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Award winners announced for art exhibition showcasing pieces inspired by PEEPS® Brand marshmallow candy

Racine, WI    March 20, 2024

Warehouse Art Museum Is Moving

Modern and contemporary art museum founded in 2018 moving to undisclosed new location.

Present Music to Receive $10,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for “CELLO CELLO” Concerts to be Performed on January 31 and February 1

Present Music’s “CELLO CELLO” Concert on January 31 and February 1 to Feature Two World Premieres

Award Winners Announced for 57th Annual Watercolor Wisconsin Competition

Racine, WI December 10, 2023

Upcoming Racine Art Museum Exhibition Showcases Artists’ Books

National AI Artist Carla Gannis from Brooklyn, to visit the Warehouse Art Museum on October 5, 2023

Enjoy the Midwest Premiere of Virtues and Vices, a video produced with generative AI.

100 Years Of Memorable Photography

Warehouse Art Museum exhibit offers a century of international photography. It’s a fun show.

Skylight Music Theatre Announces Cast, Creative Team for Leonard Bernstein’s Beloved Masterpiece Candide

Visionary New Production of Classic Operetta Opens 2023-24 Season

Present Music Unveils 2023-’24 Season Lineup, Featuring Groundbreaking Film, St. John Cathedral Concert, World Premieres and Stellar Guest Artists

Works by women composers lead programming; Raven Chacon returns to Present Music

Seventh Annual Milwaukee Fringe Festival Announces Schedule

Experience a Unique Selection of Artistic Talent

“Pause/Connect: Photography in the WAM Collection” Opens at Warehouse Art Museum on Aug. 11

Presenting over 80 works from prominent photographers, including Carrie Mae Weems, highlighting photography’s ability to connect people across time and memory

“Objects of Substance” Contemporary Craft Exhibition Opens at the Warehouse Art Museum on April 21

Experience more than 150 contemporary craft art objects in a range of mediums – including glass, metal and fiber – made by 103 artists from 16 countries

“Rediscovering Ruth Grotenrath: All Things Belong To This Earth” Opens at the Warehouse Art Museum on Jan. 13, 2023

Exhibition celebrates the renowned artist’s 50-year career with over 90 works of art

The Sheer Virtuosity of William Kentridge

Present Music offers unique concert of his music with guest performers from South Africa.

Rarely seen William Kentridge animated films to be screened with new music by South African composer Philip Miller performed live for Milwaukee’s Kentridge Arts Festival

Performance to include premieres of newly commissioned Miller works set to poetry

Acclaimed International Artist William Kentridge Kicks off U.S. Tour in Milwaukee for Multimedia “Kentridge Arts Festival”

Kentridge to speak and attend open rehearsal at festival; festival emphasizes his interactive practice with career-spanning art, film, theater and music

Let Us Now Praise William Kentridge

The Warehouse presents a memorable show devoted to Kentridge, one of the world’s greatest artists.

“William Kentridge: See for Yourself” at The Warehouse Art Museum July 8 – Dec. 16, 2022

The exhibit includes work in a variety of media spanning his career and emphasizes his interactive art & practice

Milwaukee Taiko Group Hibiki Giving Free Japanese Drum Performance Aug. 27 Outside The Warehouse in Support of Art Japan: 2021-1921 Exhibition

Art Japan: 2021-1921 Exhibition From The Warehouse Collection Opens July 9

Exhibition features modernist wood block prints of Tsukioka Kogyo and includes sculpture made in 2021 / Show includes special homage to the artist Toko Shinoda, who died in March 2021 at age 107

The Remarkable Art of Shari Urquhart

A monumental exhibition presented by two galleries of a little known Racine artist is a must-see event.

Guardian Adds New Midwest Shuttles with Custom-Built Truck

Milwaukee is our hub, says Managing Director John Shannon: This puts us in the major leagues

A World of Self-Portraits

New show at The Warehouse offers works by many big-name international artists. A must see.

Skylight Music Theatre Announces Revised 2020-2021 Season

Line-Up Adjusts Productions, Timeline to Present Outstanding Music Theatre while Addressing Safety Measures

City of Milwaukee Arts Board announces 2020 Mildred L. Harpole Artists of the Year and Friends of the Arts Awards

I Am a Story: Self-Portraits

Exhibit includes 54 artists from 10 countries, 5 continents; featuring works shown for first time in U.S., including painting by William Kentridge

Skylight Music Theatre Announces Cast, Creative Team for The Gospel at Colonus

An Exuberant Blues & Gospel Re-telling of Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus

Inside UWM’s Jan Serr Studio

Versatile event space hosts school and public events, is site for Milwaukee Film Festival screenings

Preview “A Painter’s Photographs of India”

Urban Milwaukee members can view and discuss new show of Jan Serr's photographs.

Milwaukee Film Expands Festival Footprint

Cedarburg and the Third Ward Neighborhoods Added. Rivoli Theatre and Broadway Theatre Center Join as New Film Venues

Guardian Fine Art’s Building Is Unique

Assessed at $728,500, but the owner spent millions to create city's only art storage facility.

Join Our Tour of Guardian Fine Art Services

City's only art storage warehouse is beautiful, also has exhibition space with new show.

On Belonging, A Collaborative Art Exhibit Exploring Place and History in Milwaukee, To Run At The Warehouse Museum From March 8 to May 31

On Belonging is the culmination of collaborations started in June 2017 between two nationally recognized artists – photographer Lois Bielefeld and interdisciplinary artist Nirmal Raja.

Laura Sims Peck Named Curator at The Warehouse

The Warehouse is a New Private 4,000-Square-Foot Gallery Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Owners of Contemporary Art Collection Bring Their Privately-Owned Works to the Public with the Launch of “The Warehouse”

A 4,000-square-foot, collector-owned museum has opened in Milwaukee and features exhibitions from their private art collection and other sources

Wild Space Creates Making/Unmaking at The Warehouse

Making/Unmaking explores what it means to make, view and interpret visual art.

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre presents STRANGE SNOW by Stephen Metcalfe February 22 – March 17, 2019

Broadway Theatre Center’s Studio Theatre

Thanks to Guardian Fine Art Services, Brewers Pride Flies High in Menomonee Valley

You can’t help but notice the 10-foot flag.

Historic Bells to be Rededicated

Convent Hill Bells Restored by Local Funders To be Unveiled Wednesday, July 11th

Beyond the Dead White Europeans

Present Music offers a unique four night concert of diverse composers.

Skylight Music Theatre and Milwaukee Opera Theatre Unite Forces for The Tales of Hoffmann

A Newly Translated and Freshly Re-orchestrated Version of Offenbach’s Otherworldly Tales Directed by Jill Anna Ponasik. Performances March 16-29, 2018

Give Chance a Piece

Four fortuitous concerts, seven compositions, in four distinct venues

Milwaukee Gospel Jubilee Celebrates 5th Anniversary

Event to Showcase Best Local Gospel Performers and Help Increase Access to Health Care for Underserved Milwaukeeans

Skylight Music Theatre Presents a Vibrant New Version of Andre Grétry’s Heartwarming Opera Beauty and the Beast (Zémire et Azor)

Featuring Larger-than-Life Puppetry and Direction by Obie Award-Winner James Ortiz. Seven Performances Only! March 17 - 26, 2017 in the Beautiful Cabot Theatre

4th Annual “Milwaukee Gospel Jubilee” to Benefit Progressive Community Health Centers

Event to Showcase Local Gospel Groups, Help Increase Access to Health Care for Underserved Milwaukeeans

Inside New Jan Serr Studio at UWM

Doors Open site will also host Milwaukee Film Festival Party.

UWM Arts Alumna Gives $1 Million Lead Gift to Renovate Studio Space

The gift will fund initial renovations to the top floor of the Kenilworth building, and construction is set to begin in 2017.

You Can Go Home Again

Present Music revives five works it commissioned, two by Milwaukee natives.

The Old Man and the Reeds

Veteran artist Roy Staab creates a lovely new installation using just willow reeds and branches.

Local Collaboration Unveils Song From the Uproar

Milwaukee Opera Theatre and Wild Space Dance Company present Milwaukee premiere

Roy Staab: Nature In Three Parts

June 2–September 18, 2016

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre presents DEAR ELIZABETH

DEAR ELIZABETH by Sarah Ruhl. September 23- October 18, 2015

John Shannon’s Marvelous Marietta Mansion

One of the great East Side homes, its history includes a remarkable cast of characters, almost a mini-history of Milwaukee elites.

Milwaukee Gospel: Jubilee at The Pabst

Concert Showcases Local Gospel Groups, Benefits Progressive Community Health Centers

Urban Milwaukee Purchases Third Coast Daily

ThirdCoastDaily.com, the online arts and entertainment publication has agreed to a purchase by UrbanMilwaukee.com.

Jim Brozek

Inspired by people at work, Brozek has for decades captured laborers of all kinds in his photos.

A Historic Milwaukee Celebration

Plus: A national green award for The Brewery; and bringing fruit trees to Walker's Point.