Lost Arts at the Grohmann Museum
A Celebration of Our Working Past
Image courtesy of MSOE.
Celebrate the working past at the Grohmann Museum’s Lost Arts Festival. The museum hosts its 12th annual festival celebrating the activities and ways of work captured in the paintings and bronzes in its permanent collection. Artisans will share their expertise and demonstrate their techniques as the museum and its surroundings become a laboratory for the creation of “Lost Arts.” It is a fun and affordable family activity and gives visitors the opportunity to see some of the lost arts of the past.
The festival takes place Saturday, Oct. 7 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Grohmann Museum, 1000 N. Broadway.
Visitors will enjoy live music by Frogwater and demonstrations and displays by:
- Luke’s Losts Arts – wooden shoe carving
- Spinning Wheel – turning fibers into thread or yarn
- Agates Anonymous – rocks and minerals native to Wisconsin
- Wisco Bonsai – Kevin Stoeveken
- Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts
- Home Brewing demonstrations – Steve Allen
- And more!
Regular museum admission applies: $5 adults; $3 students and seniors; free for children under 12 and MSOE students, faculty, staff and alumni (with I.D.).
The Grohmann Museum is home to the Man at Work collection, which comprises more than 1,700 paintings and sculptures dating from 1580 to the present. They reflect a variety of artistic styles and subjects that document the evolution of organized work: from farming and mining to trades such as glassblowing and seaweed gathering. The Grohmann Museum welcomes visitors to three floors of galleries where a core collection is displayed as well as themed exhibitions. The museum is owned by MSOE, an independent university with about 2,800 students. MSOE offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the engineering, business, mathematics and nursing fields.
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