programs + events

THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2010

OPENING DAY

• Installation of floral arrangements, until 2 p.m.
• Kohl’s Art Generation Open Studio for the entire family, until 4 p.m.

• Marketplace open, offering gifts and accessories for your home, including original outdoor garden sculpture by regional artists Mark Fischer, Herb Johnson, Cliff Matyszczyk, Bruce Niemi, Michael P. Nolte, and Demetra Saloutos, throughout the event.

OPENING NIGHT

5-9 PM | $20/FREE FOR MEMBERS

• Professionally judged awards decided. Panel of judges: Ruth Smith, Judith Z. Stark, and Laurie Winters.
• Collection galleries open with artwork-inspired floral displays.
• People’s Choice Awards voting begins for First, Second, and Third Place and Honorable Mention.
• Plein air artists Lori Beringer, Andy Fletcher, Jim Hempel, and Elizabeth Maltman painting floral masterpieces in Windhover Hall. A silent auction of their work will conclude at the end of the evening.

Artist supplies provided by Utrecht Art Supplies.

COCKTAILS AND BLOOMS RECEPTION

5:30–9:00 PM | WINDHOVER HALL
Hobnob with the design experts at this grand opening event! Enjoy complimentary hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar, and other surprises throughout the night!

LECTURE: Melinda Myers: Year-Round Garden-tainment (SOLD OUT)

6:15 PM | LUBAR AUDITORIUM | FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION
Explore ways to add seasonal interest to your home—from fresh garden herbs to cool tolerant flowers, winter greenery, and a burst of spring color—with Milwaukee-based horticulture expert and author Melinda Myers.
Q&A and book signing to follow.

Sponsored by

FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2010

LECTURE: Bill Radler & Helene Pizzi: Roses, Roses, and More Roses! A Joyful Rose History “In Progress”

11 AM | LUBAR AUDITORIUM | $20/$15 MEMBERS
Take an in-depth look at roses with Radler, hybridizer of the Knock Out® series of roses, and Pizzi, senior advisor for the Royal National Rose Society for Rome: gain a better understanding of rose breed development and see how roses are judged.

Barbara C. Strecker Memorial Lecture

PRESENTATION: Zannah Crowe: Perennial Plant Combinations (SOLD OUT)

1 PM | QUADRACCI SUITE | $15/$10 MEMBERS Reservations required; call 414-224-3803.
Create visually striking gardens based on perennials that partner well together; landscape architect and twenty-five-year veteran of horticulture Zannah Crowe shows you how.

LECTURE: Kevin Ylvisaker: Bloomtastic Designs

2:30 PM | LUBAR AUDITORIUM | $20/$15 MEMBERS
Join the international designer—design captain for two presidential inaugurations (George Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton) and judge for the 1997 Tournament of Roses Parade—for a real-time demonstration on how to create the latest traditional and contemporary floral designs.

Sponsored by Milwaukee Art Museum Garden Club

PRESENTATION: Irwin Johnson: Popular Hostas (SOLD OUT)

3:30 PM | QUADRACCI SUITE | $15/$10 MEMBERS
Reservations required; call 414-224-3803.
Gain in-depth knowledge—from size variability to pest and disease control—on the most popular perennial sold in the United States, from a Master Judge of the American Hostas Society.

SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 2010

PRESENTATION: Michael P. Gaffney: Special Occasion Centerpieces (SOLD OUT)

1 PM | NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL ROOM | $15/$10 MEMBERS
Reservations required; call 414-224-3803.
Learn how to create the tall vertical and classical modern English styles seen in designer magazines, with the owner of Milwaukee School of Flower Design.

Award-winning author/illustrator Lois Ehlert

1-4 PM
Kohl's Art Generation Open Studio and book signing.

LECTURE: Ed Lyon: Made-in-the-Shade: The Perennial Plants

2:30 PM | LUBAR AUDITORIUM | $20/$15 MEMBERS
Discover why shade is “hot,” as the director of UW-Madison’s Allen Centennial Gardens introduces us to plants that can provide beauty and interest to the shade garden all four seasons of the year.

Sponsored by

PRESENTATION: Donna Krischan: Floral Photography (SOLD OUT)

3:30 PM | NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL ROOM | $15/$10 MEMBERS
Reservations required; call 414-224-3803.
Improve your garden and flower photos both technically and artistically with tips from the garden photographer and writer for Milwaukee Home and Fine Living magazine.

SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010

PRESENTATION: Marcia Carmichael: Beyond Bouquets: The Culinary Beauty of Herbs & Flowers (SOLD OUT)

1 PM | NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL ROOM | $15/$10 MEMBERS
Reservations required; call 414-224-3803.
View your garden in a new light—learn how to grow, harvest, and use lovely, fragrant, flavorful garden treasures in your kitchen creations, with the Historic Gardener at Old World Wisconsin.

Award-winning author/illustrator Lois Ehlert

1-4 PM
Kohl's Art Generation Open Studio and book signing.

LECTURE: Andrea Bayer: Amore: Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

2:30 PM | LUBAR AUDITORIUM | FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION
Join the curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s critically acclaimed exhibition Art and Love in Renaissance Italy, as she discusses the exceptional objects created to celebrate love and marriage in the Italian Renaissance. Book signing to follow.

Experience one of the great masterpieces from the Italian Renaissance right here, for a limited time. Raphael: The Woman with the Veil is on view through June 6 in Koss Gallery.

Sponsored in Milwaukee by

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, & SUNDAY
10 AM-5 PM
FREE with Museum admission

• Collection galleries open with artwork-inspired floral arrangements.
• People’s Choice Awards voting.
• Marketplace open, offering gifts and accessories for your home, including original outdoor garden sculpture by regional artists Mark Fischer, Herb Johnson, Cliff Matyszczyk, Bruce Niemi, Michael P. Nolte, and Demetra Saloutos, throughout the event.

THURSDAY

10 AM-9 PM

• Museum Store, with distinctive home accessories, hand-crafted jewelry, art-related books, creative toys, and more.

• Marketplace open, offering gifts and accessories for your home, including original outdoor garden sculpture by regional artists Mark Fischer, Herb Johnson, Cliff Matyszczyk, Bruce Niemi, Michael P. Nolte, and Demetra Saloutos, throughout the event.

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, & SUNDAY
10-5 PM

• Marketplace open, offering gifts and accessories for your home, including original outdoor garden sculpture by regional artists Mark Fischer, Herb Johnson, Cliff Matyszczyk, Bruce Niemi, Michael P. Nolte, and Demetra Saloutos, throughout the event.
• Museum Store, with distinctive home accessories, hand-crafted jewelry, art-related books, creative toys, and more.

Kohl’s Art Generation Open Studio for the entire family, until 4 p.m.

• Come hear Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert, and then create your own story drawing to take home.
  Meet at Admissions.

• Kohl’s Art Generation Open Studio

SATURDAY
2 PM
FREE with Museum admission

Chamber Music from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts. Bradley Galleries.

SUNDAY
2 PM
FREE with Museum admission

Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO) Quartet. Bradley Galleries.