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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

Pretty in Pink – A Galentine’s Stroll

Hilldale Shopping Center 726 N Midvale Blvd, Madison

Bring your BFFs to Hilldale Thursday, February 13 beginning at 5 pm for an evening celebrating friendship at the Pretty in Pink Galentine’s Event! Purchase a passport for $25, with proceeds benefitting Black Girl Magic Educational Services, and shop your way through Hilldale with exclusive deals, discounts, freebies, and experiences at participating restaurants and retailers […]

$25

MSO on the Go: Waunakee Community High School

Waunakee Community High School 301 Community Dr, Waukakee

Join your Madison Symphony Orchestra in Waunakee! MSO On the Go brings the musicians of the Madison Symphony to performing arts centers in your community with music the whole family will enjoy! Under the baton of MSO Associate Conductor Kyle Knox at 7:00 p.m. you’ll have the opportunity to experience your Symphony live, on Thursday, […]

$5 – $25

Wisconsin Jazz Orchestra | Valentine’s Bash

The Howard 405 Washington Avenue, Oshkosh

Swing your Valentine! Jazz Coterie concert series presents the Wisconsin Jazz Orchestra (WJO). A magical evening of big-band music and dancing not to be missed! TICKETS & INFO at JazzCoterie.com | 7:00pm Concert & Dancing | $17.50 – $55.00 WJO is a 16-piece orchestra that showcases a range of swinging repertoire from Count Basie and […]

$35

A Valentine’s Affair 2025: Love Scenes From Shakespeare

Bartell Community Theatre 113 E Mifflin St, Madison

Thrill to the adventures of the lovesick Jailer’s Daughter, the perils of Isabella, and the amorous Cleopatra before wrapping up with a tale of lost love rediscovered… with pancakes! Madison’s unique Valentine’s Day tradition continues with the seventh installment of A Valentine’s Affair, a celebration of classic love stories from William Shakespeare and peers. An […]

$25

Michael Perry & The Long Beds

Mineral Point Opera House 139 High Street, Mineral Point

“Reflective roughneck” takes on life in rural America. One of the most requested artists to make a return appearance at the Opera House is making his return! Farm boy turned humorist, New York Times bestselling author, volunteer firefighter/first responder, corporate speaker, and amateur snow plow driver from rural Wisconsin, Michael Perry, comes to the Opera […]

$5 – $45

A Valentine’s Affair 2025: Love Scenes From Shakespeare

Bartell Community Theatre 113 E Mifflin St, Madison

Thrill to the adventures of the lovesick Jailer’s Daughter, the perils of Isabella, and the amorous Cleopatra before wrapping up with a tale of lost love rediscovered… with pancakes! Madison’s unique Valentine’s Day tradition continues with the seventh installment of A Valentine’s Affair, a celebration of classic love stories from William Shakespeare and peers. An […]

$25

A Valentine’s Affair 2025: Love Scenes From Shakespeare

Bartell Community Theatre 113 E Mifflin St, Madison

Thrill to the adventures of the lovesick Jailer’s Daughter, the perils of Isabella, and the amorous Cleopatra before wrapping up with a tale of lost love rediscovered… with pancakes! Madison’s unique Valentine’s Day tradition continues with the seventh installment of A Valentine’s Affair, a celebration of classic love stories from William Shakespeare and peers. An […]

$25