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WPCA Members Show

Friday, June 20 to Friday, July 25 2008

Opening Reception: Friday, June 20 6-9pm

Drop off days: Friday, June 13th and Saturday, June 14th, 9am-5pm

Our Annual Member’s Show is one of our most exciting exhibitions every year, this salon style show provides a unique opportunity for artists at different points in their careers, working in a wide range of media and styles to exhibit together, showing the depth and breadth of contemporary art making in Wisconsin. This is one of the most unique, largest and surprising displays of art and artists presented each year in the Milwaukee area.  Last year a record 67 artist members of WPCA participated in this exhibition. 

War by Mary DiBiasio

Art in the Balance: Conflict and Harmony

Friday, April 25 to Saturday, May 31, 2008

Opening Reception: Friday, April 25, 6-9pm

Mary DiBiasio uses highly textured fragments and stunning color combinations to create infinitely complex collages. Benjamin John Van Male presents images and films which have been accepted into the Milwaukee Short Film Festival and the Scope International Art Fair in New York. Heather M. Wiedeman employs densely layered materials and processes from collagraphy, lithography and photography interwoven with drawn and painted marks.

Clishe by Orlando de la Garza

Artistas Latinos Emergiendo en Milwaukee

Latin Artists Emerging in Milwaukee

Saturday, March 15 to Saturday, April 19, 2008
Opening Reception: Sat, March 15, 4-7pm

Gallery Night and Day
Friday, April 18, 5-9pm &
Saturday, April 19, Noon to 5pm

WPCA has assembled a diverse group of Latino and Latina artists from Milwaukee for this multimedia exhibition. Artists represented include: Juan Flores, Orlando de la Garza, Jesus Ali Ross, Cristian Muñoz, Ximena Soza, Monica Sirimarco, Nicole Rodriguez, Kari McIntyre, Maria Ellen Huebner, Julian Correa, and Martin Morante

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Relationships and Love

Friday, January 18 to Saturday, March 1, 2008

Gallery Night Reception: Friday, January 18, 2008 6-9pm

Poetry, Chocolate and Wine-Adults Only: Thursday, February 14th 7-9:30pm

Poets: Tanya Comartie-Twaddle, Eric Jefferson, Bobby Drake, Carmen A. MurguiaMusic by: Patrick Turner

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Relationships and Love is an invitational and juried art exhibition organized by African-American Artists Beginning to Educate Americans About African American Art (ABEA) in collaboration with Walker’s Point Center for the Arts.

Curatorial Statement:

One of the driving forces in art making throughout world history has been the exploration of social interactions. It is the connectedness between the artist and their interpretation of relationships that spawn their creativity. Whether we care to admit it or not, relationships are about how we process the information we are given. According to photographer Chrys Carroll, “each one’s reality being colored by their particular experience” influences how the interaction is interpreted. Thus, these interpretations determine how we function individually and in the broader societal context of community.  Are we clouded by our perceptions and experiences? In a romantic situation we constantly ask for the truth, but what does that mean? This holds true in all types of relationships. We want our politicians and lovers to be truthful. We want our children to be truthful. We want truth in advertising. But are we really able to handle whatever the “truth” might be? Everyone’s example of “truth” is different, deluded and heavily sprinkled with a prescribed agenda. Hence, these variances in “truth” often lead to “the good, the bad and the ugly” in relationships. ~Della Wells and Sonji Hunt

Participating Artists

To view images of the show, the artist’s bios and their complete artist statements, please visit the exhibition blog: http://abeapresents.blogspot.com

What Is "It's All About Things?"

Friday, December 7 to Saturday, January 12, 2008

Opening Reception: Friday, December 7, 2007 5-9pm

WPCA is turning over its exhibition space to resident visiting artist Luis Maldonado, Queens Astoria, New York for the Milwaukee incarnation of It’s All About Things. The Milwaukee experience is called What Is It’s All About Things? Maldonado is recognized worldwide for his innovative installation art that plays with conflict within our consumer-driven culture.

MKE: Pitch your show

15th Annual Dia de los Muertos

Friday, November 2 to Saturday, December 1, 2007

Opening Reception: Friday, November 2, 2007 4-8pm

Walker’s Point Center for the Arts is proud to present our 15th annual Día de los Muertos or Day of the Dead exhibition. WPCA was the first Milwaukee area gallery to present Día and this year local artist and educator Rosa Zamora will again curate this annual collection of memorial altars or ofrendas created by community residents and artists. Opening reception features face painting, traditional sugar skulls, and a presentation by Zamora.

"3 for 2" on Gallery Night & Day

Featuring Max Estes, A. Bill Miller, and Holli Pitsch

Friday, October 19,  & Saturday, October 20

Three for Two features the important work of emerging artists whose contemporary art-making records our culture for the ages. Featuring three of Milwaukee’s young artists, this two-day gallery night and day exhibition focuses on helping to build sustainable careers for emerging visual artists and lift up the important contribution young artists make to our community.

Max Estes is a Milwaukee-based cartoonists and author. His first graphic novel, Hello, Again was well received by many. Giant Robot magazine labeled Max "a superstar in the making." His second book, Coffee and Donuts was recently published. Max Estes' stop-motion films and comics have been exhibited and published in America, Canada, Spain, the UK, Germany, and China. He is a graduate of the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and recently received his MA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

A. Bill Miller studies for his MFA in painting and drawing at University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. He is interested in the implications of a world-view based on the grid. He has not fully given himself over to his grid nature. A. Bill Miller is interested in the systematic processes that leave behind artifacts of the ritual trail to understanding of what grid is/means.

To this point, A. Bill Miller's gridworks have been an ongoing attempt to visualize and revisualize the importance of grid systems with his artistic practice. He believes that we exist within a built environment that is mediated by organizational systems that characteristically incorporate grid structures.

Holli Pitsch is currently a graduate student at UW-Milwaukee in the Painting and Drawing department.  Her work references imagery from popular culture, video games and graffiti with an intuitive, cartoon-like representation of form. Through a practice involving transforming found books and record albums with a recursive process of addition and subtraction, a play of discovery results between that which is given and that which is created.

Paper Politics

Friday, September 7 to Saturday, October 13, 2007

Opening Reception: Friday, September 7, 2007 5-9pm

Gallery Talk with Curator Josh MacPhee: Friday September, 7, 6pm

Walker’s Point Center for the Arts is proud to present Paper Politics, a major exhibition of socially engaged printmaking. Curated by Josh MacPhee (justseeds.org), the exhibit showcases over 200 contemporary prints using themes of social justice and global equity to engage community members in political conversation. Gallery Verso will feature an additional show of political prints by local artists curated by Nicolas Lampert, Colin Matthes, Tamiko Dargan, and Raoul Deal.

The hand-printed works in the show speak of matters that are vital to understanding the world today. Some of the subjects include opposition to war, solidarity with struggles around the world, destruction of the environment, corporate control, police brutality, homelessness, and gender inequalities.

This is the sixth stop for Paper Politics, originally showing at the In These Times space in Chicago in 2004 and traveling to Seattle, Brooklyn, Portland, and Montreal over the past three years. The show’s organizing method draws upon do-it-yourself culture, and like a band on tour, it travels becoming a networking device that connects different artists and communities who were previously unaware of each other’s work.

The show contains work from many notable national and international artists, including Jesus Barraza, Christopher Cardinale , Tom Civil, Sue Coe, Stephen Goddard, Dionne Haroutunian, John Hitchcock, Dave Loewenstein, Endi Poskovic, Favianna Rodriguez, Niole Schulman, Sixten, Chris Stain, and Swoon.

Josh MacPhee is an artist, curator and activist currently living in New York. His work often revolves around themes of radical politics, privatization and public space. His most recent book is entitled Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority (AK Press, 2007, co-edited with Erik Reuland) and another, Reproduce & Revolt (Soft Skull Press, 2007, co-edited with Favianna Rodriguez), is forthcoming. He also recently curated the exhibition Graphic Work: Imaging Today's Labor Movement for the gallery at the 1199SEIU union hall in New York City. He also organizes the Celebrate People's History Poster Series and is a member of the artist-owned and run Justseeds Radical Artist Cooperative (justseeds.org.)

Nicolas Lampert is a Milwaukee-based interdisciplinary artist and writer. He was a co-editor for "Peace Signs: the Anti-War Movement Illustrated" (Gustavo Gili / Edition Olms 2004) and co-organized the group show "Drawing Resistance - a traveling political art show"(www.drawingresistance.org) that traveled throughout the US and Canada from 2001-2005. Collectively, he works with Just Seeds/Visual Resistance Artist Cooperative (www.justseeds.org), Street Art Workers (www.streetartworkers.org) and the Cut and Paint ‘zine project (www.cutandpaint.org). His visual art website is: www.machineanimalcollages.com.

Raoul Deal is a Senior Lecturer in the Peck School of the Arts, and UWM’s Cultures and Communities Program Artist-in-Residence. He has a Bachelors degree in Painting from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana Campus, and a Masters in Visual Art from UNAM/ENAP- the National University of Mexico, Mexico City.

Colin Matthes makes drawings, prints, installations, and zines. Recent projects include Animals and Workers, which explores relationships between animals and workers in food production and Everyday Transactions, which considers the connections between business, warfare, and leisure in contemporary American life. Colin works collaboratively with the Street Art Workers (www.streetartworkers.org), the “Cut and Paint” zine project (www.cutandpaint.org), and the Just Seeds / Visual Resistance Artist Cooperative (www.justseeds.org). This October Colin will collaborate with Brandon Bauer in the two-person exhibition Over There at the Brooks Barrow Gallery in Milwaukee. His work can be viewed at http://www.ideasinpictures.org.

Tamiko Dargan’s current work focuses on the issue of territory in reference to cultural landscape. Inspired by elements of primitive art, African rock art and European modern dress, Dargan is interested in what happens when such imagery is juxtaposed. Dargan explores dichotomy by creating a visual language in response to race and gender identity.

The Coalition of Photographic Arts 1st Annual Juried Exhibition

Friday, July 27 to Friday, August 31, 2007

Gallery Night Reception: Friday July 27, 2007 6-9 pm

Gallery Talk: Saturday July 28, at 2pm

The Coalition of Photographic Arts is proud to announce its 1st Annual Juried Exhibition!

Juror: Brian Ulrich
Photographer Brian Ulrich - Brian’s work is represented by the Julie Saul Gallery in NYC, and is one of PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers for 2007. His work is included in the Permanent Collection of the The Museum of Contemporary Photography, among other institutions.

Visit Brian’s website www.notifbutwhen.com to see his work and
read his blog.

With over half of the submission coming from outside of CoPA, this exhibition opening will be a wonderful opportunity. Come see what Wisconsin photographers are creating, as well as our Midwestern neighbors.

Annual Members Show

Friday, May 25 to Saturday, July 14, 2007

Opening Reception: Friday, May 25, 6-9pm

Our Annual Member’s Show is one of our most exciting exhibitions every year, this salon style show provides a unique opportunity for artists at different points in their careers, working in a wide range of media and styles to exhibit together, showing the depth and breath of contemporary art making in Wisconsin. This exhibition is a great opportunity to exhibit your work and a great way to support Walker’s Point Center for the Arts.

Milwaukee Underground Film Festival

Festival: Friday, May 4 to Sunday, May 6, 2007
Exhibition: Friday, May 4 to Saturday, May 12, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, May 4, 6-10pm

Website: http://www.filmmilwaukee.org/

Screenings:
Friday, May 4, 6pm & 8pm
Saturday, May 5, 6pm & 8pm

$4 per screening
$7 per night
$20 festival pass

www.milwaukeeunderground.org

Shield … Le Bouclier

Featuring new work by Pacia Sallomi as well as Phyllis Stowell's new book of poetry entitled Shield.

and in Gallery Verso,

From Louise Bourgeois to Kara Walker

This exhibition of prints has been made possible through the generous support of a private collector.

Friday, March 16th to Saturday, April 21, 2007

Pacia Sallomi and Phyllis Stowell

SHIELD is a dialogue between two women - poet and painter, mother and daughter, age and youth; a dialogue in which both seek to confront apparent reality without expecting to encompass it or to ignore its mystery.  Each artist speaks from her own experience and in her own medium, therefore one piece is not an illustration or explanation of the other, rather in moments of synchronicity each work illuminates, deepens or in some unexpected way provokes new work.  Shield is about the feminine principle, not solely womanhood, but the aspect of our humanity that is feminine, that is by its nature mysterious and vulnerable.  It requires a Shield.

Visit www.paciasallomi.com for more information.

5ive

Friday, January 19, 2007 to Saturday, February 24, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, January 19th, 6-9 pm

Recent works from: Lauren Garber, Carol Golemboski, Josie Osborne, Amy Newell, Kristen Rothrock

Desire, flight, loss, memory, longing… these elements are present in the works of this exhibition.  The balance of darkness is light.  Great beauty can be found in an exploration of that which is difficult.  Five artists, working in a variety of media, from drawing, photography, printmaking and sculptural assemblage, explore this dichotomy, this symbiotic relationship.

The minimalist drawings of Lauren Garber seem to physically pull on our emotions and engage us in a visceral investigation of memory and loss with a sensitivity of mark, palette and surface.  The prints and assemblage works of Amy Newell approach similar subject in a more whimsical fashion with images that give us humorous glimpses into the artist’s life, processes utilized by Carol Golemboski produce images that call to us from another world—birds, baby toys, spaces that are foreboding.  Her photographs are at once familiar, beautiful and haunting.  The assemblage box constructions of Josie Osborne incorporate print, collage, text and image to create a poetic, revelatory experience that explores the balance between melancholy and joy, the tangible and intangible, architectural form, and its two-dimensional representation.  Kristin Rothrock uses both digital and traditional printing processes to create large-scale images that alternate between representation and abstraction, exploring the flawed body and powerful memory of a lost mother.

Join Us

Saturday, December 9, 2006 to Saturday, January 15, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, December 15th, 2006 3-6 pm

“Join Us” is an annual children’s exhibit curated this year by local artist Paul Stoelting. Each year WPCA serves over 650 children through over 4000 visits in our Hands On art programs which include our After School Arts program, Afternoons with Art and our annual Summer Art Camp. With the assistance of 35 guest artists, children create a multitude of work that we are proud to show the community at the end of each year.

Included in “Join Us” will be video from our residency projects and many other art pieces created by local youth in WPCA’s art programs over the course of 2006.

WPCA's Annual Día de los Muertos Exhibition

Thursday November 2, 2006 - Thursday November 30, 2006

Walker’s Point Center for the Arts is proud to present our 14th annual Día de los Muertos or Day of the Dead exhibition. WPCA was the first Milwaukee area gallery to present Día and this year local artist and educator Rosa Zamora will again curate this annual collection of memorial altars or ofrendas created by community residents and artists. Opening reception features face painting, traditional sugar skulls, and a presentation by Zamora.

The souls of the dead are believed to return on the second day in November.  Each year, families decorate the grave sites of deceased relatives or build altars in their homes adorned with mementos from the relatives past, pictures, marigolds, candles, a glass of water, food and salt, and religious symbols. Zamora describes Día as a “tradition that allows us to honor our ancestors and to celebrate the life and death cycle.”

Lona Long is one of the artists participating in the exhibit and says that “The opportunity to create an altar for my loved ones who have passed from this life, helps me to stay connected to their memory…. Knowing that my loved ones continue to be present in spirit is comforting for me. Therefore, when I begin to think about creating a dedication altar I become fully immersed in the memory of that individual. That is a remarkable feeling in and of itself.  This process helps me capture the essence of that life once lived and hold onto the joyful memories forever.”

Gallery Night and Day

Friday October 20, 2006 and Saturday October 21, 2006

Art by Mary DiBiasio, Dorota Biczel Nelson and Keith Nelson
Performances by Nerve House

Please Love Me

Saturday September 9, 2006 - Friday October 13, 2006
Opening Reception: Saturday September 9, 6-9pm
Susceptible to Images launch party: Saturday September 9, 6-9pm

Architectural style and the love letter.

"This exhibit examines the interstices shared between love letters and architectural nuance. The pause where the world is very unsure and hope is forever on the verge of being demolished on the rock of the very blackest shore. This point of Weltschmerz (world-of-pain) where we decide to celebrate our futile actions in a maddening end-of-times féte, or shrug our shoulders and move on down the road.

Flash on the moment when the supports of the keg-laden back porch are rotted through from summers past mold and wear. It will fall, maybe not today but surely soon after. No use complaining, as there is no one who will take on the responsibility of a large scale project, or put up the $$$ to pay a contractor. You have no gas and your car doesn't really work anyway. You do what is most logical. You place the car-jack under the main beam supporting your rotten keg-laden porch and crank. Take a step back admire your labor, you have pushed back the moment of inevitability." Santiago Cucullu - co-curator

Rachel Breunlin, Michael Bernstein, Kyoung Ae Cho, Jan Christensen, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Kuo I-Chen, Matt Keegan, Anne Killelea, Mads Lynnerup, Ester Partegas, Adam Pendleton, Adrian Procel, Scott Reeder, Tyson Reeder Mayra Silva, Janek Simon, Brent Steen, Anton Vidokle, and Allison Wiese

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by Mary Louise Schumacher

When Argentinian-born artist Santiago Cucullu (pronounced Coo-COO-zhoo), one of the city's most recognized artists, uses a bleak, German word when describing a show he is curating here in Milwaukee, something unusual is certain to be in the works. The term, Weltschmerz, is a combination of German words for "world" and "pain." It is defined as world weariness or a mental depression associated with a profound disenchantment with the state of the world. It's what Cucullu elaborates on as "the pause where the world is very unsure and hope is forever on the verge of being demolished on the rock of the very blackest shore" that is at the heart of "Please Love Me," an international group show. More specifically, the show is about the connection between architecture and the love letter, though I confess I have no idea what that means. Fashionably melancholic, quasi-intellectual and ultimately not terribly meaningful exhibits around such themes are common. Having something relevant to say about the subtly encroaching despair of contemporary culture is not. It is the partnership between Cucullu and artist-writer Nicholas Frank that gives me some hope for the latter. Several artists in the show are from Milwaukee, though others come from New Orleans, Brooklyn, Portland, New York, San Diego, Taiwan, Mexico, Germany and Poland. The exhibit runs from Sept. 9 to Oct. 13 at Walker's Point Center for the Arts.

Latin American Prints from Colección Salgado

July 21, 2006 to August 26, 2006
Opening Reception: Friday, July 21, 6-9pm
Panel Discussion: Saturday, July 29, 4pm

Hosted by: Raoul Deal, Jose Chavez, and Rene Arceo

Walker ’s Point Center for the Arts is pleased to present, Latin American Prints from Colección Salgado, one of the most prominent collectors of Latin American art in the country. Artists represented in the collection have exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the Americas and Europe.

Many of these artists are recognized internationally but are relatively unknown to local aficionados. WPCA is honored to be the first area venue to present this astonishing selection of works.

Prints by Rudolfo Abularach, Rene Arceo, Carmen Bordes, Tomas Bringas, Rocio Caballero, Carlos Cortez, José Luis Cuevas, Hector Duart, Roberto Ferreyia, Esperanza Gama, Nicolas de Jesus, Alfonso Lopez Monreal Juan Carlos Macias, Gabriel Macotela, Alejandro Nava, Irma Palacios, Leopoldo Prajedis, Jesus Ramos, Alejandro Romero, Oscar Romero, Soruco, Luis Fernando Uribe, Luis Valsoto, Gabriel Villa and Alfredo Zalce were included in the exhibition.

WPCA's Annual Members Exhibition

WPCA's Annual Members Show is one of our most exciting events every year. This salon style exhibition is a unique opportunity for artists at different points in their careers, working in a wide range of media and styles, to exhibit together, showing the depth and breadth of contemporary art making in Wisconsin. Every year this exhibition proves to be a great opportunity to display work while supporting Walker's Point Center for the Arts.

Inner Spaces/Outer Limits: The Vern Collective

Inner Spaces/Outer Limits: The Vern Collective contradicts the current trend of defining and packaging artists according to those working within similar styles by presenting works across artistic spectra. Artwork comes to the gallery from all over the world, from Berlin to Milwaukee, in an eclectic mix of styles and ideas from their varied disciplines, approaches, and backgrounds.

The Vern Collective originated among artists in San Francisco, California. Since April 2002, the group has presented shows across North America and Europe.

Participating in the Milwaukee exhibit are Tony Brown, Michael Davidson, Carsten Stehr, Giordano Pozzi, Chris Natrop, Tyrome Tripoli, Gioj De Marco, Dorsey Dunn, Elisabeth Ernst, MP Landis, Alessandra Rebagliati, Susan Radau, Christian Kathriner, Mattias Meyer, Peter Rusam and Gregory Klassen.

Mat Rappaport

Mat Rappaport, an assistant professor at UWM, uses familiar formats in unfamiliar ways and places where people randomly encounter them. Last year, he toured a video and stationary screen mounted in a box van throughout Chicago as a means of bringing art to a public, urban environment.

Rappaport was recently awarded a Mary L. Nohl Artist Fellowship, the most prestigious award for local artists. He was also awarded a fellowship for the Center for 21st Century Studies at UWM. He will spend a year working on a new project related to v1b3 (Video in the Built Environment) and mobile media based public art.

Public Display of Affection: New Work by Chris Silva

January 20 - March 4, 2006

An original installation by Chicago-based street artist Chris Silva expresses the artist's concern for the current state of human culture and our lack of regard for each other, ourselves and the nature of the world. The gallery displayed photographs and videos documenting street art by Silva and other artists from the Chicago area. Sharing the space was You Are Beautiful, a piece done collaboratively with Milwaukee artists.Also in WPCA's Gallery II for Milwaukee-based artists: work by Rory Burke

Faces of Walker's Point: Maria Ellen Huebner and the Students of Walker's Point Center for the Arts

December 16, 2005 - January 7, 2006

Building off of the common threads of personal and communal identity, landscape and the idea of "home", this exhibition will feature the work of photographer Maria Ellen Huebner and the students of Walker's Point Center for the Arts' Hands On art education program.  This unique project will feature works completed during an artist-in-residence program where these themes will be explored and expand upon through the use of photography.

El Día de Los Muertos

October 21 - November 26, 2005

This annual exhibition and celebration recognizes death as a celebration of life and provides an opportunity for families and artists from the community to construct ofrendas, or altars, to honor the dead.  The ofrendas range from traditional styles reflecting time-honored iconography to more contemporary settings indicative of the changes in the culture of remembrance.  This year's exhibition was curated again by artist and community leader Rosa Zamora. Fall Gallery Night (October 21) also featured "Skeletal Reflections," a one-hour performance art/installation show featuring Renee Bebeau, Mark Escribano, Bill Sell, and Pegi Taylor.

Diabolique: Images of the Devil in Contemporary Art

July 8—October 1, 2005

Lucifer, Satan, demon, fallen angel...the Anti-Christ? Nowhere in the Old or New Testament does there appear a full account of the creature commonly known as "the devil". Though invisible and anonymous, this character has resonated in the minds and appears regularly in the works of some of today's most influential artists. This original and innovative exhibition, organized by notable Milwaukee painter Fred Stonehouse and WPCA, explored various personal interpretations of "the devil" as featured in works by Don Ed Hardy, Manuel Ocampo, Fred Stonehouse, Norbert H. Kox and many more.

Fred Stonehouse, Michael Noland, & Stephen Anderson appear courtesy of Tory Folliard Gallery.

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In WPCA's new Gallery II: Julian Correa

Walker’s Point Center for the Arts Member’s Show

May 13 - June 24, 2005

Faces of Walker's Point

December 3-31, 2004

WPCA's Annual Día de los Muertos Exhibition

October 29-November 29, 2004

Curated by local artist and educator Rosa Zamora with memorial altars created by community residents and artists. Featuring presentations, entertainment, traditional food, craft demonstrations and a community altar for visitors to publicly honor loved ones who have passed away.

Men and Boys

September 10-October 16, 2004

Curated by Leslie Bellavance. This exhibition examined the representations of men and boys in recent art works by contemporary artists who have been addressing shifting notions of male identity. The result was a renewed discourse on the topic of male subjectivity. Featuring artists Christopher Davis-Benavides, Deborah Generotzky, Robert Johnson, Juan Juarez, Laura Kina, New Catalogue (Luke Batten and Jonathan Sadler), John Stachowicz, and Amber Lynn Woods.

WPCA's Annual Members Show

July 23-August 28, 2004

Women in the Middle: Borders, Barriers, Intersections

June 3-July 10, 2004

UWM Union Art Gallery
June 4-July 9, 2004

Organized by Helen Klebesadal. This juried exhibition of contemporary feminist art was held simultaneously with the 25th annual conference of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA), hosted in Milwaukee in June 2004. This exhibition is intended to reflect the many ways that women may find themselves, in these times of intersections, caught in the middle or at the center of attention.

Confluencias: Leandro Soto and Raoul Deal

April 2-May 22, 2004 

Using paintings, drawings, video, sound sculpture, found objects and more, this collaborative installation combines the artists' ideas about migration and diaspora. This piece represents the latest manifestation of an on-going creative dialogue between the artists, informed by conversations that have taken place in the United States and Mexico over a period of twelve years.

Sister Stories

January 16-March 13, 2004

The Word: Exploration of Mind and Spirit Combining Words and Images

December 7, 2003-January 3, 2004

A group exhibition by members of MATA, Milwaukee Area Teachers of Art. With work by Ann Baer, Earl Kittelson, Roxane Mayeur, Jean Sobon, Ann Tillmann Schwarten, Dan Schwarten, Sharon Vanden Boom, Chuck Wickler, and Colleen Zietlow.
Also at WPCA
Works Worth Wrapping II
WPCA's annual small works exhibit, just in time for holiday gift giving.

La Tradición e Innovación: Discovering the Art and Culture of Mexico:

Día de los Muertos

October 31-November 29, 2003

Borderline Stories: An installation by Scott Townsend

September 12-October 18, 2003

The Sierra Tarahumara: Photographs by John Ruebartsch

September 12-October 18, 2003

The Artists and Pottery of Mata Ortiz

July 25-August 30, 2003

WPCA's Annual Members Show

June 6-July 12, 2003

Our annual salon-style members show, a WPCA tradition, is open to all WPCA members. A great opportunity to exhibit or see work by established as well as emerging artists.

Gary John Gresl: First Attempt to Move Jupiter and Dan McGuire: Lock up your kids, the circus is in town

April 11-May 24, 2003

Gary John Gresl builds large-scale assemblages using castoffs, antiques, kitsch, rare coins, fossils and other unusual objects that form a collage of memory and nostalgia, while setting the stage for the future. Dan McGuire's large-scale sculpture is representational and often humorous, demonstrating a sense of the absurd. Like Gresl, he often incorporates unusual found objects in his pieces.

The Electric Carnival/El Carnaval Eléctrico

March 24-April 1, 2003

Artwork by children participating in the Hands On program at WPCA. Drawings, paintings, video projection, sculpture, masks and more! Plus live music from "Children at Play." At the Electric Carnival apples taste like goldfish with hot dogs the big purple statues start to jump when the sad boy touches them we spin and twist with music animals and colorful lights riding roller coasters.

Yearning for the Sea: The Inner Voyage in Folk Art

January 17-March 15, 2003

Featuring work by Mark Adams, John Bambic, Ken Bass, Tubby Brown, Reginald Gee, Willie Jinks, Charlie Kinney, Norbert Kox, Junior Lewis, Joe Light, Tamara Madden, George McCormick, Georgianna Orr, Ziggy Ostrowski, Paul Phelps, Joan M. Pierce, Rudy Rotter, J. P. Scott, David Smith, David Strickland, Annie Tolliver, Della Wells, Mike "Ringo" White, Jeanette Wright-Claus and others.

Rina Y. Yoon:

Prints and Drawings Exciting work exploring memory and cultural identity by a MIAD printmaking professor

Tis the Season: Works Worth Wrapping

A selection of original art work by area artists, just in time for holiday gift giving

December 8, 2002-January 4, 2003

Tenth Annual Día de los Muertos Exhibit

November 1-November 30, 2002

Near & Far: An Examination of Place Photographs

by Waswo X. Waswo and Phil Fisher

September 13-October 19, 2002

Photographs of India, Egypt and other exotic locales by Waswo, images of Milwaukee by Fisher. A small exhibit of portraits by Waswo X. Waswo is also on view at the Flying Saucer Cafe, 839 W. National.

The Elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water

July 26-August 31, 2002

An exhibition of work by fifty artists who use or represent the four elements. Curated by Michael Flanagan.

WPCA Annual Members Show

June 13-July 13, 2002

A WPCA tradition.

Huipiles, Rebozos y Sarapes: Textiles from the Americas

April 5-June 1, 2002

A group of artists and educators share their collections in this exhibit of weaving and embroidery from Mexico, Guatemala, Peru and Ecuador. Highlights include intricate woven and embroidered huipiles from Guatemala and sarapes from the Mexican state of Oaxaca in both traditional and modern designs.

Wisconsin Visions: A Journey of Wisconsin Self Taught, Outsider & Folk Art

January 18-March 16, 2002

Featuring work by 22 artists including Jose Chavez, Norbert Kox, George Leazer, George Ray McCormick, June Roque, Rudy Rotter and Della Wells.

City Streets
Photography Ron Zabler

December 14, 2001-January 5, 2002

Ron Zabler documents the increasingly fragile urban Milwaukee environment in this series of black-and-white photographs.

Read James Auer's review at JS Online

Día de los Muertos: Celebrating Life and Family

November 2-December 1, 2001

WPCA's 9th annual celebration was curated by Rosa Zamora and featured altars created by local artists. A community altar honored the victims of September 11.

Regroup: Marna Goldstein Brauner and Former Graduate Students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Fiber Program

September 14-October 20, 2001

Marna Goldstein Brauner has been a major influence on fiber arts in southeastern Wisconsin. Her students have enjoyed a considerable degree of success and this exhibit reunites her with Lisa D'Innocenzo, Joann M. Engelhart, Laura Goldstein, Joseph Smoot and Jan-Ru Wan in a group show.

Of Body and Building

July 27-September 1, 2001

Artists David Holland and Rebecca Holland bring their unique object sculpture to WPCA. The artists are cousins who approach their work from similar philosophies but with different results.

Annual WPCA Members Exhibition

June 14-July 15, 2001

WPCA's annual salon-style show features works in a variety of media and genres by WPCA members.

Radioactive Biohazard

April 20-June 2, 2001

Artist/geneticist Hunter O'Reilly, with Electric Eye Neon, bridges the worlds of art and science in striking DNA-inspired oil paintings, photographs and other works.

Robin Starbuck: This Is Not a Game
Raoul Deal: Reinventing Jimmy Green

March 9-April 14, 2001

Two installation artists reflect on dignity and identity in American society. Starbuck exposes a “pervasive consumer interest in violence,” while Deal looks at American culture after living in Mexico for a decade.

Read James Auer's review at JS Online