Here's a preview of the shows opening this week in Milwaukee's visual arts scene.
“Folk Art Landscapes” Workshop
Sept. 22
W62 N546 Washington Ave., Cedarburg
Jeanne Kollmeyer, the CCC’s September artist-in-residence, has, for several decades, been not only creating but teaching art to Milwaukee-area children. Kollmeyer’s “Folk Art Landscapes” family workshop (suitable for budding young artists 4-9 years old and their families) offers demonstrations and technique-learning experiences in the use of lines, patterns and shapes to create landscape images. All supplies are included. For more information, call 262-375-3676 or visit cedarburgculturalcenter.org.
Mural Festival
Sept. 22-23
North Farwell Avenue
Black Cat Alley is an award-winning outdoor art gallery on Milwaukee’s East Side and a much-visited destination in the city. It’s a unique installation with outdoor paintings and murals contributed by artists from all over the world. Three new murals will have their official unveiling over the weekend of Sept. 22-23, making a total of six new public artworks released in the space just this year. For the Black Cat Alley Mural Festival, a stretch that includes the UW-Milwaukee Kenilworth campus and Oriental Theater will be filled with overlapping and surprising experiences through technology, visual art, film and music. For more information, visit theeastside.org/happenings/black-cat-alley.
Women’s Speaker Series: Kelly O’Connor McNees
Sept. 24
2145 W. Brown Deer Road
Kelly O’Connor McNees is the author of the Depression-era fact-based novel Undiscovered Country, which centers on an unlikely friendship that evolves between Lorena Hickok, a top newspaper reporter, and the first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. She found inspiration for her story in some 3,000 letters the two women exchanged over three-decades. In her novel, McNees follows their intense relationship through Hickok’s voice and tells the poignant story of a hidden love that, nevertheless, changed history. For more information, visit lyndensculpturegarden.org.
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