The Big 4-0: An Exhibition Celebrating the Haggerty Museum of Art’s Forty Years
2024-08-23 10:00 - 2024-12-22 16:30 (America/Chicago) | Arts and Entertainment District, 1 Division St, Stoughton, 53589
The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University presents an exhibition in celebration of its 40th anniversary. Curated by Dr. Kirk Nickel, Marc and Lillian Rojtman Curator of European Art, the show comprises a two-part installation of the exhibition galleries, in fall 2024 and spring 2025, and features well over 100 works of art from the museum’s collections.
Ranging widely within time periods, geographies, and artists’ careers, the exhibition highlights major works in the Haggerty’s collection, organized into six curated galleries each semester. These distinct but conceptually linked spaces reflect the museum’s enduring commitment to the work of modern and contemporary artists, while also featuring a select group of Renaissance and Baroque artworks. The exhibition draws particular attention to the ideas and impulses that have fueled artists through the recent century, including novel approaches to modern materials + processes, political satire, kinetic and op art, migration, photography’s relationship to truth, mail art, and the challenge of representing life after war. Artworks by Mark Bradford, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Enrique Chagoya, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jeffrey Gibson, Sam Gilliam, Philip Guston, Keith Haring, Wifredo Lam, Elizabeth Murray, Diego Rivera, and Richard Serra will appear in the opening installation. Many of the works on view have benefitted from new research and conservation efforts, shedding additional light on their fabrication and display histories, and in some cases, the identity of their maker.
At its opening in 1984, the Haggerty Museum of Art was envisioned both as a repository for Marquette’s collection of fine art and as a center for learning through the visual arts in a way that emphasized necessary connections to other disciplines in the humanities and sciences. Four decades later, the museum reaffirms that commitment to interdisciplinary connection. The Haggerty’s broad and varied collection is the product of passionate art collectors and supporters in the Milwaukee area and beyond, to whom we are exceedingly grateful. Their gifts to the museum allow us to present the brilliant and inspiring work of artists who speak boldly to their time and place, and to generations to come.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the museum will host a slate of curator-led gallery talks and a lecture series with invited specialists to address works on view in the exhibition.
Support for this exhibition is generously provided by the Emmett J. Doerr Endowment Fund and in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Anime Magic! 2024
2024-08-30 08:00 - 2024-09-01 17:00 | Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, 5555 N. River Road, Rosemont, IL, 60018
Anime Magic! is on a mission to bring the “magic” back to anime conventions! We’re always pushing the boundaries, and this year is no different. We’re getting WAY bigger, better, and more exciting for 2024!
We’re a convention by fans, for fans with a focus on FUN. This isn’t your typical cookie-cutter convention! We have all the normal fanfare you’ve come to expect from other conventions, while pushing the bleeding edge of convention fun and interactivity even further. We have plenty of exciting surprises and events that will blow your mind!
Whether you’re a seasoned veteran of conventions or a first timer, you’re going to discover the magic of anime!

SOS Color Code 2024
2024-08-31 10:00 - 2024-12-21 16:30 | Haggerty Museum of Art, 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53233, United States
“SOS Color Code 2024” is an indoor and outdoor installation by Luftwerk, the Chicago-based artist team of Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero. Using the universal languages of Morse code and color theory, “SOS Color Code 2024” transforms the international signal of distress into a sign of solidarity and connectedness.
Luftwerk collaborated with design studio Normal to create the outdoor component of the project that is comprised of three-flags placed in front of the Museum, while the indoor component pairs a painted mural with a display of changing colored lights. Dots and dashes of Morse code representing the letters S (three dots) O (three dashes) S (three dots), appear on the flags and in the mural creating a playful visual excursion while investigating color as a system of language and symbols and a marker of emotion. Visually, the SOS pattern is an effective distress signal, an ambigram that can be read upside down or right side up.
“SOS Color Code 2024” was scheduled to coincide with the 2024 presidential election and the International Day of Democracy. Celebrated around the world on September 15th each year, the International Day of Democracy was established through a resolution passed by the UN General Assembly in 2007, with the aim of encouraging governments to strengthen and consolidate democracy.
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Support for this exhibition is generously provided by the Lacey Sadoff Foundation. In partnership Sculpture Milwaukee.

43rd Annual Villa Louis Carriage Classic
2024-09-06 08:00 - 2024-09-08 16:00 | Villa Louis Historic Site, 521 Villa Louis Rd, Prairie du Chien, 53821
At the 43rd Annual Villa Louis Carriage Classic, teams from across the country will jockey for first place in the Midwest’s largest, most elegant and lavishly appointed equine sport driving event. Watch as riders in hats and gloves maneuver through driving competitions, take part in judging a picnic class competition and enjoy the dog class, where drivers steer carriages accompanied by their faithful pets (don’t worry—dogs are strictly prohibited from taking the reins).
Friday, September 6 – Sunday, September 8, 2024 | 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Yellowstone Art Trail
2024-09-06 09:00 - 2024-09-07 17:00 | lafayette town hall, 5765 197th St., Chippewa Falls, 54729
10th ANNUAL YELLOWSTONE ART TRAIL
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th & 7th, 2024
9:00am to 5:00pm both days
Cadott, Boyd & the eastern Lake Wissota area
of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
The Art Trail is a free self guided art tour consisting of 31 local artists displaying and selling artwork in their studios and participating businesses. We are fortunate to have the historical Yellowstone Trail, the transcontinental auto route that went right through these communities back in 1915-1930, winding its way through our towns (currently County Highway X), creating the route for the Yellowstone “Art” Trail. The art trail includes Cadott, Boyd and the eastern Lake Wissota area of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin and is set for Friday & Saturday, September 6th & 7th, 2024 from 9-5 both days.
Many dedicated artists call this area of Chippewa County their home, with its beautiful backdrop of rivers and lakes, parks and gardens, country farmland and welcoming neighborhoods. The Yellowstone Art Trail features artwork for all ages; men and women alike. It showcases the fine art and skills of wood craftsmen, metal sculptors, stained glass artists, plus handmade pottery, fiber art, fine art drawings and paintings, handmade jewelry, gourds, stones, baskets and much more. The artwork is original and handmade and many of the artists give demonstrations, educating the public on their craft. Several of them are active in the arts within the local community, working with adults and youth alike with many projects.
There are eleven art stops included on the trail, historical places of interest, specialty shops and area restaurants. Hosting several guest artists are the Anson Methodist Church, the ZCBJ Bohemian Lodge, Cadott Area Historical Society, the English Lutheran Church of Bateman and the Lafayette Town Hall. There will be tours of the historical Bohemian Lodge (plus their famous kolaches for sale), and the Cadott Area Historical Society buildings. In addition to that, six area art studios are also on the trail.
Brochures with maps are available identifying the artists and their unique artwork. You can pick one up at area businesses in August, from the artists, or view it on our website: www.yellowstonearttrail.blogspot.com or at www.facebook.com/yellowstoneartttrail Also, scan the QR code on our brochure and online. Each artist will be giving away one of their creations, so make sure to enter your name in a drawing at each location. Just grab a few friends, hop in your car and follow the bright yellow signs and sunflowers dotting the trail! We welcome you to experience the arts in our area.

Marathon County Historical Society presents Vintage Game Night
2024-09-06 17:30 - 20:30 | Woodson History Center, 410 McIndoe Street, Wausau, Wisconsin, 54403, United States
The Marathon County Historical Society Vintage Game Night is now the First Friday of each month from 5:30-8:30 pm at the Woodson History Center (410 Mcindoe St. Wausau). We have 100’s of vintage games (past and present) to choose from and people can come and go as they please.
Vintage Video Game Night Friday, August 2nd will be co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Computer Club. We still pull out vintage board/card games, so people have that option too.
You can even bring your own game to play. Hungry Hungry Hippos, Monopoly, Uno, Clue, card games, team games, children’s games and even the popular Chicken Nugget game! We’ve got something for everyone.
Upcoming dates are August 2nd, September 6th and October 4th. Please join us for Vintage Game Night the First Friday of each month and have a good old time.
For more information, please contact the Marathon County Historical Society at 715-842-5750, email us at info@marathoncountyhistory.org, visit our website at www.marathoncountyhistory.org.or check out our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MarathonCountyHistory.

Chris Farrell
2024-09-06 19:30 - 21:30 | Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center, 504 S. Brearly St., Madison, Wisconsin, 53704, United States
Chris Farrell is a veteran of Chicago’s Earl of Old Town singer-songwriter scene dating back too the days of John Prine and Steve Goodman. He spent forty years as a faculty member of the Old Town School of Folk Music. Some of his memorable performances over the years have been at The Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, Folk City in New York, Somebody Else’s Troubles in Chicago, Fitzgerald’s in Chicago and The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia. Presenting finely crafted songs with solid finger-picking, beautiful melodies and rich vocals, he easily lows from ballads to satire, from humor to social commentary, while always finf=ding time for the sweet tunes you will hum on the way home.

Gin Mill Hollow
2024-09-07 19:30 - 22:00 | Slowpoke Lounge & Cabaret, 137 West Jefferson Street, Spring Green, WI, 53588, United States
Celebrating ten years of Americana Jams in 2024, Gin Mill Hollow puts on a high-energy live show every time they take the stage. With an emphasis on strong composition and songwriting, the quartet from Madison, Wisconsin take influence from genres like bluegrass and funk, and brew an eclectic mix of styles together into a musical concoction that is sure to satisfy the soul and get your feet moving at the same time. Nearing six-hundred shows played, Gin Mill Hollow also has two studio albums to their credit and they continue to tour the mid-west and Colorado regularly to growing audiences. No strangers to exploring the unknown the band loves expanding a song into a jam, allowing the rhythm section of drummer Joe Murray and bass player Mark Norman to lay the foundation for melodic interplay from mandolinist Josh Giudice and guitarist Dan Plourde.
$10 in advance, $15 at the door
