New Exhibitions Opening - Leon Travanti, Jepson Collection

The public is welcome to attend the opening reception for two new exhibitions at the Cedarburg Art Museum, followed by our Thursday night Summer Beer Garden!

small towns: drawings by leon travanti

On view: August 29 - December 9, 2018

Milwaukee artist and retired UW-Milwaukee art educator Leon Travanti reveals his fascination with river towns and small towns, all with resplendent main streets. Travanti’s drawings and watercolors of Midwestern main streets breathe an air of familiarity and fancifulness, as the artist transforms and finds patterns of repetition and variety that he revises for their own playful elegance.

Art from the Jepson Collection

On view: August 29, 2018 - January 13, 2019

Judy Jepson and her late husband Noel collected art depicting Cedarburg while they maintained the historic, Victorian home of E.G. Wurthmann. The collection includes works spanning more than a century by notable artists such as Bernhard Schneider, Morley Hicks, Paul Hammersmith, and Harold Hansen. Wurthmann's design elements can be seen in buildings throughout the area, and samples of his plaster, exemplary signage, and ethereal painting will be on view. This exhibition emphasizes Judy Jepson's love art and artifacts of Cedarburg and celebrates the forthcoming gift of her entire Cedarburg collection to the City of Cedarburg. This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of Levy & Levy, S.C., Attorneys at Law

Opening reception: 5-7pm

Beer Garden open: 5:30-8:30pm