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Typekit Blog
July 30, 2012
TypeCon2012 kicks off this week in Milwaukee, and Typekit’s excited to be a part of it. Serving as a headline sponsor, we’ll be co-presenting Linotype: The Film on Friday night, along with UW Peck School of the Arts and TypeCon organizing body SOTA. If you haven’t got your ticket to TypeCon, it’s not too late: registration is still open. We’ll see you there!
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By Brooklyn Henke
ThirdCoast Digest
July 27, 2012
Go to an art museum, pick a work, stand before it for a long time. Tell us what you see. TCD’s One Piece at a Time series began with that thought in the summer of 2010. TCD senior editor Tom Strini handled the One-Piece duties then and in 2011. This summer, we have a variation. In the winter and spring, Strini worked with a class of graduate students in art at UWM. They did the One Piece drill at the Milwaukee Art Museum, wrote draft essays, then survived a writer’s boot camp with Strini. We’re publishing the results, one piece at a time.
Brooklyn Henke chose Boating on the Yerres, which has a history with One Piece at a Time. Not to mention history with the Green Bay Packers, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Carnegie Museum.
Boating on the Yerres, by French artist Gustave Caillebotte, quietly dominates the gallery in which it hangs. The painting exudes both a quiet peace and the echo of thousand ripples on the surface of the river.
Read the full article at ThirdCoast Digest.
By Mary Louise Schumacher
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
July 26, 2012
Art scenes are fragile and in a constant state of transition. Every now and again, though, there is enough dissipation that it gives one pause.
In Milwaukee, we've suffered an exodus of talented women in important curatorial posts, particularly at the Milwaukee Art Museum (see this and this). We've seen a building that was an important nexus for progressive art and artists in Riverwest condemned after a fire.
Read the full article at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
By Joe Grennier
ThirdCoast Digest
July 23, 2012
Andy Warhol, a highly successful commercial artist before he became famous in the fine-art world, was enamored of the advertising imagery we take for granted as we browse the aisles of our favorite stores.
Warhol elevated and celebarted this imagery in his own art. But how did he choose his subjects? In the case of his soup cans, Warhol claims to have eaten Campbell’s for lunch nearly every day, pointing to proximity, familiarity and ritual. But what of the Brillo boxes, like the one in the permanent collection of the Milwaukee Art Museum?
Read the full article at ThirdCoast Digest.
By Beth Stafford
UWM News
July 20, 2012
“Poetic, haunting and starkly beautiful” is how Madison’s Isthmus describes “Within a Stone’s Throw,” an exhibition by Cecelia Condit, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor in the Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres at the Peck School of the Arts.
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art presents the exhibition in the museum’s State Street Gallery and lobby through Sept. 23. Composed of the artist’s recent videos and large-scale photographs, the exhibition investigates perceptions of reality, scale and nature.
Read the full article at UWM News.
The Florestan Duo, comprised of Stefan Kartman, Peck School of the Arts associate professor of cello, and his wife, pianist Jeannie Yu, have released their first CD: Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Piano. For more information about the CD and to purchase a copy, visit their website and Facebook page.
By Pat Levy
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
July 18, 2012
Well-known local band Trapper Schoepp & the Shades looks to get a much bigger fan base: On Wednesday, the group announced an international record deal with SideOneDummy Records.
The Los Angeles indie label, home to Gogol Bordello, Flogging Molly and the Gaslight Anthem, will re-release the roots-rock group's 2011 album, "Run, Engine, Run," on Sept. 25, with a new mix from Grammy-winning engineer Geoff Sanoff (Fountains of Wayne, Green Day, Nada Surf).
Read the full article at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Calling all Milwaukee creatives! Do you have a great new creative idea, product, service or effort? Share it with the Creative Alliance as part of their Creative Milwaukee at Work Summit, hosted on September 21 by the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. Submit your story in the medium that is the best fit: a 2-minute video, narrative text, photo essay, etc. Entries are now being accepted through August 17. Two winning entries will be selected, one by members of the creative community through online voting and a second winner selected by a panel of judges. The winners will be invited to present their ideas in a half-hour presentation at the summit where other top entries will also be on display throughout the day.
For more information and to submit your own creative piece, visit Creative Milwaukee at Work.
By Kat Murell
Shepherd Express
July 16, 2012
Cecelia Condit is a professor of film and media at UW-Milwaukee who sees her artistic practice akin to being a storyteller. The pieces in her exhibition at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art take on stories and metaphors expressed through various landscapes. The focal point is the seven-minute video Within a Stone's Throw, projected on three large screens. The gaze of the viewer is dominated by images of Ireland's rocky, rugged Burren. This strange landscape is on the west coast in County Clare, a place where the topography has worn away, leaving rock formations and ranges of weathered stone among green grasses. In the mid-17th century, British military man Edmund Ludlow famously described the area: "It is a country where there is not enough water to drown a man, wood enough to hang one, nor earth enough to bury him... and yet their cattle are very fat; for the grass growing in turfs of earth, of two or three foot square, that lie between the rocks, which are of limestone, is very sweet and nourishing."
Read the full article at the Shepherd Express.
