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Chipstone Foundation promotes green living at the Milwaukee Art Museum
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Tel. (414) 220-4321
Cel. (773) 629-2853
Email: claudia.arzeno@mam.org
GREEN FAIR SHOWCASES MILWAUKEE’S GREEN COMMUNITY
Chipstone Foundation promotes green living at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Milwaukee, WI November 11, 2009 – On January 30, the Chipstone Foundation is hosting its first ever Green Fair at the Milwaukee Art Museum, in conjunction with the exhibition, Green Furniture: Sustainable Design in the 21st Century. The event will take place from 10:00AM to 5:00PM; everyone seeking ideas on how to adopt sustainable practices and try green products is invited to attend. Admission to the Green Fair is free with museum admission.
The green lifestyle is quickly becoming mainstream, allowing individuals and businesses to benefit every day by making environmentally friendly choices. The Green Fair was created to demonstrate how simple the transition to earth-friendly can be. “A few years ago, the notion of buying ‘Green’ was barely on anybody’s radar screen; today Green products are everywhere,” said Jonathan Prown, director of the Chipstone Foundation. “With this rise in public awareness has come a growing array of products that spuriously claim to be Green but that still rely on problematic modes of production or shipping. The Green Fair will allow Museum visitors to meet the best and brightest makers, growers, thinkers, and retailers in the greater Milwaukee area, and to gain a better understanding of this new and enlightened way of reforming our material world.”
The event kicks off with a green marketplace. Visitors will be able to browse and purchase environmentally friendly goods from local vendors such as Rishi Tea, Outpost Natural Foods, Olive Organic Living, and Future Green. The marketplace will also include local green non-profits, such as Growing Power and the Milwaukee Green Building Alliance, presenting information on ways to live a greener life.
Visitors exploring the green marketplace need only look outside to see Hongtao Zhou’s snow furniture demonstration. The artist will be creating furniture out of ice and snow from the Museum grounds. In addition, a variety of artists included in the Green Furniture exhibition will be demonstrating different green building techniques throughout the day. Visitors are encouraged to participate and learn how to build eco-friendly, fun furniture such as newspaper stools.
Being environmentally conscious affects all aspects of a person’s life. With this in mind, Green community leaders will come together in the Museum’s Lubar Auditorium from 1:00 to 3:00, to discuss the Green movement in relation to their different practices. Ken Dunn, founder of Chicago City Farm, will discuss thinking green in the Midwest; James Godsil of Sweetwater Organics will discuss eating green; Nik Kovac, Milwaukee Alderman, will discuss voting green; while the Cedarburg architects Kubala Washatko will discuss building green.
The Green Fair is organized by the Chipstone Foundation in conjunction with the Green Furniture exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Green Furniture is on view from November 12, 2009, to March 14, 2010.
GREEN FURNITURE GALLERY TALKS
Tuesday, January 26, 1:30 p.m.
With Hongtao Zhou, guest curator
Tuesday, February 23, 1:30 p.m.
With Ethan Lasser, curator, Chipstone Foundation
MAM After Dark (presented by Northwestern Mutual Foundation)
Friday, January 15, 5 p.m.-Midnight
Carpool, snowshoe, or take the bus to the Museum for an eco-friendly evening your conscience can be at ease with. This popular after-hours art happening regularly features a DIY Studio, Photo Booth, music by Radio Milwaukee DJs, exclusive access to the galleries, appetizers, cash bar, and more.
ABOUT THE CHIPSTONE FOUNDATION
The Chipstone Foundation is a decorative arts foundation whose mission is preserving and interpreting their collection, as well as stimulating research and education in the decorative arts.
Milwaukee Art Museum hosts exhibition of artworks created by combat veterans
War, Art, & the Veteran.
On view October 22 through November 15
Schroeder Galleria
Press Contact:
Adam Horwitz
adam.horwitz@mam.org
414-224-3294
Milwaukee Art Museum hosts exhibition of artworks created by combat veterans. October 22–November 15, 2009
Milwaukee, WI – October 22, 2009 – In conjunction with the Wisconsin Warrior Summit being held at the Milwaukee County War Memorial Center on October 22, the Milwaukee Art Museum is proud to host War, Art, & the Veteran, a display of artworks created by combat veterans, October 22–November 15, 2009. The exhibition was organized by the National Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, and Dryhootch, a veteran support network, and reflects the Milwaukee Art Museum’s shared commitment to the original, 1957 dedication of the War Memorial Center, “To Honor the Dead by Serving the Living.”
War, Art, & the Veteran will feature the paintings, sculptures, and photographs of combat veterans who have served our country in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, among others. Over 65 works will be on view in the Museum’s Schroeder Galleria. The Wisconsin Warriors Summit, whose mission is “dedicated to coordinating a comprehensive community response to the mental health needs of veterans and their families,” is being held in the Milwaukee County War Memorial Center on Thursday, October 22, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The summit is open to the public and registration fee is $35.00 per person which covers the event, parking, and lunch. Questions about the summit should be directed to Mental Health America of Wisconsin, at 414-276-3122.
http://www.dryhootch.org/page/war-art-veteran
http://www.nvvam.org/
Milwaukee Art Museum to Light Iconic Calatrava-Designed Wings Pink
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Maggie Baum, 608-438-2814
mbaum@100monkeyspr.com
Milwaukee Art Museum to Light Iconic Calatrava-Designed Wings Pink
Milwaukee’s cultural icon shows support for breast cancer awareness in conjunction with premiere of Andy Warhol: The Last Decade
Milwaukee, Wis. – September 23, 2009 – Beginning this evening, the Milwaukee Art Museum, for the first time ever, will glow pink against the stunning backdrop of the September evening sky. The 10-day lighting project celebrates the opening of the Museum’s major fall exhibition, Andy Warhol: The Last Decade with a nod to the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure at the Milwaukee lakefront on Sunday, September 27. With a 217-foot wingspan that opens and closes twice daily, the illuminated wings of the Quadracci Pavilion will offer an extraordinary spectacle along the city’s skyline. More »
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade Opens at the Milwaukee Art Museum
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Maggie Baum, 608-438-2814
mbaum@100monkeyspr.com
Milwaukee Art Museum organizes first U.S. museum exhibition of Warhol’s late works
-Andy Warhol: The Last Decade opens September 26; challenges preconceptions of the Pop icon-
Milwaukee, WI, August 5, 2009—This fall, the Milwaukee Art Museum will present the first U.S. museum exhibition to explore the work Andy Warhol produced during his late years. Organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum, Andy Warhol: The Last Decade premieres in Milwaukee September 26, 2009 – January 3, 2010 before heading on national tour. Created amidst the bustle of Warhol’s Pop celebrity, the works on view illustrate as never before the artist’s vitality, energy, and renewed spirit of experimentation during the final years of his life.
Harris Bank Presents The 2009 Milwaukee Wine Festival AUG. 21–22
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Laura Leaf, (414) 225-9576, lleaf@hyc.com
MILWAUKEE (July 27, 2009) – inPLAY EVENTS announces the return of the 2009 Milwaukee Wine Festival presented by Harris Bank to be held Aug. 21–22 on the grounds of the Milwaukee Art Museum. The two-day, outdoor event will provide festival-goers with an opportunity to sample more than 200 fine wines from around the globe in a relaxed setting along the shore of Lake Michigan, with a beautiful view of the Milwaukee Art Museum and its Santiago Calatrava–designed Quadracci Pavilion. More »
Museum Announces Exhibition of Raphael’s High Renaissance Masterpiece
Milwaukee, WI, July 12, 2009—The Milwaukee Art Museum will present Raphael’s La Donna Velata in a one-work masterpiece exhibition March 26–June 6, 2010. The oil on canvas painting, completed ca. 1516, will be on loan from the Medici collection of the Palatine Gallery, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy and is the result of more than a year of negotiations. The work will leave the United States indefinitely after the exhibition closes on June 6. More »
Advanced Exhibition Schedule as of July 2009
All exhibitions and dates are subject to change; please call 4-224-3246 or e-mail jonas.wittke@mam.org to verify before publication. Images available upon request. More »
Winners of 2009 Lakefront Festival of Arts Announced
Milwaukee, WI, June 20—More than170 artists vied for top spots at the 47th annual Lakefront Festival of Arts (LFOA), one of the premier juried art festivals in the country. Winners were announced at this morning’s annual Saturday awards breakfast. More »
Milwaukee Art Museum Presents The Eight and American Modernisms
Milwaukee, WI, March 6—From three outstanding public collections of their work, more than eighty paintings by the group of American artists dubbed The Eight—Arthur B. Davies, William Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Maurice B. Prendergast, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan—are joined together for the first time in The Eight and American Modernisms, on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum June 6–August 23, 2009. More »
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs Opens at the Milwaukee Art Museum
Milwaukee, WI, March 6—The first major exhibition of furniture and decorative art by the protean American craftsman and designer Charles Rohlfs begins its five-venue national tour at the Milwaukee Art Museum June 6–August 23, 2009. The product of an innovative three-institution partnership, the exhibition’s scholarship is based on the Rohlfs family archives and newly discovered period sources, and brings together over forty pieces from ten museums and several private collections. The exhibition’s tour concludes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the fall of 2010. More »
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