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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

Lunchtime Talk by Kirk Nickel, PhD, Marc and Lillian Rojtman Curator of European Art

Haggerty Museum of Art 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee

Please join us for this engaging 20-minute Lunchtime Talk featuring the work of Nam June Paik. The Korean-born artist is widely considered the founder of video art. This month’s Art Talk focuses on his 1994 video sculpture Cage in Cage, a Victorian-style birdcage filled with active television monitors, currently on view in the Haggerty’s anniversary […]

JAZZMEIA HORN in Concert

Great Northern Distilling 1011 2nd Street, Stevens Point

3X Grammy Nominee! 6:00 & 8:00 Showtimes — Info & Tickets at JazzCoterie.com Born and raised in Dallas, it was Horn’s jazz-loving, piano-playing grandmother who chose “Jazzmeia.” She began singing at a young age and attended the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts. In 2009, Horn moved to New York City to […]

$35

Jerome Rand – Sailing Into Oblivion

UW Madison Memorial Union 800 Langdon St, Madison

The UW Hoofer Sailing Club is pleased to welcome renowned sailor Jerome Rand to the Memorial Union for an unforgettable evening of sea stories. From his solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the globe to countless daring sailing adventures, Jerome’s tales will inspire, amaze, and ignite your wanderlust. Jerome Rand is a midwestern sailor most known for […]

Free – $15

Wisconsin Young Artists Compete: The Final Forte

Overture Center for the Arts 201 State Street, Madison

Wisconsin Young Artists Compete: The Final Forte is a free concert that is broadcast live on PBS Wisconsin and Wisconsin Public Radio. This competition has captured an enormous following and numerous honors, including an Emmy nomination, First Place in the “Special Interest” category from the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association in 2007, and fifth most-watched program in […]

Free