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Press Preview Day
The MAM techs were finishing up the exhibition installation when we arrived for the press preview today. The purple walls and low light levels created the intimate viewing experience we and curator Lisa Hostetler envisioned. They did a fantastic job as viewers will soon see. It was cool to find familiar faces at the press preview like Dave Luhrssen and Judith Moriarty (Shepherd Express), Bonnie North (WUWM), Mary Louise Schumacher (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). Plus we met writers from Vital Source, Jonathan West of Artsyschmartsy.com fame, curator Noah (Deb Brehmer’s son!) and Shepherd Express owner/publisher Louis Fortis. It’s great that Milwaukee continues to have so many media folks committed to covering the visual arts!
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oh my ..!
What a WONDERFUL opening (GALA!!) & Exhibit…!
THANKS to the MAM for showing Photography!
..Those Tin Types were wonderful!..and to see all of the other photos in the collection side-by-side with S&L’s images.
…thanks for showing Wisconsin artists’ work also..
..inspired,
Cindy
The opening yesterday was incredible! Nice work.
There was a lot of WISCONSIN in the exhibition! Prints by Francis Ford (Milwaukee’s greatest), Stanley Ryan Jones (check out his Milwaukee’s Blank generation portraits made at the Starship et. al.), Walter Sheffer (who photographed in Milwaukee and taught at Layton), Lewis Hine (who was born in Oshkosh), a mug shot by the Milwaukee Police Department in 1917, Eugene von Bruenchenhein (our hero) and a portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe (born in Sun Prairie) by Alfred Stieglitz. How’s that for Wisconsin boosterism? Is this the start of the Neo-Regionalism movement?