By Mary Louise Schumacher
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
May 19, 2012
After many years without permanent artistic leadership at Milwaukee's most important contemporary arts venue, Inova will soon have a new director.
Sara Krajewski, curator at the Henry Art Gallery, a contemporary art center at the University of Washington in Seattle, will become the director at Inova, or the Institute of Visual Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She starts July 15.
Krajewski, who grew up in Minnesota and got her bachelor's degree in art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is looking forward to returning to the Midwest...
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05/21/2012
05/17/2012
New Hire Announced at University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Inova (Institute of Visual Arts) Galleries
The Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) is thrilled to announce that Sara Krajewski will join the School as the Director of Inova (Institute of Visual Arts) Galleries. Ms. Krajewski currently serves as the Curator at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, and has held curatorial positions at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and the Harvard University Art Museums. She will begin her new role at Inova on July 15, 2012.
"Reestablishing Inova's preeminent position is critically important to securing Milwaukee's role as a leader in contemporary art," said Wade Hobgood, Dean of the UWM Peck School of the Arts. "I believe that Sara's leadership and demonstrated experience in contemporary curatorial practices, non-profit gallery management, fundraising, and community outreach will allow Inova to widen and deepen its significant impact here in Milwaukee and around the world."
04/16/2012
Kenilworth Open Studios April 21
By Beth Stafford
UWM News
April 16, 2012
It’s free! It’s fun! It has something for everyone!
Visitors to last year’s Open Studios toured one of Kenilworth’s art studios. (Photo by Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Kenilworth Open Studios is an opportunity for the entire community to celebrate and experience the work created by Peck School of the Arts faculty, alumni and students. The fun happens on Saturday, April 21, from 11a.m.-2 p.m. throughout the building at Kenilworth Square East, 1925 E. Kenilworth Pl.
Lively and hands-on, the event includes art and film exhibits, live music, dance, theatre performances and more...
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Open Studios: TCD’s Guide to Gallery Night
By Carly Rubach
ThirdCoast Digest
April 16, 2012
Get ready for Gallery Night with TCD’s hand-picked list for exhibits and events. Spring Gallery Night is Friday, April 20, and remember, the gallery gallivanting doesn’t have to stop on Friday night!
Be sure to check out the Peck School of the Arts‘ (PSOA) Kenilworth Open Studios event from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. on Gallery Day. The exhibit will be packed with five floors of action and will feature more than 100 artists.
“This is the best way to get a taste of everything the school has to offer,” says Ellen Schupper, Director of Marketing and Community Relations for the PSOA. “Students, faculty and alum will all be hosting, presenting and showing their work.”
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04/12/2012
Recommendations for Gallery Night & Day
By Mary Louise Schumacher
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
April 12, 2012
...If you are planning to go to Gallery Night & Day this weekend and are readying your itinerary, I offer you a CliffsNotes-esque version of your options. Of the many exhibits and events you have to choose from, here are a few I’d recommend.
Brooke Thiele and UWM’s Kenilworth Building
2155 N. Prospect Ave.
Brooke Thiele, an adjunct professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has been a deer hunter since she was 12 and an artist all of her life. For her “Serving Still Hunting” art installation, she brings the male-dominated sport into a domestic context, the cozy, sweet-smelling, cake-baking world often associated with women.
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04/10/2012
UWM Shows Husbands 'Hiding in the Light'
By Peggy Sue Dunigan
Shepherd Express
April 10, 2012
Husband and husband describes the relationship between Chicago artists Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger, creative and life partners for almost 20 years. Through unique multimedia images, the pair explores nuances in human relationships—invisibility and visibility, separateness and togetherness, pain and protection—while pondering gender equality in marriage. At the Inova/Arts Center, UW-Milwaukee's Peck School of the Arts presents the exhibition “Miller & Shellabarger: Hiding in the Light” through July 15...
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UWM Shows Husbands 'Hiding in the Light'
By Peggy Sue Dunigan
Shepherd Express
April 10, 2012
Husband and husband describes the relationship between Chicago artists Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger, creative and life partners for almost 20 years. Through unique multimedia images, the pair explores nuances in human relationships—invisibility and visibility, separateness and togetherness, pain and protection—while pondering gender equality in marriage. At the Inova/Arts Center, UW-Milwaukee's Peck School of the Arts presents the exhibition “Miller & Shellabarger: Hiding in the Light” through July 15...
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12/15/2011
UWM Inova Gallery: Expanded Cinema
By Ryan Findley
ThirdCoast Digest
December 15, 2011
Wiping away boundaries between art and film at Inova. All photos by Kirsten Mueller.
In cinema, we’re accustomed to easily discernible narrative arcs and characters. But film can be so much more. Input/Output: Expanded Cinema, is Bruce Charlesworth’s answer to that situation. Charlesworth, a professor in UWM’s Film/Video/New Genres MFA program, co-curated the show with Bruce Knackert. It is open at the Inova Gallery, in the Kenilworth Building at Prospect and Kenilworth Avenues.
Work by 15 current or recent graduate students is on view. They are Ben Balcom, Tony Balko, Josh Baum, Kellie Bronikowski, Isaac Brooks, Lisa Danker, Ericka Frederick, Sean Kafer, Daniel Kelly, Brian McGuire, Giorgi Mrevlishvili, Ross Nugent, Michael Walsh, Josh Weissbach and Julie Wolterstorff. They work in a variety of genres and together draw an intriguing picture of the various ways that film can be art...
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12/12/2011
Making a Scene: Milwaukee's Avant-Garde
By Mary Louise Schumacher
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
December 12, 2011
A decade ago, Milwaukee’s art scene seemed to be having a moment.
Even the most cynical and pragmatic among us fell under the spell of hopefulness, the notion that Milwaukee, this flyover locale that was nowhere on the art-world map, was becoming an important, artistic frontier, to use artist David Robbins’ term.
Connective tissue began to form between disparate pockets of the art community. Underground, do-it-yourself art projects, galleries, art schools, academics, major institutions and culture makers of all kinds took note of one another and surfaced as one remarkable, indigenous scene...
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11/08/2011
The 2011 Mary Nohl Fellowship winners: A closer look
By Elisabeth Albeck
ThirdCoast Digest
November 8, 2011
The Nohl Fellowship is Milwaukee’s only established individual artist grant. The funds come from the estate of Mary Nohl, a Fox Point artist who died in 2001. Nohl’s $10 million fortune was given to the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, and according to Polly Morris, Nohl Fellowship program administrator, it was clear that the monies would be allocated to the arts...
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