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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 Salvador Dalí. Dalí is known for painting logic-defying imagery with meticulous skill, such as his famous melting pocket watches, but Dali’s Surrealism took many forms during his long career. This month’s Art Talk will focus on his Madonna of Port Lligat, painted […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

Play Date with Art: Blooming Market

Milwaukee Art Museum 700 N. Art Museum Drive, Milwaukee

It’s never too early to learn to love art! Construct a colorful basketful of paper fruits and vegetables perfect for imaginative play. Then join in the sing-alongs at 10:15 and 10:50 a.m. This monthly program is designed especially for visitors ages five and under (with an adult).

Free – $27

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 […]

Gallery Night Opening

Grohmann Museum 1000 N Broadway, Milwaukee

April 11 – May 25, 2025 Going to Work for the Community: A Visual History of the Beckum-Stapleton Little League Gallery Night Opening—April 11, 5-9 p.m., featuring a Gallery Talk with the Curators at 6 p.m. Since former Negro League baseball player James W. Beckum founded the Beckum-Stapleton Little League (BSLL) in 1964, over 25,000 […]

Free

Yearnings

Overture Center for the Arts 201 State Street, Madison

Guest conductor Joseph Young gives us an idea of what to anticipate in this exciting concert. “This program is an aural invitation into the ideals of peace, love, and connection that carries forward long after the final notes.” We begin with Samuel Barber’s concise and dramatic Second Essay for Orchestra. Next, the eclectic and genre-bending […]

$15 – $104

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 […]

Youth Creative Arts & Communication Expo

First Congregational United Church of Christ\ 135 E Larch St, Rhinelander, United States

Youth Creative Arts & Communication Expo Youth Register By March 23 to Participate: https://oneida.extension.wisc.edu/4h/expo/ Location: 135 E Larch St., Rhinelander Date: April 12, 2025 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Cost $20 per family (youth participants only) For Grades K-8 (homeschool/public/private) Youth will bring in a project or give a demonstration and receive one-on-one feedback from […]

$20

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 […]