Special Projects

Complete coverage: multimedia website Letriana Barrett is holding the hand of her three-year-old son Jayden. He’s dressed from head to toe in a black and red ninja costume and jumping up and down in excitement. “Spiderman!” he exclaims, pointing at another kid in a costume. The mother and son are at a trick-or-treating event at […]

On a Friday night in early fall, visitors to the Arts@Large Gallery near Walker’s Point are experiencing what happens when students create a garden through art. Designs range from large paper flowers to mosaics, paintings and photography. Perhaps the largest piece in the gallery is a paper collage painting of a garden entitled, A Flower […]

JAMS 332 provides the groundwork for more advanced documentary film production classes. Students learn the essentials of camera use, basic editing skills and the hands-on fundamentals of the field. Each semester, select work from 332 is chosen for inclusion on Media Milwaukee. Often, these videos represent a budding producer’s first foray into the art.

JAMS 332 provides the groundwork for more advanced documentary film production classes. Students learn the essentials of camera use, basic editing skills and the hands-on fundamentals of the field. Each semester, select work from 332 is chosen for inclusion on Media Milwaukee. Often, these videos represent a budding producer’s first foray into the art.

JAMS 532 is a long-form digital storytelling outlet for students in the journalism/documentary concentration. Students work on professional, nonfiction projects throughout the semester, learning skills documentary storytellers need to master. Topics are timely and socially relevant, benefiting the story’s subjects as well as the students’ portfolios. Past documentaries directed by Tess Gallun have aired on […]

complete coverage: multimedia project Lawrence Peters is a self-described early bird. His days start well before the sun rises. At 4:30 a.m., he drags himself out of bed to put the coffee on. Carefully sipping the amber brew, Peters sits down at the kitchen table to contemplate the day. He strategically times out his ten-minute […]

complete coverage: multimedia project When 86-year-old Jean Garrett sits down at her Macintosh computer, she finds more to do than play a game of solitaire or search the Web. Instead, Garrett opens up Photoshop and gets to work. She taught ceramics and weaving for 18 years at the University of Missouri-Columbia and started dabbling in […]

complete coverage: multimedia project The savage roar of a Harley Davidson motorcycle rumbled through Adriane Laabs’ suburban neighborhood while she tugged at weeds and tilled the soil in the garden behind her garage. Laabs’ keen ears perked up from the ruckus and there in her driveway, sitting on the clamorous culprit, was Bob Kummerow. Laabs […]

As the Board of Regents considers revisions to expand administrative rules to off-campus misconduct complaints, new official misconduct records reveal UW-Milwaukee handled only 41 cases in the last five years. That is an average of almost seven cases per year. The UW-Milwaukee Office of Student Life misconduct records do not include the total number of […]