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Milwaukee Art Museum Returns Two Jars to David Drake’s Descendants
The Wisconsin museum’s ownership transfer was followed up by a Virginia museum’s announcement of the return of another “Dave the Potter” vessel this week.
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Apply for the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s 2027 Arts/Industry Residency
A collaboration with the Kohler Co. pottery and foundry, this funded industrial residency enables artists to produce ambitious new works in vitreous china, cast iron, and brass.
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Apply for the 2026 Arts/Industry Residency at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Artists from all disciplines can explore the creative potential of industrial materials and techniques in studios at the Kohler Co. pottery and foundry.
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When Scandinavia Was a Hotbed of Black American Culture
Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century zeroes in on a far less charted corner of Black history than that of expats to Paris: the artists who ventured north.
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Milwaukee Art Museum Presents Robert Longo’s Hyperrealistic Charcoal Drawings
Through his monumental charcoal drawings, the internationally acclaimed artist explores how images impact our understanding of the world.
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The Farm Art Festival Where You Can See Tractors Do Ballet
Farm/Art DTour, a 50-mile circuit of art installations in Wisconsin’s Sauk County, challenges visitors’ assumptions about the “rural-urban” or “red-blue” divide.
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Petah Coyne’s Maximalist Art Lays Bare Women’s Oppression
Coyne’s work sits between abundance and suffocation, uses seductive materials to serve uncomfortable truths about the barriers that face women.
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Five Roadside Folk Art Wonders in Rural Wisconsin
Countless displays of intense and idiosyncratic brilliance are nestled in the grassy hills of the Midwest state.
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New Statue Honors Vel Phillips, Trailblazing Civil Rights Activist and Politician
Community members say the Wisconsin artwork is the first sculpture of a Black woman installed outside a state capitol building.
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Idris Khan Makes US Museum Debut at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Artworks spanning Khan’s career trace his exploration of the lyrical, symbolic, and physical meanings of repetition.
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Wormfarm Institute Releases Call for Artists for 2024 Farm/Art DTour
The organization will commission up to 10 artists to create large-scale temporary installations in farm fields in rural Wisconsin. Apply by February 12, 2024.
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Cloth as Land at JMKAC Presents Textiles as a Wellspring of Hmong Indigeneity
The exhibition explores kinship found through traditional and contemporary textile practices. On view at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.