The Milwaukee Artist Resource Network (MARN) collaborates with the spring Westside Artwalk to complete an event that began at...

The name Warrington Colescott is synonymous with a rebirth in printmaking that began more than 50 years ago. The ever-hospitable Peltz Gallery presents a unique exhibition in front of the Milwaukee Art Museum’s summer retrospective for this illustrious Wisconsin artist in “Warrington Colescott, Selected Works: Paintings, Etchings and Drawings” (through July 10)...

“Print Press Play,” a collaboration between Jessica Meuninck-Ganger and Nathaniel Stern that blends complex printmaking with 21st-century computer art, has opened at Elaine Erickson Gallery...

The Charles Allis Art Museum’s “Forward: A Survey of Wisconsin Art Now” provides artists with an opportunity to exhibit in a prestigious museum. Changes to this year’s format include the acceptance of three-dimensional art—a change that made its presence known when two sculptures garnered awards...

The Raphael portrait recently brought to the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) focuses attention on the High Renaissance period of the early 16th century, a time often...

Talk about spring renewals: The Walker’s Point Center for the Arts (WPCA) is preparing to host the first exhibit at its new home at 839 S. Fifth St. More than 70 volunteers helped the WPCA to improve the two-story, Cream City brick building on Milwaukee’s South Side...

Glass is everywhere. From windows to mirrors to drinking vessels, glass permeates everyday life. When assembled, blown or cast with a master touch and vision, glass can even transform into fine art. This ordinary material...

There’s no denying the popularity and masterworks of Henri Matisse and Raphael Santi. Although centuries apart, their names signify genius. A pair of exhibitions opening this month at two Midwestern museums affords an opportunity to study...

There are more college art programs in America graduating more art majors than ever, yet some schools have come under fire for abandoning the basics. According to some critics, the academies no longer turn out sculptors with the ability to represent the human form in stone or steel. Nelson Afian wants to fill the gap. Born in Yerevan...

For many students, spring break offers a time of rest and relaxation. For senior art majors at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), however, it’s a frantic time to finish projects for exhibitions opening in April. MIAD senior Molly Opitz...

Shocking pink, Schiaparelli pink, Kate Brandt pink: All colors, even all shades of colors, carry psychological impact. The UW-Milwaukee Union Art Gallery exhibition “Kate Brandt Pink” explores this theme through startling artwork that responds to the legendary Yves Klein and...

BYO: The familiar acronym stands for “bring your own,” and when Ken and Kerry Yandell opened BYO Studio Lounge last June, they invited the city to bring its own creativity. Specifically, this venue invites inquisitive, productive minds to use their artistic talents for celebrations, classes, events, exhibitions, meetings, performances or workshops at the Bay...

Truman Lowe’s artistic legacy branches out from northern Wisconsin—Black River Falls, to be specific. In this scenic town, sculptor Lowe grew up in the Ho-Chunk community and attended Black River Falls Mission Schools...

The work of Alan Bardin, a fast-rising Milwaukee artist, begs the following two questions: Where has he been, and what kind of hell results in this intense outpouring of artistic expression? To understand the latter, we must first meet the former, a class prankster at Shorewood High School. When running for class president, he promised to build a “Student Rec” on top of the school‘s copper dome. The city board never considered the proposal...

Are hardcover books and handwritten words cultural relics? Will future societies rely solely on plugged-in, downloaded communications and conversations that can appear or vanish within an instant? These questions are explored in the sights, sounds and symbols of contemporary language presented at three art exhibitions in the metropolitan area...

During the first weeks in March, Milwaukeeans start to anticipate the approaching spring and relief from the winter cold. Several Waukesha-area art events encourage the city to embrace the upcoming season...

The city promotes cross-cultural understanding and acknowledges the vast interconnections in today’s world as Latino Arts Inc. and the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD)...

When I first saw the terrazzo mosaics sweeping down Mitchell International Airport’s Concourse C, I stopped in...

Industrial subjects from the 1930s, including gas companies, locomotives and lumberyards, illustrate the sense of community between the common man and the uncommon artist during a difficult era in...

Much to their credit, Milwaukee-area museums provide opportunities to artists of all levels, from students just learning a craft to award-winning masters. Artists both established and new continue to find homes this month through intriguing shows at the Museum of Wisconsin Art (MWA), Charles Allis Art Museum and Milwaukee Art Museum...

The work of Milwaukee architect Phillip Katz inspired the symmetry, shadow, light and seating for a space in the Portrait Society Gallery that invites the public to pursue serenity. His experience directly influenced the spiritual vision in the gallery’s “A Winter Chapel,” a project that introduces...

Beginning Saturday, Feb. 13, Tory Folliard Gallery presents a retrospective honoring one of Wisconsin’s premier painters, John Wilde (1919-2006). The gallery’s “John Wilde Revisited” (through March 6) features...

Galleries throughout the city offer an eclectic array of artists this week. This surprising mixture of creativity begs to be seen at least once and will provide interesting topics of conversation to help warm a February night. Above the Historic Third Ward Starbucks on Water Street, Cedar Gallery provides an exhibition curated by former gallery owners Jessica Steeber and Cassandra Smith...

Through April 18 at the Haggerty Museum of Art, the main gallery hosts three distinct photography exhibitions. Presented separately, the three photographers’ series reveal that truth is subjective. While the camera, an extension of the artist’s eye, faithfully records what is immediately in front of it, each photographer mediates the reality...

Thomas Woodruff’s exhibition at Marquette University’s Haggerty Museum of Art (up through April 18) depicts one conundrum after another. Woodruff sets the stage for his raucous, colorful parade by telling all spectators, “This is not a display of organized power, collected wealth, or capitalism. This is about delicacy, not might,” as in Shelley’s poem...