Gallery Talk, Outdoor Walk, and Performance
Join us for an engaging talk, walk, and performance celebrating nature and inspired by Seeking Revelation: German Romantic Prints and Drawings, 1770–1850. The experience features a gallery talk led by Timothy “Tim” Vargo, Southeast Wisconsin Conservation Collaborative Coordinator with the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin in the exhibition, followed by a guided walk outdoors where Vargo will make connections between exhibition themes, our local environment, and trumpeter swans! We will end our experience at the Milwaukee premiere of Swans, a free outdoor performance at Veterans Park lagoon. The performance will feature Lorna and John, artists, musicians, and hosts of the Out There outdoor performance series.
The experience is included with Museum admission and is free for Members. Admission tickets are available at the door or online. The Milwaukee Art Museum is grateful to its program sponsors.
About the speaker
Tim Vargo’s background is in applied biological research with an emphasis on conservation biology, tropical biology, and ornithology. He has carried out research in Australia, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Panama, and throughout the United States. He received an undergraduate degree in biology from Macalester College and a master’s degree in biology from Purdue University.
Vargo is currently the Southeast Wisconsin Conservation Collaborative Coordinator with the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin, an organization for which he has deep respect. For decades he carried out cutting-edge urban wildlife research as Director of Research with the Urban Ecology Center and co-edited the Handbook of Citizen Science in Ecology and Conservation.
Image: Carl Friedrich Lessing (German, 1808–1880), Landscape with Wanderers (detail), 1837. Pen and brown ink and watercolor over graphite on paper. Sheet: 6½ × 11¼ in. Milwaukee Art Museum, purchase, René von Schleinitz Memorial Fund.