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The Woodworking Show
January 09, 2009 - January 11, 2009 Recurring daily
Fri. Noon-6p.m., Sat. 10a.m.-6p.m., Sun. 10a.m.-4p.m.
Wisconsin Exposition Center at State Fair Park
Phone: 800/826-8257
Admission: $8.50 adults, $7.50 Seniors, Free under 12, $9 for three-day ticket. Discount coupon in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel week prior to the show and at our website!
http://www.thewoodworkingshows.com
We've got the tools - and you can, too. Visit the Woodworking Show at the Wisconsin Exposition Center. Woodworkers and DIY'ers will find the largest selection of tools from national and local vendors along with an education program presented by the top educators in in the field. Saddle up a hand plane at the Hand Tool Rodeo or browse the latest innovations at the New Products Pavilion. Check out the Library for the latest books, magazines, and much more! Check our website for complete info!
Pizza Manufacturing Tour
June 01, 2008 - June 01, 2009 Recurring daily
Call for details and reservations.
Palermo's Pizza, 3301 West Canal Street
Phone: 414/455-0383
http://www.palermospizza.com
Palermo's Pizza, Milwaukee's only pizza manufacturing tour.
IMAX Show - Mysteries of the Great Lakes
June 13, 2008 - March 19, 2009 Recurring daily
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Humphrey IMAX Dome Theater at the Milwaukee Public Museum
Phone: 414/319-4629
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http://www.mpm.edu/imax/index.php
Across the Great Lakes basin, there has been increasing awareness of the vital role this freshwater resource plays in maintaining the social and economic health of North America. Mysteries of the Great Lakes explores this world treasure, which contains some of the most spectacular wilderness scenery on earth and a fifth of all the planet’s fresh water. Soar with the bald eagle, follow enormous cargo ships as they navigate the Lakes, and dive with a 300-pound lake sturgeon as Mysteries of the Great Lakes takes you through the greatest freshwater system in the world.
Planetarium Show - Seven Wonders
June 13, 2008 - March 19, 2009 Recurring daily
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Daniel M Soref Planetarium at the Milwaukee Public Museum
Phone: 414/319-4629
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http://www.mpm.edu/planetarium/index.php
Travel thousands of years back in time to witness the glorious Seven Wonders of the ancient world. See ancient Egypt’s Great Pyramids and Lighthouse of Alexandria, wander through the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and stand in the shadow of the towering Colossus of Rhodes. Seven Wonders will investigate theories of how these marvels were created, then travel through the universe to let us a glimpse the natural wonders far beyond our tiny planet. Narrated by Sean Bean, Boromir from the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
Les Paul's House of Sound
June 24, 2008 - June 28, 2009 Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
9a.m.-5p.m.
Discovery World
Phone: 414/765-9966
Admission: $16.95 Adults, $12.95 Children (3-17)
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www.discoveryworld.org
Experience Les Paul’s House of Sound. The Les Paul House of Sound exhibit is now open at Discovery World. The exhibit is designed around the innovative and creative spirit of Wisconsin native Les Paul. The House of Sound features dozens of priceless and historical items from Les Paul’s personal collection – many never before seen in public. The House of Sound is open Tuesday through Sunday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Featuring Paintings, Drawings & MORE . . .
July 07, 2008 - July 07, 2009 Recurring daily
Mon.-Fri. 10a.m.-6p.m., Sat. 10:30a.m.-4p.m., by appointment
DeLind Gallery of Fine Art, 400 E. Mason St.
Phone: 414/271-8525
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delindgallery.com
Featuring paintings, drawings, and fine original graphic works from the 19th and 20th centuries, antique and classic posters, and outstanding regional artists' painting and sculpture. Among the many artists represented our internationally recognized include: Leonetto Cappiello, Camille Pissarro, Jules Cheret, Frederick Hart, Toulouse-Lautrec, among others and regionally represented artists include: Terry Firkins, Dennis Heimbach, Marie Lewandowski, Reginald Baylor, Francesco J. Spicuzza and Beastie artist, Dennis Pearson.
"Arline Fisch: Creatures from the Deep"
August 03, 2008 - July 26, 2009 Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
10a.m.-5p.m.
RAM - Racine Art Museum, 441 Main Street, Racine
Phone: 262/638-8300
Admission: $5 Adults $3 Seniors/Students Free Children under age 12
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www.ramart.org
The Racine Art Museum has commissioned internationally acclaimed jewelry artist Arline Fisch to create a new exhibition for its Windows on Fifth Gallery. The exhibition, "Arline Fisch: Creatures from the Deep", will be a shimmering street-side aquarium of jellyfish sculptures. Bringing her work to a grand scale, RAM’s Windows will showcase Arline’s use of knitting and crocheting techniques to create these larger-than-life sea creatures made of wire.
Numismatics! Selections from the MPM Collection
September 23, 2008 - August 15, 2009 Recurring daily
9a.m.-5p.m.
Milwaukee Public Museum
Phone: 414/278-6198
Admission: Free with Admission
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mpm.edu
Much more than just minted or printed money, the field of numismatics includes the study and collection of coins, currency, tokens and medals, and the MPM exhibit showcases nearly 200 rare, prized specimens. Most items date from the 1800’s, although a few “curious” currency items reach as far back as 2500 years, and many belong to organizations, regimes, colonies or even countries that no longer exist.
Nunnemacher Arms Collection
September 23, 2008 - August 15, 2009 Recurring daily
9a.m.-5p.m.
Milwaukee Public Museum
Phone: 414/278-6198
Admission: Free with Admission
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mpm.edu
Discover a “curators’ choice” of 43 historic firearms from the Museum’s 3,500 piece Nunnemacher Arms Collection. Located at the entrance to the European Village, this exhibit offers a glimpse at the backgrounds and significance of distinctive pieces from the 17th to 20th centuries – an interesting blend of culture, engineering and artistry.
Student Exhibit - Thinking Outside the Treasure Chest
September 23, 2008 - April 04, 2009 Recurring daily
9a.m.-5p.m.
Milwaukee Public Museum
Phone: 414/278-6198
Admission: Free with Admission
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mpm.edu
This exhibit is the culmination of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee/MPM Museum Studies Class, a cooperative graduate program between UW-Milwaukee and the Museum. Treasure Chest looks at different definitions of “treasure,” and opens us up to the idea that value can be found in unexpected places and objects. Visitors will see a variety of artifacts, including a vest made of soda can pull tabs, a nineteenth-century German lithopane, Egyptian funerary figurines, and gemstones like amethyst and garnet.
Four Wisconsin Quilt Artists: Alicia Avila, Maribeth Schmit, Nora Radar and Roberta Williams
October 08, 2008 - January 09, 2009 Recurring every week day
11a.m.-3p.m.
Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts
Phone: 262/546-0300
Admission: $2
www.wiquiltmuseum.com
The exhibit, sponsored by Material Matters and Ye Olde School House, opened on October 8th and runs until January 11th. It is a stunning collection of contemporary and traditional quilts. An Open House is scheduled for November 23rd from 1-4p.m. Admission is free and refreshments will be served.
IMAX: "Ghost of the Abyss"
October 10, 2008 - June 11, 2009 Recurring daily
9a.m.-5p.m.
Milwaukee Public Museum
Phone: 414/319-4629
www.mpm.edu
Academy Award® winning director and master storyteller James Cameron journeys back to the site of his greatest inspiration - the legendary wreck of the Titanic. With the most advanced IMAX® photography, you'll explore the entire ship with Cameron and his crew, deck-by-deck, room-byroom, encountering mysteries that have remained hidden for almost a century.
IMAX: "Night of the Titanic"
October 10, 2008 - June 11, 2009 Recurring daily
9a.m.-5p.m.
Milwaukee Public Museum-IMAX Theatre
Phone: 414/319-4629
www.mpm.edu
The sinking of the Titanic in 1912 was part human error and part natural disaster. Weather, ice, sun, moon and stars all played a part in the tragedy. Stand on the deck of the doomed ocean liner the night she sank and discover how a complex series of natural, but unlikely, events sank the "unsinkable" ship.
Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition
October 10, 2008 - May 25, 2009 Recurring daily
9a.m.-5p.m.
Milwaukee Public Museum
Admission: $13-$21
www.mpm.edu
Ninety-six years ago, on an otherwise calm April morning in 1912, the world's largest ship, the RMS Titanic, sank during her maiden voyage after a colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic. On board were 2,228 passengers, including titans of commerce and industry, artists, senior members of governments, immigrant families dreaming of a new life and more than 890 members of her crew. More than 1,500 people die d. No one believed it could happen. Today, this epic story is revived through Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition. See it today at the Milwaukee Public Museum.
Latin American & Spanish Masters
October 17, 2008 - January 10, 2009 Recurring daily
Tues.-Fri. 11a.m.-5:30p.m., Sat. 11a.m.-5p.m.
David Barnett Gallery, 1024 E. State St., Milwaukee
Phone: 414/271-5058
Admission: Free
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www.davidbarnettgallery.com
Featuring Uruguay's premier artist, Ignacio Iturria. 75 artworks by 25 artists. Exhibition expresses the rich Spanish and Latin American heritage and culture through dynamic drawing and color. Artists include Miro, Picasso, Siqueiros, Morales, Lam, Lenero, Thusius, Romulo, Gutierrez, Mojica and Chillida.
Stop. Look. Listen: an exhibition of video works
October 23, 2008 - February 22, 2009 Recurring daily
10a.m.-4:30p.m.
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University
Phone: 414/288-1669
Admission: FREE
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marquette.edu/haggerty
The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University will present stop. look. listen: an exhibition of video works beginning on October 23, 2008 featuring 17 works by 13 artists. Exhibition organizer Andrea Inselmann, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, will present a lecture on Thursday, October 30 at 6 p.m. in Marquette’s Cudahy Hall room 001 that will be followed by a reception in the museum. The lecture and reception are free and open to the public. In the short history of video art, there have been two primary modes of expression, “feedback” and “immersion.” Early closed-circuit video feeds were used as an electronic mirror, instantaneously reflecting whatever came into the camera’s gaze. More recently, there has been a shift as many contemporary artists use a more cinematic, “immersion”–style approach in installations with one or more projected images. This exhibition considers the connections between these two prevalent expressions in video from the last fifteen years, focusing on works that have a significant relationship between sound and image and those that are purposefully silent. Using examples of work by thirteen artists from around the world, the exhibition will show that a response to the moving image can occur on many sensory levels within both “feedback” and “immersion” practices; many of the works try to break down the traditional opposition between viewer and viewed by emphasizing a more inclusive interaction. Artists represented in the exhibition include Janet Biggs, Burt Barr, Johanna Billing, Slater Bradley, Mircea Cantor, Patty Chang, Amy Globus, Jesper Just, Mads Lynnerup, Christian Marclay, Rodney McMillian, Anri Sala and Salla Tykkä.
Live Music
December 06, 2008 - February 06, 2009 Recurring weekly on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
7-10p.m.
Mo's Irish Pub
Phone: 414/272-0721
http://www.mosirishpub.com/milwaukee/music.htm
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Richard Haas: Thirty Years of Looking at Architecture
December 10, 2008 - January 11, 2009 Recurring daily
Daily,1-5p.m., Opening reception 5:30-8:30p.m.
Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum
Phone: 414/271-3656
Admission: $5/general $3/seniors, students Free/members
www.cavtmuseums.org
Richard Haas is best known for his trompe l’oeil style, painting realistic imagery tat creates an optical illusion. His work includes murals, prints and paintings of interesting and important buildings. His architectural prints are rendered with exquisite detail and an eye for the unique urban setting of his subject. Haas’ first public showing was at the Charles Allis Art Museum.
Art Exhibit - In Her Image
December 12, 2008 - January 18, 2009 Recurring daily
10a.m.-5p.m.
Cedarburg Cultural Center W62 N546 Washington Ave Cedarburg, WI 53012
Phone: 262/375-3676
Admission: FREE
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www.CedarburgCulturalCenter.org
"In Her Image" is an exhibit and sale by three incredibly gifted artisans: Sierra "Corky" Jon (ceramics), Aina Kinens (sculpture) and Sasha Kinens (paintings). These artists approach their medium in very different ways, but by focusing on a singular subject matter, the exhibit combines the complexities of the female body, mind and spirit. Opening Reception Sunday, December 14, 2008 1-3p.m. Free and open to the public. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10a.m.-5p.m., Sundays Noon-4p.m. Free admission; donations appreciated.
Whatever is There is a Truth: Robert Rauschenberg’s Prints
December 12, 2008 - October 04, 2009 Recurring daily
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University/13th & Clybourn
Phone: 414/288-1669
Admission: Free
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marquette.edu/haggerty
The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University will host an exhibition of prints by revolutionary postwar American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) from December 12, 2008 through October 4, 2009 in tribute to his life and legacy as a printmaker. The museum is free and open to the public. This exhibition also celebrates the Haggerty Museum’s recent acquisition of several prints including the gift of Eagle Eye (Ruminations), 1999, as well as prints from the Stoned Moon series, 1969-70, recently purchased by the museum. Central to the American art scene from 1950 until his death earlier this year, Rauschenberg was widely regarded as a principal bridge between Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s and Pop art in the 1960s, but he did not subscribe to any narrow doctrine. Rauschenberg worked in a variety of disciplines and mediums including printmaking, painting, sculpture, photography, dance, technology and performance art that has influenced generations of artists. Always counter-intuitively experimenting with techniques, Rauschenberg revolutionized the art of printmaking by combining printmaking methods such as lithography and serigraphy within the same print, producing an effect of the spontaneous stroke in contrast to the precision of a photographic image. His deep and abiding interest in printmaking facilitated a major revival in the medium, and his achievements in lithography were instrumental in the creation of a contemporary market for prints. Rauschenberg expressed social, cultural and political ideas through his art. The Stoned Moon series of 1969-1970 reflects his artistic response to witnessing the lift-off of Apollo 11 at Kennedy Space Center in 1969 at the invitation of NASA. This series is also a double-entendre as the lithographs are made with stones and the historically significant experience left the artist feeling metaphorically “stoned”. Milton Ernest (Robert) Rauschenberg was born to Ernest and Dora Rauschenberg in Port Arthur, Texas in 1925. The artist renamed himself Robert in adulthood. He briefly studied pharmacology at the University of Texas in the early 1940s, before being drafted into the United States Navy at which time he developed an interest in drawing. Upon his discharge from the Navy in 1945, Rauschenberg took advantage of the G.I. Bill and studied art at a number of institutions including the Kansas City Art Institute, Academie Julian in Paris, Art Students League in New York and Black Mountain College in North Carolina. While a student at Black Mountain College, Rauschenberg studied under Josef Albers, and had his first solo exhibition at the Betty Parson’s Gallery in New York. In the early 1950s, he traveled to Europe and North Africa with Art Students League compatriot Cy Twombly at which time he worked on a series of small collages, hanging assemblages, and small boxes filled with found elements, which he exhibited in Rome and Florence. After Rauschenberg’s return to New York in 1953, he met Jasper Johns; the two are considered the most influential of artists who reacted against Abstract Expressionism. They had neighboring studios, regularly exchanging ideas and discussing their work, until 1961. Rauschenberg began to silkscreen paintings in 1962. In 1963 at the age of 37, he was given his first career retrospective by the Jewish Museum, New York, and was awarded the Grand Prize for Painting at the 1964 Venice Biennale. He spent much of the remainder of the 1960s dedicated to more collaborative projects including printmaking, performance, choreography, set design, and art-and-technology works. In 1970, Rauschenberg established a permanent residence and studio in Captiva, Florida, where he lived until his death earlier this year.
Wisconsin Masters Series: Richard Earl Thompson
December 14, 2008 - January 25, 2009 Recurring daily
Daily 1-5p.m., Opening Reception 1-4p.m.
Charles Allis Art Museum
Phone: 414/278-8295
Admission: $5/general $3/seniors, students Free/members
www.cavtmuseums.org
Richard Thompson was an American artist, heavily influenced by French Impressionism. During the Great Depression, he found success as a commercial artist for publications such as the Saturday Evening Post. Later, he transitioned into easel painting and moved to the Wisconsin wilderness in order to take in the scenery. His work is meant to evoke the spirit of the natural world.
All Tied Up: Knitted and Knotted Works in RAM's Collection
December 18, 2008 - March 08, 2009 Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
10a.m.-5a.m.
Racine Art Museum (RAM), 441 Main Street, Racine, WI
Phone: 262/638-8300
Admission: $5 Adults $3 Seniors/Students Free - Children under age 12
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www.ramart.org
Coinciding with Arline Fisch’s current exhibitions and the celebrated arrival of Lloyd Cotsen’s Contemporary American Basket Collection, the Racine Art Museum presents "All Tied Up: Knitted and Knotted Work in RAM’s Collection." This exhibition features works from RAM’s permanent collection that demonstrate diverse knotting techniques used to construct form, structure or surface decoration.
Catesby, Audubon, and the Discovery of a New World: Prints of the Flora and Fauna of America
December 18, 2008 - March 22, 2009 Recurring daily
10a.m.-5p.m.
Milwaukee Art Museum
Phone: 414/224-3246
Admission: Free with general admission
www.mam.org
Early in the eighteenth century, Mark Catesby (1683–1749) traveled from his native England to the British colonies in North America and began his ambitious undertaking to document the flora and fauna of the new world. His explorations of the southern colonies led to the publication of his treatise, The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, featuring 220 beautifully hand-colored etchings of the birds, fish, reptiles, and plants he encountered. Catesby’s work was widely praised and set the standard for the next generation of naturalists, including John James Audubon (1785–1851). Audubon, who was born in Haiti, raised in France, and made his home in the newly founded United States of America, was a gifted entrepreneur, artist, and naturalist. He sought to document all the birds in his new country in watercolors, which were then engraved and carefully colored by hand. His masterwork, The Birds of America, from Original Drawings Made during a Residence of 25 Years in the United States, is a monument in American art. This exhibition will feature approximately sixty-five prints of the plants, birds, mammals, and reptiles of North America almost exclusively drawn from the Museum’s Collection. Additional artists, including Alexander Wilson and George Edwards, will inform the exhibition and enhance our understanding of this crucial moment in art, science, and natural history.