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By Mary Louise Schumacher
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
April 30, 2012
If I were cornered and asked which living Wisconsin artist people would still be talking about a century from now, Beth Lipman would be at or near the top of the list.
Her still-life projects seem to exist out of time, yet address the many ways the world is rapidly changing. Her glass works, made, composed and photographed before being destroyed or recycled, are inspired by 17th century still-life paintings, which were reflections of wealth. The visually mesmerizing, crystal-clear objects seem to be emptied of the rich color you'd expect from a 17th-century painting and explore issues of desire and contemporary modes of consumption...
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By Kevin Kaber
UWM Post
April 30, 2012
The Milwaukee Underground Film Festival is yet another time-honored tradition celebrated by artists, both locally and globally. Now in its twelfth year, MUFF has been a cornerstone of UWM’s film program, giving students and the local community a chance to study and experience a very non-commercial film festival lineup. The UWM Post spoke with MUFF’s Morgan “Moe” McPhearson, a film student and Festival organizer, about what we might expect from this year’s lineup...
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By Chelsey Dequaine
April 30, 2012
On Friday, April 27, UW-Milwaukee’s Director of Orchestral Activities Margery Deutsch performed her farewell concert at the Helene Zelazo Center. After 28 years, Deutsch decided to “leave on a high note,” retiring this May.
The search for an interim conductor was narrowed down to three and should be revealed next week.
“I am getting emails and Facebook messages from students I had over the past 28 years,” Deutsch said. “It’s pretty sweet.”
Deutsch grew up in New York and got her Bachelor of Arts degree in flute and vocal performance from the State University of New York-Buffalo. She then went on to get her Master of Arts degree in musicology from the University of California-Santa Barbara as well as her Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting from the State University of New York-Stony Brook...
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By Mary Louise Schumacher
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
April 29, 2012
The precision with which a wedding cake is edged and decorated and the shooting of an animal directly through the heart may have more in common than I knew, or at least that's the sense I got listening to animator Brooke Thiele talk about these two loves.
Thiele has been both a deer hunter and a cake maker for most of her life. Her father took her hunting with her older brothers when she was 12 or 13. Within a year, she earned the title "buck hunter," because of the 11-point buck she shot her second season out.
As for cakes, she begged her parents for an Easy Bake Oven like many young girls did. Her mother turned her down but offered her the family oven as an alternative. Her father and brothers routinely feasted on her poppyseed and lemon creations, but sometimes her cake output outpaced even their appetites...
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By Mary Louise Schumacher
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
April 27, 2012
Falling in love and falling for art have more in common than we might imagine.
This is the thought that ran through my mind as I explored the work of husband-and-husband artists Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger, now on view at Inova.
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By Kat Murrell
Shepherd Express
April 27, 2012
Chicago-based duo Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger are enigmatic extroverts. Their collaborative art grows from their relationship and transforms their physical bodies into icons. They are intensely personal, yet transcend specific narrative with universal themes of connection and love in works that are lyrical, ephemeral and mysterious as shadows.
Perhaps the shadow reference comes a bit easily, as a number of pieces in the main gallery space at Inova/Kenilworth feature the artists' likenesses in black paper cutouts. They are displayed as pages in monumental books, as large images on the wall, and most intriguingly, as long garlands of figures. These garlands are paper cutouts, but not all figures in the string are the same. Noting their variations is like watching animation unfold in slow motion. They are suspended over the industrial gallery space of the Kenilworth building, which is an especially interesting position as it directs our attention to places overhead. The space of the viewer and the space of art are the same. The cutouts cast shadows on the walls like feathery doppelgängers, counterpoints to the precise shapes in the air. In one corner, Garland (Yoga) cascades like a totem or a waterfall, like gods or lovers.
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By Piet Levy
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
April 25, 2012
Many girls Macyn Taylor's age are stressing out this time of year, trying to figure out where to go to college.
That part of Taylor's life, remarkably, is already over and done with.
Taylor, 17, earned a bachelor's degree in fingerstyle guitar from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in December, the youngest graduate since the 1970s, according to UWM officials...
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UWM News
April 24, 2012
UWM’s Manfred Olson Planetarium is hosting its third annual benefit event, “Art in Space,” on Saturday, April 28, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
This is the second year the planetarium is partnering with the Peck School of the Arts to create a unique event that fuses art and space. Visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy – and bid on – space-themed art created by UWM staff, students and members of the community. The artwork will be displayed just outside the planetarium entrance in the Physics Building hallway.
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