Uniquely Milwaukee

Max Zuleta is the owner of Art Below Zero, a company specializing in ice sculptures. He found his love for ice sculpting growing up in Venezuela, and followed his dream up north to Wisconsin where he opened moved his ice art studio.

Kathy's House is a non-profit organization providing a temporary home for adult patients traveling to Milwaukee for advanced medical care. Patients are referred to the house by their hospital and they have access to lodging and much more at Kathy's House.

Milwaukee native and prolific musical artist Harvey Scales passed away on Feb. 11, 2019. He had a decades-long career, won a grammy, co-wrote the first platinum selling song, and even had his work sampled by the Beastie Boys. Listen to excerpts from his conversation with 88Nine's Dori Zori in 2015.

The grammy winning R&B artist -- and Milwaukee native -- Harvey Scales passed away on Feb. 11, 2019. Today, we revisit a conversation he had with 88Nine's Dori Zori back in 2015.

Black Lens expands it programming to a year-round format, beginning this February during Black History Month. Milwaukee Film's Dr. Donte McFadden talks about the month's offerings, including a special Valentine's Day short film program.

Papyrus & Charms is one of many Black-owned businesses showcasing its work at the Bronzeville Collective. Lean how one artist is paying homage to her heritage through unique, handmade jewelry.

This February 1 to February 8 is the inaugural Gun Violence Survivors Week, and survivors across the United States are sharing their stories in a trending movement called #momentsthatsurvive.

Get to know the teenage rockstars of Negative/Positive in this episode of Community Stories.

The 6th annual Guitar Festival at the United Community Center invites internationally-recognized guitarists to work with young Latino guitarists in Milwaukee, and other guitar students from around the Midwest.

Golda Meir School cut the ribbon on its new maker space back in November. Since then, middle school students have had access to cutting edge technology, including robotics, laser engraving and 3D printing. Learn how a crucial partnership with Eaton Corporation made it possible.

The Milwaukee VA Medical Center serves 24,000 veterans, a quarter of which, come to the VA for mental health crises. “This is their medical home, most of them have been coming here a long time,” said Ben Thelen, a former EMT and combat medic in Iraq, who now works for the VA. He’s behind a new program that is training EMTs to identifying and handling mental health crisis situations when responding...

April Harris organized Milwaukee's first ever "Peace Through Pie" event, which celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy of peace with pie, conversation, and charity.

Hedda Sharapan, producer and close personal friend of Fred Rogers, is heading to Milwaukee on Feb. 6 for a talk at the Jewish Community Center. Hear her thoughts on today's divisive political climate and how befriending the TV icon changed her life.

Hours Against Hate replaces hateful rhetoric by teaching tolerance

A vacant building was slated to become a massive liquor store at 21st and Hamptom. Hear how a Muslim owned and operated Milwaukee organization worked with city government to bring STEM education there instead.

After her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, Carla Echeveste was inspired to change the course of her life. She turned down an accounting job at her dream financial firm, and went back to school to study medicine. Today, she researches and advocates for equity on behalf of Milwaukee's Latino community.

Free AIRA service for the blind and low vision was made accessible at Milwaukee's airport a couple months ago. Now, the free service is expanding to include a number of Milwaukee County buildings.

The Benedict Center's SIsters Program conducts in-the-street outreach, case management and skill building for women who are in the sex-based trade. Their winter initiative, the warming room, is an overnight shelter where women who are on the streets can have access to a meal and a warm place to sleep at night.

When art programs began getting slashed across schools in Milwaukee, two hometown brothers decided to found a program for the many inner-city youth who were losing access to arts education. In 2012, Darren and Vedale Hill founded Jazale’s Art Studio.

For the last four years, a group of multitalented group of black Milwaukee artists have presented the musical 'Black Nativity' at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. Director Malkia Stampley talks about how she adapted her production for a Milwaukee audience, and why she wants to be in the audience.

The Milwaukee Youth Arts Center (MYAC) is home to two legendary arts education programs - First Stage Children’s Theater and Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO). MYAC was built in 2002 so these two organizations could have access to professional rehearsal spaces. Together, they’ve both served the Milwaukee arts community for decades.

In this piece, we walk through the doors of Bloom Center for Art and Integrated Therapy in Bay View. Bloom teaches healing through art therapy.

The Latino Strings program has been a pillar of music and Latino culture at the United Community Center since it was founded in 2002 by musician Dinorah Marquez. In this community story, we hear from two of Dinorah's former students who started playing strings instruments in the second grade. Now at 21, they have returned as instructors for Latino youth.

This holiday season, we're tipping our hats to some of the great local organizations helping youth connect to the arts. In this story, we head to Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra and meet 17 year old jazz guitarist Kwasi Stampley, aka KStamp.

Grace Weber’s Music Lab has hosted locally and nationally-known music acts like WebsterX and Jamila Woods for an immersive music education experience. Once a month, high school students from the Greater Milwaukee area are invited to Radio Milwaukee’s performance space to participate after school for free.