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Painting: Beneath the Surface

UW-Eau Claire — Barron County, Fine Arts 1800 College Dr, Rice Lake

This exhibition is featuring student work alongside professional work. The show is a conversation through painting addressing current issues. Featured artists in the show work in various mediums and styles addressing issues such as nature, the body, identity, and politics. Featuring: JD McGuire, Brandi Matthews, Don Ruedy, Mary Caton-Rosser, Kaitlyn Orr, Leah Orr, Nevaeh Krchnavy, […]

Free

Manitowoc Public Library Winter Reading Program 2026: Warm Up to a Good Book!

Manitowoc Public Library 707 Quay Street, Manitowoc

The Winter Reading Program is open to All Ages! Read or be read to for a total of 10 hours from Sunday, January 11 through Saturday, February 28. Everyone who finishes receives a raffle ticket to enter to win one of a variety of fantastic prize baskets! Participate by tracking your reading on the Beanstack […]

Participation is Free!

Michelle Grabner: Under the Sink

Haggerty Museum of Art 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee

Milwaukee-based artist, writer, and curator Michelle Grabner pays homage to custodial labor through this installation of household sinks and replicated everyday objects. Largely unseen janitorial work is instead foregrounded through the presence of commonplace objects used to keep institutional spaces sanitary. In the traditionally orderly gallery space, rests a silver leafed garbage can, cast bronze […]

Free

Parallel Play: The Art of Science & the Science of Art

Haggerty Museum of Art 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee

Parallel Play was created as an integral component of Marquette’s Biology class, Creative Problem Solving. This cross-disciplinary course teaches STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) students to embrace divergent thinking as a path to innovative problem solving. Through art-based activities and small group interactions with artists and STEM faculty, the class emphasizes the similarities between […]

Free

The Big 4-0, Vol. 2: New Views of the Collection

Haggerty Museum of Art 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee

The Big 4-0, Vol. 2: New Views of the Collection reimagines the Haggerty Museum of Art’s six lower galleries for the spring semester, presenting an entirely new installation of outstanding works from the Museum’s own holdings. The exhibition expands on collection favorites such as Keith Haring and Salvador Dalí paintings with rarely seen works on […]

Free

Bilingual Story Time in the Galleries: Mandarin Chinese and English

Milwaukee Art Museum 700 N. Art Museum Dr, Milwaukee

Join us for a special bilingual Story Time in the Galleries with Lily Buschkopf from Mason’s Reading Space, a traveling education program that shares Chinese language and stories with the Milwaukee community. Meet in Windhover Hall near the admission desks at 10:30 a.m. and walk with the reader to the galleries. Hear a story in […]

Free – $27

Music and Magic from the Polkaverse with Mike Schneider

History Maker Space 1 S Pinckney St, Madison

Music, crafts, comedy, trivia, singalongs and—of course—polka dancing abound during this celebration of Wisconsin’s Official State Dance! Join six-time polka hall of fame award winner and renowned accordion player Mike Schneider as we celebrate “the happiest music on earth” with a memorable afternoon full of out-of-this-world fun for the whole family. Don’t forget to bring […]

$15

FLOWt at 2 Roots Gallery: MLK’s Beloved Community

2 Roots Art and Wine Gallery 216 S Barstow Street, Eau Claire

Sue Orfield on sax, Dave Power on drums, and Josh Gallagher on piano join with fine artist Terry Meyer and authors Dr. Ann and Lou Recine for a multimedia tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King’s vision of the Beloved Community. Ann and Lou will share healing stories from their book, Home Again and Again.$20 (+fees) […]