Podcasts about Milwaukee Art Museum

What if your childhood passion could shape your career? Kevin Kandelin, Construction Technology Manager at Riley Construction Company Inc., joins us to share his fascinating journey from building intricate Lego models as a child to managing complex construction projects as an adult. Kevin's story is a testament to how early hobbies can influence professional pathways. He shares anecdotes of creating detailed Lego cities and stadiums, revealing an innate understanding of lean construction principles long before entering the industry.Discover how architectural wonders and family traditions have played pivotal roles in Kevin's growth, both personally and professionally. Kevin recounts his awe-striking encounter with the Calatrava expansion wing of the Quadracci Pavilion at the Milwaukee Art Museum, emphasizing the sophisticated problem-solving it involved. Additionally, Kevin sheds light on his family's deep-rooted involvement with the Milwaukee Irish Fest. These experiences have fostered a sense of community, adaptability, and leadership that Kevin applies to overcoming challenges in his career and life.Stay tuned as we delve into the future of construction technology and the importance of engaging youth in the industry. Kevin underscores the value of STEM education and the myriad of career paths available within the construction sector. Learn about Riley Construction's approach to incorporating cutting-edge technologies that boost efficiency and scalability. Kevin also shares his visionary concept of modular, sustainable housing that adapts to the occupants' needs, much like a Lego set. It's an inspiring conversation that looks ahead to the innovations shaping the future of living spaces. Contact the Future Construct Podcast Produced by BIM Designs, Inc! BIM Designs, Inc.: minority-owned, US-based, union-signatory preconstruction technology firm, offering turnkey BIM modeling, laser scanning, coordination management, and other VDC solutions to the AEC industry. Schedule a free consultation: sales@bimdesigns.net. Subscribe to our weekly blog and our Future Construct Podcast Suggest a podcast guest

President of the Greater Milwaukee Committee Joel Brennan talks about a large, anonymous donation to the Milwaukee Art Museum, the funding effort underway for the new Milwaukee Public Museum location, and the organizations responsible for keeping the city's museums running.

In this episode of PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf, Sasha engages in an honest and deeply personal conversation with photographer Christian Patterson. They delve into the creation of "Redheaded Peckerwood" (MACK) and his latest book, "Gong Co." (TBW Books & Éditions Images Vevey). Christian offers a thorough description of his intricate process and motivations for these long-term projects, providing nearly step-by-step insights. He also reflects on his years working with William Eggleston and the nuanced ways in which that experience did, and did not,  influence his artistic direction. http://www.christianpatterson.com  |||   https://www.instagram.com/christian.patterson/ CHRISTIAN PATTERSON was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and lives in New York, New York. His visually layered work has been described as novelistic, subjective documentary of the historical past, and often deals with themes of the archive, authorship, memory, place and time. Photographs are the heart of his multidisciplinary work, which includes drawings, paintings, objects, video and sound. Patterson is the author of four books, including Sound Affects (2008), Redheaded Peckerwood (2011, Recontres d'Arles Author Book Award), Bottom of the Lake (2015,Shortlist, Aperture-Paris Photo Book of the Year), and the forthcoming Gong Co. (2024). He is a Guggenheim Fellow (2013), winner of the Grand Prix Images Vevey (2015), a New York Public Library Picture Collection Artist Fellow (2022) and James Castle House Resident (2023). His work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), J. Paul Getty Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and his books are in many institutional artist book collections. He has lectured, mentored and taught widely. He is represented by Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, USA and Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin, Germany. This podcast is sponsored by picturehouse + thesmalldarkroom. https://phtsdr.com

Ep.220 Jake Troyli (b.1990, Boston, MA) received his BFA from Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN (2013), where he played Division 1 basketball, his MFA from the University of South Florida, Tampa(2019), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME (2019).Solo exhibitions include moniquemeloche. Chicago, IL (2024/2022); Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL (2018); and ArtsXchange, St. Petersburg, FL. (2018). Troyli's work has been featured in group exhibitions at Perrotin Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Galerie Droste, Düsseldorf, DE (2024);Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (2023-24); Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY(2023); Galerie Droste, Paris, FR (2021); The Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL(2021); Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL (2019); San Francisco Art Institute, CA (2018). Troyli's work will be included in the group exhibition Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture, curated by Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Seph Rodney, and Katy Siegel, at SF MoMA, which travels to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Pérez Art Museum Miami and will be accompanied by a scholarly publication. He will have his first solo museum exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, in 2026. His work is in the permanent collections of the Tampa Art Museum, Tampa, FL; the Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; and Pierce and Hill Harper Arts Foundation, Detroit, MI. He is the recipient of the Provincetown Fine Arts Fellowship (2019 2020) and the Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist Grant, Largo, FL (2017). Troyli was a 2023 Visual Artist recipient of the Academy of Fine Arts x International City of Arts program in Paris, France. He is resident at Project for Empty Space in Newark, NJ. Photo courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery. Photographer Raphael Lugassy Artist - https://www.jaketroyli.com/ moniquemeloche - https://www.moniquemeloche.com/artists/48-jake-troyli/biography/ Perrotin https://leaflet.perrotin.com/view/898/light-of-winter Galerie Droste https://www.galeriedroste.com/exhibitions/92-reading-the-language-of-images-jammie-holmes-andrew-schoultz-jake-troyli/overview/ Newcity https://art.newcity.com/2024/10/15/a-bloodline-through-the-histories-a-review-of-peter-and-jake-fagundo-at-m-leblanc/ NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/arts/sfmoma-exhibit-sports-art.html ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/for-freedoms-activates-art-installations-democratic-national-convention-chicago-1234714497/ WBEZ | NPR https://www.wbez.org/arts/2024/07/22/jake-troyli-artist-chicago-mural-dnc-democratic-national-convention-art Cité internationale des arts https://www.citedesartsparis.net/en/jake-troyli Chicago Sun Times https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2024/07/26/chicago-murals-jake-troyli-dnc-democratic-national-convention-skyart-east-garfield-park Chicago Gallery News https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2024/8/anticipating-a-season-of-art-five-to-talk-to-jake-troyli White House Magazine https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/slow-clap-at-monique-meloche/5358It's Nice That https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/jake-troyli-art-170222 Chicago Reader https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/jake-troyli-contains-multitudes/ Mana Contemporary https://www.manacontemporary.com/jake-troyli/ Kavi Gupta https://kavigupta.com/artworks/10328-jake-troyli-portrait-of-the-artist-with-hors-doeuvre-2020/ The Province Town Independenthttps://provincetownindependent.org/arts-minds/2020/03/12/show-and-tell-with-jake-troyli/ The TRiiBE https://thetriibe.com/2022/04/painter-jake-troyli-invites-us-into-the-spectacle-of-black-skin-at-expo-chicago/

In this episode, artists Meghann Riepenhoff and Penelope Umbrico chat with MoCP curator, Kristin Taylor. The two artists discuss their backgrounds and shared interests in experimenting and pushing the indexical qualities of photography, as well as the work of Alison Rossiter and Joanne Leonard.Meghann Riepenhoff is most well-known for her largescale cyanotype prints that she creates by collaborating with ocean waves, rain, ice, snow, and coastal shores. She places sheets of light-sensitized paper in these water elements, allowing nature to act as the composer of what we eventually see on the paper. As the wind driven waves crash or the ice melts, dripping across the surface of the coated paper, bits of earth sediment like sand and gravel also become inscribed on the surface. The sun is the final collaborator, with its UV rays developing the prints and reacting with the light sensitizing chemical on the paper to draw out the Prussian blue color. These camera-less works harness the light capturing properties of photographic processes, to translate, in her words, “the landscape, the sublime, time, and impermanence.” Rieppenhoff's work has been featured in exhibitions at the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Denver Art Museum, the Portland Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, among many others. Her work is held in the collections of the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Harvard Art Museum, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She has published two monographs: Littoral Drift + Ecotone and Ice with Radius Books and Yossi Milo Gallery. She was an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts and the John Michael Kohler Center for the Arts, was an Affiliate at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.Penelope Umbrico examines the sheer volume and ubiquity of images in contemporary culture. She uses various forms of found imagery—from online picture sharing websites to photographs in books and mail order catalogs—and appropriates the pictures to construct large-scale installations. She states: "I take the sheer quantity of images online as a collective archive that represents us—a constantly changing auto-portrait." In the MoCP permanent collection is a piece titled 8,146,774 Suns From Flickr (Partial) 9/10/10. It is an assemblage of numerous pictures that she found on the then widely used image-sharing website, Flickr, by searching for one of its most popular search terms: sunset. She then cropped the found files and created her own 4x6 inch prints on a Kodak Easy Share printer. She clusters the prints into an enormous array to underscore the universal human attraction to capture the sun's essence. The title references the number of results she received from the search on the day she made the work: the first version of the piece created in 2007 produced 2,303,057 images while this version from only three years later in 2010 produced 8,146,774 images. Umbrico's work has been featured in exhibitions around the world, including MoMA PS1, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; MassMoCA, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; The Photographers' Gallery, London; Daegu Photography Biennale, Korea; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Australia; among many others, and is represented in museum collections around the world. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship; Sharpe-Walentas Studio Grant; Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship; New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship; Anonymous Was a Woman Award. Her monographs have been published by Aperture NYC and RVB Books Paris. She is joining us today from her studio in Brooklyn, NY.

In this episode, Hailey discovers the great state of Wisconsin! Whether you're looking to get outdoors, head to the city, or take a road trip, there's a Best Western nearby to call home for your next stay. Buckle up as Hailey highlights your next Wisconsin travel adventure while sharing the great value and many amenities at Best Western.Read the blog here: https://discoverwisconsin.com/theres-a-lot-to-love-about-wisconsin-best-westerns/Bay Shore County Park: https://www.greenbay.com/listing/bay-shore-county-park/3190/; Boat Sport Marina: https://rentals.boatsport.com/; Eagle River Trails: https://eagleriver.org/area-trails/#; Pattison State Park: https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/parks/pattison; Wisconsin State Capitol: https://www.visitmadison.com/listings/wisconsin-state-capitol/176634/; Graze: https://www.visitmadison.com/listings/graze/180309/; Dane County Farmers Market: https://dcfm.org/; Wednesday Market: https://dcfm.org/markets/wednesday-market; Saturday on the Square: https://dcfm.org/markets/saturday-on-the-square; Brewery Tours: https://www.visitmilwaukee.org/plan-a-visit/food-drink/brewery-tours/; Best Place at the Historic Pabst Brewery: https://www.visitmilwaukee.org/partners/best-place-at-the-historic-pabst-brewery-1443/; Milwaukee Art Museum: https://www.visitmilwaukee.org/partners/milwaukee-art-museum-506/; Summerfest: https://www.visitmilwaukee.org/articles/events/summerfest-the-worlds-largest-music-festival/; Sturgeon Bay: https://www.doorcounty.com/discover/sturgeon-bay; Potawatomi State Park: https://www.doorcounty.com/business-directory/recreation/potawatomi-state-park; Whitefish Dunes State Park: https://www.doorcounty.com/business-directory/recreation/whitefish-dunes-state-park; Sturgeon Bay Pierhead Light: https://www.doorcounty.com/virtual-experiences/sturgeon-bay-pierhead-light; West Baraboo: https://villageofwestbaraboo.com/; Devil's Lake State Park: https://www.devilslakewisconsin.com/; Scenic Drives: https://www.devilslakewisconsin.com/baraboo-sauk-county-outdoor-recreation/scenic-drives/; Eau Claire: https://www.visiteauclaire.com/; Tangled Up in Hue: https://www.tangledupinhue.com/; Oshkosh: https://www.visitoshkosh.com/; EAA Aviation Museum: https://www.visitoshkosh.com/things-to-do/attractions/eaa-aviation-museum/; Crusin Tikis Oshkosh: https://www.cruisintikisoshkosh.com/; The Bobber: https://discoverwisconsin.com/blog/The Cabin Podcast: https://the-cabin.simplecast.com. Follow on social @thecabinpodShop Discover Wisconsin: shop.discoverwisconsin.com. Follow on social @shopdiscoverwisconsinDiscover Wisconsin: https://discoverwisconsin.com/. Follow on social @discoverwisconsinDiscover Mediaworks: https://discovermediaworks.com/. Follow on social @discovermediaworksBest Western: https://www.bestwestern.com/. Follow on social @bestwestern

Robert Longo talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work. Born in 1953 in Brooklyn, Longo was a key figure in what was called the Pictures generation of artists, which emerged in New York in the late 1970s. After that initial burst of attention he has since met with wide acclaim with his translations of everything from reportage photographs to historic paintings into vast charcoal drawings. By rendering the images in this way, he reinforces the impact of the original sources and yet prompts questions about the meaning and the power structures within and around them. By expanding their scale, he also transforms them. Up close—as we are overwhelmed by the analogue artisanship involved in the drawing—these dramatic images are abstracted. He talks about why he favours the term “collision” over “collage” and reflects on the concern with violence in his work. He discusses being, as he puts it, “an abstract artist working representationally”. He explains the process behind his responses to major works of art by everyone from Jackson Pollock to Rembrandt and Manet, and talks about the influence of Gretchen Bender on his newest Combine pieces. And he details the breadth of inspirations for his 1980s Men in the Cities series, from James Chance, frontman of the Contortions, to Rainer Werner Fassbender's An American Soldier. Plus, he gives insight into studio habits and rituals and answers our usual questions, including, “What is art for?”Robert Longo: Searchers, Thaddaeus Ropac, London, 8 October-20 November; Pace, London, 9 October-9 November; Robert Longo, Albertina Museum, Vienna, until 26 January; Robert Longo: The Acceleration of History, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, 25 October-23 February 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode No. 671 features curator, professor, and former museum director Dean Sobel, and artist Jackie Winsor. Winsor, a leading Canadian-American post-minimalist and feminist sculptor, died last week at 82. She was the first female sculptor to receive a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1979), which holds five of her works in its collection. The most recent institutional survey of Winsor's work was at MAMCO Geneva in 2022. This week's program opens with Sobel, who organized the 1991 Winsor retrospective at the Milwaukee Art Museum. (The show traveled to the Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, Calif., the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Akron Art Museum in Ohio.  Sobel was later the director of the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, and is a professor at the University of Denver. Next will be host Tyler Green's 2014 conversation with Winsor, apparently the next-to-last interview for which she sat. (See her 2019 program with MoMA curator Christophe Cherix.) The program was recorded on the occasion of "Jackie Winsor: With and Within" at The Aldrich, Ridgefield, Conn. For images, see Episode No. 154.

Celebrating our 100th episode last year got the Ear Hustle team thinking about all the stories we've told since 2017. Over the next few months, EHers will talk about and listen to some of their favorite episodes from the archives — ones that they feel warrant another look. In this one, Nigel and Bruce revisit “This Place,” originally released in October 2018. The episode explores different ways of looking at San Quentin.  Thanks to George “Mesro” Coles-El, Richard Richardson aka Bonaru, John Robb, Norman Willhoite, Gregg Sayers, Lee Jasper, Lt. Sam Robinson, and Warden Clinton T. Duffy for sharing their stories.This episode was scored with music by David Jassy and Antwan Williams.You can find out more about the San Quentin Archive project on Nigel's website, and information about Nigel's show in Milwaukee through the Milwaukee Art Museum. Plus, learn more about Warden Clinton T. Duffy and check out his book. And, check out the San Quentin News, who work in the media lab with us.Big thanks to Acting Warden Andes and Lt. Berry at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, and Acting Warden Williams, Associate Warden Lewis, and Lt. Newborg at the California Institution for Women, for their support of the show.Support our team and get even more Ear Hustle by subscribing to Ear Hustle Plus today. Sign up at earhustlesq.com/plus or directly in Apple Podcasts. Ear Hustle is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. 

The Milwaukee Vortex, DIY culture, “Yes, and...” Thinking In this special episode of Creative MKE, we're sharing conversations from a special event Imagine MKE hosted at Washington Park Media Center earlier this year. The event was a gathering of arts, culture and creative industry leaders brought together to discuss the strengths and opportunities of Milwaukee's creative culture. In the discussion, guests touch on: the waterways, walkability and park system in Milwaukee, the ease of DIY creation and collaborations and the simultaneous challenge of scarcity mindsets, and the magnetic power (or sports franchise potential?) of the “the Milwaukee Vortex.” This conversation features Linda Edelstein, Chief Executive Officer of Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra; Kim Miller, artist and the chair of MIAD's fine Art Dept.; Darius Smith, Program Director, Gener8tor Art, also an artist, mental health advocate; Kantara Souffrant, Curator of Community Dialogue, Milwaukee Art Museum; Maureen Ragalie, Managing Director of Gener8tor Art; Jason Yi, professor at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, artist and gallerist at Hawthorn Contemporary; Xela Garcia, Executive Director of Walkers Point Center for the Arts, also an artist and writer; and Joe Poeschl, Director of Engagement at Milwaukee Tech Hub Coalition. Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Gener8tor Art Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design Milwaukee Art Museum Hawthorn Contemporary Walkers Point Center for the Arts MKE Tech Hub Coalition Greater Milwaukee Committee: The Commons Kristina Rolander Washington Park Media Center Stryv365Additional episode music: Tiger Technique "Oakvale of Albion"; Headspace Torus "Main Version 01"

In this episode of PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf, Sasha and photographer, Kelli Connell discuss her brand new book, Pictures for Charis, published by Aperture. Kelli talks about her fascination with and subsequent extensive research on Charis Wilson and the eleven year relationship she had with legendary photographer Edward Weston, and how what she learned guided her own exploration of portrait-making and landscape work while collaborating with her wife of fourteen years, Betsy Odom. Sasha and Kelli also discuss Kelli's renowned series, Double Life, which also explores the relationship between photographer and model as well as gender and identity. https://www.kelliconnell.com https://aperture.org/books/kelli-connell-pictures-for-charis/ http://www.decodebooks.com/connell.html Kelli Connell is an artist whose work investigates sexuality, gender, identity and photographer / sitter relationships. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, J Paul Getty Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Dallas Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, among others. Publications of her work include Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis (Aperture, March 2024), PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice (Aperture), Photo Art: The New World of Photography (Aperture), and the monograph Kelli Connell: Double Life (DECODE Books). Connell has received fellowships and residencies from The Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, PLAYA, Peaked Hill Trust, LATITUDE, Light Work, and The Center for Creative Photography. Connell is an editor at SKYLARK Editions and a professor at Columbia College Chicago. This podcast is sponsored by picturehouse + thesmalldarkroom. https://phtsdr.com

Episode No. 640 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Judy Ledgerwood and curator Lisa Volpe.  Ledgerwood is included within "50 Paintings" at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The exhibition features paintings made in the last five years by 50 artists from around the world.  It was curated by Margaret Andera and Michelle Grabner and is on view through June 23. Ledgerwood is also on view in "Disguise the Limit: John Yau's Collaborations" at the University of Kentucky Art Museum in Lexington through June 1. Ever since the 1980s, Ledgerwood's paintings have engaged transatlantic histories related to abstraction and decoration from a distinctive feminist point-of-view. Her work is in the collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the MCA Chicago.   Volpe is the curator of “Robert Frank and Todd Webb: Across America, 1955”, which opens at the Addison Gallery of American Art this weekend. It will remain on view through July 31. The exhibition presents work the famed Frank and the less-well-known Webb made as they traveled the United States on Guggenheim fellowships in 1955. The excellent exhibition catalogue was published by the MFAH in association with Yale University Press. Amazon and Bookshop offer it for $25-47. Frank and Webb images are at Episode No. 630. Instagram: Judy Ledgerwood, Lisa Volpe, Tyler Green.

The Cabin is presented by the Wisconsin Counties Association and this week we're featuring Vernon County: https://bit.ly/3MlEDXWThe Cabin is also brought to you by Group Health Trust: https://bit.ly/3JMizCXCampfire Conversation:Eric, Ana, and Jake welcome Chelsey Knuth into The Cabin for a heady look at Wisconsin's indoor museums, since it's a good time of year to be indoors when doing casual things. Chelsey is known to over 50,000 IG followers as The Wisconsinista, and her extensive travels around the state give her a solid level of expertise and another perspective. All four Cabin dwellers dive in to some of their favorite museums to explore, including Chelsey with some “must see” museums like the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Public Museum, Discovery World (complete with Wisconsin's largest aquarium), and the Harley-Davidson Museum for when you're in Wisconsin's largest city. For art, she recommends the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum in Wausau; the Wisconsin Museum of Quilt & Fiber Arts in Cedarburg; and, in a twist, the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass in Neenah - for a more fragile yet just-as-stunning art. Chelsey also delved into children's museums, with great ones in Milwaukee, La Crosse, Green Bay, Madison, Eau Claire and more. On a more somber yet very historical note, the Peshtigo Fire Museum is a great stop once it opens again in spring. Hall of Fame Museums cover the Green Bay Packers, snowmobiles, even bobbleheads. Historic homes and mansions across state to explore include the Pabst Mansion and Villa Terrace in Milwaukee; House on the Rock and Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin home, both near Spring Green; the Paine Art Center in Oshkosh; the Fairlawn Mansion in Superior, and more. Ana delved into cultural museums, including the Menominee Tribe Cultural & Logging Museum; plus, Wisconsin's own State Capitol is a museum in itself. Eric discussed the National Brewery Museum in Potosi, the Wisconsin Automotive Museum in Hartford, the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc, Green Bay's Neville Public Museum and National Railroad Museum, the Copper Culture Museum in Oconto, and - while there's an outdoor component too - the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame in Hayward. Jake chimed in with the National Mustard Museum in Middleton and - perhaps most unique - Redner's Rescued Cat Figurine Museum in Menomonee Falls. Listen to the episode and get the full skinny on all of these and more! See Chelsey on Instagram @thewisconsinista, or link to https://www.instagram.com/thewisconsinista/Inside Sponsors:1.) Ho-Chunk Nation: https://bit.ly/3l2Cfru2.) Benvenutos: https://benvenutos.com

Some might say that Daniel Clayman is more a sculptor using glass as his primary material than a glass artist. That is to say his sculptures would be successful from a formal point of view no matter what material they were created in. With one major exception: the play of light in Clayman's glass art enhances the objects dramatically in comparison with how they might appear in a solid, non-translucent medium. Born in 1957 in Lynn, Massachusetts, Clayman planned a career as a theater lighting designer, studying in the theater and dance departments at Connecticut College, eventually dropping out of college to work in the professional theater, dance and opera world. A chance class in 1980 introduced the artist to using glass as a sculptural material. In 1986, he received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and has maintained a studio in East Providence, Rhode Island since then. ​Clayman's interests in engineering, the behavior of light, and the memory of experience, act as an impetus for much of his work. Having turned his attention to large-scale installations, he employs technology from the simplest hand tool to the latest three-dimensional modeling and production tools. Recent public projects include Rainfield, Massachusetts College of Art and Design and Media Center Atrium, exhibition dates: January 23, 2017 – January 23, 2018; and Radiant Landscape, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton Township, New Jersey, exhibition dates: May 7, 2017 – February 28, 2018. Clayman is the recipient of several grants and awards and has had numerous one-person shows throughout the country to include the Tacoma Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts. Works in glass sculpture by the artist can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Art in San Francisco, The Museum of Art and Design in New York, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Art in Boston and the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.  An artist/educator, Clayman has taught in Japan, Israel and Australia in addition to a robust teaching schedule here in the U.S. He has been a Visiting Critic at the Rhode Island School of Design and Artist in Residence at Tyler School of Art and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He lectures frequently and teaches workshops at Penland School of Crafts, Pilchuck and The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, among others. In 2018, Clayman became the first endowed chair of glass at University of the Arts, Philadelphia.  Clayman states: “While I moved away from a professional career pursuit in lighting design, I have never turned away from my observations of light. Using glass as my primary sculptural material, I have spent the last 20 years developing a vocabulary of forms which describe volumes of light. Over the past four years, my studio work has centered around the creation of large-scale glass castings that thematically reference the capturing of light. One of the many mysteries of light is that it refuses to reveal any of its essence until it happens to reflect on something other than itself. For instance, the headlight of a car projects (reflects) light onto objects as the viewer approaches, but not until there is a foggy mist in the air does one see the shape and arc of the beam.”  

Alissa Schapiro is an educator and curator who studies art objects that reflect transnational and transcultural histories, especially those that speak to racial and ethnic exclusion, exile and migration, and gender discrimination across the Americas throughout the 20th century. As a curator, Schapiro has contributed to museum exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad, including at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and Tate Britain. Her current project is - This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement On view through February 25, 2024 at the Skirball Cultural Center. https://www.skirball.org/museum/exhibitions

Who is ready to embark on the ultimate Wisconsin adventure challenge? Imagine yourself on a journey through Wisconsin's picturesque towns, where you can fully immerse yourself in the artsy ambiance and savor the delicious local cuisine. Don't forget to make a pit stop in Milwaukee, where you can experience a perfect blend of historical charm and modern allure. The landscape is a captivating sight, with rolling fields and charming farmhouses – Wisconsin's rural allure is truly one-of-a-kind. And let's not forget about the thrilling adventures in the Wisconsin Dells! Exploring the Milwaukee Art Museum? Absolutely iconic. With each mile, you'll weave together Wisconsin's rich tapestry of cultures, stunning scenery, and captivating stories. This road trip is all about creating lasting memories and soaking in the unique vibes of Wisconsin.Also remember, we have the entire comprehensive Wisconsin Exploration Challenge article live on OnlyInYourState!Essential Wisconsin Road Trip Stops We Cover This Episode: House on the Rock World's Largest Six Pack Timm's Hill County Park Mars Cheese Castle Witches Gulch National Mustard Museum Cave of the Mounds World's Largest Penny Jurustic Park The Viking Church The Harley Davidson Museum Cheesehead Factory & Retail Store Olbrich Botanical Gardens The World's Largest Hodag Statue Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant (Door County)Podcast Timestamps:[00:5:57] Some weird Wisconsin facts![00:12:32] Our first stop on this exploration challenge.[00:21:10] Goats on the roof of a restaurant.Ready to shop better hydration? Use our special link Stay Hydrated! to save 20% off anything you order.https://zen.ai/notyouraveragebucketlist3Get In Touch!If you have personal experiences with any of the attractions mentioned above, call or text 805-298-1420! We'd love to hear your thoughts on these essential PA places and maybe even share your clip on the show! You can also reach out to us via email at podcast@onlyinyourstate.com.

Dan talks with a man from Muskego who believes his identity was used to make campaign donations on behalf of someone else. Plus, why did the Milwaukee Art Museum quietly change the name of O'Donnell Park?

Dan discusses a Milwaukee Magazine report that the Art Museum has very quietly renamed O'Donnell Park (named after the former County Executive and Dan's great uncle) and won't say why.

When I recently attended the Scandinavian and The United States Design show at the Milwaukee Art Museum, one of the displays that caught my attention was the information on the collaboration between the Danish Designer Finn Juhl and Baker Furniture. Join me as we delve into the fascinating world of Danish design and explore the lasting impact of this extraordinary partnership.Click here to learn more about The Influence Of Finn Juhl & Baker Furniture: Danish Design. #DanishDesign #FinnJuhl #BakerFurniture #ScandinavianFusion #GlobalTradeGal #DesignInfluence #MilwaukeeArtMuseum #FurnitureCollaboration #DesignHistorySupport the show

Welcome to Global Trade Gal! In this episode, we dive deep into the history and impact of Troll Dolls, from their origins with Thomas Dam to the establishment of Made For Dam Things. Join me as we explore their journey from Scandinavia to the United States and their iconic presence in the Milwaukee Art Museum's Scandinavian Design exhibition. As a child, I cherished these charming troll dolls, and now, let's uncover the fascinating story behind their global trade journey. You can read more about Troll Dolls: Thomas Dam & Made For Dam Things Establishment by clicking here.#GlobalTradeGal #TrollDolls #ThomasDam #MadeForDamThings #ScandinavianDesign #MilwaukeeArtMuseum #IconicToys #NostalgiaSupport the show

In this episode of the podcast, Elisabeth speaks with Jovanny Hernandez Caballero, a photographer and photojournalist from the south side of Milwaukee. Hernandez Caballero is an Art and Design major with an emphasis in Photography and Imaging at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, currently completing his BFA. As the son of immigrants from Oaxaca, Mexico, Jovanny's work explores themes of his cultural heritage and identity. Through his art practice, he documents the rich and positive stories of life in his community on Milwaukee's South Side, and conducts a kind of “reverse anthropology” to explore and document his own roots and his family in his family's native land of Oaxaca, Mexico. In the conversation, they cover his early influences, including the extensive mural artworks of Milwaukee, that speak to his identity and culture, as well as the power of attending May Day marches in Milwaukee on inspiring his interest in design. He reflects on the early transformative opportunity to participate in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards at the Milwaukee Art Museum. This year, Hernandez Caballero served as a judge in the Milwaukee branch of the competition. He reflects, too, on the influence of growing up and coming into his own art practice within the tight knit creative community of Milwaukee, where artists ban together to support one another, and organizations like the Walkers Point Center for the Art help empower artists by connecting them with opportunities and mentorship. A focus on community and identity is at the heart of Hernandez Caballero's art work, and also drives the work that he does in photojournalism: as a photojournalist for the Journal Sentinel, he focuses on telling positive community stories about, in particular, Milwaukee's South Side. From his perspective, photography has an “innate truth” and often is regarded as proof or a cultural remnant. This has influenced his both photojournalistic and art practices — in documenting his family in Oaxaca, Mexico, and in Milwaukee, to make sure he is capturing the nuance, beauty and positivity in underrepresented communities that are often his subjects. You can follow Jovanny's work on Instagram at @Jovanny.11. Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Milwaukee Murals Oaxaca, Mexico Day of the Kings Grilled Cheese Grant UWM BFA Thesis Show Creating Milwaukee Walkers Point Center for the Arts

We look at a new study that shows a surprising trend in Millennials health care needs. We learn about a partnership between Black Space, which offers therapy for Black and Brown people, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. Plus, we meet the new Wisconsin Poet Laureate.

We learn about the history of mental health care in Milwaukee and how it's changed over decades. Then, we explore the rise in true crime media and learn why people are so drawn to the subject. We speak with the new chief curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Plus, we hear from the first batboy for the Milwaukee Brewers on his new book, The Luckiest Boy In the World.

Tom Huck - Evil Prints http://www.evilprints.com/EVIL PRINTS @SPIDERHOLE STUDIO, PO BOX 666, PARK HILLS, MO 63601, UNITED STATES EVILHEADCREW@GMAIL.COMTom Hück (born 1971) is an American printmaker best known for his large-scale satirical woodcuts. He lives and works in Park Hills, Missouri, 60miles south of St. Louis, where he runs his own press Evil Prints @ Spiderhole Studio. His work is influenced by Albrecht Dürer, José Guadalupe Posada, R. Crumb, and Honoré Daumier.  Huck's woodcut prints are included in numerous public and private collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of Congress, Spencer Museum of Art, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Fogg Art Museum, Michael C. Carlos Museum, and The New York Public Library. Huck has been represented by David Krut Art Projects in New York, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and Duane Reed Gallery in St. Louis, Missouri.  Beginning in October 2017 Huck's gallery representation is C. G. Boerner in New York.Huck's illustrations have appeared in publications such as The Village Voice, The Riverfront Times, and the Minneapolis City Pages.  Hück has also worked with many music acts over the years most notably The Roots “Phrenology” album cover art, as well as t shirt and poster designs for Motörhead, A Perfect Circle, TILTS, and many others.As of Spring 2021 The Saint Louis Art Museum has become the complete official archive of all of Tom Hück's work dating from 1995 to the present. This episode is sponsored by www.betterhelp.com/TheBarn and presented to you by The Barn Media Group.

When you think of Milwaukee's architecture, chances are your mind goes to the Milwaukee Art Museum expansion designed by world-famous architect Santiago Calatrava. But did you know Milwaukee almost green-lit four more Calatrava-designed buildings, skywalks and bridges? On this episode, Bobby and Nate talk through each plan, and they share as much as they know about why they didn't materialize.

In 2019, Ex Fabula collaborated with Milwaukee Art Museum on a Slam connected with their exhibit “Serious Play: Design in MidCentury America.” This episode features 3 stories from that Slam, told by Sarah Carter, Mel Miskimen, and De'Shawn Ewing.

AndrewMaus: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Maus-Art-Spiegelman/dp/0679406417Shieldaig Kosher Whiskey: https://www.totalwine.com/spirits/scotch/blended-scotch/shieldaig-kosher-blended-malt-scotch-whisky/p/240582750Slyrs Whiskey: https://slyrs.com/en/Pop Culture Wish ListLaurenHere To Slay: https://www.unstablegames.com/collections/here-to-slayThe Crown: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4786824/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1Andor: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9253284/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0D&D One Shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lHQpzKS8EcSantiago Calatrava: https://calatrava.com/Milwaukee Art Museum: https://mam.org/info/calatrava.phpPatrickThe Watcher: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14852808/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0Pokemon Go: https://pokemongolive.com/en/Open Street Map: https://www.openstreetmap.orgYoutube Premium: https://www.youtube.com/premiumTwitch - Live Every Monday at 7pmhttps://www.twitch.tv/mof1podcast

This October, the Milwaukee Art Museum marked the 20th anniversary (one year belated due to covid) of the completion of architect Santiago Calatrava's iconic design. Calatrava himself was in town for the occasion and spoke to co-host Bobby Tanzilo. In this episode, Bobby shares his experience meeting the world-famous architect, and we discuss the lasting impact of the Calatrava design.More at OnMilwaukee: https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/milwaukee-talks-calatrava

This episode of ITP finds host Elisabeth joined by team member Rachel Shields Ebersole for a conversation with the Executive Director Jaymee Harvey Willms and Senior Curator Phoenix Brown from the Charles Allis and Villa Terrace Museums. In the conversation, they dig into some of the changes they have implemented and plan to implement to evolve the programming at, and experience of, attending the museums.   Drawing inspiration from Sarah Allis's will, the CAVT of today still seeks to “delight, educate and inspire.” The current staff at CAVT is made up of creatives, including Harvey Willms and Brown. As Harvey Willms reflects, “Artists are problem solvers...we are people who look at a system and see where it needs to be interrupted or supported.”   In alignment with the goals of Milwaukee County, CAVT is focused on thoughtfully stewarding taxpayer dollars to contribute to the local culture as an art and civic institution that is a driver to public health outcomes by increasing access to art, shared histories, and public green space. CAVT also wants Milwaukeeans to see themselves in their spaces and programming—and provide opportunities for respite. Brown and Harvey Willms hope their vision can help the institution become more relevant to support not only physical health but also the mental health of Milwaukee citizens.   CAVT is committed to becoming a more active player within the creative economy and becoming known as a museum that models new practices for supporting emerging and local artists. New museum stores will feature local makers, a revitalized residency programming has launched, and the organization is making investments in emerging artists. Brown hopes that through their vision, CAVT can demonstrate to Milwaukee that contemporary art is accessible. They also hope to keep funds in the local creative sector—by creating opportunities for artists and cultivating a cultural exchange where local artists are more supported—and continue to invest in Milwaukee.   Follow http://www.cavtmuseums.org/ (the CAVT Museums) on Instagram @charlesallisartmuseum and @villaterracemuseum  http://www.jaymeeharveywillms.com/ (Jaymee Harvey Willms)  https://phoenixbrown.art/ (Phoenix S. Brown)  https://www.jmkac.org/ (John Michael Kohler Arts Center)  https://gagosian.com/artists/anselm-kiefer/ (Anselm Kiefer)  https://www.bbbswashco.org/ (Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Washington County)  https://shopcival.com/ (CIVAL COLLECTIVE)  https://www.miad.edu/ (MIAD)  https://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/ (Cincinnati Art Museum)  https://mam.org/ (Milwaukee Art Museum)  https://county.milwaukee.gov/EN/County-Executive/News/Press-Releases/Milwaukee-County-Executive-David-Crowley-Launches-Healthy-County-Initiative- (Milwaukee County's Healthy County Initiative)  https://museums4all.org/ (Museums for All)  https://www.milwaukeemag.com/the-lasting-legacy-of-frederick-law-olmsted-and-his-3-signature-milwaukee-parks/ (Fredrick Law Olmstead Parks in Milwaukee)  https://www.abhmuseum.org/ (America's Black Holocaust Museum) 

Andrew Weiland and Arthur Thomas from BizTimes Media get together to discuss the news of the week, including The Milwaukee Rep's plans for a $75 million "new" theater complex. The plans came to light with the announcement of a $10 million, 20-year sponsorship by Associated Bank, which has its primary Milwaukee presence just north of The Rep's current theater. The Rep plans to stay at the same location, but will completely remake its three theaters. Andrew and Arthur discuss how the plan marks another major project remaking Milwaukee's cultural assets, following the Bradley Symphony Center and the planned move of the Milwaukee Art Museum. Insider Story SpotlightUse of electric and hybrid vehicles in Wisconsin has grown significantly, but still less than 2% of state total2022 BizTimes Future 50 WinnersBig StoryMilwaukee Rep plans to build new $75 million theater complex

Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava visited Milwaukee this week to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Jose Lerma was born in Spain and grew up in Puerto Rico. He earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin Madison and BA from Tulane University, and attended the CORE Residency Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, ME. He lives and works in Chicago and San Juan, Puerto Rico. His work has been in solo exhibitions at the Kemper Museum of Art in Kansas City, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de San Juan, Puerto Rico, among others; as well as in group exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; Institute Valecia d'art Modern, Spain; Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico; Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; and Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX, and others. His work has been written about extensively in the press, including in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Artforum.

A look inside the Process of Lake Arts Project and how they build bridges through bereavement ™, filmed on location at The Visionary during their residency, Summer 2022, interview hosted by Bernadette Winters Bell,LMSW PLLC. Annually, Lake Arts Project (2013 - present) brings together community groups and arts educators to workshop, cleanse, share, and then create. Collaborators include Feast of Crispian, a non-profit organization that brings professional actors and veterans together to strengthen the emotional resources they need to overcome trauma and reintegration issues. Lake Arts Project also works with high school art students, including THE ALLIANCE SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE, a year-round school and a safe place for students regardless of sexuality, identity, appearance, ability, or beliefs. During the BECOMING WHOLE Visionary Retreat, the founders and directors of Lake Arts Project (Karl von Rabenau, Creative Director of the Minnesota Ballet) and his partner, Jennifer Miller, Milwaukee Ballet Faculty Master Teaching Artist) immersed themselves in the unique process that they have created for those around them, and record their actions, step by step, to create a digital manual for their process, which became their final performance on June 18, 2022 on The Visionary stage. Long time collaborators, dancers Barry Molina and Lizzie Tripp joined Lake Arts to explore and perform the final presentation of work. Bernadette also joined the final performance as a guest speaker. Lake Arts Project's co-founder and co-director, Karl von Rabenau is also Artistic Director for Minnesota Ballet Company. He began his dance training at Duluth Ballet, Minnesota Dance Theatre, Boston Ballet School, and San Francisco Ballet School. Mr. von Rabenau danced for Boston Ballet, Omaha Ballet, Pittsburgh Theater, and Milwaukee Ballet. Mr. von Rabenau is also a passionate dance educator. For the past 21+ years, he has taught throughout the Midwest and Eastern United States. He has been a faculty member at Milwaukee Ballet School & Academy, including his work with the second company, MBII. Mr. von Rabenau has also taught for many years at Point Park University's International Summer Dance in Pittsburgh, PA, and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet in Carlisle, PA. As a choreographer, Mr. von Rabenau has created works for Point Park University's International Summer Dance Program and had works performed in Regional Dance of America Festivals in the Northeast Region and Southeast Region. In 2002, Mr. von Rabenau was invited to choreograph his pas de deux, Speranza, for a Milwaukee Ballet presentation at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Jennifer Miller, Lake Arts Project's co-founder and co-director, received her dance training at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. Ms. Miller also studied at Joffrey Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. Ms. Miller danced 16 years for Milwaukee Ballet Company, retiring as Principal Artist. In summer of 2005, Ms. Miller danced for Trey McIntyre Project, performing in Vail International Dance Festival and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Ms. Miller, currently Ballet Master for Minnesota Ballet and School of Minnesota Ballet faculty, has also been on the faculty of Milwaukee area schools: Milwaukee Ballet School & Academy, Danceworks, Dance Arts Center, and Steps of Grace. For many summers, Ms Miller has taught at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, and Point Park University's International Summer Dance. As a private coach, she works with pre-professional dancers of all ages and levels including Youth America Grand Prix performers, ballroom dancers, gymnasts and Irish step dancers. As a choreographer, Ms. Miller created works for Milwaukee Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet II, Central PA Youth Ballet, Point Park University's International Summer Dance, Dance Arts Center and Erie Dance Conservatory. She received the Monticello award for emerging choreographers. PERFORMERS: Barry Molina is originally from Minnesota, where he started dancing at age six with the St. Croix Ballet in Stillwater. He went on to train at New York City's School of American Ballet year-round, after which he joined the Nancy Einhorn Milwaukee Ballet II Program. As a member of the program, he was called in, at the last minute, to perform as Peter's Shadow in the world premiere of Michael Pink's Peter Pan. Since being promoted to the Company in 2011, Molina has performed many featured roles in Michael Pink's repertoire, including Jack in Cinderella, the Bell Boy in Dracula, Pied Piper in Beauty and the Beast, Benno in Swan Lakeas well as Fritz, Jack and Chinese Principal in The Nutcracker. He was recently featured as Vaslav Nijinksy in Timothy O'Donnell's world premiere of Sacre, and Puck in Bruce Wells' A Midsummer Night's Dream. ---------------------------------- Lizzie Tripp trained at Milwaukee Ballet School & Academy (MBSA), and attended the Summer Intensives at American Ballet Theatre and Houston Ballet. In MBSA, Tripp performed lead roles in many ballets choreographed by Rolando Yanes and danced alongside Milwaukee Ballet's corps in Michael Pink's Swan Lake. She joined the Nancy Einhorn Milwaukee Ballet II Program in 2014, where she danced in Michael Pink's Don Quixote, The Nutcracker, Cinderella and Dracula, and performed in contemporary works by Timothy O'Donnell, Nadia Thompson, Lee-Wei Chao, Ilya Kozadayev and Petr Zahradnícek. Since being promoted to the Company, Tripp originated the role of the Enchantress in the world premiere of Michael Pink's Beauty and The Beast, and danced in Pink's Mirror Mirror and contemporary works by Enrico Morelli, Mark Godden and Garrett Glassman.

Susan Barnett is an avocational cellist and photographer. She has served as curator for the Yellowstone and Erie Art Museums, and worked at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Cedarburg Cultural Center, and Milwaukee Art Museum. She has also served as an executive director, founded a gallery and framing business, and worked as an independent curator and nonprofit board consultant.

This episode of the pod begins with Lindsay, David and Elisabeth comparing public arts funding (and also the number and/or quality of lakes) in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The trio are excited for the long awaited coming of Milwaukee summer, and all the live music opportunities therein.   Around 10:00, Dr. Kantara Souffrant, the Milwaukee Art Museum's inaugural Curator of Community Dialogue, joins the crew. In her role at the MAM, Kantara oversees adult programming and building sustainable partnerships between the Museum and the community. Her role was created in conjunction with the implementation of the recent Museum's Strategic Direction, which was published in the fall of 2019.   With a background in art, performance, art history, education and scholarship on Haitian art, Kantara was drawn to work in art museums because she developed a sense that she wanted to work in a public space where others' diverse knowledge and perspectives would be honored. In her role, she does just that: acting as a shepherd and facilitator, she empowers people with the understanding that they have everything they need to fully engage with artwork no matter what kind of formal education they have had. In her facilitation and programming work, Kantara tries to create opportunities for vulnerability, and generate micro moments that foster engagement and a feeling of “being in community.”   Throughout the conversation, the group discusses how measuring success for arts institutions might be served by first asking the question "how wide of a funnel can we build?” to invite people to find their own meaning in what's presented. Other questions are raised, including: how do we measure the “transformational power of the arts? What is the role of Museums in society? How can Museums create both positive imprints and impacts within those who engage once or many times? How can art help people see other cultures as interconnected with their own experiences?   Kantara reflects on how art is not only about learning to see yourself—but provides counterbalance in the form of new visual and poetic language to address social issues when rhetoric around such issues is toxic, politicized, and polarized.   In the words of Haitian artist Philomé Obin, “Art is a record of who we are, what we believe what we did,” and in Kantara's view, a really good art museum “should be able to document the shifts”—so that populations can look back, and also look forward.   Email Kantara at kantara.souffrant@mam.org   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mequitte/?hl=en (@Mequitte)   https://www.legacy.mn.gov/arts-cultural-heritage-fund#:~:text=The%20Arts%20and%20Cultural%20Heritage,Minnesota's%20history%20and%20cultural%20heritage. (Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund)  https://www.bayviewneighborhood.org/chill-on-the-hill (Chill on the Hill)  https://www.imaginemke.org/art-stories/414ward.php (414 Day Video (2021))  https://www.samerghani.com/ (Samer Ghani)  https://www.instagram.com/p/B9J5a6zHq_o/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D (Community Feedback at MAM about Milwaukee's Hidden Gems)  http://www.kimrobertson.net/ (Kim Robertson)  https://mcnairscholars.com/about/ (Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program)  http://collection.mam.org/collection-areas/haitian/ (The Haitian Art Collection at MAM)  http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=10820 (Hector Hyppolite's “The Adoration of Love”)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philom%C3%A9_Obin (Philomé Obin)  https://mam.org/support/details-reports.php (The MAM's Strategic Direction)  https://www.blackspacehq.com/ (Black Space HQ)  https://www.embodyyogamke.com/ (Embody Yoga)  https://m.facebook.com/Noahs-Art-MKE-105723511513580/ (Noah's Art MKE)  https://www.facebook.com/djomilwaukee (DJ O)  https://www.notyourmamastea.com/...

WWMN Interview: Nikki Otten from the Milwaukee Art Museum 6-5-22See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Did you know that during the weekend you're supposed to spend as little time at home as humanly possible? That's right, Saturday and Sunday are for leaving the house and never returning. You literally can't go home until Monday, if you do you'll probably light on fire! Anyway, here's what's been keeping us busy on the weekends when we leave the house. Get silly with us on social:FOLLOW THE PODCASTInstagram: @pessimisticatbestFacebook: @pessimisticatbestWebsite: pessimisticatbest.comFOLLOW SAMANTHAInstagram: @samgeorgsonTwitter: @samgeorgsonWebsite: samanthageorgson.comFOLLOW JAMESInstagram: @daycatcher_Twitter: @daycatcher_Website: thedaycatcher.comSupport the show

The episode kicks off with banter among the Imagine crew on the very novel topic of COVID. Mac, Lindsay, and David each share reflections on their favorite local parks—including Estabrook Park, a chain of parks along the Milwaukee River's east side, and Grant Park and golf course.   Rebecca Stoner, the Milwaukee Parks Foundation's Executive Director, and Tristen Shorter, the Milwaukee Parks Foundation's Director of Communications join the Imagine crew around 12:15. In the course of the conversation, they reflect on the similarities between the Park Foundation's function and Imagine MKE's role in advocating for “non-mandated services” that enhance the quality of life and contribute to wellness in our city. After decades of disinvestment, the Parks Foundation was created to help support the future of the 150 Milwaukee County parks, trails and beer gardens, with a specific focus on building equity: disinvestment in parks has hit Black and Brown communities disproportionately. They share facts including that the parks' budget remains the same as it was in 1985, with less than half of the fulltime employees. Stoner also shares the staggering statistic that each of the current Park employees is responsible for maintaining the equivalent of 28 Lambeau Fields of land.   Despite the challenges, the parks were a lifeline to residents during the pandemic, and they enjoy a robust life as centers of recreation and artistic performances—including as the setting for beloved events like Chill on the Hill, Bastille Days, and China Lights. Milwaukee Parks also have a rich history of commissioning local artists to create sculptures and maps in response to park spaces. Stoner and Shorter both see hope and opportunities to make Milwaukee a healthier, safer, and more vibrant city through fostering more of a sense of belonging in parks for all Milwaukee residents.   Follow The Milwaukee Parks Foundation  Facebook and LinkedIn: @milwaukeeparksfoundation Insta: @mkeparksfoundation   https://www.mkeparksfoundation.org/ (Milwaukee County Parks Foundation)  https://www.facebook.com/HealthyMKEChallenge/events (Milwaukee County Executive Healthy County Challenge)  https://county.milwaukee.gov/EN/Parks (Milwaukee County Parks)    E414 Ephemera  What is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumite (Kumite?)  https://www.wibandshellsandstands.com/milwaukee-kilbourn-kadish-park.html (Kadish Park)  https://urbanmilwaukee.com/place/gordon-park/ (Gordon Park)  https://www.friendsofestabrook.com/history.html (Estabrook Park)  https://mke.golf/warnimont/ (Warnimont Golf Course)  https://mke.golf/grant/ (Grant Park Golf Course)  https://stacker.com/wisconsin/wisconsin-has-2-50-cities-most-green-space-capita (Milwaukee: 15th Most Greenspace in America)  http://teachers.mam.org/homepage/junior-docent-school-program/ (The Junior Docent Program at The Milwaukee Art Museum)  https://cszmke.com/ (Comedy Sportz Milwaukee)  https://dbp.theatredance.utexas.edu/node/29 (Zip Zap Zop (Drama-Based Instruction)) 

Synopsis Religious music, like the religious experience itself, comes in all shapes, forms, moods, and colors. On today's date in the year 2002, for example, this setting of the Song of Isaiah had its premiere performance at the Milwaukee Art Museum during a concert by the Present Music ensemble. The composer of the new setting was a native of Milwaukee named Michael Torke, who writes: “I have always considered that a central religious experience is one of uplifting joy, as opposed to other spiritual expressions of pleading, suffering, atonement, or wrath. It is that state of joy and thanksgiving I am trying to express.” Song of Isaiah was commissioned for Present Music's 20th anniversary, and to honor the Archbishop Rembert Weakland. The piece is scored for a singer, clarinet, bass clarinet, string quintet, piano, vibraphone, and a percussionist who plays the rhythmic underpinning with a tambourine, claves, and in the center of the piece, a triangle. “This spirited rhythm,” writes Torke, “embodies slower embedded forms that are etched out melodically by the clarinets in octaves, and also by the strings and piano in octaves. In essence, there are no climaxes, as I wish the music to be a meditation, though the feeling is quite lively. Nine sections of the piece serve as episodic variations, and explore different small chunks of text from the Book of Isaiah. The form is a mirror: the first and ninth sections relate, as do the second and eighth, and so on; the fifth section (using the triangle) is in the exact center.” Music Played in Today's Program Michael Torke (b. 1961) — Song of Isaiah (Present Music) innova 590

This week, we welcome podcast superfan, cohort participant, and arts educator Dianne Choie – who serves as Youth and Family Programs Coordinator at the Milwaukee Art Museum.   First, we open with the signature “banter” segment – talking about how Imagine's convening work has evolved in the last few years.   Dianne joins the pod at 16:45 and shares about her past life in publishing, her transition to museum education, and her work at MAM.   Ephemera  “https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/west-wing-why-mrs-landingham-got-written-off-show.html/ (Why Mrs. Landingham Got Written Off the Show)” (not a West Wing Season 4 Development)  https://open.library.okstate.edu/introphilosophy/chapter/ship-of-theseus/#:~:text=The%20ship%20of%20Theseus%2C%20also,from%20the%20late%20first%20century. (The Ship of Theseus)  “https://www.npr.org/2022/02/11/1079827766/drive-my-car-japan-oscar-nominations-hamaguchi-ryusuke-murakami (Drive My Car)” 

Hey Boss, Are you aware that your leadership could influence other people? Did you know that the way you lead could help others become great leaders? Finally, are you ready to become a leader that could be a good role-model to others? As a leader, it's important to understand the value that you have towards the people that you're leading. The reason why we hone our leadership skills is not only to become a great leader but also to influence other people to be a leader of their own. In this episode, we are joined by Brigid Globensky, PhD, who is the Milwaukee Art Museum's Barbara Brown Lee Senior Director of Education and Programs. She is responsible for the Museum's education and public programs. Brigid is here to talk about Laws 13, 14 and 15 which are the Laws of Reproduction, Buy-In and Victory from the book “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” by John C. Maxwell. As we dive into the conversation, Brigid and I will be sharing our thoughts and experiences on being a leader in connection with these laws. Brigid shares amazing nuggets and stories that will surely help you become a great leader. The vision that Brigid has when it comes to leadership is full of learnings and lessons. Tune in to this insightful episode on Apple, iTunes, or Spotify and please consider sharing a 5-star review along the way. Dr. Laci Mentioned in this episode: “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” by John C. Maxwell 21 Laws Podcast Tracker https://www.robbinsnestconsulting.com/pl/2147545560 Resources to Go from Process to Practice: The Million Dollar Inner Circle Membership https://www.robbinsnestconsulting.com/offers/jQJJQewt PowHER Your Process: https://www.robbinsnestconsulting.com/apply Say Hello... Facebook: http://facebook.com/drlacicom Instagram: http://instagram.com/drlacicrobbins Twitter: http://twitter.com/drlacicrobbins LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlacicrobbins/ Website: https://www.robbinsnestconsulting.com/ A Little About Me: I am Dr. Laci C. Robbins the co-Founder and Principal Consultant of Robbins' Nest Consulting. As an award-winning leader, personal development strategist, and consultant to businesses the goal remains to support topics such as workplace civility and talent retention, as well as to support high powered women to build a platform and make more money. With both a Master's Degree and Doctorate Degree in Leadership, I help you go from the process of figuring it out, to leadership in practice! I'm glad you are here, from process to practice, grab your stilettos and let's go! Dr. Laci --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dr-laci-c--robbins/support --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dr-laci-c--robbins/support

In this episode, Wes and Todd sit down with Gundega Stevens, Owner and Curator of G44 Gallery. Gundega talks about growing up surrounded by art, getting her degrees in Art History, interning and working at the Milwaukee Art Museum, opening G44 and the early challenges she faced, moving to the new location in downtown Colorado Springs, thoughts on curation and getting into the zone to curate a show, the evolution of the vision for G44, advice to new collectors, Curate Your Space, advice to Artists on how to approach a gallery and being a story-seller.Join us for a lovely and insightful conversation with Gundega Stevens.Check out the G44 Gallery website at www.g44gallery.comG44 Gallery121 E. Boulder StreetColorado Springs, CO 80903720.951.0573Follow G44 Gallery on social media:On Instagram – www.instagram.com/g44gallery/@g44galleryOn Facebook - www.facebook.com/G44Gallery Follow Curate Your Space on social media:On Instagram - www.instagram.com/curate.your.space/@curate.your.spaceOn Facebook - www.facebook.com/CurateYourSpaceCO

In this episode, we discuss the way in which Matthew Zapruder attends to vivid, specific details to create a sense of wonder, connection, and surprise. To read "Poem for Wisconsin," click here (https://poets.org/poem/poem-wisconsin). "Poem for Wisconsin" originally appeared in the collection Sun Bear. Thanks to Copper Canyon Press (https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/sun-bear-by-matthew-zapruder/) for granting us permission to read this poem on the podcast. For a glimpse of the "Bronze Fonz," click here (https://www.visitmilwaukee.org/articles/about-mke/bronze-fonz/). To see how the Milwaukee Art Museum opens its wings, watch this time-lapse video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGQJPkQL0fU). For a sense of the "many moods" of Lake Michigan, see the photography of the wonderful Jin Lee (https://jinleephotography.net/great-water).

We break down what's happened so far in the first week of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha. Then, on its 20th anniversary, we look at the Milwaukee Art Museum's Calatrava and how it's become a symbol of the city. We learn about Milwaukee's Forest Home Cemetery becoming the city's first accredited arboretum. Plus, explore the King Tut display at the Milwaukee Public Museum.

For curator and scholar Glenn Adamson, craft isn't a quirky hobby that sits on the outskirts of contemporary culture. Rather, it's a vital, timeless tool for teaching us about one another, and about humanity as a whole. This belief fuels his writing, teaching, and curatorial projects, which seek to unpack the many ways in which the age-old activity shapes our lives. Adamson's work shows that craft is bigger than any single skillfully handmade object—each of which itself can serve as an important symbol of the human capacity for honing expertise over time—and influences countless aspects of society, from the Japanese tea ceremony to farming robots devised by Google's parent company, Alphabet X. In this way, craft acts as a lens for understanding people and places across time.Adamson, 49, has explored the virtues of craft throughout his two-decade-long career, which has included roles at Milwaukee's Chipstone Foundation, London's Victoria and Albert Museum, and New York's Museum of Arts and Design. In his 2018 book Fewer, Better Things, he positions craft as a means of connecting with fundamental issues and ideas (as opposed to those that hold only momentary or superficial relevance), and explains why taking the time to appreciate handmade objects from a maker's or a user's perspective holds particular spiritual and psychological value. Adamson's account of the discipline in the United States, neatly laid out in his latest book, Craft: An American History (Bloomsbury), reveals how artisans—whose trade often includes people who are disempowered by their ethnicity, gender, or both—have been consistently suppressed throughout the nation's history, but, paradoxically, are integral to many of its greatest achievements. His latest endeavor takes a more forward-looking approach. “Futures,” an exhibition Adamson co-curated that opens in November at the Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Building in Washington, D.C. (on view through summer 2022), considers how craft can signal where we might be headed, and why we should be optimistic about the time to come. Over and over again, Adamson demonstrates how skilled making is about more than just beautiful objects. “Craft stands in for the whole idea of what it means to be human,” he says, “and why that matters.”On this episode, Adamson discusses the various facets of skilled making, talking with Spencer about the value of hand-formed objects, the relationship between time and craft, and the discipline's essential, often complicated role in the history of human progress.Show notes:Full transcript on timesensitive.fm@glenn_adamsonglennadamson.com(16:20): Fewer, Better Things (Bloomsbury, 2018)(52:57): Chipstone Foundation (53:33): Milwaukee Art Museum(54:16): “Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990” (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2011)(55:56): The Journal of Modern Craft(56:04): Museum of Arts and Design(59:50): Craft: An American History (Bloomsbury, 2021)(01:17:23): “Futures” (Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, Nov. 2021–Summer 2022)

On this week's episode, Elle Davidson sits down with her friend and former boss, Justin Barney. Barney is the music director and assistant program director for 88Nine Radio Milwaukee. The two Milwaukee natives discuss Wisconsin pride, listening to Sufjan Stevens in middle school, how to make it in your own city, Caroline Polachek and of course… 2021 NBA Champions The Bucks!!

In this episode, Dr. Kantara Souffrant, Assistant Professor of Nonwestern/Global Arts History and Visual Culture at Illinois State University and Curator of Community Dialogue at the Milwaukee Art Museum, joins us to discuss her work in the public humanities, and her transition from academia to a career in public art and community engagement. For full audio transcript of the episode please visit our website at www.phdfuturesnow.org.

In this episode, I had the great pleasure of having Christopher Perceptions join as my guest speaker. Christopher McIntyre Perceptions (otherwise known as C.M.P.) has a “passion for empowering the powerless” -- and this passion runs through his work as a social entrepreneur in minority communities, as a digital artist, and in his later involvement with blockchain and cryptocurrency. His story begins in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and he has traveled widely in the United States and abroad — reaching as far away as South Africa and Malta — where he was involved in community engagement and encouraging the mass adoption of cryptocurrency. His experiences range from working as an advisor to government organizations on development, education, and creative community output to doing more technical work at AT&T & Apple. His love of art led him to exhibit his own work in museums, including at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and in 2016, he became involved with a company called 23 VIVI, a company that wanted to allow art to be put on the blockchain. Christopher gradually got “turned on” by blockchain and is the Founder of a company called PerceptForm, an “end-to-end ecosystem of cryptocurrency/ blockchain products and services for introducing minority communities to the new world of blockchain.” Here again, his passion has led him to focus on creating financial tools; creating educational curricula to make cryptocurrency easy to understand; putting art on the blockchain, and tokenizing real estate (“allowing people to buy back the block through fractional ownership.” ) PerceptForm also offers a cryptocurrency course, called “Simply Crypto” which “takes someone from zero to hero” and is connected to a utility token known as the SimplyCryptocurrency token, which would allow someone to become an owner of the cryptocurrency by incentivizing them to learn about centralized & decentralized topics through a complex mechanism known as an “airdrop.” In an exciting development, PerceptForm has partnered with SolidBlock regarding “ bringing security tokens to the Milwaukee area. We are trying to allow affordable housing to be accessible - leveraging this technology. We are able to offer a new way of fundraising; a new way of creating opportunity not only for developers but also for the community,” and plan on getting more minorities into this life-changing technology.

The digitally inclined will feast on this conversation with Robert Stein, among the art world's most insightful and accomplished protagonists, who has conjured up and implemented innovative practices affecting museumgoers around the globe, both online and in person. We caught up with him during his first month as the Milwaukee Art Museum's Deputy Director and Chief Experience Officer, and covered a host of topics, from virtual museum experiences during the pandemic to new research in the field, consulting enterprises offered by museums, online experiments that bore fruit, and a prediction about post-pandemic in-person conferences.