional art mediums and earning her BFA, MA and MFA, Melissa finally decided to pursue her lifelong dream of learning how to do special effects and taught herself how to make prosthetics and apply make-ups.

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The Most Respected US Contemporary Art Dealers of 2015

Brian Boucher

ArtNet News

12/31/15

The art world would be nowhere without its art dealers, who tirelessly support their artists, helping to create their gallery shows, advising on their next moves, and helping influential collectors develop their eye. And, though it's not among their most high-profile activities, dealers also often generously support some of the art world's most beloved nonprofits, ensuring that it's not just the commercial venues that succeed.

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Art & Design - Photo Of The Day: Ultimate-Inspired Sculpture

Charlie Eisenhood

12/21/15

Ultiworld

Corey Smith is graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Check out his senior project, which, in his words, “translates the motion and repetition of perfecting the throw of a disc into visual art about in-game psychology:”

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With incredible skill, Fred Stonehouse embraces the weird

Rafael Francisco

12/14/15

Tap Milwaukee

If one were to walk around Coney Island wearing a rubber mask and a rosary while reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez and falling in (or out) of love, it might approximate the experience of looking at Fred Stonehouse's paintings. They are bedeviled and full of old, deep magic. They cipher the dream world and hold an imaginative force that is acute.

The title of Stonehouse's retrospective at the Museum of Wisconsin Art, "The Promise of Distant Things," describes the mystery of viewing these paintings perfectly. We can't comprehend everything the artist conjures, but he is assuring us that this knowledge isn't that far away, is perhaps tucked away in some bizarre nook of the work.

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Project teams win UWM start-up challenge grants

Kathleen Gallagher

November 9, 2015

Journal Sentinel

Nine teams with products ranging from a do-it-yourself cheese-making machine to a microcontroller for energy grids have won the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's annual start-up challenge.

The teams will receive a total of $70,000 worth of support and services they can use during the next 12 months to develop their ideas into prototypes and businesses. Launched in 2012, the UWM Student Startup Challenge pairs teams with students enrolled in various classes at UWM who help develop prototype devices, mobile applications and business plans.

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Nohl Fellowship winners announced

Mary Louise Schumacher

November 6, 2015

Journal Sentinel

Five winners have been selected for the Mary L. Nohl Fellowship, the most prestigious regional prize for individual artists.

For the first time in the fellowship's 13-year run, the prize comes with a larger financial gift and is given to a more select group, five artists instead of seven.

Selected from a field of 158 applicants, the five winners include two in the category for established artists, which includes a cash prize of $20,000, and three in the category for emerging artists, which comes with a $10,000 prize.

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In 'best year,' UWM-trained actress Brittani Ebert is hard at work

Chris Foran

October 25, 2015

Journal Sentinel

Brittani Ebert is in the middle of a pretty good year.

The actress, born in Madison, raised in Sun Prairie and with a theater degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has appeared on two of television's top comedies — ABC's "Modern Family" and The CW's "Jane the Virgin" — and returned in a role on the long-running daytime drama "General Hospital."

It's "the best year I've had so far," Ebert said in a phone interview from southern California last week.

But first, she's got some auditions to do. On Friday, she had three of them, all for voice-over roles.

"I'm laser-focused on what I want to spend my time on," Ebert said. "They say it's who you know, but it's (also) who knows you."

Ebert has had that practical approach from the start.

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UWM unveils 1,200-pound icon of Panther pride

Rich Kirchen

October 12, 2015

Milwaukee Business Journal

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee athletic teams have been known for 50 years as the Panthers and now the east side campus boasts a 6-foot-tall, 12-foot-long icon of the school mascot.
The 1,200-pound bronze statue of a panther was unveiled Saturday following the annual Panther Prowl race during homecoming weekend. The statue, intended to “create a new point of convergence and pride on UWM’s campus,” stands in front of Enderis Hall on East Hartford Avenue across the street from the Golda Meir Library and on the same block as the UWM athletic offices and facilities at the Klotsche Center and Pavilion.

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