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Director and Curatorial bios »The Milwaukee Art Museum today announced two key additions to its senior leadership team: Elizabeth Siegel has been appointed the Museum’s Chief Curator, and André Allaire has been named Chief Development Officer.
Exhibition Extends the Museum’s History of Discovering and Presenting Groundbreaking Work by Innovative and Experimental Artists Milwaukee, WI – August 25, 2022 – This winter, the Milwaukee Art Museum will mount the U.S. museum premiere of Belgian video and digital artist David Claerbout’s multimedia installation The Close (2022). With this presentation, the Museum bolsters its […]
This fall, the Milwaukee Art Museum will present The Ashcan School and The Eight: “Creating a National Art,” a major exhibition exploring the work of the turn-of-the-century Ashcan School and The Eight—widely recognized today as America’s first modern art movement.
Visitors can expect a genre-spanning lineup of local musicians, yoga and dance classes, refreshments from the Museum Café, and art making with the Kohl’s Art Studio.
From July 14 to 17, be transported to France and French-speaking countries across the globe including Mali, Senegal, and Haiti during this extravaganza inspired by the feature exhibition Always New: The Posters of Jules Chéret.
This summer, the Milwaukee Art Museum will present Always New: The Posters of Jules Chéret, the first solo exhibition in the United States of works by 19th-century French lithographer Jules Chéret (1836-1932).
A new exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum, highlighting recent acquisitions created by artists of different races, nationalities and genders, examines the impact photographs can have on shaping viewer’s perceptions of the physical world around them.
The Milwaukee Art Museum today announced new ways for visitors to engage through expanded offerings, including a reinstallation of some of its contemporary art galleries, the return of Kohl’s Art Studio and Art in Bloom, and a reopening of the Museum to visitors on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. starting April 12.
Visitors can once again welcome spring with a celebration of art and flowers at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Art in Bloom returns April 7-10, 2022, after a two-year hiatus. The popular event will feature nearly 30 art-inspired floral installations throughout the galleries.
The annual exhibition celebrating young artistic talent in Wisconsin will return on-site to the Milwaukee Art Museum. Taking place February 5–March 20, in the Museum’s Schroeder Galleria, the juried 2022 Scholastic Art Awards: Wisconsin Exhibition will showcase more than 300 works by students in grades 7–12 from 128 schools across the state.
A new exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum presents woven works of art that pair new technologies with centuries-old craft knowledge to create distinctive, painterly compositions. Opening February 25, 2022, in the Museum’s Bradley Family Gallery, Currents 38: Christy Matson features more than 40 woven objects by the Los Angeles-based artist who has helped reshape the traditional medium of weaving into a contemporary art form.
The first contract agreement between the Milwaukee Art Museum and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) was ratified by a vote of unionized staff on Tuesday, December 22, 2022.
A new exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum will present the first comprehensive survey of the work of celebrated photographer An-My Lê (American, born Vietnam, 1960). Opening December 3, 2021, in the Museum’s Baker/Rowland Galleries, On Contested Terrain provides unprecedented insight into Lê’s career and her subtle, evocative images, which draw on landscape traditions to explore the complexity of war and conflict.
The Milwaukee Art Museum has announced that Jeff Yabuki has been unanimously elected as Chair of the Museum’s Board of Trustees effective on October 29, 2021. Yabuki has been a Museum Trustee since 2007 and a member of the Executive Committee since 2018.
A newly commissioned large-scale wall mural and sculptural installation will be unveiled October 29 at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Created by Brooklyn-based artist Derrick Adams, Our Time Together will be a 93-foot work that reframes historical Black narratives.
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