SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 10 AM–5 PM

Learn what it means to live green! Join us for an activity-filled day, featuring talks by green leaders in the midwestern community, artist demonstrations, gallery talks, and a green marketplace of environmentally friendly products. The fair is being held in conjunction with the exhibition Green Furniture: Sustainable Design in the 21st Century, on view in the Decorative Arts Gallery on the Lower Level through March 14, 2010.    

Schedule of Events:

10:00 AM–5 PM Green Marketplace (Baumgartner Galleria)

Explore green goods and ideas from a variety of vendors and nonprofit groups: Chartreuse, The Conscious Bath Company, Fair Trade for All, Future Green, Growing Power, Lillies, the Museum Store, Olive Fine Organic Living, Outpost Natural Foods, Rain Tree Gear, Rebel Green, Rishi Tea, Shaklee/Green Giraffe, Urban Ecology Center, and Wisconsin Green Building Alliance.

10 AM–4 PM Snow Furniture (Lakefront, viewable from Baumgartner Galleria)

Watch Green Furniture guest curator and artist Hongtao Zhou create furniture out of ice and snow on the Museum’s lakefront lawn. 

12–12:15 PM (Windhover Hall)

Tickets will be handed out to ten children who wish to help Hongtao build his snow furniture for the next half hour.

10:30–11:30 AM Gallery Talk with Artists of Green Furniture (Decorative Arts Gallery)

11:45–12:10 PM Artist Demonstration: Tanya Aguiniga (Windhover Hall) 

 12:20–12:45 PM Artist Demonstration: De Sellers (Windhover Hall)
With the help of scale models, Austin-based artist De Sellers will introduce the creation of his Emergency Chair and discuss the context of design in the current world climate. This demonstration will be participatory and a limited number of scale models will be given to attendees.

1–3 PM Green Symposium (Lubar Auditorium)

Green community leaders will discuss the Green movement in relation to their different practices—Ken Dunn, founder of Chicago City Farm, on thinking green in the Midwest; James Godsil of Sweetwater Organics on eating green; Nik Kovac, Milwaukee Alderman, on voting green; and the Cedarburg architects Kubala Washatko on building green.

3:30–4 PM Artist Demonstration: Christopher Poehlmann (Windhover Hall)

Local artist Chris Poehlmann will demonstrate how to make found-object assemblage lamps, which put his lamp designs on the international map in the 1990s.

3:30–4:30 PM Gallery Talk with the Curators of Green Furniture (Decorative Arts Gallery)

Guest curator Hontao Zhou, Chipstone Foundation curator Ethan Lasser, and Chipstone Foundation director Jon Prown will be in the gallery to answer questions. 

4:10–4:40 PM Artist Demonstration: David Raful (Windhover Hall)


El Salvador-based artist David Raful presents “Trash Never Looked so Good: Recycling in a Fashionable Way.” Work alongside Raful as he creates wearable accessories out of used objects.

Sponsored by the Chipstone Foundation and the Milwaukee Art Museum

Free with Museum admission