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 the Veterans Park lagoon, created by artist Jess Bass and composer Lia Kohl, using the park’s swan pedal boats as a stage. The performance will feature wing sculptures and choreography, as well as an octet of brass players performing from the boats. This portion of the afternoon is presented by Out There, a Milwaukee-based experimental performance series curating strange sounds in unique spaces.
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 speakers
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.
