Events for March 6, 2016
Wisconsin Visual Artists Biennial
The Wisconsin Artists Biennial is a cooperative venture between MOWA and the oldest artist organization in the State, Wisconsin Visual Artists, Inc.
Call for Artists: RAM 7th Annual International PEEPS Art Competition at Racine Art Museum
Artists of all ages are invited to be part of the only museum competition of this kind in the world. Entry is FREE, and open to all individuals, families, and organizations
Cut, Fold, and Form: Featuring Kiff Slemmons and Julie VonDerVellen at Racine Art Museum
Whether emphasizing the structural, the conceptual, or both, the artists included transform paper—a familiar and seemingly mundane material—into vessels, sculpture, adornment, and artist’s books. Featured artists Kiff Slemmons, who makes ornate paper jewelry, and Julie VonDerVellen, who creates complex sculptural paper watches and clocks, are represented by multiple works. Artists from RAM’s collection—such as Dominic Di Mare, Walter Hamady, Caren Heft, Jim Lee, Ke-Sook Lee, Mary Merkel-Hess, JoAnna Poehlmann, Kay Sekimachi, Merle Temkin, and Michael Velliquette—expand the conversation.
Spectrum: Contemporary Artists in Color at Racine Art Museum
While many contemporary artists use color as a primary element, Spectrum focuses on it as a defining principle, featuring works by those in RAM’s collection, such as Sonja Blomdahl, Sandra Byers, Rose Cabat, Jeffrey Lloyd Dever, Lindly Haunani, Cliff Lee, James Lovera, and Dante Marioni.
California Dreamin’: Mark Adams and Frank Lobdell at Racine Art Museum
Mark Adams (1925-2006) and Frank Lobdell (1921-2013) explored pattern and color.
Paper/Plastic: Contemporary Adornment at Racine Art Museum
Frequent visitors to RAM see contemporary jewelry made of a wide variety of media.
Saz’s 40th Anniversary Celebration
It all began in 1976 when Milwaukee native Steve “Saz” Sazama opened Saz’s State House Restaurant in a historic building nestled beside the railroad tracks on 55th & State
Writing About Music/ Dancing About Architecture
Danceworks Performance Company (DPC) invites audiences to embrace how dance, music, language and architecture describe, inform, correlate, abstract and redefine one another.
Shipwrecked
Louis de Rougemont has a story to tell.
Bel Canto Chorus Revelations of Divine Love
Experience the Midwest premiere of Carson Cooman’s Revelations of Divine Love: Metaphors from Sea and Sky. Written in 2009, this piece combines the luminous words of one of England’s earliest and most important mystics, Julian of Norwich, with auditory portraits of Massachusetts’s Nantucket Island to create a stirring, visionary portrayal of inner and outer spaces.
Woodwind Voices: Recorder, Rhythms & Beyond
Bringing together a variety of the western world’s formative musical sounds, RUACH, Inc. will present several internationally acclaimed instrumentalists for an evening of “Woodwind Voices—Recorder, Rhythms, and Beyond.” The March 6th concert at 7:00 p.m. at the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center will feature multiple Grammy winners on recorder, clarinet, percussion, and piano: New York-based Nina Stern, virtuoso recorder performer and globally recognized educator, will be joined by Glen Velez, celebrated percussionist and founding father of the modern frame drum movements, as well as winner of four Grammy awards. Todd Levy, the Milwaukee Symphony’s eminent principal clarinetist and winner of three Grammy awards, and prominent Milwaukee pianist and Steinway artist Jeannie Yu round out the stellar collection of performers. Sorry, we are unable to accept credit cards at the door.
