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This is a big deal to me. who nevertheless is squeezing the juice out of metic) properly identified in the press, his I still don't think I'm an artist. Maybe if I their future hopes and dreams. letterinyour August issuetookabundant did, I'd wake up from the dream. I know and uncalled forpot-shots at cooperative one thing, your article will surely con­ We are always hungry here. Everyone is gallery space. More than one of the folks tinue to influence people when they see hungry. Lucky me, I'm an American, so I eat here at Gallery 218 took offense to Mr. it beside the things I make. I'm very lucky three meals a day (of sorts). My friends eat Frank's snide innuendos. Gallery 218 is to have met some of the folks at Art only once a day unless we consider a breakfast Milwaukee's premier cooperative gallery, Muscle. And I'm also lucky to have met of saltine crackers and cafe con leche a meal. PRESENT MUSIC and since I have just completed a solo Valerie and Tom at Valerie's Gallery. The goods from home that I distributed to Kan? iern show there, let me give you a few of my Everyone's encouragementand help have my Cuban teachers and friends were accepted Records) own observations. made all the difference. I will truly always withunfetteredexpressionsofjoy.NowMayra be grateful and in your debt. has her first stuffed toy animal. Maria has some of the ensemble's most captivating mo First, the gallery itself is well-lit and spa­ —Gary Kandziora detergent forwashingherclothe s (alongwith ments occurred as they performed works by cious, and compares favorably with any first-aid supplies for her family). Rosa has new commercial gallery in the city. On my This letter is in response to a feature underwear and powdered juicetodrinkin the keyboardist, associated with PM since 1992, first visit I realized that the space was about Kandziora, which was written by morning. Jorge has toothpaste and a tooth­ is the subject of the ensemble's recent CD for more than adequate for a professional jim Matson for our August issue. The brush, soap and deodorant. Julia has her first a Massachusetts-based contemporary classi­ level exhibit. The officers of the Walker's "dreamy" photograph he refers to was box of Tampax so she doesn't have to use cal label. Ince's music is challenging but never Point Artists Association (who manage : taken by Linda Kimpel. paper bags every month, and Adonis has what CCUrfea, H 5 C:CS:pOSi::OSS z = the gallery) were friendly, informative —Editor he has always wanted, a denim jean jacket, - • • c -' " '. - - zzSz - oss-.. c and helpful. The cooperative efforts of extra large. -\ZZZZB C: \zozzzz'ZcZ\. yzz zzz rzzz zzzz :c- the Association provided me with needed • . :3 ::•': . : is :\ ':.: '.... "•• .: '. resources such as mailing lists and PR Last Saturday was the anniversary of the ce;T:'J"y,;A/3sts~; co~;::cssss '7::S:OL:VVO:':.S assistance. The Association president LETTER HOME Revolution. There were no parades as in past : . - ' disc : s . *.z,3 - proved a never-ending fountain of ideas The Letter Home is a regular years, no Comparsa bands with trumpets, ~ _-_ - _ : s'. - ::- •• .:... :; : and moral support. column where Art Muscle snare drums, African bells and electrifying insightful performances audiences have asks former Wisconsinites to dances, no flags strung from balcony to write and let us know what co^e -o expect tVon" " ess^i Nz>$ c I'm sure most of the folks involved with they're doing. This letter was balcony in the Old City. Last Sunday was the Gallery 218 would agreewith Mr. Frank's written while Milwaukeean "riot" or what they are calling the first mass statement that "art is fundamentally an Deanna Al-Khateeb (owner of street-protest in post-revolutionary Cuba. individual enterprise, and functions best the Stretch / Movement Some police were killed and many protesters Studio on Downer, where she when presented as such." And that is just were bloodied. Sadly, the Old City is now also teaches) was in Cuba. what Gallery 218 is about. Ours is not art walled-in by militia troops trying to keep the by committee. Each show succeeds or lid on the political heat. Fidel entered the Old fails entirely on the efforts and abilities City yesterday to deliver one ofhis passionate wavi thatthe individual artist brings to it. Only Dear Art Muscle, speeches imploring the people to be calm and i-l^'-.il the gallery space itself is managed as a It's August 13, 6:30 a.m. I awaken, my ally themselves with the government. He hooks arid major harmonies or the most salis- cooperative. The shows themselves still body aching, my insides hot and sore asked them to bepatientwiththe "economic fyingsort. f lostraining. Whaddyawantoutof represent individual endeavor. As a co­ from the inflammation of this tropical reforms.''Thepeople, exhausted and depleted a popsong, anyway? Clover, lilting melodies operative, Gallery 218 offers a point of virus which my body has been entertain­ from tiiewee k of turmoil, listened to his words, an understated and liquid sort of musician­ departure for new and emerging artists, ing for the past ten days. then felle n masse into a state of uncontrolled ship, the occasional lyrical surprise (cf."A G'rl as well as an alternative forum for the weeping. The tears of thousands, like like Paiti Smith"): Hearts break, hearts mend better established artists. I awaken some more and hear the rhythms water flowing for Yemaya, The Eternal You walk out the door, I see you on the street. from two stories below seeping under my Mother, the nurturing Goddess ofthe sea. Great, right? Sure, some of these songs are The implication that cooperative galler­ door and through the wooden shutters of my throwaways, just filling in the Wanks on the ies are for pie-in-the-sky Utopian dream­ windows. I hear the cracking thunder ofthe The God Hlegua manifests himself during a pop form But the best ones do ever/thing ers who shun commercial success is sim­ Conga drums and the waves on the shore Yoruba ceremony—wiry and agile, with right, and leave you humming for days onend. ply ludicrous. Rest assured that I myself sounding deep and resonant as the rolling tremoring shoulders; feetlight , articulate and —Nathan Cuequierre am a money grubbing capitalist who rhythms ofthe Bata drums. After three weeks delicate. I feel his substantial strength and surely hopes to profit from my work— of rigorous training here in Cuba with my weight. With a look of curiousity and just as all capable artists ought to profit dance teachers, I have absorbed the steps that mischieviousness combined with a cat-like JERRY GRiliO from their work. are peculiar to the Orissas; the Congo, the knowing, he spies my straw hat and freezes. This Funny World (Amethyst Macute,tiieArata,theGaGaandtheBaiumba, He takes my hat and uses it as his crown, Productions) If cooperative galleries indeed carry a the Salsa and the Son, the most exquisite dancing his dance, grinning, clowning and Viewing black and white movies on a Sunday "stigma" in this community, as is alleged dance of male and female sexuality. My legs rolling with the waves ofthe Bata rhythms. afternoon and listening to my parents' torch by Mr. Frank, it is a sad thing. There is and feet are itching to match wits with the He is the gate keeper, the door opener, the records, I seemed to hold a key to the meaning ample room in the Milwaukee marketfor sounds I hear; but alas, I've been put down one who knows thesecretword.Heis the one of stability arid romance. A chilled bottle of red both cooperative and commercial galler­ by this tropical virus and can only lie still whose breath summons and dispels the trans- nearby I found myself once again transported ies, and shows at either oughttosucceed while my head throbs and pulses to its own parentveilofseparationbetween the world of back in time with lerryGrilfo's CD "ThisFunny or fail on their own merits, rather than fitful cadences. Gods and the world of humans. As Ellegua World." His comforting crooning recaptures being judged by the managementstruc- begins to leave he takes off my straw hat and theromantic '40s atmosphere in °Speal Low ' ture of the space itself. I remember it's Fidel's birthday. I hear Rosa, blows a mouthful of hot rum into the center - r '- - fick ""- ~ ' : -- - —Richard Waswo my sixty-something dorm mother (also my of it. I reel and spin from the heat and feel The mellifluous lyrics of "I Chased The Sun' Milwaukee nurse and spiritual confidant), in the main myself dreaming in "Cuban," and I smell the intertwine with a warm candle lit hug both room with the TVblaring. To her generation, jacaranda, the flamboyants, the stunning transforming my room into a cozy srrn 4 •••. filled bougainvillea, the orchids pouring from the Thanks for the feature Fidel is a living myth; the embodiment of after hours '-Jul:. Grillo's torch tunes (including trunks ofthe mysterious Cieba trees. I really want to thank everyone at Art Cuban social and moral consciousness—he is In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning ) Muscle for the great job you did. I've the symbol ofthe great loving father who is —DeAnna Al-Khateeb and the rhythmic harmonies of pianist Dean gotten so many compliments on my both dignified and graceful. Somewhere in Havanna, Cuba Rolando, drummer Charles McFarlan and article. Many commented how well writ­ August,1994 bassist Stu Miller kept my feet in motion dancing one solo dance after another. The 37 r ; IN MEMORIUM t DAVID RYNNING 1952-1994 -rrzreCJ is ::.'/;: c.is z: zxzzz "us c s'o-cs. —Angel French ... one ofhis favorite motifs was a metamor- David loved the arts and supported them family that, as David once remarked, "spent phic bird-like man—a being caught up in by buying from and trading with other time together laughing." He'll be remem­ SUZANNE GRZANNA an intense yearning for flight and illumi­ artists. He took charge of hanging exhibi­ bered as a good friend and a fellow who The Cat's Meow nation... tions, and was available as an assistant really knew how to laugh. To many of us a /ear ago, she was Suzanne when needed. A dedicated teacher, both at Ger-Who? But buoyed on tides of local the middle-school and college level, he was The sudden and unexpected death ofDavid A retrospective of David's work will be publicity, Milwaukee saxophonist and singer concerned with each student. It was that Rynning on September 2 was a great loss exhibited from December 12 through Suzanne Gzanna has become a farniliai concern which landed him his job at Tulane, to the many who loved and admired him January 28, 1995 (opening reception: name to anyone in this city who takes any where he was one of three top candidates personally. It was also a loss to the art December 18,2-5 p.m.) in the Frederick interest whatever in jazz. The bfocl and white in line for a full-time teaching position. community in Milwaukee. A talented artist Layton gallery ofthe Milwaukee Institute cover of tier debut CD, "The Cat s Meow,' (approaching his prime), David died two of Art and Design. with its embossed cocktail napkin pas! of weeks after leaving Milwaukee for New Known primarily as a printmaker, David's —Maggie Beal cigarettes and martini glass, successfully intra Orleans, where he planned to pursue art- works exemplify the merger ofprintmaking —-J. Karl Bqgartte duces the sort of mood her music is meant to making full time while teaching at Tulane and poetic sensibility. Luminous in the evoke. Backed by such talented hometown University. manner of a Klee or Miro, they speak ofthe musicians as pianist David Hazertine and artist's imagination. Sometimes subtly bassist Gerald Cannon, Grzanna recreate; a Many people did not knowDavid byname, whimsical (but more often blatantly whim­ late '40s night club ambiance with smokey but if they happened to be at a party or art sical), they are filled with his childlike wisps of saxophone and her sometimes kittenish opening and heard his distinctive laugh humor. They laugh in the face of absur­ vocals Grzanna worts her way through such from across the room, they knew someone dity. He left behind pieces both enchant­ classics as "Stormy Weather," A Night in special was there. That someone special ing and challenging. Tunisia" and a collection of originals, most of was David. He made friends easily. He was them decent pastiches of Harold Arlan and generous and outgoing, and he held on to Raised in the small farming community of Rodgers & Han. friendships for life. 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Roux confided he had just lost his job with the #1 Swedish company, arid was depressed enough to consider going into the hotel LETTER business. But he hung around in advertising long enough for Stolicynaya Vodka to snare his considerable talents. Now he's head­ ing design decisions for that Russian firm and hiring young Russian FROM THE PERSONNEL NEWS artists to produce graphics similar to the "Freedom" ads ofthe '30s r NewforCrabner and '40s. Look for results ofhis sharp eye in future Stoli ads. Though EDITOR Artist Michelle Crabner has been hired to Roux denies he's venegeful, it's likely he'll at least chuckle over the With this issue, Art Muscle teach photography, drawing and painting possibility of pushing Stoli in to the #1 position. Stonehouse says he's in the Upper School at the University delighted over this. He considers Roux's advertising vision akin to magic. celebrates its 8th anniver- School of Milwaukee. She has also been .•JL sary. Time, being the elu- appointed the Wisconsin editor for the New Re-thinking freedom m sive commodity that it is, Art Examiner. Manager Laura at the Blatz Apartments on E. Highland, kindly mJ just seems to slip by in huge, declined comment on the recent art (in their lobby) flap, other than " silent increments. Think­ Marquis to Nebraska to say, "We have no shows planned for that space in the future." The ing about this span of eight Bruce Marquis, director of Fine Arts problem started when local artist Fortisse was asked to remove her years, I wonder how much programming at the University of Wiscon­ exhibit of voluptuous nudes after some of the building's residents the art community has sin-Milwaukee, has been named the complained about their content. This left artists who were scheduled executive director of the Lied Center for the for future shows holding their palettes. Artist Sally Gauger Jensen changed? A few galleries Performing Arts at the University of who had a September show scheduled at The Blatz said, "I have not ^ and theatres have come and Nebraska. Marquis was responsible for been reimbursed for any out-of-pocket expenses for my show's % gone—the normal shifting initiating and directing UW-M's Great Artist cancellation," and added that "unfortunately neither the Blatz Gal­ <^/ of energies. But other than Series. He will assume his new post in lery representatives or their management has taken steps to inform that, has the art commu­ Lincoln, Nebraska on October 10. scheduled artists ofthe change of plans." Ifyo u want to see Fortisse's nity grown, has it evolved, ample nudes, they're at Gil's Bongo Lounge. »*< At UW-Milwaukee, have focuses changed? The multi-cul­ Milwaukee Ballet the question of freedom again bubbled over when artist Thelma tural awareness has certainly spread its Melissa Horbinski is the new group Sales Wasserman-Friedman's painting ofthe late Will Rockett, Dean ofthe UW fine Arts department, was removed from a show at the request light into all corners of the fine arts. Manager/Marketing Association of the Milwaukee Ballet. She comes to the ballet from ofhis widow, Brooke Maroldi. Maroldi objected (on the grounds of Eight years ago, it would have been the Milwaukee Symphony, where she worked copyright infringement) to the inclusion by Wasserman of a segment unusual to look at a museum's lineup in marketing and company operations. of her husband's poetry. Hopefully UWM, Maroldi and the artist will and see so many Others represented. setrie things to everyone's satisfaction. Yes, the painting was re­ Now we've come to almost take cul­ Anderson named associate installed in the gallery for one day prior to the exhibit's closing, so now tural diversity for granted. Other First Stage Milwaukee's Theater Academy the question seems to be, "Who gets control of it?" changes: The crash in the '80s art has named actor Ron Anderson as Artistic market, the return of a conceptual Associate. He will continue to act with the The name game emphasis in the arts, a heightened company, and will direct the holiday Trinity-Guadalupe Parish at 613 S. 4th street, recendy collaborated socio-political awareness. Yes, in gen­ production of Beatrix Potter's Christmas. with Walker's Point Center for the Arts on a mural project for a blank, eral, there has been a stirring. graffiti covered wall adjacent to the parish. WPCA had received a Post in Phoenix grant to begin teaching mural painting. According to Assistant Nothing earth-shaking, but some Joan H. Squires, Executive Director of the Curator Kat Hendrickson, the project was the first under the center's low, rumbling activity that has led Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, will relinquish new Mural Incubator program, a program which will enable the to the broadening of certain no­ her post in November to become the new center to coordinate mural painting throughout the city. Businesses tions of art making. President and CEO of the Phoenix Symphony who want murals will contract with WPCA who will then organize Orchestra. Squires has been a key member of and oversee the projects. **• For the parish mural, WPCA hired artist Here, at Art Muscle, the eight years the MSO administration since 1990. Ammar Kevin Tate to work with neighborho od children; prior to that have been strung together from the center had worked successfully with Tate on a mural for Journey pasteup session to pasteup session. It Changes at MIAD House. A controversy ensued during the duration of the parish project that illustrates one ofthe many public/political snarls inherent always seems like it should get easier, Kipp Stevens, President and CEO of Brooks Stevens Design Associations, is the new Chair of in community art. WPCA asked Tate and his collaborators not to sign but it doesn't. Just when we think we the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design Board the finished mural, citing that signatures on murals tend to promote have the system down, the drum on of Trustees. Also serving on the board is new gang graffiti. They based their request on a Mitchell street mural the laser printer needs repair, the copy member artist Diane Knox. project which they initiated two years ago. "If one ofthe signatures machine starts streaking and innu­ reflects a name of a family involved in a gang, it stimulates rival gangs merable other variables cause us grief. Museum of Contemporary Art to deface (or tag) the mural," said Hendrickson, who added the Yet, when another issue is completed, The staff appointment of Lucinda A. Barnes as Mitchell street project was completely destroyed by gang members we generally feel good. It all seems the MCA's new Curator of Collections was reacting to the signatures. However, Tate felt that a mural is a work worth it, again. We are certainly at a announced recently. She comes to MCA from of art, and as such, it should incorporate his signature and that ofthe art collaborators. Against the wishes ofWPCA, he did indeed sign the point in our history, however, where the Allen Memorial Art Museum of Oberlin work, "Ammar and young friends." Hendrickson said the signature College, Oberlin, Ohio, where she was Curator we'd like more comments and com­ would remain intact, but felt that Tate was uncooperative in his failure of Modern and Contemporary Art. She begins munication from our readers. Our to understand the center's viewpoint. **• Hendrickson also said that her new position November 1. editor Judith Moriarty has been reach­ the conflicts between artist and organization began before the signing ing out to a much broader realm of incident. Tate's original designs, she said, presented primarily Afri­ Theatre X writers and contributors, actively seek­ can-American subjects. Because the mural was for a primarily hispanic Lisa Schultz, who previously worked at the church, WPCA wrangled with Tate over skin tones and colors. The ing to engage those who have previ­ Milwaukee Ballet as their Director of Sales and Virgin of Guadalupe, for example, went through several skin tone ously been silent. We hope the focus Audience Development, has been named the alterations and facial surgeries. All in all, the parish staff and members of the magazine is beginning to shift new Managing Director of Theatre X. came out ahead on the project. They like it. In its finished form, several to more diverse segments ofthe popu­ children are hitting a pinata, a mother embraces her son, a woman lation. It's terribly important for the Perry to Pro Arte dances with a skeleton and a man makes an offer to Our Lady of magazine, as Wisconsin's only fine art Effective this Fall, David Perry will become the Guadalupe. The wounded hands of Christ embrace it all. publication, to hear from you—for new first violinist of the Pro Arte Quartet. Perr/s you to share your thoughts, ideas and prior credits include being a soloist with the Chicago Symphony. The Pro Arte has been the concerns with us and the public. So as Beyond cheddar quartet in residence at the University of According to an article in the August/September issue of The we enter another year of publishing, Wisconsin-Madison since 1940. Independent film &• Video Monthly, the film program at UWM is write, fax or call. Let us know what quickly emerging as one ofthe most innovative media programs in the you're thinking. And please join us at Alverno appoints country. The writer quotes Professor Richard Blau, chair ofthe film our anniversary celebration on Thurs­ Erick Hoffman is the new Fine Arts Manager department, who says that the program is "part of a movement of day, Nov. 10 at Club 219. Wigstock at Alverno College. He holds a bachelor of independent media. We are fairly heterodox in what we like—and we will feature a wig competition, drag arts degree in Performance/Arts Awareness try to be generous." The article goes on to outline the "extremely revue by BJ Daniels and friends, a from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. competitive" MFA program, and graduate and undergraduate pro­ dance party, silent auction and lots of Hoffman's appointment will put him in grams that "encourage the mixture of critical studies with produc­ door prizes. Wear a wig and help us charge of the college's culturally diverse art tion—a happy and productive liason..." celebrate another year of Art Muscle. series, as well as the integration of guest artists into the college and surrounding Drama and dinner communities. Shemagne O'Keefe has been A new dinner theatre, designed to complement St. John's Uihlein- —Debra Brehmer promoted to Assistant Fine Arts Manager, Peters Gallery, will unveil a six-performance season in early Novem­ Publisher filling the spot vacated by Hoffman. ber. The theatre, which will accommodate 100 patrons and is located on the third floor of St. John's Tower at 1840 N. Prospect Avenue, is designated as The Richard and Erna Flagg Theatre, in honor of two local arts benefactors. "It will serve both the public and the retirement community," said Marlene Yost, Director of Development for St. (continued) John's. She added that "while the third floor space is Looking ahead Deepfreeze longresidencieseach program year. Info: Metalsmithing mag Frasquita has fled with the summer.formerl y from the Milwaukee area. not new construction, it does incorporate wonderful The Wisconsin Arts Board is developing VISUAL ART All media related to Midwest Deidra Lyngard, The Pew Charitable Curatorial opportunity for nationally Do-Dah blows in on the wind from A past wind whispers he had a stint lake views and lends itself beautifully to a dinner two new grant programs for regional winters. Deadline Nov 18. Trusts, 215/575-4805. distributed metalsmithingjournal. Info: Riverwest, trailing tea leaves. See-allas a soft pom star in the late '80s. theatre." Patrons will be seated at tables arranged for artists: a project grants program and a Southern exposure SASE: Center for the Visual Frank Lewis, Editor, Metalsmith, 2755 Do-Dah dwells deep in the region ofTh e steaming video will riseof f the four to six persons, and a new sound system is being revised fellowship program. They will Expose art lovers, collectors Arts, PO Box 475, Wausau, installed that meets d)£ American Disabilities Act re­ Auditions North Murray Ave., Milwaukee, WI Knapp. Not tell. VSretraveledthroughshelves , now it lives in a dull room replace the Individual Artist Program. and trend-setters to your origi­ WI54402. quirements for the hearing impaired. The 24' x 24' Vocalists and instrumentalists interested 53211. the world and time, to find a place in the remastering process... Applications available in the summer of nal work. Juried, all mediums. stage is currently being readied for American Inside in performing serious musical composi­ that hears me," says Do-Dah. Candles flicker and a wine glass 1995. Info: 608/266-0190. Deadline: Nov 1. SASE: Grif­ About angels Theatre which willhit the boards with "Greater Tuna," tions throughout the season, may audi­ clanks. Vampire cast in sculpture fin Gallery, 1521 Alton Rd., Need artists for Angels and on November 8th at 7:30pm. Dennis Gralinski, Presi­ tion for the MacDowell Club on Mon­ The moon is out and so am 1.1 feel and stone Tell, tell. October 22- dent of St. John's, said "A primary reason for develop­ The 1995 Intermedia Arts/McKnight Suite 313, Miami Beach, FL Wing holiday exhibit. Dead­ day, Oct 10, 7:30pm. Info: 961-7138. GENERIC witchy. Do-Dah speaks. I tip my 30, the Milwaukee Public Museum ing this theatre is to integrate both the retirement 33139. line: last week of Oct. South Interdisciplinary Fellowships are now tea cup and read the leaves. A good is having "Tours of Myths And Leg­ community and the general community. Unfortu­ Shore Gallery 8c Framing, available. Deadline: Dec 7,1994. SASE: Wigstock time a story to tell, yes? I see palm ends." Through their echoing halls, nately people often perceive the retirement community 425 Ontario Street SE, Minneapolis, All media 2627 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., as isolated. This is just one more way we can bring Art Muscle seeking used wigs for Nov trees. Florida? No. The palm trees ghosts and goblins maybe...Oh MN 55414. Seeking work: Art Elements Info: 481-1820. PHOTOGRAPHY everyone together." 10 benefit at Club 219. Info: 672- are in Milwaukee. I hear music on scare me, scare me. Thrill me with Gallery, 10050 N. Port Wash­ 8485, or drop them off at 901 W. the wind. Ah. The old nightclub, what you got or what you not ington Road, Mequon, WI Available at Artemisia Chill-out with Frankenstein Applications now available. Funded by En Foco National Avenue, Milwaukee, 53204. The Palms will be reopening in Most horrific costume. Knock me Non-profit cooperative seeks Double-dip on October 30 and 31, when The Paradise the National Endowment for the Arts St 53092; 241-7040. Slide registry applicants needed. Cultur­ Milwaukee. New, featuring alter­ out roll over and play dead. Most artists. SASE: 10 slides and vita Theatre, 62 nd & Greenfield, presents the earliest (1910) the Getty Center for Education in the ally diverse. Possible En Foco Touring Wish List native music, national acts. Brought ingenious costume Most grue­ to: Artemisia Gallery, Search film version of "Frankenstein," and the 1920 landmark Arts, for info: Arts Education Fellow­ Hot dish Gallery exhibitions, major exhibitions Walker's Point Center for the Arts seeks to us by the owner of a musical some costume. Wear them Octo­ Committee, 700 N. Carpenter German horror film, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari." ships, Councilfor Basic Education, 1319 Entries wanted for juried exhi­ and publication in Nueva Luz. Info: En donations of fax machine, computer Globe, to make its appearance ber 29 & 30 for the resurrection of Both are silent and will be accompanied live by Milwau - St., Chicago, IL 60622. F St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004. bition of casseroles and cov­ Foco, Inc, 32 E.KingsbridgeRd., Bronx, printer, answering machine and two- around All Hallow's Eve. I hear Nosferatu during Present Music's kee musician Sigmund Snopek III. Charlie Tennessen, ered baking dishes. Deadline: NY 10468. Monster Horror Chiller at MAM... president of The Cream City Theatre Corporation, line telephone. Info: 672-2787. whispered the echo of a band New York's Metropolitan Dec 12. SASE: Northern Clay Up north from the past. Regrouped, possibly Once I lived in a cave and stared which manages the theatre, said, "The presentation of Center, 2375 University Ave Work in all media by Wiscon­ these films is a rare privilege usually reserved fornation ­ Among those receiving 1994-95 Fel­ Against AIDS Auditions revamped for the opening. Just a into my stucco walls. Now I stare W., Minneapolis, MN 55114; sin artists for juried exhibition. ally renowned institutions." With the permission and lowship Awards from the Metropolitan Photographers and friends raise funds Sunset Playhouse will hold auditions for hint. Die... So Billy Joel was in town into tea leaves. I'm stepping up. cooperation of local film collector Al Dettlaff, the Museum in New York is Maureen 612/642-1735 or 339-6151. Deadline: Oct 1-15. SASE: through innovative programs that fight Blithe Spirit Oct 3-4. One minute mono­ and he wanted to taste a little Stepping as leaves swirl around my presentation ofthe world's only extant print ofThomas Kupstas of the University of Chicago. Neville Public Museum, 210 the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Info: Pho­ logue. Info: 782-4430. Italian at Milwaukee's newest pasta ankles and.. .Turn around, face the Edison's "Frankenstein," will be one of only a handful The award will enable Kupstas to con­ Into '95 Museum Place, Green Bay, WI tographers 8c Friends United Against place, Louise's. But alas, the assis­ music, do the dance, play the lead. of screenings since the film was first released. "The tinue research on late medieval devo­ Festival Of The Arts in Stevens 54303. 448-4460 AIDS, 105 Hudson St., Suite 208, New Murals anyone? tant manager would not him a Ex-Wauwautosa creature of the Cabinetof Dr. Caligari," comes to the theatre from the tional jewelry. Requests for information Point. Deadline: Jan 1995. York, NY 10013. menu take to his hotel. Rules ya night Joseph Cassidy, dances and Deutches Institut fur filmkundei n Germany. The fully Seeking businesses interested in murals. about the Metropolitan Museum's SASE: Festival Of The Arts, sings in the chorus of the revival of restored and tinted print features the German inter- Also people to house visiting artists know. Bartolotta's fed him well, titles. English translations will be simultaneously pro­ 1995-96 Fellowship Program and the PO Box 872, Stevens Point, DANCE scheduled for WPCA season. Info: Kat Gamberi e' fagioli and Tagliata di "Showboat" on Broadway. More, jected on a separate screen. For more chilling informa­ 1995 spring colloquia should be ad­ WI54481. Hendrickson, Walker's Point Center for manzo, prepared by sous-chef Dax more! He is now the understudy to tion: 259-9600 or 259-5122. dressed to: Pia Quintano, Education PRINTS the Arts, 672-2787. and delivered by none other than the lead. Hail RavenalL.See this Department The Metropolitan Mu­ Chicago co-op Preserve dance Felisha Bartolotta... I walked the city Fall I'm there I'm everywhere... Kg Apple anthropomorphic seum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue, New Juried monthly solo and group National Initiative to Preserve Prints Global mail streets of my mind and observed Your Place, Milwaukee's oldest Wisconsin artist Mary Hood's etched zinc book Can York, NY 10029. shows. Send 10 slides, vita, American Dance, developed Independent international print coop­ Global Mail newsletters lists requests the Gallery of Wisconsin Art Ltd. gay bar is forever gone, and a sign briefly up proclaimed The Doll To* Feel Me? was selected from 125 book-artist sub­ and SASE: Artemisia Gallery, and underwritten by The Pew erative seeking original prints. Ongoing. for artwork and text for mail art exhibi­ on Ogden, packed up and leaving House. Now that's disappeared and missions, and included in the recent Anthropomorphic Jazz pianist funded Search Committee, 700 N. Charitable Trusts, provides SASE: Prints for Peace, 607 John St., tions and underground publications. the area.. .Oh, do tell. Hugh Hefner Book show at The Center For Book Arts in the Big grants to non-profit organiza­ it's Le Cabaret Show Lounge. Swingin' McCoy Tyner will receive a Carpenter St., Chicago, IL Decorah,IA 52101. Info: Ashley Owens, PO Box 587996, recently bought a burial plot in the Apple. Hood also recently participated in an exhibit at residency with the Artist Series at the 60622. tions. Info: NIPAD,The John Westwood Memorial Cemetery in Horror show in an area of homes The Creative Workshop in New Haven, and is currently Chicago, IL 60659. Pabst thanks to a $18,280 grant from F. Kennedy Center for the Per­ Los Angeles. Next to Marilyn Mon­ and schools. Coming soon to an working on her Masters in Printniaking at UW-Madison. Parkside prints the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund. Not mainstream forming Arts, Washington, DC All print media and monoprints. Dead­ Interactive confo roe. Creep me out Creep in and area near you—stage specimens. 20566. cuddle closer, Hugh. Strange Hmmmm. Let's talk...Change the Prints in Paris The Series was one of eight organiza­ Materials wanted from writers, line: Nov 4. SASE: Doug Devinny, Glimpse the future at the Midwest In­ brew...Big bad Burt Reynolds was beat Marble twirls, a dance floor. J. Karl Bogartte will be exhibiting his collage photo­ tions in the country to be awarded a dancers, musicians, and visual Parkside National Small Print Exhibit, teractive Conference, Chicago's Drake I hear tell of a gay country-western copy prints in a group show at Galerie 1900-2000 in planning grant in this round, which is artists. Sendmaterials(descrip- Art Department, University of Wiscon- Hotel, Nov 10. Info: 312/988-7667 in Madison playing with a pig. Pig December in Paris, France. Bogartte has previously part of the larger Arts Partners Program tion, photos) and brief state­ sin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI 53141. skin that is. Seems he was making club on KK. The Three B's I dare say, two-step the night away. Yee shown his work in Lyon, France and London, England, administered out of Washington, D.C. ment describing cultural back FILM & Sapling Search a football video for women. Pass and his work is in the permanent collection at the pig, Burt, I'll run with it Chinny Ha!.. And Why Jodie? Why? Jodie ground and the evolution of Help artist Patrick Dougherty gather Marquette's Haggerty Museum of Fine Art. chin chin...Mary Fiary, bass gui­ Foster's biography was being writ­ Cultural grants your piece to: Other Voices, VIDEO 1 red osier dogwood and willow saplings tarist from the former Milwaukee ten and her lawyers are trying to Arts Midwest has announced grants Blue Rose Productions, 2736 WRITERS in mid-November for use in his Febru­ The Hopeful Tour band Chief Insomniac, formerly stop it I heard a secret too bizarre totalling $51,232 to organizations in Lyndale Ave S, #208, Minne­ A chair of your own ary installation at the John Michael Theatre X's production of Bode- Wad-Mi: Keepers ofthe Mona Lisa Overdrive is, I heard-tell to tell, sorry. Cry me a lake with the Midwest which are based in African apolis, MN 55408. Non-competitive Women in Tame those bozos Kohler Arts Center. Info: 458-6144. fire was featured at the firstreunio n ofthe Potawatomi from The Raven, working on some­ mist rising where the spirits American, Asian American, Latino or the Director's Chair seeks Film The University of Wisconsin-Madison is Nation on Parry Island, Ontario this past summer. A thing with the BoDeans...Glenn dwell... Wh at's this that is wig ging multimedia dramatization of the history of the Native American communities. Recipi­ More Woodstock and video forlnternational film offering an Oct 19 workshop for writers More trees Rehse, congratulations for selling at the bottom of my cup? It's here. Potawatomi Nation, the work premiered at Theatre X ents include The Latino Chicago The­ Art classes and workshops. and Video Festival. Spanish lan­ who are stressed out on the info tidal Volunteers with ArtReach to staff com­ your song to the violent Femmes. Wigstock; Art Muscle's 8th Anni­ last February. However, the trip north to Ontario was ater Company and Wisconsin's La Write for schedule and regis­ guage entries welcome. Dead­ wave. Info: Linda Jameson, 608/262- mittees and work at the Cedarburg not without its problems, said actor John Schneider. It aged in the basement of your versary benefit at Club 219 on Crosse Area Hmong Mutual. The later tration form: Woodstock line: Oct 14; 312/281-4988. 8612. Cultural Center's Festival of Trees ben­ Here's why it eventually became known as "The Hope­ mind for fifteen years. Ooooh...A Thursday, November 10. Wig out will sponsor a series of workshops to School of Art, PO Box 338F, ful Tour." «*• Prior to the trip, Theatre X and the efit, December 2-4. Info: 271-4704. resonating lamp post sends word wig up, watch for the drag revue play, teach and document Hmong Woodstock, NY 12498. New works organizers ofthe gathering (it was funded by Forest Compas from Madison's streets that the hosted by BJ Daniels. More. More music to share with the local school Small gallery at the University County in Wisconsin) agreed upon a $20,000 fee that Writers and Artists in The Schools Pro­ Aunt Martha's couch French artist Claude Carache's work A wig competition, dance party, system and the larger community. Arts Hiroshima 8c Nagasaki of Chicago seeking slides/vid­ would cover the monumental expenses of taking the gram seek writers and artists, especially New resale shop at 246 E. Chicago is being showcased at Spaightwood poets and performance art musings. Midwest has also funded the Milwau­ Seeking submissions for ongo- eos for West Coast, a juried show on the road. Schneider said, "actually we under­ writers or illustrators of children's books. Street, needs items. The shop will be Galleries in Madison this month of 8 p.m. Be there... Do-Dah happily* bid and lost $2,000 overall." That aside, the agreed- kee Dance Theater and composer Mary ingseriesofexhibits, programs, show opening Jan '95. Dead­ Info: Compas/Waits, 305 Landmark decorated with props from the Dillinger October and the streets are going ever-after, Kristine Kjos, buyer of upon fee was to be sent to the thespians well in advance Ellen Childs of St Paul, Minnesota, as publications and public art line: Nov 4. SASE: New Works Center, 75 W. 5th St., St. Paul, MN movie which was shot in Milwaukee, to come alive with Madison's An­ shoes at Ma Jolie and Pat Grace, of their departure. Somewhere along the line, the well as Madison's Wisconsin Chamber projects. SASE: The Peace Mu­ Gallery, University of Illinois 55102. and a built-in vault will display jewels in nual Gallery Walk. I'll be there. architect of buildings. Will-wed in person who was to sign the check decided that $20,000 Orchestra and composer Elizabeth seum, 350 W. Ontario St.,Chi- at Chicago, Box 4348, Chi­ was too much forFores t County to fund,but "that was the vintage-style store. Proceeds will be Garache has a picture that looks Toronto beneath this harvest Alexander. cago, IL 60610. cago, IL 60680. never communicated to Theatre X," said Schneider. Submissions needed used to help fund the AIDS Resource like my knee when I fell off the moon's magnetic pull... Congratu­ When the monies didn't arrive, (and the theatre troupe Writing and visual work for publication Center of Wisconsin, Inc. Info: 273- porch and Granny put idodine on lations to Novak, Mild and Paul, the was down to ground zero), the check-signing person Northern funded by Northwest Walker's Point in Shift, an art publication of critical 1991. it. .1 look again, a new image forms progressive band Lunar Chateau was finallylocated , and agreed to federal express the full The University of Wisconsin- Proposals and sketches needed MUSIC perspectives and analysis ofthe history of from within the art A naked man on your international release Ra­ amount at once, explaining that she had "lost the Milwaukee's professional theatre com­ for the upcoming Day Of The 20th century artists. Info: Shift, 220 E. ArtCrit on red bearskin rug. Ooooh to see dio waves tell true Poland loves mailing address." The troupe waited for the check to pany, The Northern Stage Company, Dead exhibt. Paint and a small 19thSt., #108,Minneapolis,MN 55403. Listserv, a list of art critiques, is available it the way I do. The leaves spin, you and more Oh chBd of the arrive—they couldn't leave without it—as they had no has received a $10,000 grant from the stipend provided. Deadline: Oct In motion on the internet by sending email to: money forga s and motels. It was then that they began twist and turn, the colors change, night speak on a cloud. Do tell all. Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation, 7. Also exhibitors for April *95 Three yearprogram that forms Artforum [email protected], calling the ordeal "The Hopeful Tour." They fidgeted kaleidoscope. Peak season. Take a Do tell me I see. I see. Witchy Do- national juried and invitational national alliance of new music in frontofth e federal express office until no on when the which will benefit the Summer In The Quarterly seeks art related writing. Info: orLISTSERVWMl. YORKU.CA. Put walk with me, baby. A hay ride. Dah has spoken. check finallydi d arrive. But that office didn'thave enough Park series. The theatre company also exhibit, The Spirituality Show. ensembles and performance The Artforum, PO Box 423, Moorhead, anything in the subject line and put Pumpkins...Telling of naked men, cash to honor the check. Inapanic, they called Brookfiekl's announced the box office revenue for Info: SASE WPCA, 911 West sites. Will bring composers to­ MN 56560,218/233-6676. "subscribe ARTCRTTT,your full name" no not that bobbing Bobbitt it's federal express office and the management kept it open the inagural season exceeded original National Avenue, Milwaukee, gether with presenter and en­ (w/out the quotation marks). Cato Kaelin of houseboy fame, "Another day..." I whisper. until the harried troupe arrived with the magic money. projections by over 50 percent. WI 53204, or call 672-2787. semble teams for three week- Galleria del Conte aeast side r

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13 Y.N. GEORGE WANG SOURCES September 9 —October 2 July 29 —September 2 Gallery 21 8 (hermetic) Gallery

Fractured photographs, sculptures and paint­ (hermetic) Gallery owner Nickolas Frank ings reflective of Y.N. George Wang's philoso­ believes there is a widespread gap between phy of life (at age twenty-four, this young today's art and its audience—so he mounted artist is still formulating his beliefs) made up a Sources which is about the process of creating large body of work which was exhibited re­ art. It's this process, afterall, that fires the artist. cently at Gallery 218. Wang, who is Chinese Frank hopes to bridge the gap between and a native of Taiwan, writes poetry (in process and product, and leave us to consider and question the familiar. Chinese) and has exotic tattoos on his ankles. Curiously, they were acquired as part of a Artists J. Karl Bogartte and Mark Fetherston work/study program at Carroll College where base their art on mysticism, Jungian psychol­ he graduated with a degree in Fine Arts. He's ogy, mathematics and a variety of music and currently working on a Masters in Fine Arts at literary works. We are shown, along with the LANDSCAPES The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. finished products, the source materials and Russel R. Allard, Arthur W. written notes which document these influ­ Bartkowiak, James Cook ences. July 20 —August 28 When I visited the gallery for the second time West Bend Art Museum to study his show, Wang was watching the Pack on a four-inch Sony television set. I asked Bogartte's works spring from a series entitled him why he had such a conglomeration of Splendor Solis. He refers to his collages as The distinct perspectives of these three land­ fractured art. "I believe the more things I try, "photomorphs," which is an accurate descrip­ scape artists resonated (like three small children the more elements I can present," he said. tion of his work. He becomes an alchemist, competing for parental attention) through the selecting images from Vogue, Elle and National Well sure. Of course. Explanations aside, the Lower Gallery of the West Bend Art Museum. It Geographic magazines. Placing them on a show was badly in need of editing. It was too reminded me of musical dissonance. photocopier, crumpling and moving them much, too soon, Mr. Wang. around, he transforms them. In removing The exhibition was intended to "showcase indi­ these images from their magazine context, and vidual talents of the artists who exp "irrtes Still, the exhibit was worth visiting if you altering and placing them in an environment themes," however, I found that the; . >uk ?ok the awkward modeling paste which he creates, he establishes a new reality. with each other to the extent that I on- and r assemblages with their poorly Fluid and graceful figures float and hover in dering why these three were choser -libit thou .mposition. Wang's photo as­ dream-like landscapes and surreal atmos­ together. Cook and Bartkowiak- oretations semblages were much more interesting, and to pheres. In his notes, Bogartte explains that the were rather traditional and corr itary. But my non-photographer's eye, fairly well done. figures represent Jungian archtypes: oracles, Allard relied heavily on the > However, they relied heavily on references to warriors, kings, magicians and lovers. scapes. His style, thouc : :cribed as a "door­ art history personages—Warhol, Jeff Koons, nFetherston's assemblages are also eerie; way to the past or to e 1 Cubists ; avid Hockney r :; however, they are darker and more ominous wasn't enough to justify the many pieces of his another sure sign of an artist in search of a than Bogartte's photomorphs. A glimpse of the work as "landscape" art. That was an error. "face. "The best ofthe show consisted of a wild s apocalypse where death, decay and destruc­ SZafZZgliiZWzzff:WS'-'fffB 'Z':-uii: ''zfffZfBBiifl grouping of day-glo acrylics painted on velvet. tion reign. In Bless This Executioner, suicide is The three, (almost life-sized) w Arizona They looked like Elvis-influenced Rothkos. the theme. Passages from Dante'sCanro 13 are artist James Cook, drew this view their : • - -t" style, with red superimposed onto blurry, scratched and torn content by sheer force. The painte- .. yellow p_ .. angling on them, the photographic images. They are anguished and was physical, perhaps even violent—a form of sixteen works were titled Modem Art For The oppressive. Fetherston also integrates photo­ action painting with a myriad of muted colors People. It was a grouping, both witty and fun. graphs taken from black and white videos in translated into wooded streams, vistas and In another fun twist prior to the September 9 his piece, Executioner, and in doing so, he adds forest. Plumb Creek certainly got my attention opening, Wang was wed in a private ceremony elements of movement both visual and con­ with its thick brush strokes which captured the ceptual. A map showing the location of the at Gallery 218, to Rachel Ann Nommensen. A frenzy of nature surging and pulsating town of Caledonia is pinned to the wall, huge crowd showed up to witness the wed- through time. indicating where the footage was shot. Pages

• Arthur W. Bartkowiak, a Brookfield, Wisconsin artist, viewed landscapes from an intimate and secretive perspective. His oil and watercolors j§§ were about shadowy memories. They included quiet glimpses of romantic farmscapes (July in Wisconsin) and swirling abstractions. (Emer­ gence Of A Landscape ). Bartkowiak's work, playful in its use of light and shadow, was best viewed up close, unlike Cook's work which demanded to be viewed from across the gallery

In contrast, Russel Allard's work was surreal and contained no twilight. It was a vibrant acrylic and oil kaleidoscope of reflected fire. He paints the moment at its most intense, m with a style similar to the dramatic flatness Biiipaiiiip* found in stage backdrops. This could be explained, perhaps, from Fetherston's diary record Kurt Cobain's through his affiliation with the University of death and the artist's response to that death. Wisconsin-Oshkosh Opera Theatre. An R.E.M. CD hung from twine illustrates yet \nSunset Dip a figure (female?) another source of artistic inspiration, as does a swims through the last rays of a wall-mounted lightbox containing negatives of technicolor sunset. From the angle of the the images in his work. branches to the winnowing of the water, Fragment, Self-portrait, Y.N. George Wang it's all quite serpentine. But in contrast to Sources was intriguing; however, I would have Cook and Bartkowiak's work, ding, see the diverse works, and dine on di­ appreciated a text panel on the wall, in addi­ this painting looked calculated. verse catered delicacies from Black Tie Cater­ tion to the assembled documents. Explaining Lacking depth and light, it spoke of ing, including cheesecake, a slice of which from the onset what the show was about " an "alternative" landscape. It was bridegroom Wang sent home with his art would have been preferable to reading nature forced. professor, painter Leslie Vansen. through the pages of artist's statements in the catalogue. Laurie Arendt Judith Ann Moriarty (Laurie Arendt is an MA student of creative writing at (Judith Ann Moriarty is a free lance writer and painter). Julie Topetzes the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). (Julie Topetzes is an art director at Laughlin Constable and is co-curator of Hit & Run, an upcoming exhibition 14 Art Muscle of Milwaukee punk poster art). NEW WISCONSIN PHOTOGRAPHY a plastic camera, Knight's cityscapes are charm­ found, if they've been listening to rap for the July 8—October 2 ingly mysterious. The camera's plastic lens past eight years. Reality concurs. Face da Milwaukee Art Museum ripples and softens trees, buildings, poles and Enemy's mini-drama "Retaliation," where streets with an unpre­ Reality and fellow rapper One Million blast a dictability which is a Glendale cop full of lead for pulling them over part of the process it­ in their Mercedes-Benz, might work as revenge r^^3P&^ self. In leaving the docu- fantasy. But what glory does that give Allah, mentation of these and how many stereotypes of justifying PS scenes to the whim of a gangsterism does that reinforce? toy device, Knight is None and plenty, respectively. able to render a darken­ ing sky and a walking In Face da Enemy, Reality references figure as suddenly mys­ the honor given African queens by their kings. terious. With his cam­ He and his cronies, however, have a tough era, Knight's city be­ time giving current-day sisters a semblance of comes more beguiling that dignity. As confirmed haters of what they than the Milwaukee we term "bitches" and "ho's," they compare their might recognize. weaker enemies to the female gender. Giving Reality the benefit of the doubt by saying the New Wisconsin Photog­ violence, misogyny and ill will in his artistry is raphy is much too spe­ fantasy fulfillment isn't saying much for the cific to give the viewer quality of the fantasies he conjures. Besides W an accurate sense of which, the greed expressed in his n The Garden: Anna with Weeds, Jake and Laura, 1978, Dick Blau what's going on in the rhymes may be true to life, but how does the vast, changing field of fantasy angle jibe with the reality within In a world where photographs are being al­ photography. That was not the intention of Reality's own ethnic and religious communi­ tered mechanically and digitally, it makes sense Bamberger, whose more modest goal was to ties? Maybe he who makes the art and main­ for curator Tom Bamberger to select images for present representative bodies of work by four tains the business should inititate a mental this New Wisconsin Photography show from art­ local photographers, each pursuing "straight" revolution of his own. ists whose pure use of the medium extends photography with varying degrees of success. only to silver gelatin prints, i.e. conventional Until then, the chasm between apparent and black and white photographs. Consequently, DeoneJahnke perceived Reality will remain obvious. the strengths or weaknesses of the photo­ (Deone Jahnke is a Milwaukee free-lance photographer graphs are offered without apology. Bamberger who recently celebrated the opening of her new studio at Jamie Lee Rake has chosen work from Milwaukee in an at­ 228 S. 1st). (Jamie Lee Rake writes about hip-hop, soul and gospel tempt to instill some pride on the part of the music for Option, The Source and other national museum-goer from the area. However, his publications). choices deny the show's statewide moniker. It REALITY PRODUCTIONS is instead a curious sampling of what Milwaukee's photographic arts community has Reality Productions is the umbrella organiza­ CHIENS ET FEMMES to offer. tion for a variety of musical and artistic projects Sally Kolf overseen by Reality, a local African-American July 1 6 —August 1 8 Neo-Post-Now Gallery Dick Blau's portraits are about family. In the recording artist and entrepreneur with ties to intimacy this environment provides, Blau the Nation of Islam. Reality Productions confronts his subjects, (who apparently tend employs others from within the city's black It was a bitchin' fun show. Sally Kolf's oil to shuck either their shirts or their pants as the community, provides example and inspiration painting on fake fur, pastels on paper, and camera approaches) and successfully depicts and has established national presence for a small embroidery-hoop paintings, had this them with an empathy separate from his rela­ harder core sound from this city than the neo- viewer in stitches. Not that Ms. K. doesn't take tionship to them. Particularly beautiful is In hippy ruminations of Arrested Development her work seriously. Proof is in the scent. She The Garden, Anna, With Weeds, Jake and Laura, and Gumbo. sprayed her portrait of the infamous Fabio 1978, where the protagonist in the foreground (aptly titled Fabio) with a scent by the same examines the flora in her hands, oblivious to Does the same rapper, record shop and record name. The spritz added a touch of the sensu­ the cavorting behind her. Birthday Break- label executive shame his hometown by talking ous to the gallery which was already filled with fast,1993, an engaging image of Blau's son positive, Allah-inspired revolution from one the perfume of dozens of roses in various Jake, is intimate and beautifully composed. It side of his mouth while from the other side he shades of pink. The overall theme of the show is intriguingly ambiguous in its sense of place. propagates a status quo that denigrates was just this side of tacky, and it spilled onto In spite of the spontaneous nature of the women as sex objects and sets cross-hairs on the food table laden with goodies in various images, Blau brings it together with an effec­ any perceived enemy—even men of the same states of rosy splendor. Spam for instance. And tive mixture of respect, affection and objectiv­ color with whom he presumes to have some watermelon balls for dipping into a marasch­ ity. affinity—with nary a hope of reconciliation? ino cherry and cream cheese concoction.

Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman are duti­ Herein lies the dilemma of appraising the Now about those art works which ranged from ful and ol e in their photographic records music and persona of R ortunately, jgrish oil portraits on fake fur (the artist ap- ofthe rock-embellished facades of a myriad of the quandary surrou 2S her paint with combs and brushes) to a metropolitan Milwaukee commercial and resi­ mon to the miieu in which he operates. dued (I use the wor i ly) pastel por- dential builc Unfortu­ r ~ulia Robe %e, Best of nately, this : :;. :.. •: Reality's talent. He wrc Show, i 994. They are best described as doggone becomes a repetitive collection of sar arranged, programmed and played all of the :\g. For w: . . the adventun. r can prints. All of whi e matted in wh mus lis new seven-track CD combine ruffles, chicken wire, lacy trims, and hung shoulder t alder with matching and cassette Face da Enemy plus a previous come up with the beautiful instead of the white frames. If Ciurej and Lochman gave any single in his own studio. His Revolutionary label banal? Even if she was yanking our visual thought to the qualit t or time of day in provi ase for other Milwaukee hip-hopj leashes, Kolf tyled for these formally composed and dispassi a k blues talent. He not only sells the opening in a it of spaniel rendered structures, it is clear in only a fev a street fashion line (of his ears) certainly deserv of Show for this the images where sunlight or the brightly own c t his store, Real Deal on North effort. overcast sky enhances the unremarkable archi­ 27th Street, but has also established their tecture. As in any "collection" these images are distribution nationally. I almostpoppedfor (at $500)S«sanPowter,I994. briefly interesting. As works of art, they sug­ The buzzed blonde belle of the bar-bells looked gest first semester photography class exercises Musically, Reality's sound is appealing enough. great framed in turquoise tulle. Kolf noted that in how to capture texture on film. If for noth­ The warmth of Too Short's and Dr. Dre's low her fur portraits can be vacuumed, which gives ing else, the artists are to be admired for their rider-ready funkiness is supplanted by colder, them a distinct advantage over Rembrandts. tenacious determination to complete the proj­ more brittle keyboard and bass tones, a more Kolf's pooch, the black and white spotted Spot ect. minimal soundscape reflecting a more desper­ T. Petit, entertained at the reception by danc­ ate landscape. For fans of early Ultravox and ing on his hind legs to organ music. It was Unlike Ciurej and Lochman's records of Adrian Sherwood's reggae productions, this indeed a gala day in Manitowoc. Milwaukee's stonework domiciles, Laird could be the rap they would like best. Knight's moody dreamscapes could be records Judith Ann Moriarty of urban life anywhere though the seasoned That is, if those folks can get past the senti­ (Judith Ann Moriarty is an Art Muscle editor who hopes Milwaukeean might recognize a particular ments expressed in Reality's lyricism. European- to see you at Wigstock on November 10). freeway overpass, church spire or tree lined Americans should be resigned to the sentiment street in his gauzy prints. Photographed with that they are the easiest whipping boys to be 15 oSMEOF20r

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'z9*i% error and the copying of conven­ With this issue, Art tionalized subject matter. To set up shop requires little or no capi­ M uscle celebrates tal: a wooden shack by the road­ its eighth side, some odds and ends of ply­ anniversary, and as wood, a few tins of enamel paint, and they are in business. Most part of our painters view their sign work as a celebration we are means to make a living rather than hosting a Wigstock an artistic calling. party on Thursday, Among the sign painter's best November 10 at clients are barbers and hairdressers Club 219. In who need to advertise a wide keeping with this variety ofhair styles. Though some barbers may actually paint the sty- theme we decided leboards themselves, most will to devote a portion order a sign from the sign painter of this issue to who will render a few "heads" depicting various hairstyles within stories and snippets the barber's range of competence. about hair. Hair, after all, is about Barbers and hairdressers differ in that barber shops (for men) may power as well as have barber signs incorporated into beautv, image, the structure of the shop itself, transformation, the they usually have several barber chairs (sometimes made out of a physical body, modified automobile axle and two perception and wheels, one forming the base and self-expression—just the other a swivel seat) and big mirrors on the walls as well as like art. It has electricity. By comparison, women served for centuries will often sit on the ground be­ as more than tween the knees ofthe hairdresser, so a formal facility is not necessary. 100,000 hairs on Hairdressers are more likely to be the average head. seenperformingtheirarton shaded It's beyond warm verandas or under trees near their homes, often seated next to their pates, follicles and colorful styleboard offering a vari­ papillas. ety of illustrated styles for their customer's to choose from.

By extending Africa's strong cul­ tural tradition of sculptured forms to the medium ofhair, the modern African hairstylist has created one of the liveliest of the sculptural arts. The names and forms ofthe styles reflect all aspects of contem­ porary African art. Both male and female styles show a similar inter­ est in pop stars and current events. Male styles are given names like "Tyson cut," "Kennedy cut," "ChubbyChecker," "Boeing707" and "Super Concord." Female styles may commemorate a "Four- lane Highway," "Eko Bridge" or a traffic slogan such as "Drive Bight" (a dramatic projection of hair to the right); or, more personally, "Face to Face" (designed to stay in Kaem-D'Art Hairdresser Styleboard Togo, Africa Collection of Ford Wheeler, N.Y.,N.Y. place while kissing). ; images that illustrate our "hair stories" are handpainted African hair Throughout the history of Africa, the adornment ^s supplied to Art Musde by Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Out- and styling of hair has been of profound social pHer Art, in Chicago. The signs appeared in an exhibition there, April 7 to significance. like body adornment, types of dothes, May 8,1994. Although in recent years these folk art signs have become or kind and quantity of jewelry, hair style commu­ highly collectible, the prices are still affordable, ranging from $150 to nicated rank and marital status, cult or religious $500, according to Jan Petry at Intuit. affiliation, political alignments or occupation. In modern Africa, hairstyles act as a similar mode of The signs range in date from the 1940s to the present and come from communication both reflectmgandfadUtatingsocial Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, the Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso. Some were culled change. from the private collection of Chicago Imagist painter Roger Brown and many others came fromFor d Wheeler's Craft Caravan gallery in New York For more information on African hair signs, Intuit recommends City. the following sources: Beler, Ulli, "Signwriter's Art in Nigeria," African Arts. Los Sign painting has flourished fordecade s throughout Africa. Painted lorries, Angeles, 1970. wall decorations, bar paintings, church paintings, political portraits and barber shop signs have turned African streets into veritable galleries of Bender, Wolfgang, "Commercial Popular Art: Signpainters in Freetown," Art from another World, Snoeck-Ducaju and Zoon, visual images. Rotterdam, 1988.

By the 1940s, sign painters in Africa had created a genre of pictorial and Houlberg, Marilyn H., "Social Hair," The Fabrics of Culture, graphic advertising throughout the country. Lettering skill was highly World AnthropologyT Moulton Publishers, New York, 1979. regarded and indicated the professional stature ofthe artist, since general Vogel, Susan, "Urban Arc Art ofthe Here and Now," Africa opinion held that any untrained person could draw or paint, but the ability Explores: 20th Century African Art. The Centerfor African Art, to letter was indeed spedal. While literate and able to letter, most sign New York, 1991. painters rarely have more than elementary schooling. Largely self-taught, they learn their trade through a combination of apprenticeship, trial and 19 B.J. Daniels is a Milwaukee hair dresser and drag queen. He shares some thoughts on his profession. PUMPING 43 WIGS Substance versus style Hair styles say a lot about people! If it's overstyled, they're probably pessimistic. If it isn't perfect, their life isn't in order. Other people want their hair messy and t h natural; they don't want to be bothered with it at all— their message is about freedom. UP Wig notes With wigs you can be anyone you want to be. I work Cheeks, Hips and Thighs: CLOSET with a woman who wears a variety of wigs. Perhaps a Notes from B. J. Daniels white-blonde bob one day, a marcelled look the next, or a Florence Henderson shag on another day. Every day she's a new persona. But some people never change their hairstyle—it becomes their signature. Like Marilyn Monroe, In 1984, determined to reshape my who kept her hair pretty much the same throughout her life. Keeping it the same was probably an order from her studio cheekbones—but only slightly as I prefer bosses. There's something tragic about that. the subtle look—I made a series of trips to Chicago where a doctor with a four During my drag performances, of course I wear wigs and each performance becomes a totally different experience with inch needle injected silicone into my the audience. When I'm blonde, Pm the ultimate fantasy-all sex and sexiness. Red wigs rum me on with their spicy warmth. They suggest a sense of humor, too, and seem closest body. It's a process refered to os to my own personality type. "pumping.* Each time he pumped me, he molded my face with his hands. Let With 43 wigs in my closet, I can pick and choose how me tell you, if you go overboard with to make an impart. Should I go with a short do— the stuff, you can end up looking like aggressive and powerful, perhaps "masculine?" Would E.T. Who needs shelves for cheek­ long wavy tresses be better forth e performance? By the way, did you ever notice that people with really long bones? Mind you, these in jections aren't hair seem almost obsessed with it? I certainly don't like transient like collagen. What goes in, the idea of being obsessed with hair. stays in. The silicone is absorbed and mimics the bodys fatty desposits. Milwaukee looks Milwaukee hairstyles have a "look." The Southside When Drag Queens apply make-up fashion is a teased perm with lift, lots of it, in the front. The Fuel Cafe look is unkempt, messy and artsy. That's they call it "painting,* and of coursewe really the look formos t ofRiverwest. The Eastside likes prefer a smooth canvas with no lumps. wet hair, slicked back a la' Europe. Slick, wear, and go, I only had my cheeks fixed; the minimal I call it. In the burbs it's the Hockey cut—short on the bags under my eyes are my own. After sides and top with a long stringy back. Or the Barber those sessions, 1 decided to get rid of a Shop Preppy look. The men like that one. The women deft In my dh»n, (though it didn't bother in the burbs go for a high-lighted bob with maybe a perm. It's very bland but popular. me) I needed it fixed to balance out my new cheek bones. Ifs like buying a Extensions anyone? lamp to match a new rug. Hips and With hair extensions you can get Jane Seymour power thighs were next. Prior to those treat­ or be a Rock and Roll Bon Jovie clone. However, ments, I had to wear uncomfortable hip extensions can be addictive. People get hooked on pads and layers of pantyhose when I them. Without them they loose confidence. I don't performed. And I was limited as to the know, they have illusions of looking like Christie Brin- costumes I could wear. kley, I guess. For real extension addicts, money is no object. One chentlknow spends more than $1,500 per year on her locks. You know, being a hairdresser is Uke I had 20 hip and thigjh injections in an — being a psychoanalyst. hour long session. But only horn the Bj Daniels BEFORE photograph by Francis Ford •;_ "front" perspective. They left me Rite-of-passage rounded from the waist to my thighs. To the kids, hair can be a rite-of-passage.The y see it as a big deal. They want cool. They want hip. They want to stand Each time the doctor injected me, he out, so they come in with pictures and ideas. They scrimp and save for the hundred dollar do. sealed the site with super glue. Other­ Hair culture wise you leak! Then he and the nurse The way you wear your hair seems to be direcdy con­ used an instrument not unlike a rolling nected to your culture. When I attended beauty school pin to shape and refine the look. Some on 6th and Wisconsin, I was the only Caucasian stu­ of my friends have had body molding dent. It wasn't long before I noticed that the African- that gave ihem an extremely voluptu­ American clients seemed to be really in tune with ous look. You con have it with ten themselves and open to exploring a variety ofhairstyles. I think it has to do with pride in self-image, along with sessions of 20 treatments each. I tribal influences such as braids, knotting, and dreads. wouldn't want that look, though. I like The Africans were the forerunners of wigs, hairpieces tall and thin, but whatever a person and extensions, you know. Consequendy, you see all of wants they should have. All of the the major black performers wearing huge wigs, weaves entertainers at Club 219 where I work and extensions. They just carry it offbetterthan awhite have had some type of alteration— woman with a head full of beads and braids. New Yorkers have better (shall I say, more experimental?) either plastic surgery or silicone injec­ hair styles. Ifyo u have to pay a lot forren t and other ne­ tions. cessities, (things you can't show-off), your best asset eventually is how you adorn yourself. It's a signal about My teeth? the/re my own—perfectly who you are in the outside world. Appearance becomes everything. straight and white. If there is one more thing I'd like to have done, ifs full body But sometimes I think, Who am I to tell someone what electrolysis. The only hair I want is on looks good?" my head. So what if you wear your hair frizz-ball permed and orange? Who says that isn't good.? And what about the The total tab for my cheeks, hips and litde old ladies with "bad" wigs? After all, if hair is thighs was $4,000. My appearance power, and they like the look, isn't that power, too? hasn't changed drastically, and no one BJ Daniels runs up to me and says, "Oh, some­ (When he's not styling hair or doing make-up at Signa­ thing is different." I love my body. I ture Salon, BJ performs at hot spots here and around always have. Now ifs just smoother the country). and rounder. BJ Daniels AFTER photograph by Francis Ford

: : INITIATION THE OLDEST Peggy Hong, a Milwaukee poet, describes her hair awakening. BARBERSHOP I remember the first time I became conscious of my hair.

It was in the seventh grade, when we moved from Honolulu, Hawaii to Buffalo, New Nathan Guequierre, a freelance writer and Mil­ York. On the first day of middle school, I slunk through hallways flanked by girls with waukee poet, recounts a memorable hair experi­ wavy hair in shades of yellow and brown. I seem to recall they smelled slightly of milk, ence. just like the color of their skin. Some ofthe boys were as big as men, and all of them, even the scrawny ones, wore huge, downish sneakers. Nikes and Pumas strode the On our honeymoon, we went to Vancouver. Trying to check hallways, along with wooden dogs that made loud dip-clop noises. Clutching my in to a nice hotel downtown, we discovered that we had no books, I stole from dass to class, feeling small, dark and foreign. money. Our credit cards were maxed, due to the wedding expenses, and we had only a couple hundred dollars cash in The first day of gym dass I was the only girl without a bra. All the girls changed into a very expensive town. shorts and t-shirts in the crowded locker room. The girls with the prettiest bras took their time changing, while I changed quickly, like a magidan, hoping no one would We ended up, of course, staying in dives in the wrong end of notice my bony chest. Once we were corralled into the gym, the teacher, dowdy Mrs. the city, because we had to conserve money. The old hotels Wagner with the unfashionably bobbed hair, assigned us either blue or red "pinnies." we could afford were the sort of places where one was I 'd never heard of "pinnies." Apparently they were loose polyester vests we had to wear awakened by shouts of "Knife fight!" coming from the alley to distinguish sides. The word sounded too much like underwear and reminded me of at four in the morning: real lumberjacks-on-vacation-in-the- my woefully inadequate foundations on that cool September day. big-town sorts of places. Altogether a little intimidating, but notthatbad. Thiswason theedgeof Gastown—Vancouver's I considered slipping out the side door to avoid further embarrassment, and thought trendy, renovated district on the harbor: ritzy galleries show­ about working my way back to Hawaii where everything would be familiar. The teacher's whistle startled me out of my fantasy. She arranged us like chess pieces about ing "Tlingit" masks and that sort of thing, renovated ware­ the gym and threw a soccer ball into our midst. I considered myself highly unathletic, houses, fancy Indian restaurants—but clearly in the loser and prayed that the ball would not come toward me, or if it did, that one ofthe bigger, district. stronger girls surrounding me would kick it away.

After gym, I hurriedly changed back into my H school dothes in my cor­ uL '•*-™''"*'••'*. ^Si^i^/^^z, ner of the locker room. Pulling my brown shoes on, I noticed a group of girls preening in front of the mirror. They had hair brushes in shapes I'd never seen before. One had plastic bristles going all the way around it like a porcupine. One had metal bristles and a gold handle.Iwatchedonegirl with a figure like a Barbie doll twirl her glowing hair with her mysterious in­ strument, as the others crowded around trying to glimpse their own reflec­ tions. Finally the girls picked up their bags and books and left in a herd for the next dass. I "Mpaebo" Rey Decor, Anoumabo Barber Styleboard J. Atturyuma Barber StyleBoard Burkina Faso, Africa Collection of Roger Brown, Chicago, II. stepped up to the mirror Ghana, Africa Collection of Judy Saslow Chicago, II when they left and for the first time, it occurred to me to actually have an opinion about my appearance. My On the street dividing these two quarters was an old barber­ fingers got stuck as I tried to run them through my tangly hair. My bangs looked shop. A plaque on the building claimed it was the oldest con­ bunchy and crooked. My part was a zig zag across the crown of my head. My dothes tinuously operating barbershop in British Columbia, having looked like they were from the girls' department at Sears, which of course they were. been there a hundred years or more. A neat old place, with Clearly something had to be changed. Suddenly I had choices and responsibilities a sink in the middle of the floor. There was a hand-lettered concerning the way I looked, and it mattered, a lot. sign in the window of the shop, informing passersby that the establishment was closing; the building had been bought up First to go was my babyish hairstyle. I wore it then like I do now. Parted in the middle, in the rush to gentrify Gastown and was going condo. That hanging straight down, with bangs. My mother trimmed it herself, every few months. Tuesday at 1 p.m. would mark the last haircut in the oldest I suppose she or I combed it occasionally. I asked my mother to cut my straggly barbershop on the west coast of Canada. shoulder-length hair into a pert chin-length style. I forced my hair into the only fash­ ionable style for seventh graders in the mid-seventies: mini-tendrils of ironed bangs Of course, I had toget my haircut there before the doors were flipping away from my face. How diligently I devoted myself to my hair. Girls I didn't shut forever. I was getting a little shaggy anyway. So, on that know stopped me in the hall to compliment me on my transformation. "I like your Tuesday, at about noon, I wandered in. The barber, who was hair," they'd say, smiling at me. It was confirmed: I had a hairstyle. a French Canadian with a Blacque Jacque Chirac sort of accent, was alone with one old guy. They had a bottle of Katie Horan, who became my first white friend, coached me on hair maintenance. We champagne, which was already open in expectation of the perused the shelves at the pharmacy for the best shampoos and conditioners. "Don't day's sad celebration. As I came in, the barber got up and put get balsam," Katie informed me, "it'll make your hair waxy. It won't 'feather' the right the closed sign in the window (an hour early) and said: "Oh, way." She told me she got her hair trimmed one-half inch every four weeks, by a guy what zee hell. You will be zee last one." named Dino. I envied her fine,feather y blonde hair and the light sprinkling of freckles that dusted her upturned nose. My hair was dense and dark, but as Katie pointed out, I sat in the chair and he asked what sort of haircut I wanted. it held curls better than hers. We all carried combs in our back pockets so we could I told him, "regular haircut; pretty short." He said, "I will give continually coach our hair into perfect waves. you a haircut I call zee wash and zee wear, eh?" as he pulled out the razor. Forty-five seconds later, my head was shaved I remember a black and white dose-up of me, taken just that summer before the seventh completely. He spun me around, and when I looked in the grade. My untrimmed straggles ofhair dangle on my shoulders, my lips arc parted mirror I saw Curious George. A scary looking guy. The enough to reveal my crooked teeth. My gaze is distant; I am unaware of the barber said "Well, zafs it," collected his $6 Canadian and photographer. It was only a few months later that we left the islands, and I learned to went back to the champagne. encase the buds of my breasts in elastic, strap my teeth into place with braces, and of course, acquire a hairstyle. My wife nearly died laughing when I got out onto the street. 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But even though Dimond was beginning to feel comfortable with his sexuality, he involved himself with a young woman who became pregnant and had an abortion. Dimond says, "It was a crucial turning point in my life. I knew we would never marry, and I imagined I was damned for my part in the abortion." To this day he firmly believes that abortion is the snuffing-out of a human life, but he doesn't think the right to abort should be illegal.

During his high school years, Dimond sought refuge in the art class­ rooms, where he felt free to experiment with his ideas while developing craftsmanship. He did not express his sexuality through his artwork. "That would have been too scary—too much of a risk," he says. After graduation, he and two gay buddies headed for New York, determined to enroll in the Parsons School of Design. When his friends were accepted, and he wasn't, Dimond says he was devastated. Theirfriendship, however, held fast and the three have spent many hours over the past two decades, discussing their gay lifestyles and how those styles fit into mainstream culture.

Dimond survived his rejection at Parsons and continued, without additional formal art training, to develop his particular style of collage. Recently, at Gallery 218, he exhibited his art for the first time. The work, distinctly iconographic, was ultimately about his life. Votive candles glowed on the outer edges of some of the pieces, which were filled with childhood pictures and mementos.

A sense of history pervades Dimond's work—a sense of freeze-framed moments. In a few pieces, small papier- mache heads from resale shops are attached to collaged nude torsos. However, the heads remain stubbornly de­ tached psychologically, as if mind and body were de­ LABYRINTH termined to remain apart. Such is the case in Apache Dancer, where an eerie blue and classically posed torso with a wildly exaggerated penis stands in a re-worked print of a Roman ruin. In the narrowest sense, the collage could be interpreted as a memorial to homosexuality. More broadly, it seems to commemorate the heroism of all minorities. 1 -J 1st nt Detention, a collage Dimond began working on while in the throes of alcohol and drug addiction, swarms with artifacts—lizards, spiders and an ashen-faced baby with a mouth puckered in a silent, aborted scream. Trapped and frantic figures seem to seek escape by pushing to the surface of the work. In Our Father, Dimond refers to fields of poppies, yellow-brick roads, the Reagan years, and the dogma of in­ stitutionalized thinking. ;

It was an annual tradition for Dimond's family to watch The Wizard of Oz on television, but he says, "I was an adult before I understood the symbolism of mind-numbing poppies and the metaphorical side of the witch and the wizard, which is really the age-old struggle between good and evil. I just store this stuff away in my psychological pockets and pick out what I need for my collages."

Dimond lives and works at his art from the top floor of a magnificent three story German Renaissance Revival mansion in the historic Concordia District of Milwaukee. His is an airy plant-filled world rich with antiques in various stages of being refinished. His bedroom resembles a desert oasis with its tent-style draping of elaborate East Indian bedspreads, circa the 70s. His dresser top is scattered with memorabilia. A sepia photo of his mother with her sister and some friends, is set near a gilded and rosy hued Polish egg, also from his mother. It's her most special gift to her son—a glass box containing snippets of his baby hair. His collages hang over and around his bed. The effect, both spiritual and theatrical, speaks clearly of his life as an artist.

In a sunny, adjacent 12' x 12' foot studio with a bird's eye view of a broad lush lawn abundant with spiky Victorian-style flowers, Dimond thinks about and works on a variety of projects. The most recent are upbeat cityscapes taking shape amid a jumble of used canvases and frames scavenged from re-sale shops. The cityscapes, which depict Milwaukee, are collaged from newsprint. Dimond says he's going \ for "a child's point of view of the holidays," and he hopes the completed piece will reflect happy times. He frets that his work is too melancholy. A plaster frieze of Roman legionnaires (a Gimbel's prop depart­ ment discard) rests on his work table, waiting for Dimond's final touch. A West Allis thrift mall find will eventually become a Dimond original. A two-panel collage about "women and how they are groomed,"

includes Charmin babies, diet pills, images from Close-up toothpaste and little barrettes that he picks [St,- : up on the beach where he says there are literally thousands of them.

Each day is a twelve-step struggle for Dimond. But he's moving ahead. When he's not expressing his life By Judith Ann Moriarty through his art, he can be found tending bar at The Calano Club, a social meeting place for recovering alcoholics who also happen to be gay. 23 Faced with public apathy towards the fine arts, the elitism associated with high-art culture, and the excess of man-made material objects cluttering our planet, some artists are seriously considering the relevance of object-oriented art making. Liz Was and Miekal And are two such artists. They have fled Madison for the rural expanses of West Lima, Wis., where they are in the process of crafting a Utopian art community.

The only commerce left in West Lima is the Pepsi machine that stands MiekalAnd, 37, (born Anderson in Wisconsin Rapids) and Liz Was, 38, (born ominously at the corner of County Trunks D and A. Abandoned farms dot the Nasaw in Long Island) are somewhat infamous for their Avant-Garde winding, narrow roads that lead here through the Driftless Region, a Museum of Temporary Art on Williamson Street in Madison. The "museum" geographic area untouched by the glaciers. The demise of small family farms consisted of a front-yard installation of paint-spattered TV sets, stuffed has left it a dysfunctional commerce center—one ofthe poorest counties in animals, saucepan lids and mail art, all mounted within a precarious frame Wisconsin. Remaining residents indude a few widows and four families, who work of painted scrap-wood panels. While some people thought it was each maintain tidy lawns and attend services at one ofthe two neighborhood brilliant conceptual art, others considered it an eyesore. It was the beginning, churches. however, of what would evolve into Dreamtime Village.

Three years ago, however, Madison artists Liz Was and Miekal And arrived to "We've abandoned the notion of art—we don't use the word 'art' breath new life into this decaying town. With suitcases packed and their son anymore," says And. "Our word is "hypermedia" which means taking Liaizon in tow, they landed in West Lima (90 minutes fromMadison ) intent everything we know from every media and throwing it in a pot, mixing it up on establishing their own village. Called "Drcamtime," the Utopian commu- and using it any way we choose." nity now consists of seven dilapidated buildings on 80-acres of land.

Photographs and text by J. Shimon & J. Lindemann 24 Art Muscle Dreamtime is a grand hypermedia experiment. It draws its life from every localized food production that encourages a typical household to grow the creative and improvisational project they've worked on since they met in food they need in their yard—an option to the neady mowed lawn that has no 1981. It's about installation art, free-form music, publishing and experimen­ functional purpose and wastes resources. tal gardening. It's idiosyncratic—a pastiche of theory. Ideas from Dada, Fluxus, Anarchist, Cyberpunk, New Age movements and Cactus societies "The reason the planet is freakingou t today," says And, "is because people form the matrix of a lifestyle that defies categorization. They have no dogma— aren't listening to the plants." So Dreamtimers are encouraged to study and except perhaps, that of chaos. learn fromth e dense exotic flora that surrounds them in the Driftless Region. r Was said that a recent case of poison ivy, induced by passionate, moonlit Dreamtime Village is named after the Aboriginal philosophy that "dreams are lovemaking on the forest floor, gave her and Miekal some time to stop and real and waking life is a dream." The beginning ofthe village is described by think about their roles at Dreamtime. After being bedridden for two weeks by Was as "a storybook thing " that made her feel like she was in a "strange" feverishly itchy discomfort, they gained new insights into their lives. "We must movie. An eccentric Chicago anarchist by the name of Stephen Freer had respond to what the plants have to teach us," And said. "Plants in a spedfic announced he was searching forjus t the rightpeople to live on land he owned region have information that is andcnt and intrinsic to our being. When you in West Lima. Freer, over the years, had purchased 46 old schools and historic start putting all of this information together, you can reach a new reality." buildings in rural southwestern Wisconsin, which he planned to eventually use for environmentally innovative projects. Those plans fell through, how­ Meanwhile, across the road at the Old West Lima School, six-year-old ever. And/Was heard he was looking for "alternative people" and met Liaizon (And/Was's son) picks through a roomful of thrift store dothes. with Freer in Dodgeville. They told him their ideas for a rural commu­ He's preparing his own Dreamtime vision. And/Was homeschool him nity, and consequently, he donated the Old West Lima School to their and they rely on his unencumbered imagination to guide the lessons. non-profit experimental arts organization, Xexoxial Endarchy, Ltd. Liaizon's ideas about space ships, radios, edible plants and elves take him on a rich intellectual journey. He puts together an ensemble con­ The school, it turned out, was a vast, two-story red brick structure sisting of a gold-glitter blouse, leopard-skin vest, plastic beads, earrings filled with the contents of a thrift store Freer had bought. It also housed and a black felt hat which tops offhis waist-length dreads. Clad in his a modern gymnasium. Along with the three-acre donation was a quonset finery, he gives a tour ofthe organic vegetable gardens, composting area, hut. After And/Was moved in, they discovered the school's walls con and his "potion" factory constructed from old bottles and a washing ma­ tained asbestos and the roof needed repair. These consumer revelations chine. slowed down their dream of transforming the building into an educational arts center. The quaintl920's dassrooms, with blackboards and wooden floors, When the mail arrives, everyone gathers in the Xexoxial office to inspect it. were to be a music studio, performance space, library, workshops and studios. And/Was have been intensely involved in mail art networks for more than a They optimistically unloaded cases of donated books, audio/visual equip­ decade and new mail art oddities continue to arrive daily in their mailbox. To ment and needed items. However, the job of encapsulating the asbestos and Dreamtimers, the mail is the "most important realm of public space," for it keeping ahead ofthe ravages of nature was overwhelming. Now, they focus has the potential to bridge geographic boundaries between urbanity and small their energies on immediate needs—their gardens, cooking and tending their towns. They also mail out Dreamtime Talking Mail, a 32-pagc zine (three more recent property acquisitions. issues for $12) chroniding their progress at Dreamtime and containing information on bi-annual village educational events.

And/Was bought the old post office building across from the school to live One of these events is the Dreamtime Corroborec, a month-long fete named in and use as their office and purchased the old hotel next door to use as a guest after the all-night gatherings ofthe aborigines. This melange of workshops house. Anarchist Freer also gave And/Was a four-bedroom bungalow and a and happenings held each August attracts several hundred people and features one-room school house with additional land. They use it as summer digs for Schiz-Flux"playshops," instrument-making, book-making and gourd-grow­ ambitious Dreamtimers who wish to work on the properties. Buying proper­ ing workshops as well as spontaneous performances and installations. The ties only when they become available, And/Was emphasize they don't wish Corroboree generates funds for utilities, taxes and repairs. And/Was have to displace anyone in West Lima. Last year, Was spent most of her substan­ been critidzed by their alternative culture peers for organizing these "pay to tial Intermedia Arts/McKnight Fellowship on the purchase and stabilization partidpatc" events because they cater to "white, suburban yuppies," who have of an imploding turn-of-the-century home. She hopes it will be inhabited the mobility and cash to attend. Realism prevails over dogma, however, and someday. the events continue, despite lefty traditionalist objectives.

A shopping cart filled with home-grown gourds is parked in the garden Most Dreamtimers must work part-time jobs outside of the village to outside the two-story, white dapboard post office building. A hand- cover basic expenses, unless they're collecting SSI or have trust funds. painted Xexoxial Endarchy sign is attached to the front door. Inside, Miekal serves as a consultant on an electrical energy conservation panel a Canon copier, telephone, a bank of Madntoshes and metal army- that meets in Madison a few days each month and works with the Very green file cabinets fillth e office space where visitors and Dreamtimers Special Arts Organization doing residendes in theater and instrument gather. Their "Hypermedia Apprentice," Patrick Mullins, of Chat making. Dreamtime dwellers Janell and Aaron commute 30 minutes to tanooga, greets visitors, fieldsphon e calls and deals with filing data. Beans Richland Center where Janell arranges cut flowers and Aaron picks apples grow on strings up the side of the building. Gourds, cacti and a statue of for cash. In the future, And/Was hope that educational workshops and events Buddha blend with the edible landscaping surrounding the place. will generate enough income to support the entire village. Income from com­ puter-linked cottage industries, mail order businesses and the sale of musical Miekal And incorporates the ideas of the Permaculture movement into instruments made out of gourds would provide additional resources. Dreamtime's tenets. Permaculture is a complex method of sustainable,

(continued] 25 And/Was do not compare Dreamtime to cults, communes or crashpads. They seek people with "a high tolerance for chaos and a tendency toward order" to join the village. So far, there hasn't been a lot of interest. The few people who have surfaced have been primarily young, white males without a strong commitment to place or community, who have spent idyllic summers there learning about Permaculture and self-reliance. When the snow flies, how­ ever, these free-wheeling dudes move on, leaving Liz, Miekal and Liaizon to struggle with the snow, frozen plumbing and their vision for the future.

And/Was envision an ideal future population of 50 people living in their village. Autonomous households will share farilities, took resources, meals and educational tasks, while modern communication and transportation tech­ nologies will connect them to other similar villages.

Was/And believe that for those with an open mind, a stay at Dreamtime can offer a crash course in basic ideas about life that should be part of any art school education. Working with nature, rather than against it; practicing organic horticulture; eliminating poison corporate food from their diet; developing financial resourcefulness; and being creative without being materialistic are the general goals.

"We're the product of a schizophrenic sodety. To that society, Dreamtime is a very foreign idea," says And. "But we're going for that idea. Liz and I have been together for 13 years and we have this solid energy and a long term commitment. We were meant to make Dreamtime Village happen."

Contact Dreamtime Village at Rt. !,Boxl31,LaParge, WI 54639. Phone 608-528-4619, e-mail: DREAMTIMEV© AOL.COM

Liz Was, Miekal And & Liaizon Wakest In The Old West Lima School, Dreamtime Village

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Handkerchiefs, doilies, tabledolhs, Wearable Art aprons, samples, quilt blocks—all are sources for her exploration of the significance of the Sunday, November 6, 1994 objects themselves and of how women have been suppressed by the tradition of sewing that has ...•:. . . . . ' •_ : : ' 11AM to 5 PM AiJRT" child: 'aW' ed nothing.* C Muse continues at JMKAC through Quality inn at Mitchell Airport 5311 S. Howell Ave. AVons Gallery $1 Admission, Free Parking 1501 SLayton; 672-3418 Now-Odoberl6 For Info. Call Planef Bead Grava Gallery Leigh Yawicey Woodson Art Museum Sally W Duback, Monotypes & Sculpture 714 N. Broadway 223-4616 1209 E Brady; 277-8228 700 N 12th, Wausau; 715/845-7010 Ocofber 21 -November 26 Now-October 30 Anderson Arts Center Laurie Bembenek: Chokes Birds in Art 121 66th, Kenosha; 653-0481 Reception Oct 21 5-10pm Annual exhibit of paintings, prints, sculpture Now-October 16 November 5-January 8 League of Milwaukee Artists Show Horborview Gaiety International Lathe-Turned Objects: Challenge V Now-October 30 1931 E Iron; 747-0422 Over sixty objects selected from Philadelphia Ghosts, Images & Other Things October 23 competition Perspectives: Bemke Serpe, Bemice Rosen & Familiar Wisconsin Landscapes Beauty in Japanese Quilts; contemporary quilts Betty Kidera Pastel paintings by Bill Gutzwiller, open house October 22-November 6 Mamie Pottery 50,000 Words in Pictures - The Kenosha News Haggerty Museum of Art 2711 N Bremen; 374-7687 Photography Show 13th&Clybourn; 288-7290 Now-October 29 Now-November 13 Encore; Mamie Elbaum, new work Appleton Art Center Restless Pauses - The Haggerty Museum Cel­ November 5-November 26 130 N Morrison, Appleton; 733-4089 ebrates Ten Years Dick Woppert, New Porcelain & Stoneware Now-November 13 Demonstration Nov 611 am-5pm Please Touch!; {hermetic; gallery Lifecast sculpture & tactile artworks 828 E Locust; 264-1063 Metropolitan Gallery Now-October 22 839 S5lh; 672-4007 Arfsten-Wanner Gallery Jean Roberts, Smirk: Small Paintings of Men, Now-October 10 830 S 5th; 383-6080 Women, Bugs & Fruit Ta Da; Milwaukee collaborative artists October 21- November 4-December 10 Equinox; Inaugual show, sculpture & painting PauiDruecke Michael H lord Gallery 420 E Wisconsin; 272-1007 Cedarburg Cultural Center Infernos Gallery October 1-31 W83 N643 Washington; 375-3676 1317E Brady; 271-7001 Martha Glowacki, Recent Work Now-November 20 Now-October 14 Whistling Moon, Contemporary Self-Taught Art America's Living Folk Traditions National Invitational of Wearables & Acces­ Folk art from Pueblo, Eskimo, Norwegian, Af­ sories Milter Art Center rican-American & other cultures National & regional artists 107 S 4th, Sturgeon Bay; 74&07Q7 Passed to the Present Folk Arts Along October 3-November 15 Wisconsin's Ethnic Settlement Trail Jewish Community Center 7 9fh Juried Annual Exhibition 6255 N Santa Monica; 964-4444 Reception Oct 3 7-8:30pm Charles A Wuslum Museum of fine Arts Great Gifts October 9-November 25 November 19-January 7 2519 Northwestern, Racine; 636-9177 Multicultural Art Gallery The Family Rosenblatt Flora Langfois Now-November 6 Reception Oct 9 1 -3pm Paintings by Door County artist; reception Nov The Object Redux: Re-Used, Re-Newed & Re­ 19 2-3:30pm invented John Michael Kohter Arts Center Recycled materials as artwork 608 New York, Sheboygan; 458-6144 Milwaukee Art Museum Now-October 30 750 N Lincoln Memorial; 224-3200 Constance Lindholm Fine Art John Snyder: Truth & Mercy Now-November 6 1932 E Capitol; 964-6220 Minnesota artist w/ eclectic influences Thornton Dial: Image ofthe Tiger "Angels and Wings'" October 7-November 11 John Pakosta: Nomadic Garden Self-taught artist from Alabama Faux Tableau Christmas Exhibit & Sale begins November 1st Installation of roses & other plants Now-November 20 Maggie Beal, Nancy Crawford; reception Oct Now-November 6 Dorothea Lange: American Photographs 16 2-5pm Indigenous Landscapes: Recent Paintings & Images by champion of common person Prints by Tom Uttech Now-January 1 ±M. Crossman Gallery Imaginative visions ofWisconsin' s north woods Ellsworth Kelly: Works from the Permanent Col­ UW-Whitewater, 800 W Main; 472-1207 October 2-January 8 lection October 9-30 Of Dancing Frogs & Aiiarwings: Animal Alle­ SOUTH SHORE GALLERY & FRAMING Pioneering abstractionist Elements of Style: Wisconsin Furniture Artists gories in Contemporary Art Now-January 8 2627 South Kinnickinnic Avenue • (414)481-1820 Reception Oct 91 -4pm Contemporary artists' use of animal imagery Dutch Paintings ofthe Golden Age: TheWesterdijk November 3-20 November 6-February 5 Collection Conservation • Restoration • Heirloom Quality rooU Silen Cerebralism Lou Cabeen Baroque works of Dutch little masters* Drawings, paintings, painted constructions Emotionally & politically charged narratives November 4-February 5 November 21-25 through needlework Tense: New Work by Leslie Bellavance Professional Personalized Service All Campus Faculty Scholarly Activities & Re- Martha Heavenston & Steve Bradford Milwaukee photographer & installation artist searchShow Works involving allegorical figure Currents 24: Stan Doughs Fine Art<^Uectibks<^mmTgs-Needleux}rk-Jewelnj November 28-December 17 Artist combines video, photography & sound Senior & BFA Candidate Exhibitions Katie Gingrass Gallery 241 N Broadway; 289-0855 Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Frederick layton Honor Galery November 18-December 273 E Erie; 276-7889 6801 N Yates; 352-5400 John Mominee, Conceha Mason, Sonja Now-October 22 October 2-21 Blomdahl Amenities American Indian Art Jan Yager, Goldsmith, Curated by Linda Examination of use of architecture & adornment Reception Oct 2 2-4pm Richman October 23-November 23 "Comeon a Whim," CuratedbyBarbie Bkistein Milwaukee Public Museum Susan Falkman, Marble Sculpture Reception Nov 18 5- 7pm 800 W Wells; 278-2700 Reception Oct 23 1 -5pm, lecture 3pm SINCE Now-January 8 Lawton Gallery Portrait of a Living Marsh Galleria Del Conte UW-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet; 465-2271 Drawings, paintings, sculpture celebrating Pol­ IG S9&g OUT 1226 NAstor; 276-7545 Now-October 9 ish lowland marsh Now-October 14 Midwest Photography Invitational VIII "HOME OF THE BOOT" Abstractions & Realities: Coffey, Handzlik & 53 artists from across the nation Neo-Post-Now Gallery Sykes October 19-November 13 719 York, Manitowoc; 682-0337 SERVING OVER 250 October 16-November 12 Fred Miller: Photographer of fhe Crows Now-November 30 IMPORTED BEERS Group Invitational Vintage photos of Native American reserva­ Fonnedy "Awrow & Appendices" BELGIAN & WEISS BEERS Reception Oct 16 2-4pm tion; reception Oct 20 5-7pm Prints, paintings, installation by Eric Lunde ARE OUR SPECIALTY November 18-January 8 November 22-December 16 Friebert, Nowicki & Rathsack 22nd Annual Art Faculty Exhibition Pete Gallery LUNCH SERVED DAILY Reception November 18 7-9pm 1119 E Knapp; 223-4278 Leenhouts Gallery Now-November 10 "WITH A GERMANIC FLAIR" Gallery 218 1342 NAstor; 453-6822 Remarkable Women FEATURING HOMEMADE SOUPS 218 S 2nd; 277-7800 Now-October 30 November 13-December 31 October 7-30 LIVE MUSIC SUNDAYS Jill Erickson & James Hempel New Friends, Old Friends/New Art The New Urban Anaditics 6-9 PM NO COVER Richard Finch, Gaetano La Roche, Richard Tay­ Douglas Krimmer, Heather McCombs, John lor, Todd Boppel, Gruenwald, Sayers, more ; 839 S. 2nd St 647-1910 Biersach; reception Oct 7 7-10pm 27 Piano Gallery UWM Fine Arts Gallery 219 N Milwaukee; 276-3525 2400 E Kenwood; 229-4946 Now-October 9 Now-October 9 Impressions of Nature: Dedi Knox & Card! Robert Burkert Retrospective Toellner Work of UWM art professor October 21-November 13 Plowshare Gifts Studio 94: Faculty Show 301 W Main, Waukesha; 547-5188 November 27-December 11 Now-October 31 Graduate Thesis Exhibition Africa - Art ofthe People Paintings from Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Zaire, UWM Union Art Gallery Canada 2200 E Kenwood, 1 st II; 229-6310 October 7-November 4 Rahr-West Art Museum A Collection of Friends: George Goundie Me­ Park at N 8th, Manitowoc; 683-4501 morial Scholarship Exhibition Now-October 9 Student Selections: Janell Olive William Keith Reception Oct 7 7-9:30pm 19th-century landscape paintings Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum The SILVER PAPER Gallery Riverwest Art Center 2220 N Terrace; 271-3656 414-273-7737 Overwhelming 825 E Center; 374-4722 October 3-November 13 217 North Broadway St. Now-October 15 Master Silver By Paul Storr, His Contemporar­ Selection Artwalk Preview ies & Followers October 28-November 19 November 21 -January 15 Halloween Myths & Magic Paperweights - Larry Schulman Exploration of the Day of the Dead holiday; reception Oct 28 7pm Walkers Point Center for the Arts November 20- 911 W National; 672-2787 RA LA LA; holiday gifts & artwork Now-October 22 Gwylene Gallimard & Jean-Marie Maudeh Seebeck Gallery Compassion for Sale/Fast-Food-Chain-Eating 5601 6th Ave, Kenosha; 657-7172 Installations including sound, writing, viewer Metals - Restringing Now-October 16 participation, videos Brian Paulson, Watercolors & Prints October 30-December 3 Robert Carlson, Clay Vessels Day of the Dead or Dias de los Muertos Planet Bead November 13-January 3 Mexican celebration honoring the dead; re­ J. Shimon & J. Lindemann ception Od 30 1 -4pm Holiday Jewelry Show IN/I IDWESTE R INI 714 N. Broadway Silver Paper Gallery West Bank Cafe F=8 E B E l_ l_ I CD l\l 11-6 Mon -Sat, 223-4616 217 N Broadway; 273-7737 732 E Burleigh; 964-4598 Shows through Sat. November 26th October 21 -November 26 October 7-January 12 J Shimon & J Lindemann: Midwestern Rebellion A Harvest of Oriental Watercolors B&W photos examining life on the fringes of Barbara Boehm, Hermeine Ehlers, Luanne Ehr, Midwestern social culture; reception Oct 21 7- Barbara Gnadt, Adrienne Hirsch VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVA 10pm cQ iw West Bend Art Museum Gallery hw South Shore Framing & Gallery 300 S 6th, West Bend; 334-9638 W 2627 S Kinnickinnic; 481 -1820 Now-October 9 Night f\oLte6,\ November 1 -February 28 Men's Sketch Club of Milwaukee Angels & Wings The Art of National-Louis University October 21st, 10am-9:30pm Salon • Gallery Angel-fhemed work by Milwaukee-area artists October 12-November 27 a Old Master Drawings from the Feitelson Col­ w St John's Uihlein Peters Gallery lection r—^ MICHAEL McVEIGH •** 1840 N Prospect; 272-2618 November 4-January 7 Presenting an eclectic Now-October 9 Built, Thrown & Touched: Contemporary day hJ "The World of Work" Dimitri Gaspar, Works on Paper Works Built, Thrown & Touched: Contempo­ acrylic on canvas blend of local talent October 16-November 6 rary Clay Works < September 20th through Sister Helena Steffens-meier November 30-January 7 Join us at 6pm for a gay old Reception Oct 16 1:30-3:30pm Friends of the Museum & Washington County October 23 rd, 1994 time gallery night, October 21st. Annual Exhibition w Studio 6 Art Gallery 4208 N. Oakland Ave. Cynthia Tilson Galleries W63N684 Washington, Cedarburg; 377- Woodland Pattern Book Center Shorewood, WI 53211 3178 720 E Locust; 263-5001 a 330 East Kilbourn Avenue, Suite 102 Now-October 31 Now-November 5 Milwaukee, WI 53202 • 271-8644 (414) 962'9889 Christ Jeutter Watercolors LaDonna Smith & Gina Sutherland, Sculpture & Hours: Monday—Friday: 10am—6pm Gallery walk Oct 7 5-9:30pm Paintings k A A A A A AAAAAAAA A 1 November 1 -30 Nancy Jaekels, Prints & Holiday Items Woodiot Gallery : : 5215 Evergreen, Sheboygan; 458-4798 _ i .J:-../- --.- - FAUX TABLEAU Third Ward Gallery Now-Odober 31 K Oavidsoix's, Inc. 221 N Water; 276-9262 Bruce Niemi, Sculptures .p r:p o r i t e ::A r':t:: Ad.:* ;i:#ar:«/: Now-Odober 21 Richard Hunt, Fabricated Bronze Sculpture Simple Pleasure, Positive Power iwfi-w Ron Turinske, recent watercolors Wriston Art Center Galleries Curator's Choice Gallery Lawrence University, Appleton; 832-6585 Bank One Plaza - Water Street Lobby MAGGIE BEAL Tory Foffiard Gaiety Now-Odober 23 NANCY CRAWFORD 233 N Milwaukee; 273-7311 Hmong Artistry: Preserving a Culture Now-October 14 Hmong textile needlework ANN FAHL SOPHISTICATED & FUNKY FURNITURE, Contemporary Handmade Quilts Edward "Rainbow" Larson: Fishing With My November 4-December 4 FLOOR CLOTHS, GROUPINGS Father Headland: Visions ofthe American Farm MEET THE ARTIST RECEPTIONS OCT 7-NOV 11, 1994 Jean Slamski, Effigies/Earth Portraits Examination of symbolic & cultural importance Wednesdays: October 12 & November 16 11:30- 1:30 of farms; reception Nov 4 6-8pm OPENING RECEPTION Uptown Gallery September 26 - November 26 SUN, OCT 16, 2PM-5PM 112 N Main, Ft Atkinson; 563-9959 October 1 -December 31 CONSTANCE LINDHOLM FINE ART Uptown Holiday DAJNJOE m. Bo* 11-256 1932 EAST CAPITOL DRIVE Small paintings, miniatures, holiday gifts & M;]WI4««, WI S32II MILWAUKEE, WI 53211 cards (414) 964-6220 :CittWirioDavidson 4U.27I.3J15 Alverno Presents :::•:••• 6,> locatedirrWdlker'sPoint' '-•>••? 'v- in the African Diaspora 2pm;$10/$12 'Amenities" 273 E Erie 28 Art Muscle November 4-6 Alice in Wonderland FlLTVl Lewis Carroll classic performed by Et toi, tu danses?; F Sa 7pm Su 3pm; $5 PAC Fal Cinema Series November 17-20 PAC: Vogel Hall; 273-7121 November Mixed Program/Kris World Resi­ Nov 8-Zieg/yd* Girl" dency Nov 22 - The Valley of Decision Premiere by World, Et toi, tu danses?, works by Nov 29 -You've Heard That Song Before, Part Fill Your Sheldon B Smith & Bob Eisen; Th 7:30pm F Sa U 8pmSu3pm;$10/$8 12:30pm; $2

Foikdance Internationals UWM Community Media Project Hardt Hall, 7500 W North; 871 -2708 UWM Union Theatre; 229-2931 Experience not required; Wednesdays 7:30pm Friday Night Feature Series Oct 7 & 8 - Alma's Rainbow International Recreational Dancing 7pm; $3 y. mi Muellner Hall, 7300 Chestnut, Wauwatosa; 662-2293 World Cinema in the UWM Union Theatre No partner required; Tuesdays 7:30-1 Opm, 2200 E Kenwood; 229-4070 Cocktails • Alternative Music Life With introductory dancing 6:30pm; $2 Oct 4 - Enough is Enough-Time for the Sellout; 12:30pm; J Day The Milwaukee Poetry Slam Milwaukee BaBet Oct 5 - Word from /he Joint PAC: Uihlein Hall; 273-7206 Oct 6 - Dandy [with director Peter Sempel) every 2nd and 4th Wednesday October 27-30 Oct 12- Warrior Marks, followed by Defend­ Les Syiphides, Allegro Brillante, Remembrances, ing Our Lives of the month at 8:30pm HarvestMoon OcrU-TheBestoflheNewYorkUnderground Repertory evening of dassical and dramatic Film Festival 706 E. Lyon Street • 347-9972 dance, George Balanchine, and big band-era; Oct 14-15- Two Small Bodies Th 7:30pm F 8pm Sa 1:30 & 8pm Su 1:30 & Oct 20 -Super 8 1/2 Art. 7pm; $9-$51 Oct 21 -22-/, the Worst of AS Oct 27 - The Wild World ofHasil Adkins, fol­ UWM Dance Program lowed by Sleazy Rider r Chamber Dance Theatre, Mitchell Hall 254, Oct 28-29 - The Man Wikouta World 0R LUNCH FOR DINNER Nov 3-4 - Bosna! 3203 N Downer; 229-4308 FOR FUN November 18 Nov 10-11 - The Life &Times ofAllen Ginsberg Ruth Zapora, Action Theatre 7pm unless otherwise noted; $4/$3 Read It. 8pm; $13 5? UWM Great Artist Series THE CENTRAL GRILL Art Muscle Magazine Pabst Theater, 144 E Wells; 229-4308 LECTURES ^ October 28 STEAK HOUSE 6/// T Jones/Amie Zone Dance Company. Still/ subscription For two full years. Here Cardinal Srrilch College New multi-media work dealing with surviving Cardinal Lounge, 6801 N Yates; 352-5400 SOPHISTICATED AMBIANCL AIDS, cancer; 8pm; $26/$22 November 11 • November 5 The New Age Movement: Its Origins & Chal­ AFTER THE THEATER The Whid'mg Dervishes of Turkey lenges 24 Mevlevi Muslim dancers & musicians; 8pm; Lecture by Rev Kenneth Omemkk; 9am; free FOR DESSERT FOR COFFEE $24/420 Drink From It. Jewish Community Center Weidner Center 6255 N Santa Monica; 276-8842 UW-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet; 465-2726 October6 223-4745 Art Muscles limited Oct 18 - Btil TJones/Amie Zone Dance Com­ MCT Viewpoints: "You Think Thafs Funny?!' 316 NORTH MILWAUKEE ST pany: "Still/Here" Satire & the American Jewish FamSy; a look at Nov 8 - The David Parsons Dance Company the plays of difford Odets & Neil Simon edition coffee mug with the Btily Taylor Trio Lecture & discussion related to Milwaukee Reservations Accepted and Encouraged 7:30pm; $24/$20 Chamber Theatre production. Lost 'm Yonkers; Private Party Space Available "Hermetic Dreamer" signed 7pm; free Wild Space Dance Company Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N Broadway; Milwaukee Art Museum by the artist, Marvin Hill. 291-7800 750 N Lincoln Memorial; 224-3200 November 3 & 4 Gallery Talks Fall Back/Looking Forward Oct 11 - CAS Auction Preview Debra Laewen, new works, Bill Young, In Calm Oct 25 -Ellsworth Kelly m Time Nov 8 - Dutch Paintings ofthe Golden Age Nov 22 - Currents 24: Stan Douglas 1:30pm; free w/ museum admission Be A Part Of It. October 6 Jj Sltim 5TBEET Lawrence Majewski Art Muscle will include Conservator & art expert speaks on famous art 818 SOUTH SECOND STREET; 383 3211 forgeries; 6:15pm; free w/ museum admission Annual Junior League Tour of Homes • Sunday Packer Brunch your name on the masthead 289-9532 UWM Center for 20nVCenlury Studies • Yard Beer (Join the club!) Odober7&8 Curtin Hall, 3243 N Downer; 229-4454 • Specialties & Imports for two years. 10am-4pm Claims of Ethics Lecture Series • Food Served Tues-Sun Oct]3&]4-TobyMiller,"TheTrvihisaMurky 11:30am—Close Cedarburg Gallery Wale Pafh: Peru & US Citizenship through TV & • Specializing in Cajun Cedarburg Cultural Center, W62N546 Wash­ "HistroicaU Citizenship & the Fremanie Prison ST. Island Items ington; 375-3676 Follies' • Visa & Mastercard Accepted Odober7 Oct 28 - Barbara Stafford, "The Aesthetics of • Satellite T.V. Tour of 11 galleries; 5-9:30pm; free Medical Ethics" • Friday Fish Fry Nov 18 - Arjun Appadurai, "The Prosthetic Holiday Fake Gift" & Carol Breckinridge, "Global Culture & Waldorf School of Milwaukee, 718 E Pleasant; Public Culture," 2pm "Great sandwiches, good 272-7727 3:30pm, unless otherwise noted; free brew and a slice of Milwaukee's November 19 & 20 past are on tap at the friendly Crafts, puppet show, more; Sa 10am-4pm Su Fritz's on Second..." noon-4pm; $2 —Willard Romantini, Milwaukee Magazine

Holiday Folc Fair Mecca, 500 W Kilbourn; 225-6225 November 18-20 Audubon Court Books F 5-1 lpm Sa llam-llpm Su 11am-9pm; 383 W Brown Deer Rd; 351 -9140 $7.50/$5.50 Poetry Readings Oct 6 - Judy Jackson, Joshua Kesseknan, Do­ Milwaukee Art Museum rothy Westing, David Drake Be A Friend. 750 N Lincoln Memorial; 224-3200 Nov 3 - Marilyn Taylor, Book Release Party First Friday Each night concludes with open mike; 7pm; free Mail your $50 check today Oct 7 - College Night wirfi the dams Author Sign'mgs Nov 4 - New Member Birthday Party with The Oct 4 - Mary Gardner, 8pm Michael Drake Band Oct 5 - Warren Eckstein^ 7pm with your name, address, Hors d'oeuvres, cash bar, gallery tours; 5:30pm; Oct 7 - Rick Telander, 8pm $7/$5 Oct 10 - Cathy Davidson; 7:30pm city & zip to: Oct 17 - Marc Brown; 9am Wigstock Oct 19 - Lome Moore; 7:30pm Club 219, 219 S 2nd; 672-8485 Oct 21 - Michael Norman; 8pm Art Muscle Magazine November 10 Oct 22 - A Manette Ansay, 1 pm Fundraiser for Art Muscle, drag revue, wig Oct 25 - Pete Fromm; 8pm 9011 National Ave competiton, dance party; 8pm; $8 Oct 29 - Joan Wester, 1 pm Nov 2 - Beatrice Ojakangas; 4pm Nov 5 - Lucia Watson & Beit Dooley, 1 pm Milwaukee, WI 53204 Nov 7 - Michelle Cliff, 8pm Nov 8 - Dan Jansen; noon Nov 14- Jeff Moss; 2pm Free 29 OU T THERE

Travels to the Father-land

In his newest work, Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society, author John Edgar Wideman journeys with his father to both a red and a symbolic Promised Land, o place where, he writes, "ideas of manhood, true and transforming, grow out of private, 1 personal exchanges between fathers and sons.' Wideman's lyrical occount of traveling with his SERVICES SALONS father, who has been estranged from his wife (and, in effect, from Wideman) for more than also on the racial paradigm in America that 'stands between block fathers and sons, impeding communication, frustrating development, killing or destroying the natural process of growth, maturity, the cycle of the generations.' Mifwoulceeans can hear Wideman's story firsthand when the two-time PEN/Faulkner Award-winner reads from Fatheralong on Friday, October 21 at 7 pm in Centennial Hall, 733 N. 8lh. Wideman, who also outhored Sent For You Yesterday and Philadelphia Fire speaks as part of the Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops Readers to Writers Series. Call 274-8680 for more information.

Cafe Melange The Coffee House 720 Old World Third; 291 -9889 631 N19th;744-FOLK Mondays Oct 7 - Tribute to Music of John Prine & Steve Poet's Monday Goodman; $2 plus 2 cans of food Open mike & featured acts; 8:45pm Oct 8-Hugo Oct 14 -Open Stage; $1 ART Cardinal Stritch College Oct 15 - Joseph TRuback & Friends ri2AA4ING/G4J_LECy Cardinal Lounge, 6801 N Yates; 352-5400 Oct 21 - Chris Powers w/ Sandy Stehling October 28 Oct22- Fred&Ehel WHERE CREATIVITY & Maurice Kihvein-Guevara, Poetry Reading Oct 28- Bill Murtaugh QUALITY GO HAND IN HAND ARTISTRY 8pm; free Oct 29 - Larry Penn w/ Linda Beck SPECIALIZING IN: Oct 30 - Open Stage; 7:30pm; $1 • Custom Framing • Posters 1 Museum Archival Framing • Prints People's Books 8:30 pm, $3 unless otherwise noted -J Needlepoint Framing • Limited Editions 3512 N Oakland; 962-0575 Mention this ad & receive a free October 13 Daily's magnet frame while supplies last! STUDIO-GALLERY Li'l Rev w/ Jean Dean, Faye Jackson, Yamel 4001 N Oakland; 351 -9140 November 10 Fridays & Saturdays FOX POINT SHOPPING CTR. Pottery, Paintings, Jewelry, Fibers, Writers' Harvest, Share Our Strength Jazz piano, guitar, folk music; 7pm; free 6936 N. SANTA MONICA BLVD. Childrens Books, Cards & much more 351-1320 Angela Peckenpaugh, Brett Kemnitz, Lynn 833 E. Center St. Milw. 53212 Shoemaker, Reggie Finlayson, Andrea Polos; Early Musk Now 414-372-3372 8pm; preceded by open stage at 7:15pm 225-3113 PAVILION AT MEQUON 10972 N. PORT WASHINGTON RD. Tues-Fri 2-5p.m. Sat ll-5p.m. October7 241-5008 R'rverwest Art Center The King's Noyse 825 E Center; 374-4722 Boston-based Renaissance violin band; 7:30pm; HSf- HOURS: M-F, 10-5:30 2nd & 4th Fridays $20/$l 8; All Saints Cathedral, 818 E Juneau Avobtfcn 5/ .. Words & Music November 5 Poetry & acoustic music; 8pm; free Flanders Recorder Quartet Echmtgie'd, Keep,. Group uses more than 60 instruments; 5pm; Schwartz Bookshops $20/$l 8; Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N "BookLouers" ART MUSEUM 274-8680 Broadway A bi-monthly magazine for avid 4093 N Oakland: Appt'ff. (J4lli)637-!t3$3§p Oct 3 - Denise Chavez; 7pm Festival City Symphony readers, book discussion groups, Oct 4 - Anne Lamolt; 7pm Milwaukee Art Museum, 750 N Lincoln Me­ and writers. Includes book Oct 12 - Tim O'Brien; 7pm morial; 963-9067 reviews, readers' opinions, Oct 14 -Copper Canyon Poets: Marvin Bell & Pajama Jamboree unique book store profiles, book Nov] -Let's Meet Mozart Richard Jones; 8pm group profiles, reading lists, Oct 17- HarveyPekar&JoyceBrabner, 7pm Nov 29 - A dassic Holiday Paul Oruecke Oct 23 - Renee Graef, 11 am 7pm; free w/ food donation original writing, and more. 209 E Wisconsin: ONE YEAR SUBSCRIPTION: $14.00. Oct 11 - Alice Munro; 5:30pm Florentine Opera SINGLE ISSUE: $2.75. StartFINISH: Oct 25 - Nick Tosches; 5:30pm PAC: Uihlein Hall; 273-7206 BookLovers, P.O. Box 93485 17145 WBluemound: November 11-13 Milwaukee, WI 53203-0485 ivolution of a Circle Oct 11 - Terry Kay, 7pm Elektra Oct 17 - Marc Brown; 7pm Based on classic Greek play, king's daughter Nov. 4-Dec. 10 Oct 20 - Lome Moore; 7pm seeks to avenge his murder; F Sa 8pm Su Oct 22 - Renee Graef, 1 pm 2:30pm; $17-$75 Centennial Hall, 733 N 8th: White iffift ^ Oct 21 - John Edgar Wideman; 7pm Gasthous Zur Krone hermetic 10976 NPt Washington: 839 S 2nd; 647-1910 Buffalo ^** '.ocust • 264-1063 Oct 21 -AManetteAnsay,7pm Live Music Oct 22 -Renee Greer; 11 am Oct 6 - Pre-Oktoberies) Party w/ The Ghostly Free Trio Intertribal Store RENTAL Oct 8 - Concertina, 1:30pm; RoS'ie Broun, Come see our selection of Stretch Movement Studio Zimennan, 4pm Native American jewelry, 2625 N Downer; 961 -2524 Oct 9 - German Folk Trio; 6:30pm; Folk blankets, kachinas, tapes Saturdays Dancers, 9pm; Concertina; 10pm & CDs, cards, posters, —FOR RENT— What / Really Want to Say Oct 16-The Mosfeys lances, and shields Prime Commercial Space in Writing workshop foral l levels; 11:45am Oct 23 - Bam Doors or Fuschia Boys Milwaukee's "Historic Third Ward" Oct 27 - Roll'ie Broun, Zimerman We Now Carry 6,500 sq ft (dividable) • Suitable Y-Notl Oct 30 -Bucket ofBalls for studio, galleries, crafters, etc. 706 E Lyon; 347-9972 6pm unless otherwise noted; free Buffalo Meat! 2nd & 4th Wednesdays Tue.Thu, Sat 10-6 414-461-0196 Poetry Slam Lawrence University Wed, Fri 10-8 546-4428 Open mike & featured ads, then poetry slam; Memorial Chapel, Appleton; 832-6585 Mon: closed 7629 W. Becher 8:30pm; $2 November 4 Sun: 12-5 2 blocks north of Lincoln Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra RESTAU RANTS 7:30pm; $14-$18 November 11 MUSIC Joe Henderson Trio Alexander and Radmila Radicevjch's Jazz saxophonist; 7:30pm; $12-$l 7 $ANTA AVAILABLE November 12 Audubon Court Books Jon Hendricks & Company FOR PARTIES, ETC. iid 383 W Brown Deer; 351 -9140 Pioneer of vocalese; 7:30pm; $12-$15 Alia Levin, Classical Piano 264-3133 M&Th 6-10pm; free Metropolitan Opera Auditions Established 1971 Zoya Makhl'ma, Classical Piano Carroll College, Shattuck Auditorium, 100 N Su, Tu, W 6-10pm, Sun noon-4pm East, Waukesha; 786-7642 SERBIAN Jazz piano, guitar October 22; 10:30am; free GOURMET F & Sa 7:30pm; free HOUSE Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra Boemer Botanical Gardens Oriental Theater, 2230 N Farwell; 744-8866 "A Delightful Experience" 5879 S 92nd; 425-1130 October 6 for lunch or dinner Outdoor Garden Concerts The Circus; Orchesta accompanies dassic Selected wines, liquors, Bring picnic, lawn chairs; 6pm; free Chaplin film; 7:30pm and homemade desserts CUSTOM FRAMING Strolling string music CatePhytts Milwaukee Civic Concert Band AT AFFORDABLE PRICES Party rooms available 734 S 5th; 647-2255 St Anthony's Church, N34 W13604 W Gfift certificates Saturdays Appleton, Menomonee Falls; 483-8223 1668 N.Warren Ave. M-W-F 10-6 (Off Brady & Farwell) T-Th 12-7 Credit cards accepted Jerry Grillo Trio November 5 Milwaukee, WI 53202 Sat 12-4 522 W. Lincoln Ave Jazz cabaret artist; 8pm; free 8pm; $5/$3 (414)672-0206 30 Art Muscle OU T THERE

Pure Rhythm at the Pabst

Brooms. Oil drums. Garbage can lids. Plastic shopping bags. Zippo lighters. Keys. Boots. When not littering on alley, this junk become* the most innovative instruments the world has seen since the first mountain hillbilly blew info a jug. Luke Cresswell, co-founder and leader of Britain's Yes/No People, calls the eight-member group's music and movement feast Stomp!, in which brooms become drum brushes and garbage can lids cymbals, "junk percussion." Yes/No People, winners of the 1994 British Olivier Award for best choreography, bring their spectacu­ lar blend of visual ond aural rhythm to the Pabst Theater as part of the UWM Great Artist Series on November 17. "1 wonted to create a show that was solely rhythm-based, using only visual or audio rhythm," say* Cresswell. "Although we work within a theatre setting, it really is a music show. But then ifs also dance because movement pulls the whole thing together." Audiences are invited to contribute their own rhythms through handclaps and snapping of fingers. Tickers are available by calling 229-4308. Technical Illustration BEAL* CRAWFORD Patent Art

every Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra UWM Fine Arts Quartet FAUX TABLEAU PAC: Uihlein Hall; 273-7206 Fine Arts Recital Hall, 2400 E Kenwood; 229- picture October 7-9 4308 Pops: The Fifth Dimension November 20 HAND PAINTED F Sa 8pm Su 7:30pm; $14-$47 Schoenburg & Schumann; 3pm; $12 FURNITURE Odober9 SoundGeneralions UWM Great Artists Series FLOOR CLOTHS "The Listener,' featuring Magic Circle Mime Pabst Theater, 144 E Wells; 229-4308 tells a story Copnmay; 2pm; $10-$24 Nov 12 - Joe Henderson Trio DESIGNS October 14-16 Grammy-winning jazz saxophonist Homage To Hemes Nov 17 - Yes/No People m "Stomp!" ACCESSORIES Ravel, Sibelius, Vaughan Williams; F Su 7:30pm British percussion/movement ensemble creates Sa8pm;$13-$45 rhythms with brooms, oil drums, more 645-3110 October 21-23 8pm; $24/$20 778-0550 art & design Pops: Radio Days: A Tribute to the War Years (1941-45) UWM Institute of Chamber Musk 414-774-4361 F Sa 8pm Su 7:30pm; $14-$47 Fine Arts Recital Hall, 2400 E Kenwood; 229- November 1 4308 Keyboard Conversations: The Miraculous Oct 13 - Air Craft Woodwind Quintet Mendelssohn Nov \0-ICM Ensembles 7:30pm; $20/$l 4 8pm; $4/42 November 4-6 ARTISTS Banu Gibson & The New Orleans Hot Jazz UWM Piano Chamber Concert Series Consignment opportunities Orchestra Fine Arts Recital Hall, 2400 E Kenwood; 229- in new gallery, all media. Solo appearance; F Sa 8pm Su 7:30pm; $14- 4308 $47 October 30 November 17-19 A French Fantaisie French Flair Judit James, piano, with the Amki Trio; 3pm; Spring Street Zwilich, Saint-Saens, Franck, Ravel; Th 7:30pm $12/$6 FllamSa8pm;$13-$45 November 25-27 UWM Symphony Band Magnificent Mozart PAC: Vogei Hall; 229-4308 GRAND OPENING OCT 1&2 Divertimento, Piano Concerto No. 23, Sym­ November 12 phony No. 40; F Su 7:30pm Sa 8pm; $13-$45 8pm; $6/$3 Located 20 mi S.E. of Madison Capture the spirit of your home in an original in historic downtown Cambridge Mitchell Domes UWM Symphony Orchestra watercolor, pen & ink or oil painting by Peter 524 SLayton; 483-3223 229-4308 Dombrowski: a personalized portrait of your 111 S. Spring Street Sunday Serenades at the Domes October 15 home makes a wonderful conversation piece, Mon-Sat 10-5 /Sun 11-4 Oct 16- Singing Voices of Milwaukee With Whitefish Bay H S Choir; 8pm; $7.50/ gift or heirloom - Any location - Call Gary §608-423-4397 Nov 27 - Milwaukee Boys' and Giris' Club $4; St Robert's Church, 2214 E Capitol Phone 414-769-8825 1 pm; free w/Domes admission October 20 & November 17 12:30pm; free; UWM Union Concourse, 2400 Musk on KK E Kenwood 2685 S Kinnkkinnic; 744-8866 November 5 October 28&29 J1 th Annual Chamber Music Marathon Halloween Madness K 11 om-11 pm; donations accepted; The Coffee RAPHICS MAT CUTTING Show tones,jazz , classical revue Trader, 2625 N Downer G F 8pm Sa 2 & 8pm; $8/$7 November 19 System With Wolfgang Laufer, cello; 8pm; $7.50/$4; Oakland Cafe Pabst Theater, 144 E Wells Build & Cut. 3549 N Oakland; 332-5440 Its That Simplel Thomas Clippert, Classical Guitar UWM Woodwind Arts Quintet Fridays & Saturdays 7-9pm; free Fine Arts Recital Hall, 2400 E Kenwood; 229- KM GRAPHICS multi-page flyer' 4308 shows you how-to: i Pabst Theater November 14 HAND PAINTED FURNITURE 'CU 144 E Wells; 286-8777 8pm; $6/$3 Build your own KM GRAPHICS) FLOORCLOTHS Vfe. i October 25 mat cutting board under 135.00 EMBELLISHMENTS EXTR0RDINARE O Heinz Holliger Villa TMTW in I I easy illustrated steps! Swiss oboist & composer; 8pm; $15-$30 2220 N Terrace; 483-3223 FRI, SAT, SUN, & MON 11-4 OR BY APPT. November 7 Civic Musk Association Artist & Ensemble Se­ C0MISSI0NS INVITED Orpheus Chamber Orchestra ries Professionally mat cut in i 3RD FLOOR CEDAR CREEK SETTLEMENT Conductorless orchestra; 8pm; $15-$30 Oct 16 - Mian Bruss, mezzo soprano 14 easy steps! i t N70W6340 BRIDGE ROAD Nov 20 • Jeanne Schorkenbach & Robert Send $8.50 to: KM GRAPHICS j CEDARBURG, WI 53012* 414-377-2363 i People's Books Fefbinger 1183 Banbury Cr., Napervillei IL. 60540 3512 N Oakland; 962-0575 2:30pm; $5/$3 To Receive Flyer October 28 - Hal Rommel, Solos & Trios with Terri Kapsalis & John Corbett; 8pm; free Waukesha Symphony Orchestra Carroll College, Sbattuck Auditorium, 100 N Prairie Performing Arts Center East, Waukesha; 547-1858 «#T# 783-5520 4050 Lighthouse, Racine; 631-3845 October 18 Oct 21 -fienStdran Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky/Ravel; 8pm; FARTIST^ National jazz writer, composer, singer $12/$10 Nov 18- Prudence Johnson & Gary Rue ARTIST REPS -47-63 Month 12-4tU -Street 8pm; $10/$8 Weirlner Tenter Increase Sales and Actors/Entertainers Head Shots UW-Green Bay, 2420 Nicole* Dr; 465-2726 Present Music Oct 7 - Bulgarian State Female Vocal Choir, Profits Producing Graphic Design Elements Milwaukee Art Museum, 750 N Lincoln Me­ $24/$20 Yonr Own 4-Color Creative Studio Photography morial; 271 -0711 Oct 14 -Victor Borge; $24-$40 Glare-Free Flat Art Copy Slides October 28 &29 Oct 22 - James David Christie with The Para­ "LIMITED Pandemonium I: A Night ofDeadMovies & Live mount Brass; $20/$24 Ar tt, A. ppoinTmenT Music; New music composed by Eric Segnitz & Oct 26 - Porgy & Bess; $12-$28 EDITIONS" John Tanner accompanies classic films Nov 12 - St Louis Symphony, $24-$40 on the Finest Canvas Noshratu, How a Mosquito Operates, & All performances 7:30pm Witdies Through the Ages; also costume con­ and Paper Selections test; 8pm; $10-$17 Looking for artist to join the newly Woodland Pattern Book Center Established 1959 720 E Locust; 263-5001 formed Bayview artists association Sunset Playhouse November 5 MODERN GRAPHICS & to participate in an upcoming art 800 Elm Grove Road; 782-4430 LaDonna Smith, Violin, Viola & Voice show in early December. For more October 22 8pm;$5/$4 1-800-871-9666 info call Nancy Kolp at 482-1013 David HB Drake, Wiscon-Sing k A Multimedia history of Wisconsin; 10:30am; $3 31 OU T THERE

Inertia Ensemble Gives Into The Urge

Substance, not spectacle, will be the thrust of The Urge, Milwaukee playwright/performance artist Mark Anderson's adaptation of that most spectacular of tragedies, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Anderson has pared the play down to fit nine octors who'll play characters who are actors who perform Romeo andJuliers nine roles because...well, just because. Confused? Don't worry: the Inertia Ensemble production, directed by Anderson and performed November 11-12 and 18-19, is actually based on an accessible premise—the simple telling of a story. The actors do not have the usual means to produce the play, but they do have the desire and need to, so they make do,* says Anderson, whose works Toute Une Nuit, Quorum, and Jane, Beth, Charles, .sfw Lucy, Sidney & Frank were seen in Milwaukee at Theatre X. The ;: z native locations (Danceworks, 727 N. Milwaukee and Fuel Cafe, 818 E. Center) will odd to the characters' sense of urgency in bringing the story to life. "The play is about doing theatre even if you can't afford the lavish production values that bigger theatres assume audiences need and Professional Theatre want,* Anderson says. It's not about being precious and antique." Call 289-9380 for times Training Program and ticket information.

Enjoy a season of great entertainment, with plays ranging from high-spirited rSomcRiPTi&fi comedies to classic dramas. Inertia Ensemble PERFORMANCE AR' 289-9380 November 11-19 LADY FROM THE SEA The Urge in rotation with Mad Hatter Performance Series Mark Anderson THE SEA GULL Foothold Studio, Lincoln Center for the Ark, rm Adaptation of Romeo & Juliet, Nov 11 & 12: 110, 820 E Knapp; 276-2243 Danceworks, 727 N Milwaukee; 8pm; Nov 18 Fall BacklLooking Forward October 5-29 October 5 & November 16 & 19: Fuel Cafe, 818 E Center; F 10pm Sa 8 & Skylight Optra House Joseph Rabensdorf, experimental work, guests 10pm; $5 November 3-4,1994 THE ADVENTURES Of share poetry, music, dance, film; 8pm; free SHERLOCK HOLMES Marquette University Theatre Theatre X 13tJi&Cryboum; 288-7504 December 7-18 Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N Broadway; Now-Odober 9 278-0555 The Good Doctor MACBETH Theatre X Presents Theatre Women Neil Simon Spring ForwardlLooking Back Feb. 16-March 5 October 8 Adaptation of Chekhov's comical portraits of Steimke Theater Holly Hughes Russian life February 16-18,1995 Feminist playwright & performer presents Obie- November 10-20 SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER winning dit Stories; 7pm; $12 Twelfth Night in rotation with October 12-16 Th F 8pm Sa 5 & 9pm Su 2:30pm; $10/$9 OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD Paula Killer, Chicago artist performs The State I'm In: A Milwaukee Chamber Theatre April19May6 Travelogue; W-Sa 7pm Su 2pm; $12 Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N Broadway; Four Big Girls 276-8842 Milwaukee Dance Festival SAVINGS TO 20% IF Seattle lesbian comedy troupe performs Around October 15-30 Pabst Theater YOU SUBSCRIBE TODAY the Table; W-Sa 9pm Su 5pm Lost in Yonkers October 19-23 June 2-3,1995 Neil Simon Single Tickets: $12/$14 Gals! Gals! Gals! 2 boys live with iron-fisted grandmother in Bluestockings, a multi-media installation & wartime Yonkers; W Th 7:30 pm (Oct 19 AAAA PHONE 229-4308 performance analyzing American women's 10am; Oct 26 & 27 1 pm) F Sa 8pm (Oct 22 For more information call 271-0307. suffrage movement; W-Sa 7pm Su 2pm; $12 4pm) Su 2pm (Oct 23 7pm); $12-$24 October 26-20 Louise Smith & John Fleming The Milwaukee Players NY artists mount insightful & hilarious battle of Pitman Theatre, Alverno College, 3401 S39th; rag our newly-renovated galleries to experience Dias the sexes. Gold; W-Sa 7pm Su 2pm; $12 647-6050 de los Muertos in the true tradition of Mexico. November 10-13 Walker's Point Center for Ihe Arts Annie Dias de los Muertos (Days ofthe Dead) is a tradi­ 911 W National; 672-2787 Musical based on Little Orphan Annie comic; tional Hispanic family celebration with special tradi­ Odober14&15 8pm;$13/$10 tions and foods, honoring loved ones who have died. Judifh Sloan Comedienns/performarK»artistacldresseswar, Milwaukee Repertory Theater Traditional and visually striking altars by national peace, women, relationships, family; 8pm; $8/ 108 E Wells; 224-9490 and regional artists, as well as wall murals $4 Powerhouse Theater: commissioned by area artists. November 12 Now-Odober 16 Join us for ihe opening festivities on Mark Fraire & Daisy Cubias The Gambler October 30th, 1994; l-4pm Reading by Nicaraguan poet Cubias precedes Fyodor Dostoevsky presentation by children tutored in playwriting Penniless tutor grasps at wealth through gam­ The reception is free to Ihe public. Exhibition runs by local playwright/actor Fraire; 8pm; $4/$2 bling; $8-$26 October 30-December 3, 1994 October 23-November 27 DAY OF THE DEAD The Merchant of Venice Don't miss it. See you (t)hair! William Shakespeare THEATER Romantic comedy of love, money & true riches; $8-$26 UPCOMING FALL PERFORMANCES: Stiemke Theater: November 12th, 1994; 8pm Acacia Theatre October 30-November 20 Admission: $4 Adults / S2.50 Students with ID. 3300 N Sherman; 223-4996 On Their Eyes "DON'T WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE ME" October 12-November 6 Barbara Da ma shek Produced by MARK FRAIRE Smoke on the Mountain Commissioned work crafted from latest wave of with DAISY CUBIAS Bluegrass musical comedy; W Th F Sa 8pm Su Jewish immigrants from former USSR; $18/ $14 ££ Fmdiat;{t>r performances is provided in part by the United Performing Arts Fund, ihe Wisconsin Mis Hoard, Mifaiwkee County Cultural and Artistic Proiraimin% Council and WPCA Friends. 3pm; $8-$12.50 Stackner Cabaret: Boulevard Ensemble Under the Hollywood Sign: The Music, The 2252 S Kinnkkinnic; 672-6019 Glamour, The Heartbreak October 28-November 27 Songs written for classic films; $13/$l 0 Two Gentlemen of Verona T Su 7:30pm W 1:30 & 7:30pm Th F 8pm Sa PEN SINK MAT William Shakespeare 5&9pm Comedy of love & fidelity; Th-Su 8pm; $10/$9 ARKANSAS AUTHOR & ARTIST Next Act Theatre GARY SIMMONS IS BACK TO Cedarburg Players Stiemke Theater, 108 E Wells; 278-7780 GIVE 2 WORKSHOPS FOR CUTTING IN THIS 2.5 HOUR HANDS ON Utile Theatre, W57 N481 Hilbert, Cedarburg; Now-Odober 16 BEGINNERS & INTERMEDIATE • SEMINAR DAVID LOGAN 283-1120 Marvin's Room LEARN HOW TO CREATE TEACHES YOU HOW TO CUT Now-October 8 Scott McPherson TEXTURE IN YOUR DRAWINGS • SINGLE & DOUBLE MATS • The Odd Couple Bessie cares for bedridden father in Florida; Th GARY IS THE AUTHOR OF OFF-SET CORNER MATS & Neil Simon F 8pm Sa 5 & 9pm Su 2pm; $22/$18 DRAWING WITH TECHNICAL PENS • Female version of classic comedy; 8pm V-GROOVES • ALL MATERIALS YOU MUST BRING YOUR OWN Performing Aits Center PROVIDED FOR USE IN CLASS TECHNICAL PEN Dead Alewives Uihlein Hall; 800/905-SHOW SATURDAY OCTOBER 29 Comedysportc, 126 N Jefferson; 272-8888 November 29-December 4 BEGINNERS 9-11:30 or 12:30-3 or 4-6:30 Alternative, uncensored improv comedy w/ Tommy Tune's Grease FRI OCT 21 7 TO 9PM YOU or live music; W 8pm Th 10pm Current Broadway hit version starring Sally WILL AND SAT OCT 22 10 TO 5 SUNDAY OCTOBER 30 Struthers & Davy Jones FLIP 9-11:30 or 12:30 -3 or 4-6:30 66.00 YOUR First Stage Milwaukee INTERMEDIATE WIG 35.00 PAC: Todd Wehr Theatre; 273-7206 Racine Theatre Guild SUN OCT 23 10 TO 5 oven Now-November 3 2519 Northwestern, Racine; 633-4218 OUR CALL ABOUT / Never Saw Another Butterfly October 21 -November 13 50.00 OTHER CLASSES Celeste Raspanti The Rainmaker Inspired by poetry &artof children of Czecho- N Richard Nash slovakian ghetto; Sa Su 1 & 3pm; $6-$l 1 Family plagued by drought & unmarried ARTISTANDDISPLAY 9015 WEST BURLEIGH 442-9100 daughter encounters con man; F Sa 8pm Su MWF 9-6 • TUE & THUR 9-8PM • SAT 9-5 • SUNDAY 12-4 l:30&7pm;$9.50-$ll 32 Art Muscle Shorewood Players Joy Farm 1701 E Capitol Dr; 963-4647 Mondays & Fridays November 11-20 Award-winning social satire series; M 9:30pm, Fiddler on the Roof Warner Channel 14; F 9:30, Warner Channel F Sa 8pm Nov 20 2pm; $8/$7 47

Skylight Opera Theatre Milwaukee Ballet Radio Hour Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N Broadway; Wednesdays 291-7800 7pm; WFMR 98.3 FM Now-Odober 9 Eugene Onegin Noise Bazaar Peter Ify'rtch Tchaikovsky Saturdays Tragic love in 19lh-century Russia Alternative music video programming; 11 pm; November 23-December 23 Warner Channel 49 The Most Happy Fella Frank Loesser Where Ihe Waters Meet Middle-aged grape grower's loves young Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays & waitress; W 7:30pm F Sa 8pm Su 2pm; $16- Saturdays $39 Christina Zawadiwsky Od 7 - Josh Kapperman Reading Sunset Playhouse Od 14 - Four Torch Singers at Cafe Melange 800 Elm Grove Road; 782-4430 Oct2\ -Gangof40 Now-Odober 9 Od 28 - Joseph Rabensdorf& Friends Beau Jest Nov 4 - Bamk Runes at the Artistry James Sherman Nov 11 - Charles Wallace, Storyteller November 11-27 Nov 18 - Greg Stine, Photographer Blithe Spirit Nov 25 - Ichabod's Crane Noel Coward F 7pm MW2pm, Warner Cable 14& Viacom Man haunted by wife's ghost; Th F 8pm Sa 6 & 11B,repeatedM T &W 2pm, Warner Cable 9pm Su 2 & 7pm; $10 14 Sa 7pm City Government Channel 26

Teatro Latino United Community Center, 1028 S 9th; 384- 3100 October 21-29 •&S Beautiful Senoritas Dolores Prida A play with music; 8pm Continuing Through Saturday, October 29 Theatre on KK Be merry 2685 S Kinnickinnic; 744-8866 Now-Odober 9 ENCORE Women Poets: A Celebration Solo Exhibition ot New Work by Marnie Elbaum Victor White The Eclipse Joyce Carol Oates F Sa 8pm Su 2:30pm; $8/$7 and wise! NEW PORCELAIN AND STONEWARE Theatre X Dick Woppert Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N Broadway; Opening Saturday-Sunday, November 5-6, 1 lam-5pm 278-0555 Through November 26 Theatre X Presents Theatre Women October 5-9 Advertise in Talking Bones 2711 N Bremen Gallery HAIRS Shay Youngblood Milwaukee WI 53212 Tues-Fri 2-6 Presented by leading African-American theatre 374-POTS (7687) Saturday 11-5 group; W-Sa 7pm Su 2pm; $12; performances at Centennial Hall, 733 N 8th October 19-23 Art Muscle's Imagining Brad 2 Southern women's discovery of each other presented by Milwaukee's Renaissance u-roAME-rr Thealreworks; W-Sa 9pm Su 5pm; $12 -NEIL STARR- October 26-30 Native American Performers December/ NATIVE AMERICAN Performers, poets, musicians celebrate the role of women in Native American culture; W-Sa 9pm Su 5pm; $12 ART SHOW

November 22-December 11 •:••••• • :. .... ••.•••• SmSi, *• * .Iff! Lord Alfred's Lover !V • -^ —1~J s, \J\. j L> Eric Bentley January Biography of Oscar Wilde; WTh 7:30pm F Sa 8pm Su 2pm; $16/$ 14 NOV. 4th - 11th

UWM Professional Theatre Training Program At R.R Gallery UWM Fine Arts Theatre, 2400 E Kenwood (corner of Maryland Blvd; 229-4308 hnliday October 5-29 / & Locust) Lady from the Sea Henrik Ibsen Elida finds solace by the sea from stifling -r?«J rV*«.J T*.**-*' Norwegian town; Od 5-8,19, 21, 29 in rotation with issue. The Sea Gull Anton Chekhov Nina turns from devotion of young poet toru n 2132 E. LOCUST •332-3400 away with older writer; Od 12-15,20,22,23 WTh 7:30pm F Sa 8pm Su 2:30pm; $14/$l 2 Deadline Waukesha Civic Theatre 506 N Washington; 547-0708 October 21 -November 6 Lysistrata Greek women, led by Lysistrata, deny their husbands sexual favors until war is ended; F Sa November 4. 8:15pm Su 2 & 7:30pm; $9

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Alternating Currents in 20th Century Music DJ Hal Rammel; 6:00pm; WMSE 91.7 FM at 672-8485 Down Home Dairy land Saturdays 8pm; Wisconsin Public Radio, WHAD 90.7FM

Guitar Nub Mondays For guitarists & fans;Channe l 14; 9pm; Warner for more info. Cable 14 & Viacom 11B; 353-5052 33 ART Block Gallery Galery 312 Akto Castillo Gallery 1967 Sheridan Rd, Evanston; 708/491 -4000 312 N May St, Suite 110; 312/942-2500 3513 N Lincoln 2nd II; 312/525-2582 Now-December 4 - Displacements: South Af­ October 7-November 8 Now-November 18 - Images & Objects of the rican Wodis on Paper, 1984-1994 Michiko llatani, Large Paintings get the best at Spirit: Latin American F'me Art & Antiques November 11 -December 10 Catherine Edelman Gallery The Ross Collection, Photographs by the Great jitterzz ARC Gallery 300 W Superior; 312/266-2350 Masters ofthe 19th & 20th Centuries 1040 W Huron; 312/733-2787 October 14-November 12 coffee house October 5-29 - Julia M Morrisoe, Metaphor Lynn Geesaman: New Work Gallery 451 7532A 8tate 8t Series; Pamela Stoker-Matson, A Room Full of November 18-December 23 510 E State Street, Rockford; 815/961 -1717 Wauwatosa Crutches James Balog: Survivors/Anima Now-October 29 - Spirituality & Death November 2-26 - Debra Bruce Smith, Black­ 774-5952 boards: Gender Issues in School Chicago International New Art Forms Expo­ Gruen Galleries "beneath the street" sition 226 W Superior; 312/337-6262 Artemisia Gallery Navy Pier, 600 E Grand; 312/787-6858 October 14-November 16 700 N Carpenter; 312/226-7323 October 6-9 Charles Hemdon; Charles Kaiser October 4-29 Th 5:30-10pm F-Su noon-8pm; $10/$7 November 18-December 14 - VladimirKetchens Marita Dingus, Giedre Liliene, EdHinkley, Diana NESTLED AMONGST Guerrero-Macia Columbia College Art Gallery Idpo GLASS & STEEL November 1 -26 72E lllh;312/663-5554 1616 N Damen; 312/235-4724 Korean Women Artists; Chicago Women Cau­ Now-November 18 October 7-November 2 - DZINE cus for Art; Son/a Katz Words Against the Shifting Seasons: Drawings November 4-December 17 Civilized Dining by Mollis Sigler The Avenues ofthe Stranger: Sign Paintings by serving a Culinary Cuisine Art Institute of Chicago Kevin Orth • Prime Beef • Sandwiches Michigan at Adams; 312/443-3626 Contemporary Art Workshop • Farm Raised Fish • Poultry Now-November 6 - British Delft from Colonial 542 W Grant; 312/472-4004 Hn'fuit • Pasta • Salad • Omelettes Williamsburg Now-November 1 - The Shape of Things 1800 N Cryboum; 312/759-1406 • Gourmet Pizza • Desserts Now-December4 - The PerfectCity. Photographs October 7-November 7 You'll flip your wig over the of Chicago by Bob ThaU Eclectic Junction Crowning Achievements: The Crimped & Cut­ organic items provided by Now-January 22 - Knotted Splendor—Euro• 1630 N Damen; 312/342-7865 ting Edge in Bottle Cap Sculpture the Outpost Natural Foods pean & Near Eastern Carpets October 11 -November 6 October 29-January 2 - Kad Friedrkh Schinkel, Nighttunes Marx Gallery 1781-1841: The Drama of Architecture November 8-December 4 230 W Superior; 312/661 -0657 November 18-January 15 - Glad Tidings of Great Architectural Angles Now-October 24 - Stephen Rolfe Powell Joy: Christmas at the Art Institute of Chicago November 19-January 15 - Dieter Appelt Ehlers Caudill Galery Ltd The Modernism Show 750 N Orleans; 312/642-8611 Winnetka Community House, 620 Lincoln; Open Daily at 8am for Breakfast, Arts Club of Chicago Now-October 15 Winnetka; 708/446-0537 Lunch, Dinner & Cocktails 109 E Ontario; 312/787-3997 Picture Perfect, 20th-century Master Photo­ November 4-6 Now-Odober 22 graphs F 6-9pm Sa 10am-7pm Su 11 am-5pm; $8 3 Blocks West of Lake Michigan Conflict & Creativity: Architects & Sculptors in October 21 -December 5 800 E. Wells / 800 N. Cass Chicago Harry Callahan: Vintage Photographs Museum of Contemporary Art 276-1577 237 E Ontario; 312/280-5161 Now-October 30 Options 47: Gabriel Orozco Now-November 6 KayRosen, Home on Hie Range; VincentShine; Mollis Sigler The Breast Cancer Journal Now-November 27 Gary Hill November 12-December 31 M.A.D Jeanne Dunning; Jim Lutes: The Development of Style; Options 48: Dan Peterman

NJUA.E Gallery 700 N Carpenter; 312/226-0671 ART MUSIC October 21 -November 25 Again Elvehjem Museum of Art Present Music Perimeter Galery Zm^^^§M:zj^ZfiBZ UW-Madison, 800 University; 608/263-8188 414/271-0711 750 N Orleans; 312/266-9473 SALON Now-November 22 October 30 October 7-November 15 "Gronk": Iron Weave Pandemonium I: A Night of Dead Movies & Toshiko Takaezu: Recent Work October 8-November 27 Live Music November 18-December 31 Through Their Own Eyes: The Personal Portfolios 8pm; $10/$6; UW Memorial Union Theater Kiyomi Iwata: New Work; Charles Kurre: Welcome to our of Edward Weston & Ansel Adams November 25 Paintings new stylist: Madison Originals: Joseph Koykkar & Scott —Lisa— Gallery 323 Johnson Polish Museum of America 323 E Wilson Street; 608/255-8998 8pm; $10/$6; First Unitarian Meeting House 984 N Milwaukee Ave; 312/384-3352 Now-Odober 31 Now-October 21 SUITE 200 Frank Uoyd Wright Lithographs 324 East Wisconsin Ave Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Karpofwicz & Karpowicz, Painting; Polewka, Milwaukee. WI 53202 First Congregational United Church, 1609 Sculpture (414)273-7717 Jura Silverman Gallery University; 608/257-0638 143 S Washington, Spring Green; 608/546- November 5 Randolph Sheet Gallery 6211 Celebration of St Cecilia's Day 756 N Milwaukee; 312/666-7737 Now-November 10 8pm;$14/$10 Now-October 29 Pont wig out! We have Wisconsin Sculptors Exhibition; Paintings Mary November 27 Glom Lin Yoshimura Sing-Out Messiah 3pm;$12/$10 School of ihe Art Institute of Chicago Madison Art Center 1040 W Huron; 312/226-1449 211 State; 608/257-0158 October 28-December 7 Now-November 13 Out of the Fire: Contemoporary Cast Iron Southern California: The Conceptual Landscape VERY SOFA: The New International Exposition of Wisconsin Academy Gallery Sculpture, Objects & Functional Art fine framing 1922 University; 608/263-1692 Sheraton Chicago, CityfrontCenter; 312/243- October 3-28 - Lynn Elizabeth Whittbrd, The 0400 Effects of Good Chemistry October 20-23 November 4-30 - Guy Church, Drawings Suburban Fine Arts Center Wisconsin Union Galleries 777 Central Ave, Highland Park; 708/432- UW-Madison; 608/262-5969 1888 October 15-November 11 Now-October 20 Perception, Projection, & Protection; Laura Beyond Furniture Dronzek: Recent Work; Africa in the Americas October 28-November 22 November 19-December 16 Dta de los Muertos In Favoring the Familiar; Valerie Vail Saichek; John Roth: Recent Work Wood Street Gallery 1239 N Wood St; 312/227-3306 October 15-November 12 The Art in Mythology

34 Art Muscle Arthur Balian 1921199] Artist Photographer Mo is Arthur Balian? Teacher

IN FHEIAST ISSUE OF ART MUSCLE, WE ASKED [-HEQUESTION: "WHO IS ARTHUR BALIAN?" MILWAUKEE PHOTOGRAPHER AND TEACHER RALPH DRZEWIECKI HAD ACQUIRED A URGE BODY OF BALIAN'S DRAWINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS AFTER B.AL1AN DIED IN JUNE 1993. DRZEWIECKI WAS INTERESTED IN FINDING OUT MORE ABOUT FIII MAN WHO HAD CREATED THE ART WORK, KNOWING ONLY THAT HE WAS AMEMBEROE THE ARMENIAN COMMUNITY. SINCE OUR INQUIRY IN THE AUGUST/SEPTEMBER ISSUE, WE HAVE RECEIVED A GREAT DEAL OF INFORMATION ABOUT ARTHUR BALIAN. FAMILY MEMBERS HAVE SUPPLIED HISTORIES AND A FAMILY TREE AND SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS WHO WENT THROUGH THE FINE ARTS PROGRAM OF THE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE (NOW UWM) WITH BALIAN HAVE CALLED WITH REMEMBRANCES AND ANECDOTES. WE WILL SHARE THIS _-~: WJ IN FUTURE ISSUES OF ART MUSCLE. JR BALIAN? JO>T THING WE LEARNED IS THAI ARTHUR BALIAN WAS NOT RSON PICTURED ON IT IF PREVIOUS LACK COVER OF ART MUSCLE. THAT WAS |OHN BALIAN. ARTHUR'S YOUNGER BROTHER, Willi Also DIED IN 1993 AND WHO ALSO WAS AN ARTIST. Itjgkj?.- STACK OF PHOTOGRAPHS DRZEWIECKI HAD ACQUIRED WERE'SIX" PORTRAITS. WE ASSUMED THEY WERE SELF-PORTRAITS. MARGI CUCCIO, ARTHUR'S WIDOW, WAS IHF FIRST TO ALERT US THAI IIII PHOTO WE PUBLISHED WAS OF |OHN. |OIIN RECEIVED AN ART DEGREE ROM IHF LAYTON SCHOOl OF ART. Hi- WAS AN INDUSTRIAI )ESIGNER FOR rill WEST BEND G IMFANY FOR 20 YEARS, All Till WHIM DOING PAINTING AND SCULPTURE, HIS TRUE PASSIONS. INDEED, IIII ENTIRJ BALIAN FAMILY WAS OR IS INVOLVED IN ITIF ARTS IN VARIOUS WAYS. (MORE ON LATER ISSUES!) WHO IS ARTFIH BALIANS ARTHUR BAI LAN, WH« >SE ARMENIAN BIRTH NAME WAS "ARDASHEV WAS XH3 7WS7 2CXX SOX C\- C'TWXT XX7 '.">XXWW-- AWXXW OHANIS, (THE ARMENIAN EX;X ._ ~ : ::- WAS BORN IN

ANT1NI 'IMF. ruunUA FA1 It1Y 0 TAKE CARE OF 1 GIRL NONE OF HIS OWN CONSTANTINOPLE, OHANIS MET REBECCA, A WELL-EDUCATED YOUNG WOMAN. THEY MARRIED AND WORKED IN A BAKERY. O HAN IS T AI KF.I1 ^.11il-.CC.A INK' I XX X C TO n?4lTW ''XvHXTZ WW STXWTS _ I WATT :X _ ._ W '.'.'•• 2 THEY CROSSED THE OCEAN BY BOAT WHILE REBECCAWAS PREGNANT WITH ARTHUR. OHANIS WAS ALSO AN ARTIST. HIS INK DRAWINGS, X XCCCWWWG TO "" XTW3EXA IW GWWWX AXXXXW X:' TW ww: ----- : xx sex w : _. XXXXXJXXB '. - • WORKED AT AI i is CHAI Ml RS AND I IVED IN A HOUSE AT 68TH AND DICKINSON IN WEST ALLIS. LORNA BALIAN, OHANIS' DAUGHTER IN DAW, SAY'S, "OHANIS WAS CHARMING. I REMEMBER HIM PULLING X ' • ' T ' " . XXATSWWW- > XC X '. "OLD COUNTRY'" WAY. HE'D HAGGLE OVER Till 1 1.1 GRAPES i MN III THE PRODUCE MANAGER SOLD FHFM rOHlMA INCREDIBLY ' ' : ", ; iRLY RECALI Hi mm sIOWY NIGHT WHEN MY ACKYARD OF Oil '"rtAND'ttBgH T.-X _•'-..• X': . IVOULD ~YOU LET THESE TWO GUYS COOK FOP \4j?

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