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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Dane County’s Bowl for Kids’ Sake 2025

Bowl for Kids’ Sake is a peer-to-peer fundraising event that is fun for companies and community members to engage in. (Teams of 4-6 people are formed, and the team and individuals set fundraising goals. Team members raise money from co-workers, friends, and family.) As a thank you for the team’s support and enthusiasm, Big Brothers Big Sisters […]

Ongoing

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

Waupun Fine Arts Gallery

Waupun Fine Arts in cooperation with the Waupun Public Library Gallery, hosts artist exhibits showcasing the talents of local artists. Nancy Swenson will be the featured artist from March 28 through May 21, 2025.  A wonderful display of her work to view and purchase includes paintings in acrylic, watercolor, Sumi-e technique, alcohol ink airbrush, brusho, […]

Free

Thursdays@U

UW-Eau Claire — Barron County, Fine Arts 1800 College Dr, Rice Lake

What’s in a Name? Who or what is behind the names we see around Rice Lake? Join us to hear Nicole speak about her study of Rice Lake’s history! Muschinske’s […]

Free

Thursdays@U: Fraud Protection

UW-Eau Claire — Barron County, Fine Arts 1800 College Dr, Rice Lake

Bank fraud is a major issue that can cause serious financial losses for individuals, businesses, and financial institutions. Join us to learn more! My name is Gina Rivard, and I […]

Free

Artist Talk: Carmen Neely

Milwaukee Art Museum 700 N. Art Museum Drive, Milwaukee

Join Chicago-based artist Carmen Neely, featured in the exhibition “50 Paintings” that closed last June, as she discusses her career and the work “With every fiber of heat unearthed inside your awakening” (2024), recently acquired by the Museum.

$27

Public Talk: Exploring the Black Earth Creek Watershed – A Health Report

Pope Farm Elementary School 816 Schewe Road, Middleton

Pope Farm Conservancy is located on a unique geological point where three distinct watersheds converge. Water from the property can flow towards the Sugar River to the south, Black Earth […]

Free and open to the public.

David Cox Concert

Minocqua Brewing Company 2925 East Washington Avenue, Madison

A masterful singer-songwriter and guitarist, David Cox blends sharp wit, heartfelt storytelling, and stellar musicianship. A longtime Steel Bridge Songwriter, his work has been praised by Tom McCarthy (AP, LA […]

Free

The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra in Concert

Turner Hall of Monroe 1217 17th Ave, Monroe

For the fourth time since 2018, the World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra will take the stage in the Grand Hall of the Turner Hall of Monroe, WI on Thursday, April […]

$5 – $35

The Lil Smokies

Stoughton Opera House 381 E Main St, Stoughton

Even though often called a “newgrass” or jam band, the Lil Smokies’ high-energy acoustic music has evolved into its own distinctive sound on their fourth and latest studio album, Break of the Tide, which finds them emerging from the Covid lockdown stronger than ever. “Sort of a fusion of lyric-driven folk music, pop harmonies and […]

$25