Faythe Levine: Time is Running Out Opens at Lynden Sculpture Garden, November 15

Faythe Levine: Time Is Running Out opens at the Lynden Sculpture Garden on Saturday, November 15, 2025, with a reception from 2 to 5 pm. In Time Is Running Out, artist, curator, and researcher Faythe Levine illuminates the collective lives of Charlotte Partridge (1882-1975) and Miriam Frink (1892-1977), two women who shaped Milwaukee’s cultural landscape in the twentieth century. The exhibition remains on view through Sunday, March 14, 2026. The Lynden Sculpture Garden is located at 2145 West Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee, WI 53217. Gallery hours are daily 10 am-5 pm; closed Thursdays. Admission is always free.

The exhibition opens with a reception from 2 to 5 pm on November 15, 2025. At 3 pm, Faythe Levine will offer a gallery talk, followed by a conversation with artist and curator Seth Ter Haar. For the past several years, Levine and Ter Haar have been pursuing their own lines of research on Charlotte Partridge and Miriam Frink, partners, educators, and co-founders of the Layton School of Art. As artists and curators, Levine and Ter Haar approach the act of remembering as a form of queer world-building; they also extend their historical research beyond the page and into the gallery and the studio. Their conversation will move between the exhibition, shared research subjects, methodology, and the broader implications of their work. Together, they will explore how curatorial practice, archival research, and community work coalesce to unearth and re-present overlooked histories.

A limited number of copies of Time Is Running Out, a risograph publication, will be available for purchase onsite.

More information at: https://www.lyndensculpturegarden.org/exhibitions/faythe-levine

Press images available by request.

In Time is Running Out, artist, curator, and researcher Faythe Levine illuminates the collective lives of Charlotte Partridge (1882-1975) and Miriam Frink (1892-1977), two women who shaped Milwaukee’s cultural landscape in the twentieth century. For over fifty years, their intertwined devotion to each other and to Wisconsin—through their various roles and involvement as co-founders of the Layton School of Art, the Federal Art Project, and numerous civic clubs and organizations—had a profound impact on greater Milwaukee. Their groundbreaking contributions and extensive networks continue to resonate today.

Through an act of excavation and reimagination, Levine restores Partridge and Frink to a more prominent place in our narrative of Milwaukee’s past. Using archival materials, objects, and storytelling, Levine engages with lesser-known parts of their history. She explores their legacy through four themes: domesticity, creativity, partnership, and community, and four tropes: The Studio, The Sketchbook, The Metal Object, and The Protégé, each an entry point into an intimate, lifelong collaboration.

Additional programming will be scheduled while the exhibition is on view.

About the Artist
Faythe Levine has been in service to the arts for over twenty years, advocating for creative output to build connections between community, personal independence, and empowerment. She is currently the Hauser & Wirth Institute Archivist for Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, where she manages, oversees, and increases public visibility of the archives and special collections. Her position focuses on WSW’s work as an important hub for radical thought for the past 50 years, modeling economic viability for print and book culture.

Levine has worked extensively as a freelance artist and curator in traditional and DIY spaces. From 2017 to 2021, she served as director of the Arts/Industry program at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, where she was responsible for developing and administering the residency hosted by Kohler Co., as well as curating related exhibitions and projects. She is also currently the facilitator for a three-year pilot for the Ruth Arts Mary L. Nohl Alumni Award.

Her personal practice revolves around deep research, storytelling, and reimagining archives and collections through a queer feminist lens. Prior work includes Sign Painters (2013) and Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY Art, Craft, and Design (2009), feature-length documentaries that toured extensively. Each was accompanied by a book published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Her most recent book, As Ever, Miriam (2024), explores the fifty-year intertwined professional and personal lives of Charlotte Partridge and Miriam Frink.

www.faythelevine.com

About the Lynden

The Lynden operates as a laboratory at the intersection of art, nature, and culture. Since opening to the public in 2010, we have worked with artists, educators, students, and our community to create, support, and share experiences that integrate our collection of more than 50 monumental sculptures and temporary installations, Lynden’s community of artists, and the natural ecology of our 40-acre site. The sculpture garden is open to art and nature lovers of all ages daily, 10 am-5 pm; closed Thursdays. Free admission is made possible in part by the generosity of the Mangiamele Arts Foundation. Annual memberships are available.

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