The Arts at URock
Students on the Rock County campus have a variety of opportunities to participate in the arts — from our art classes and music ensembles to theatre productions and the Theodore Robinson Art Gallery in Wells Cultural Center.
URock also hosts free or low-cost cultural events that are open to the surrounding community. Find out more by visiting our and selecting the Rock County campus.
The Theodore Robinson Art Gallery in Wells Cultural Center is the primary visual art exhibition for the art program and local, regional and national visiting artists. Check the for upcoming exhibits and hours, as they may vary.
Student works on exhibit come from 91¶¶Òõ at Rock County art courses, including Introduction to Drawing, Two-Dimensional Design, Introduction to Painting, Oil Painting, 3-Dimensional Design, Introduction to Photography and Digital Imaging and Design.
The art gallery also hosts the annual the URock LGBTQ+ Alliance Queer Art Exhibit.
For more information about gallery exhibits, contact , lecturer of art, at moisiada@uww.edu. Follow the art program’s Instagram account at .
Director, French horn performer, producer and music professor Jeff Suarez offers a variety of ways for students, faculty and community members to engage in music experiences on the Rock County campus. The URock Chamber Orchestra has performed regularly since 2002, and the Kirk Denmark Theatre hosts the , a community highlight for more than 50 years.
Suarez also conducts the URock on the Rock County campus.
For more information about music ensembles, contact Jeff Suarez, associate professor, at suarezj@uww.edu or 608-898-5082.
The 91¶¶Òõ at Rock County Theatre Department is open to all students, staff, faculty and community members. Opportunities include performance, production, technical theatre, management, and other theatrical/media-related avenues.
Our goal is to increase awareness of the arts and create an avenue for expression both here on campus and in the community at large. We accomplish this goal through workshops, guest lectures, collaboration with local arts groups, and in-house performances. In more recent years, we have become more participant driven and will continue that in the foreseeable future. If you'd like to put on your own production, workshop, lecture, or other such opportunities, let us know and we will work with you!
The Kirk Denmark Theatre is now the home of , a nonprofit organization that produces high-quality community musical theatre for the benefit of the southern Wisconsin area.
Our theatre arts-centric campus club, the Student Performing Arts Association, is an arm of our theatre department and allows students to organize and implement theatrical related opportunities on campus and beyond.
For more information about the theatre program, contact . For updates, like the
The Creative Studio
URock features a Creative Studio, located in Wells Cultural Center, where the campus community can create podcasts, video game streams, and many other forms of content. The studio is led by Lecturer Trevor Rees, who also teaches the podcasting course. Here, Rees goes over the studio’s tech with students John Venable and Peyton Bishop before they begin their podcasts.
“We do podcasting, we can do video game streaming, we have video podcasting set up, we can do mobile units around campus and beyond as well,” said Rees.
Rees is shown here going over the studio’s tech with students John Venable and Peyton Bishop before they begin their podcasts. Read more about Rees, his work with students, and the opportunities he hopes to offer in this story — with video — about the Creative Studio.
For more about using the Creative Studio, contact Trevor Rees at reest@uww.edu or 608-898-5063.
Meet the faculty
Art instructor Anna Moisiadis was born in Boston and spent her childhood years in her father's hometown in Greece. The colors and textures of this region inspire her work, which is about turning a commonplace medium, like paper or thread, into a complex experience for the senses. She received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009.
Associate Professor of Music Jeff Suarez earned his Bachelor of Music in Composition/Theory and his Bachelor of Music Education at Central Michigan University, his Master of Arts in French horn performance at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, and his Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has performed in many jazz groups over the years and has led the U-Rock Jazz Band at the Rock County campus since 2003.
Trevor Rees, lecturer and director of URock Theatre, is a professional actor, director, educator, movement/fight choreographer, and motion capture actor, stunt performer, and stunt coordinator for Call of Duty and PUBG video game franchises. He holds qualifications from SAFD and Dueling Arts International. At URock, he teaches courses including motion capture performance and podcasting. He received his MFA in acting and directing from UW-Madison and his B.A. in theatre and communications from Cardinal Stritch University.