Explore new perspectives through art this Gallery Night and Day! This premier Milwaukee art event offers something for the avid gallery goer and the beginning admirer. Gallery hopping and art viewing begins the evening of Friday, July 22 and continues during the day Saturday, July 23. This summer Gallery Night and Day will showcase works of art in 41 diverse venues throughout the downtown Milwaukee area. Admission is free to all participating venues during event hours. Presented quarterly by the Historic Third Ward Association. Step outside July 19 through July 22 for the Third Annual Plein Air Painting Competition. Watch painters create images “in the open air” which portray the life and vitally of the Historic Third Ward Neighborhood. Finished pieces will be on display beginning at 5pm July 22 through July 23 at the Hudson (310 E. Buffalo St.). This year, 20% of sale of piece made on July 22 & 23 will be donated to Artists Working in Education, Inc. Come and celebrate with Mom 'N Popcorn during the Bench Dedication Ceremony held on July 22 from 6 to 9pm. The ceremony will include free popcorn from Mom 'N Popcorn and musical performances by Lyric Advisory Board and The Vitrolum Republic.

This biennial exhibition highlights the extraordinary talent in Wisconsin art featuring paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints and photography by the state’s best known contemporary artists. It is the Gallery’s largest and most diverse exhibition of the year. Exhibition Dates: July 9 – September 10 Exhibiting artists are: Rodger Bechtold, Mary Bero, Craig Blietz, Mark Brautigam, Derrick Buisch, Jessica Calderwood, Marion Coffey, Terrence Coffman, Laura Dronzek, Andy Fletcher, Ben Grant, Michael Gross, Doug Hatch, Kathy Hofmann, Breehan James, Flora Langlois, Ed Larson, Clare Malloy, Cathy Martin, Mark Mulhern, Charles Munch, Katie Musolff, Dennis Nechvatal, William Nichols, Mark Ottens, Jeremy Popelka, Bill Reid, Jeffrey Ripple, Jason Rohlf, Jim Rose, Jan Serr, Trina May Smith, T.L. Solien, Nathaniel Stern, Fred Stonehouse, Paula Swaydan Grebel, Richard Taylor, Stephanie Trenchard, Tom Uttech, Michael Velliquette, and John Wilde.

Featuring a Gallery Talk with the Artist at 7:00 p.m. The Grohmann Museum is well known for its outstanding collection of industrial landscape paintings, may from centers of European industry like Germany's Ruhr River Valley. However, more regional and local depictions are less common. This exhibition provides an opportunity to highlight Milwaukee's industry and changing views of the city in post-industrial situations. The works selected for this exhibition-many executed in Michael Newhall's trademark Regionalist/Ashcan style-capture engaging scenes of Milwaukee's urban landscape and provide the viewer an opportunity to reflect on the city's recent past. Newhall has taught art and Buddhism at Naropa University, the Art Institute of Chicago, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and other universities in the Midwest. His works can be found in a number of public and private collections.

When Caroline, a veteran social worker, removes infant Luna Gale from the custody of her struggling young parents, the best course of action seems clear and Baby Luna is placed temporarily with her devoted grandmother. However Caroline quickly realizes that the situation is more complicated as she uncovers a shadowy and secretive family past. Struggling with the limitations of an overburdened bureaucracy, Caroline is forced to make a risky decision with potentially dangerous consequences. LUNA GALE explores the tough situations welfare workers must contend with daily to ensure the well-being of children and their families.

Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet create a “cross-cultural exchange” between world rhythms and contemporary jazz melodies. Led by Peruvian trumpeter and Associate Director of Jazz Studies at New York University Gabriel Alegria, the group have spent the last decade together performing hundreds of shows and master classes throughout the world and taking in cultural influences to weave into their sound.The group’s expansive musical journeys hypnotize jazz aficionados and casual listeners alike. The New York Times praised Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet’s capacity to “ the affinities between modern jazz and the Afro-Latin continuum in Peru.”