Visual Arts Preview: May 23-29, 2019

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Emily Kendal Frey will host a workshop at Lynden Sculpture Garden May 31-June 2 titled "Poetry Is the Question"

“So Milwaukee Night!”
Friday, May 24
Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum
2220 N. Terrace Ave.

Villa Terrace presents a 6-10 p.m. celebration of everything Milwaukee, whereby attendees can hear area musicians, enjoy food samples from Bittercube and Ball ’n’ Biscuit, visit with local makers, tour the museum’s current exhibition, “Moving Images: Royal Portraiture and the Circulation of Ideas,” and enter a raffle to win Milwaukee-themed prizes. For more information, call 414-271-3656 or visit villaterracemuseum.org.

57th Season Kick-Off Celebration/Wall-to-Wall Salon
May 25-June 6
Hardy Gallery
3083 Anderson Lane, Ephraim

The Hardy Gallery has been a pillar of the Door County art community since the mid-1900s, providing exhibits that surprise with each new season. On Saturday, May 25, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., the gallery celebrates the launch of a new season with its annual “Wall-to-Wall Salon.” Guests will get a sneak peek at all submissions for the annual juried show. Artwork drop-off is May 23, 24 and 25. For more information, email them at info@thehardy.org, visit thehardy.org or call 920-854-5535.

Poetry Is the Question with Emily Kendal Frey
May 31-June 2
Lynden Sculpture Garden
2145 W. Brown Deer Road

According to the writer Audre Lorde, “poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.” As such, poetry can be deeply healing not only in the way it names, but in the way it leads us to clarify our questions. In this workshop, participants will consider poems as questions, and listen for the questions each poem is asking. Writers will engage with words that please, delight, wail, and suffer, and perform poetry exercises that help them land in a place of masterful confusion. Frey is a licensed therapist and the author of two poetry collections, Sorrow Arrow and The Grief Performance, and the chapbooks Frances, The New Planet and Airport. She works as a counselor and as a teacher of writing and poetry at nonprofits and universities in Portland, Ore. This workshop is being held in collaboration with Woodland Pattern Book Center. To register and for more information, call 414-446-8794 or visit lyndensculpturegarden.org.