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The current exhibit, Whistling Wings, Whittled Ducks, & Wet­ life the free-flowing plans for his first grouping of abstract birds. Those lands^ at the Milwaukee Public, Museum is something to plans are in his head, but he's on the track of moving (if only once) out of honk about. the realm of the realistic and into the fanciful.

It is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the 100th anniver­ As a businessman (he's a trained engineer employed at Johnson Controls in sary of Wisconsin artist Owen J. Gromme's birth, plus a rare Watertown, Wisconsin), Poeschel spends hours aloft, flying around the coun­ opportunity to see his papier mache Canada geese decoys, try. While airborne, he sketches, works out carving plans on his laptop and considered by collectors as the finest ever produced in that sands away on wood. Once he deplanes and takes care of company business, particular medium. There are also ancient decoys of reeds he visits field sites, binoculars in hand, to study up close and feathers (from the Lovelock Cave in Nevada), and personal, the denizens of American's wet­ devices designed from cork, recycled automo­ lands. Four days of tramping around Califor­ bile tires (these by Wisconsinite Harry nia supplied him with enough background Shunk), and some 1950's Hong Kong data to perfect his Black-bellied Plover wicker wonders. All in all, the exhibit carving. It later won 2nd place in the is a generous gathering of Mallards, Ward Foundation World Carving Goldeneyes, Canvasbacks, Bluebills Championship. Currently it nests in and Brands. There are Ruddys and his private collection. Red-breasteds, with a Coot and Crow for good measure. Poeschel owes much to the first Na­ tive Americans who, in order to fill And the decoys of Dennis Poeschel, a their bellies, launched imaginative Milwaukeean and contestant in a recent lures of stuffed bird skins a thousand carving competition held at the museum years ago. Though his pieces are the as part of the exhibit activities. Poeschel is product of our culture's leisure time, a member of the Milwaukee Wildfowl Carv­ they preserve ritual through amplifying ing Club who spends long hours (up to 350) the beauty of what's left of the wetlands. in the completion of one piece. This is more than He's far from the twang of a bowstring, but putting a knife to wood. It entails field studies, near to the heart of decoy as art. Or per­ research, photographs (Poeschel taught photog­ haps, decoy as a memorial to those days raphy at MATC for 10 years), and dealing with spent hunting with his grandfather. small imperfections in each block of wood. The exhibit will be in place until the It was his mother, Ruth (a painter), who kept spring of 1997, and should you wish Top photo: him supplied with art materials when he was a to see the prints and paintings of Model of a young child. Additionally, he was fortunate to spend Owen J. Gromme, Mader's Art Owen J. Gromme happy hunting hours with his Grandfather Gallery is a first-rate source. in his skiff. Herman, whose decoys he inherited a de­ Photo byjoAnne cade ago. It was about that time that Peterson. Poeschel saw a television program on the Julie Lang & art of decoy carving. With the addition Judith Ann of some how-to guides from Schwartz Moriarty bookstore, and careful experimenta­ tion with a variety of techniques, he Bird photo: was on his way to carving his first bird. Poeschel's master­ He still has it. fully carved Black- bellied Plover. Be prepared to stand in line for at least Photo by Francis Ford. 5 years if you lust for one of this mas­ ter carver's specimens. "Everything I make sells quickly," he says, "for up to $8,000."

He has a cutter in the southern swamps who supplies him with his favorite wood— Tupelo. At present he's searching for just the right piece of black walnut to bring to JUMBLED EGGS "East Hollywood Productions" is the moniker of the theatre company that staged (June 12-14, Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum), an original three act dramatic melange entitled "Genesis Again." Both the title of the company and of the pro­ duction suggest a dramatic glamour versus a deep seriousness, which if combined, could result in myriad possibilities.

Unfortunately for all involved, the theatrical schizophrenia hinted at by the opposing titles proved true in actual produc­ tion. Despite good intentions (or perhaps because of them), every dramatic possibility was attempted: art songs, heavy- handed monologues, Henry Mancini duets, juggling, mime, ;fiif2 readings from texts, trite sermonizing and background paint­ ings and sculpture. And then there was the necessary piano accompaniment and the ritual lighting of candles and the artis­ tic self-effacement with white powder and the curious canine­ like lapping up of water.

As chilling as this sounds, the evening was saved from the abyss cent of televised geriatric of detestation by an inescapable sense of damnable good inten­ exercise programs with the tions that emanated from both cast and the writer (Jeffrey sound turned down). Nor Morin) and the director (Jeffrey Morin) and one of the lead would it be just to omit men­ actors (Jeffrey Morin again) and one of the singers (yet again, tioning the actual character of t Jeffrey Morin). 'Eden' who acts as another narra­ tor, (within Morin's script, within This blithe good cheer pervaded the evening and the cast as the the acted out script, within the story, storyline(s) unfolded: a writer/director (Morin) lures an old or did she just wander into Villa friend and former artistic colleague (Kathleen Stacy Terrace for the free punch?) who Baumann) to his fashionable estate (Villa Terrace conve­ didactically preaches to and at the audi­ u niently doubling as the lavish estate) where she is treated ence several times during the evening o to an 'acting out' of the writer/director's current script and endlessly refers to the term 'genesis' which is periodically interrupted by piano music charming­ 'f and offers many definitions of the term— ly played by Renee Barber who may or may not be in the if not more. All of this and more, more or room, but if she is, she also accompanies Baumann's charac­ less, occurred over the three acts that ter of 'Clara La May' during her half-dozen art songs per­ evening. formed intermittendy throughout the evening... anyway, the script is being directed by a mysterious young man The previous paragraph of confusing run-on sen­ (Matt Konkel) whose relationship with the producers tences hopelessly attempting to describe the proba­ seems veiled in suggestion, but he assists the evening by ble storyline might be enough to effectively connote reading from this new 'script' from the back of Villa the effect of trying to flow the very trying narrative. Terrace's Grand Hall as Morin playing the Producer (appropri­ And is probably its own reviewer and jury. But the previous ately? named 'East Hollywood') takes on a role in the acting paragraph can not fully explore the unfortunate involvement out of the script as he tackles a series of monologues that deal alluded to in the beginning of this review. Some of the individ­ with child abuse and surreptitious sexuality in the guise of a uals involved displayed qualities that suggest larger talents. And character named 'Cain.' All this while Baumann/La May (ala one (or two) of the greener members of the cast, despite an Pirandello and/or Brecht) interacts with him both as 'East awkwardness in performance skills (volume, diction, move­ Hollywood' and as 'Cain'—when she isn't singing art songs in ment), exuded a radiant enthusiasm suggestive of better things German accompanied by a pianist who may or may not be the­ down the road. And Morin's involvement as actor, writer, direc­ atrically there. For those who prefer a lighter touch, there is also tor and founder of the company certainly bespeaks a dedication a duet from the Henry Mancini score from the 1960s film and a valor in pursuing lofty artistic goals, though they might 'Charade' (and the title ditty from the Julie Andrews' film possibly have been better served with a less rabid involvement. 'Darling Lili'). The other (there were more) characters who pop in and out play a wealthy trio of zany philanthropists who carry But this production was so enamored of creating 'art' and so on another storyline of creating an artistic Eden of sorts, while loaded down with textual and conceptual objectives that its one of them reads a story she wrote (a story within the acted- 'genesis' was stillborn. And that truly, with all the energy, effort out script within the play) concerning a deaf and mute jug­ and time that every individual contributed to this project, was gler/mime who appears when mentioned in order to juggle a most unfortunate. For all involved. few balls and, later, glowing plastic circles. Yes! a deaf and mute juggler mime. Tipes! And I do not wish to omit the character of an actual witch who terrorizes 'Cain' during his three bombas­ tic and socially relevant monologues by inconveniently arriving —Mark Bucher through one of the Grand Hall's french doors (and proceeds to (Mr. Bucher is the Artistic Director of the Boulevard Ensemble. He's frantically and silently perform hand gestures that are reminis- been known to refer to himself as 'the poor man's Gordon Spencer.') 10 Art Muscle SB D4 MM T -H -C flliLWflU-M-C-E J O 15 II ( 0 II ID U N I T V ( 41 0 41 fl L I

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem to become a 'Founding Friend' or a They shall prosper that love thee. 'Supporting Member') and most of Peace be within thy walls, all community. calm within thy palaces. Psalms 122: 6,7 Libbie Picakarsky conducted the Chicago Junior Hadassah Choral They've flown the world over to Society before she was married. She sing 'with one voice,' and on studied at the Cosmopolitan School August 14-15 The Milwaukee of Music in Chicago, taking courses Jewish Community Chorale will fill in piano and harmony, and went on the Cabot Theatre at the Broadway to pursue her interests at the College Theater Center with significant tra­ of Jewish Studies and the University ditional and contemporary works of Chicago. She has arrived at that that bring together singers from beautiful age when age doesn't mat­ across the spectrum of this city's ter. Energy and commitment to her diverse Jewish population. community carry her forward.

It's been a year since their first ben­ J am of the opinion that my life efit concert. Since then, they've belongs to the community, and so long traveled to Jerusalem for ~the as I live, it is my privilege to do for it Jerusalem 3000 celebration, per­ whatever I can. I want to be thorough­ formed on Holocaust Memorial ly used up when I die, for the harder I Day and for Israel Week events, work, the more I live, Life is no 'brief appeared at Chicago's Rosemont candle' to me... Theater and the prestigious —George Bernard Shaw Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in New York City. On Wednesdays in The Cafe Rouge at the Pfister Hotel, she and her It all began in 1985 with an inter- Rose Starlings Painting by Pat Hidson husband lunch with Cantor faith psalm festival, a joint produc­ Eichaker. It's a 'working' lunch to tion of Jewish and Christian choirs. chart the Chorale's course, but A graduate of the Julliard School of they've also wisely hired strategic Music, Cantor Ronald D. Eichaker planners to ensure the organiza­ of Congregation Emanu-El B'ne tion's financial future. Jeshurun in Milwaukee brought the group together and it wasn't Karen E. Anderson, an alto with the long before Matthew Lazar Chorale, and a co-chair of the (founder of the North American August benefit concert, rehearses Jewish Choral Festival), came here every two weeks at the Jewish to promote Jewish music. Their Community Center with 64 other combined visions proved that a vol­ dedicated singers. They polish, they unteer choir could support the perfect, they're tuned to their 1994 International Cantors director, Cantor Eichaker, as he Assembly convention in Milwaukee puts the finishing touches on the and eventually attain the perma­ August program, Shuvah Tzion nent status of The Milwaukee (Return to Zion). It will also Jewish Community Chorale. include solos and a composition by the late professor Max Janowski, Cantor Eichaker is fortunate to who formerly led the voices at have the support of Libbie Milwaukee's Congregation Beth El. Peckarsky, the current (and first) President of the Chorale. She has a So far, the Chorale supports itself longtime connection with the arts primarily through membership dues (she's a member of ArtReach and generous donations from friends Players), and her husband Charles and admirers. Though they have yet is associated with the Michael Lord to receive their first grant monies, Gallery. As husband and wife they the future looks bright and they share the dream of expanding the share a harmonious hope for contin­ Chorale—Charles sees it as an M ?Fi1fiViltiVi?PJLVi1|J ued success. "awesome responsibility and an "2- opportunity to perpetuate the "Afterall," said Anderson, "music in Jewish heritage through choral Judaism is a communal voicing of music." Libbie extolls the virtues of the spirit." the nonprofit Chorale and is quick Ml to point out that the group Tickets for the benefit are available includes non-Jews. Her message is by calling The Broadway Theatre about harmony, philanthropy (how Center, 291-7800. 11 BUTT-FRIED FIND

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12 Art Muscle It's been five years since he was accused of "decapi­ tating Christianity" by depicting a headless and naked Christ in a much publicized Oshkosh show. On August 10th, he'll be at the Neo-Post-Now gallery in Manitowoc with his latest sculptures and paintings. Here's what I was able to cull before the event.

HE HOLDS COURT

in a murky panelled cave, like a shaman teetering on the brink between profundity and damnation. While stuffing herb into a gnarly pipe, he spews forth musings gleaned from years of careening through Amerika's trash culture.

His DRY BEGINS

beatin' around Oshkosh's filthy alleyways in its forgotten downtown war zone, on a quest for the debris he crafts into mutated plastoid critters. Wheeling through the shadows on his bicycle, he collects, then carefully edits a pile of garbage, peering hawk-like through mounds, choosing vibrant neon Tide bottles, and prying car logos from empty vehicles.

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in Butt's works is his 'Our Ford' icon, a found- metal script 'Our' placed in tandem with the ovoid FORD icon. He borrows from Huxley's Brave New World to season a nightmare stew of discon­ certing monstrosities from his collection of greasy black toy tires, vacuum hoses, and kitchen flotsam. Please note that the aroma of gleaming plastique logos, lustrous aluminum blobs, and coupling female and male 'droids is enough to wake even sleeping deities. WHEN THE HRZE LIFTS

THEN HE MENTIONS HIS OWN EXISTENTIRL IDEHL and soft ambient sounds of Orb drift from what appears to be a carpeted litter-strewn front parlor, but sez he sees it eroding in the wake of an increas­ Butt smiles ail-knowingly at the repackaged ingly overpopulated world-whirl; the Golden Age Amerikan Dream. The mythic Zarathustra re-enters of Reason giving way to a circus of 2-headed cows the bloodstream of the mucky-mucks. and irradiated 600-lb. pigs alongside Bio-Engineers dabbling like demigods in the Spiral Codes of Life, high on the vinyl vapors from their recently built YOU, TOO, CON Dream Homes. enter the merriment of the Runik rantings by join­ ing the Pageant at Neo-Post-Now gallery, 719 York HFTER PRDCLRIMINB HIMSELF Street, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on August 10 from 4-7pm. Butt, who is Lake Winnebago's Wizard in to be a family man with working class upbringing Residence, will be presiding over this freak show and traditional values, he explains that this is why Midway Artastic Transmutation which includes the his Anti-Masterpieces borrow freely from cereal work of Milwaukee's own Bob Watt. After the boxes, TV, and the sparkling brilliance of 10th, the work can be viewed by appointment. National Enquirer. And from rockmmetaal lyrics (through November 11) and THC fibrillations. He's a warm and fuzzy kind of fellow.

13 n WHAT DO YOU THINK OF WHEN SOMEONE MEN­ Burgess is infusing this particular ballet with contemporary sensibilities, story, TIONS 'BALLET'? Do you think of cignets enpointe and movement. He accomplishes this by steeping himself in classic renderings of the original work, while creating his personal connection to the piece by with clasped hands? Do you think of Tchaikovsky, researching Greek mythology, Jungian archetypes, symbols, and stories from Sleeping Beauty and the Nutcracker? Or do you imag­ many cultures. He says he listens daily to the music and imagines ways of "cre­ iwjjHj, HmiB.it mm ine a Laurie Anderson score and pieces by modern ating a fresh rendering (in physical terms) of this brilliant score." dance choreographers like David Parsons and Ed "I learn by watching a video of Margot Fontcyn with the Royal Ballet. The clas­ Burgess? This season, the Milwaukee Ballet is striving sical versions are wonderful, but mostly pictorial, pretty, lavish, delightful..." Burgess says. His goal is to create a piece where the audience "feels what is hap­ for both images: longtime subscribers will get their dose pening, rather than sitting back and watching a pretty fairy tale take place. I want of full-length classics (Swan Lake and A Midsummer to engage on a gut level with dancers and audience, by using themes that any audience member can refer to." Burgess, in fact, wants them to call up their own Night's Dream), and lovers of new dance will see pre­ inner world, a world that believes in myth, in magic, in the beauty of flight... mieres from contemporary choreographers. Burgess describes himself as a modern dancer with a tradition of "passion and communicative energy." In terms of movement, Burgess believes in the use of "It's not that we can be everything to everybody," Artistic Director Basil the torso. "For modern dancers, whether they use Graham or Humprcy's tech­ Thompson concedes, while affirming his goal of producing the contemporary niques, the solar plexus—the heart, the guts—is about communication." works equally as well as the classics. The highlight Dynamic and versatile of the season, as far as he Diego Carrasco will dance is concerned, is the mixed the title role in The program of contemporary Firebird, though the rest pieces: Bachiana by of the characters and cast David Parsons, Bach's are still being determined. Lunch by Kathryn Posin And we can expect a nar­ (using music from both rative line that may differ Bach and Laurie from the traditional tale. Anderson) and a world It will more likely blend premiere of The Firebird stories, archetypes, and by Milwaukee's Ed symbols. Burgess. "It is a risky ven­ ture," Thompson admits, All of this is thrilling for "but that's what we're Burgess who was wishing here for—to promote and hoping for just such a both the new and the commission. He relishes classical." the opportunity to work with ballet members Thompson hopes to whom he refers to as "bril­ maintain the old favorites liant instruments" of stage and save money to pro­ presence, nobility and duce new works. "We technique. He admires the have to recognize what history behind their pro­ our public likes. Not that fession. Yet, he feels there they dictate our program­ is something additional he ming, but we know can bring to ballet and to Milwaukeeans love the SVWN UKE PHOTOGRAPH BY RICHARD BRODZELLER those dancers that "have classics, the full orchestra, only accepted working lush scenery and costumes... I call these ballets our 'battleships.' Earned income with me because I will use these skills while introducing them to other percep­ from them help us to be more aggressive, more adventurous in our mixed pro­ tions, other physically expressive styles of dancing." He admires, too, the grams." strength and clarity of the ballet dancers while loving the total naturalness, ease of flexibility,an d expressiveness of those in modern dance. Thompson is largely inspired by his ten years with the City Center Joffrey Ballet. He admires their founder and what he did at that particular time in Basil Thompson invests his talents in projects like The Firebird because he views New York. "Robert had a reverence for the past with an eye for the future. He them as healthy challenges that expand both the audience and the artistic base brought pieces out of retirement, re-staged works that had been ignored, and of the company. at the same time brought in contemporary leaders like Twyla Tharp, whom he allowed to choreograph for a ballet company." Thompson's idea of growth is "The broader public does not realize how fine a company we have here in not necessarily attached to the size of the company, it's more in tune with Milwaukee. For example, I went to see the Joffrey in Chicago and entered in to a artistic growth. conversation with the person seated next to me. I asked her, "What brought you to see the Joffrey?" The Milwaukee Ballet is just beginning to form partnerships with contemporary choreographers, but everything depends on the dollars. "We'd like to be able to "Oh, I've heard so much about it," she went on, tra la la. "Where are you shoot for the stars, but we need to pay for the rocket to get there," Thompson from?" I asked. "Milwaukee," she answered. o o acknowledges. Such partnerships may include extended residencies which would allow company dancers to assimilate a new choreographic style, and "Milwaukee!'' I countered. "Don't you know we have the Milwaukee Ballet?9 0 would then provide the resources for that choreographer to produce their work Q and create new work. She didn't know that. —Peggy Hong A case in point is The Firebird (February 6-9, 1997), a completely contempo­ (Ms. Hong is a dancer and poet.) 3 rary version of the classic Russian fairytale with a score by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Ed Burgess. Thompson has long been an admirer of Burgess The season opens September 26 with A Midsummer Night's Dream, under the and wanted to give him a major work with a major company so he could expand magical wand of Stewart Kershaw, formerly of England's Royal Ballet Orchestra. without the problematical restrictions of space and numbers. Look for fireflies, fairies, fantasy and a wealth of winged-things.

14 Art Muscle 15 The Midnight Ride of John Singleton Copley

6rdnd Speculations on a Grand Painting

by Nathan Guequierre

It starts with this: "The saint who shows his saintliness by kissing lepers loves not lepers but saintliness, and life has once again been betrayed by form."1 Or more specifically, this: "There are two ways of understanding portraiture— either as history or as fiction."2 Or, better yet, imagine this more elaborate setting:3 In 1767, John Singleton Copley, the most famous portrait­ ist in Boston, received a commission to paint a picture of Rebecca Boylston. The prosperous citizens of that far-flung outpost of the British Empire were desperate to appear as sophisticated as their counterparts across the North Atlan­ tic. So, like their London models, they talked over tea of fashions and of The Vicar of Wakefield; they hummed themes from Haydn's Mass in E-flat as they walked along the wharf, crowded with ships bringing the newly taxed and highly coveted imports of tea, glass and fine paper to the New World; they wondered if they shouldn't perhaps lay paved sidewalks, like the one that had been installed in Westminister the year before, making it so easy for Fox and Pitt to stay out of the mud.

And they abhorred muddy boots in Boston, after all, just as much as any MP in London. The wealthy citizens of 1 6 Art Muscle Boston longed to be taken seri­ educated, almost noble in bear­ portrait of Miss Boylston, and clean wind toward the Atlan­ Opposite page: ously in the land from which ing, easy in company, no exhi­ had come to the conclusion tic Ocean, toward England. Rebecca Boylston, they sprang. At home, they bitionist but still unflinching that he must be daring. To give 1767. commanded the sorts of vast when called upon to expose her Rebecca Boylston what she Eventually, Rebecca Boylston Oil on canvas. fortunes that only the exploita­ not inconsiderable charms to wanted—what she in fact appeared at the door of the Museum of Fine tion of an unexploited place can the world. In short, she was ev­ needed—would require bold makeshift studio, her home Arts, Boston. bring. They had silk gowns, erything that the citizens of maneuvering on his part. And and the artist's for the next Bequest of pearl necklaces, silver salvers, Boston wanted to be, or wanted so he would create in her por­ several weeks. She did, in fact, Barbara Boylston manicured lawns, opulent ro­ to be perceived as being. trait an allure that, if it perhaps look lovely—if not quite ra­ Bean. coco highboys with inlaid deco­ stretched the truth of her ap­ diant—uncorseted in the ration and hidden drawers of And so Copley arrived at the pearance, would make up for loose, white silk gown Copley sensitive papers. They had po­ Mansion House (as it was the lie by its very alluringness. had chosen for her. Her edges litical intrigues and military were softened, too, by the in­ heros. They had music societies formal manner in which her and booksellers and opera dark hair was caught back. This page: houses. They longed to be She certainly didn't look like Moses Gill, 1764. equal—not just in wealth, but a hard woman, a disap­ Oil on canvas. in worldliness, in frivolity, in pointed woman, like a rube, Museum of Art, learnedness, in that wonderful like a spinster. She carried a Rhode Island gentility born of wealth—to any basket with flowers cut from School of Design, of their cousins in London. But the garden,6 and Copley Jesse Metcalf how to convince them, sitting would actually see in her, for Fund. smugly in their clubs along Pall an instant, the stable, self- Mall, behind the iron grillwork sure promise he was to paint. of the new rowhouses on Russell That it was arranged, was ar­ Square? The citizens of Boston tificial, hardly mattered then, needed a propagandist. They because they all hoped and be­ needed someone who under­ lieved that at least the spark stood their plight—their seem­ of it was really there. And it ingly irrevocable status as was Copley's gift to be able to colonials, roughnecks, pro­ capture that belief, that hope, vincials—and who could make in pigment and oil and tur­ their case with an elegant and pentine. trenchant voice; who could make their case not with a "Good morning, Mr. Copley," shout, but with a whisper. she said. The artist walked to­ ward her, silhouetted in the Rebecca Boylston herself, in autumn light from the win­ 1767, desperately needed a pro­ dow. She extended her hand. pagandist of the first rate. She "I hope everything is as you was forty years old, unmarried wish it," she said. and, her neighbors said among themselves, certainly destined "Oh yes, Miss Boylston," for the position—lamentable in Copley replied, touching her a century in which just being a soon-to-be elegant fingers woman was difficult enough— with his own. "I think every­ of spinster. But Rebecca called) on School Street on a She would be young but not thing will prove to be per­ Boylston was wealthy. And fine morning in September, one frivolous. She would glow with fect." wealth, of course, made possible of those New England autumn a light from heaven. He would certain adjustments in the pub­ mornings, when the sun has al­ place her in an Eden that re­ (John Singleton Copley in lic perception of her position. ready begun to shine with a membered the past while fac­ America, featuring two por­ Besides, Miss Boylston was light more obliquely directed ing the future, with all the traits of Rebecca Boylston and charming, very intelligent, and toward the earth than in sum­ fruits of civilization at her fin­ dozens of other paintings, is on possessing a "singular degree of 4 mer, but has yet to give up its ger tips but not too far removed view at the Milwaukee Art Mu­ obliging civility," which al­ warmth. One of those perfect from that benevolent nature. seum through August 25.) lowed her to win and keep mornings—the leaves about to He would make her what friends with alacrity. turn, the Charles lapping be­ America needed to be. Notes nignly at its banks—when the But despite these advantages, in constant clamor raised by the Arriving at Mansion House, 1. William Gass, The World Within the 1767, Rebecca Boylston was not Sons of Liberty5 seemed so dis­ Copley saw that everything was Word, 1978, New York, Knopf. a woman in happy circum­ tant that it might as well have as he had asked. The Boylston 2. Charles Baudelaire, quote in Paul Staiti's "Character and Class," John stances. No longer young, been taking place in Montreal. servants had arranged the Singleton Copley in America, 1995, New forced to share her father's large He clapped the knocker, and props that would serve as the York, Metropolitan Museum of Art/ inheritance with her siblings, was duly shown in to the stu­ incipient forms of the Abrams. dependent on her brother for a dio which had been prepared painting's background—an 3.1 made most of this up myself; very little of it is to be regarded as factual, place to live, unable to break for him in a small room over­ archway, a wooden structure although much historical information away from her family but not looking the Boylston's perfectly that looked vaguely like a dog about the painting and the circum­ allowed to play a significant role tended garden. The windows, of (which would become a lion- stances surrounding it is drawn from in the life of the house, Miss course, faced north, and the shaped fountain of stone in the the excellent exhibition catalog cited above. Boylston was ripe for a marble floors had been covered painting)—along with the little 4. This sentiment was expressed by Rev. makeover. And Copley, the art­ with cloths. stool on which Miss Boylston Peter Thacher at Miss Boylston's—then ist, had been meditating on that would sit during the long ini­ Mrs. Moses Gill—funeral. Op. Cit. makeover for weeks on his long All was ready for Miss Boylston's tial hours of sketching. 5. The politics of colonization were heating up by this point, and they ex­ midnight rambles through the transformation. Copley, as I acerbated the need for an assertive, if streets of Boston. have said, was in the habit of Copley arranged his tools. His fictional, portraiture like Copley's. The taking long, solitary midnight assistant had cleaned the Stamp Act had been repealed, but the So let Rebecca Boylston repre­ walks—along the harbor, brushes, stretched a canvas, new Declaratory Act stated in no un­ certain terms the British right to tax the sent the position of all Boston's around the North Church— ground the pigments that he colonists. upper classes. Let her represent during which he would address would need. Copley waited, 6. In another instance of the arranged the families of North America, with himself problems of com­ looked out the window into fiction of portraiture, the flowers in­ in 1767, made wealthy by the position and conceptualization. that perfect garden, while clude peonies, which are, of course, long wilted by September, but which resources of the new continent. He had spent many nights, above his head a few white and harbor a very specific hope for the na­ Miss Boylston was rich, well- nearly sleepless, considering his wispy clouds were sped on a ture of summer. 17 liliiiliili mmmmxme A TRADITION OF ,,«*s

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Door County's Crafts have been an integral part of American sils for our kitchen." Monroe later gained Flower Vase Pin. Finest #3. life since Colonial times, as objects of utility firsthand experience in the Design Depart­ Thomas Mann, Ellie Burke, and as aesthetic additions to our daily sur­ ment at Cranbrook Academy. It provided 1995. 1996. roundings. But there is also a human dimen­ him with the background needed for for­ sion that connects us in a special way to Ameri­ mulating a collection of the best in Ameri­ can crafts. These artists create with their can crafts. "My parents still ship me the hands... famously crafted culinary kringles from — Hillary Rodham Clinton Racine," he laughed.

Imagine that Hillary Rodham Clinton He graduated from the University of Wis­ called Art Muscle and requested a list of consin-Milwaukee with a degree in Art artists to handcraft Christmas ornaments Education in 1967, and following the for the White House Tree. Our office could Cranbrook experience, moved on to shape perhaps supply her with 200 names, but (for over 21 years) the American Craft nothing like the 6,000 that showed up on Collection for the Renwick. a long list supplied by Michael W. Monroe for the First Lady. That's a list! On August 23 in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion at Northwestern University in When HRC dialed him back for another Evanston, Illinois, he'll share his consid­ (shorter) list and asked Monroe to begin erable expertise as a lecturer at the Ameri­ assisting her with can Craft Expo- a formal White sition on the Somewhere on House Craft Col­ same campus. the Housatonic, lection, 70 self- If you'd like a Kari banning. taught and for­ fine read prior mally trained art­ to the Expo and ists were tapped. his lecture— Wisconsin, of buy, beg, or course, is well rep­ borrow The resented. Algoma White House artist Dona Look's Collection of Basket #932, a American Crafts birch bark and silk (Abrams, Inc., thread gift (from 1995). Mr. Racine's premier Monroe has an collector, Karen excellent essay Johnson Boyd) now calls Washington, D.'C. in the publication which is lush with out­ 'home,' as does the work of Harvey Sadow, standing photographs. Jr., a former faculty member at the Univer­ sity of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Another Wisconsin artist Ellie Burke will be repre­ Harvey, with the last name of Littleton sented at the show with pieces from her (professor Emeritus at the University of 'Door County's Finest' series. Fort Wisconsin-Madison campus), was selected Atkinson's Robert Farrell will exhibit his for his 'Blue Orchid Implied Movement' metalsmithing products, Madison's Studio blown-glass sculpture. Paran will showcase the glass works of Richard Jones and Mark Lorenzi, and Ri­ Though Monroe currently presides as presi­ chard Judd of Paoli, Wisconsin will bring dent of the Peter Joseph Gallery in New in his handcrafted furniture—all this and York City, his roots are in Racine, Wiscon­ artists from the Chicago area and places sin where he was born into a family with a as far-flung as Battleboro, Cranston, and Scandanavian heritage. "Certainly that cul­ Ojai. If you are a collector with a want ture has a-great sense of integrity," he said list, you'll find much to admire. in a recent phone interview. "I was influ­ enced by both that and the Midwest work August 22-25 are the dates. Get set. ethic. My grandfather, who was once an ironworker in Copenhagen, made the uten­ — Judith Ann Moriarty

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limo for a celebration for blackbird jazz artists. Flights of Fancy One artist said, "This is like one of those bird parties when your birthday is here." They all had "Tomorrow make some silhouettes out of card­ fun, they stayed up all night and now they were board in various forms and throw them from the tired. The next day when I went to the club the top of the terrace through the air; then draw the Jazzadees were chirping with the wind. I asked movements each makes at the different stages of them, "Do you want to be in the Zig Zag Jazz its descent." Club?" they shouted, or should I say, chirped happily. "Sure!" I said. "Follow me to the club." Leonardo da Vinci Once we got there I told them, "Now you go in there and show 'em what you're made of." So In his studies of birds in midflight, he finally they went in there and come out with pride. I achieved a mastery comparable to that of Zen was so happy, but mercy me, to my surprise they archers who have come to identify so closely with really made it! Enough of that. I was going home their weapon and its target that their arrows hit because I wanted to hear the tape that they gave it without their having consciously taken aim. me. The Jazzadees sang "A Pocket Full of Birds," "The Ancient Eagle," and "Birdy Love." The songs Leonardo, The Artist And The Man were all classic songs made up by the Jazadees! Serge Bramly One day I can be just like them if I put my mind to it. Because they are so familiar, we tend to ignore domesticated hens, with their plump propor­ Lets Talk About Jazz tions, and cockerels, in their shimmering ruffs Jasmine Tyler and plumes. In a farmyard, you can experience a Third Grade, Rm. 302 scene that has changed little since Rembrandt Hopkins Street School van Rijn made his sketches of domestic fowl... Fred Storehouse. La Chalupa, 1996. Collection of Bob Friedman and Debra Brehmer. The department of agriculture suggests, as a fur­ Ways of Drawing Birds ther incentive for the extermination of the En­ Inklink, 1994 glish sparrow, the use of the bird for eating pur­ Kenosha's Channel 21 public-access cable TV fea­ poses, his contention being that "when they are A long time ago an American Indian had a swell tures a nude woman as a model on their "Wood- boned, broiled, buttered and served on toast, they idea. He was a fowler—one whose quarry passed carving the Human Figure" show. Rob Jake, one are as fine as quail." In preparing the little fel­ swiftly and beyond range of his primitive weap­ of the two woodcarvers on the show, said in re­ lows for cooking, he gives the following direc­ ons. And so he thought to invent a lure, an invi­ sponse to viewer squawking: "We wanted to try tions: "Cut off the legs, the wings at the outer tation for all waterfowl to foregather at hunter's a new approach. Before we were carving wild­ joints, and the neck close to the body. Strip off ambush. The new device was fashioned in the life: ducks, birds, and stuff." the skin beginning at the neck, make a cut likeness of duck; an artificial Canvasback, made through the body wall bone until the ribs are of reeds and feathers and colors by native Milwaukee Journal Sentinel severed, then around between the legs to the tail paints...that was a thousand years ago. May 30, 1996 and remove the viscera." There is no question that sparrows on toast would be lickin' good if Use to Beauty: The Artful Decoy One day on my way to the Zig Zag Jazz Club I one could only get enough of them. Jeffrey R. Hayes saw a group of birds with saxophones, trom­ from the Whistling Wings catalog bones, pianos and drums. They were all singing. The Villisca Review Milwaukee Public Museum After they were done singing they got into a black June 20, 1912

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In her book Cloister Walk, Kathleen Norris writes had with a soprano before my last concert. We If my house is clean and I pay my bills, does of her experiences as a poet-in-residence in vari­ had just finished one of our better readings of that make me any less creative? ous grade schools. She notes that, inevitably, it Lili Boulanger's Pie Jesu, a piece which requires is the students described (to her) by their teacher a wide dynamic range and courageous, rich mu- Literature records Frida Kahlo as meticulously as good or well-behaved that produce accept­ sicality. The soprano brought all of this to bear, clean and orderly, with a need to arrange her able poetry; the ones described by the teacher and when I commented on the forcefulness of brushes and paint before she could begin paint­ as bad or misbehaved write brilliant poetry. her voice, I added, "And who would ever ing. During his lifetime, Manual Duffay, a Span­ know?" ish composer of energetic and sensual music, The book's theme would seem to be open- slept on a thin pallet. Hanging on the wall above mindedness, so the flipness of such a generali­ She countered with, "Because I am so mild-man­ that pallet was a crucifix. zation shocks me. But mostly it disappoints me. nered?" I hear again my mild-mannered colleague's in- While I am sure it is refreshing to see the chil­ dren who don't excel in traditional ways write In Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, there is a tense version of dying, passionate Lili exceptional poetry, I worry about the quiet, plainspoken and stoic character by the name Boulanger's Pie Jesu. well-behaved student who is overlooked be­ of Wavey. When her suitor visits her house, cause he/she is not exotic. I am not speaking of however, there is a transformation: "The little And I see the quiet, well-behaved child, intro­ the do-gooder who is less creative because they house was full of colors, as though inside spective both by nature and the effects of a cau­ dutifully follow rules as expected. I am speak­ Wavey's dry skin an appreciation for riot tious environment. Inside this child, I see a well ing of the naturally shy person, and even more, seethed." of imagination and energetic desire. I am speaking of the youngster who has learned (in a harsh household for instance) that the con­ I grow weary of the cliched descriptions of the Charlie Parker said it best: "What's in a man sequences of misbehavior far outweigh any ap­ so-called artistic life. It is as if to write brilliant will come out when he plays his instrument." peal in such behavior. This person preserves 'self poetry or to be a stunning performer, one must through silence. But inside they may harbor a live as a bad boy or bad girl. Is this because it — Karen Beaumont vital world. makes more sense, i.e., "he/she lives differently than we do, so they create this thing we can­ Ms. Beaumont is a professional musician who These thoughts remind me of a rehearsal that I not create." thanks Obie Yadgar for the Parker quote.

From the editor's perch "Realism gives me the impression of a mistake." While enjoying the film independence Day, my —Georges Bataille thoughts strayed to considering the similar­ The Impossible ity between the crazy flick and what's going on at the Shepherd Express. You know. Flam­ ing tongues, snaky tentacles, grumbling, rum­ bling. Checkmate moves to bump off aliens. 'Place Recently, I borrowed John Cage's Freeman Etudes, Books Three and Four from a friend. your bets' stuff. Which is what the working stiffs did Performed with brilliant mastery by Violinist Irvine Arditti, the Etudes soar and plunge at the Circus Parade. They whipped out their chalk, and soar again to heights and depths rarely heard in music—human music, that is. drew circles in the street along the gala route, signed their circles and placed bets on just where the furry Recently I went camping at Mirror Lake State Park in southwestern Wisconsin. One harnessed things would would drop their breakfast morning, very early, barely awake in the tent, I heard the most extraordinary cacophony load first. I mean this is The Sport of Kings and ever so of birdsong. Countless birds of countless species chirped and tweeted away, overlap­ much more fun than grumbling and rumbling. ping their rhythms and melodies, filling the air with a most amazing symphony, the like of which is rarley heard in human-made music. All bets are on, however, that the spunky Walker's Point Center for the Arts will march ahead. Director Kent Muller and his newly minted board Or is it? The similarity between some of John Cage's music and those birds is remark­ met recently in the little urban garden behind the global center to slap able. Cage spent considerable energies conducting himself away from ego-based control Wisconsin's state bird and forge (through spirited discussion) their fu­ over the music he made. While his approach may be rife with contradictions, it has ture course. Robert Ragir heads the tenacious board, which is planning produced music that approaches the random and thoughtless beauty of birdsong. a Salsa party, August 10 at the center. It's for new members and pro­ spective ones who will gladly be signed up at the double doors fronting Of course, one contradiction here is that as Cage moved away from his ego, control, and the historic building. Come to 901 W. National Avenue at 6pm and mastery, the musician who chooses to play the Freeman Etudes must move towards enjoy not only the party but the SPF 10 exhibit curated by Michelle those qualities. The liner notes state that "Cage wanted to make a music that was Grabner and Brad Killam. almost impossible to play," to show that striving towards the impossible is a worthwhile endeavor. The Etudes were originally commissioned for violinist Paul Zukofsky, who The loyal turned up for a big Art Muscle party on Flag Day. As they found them "quite unplayable." Arditti simply felt that Zukofsky wasn't virtuoso enough. wound their way through the halls lined with 59 past AM covers, and in Though immeasurably deft, even he may never accurately produce the flurry of 37 notes, to the spacious studio/residence of Francis Ford and Linda Kimpel, they with 37 wholly separate attacks, in one particularly troublesome measure of the 18th were dazzled by flickering candles and 1,000 black and silver balloons. Etude (to be played in three seconds or less). Can my ears even delineate such density? Party goers flocked in until well after the witching hour to sip suds from Lakeside Brewery, stuff themselves on stuffed grape leaves, and listen to So we have the musician struggling towards an impossibility, which is to play this impos­ the perfect tunes of pianist David Carroll. sible piece perfectly. Cage was also aiming for the impossible—to get a natural sound unobfuscated by the chatter of the human mind and its over-thinking complexities. Mean­ Todd Groskopf is fleeing for the Continent to take in the waters of Paris while, the birds sing on as always. and London, hoping to recover from the rigors of running Silver Paper Gallery, which has closed forever. He'll be back and in action with the Of course, as a species, we seem to be doing every­ arts again soon, but definitely not as a retailer. Thanks Todd, for your thing possible to distance ouselves from those support, lo these long years. Meanwhile, Milwaukee has another new birdsongs. But that's another matter entirely... art gallery...Mink. Look for it on Murray. — JAM.

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From Polka to Piatt Co-presentations are certainly a current trend for Alverno Presents, so in February (at the Pabst), On September 7, Present Music's Director, Kevin UWM will join them to bring the Sounds of Black­ Stalheim, will pump out his wild polka days by ness choir to Milwaukee. The walls will ring with bringing in his favorite accordionist, Guy their interpretation of the blues, spirituals, and Klucevsek. This is as things should be, for it was contemporary urban sounds. The modern dance in 1979 that Stalheim launched his stellar career magic of Momix will make March manageable, by performing with a polka band at Interlochen. as will Ravi Shankar, the Billy Tipton Memorial And a one, and a two...Present Music polkas into Saxophone Quartet (all females) and the Afro- their 15th year. The glorious Guy will perform Cuban sounds of Conjunto Cespedes in April. Polkas From the Fringe, part of his collection of post-modern two steps by today's leading com­ Alverno Presents is ready to take your ticket or­ posers. Following the gala opener (at the Milwau­ ders. Call their box office at 382-6044. kee Art Museum), a mystery polka band will post- concert entertain. From Schicchi to Hughie November 24 at St. Paul's Church on Knapp Street will be the time to tie on your musical bib and Hoodwinkers, greedy heirs and beautiful daugh­ stuff your soul with Native American singing, ters will fill the modest stage in mid-October, dancing and drumming. Present Music will gather when The Boulevard Ensemble steps forward into tunes of Appalachia, Shaker sounds, and Grace their 11th year of excellence with Pucinni's comic most amazing. An extra helping of The Child of one-act opera Gianni Schicchi. It will be brought Tree by John Cage will tie it up. Save room for to fruition in English this time. Who would have some Round dancing. It will bring you together ever thought opera would come to Kinnickinnic with those you love and others who delight in Avenue? Timothy X. Troy, that's who. His former PM. Ring in the new in January of '97 with Ed successes include directing opera for UW-Madi- Burgess when he trots out his new dance choreo­ son and the DuPage Opera Theatre. graphed to the percussion piece, A Doll's House R. Carlos Nikal, flutist, performs at Alverno Story. 30 singers will warble and cellist Paul September 20 with guitarist William Eaton and After Christmas (and through mid-January), Little Gmeinder will remind all that the best in cello is percussionist Will Clipman. Egypt, a comic and bizarre tale of 2 waitress sis­ right here in Milwaukee. Perhaps he'll be using ters and their less-than-matronly waitress mom, his new cello, decorated with a boar's head! afloat for a decade on volunteerism and donations. will intrigue Boulevard audiences with both the In 1971 when the PAC surfaced, major competi­ banal and the triumphant. You can double your Stretch out your winter knots in March with a tion for the dollar loomed big, followed by the pleasure in February and early March with Hughie newly commissioned work and Paul Dresher's UWM's Performing Arts Series and Pabst and Riv­ and Hotels—a duo exploration of isolation, lone­ Stretch. May touts a tribute to the origins of erside Theater events. Directors appeared and dis­ liness and the worship of success and money. Present Music with a performance of Octect, the appeared over the years at Alverno, but the fire in There is a premiere in April when The Triumph of first work of the first concert which Stalheim con­ their bellies burned on. These days Alverno Pre­ Love (Pierre deMarivaux) romances us with com­ ducted. Plus there will be a heralding of the new sents keeps ahead of funding cuts. They are dog­ edy and illusion. efforts of the great John Adams. gedly renewing efforts to ensure community com­ mitment to the arts. All else is history. The Boulevard Ensemble is about more than fine Run for your single tickets now or subscribe to works—they also work from the heart. Conse­ PM's varied package deals by September 1. Call Sounds for the flute by R. Carlos Nakai will pre­ quently, their Charity Benefit Series will continue 414/271-0711; then dig out your dancing shoes miere on September 20 when this Native Ameri­ to raise dollars, and, considering that one good and gear-up for Guy K. can flutist performs with guitarist/luthier William turn deserves another, The Ensemble will benefit Eaton and percussionist extraordinaire Will themselves in a January showcase of sensational Clipman. As the leaves blaze in October, Milwau­ scenes from their Acting Workshop. From Shankar to Saxophones kee Dance Theatre (now celebrating a decade of dance) will bring their own brand of color to bear. Their Artistic Director, Mark Bucher, can be In I960 Sister Laura Lampe founded Alvemo's So­ In the same month, The Lyric Theatre of Belfast reached at 672-6019. He'll be glad to serve you ciety of Fine Arts. It was a break-even operation. will emote things Irish in 'Philadelphia Here I with tickets. If you'd like to become part of their No salary for the good Sister and the group stayed Come.' larger family, see this issue's opportunities listings.

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The Window Gallery pleasant disarray, undercutting the usual larities of representation in her work and 'Rothko' against a chair, a severed head, a 832 E. Clarke St audience preconceptions of art world snob­ theirs. I'm not sure about the place of this bird-whistle, and Douherty's signature Croup Show, July 12-August 12 bery. Work Makes Life Sweet, an iron-clatyped of neo-native work, given American hummingbird. This piece kept me confused self-pounding hammer mechanism, drew awareness of its colonial tendencies (good long into the night, which as a viewer I al­ An elaborate color postcard invitation drew Barrett's concerns into a concise and en­ intentions and all), but Eiden's critical en­ ways appreciate. a crowd to the fledgling Window Gallery, dearingly profound package. gagement with our own culture provides located in the looming shadow of St. interesting, if cute, clashes. This spontaneous space has received much Casimir's in Riverwest. This 'temporary' Heather Eiden's nativistic earthenware adulation (and quite a few sales!) during artist's coalition gallery has already sculptures utilized a mixture of 'world-art' Carlos Schmitt, whose work adorns the its short tenure, which may convince its outlasted its projected lifespan, and if it influences to cast an outside-inside-out postcard, was represented by eight small­ loose coalition of drivers to stick around. lasts, may establish itself as one of glance at us looking at how other cultures ish paintings from the hybrid school of Along with the almost simultaneous clos­ Milwaukee's leading alternative art spaces. view us. It sounds confusing, but the en­ abstract representation. These paintings ing of The Silver Paper gallery and the open­ gaging mish-mash of tiny masks and venture nowhere near a conceptual basis, ing of new gallery Mink on north Murray Brett Barrett is at it again. His seven sculp­ stacked cars works towards a critique of the sticking close to the realm of popular aes­ St, this town seems to be in a perpetual tures were a bestiary of calculated whimsy, hollowness of our culture. Eiden's world thetics. Dan Douherty's prints evidenced a sink-and-swim. It needs all the help it can ranging from tongue-flapping cows, lurch­ travels have given her a glimpse of the highly personal iconography, and may have get. —N.F. ing dervishes, and toothsome fish-lures to strange reverence our strange culture re­ remained elusive if not for the stand-out bird-machines and horned acrobats. This ceives from afar, and a coincidental Public Gallery Space print. A bizarre, nearly post(If- you go, the Window Callery is open daily work never fails to throw expectations into TV glimpse of Balinese art revealed simi­ modern-in-tone tableau set an aquatinted S-8pm or by appointment at S62-43S9.) 22 Art Muscle FRANCIS FORD

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This 'sneak peek party" will take place from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. Milwaukee, WI 53202 414/672-8485 Anderson Dock, Ephraim; 854-5535 Now-September 1 932 EAST CENTER STREET Iw4 : Please submit calendar listings for October/ writing & editing OPEN 24 hours a day, I ifyii£iyt9 34th Annual Juried Art Exhibit & Sale; 7 from the 70s "The Old Jazz Gallery" 7 days a week November in writing on or before September Ideal for restaurant/coffee house in 10, 1996. Indude dates, times, single ticket Hermetic Gallery neighborhood that needs a breakfast NATHAN 6UEQUIERRE Additional work price, location & phone number. Unless other­ Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design 828 E Locus* 264-1063 place or your creative vision. P0B 71168 HIKE WI 53211 available at wise stated, all phone numbers are area code Now-August 2 - SUMMARY: Gallery Artists 273 E Erie; 276-7889 DeLind Fine Arts Gallery, Rent negotiable. 414. For specific infbrmationon events, please September 14-October 18 414*332*6921 August 6-September 7 Grava Gallery, Milw., WI call listings in advance. Sensual Soul Spirituality Race, Sex and Religion ^EVENTS Website: Michelle Grabner: New Paintings; ProjectRoom: [email protected] http://www.win.net/~wi-art \ Jennifer Novack 2711 and 2713 N. Bremen September 17-October 19 - Faculty Exhibition Now "Mamie Pottery". FOR ART AND BUSINESS • NON-PROFIT DISCOUNTS Instinct Available August 1st. Neo-Post-Now Gallery AIDS Walk Wisconsin 725 N Milwaukee; 276-6363 400 sq ft space, $300 with heat. 719 York, Manitowoc; 682-0337 1-800-348-WALK ^ART Now-August 30 600 sq ft space, $400 with heat. Now-August 2 - Michael Gam Fatty liver, Oil September 22 Uffda: Trie Memory Paintings of Emily Lunde Paintings on Cardboard 12:30pm Walk starts at Summerfest Grounds August 10-November 11 - Artasic Transmutation Alt Elements Gallery John Michael Kohler Arts Center 901E. Clark Cardinal Stritch College 10050 N Pt Washington; 241 -7040 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan; 458-6144 2,500 sq ft. Available Sept. 1st St John's Uihlein Peters Gallery 6801 N Yates; 352-5400 Now-August 31 Now-August 18 Former "St. Michael's Waiting Room 1840 N Prospect; 272-2618 August 11 Circus Circus, Animals & Magic Roberta Williamson: Garden Work Exhibition Coffee House". NowOdober6 20m Annual Mile of Art September 7-Oclober 26 Now-September 8 Live-work studio gallery space with 3 A Sesquicentennial Celebration 10am-5pm $3 The Art of the Table; Curt Frankenstein, Paintings Food for Thought E DEN art ££ frames bedrooms. $750 with heat. Southeast Wisconsin's Leading Photographer August 4-October 27 of Fine Arts & Crafts an alternative florist Studio San Damiano Firefly Art Fair Artistry Studio Gallery 3195 S Superior; 481-7992 Kneeland-Walker House, 7406 Hillcrest, Notes & Visions: The Embroideries of Anna 901E. Wright Street 833 E Center; 372-3372 JURY SLIDES August 11 -November 3 Wauwatosa; 774-8672 Torma 1,800 sq ft. Milwaukee's fr Now-October 5 - Gifts of Art Kale Moran: Nine Dolls Fulls of Color Who The Highest Quality of All after finally realizinl g Milwaukee Today; ChiefZOOloruntoba; Young August 3 & 4 Former "Right Street Theater". Types of Arts & Crafts Understand Touch Masters 1996 10am-5pm $2 Tavern, hall and office for creative •| Best || Blatz Gallery September 29-January 5 thai we were not ike best enterprise. LARGE FORMAT 270 E Highland; 277-8091 Casts of Character. The Factory & Beyond Studio 613 Milwaukee Art Museum $600 with heat. For Brochures/Catalogues, window display people in town Selection August 1 -30 Advertising & Printing of Your 3055 N Brookfield; 780-0613 750 N Lincoln Memorial; 224-3200 Peg Haubert Perceptions in Mixed Media, A Katie Gingrass Gallery Fine Arts & Crafts September 21 -November 2 August 17 - Free Day for Families Solo Exhibition 241 N Broadway; 289-0855 GUARANTEED QUALITY we called in the experts Kenn Kwint, Works from the "Head Series' 10am-4pm 612 E. Center St. of li Now-August 31 - Wisconsin Artists PAST TURNAROUND August 25 - Bradley Sculpture Garden Party Charles Allis Art Museum Storefront with large bedroom apt. 1 Tory Folliard Galery Noon-6pm $10/$8 Calf tor an Appointment or Quote Artist Displaced Wind*ow s 1801 N Prospect; 278-8295 Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum 2 Bedroom apartment upstairs. 233 N Milwaukee; 273-7311 Gor0eous Now-August 11 Now-August 30 St Francis Seminary 700 N 12th, Wausau; 715/845-7010 Will remodel to suit I Uownrowit 1 A Bouquet of Morning Glories: Wisconsin De­ Now-August 25 Rent negotiable. Ed Larson: New Fish, Naked Ladies & Folk 3257 S Lake; 747-6450 SANDERS 789 |/ortlJSHMW... Street frames signer Crafts Council Silent Screams of the Russian Underground Paintings September 14 PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES 217 N. Broadway 277 9494 August 18-September 26 Imperial Russian Porcelain from the RaymondF MikmuLi§§^£| 53202 September 6-October 11 2nd Annual Art & Craft Fair 414-672-6727 A/an Gass & Celeste Spransy, Paintings Piper Collection 814 E. Center St. 414..ftt1bl4 AnneDeCoster, Paintings; Patrick Farrell, Paint­ 10am-4pm free ings; Steven Kozar, Watercolors Now-May 1997 - Seven Outdoor Sculptures Retail/office storefront Theatre X Lakefront Cruise Benefit September 7-October 27 - Birds in Art Includes utilities optional warehouse space UWM Art Museum 278-0555 Rent negotiable. 3253 N Downer; 229-5070 August 25 ' yttm yftottfcy Now-October 27 5pm $25 OUT THERE Selections from the Permanent Collection THE MARKET PLACE UWM Fine Arts Gallery rrKFFfer Door County Interpreted at Hardy Gallery CALL 265-5683 Traditional Latin American UWM Fine Arts Gallery 2400 E Kenwood; 229-4946 Arts & Crafts 2400, E Kenwood; 229-5070 August 23 cfeur $>0£Y <& Door County visitors this summer won't have to spend their days oudoors to experience the September 8-Odober 4 Sneak Peek Party for "Virtually tie First" Exhibition beauty of the place; they'll be able to see the County lovingly recreated in the 34th Annual 2034 E. North Ave. 278-7338 Art Department Student Scholarship Exhibition 5-9pm free Juried Exhibit at the Hardy Gallery in Ephraim from now through September 1. Submissions of "art inspired by Door County, the place or state of mind" resulted in 168 works, including PRIVATE MINI STUDIO Mon-TAies-Sat 10-5pm Walker's Point Center for the Aits 3rd vMFsB.- painting, photography, fine crafts, sculpture, graphics, pottery, furniture and jewelry, and 19 5j Wed-Thur-Fri: 10-8pm 911 W National; 672-2787 award winners. Photography was included for the first time in the jurying process; in the a month K Sunday: 12-5pm Now-August 9 FILAV^ past the medium has been considered in a separate juried show. Expect images of boats and SflFJO bams, cows and lawn chairs, quiet winters and sunlit woods. Also on view at the Hardy I* K Est. 1969 September 28-October 25 31* jy. mt.iMcicfet Gallery is 7 from the 70s, comprised of six painters and a sculptor who afl started working in Chalet at the Itiver Francis Ford: 25 Years of Photography 2,°i-°**o Door County during and prior to the 1970s and who continue to work throughout the W&XXXXXKKZZZZ8 Times Gnema Midwest. On Sundays throughout August, each artist will appear to talk informally with 823 N. 2nd LjjP^ KlMPEL West Bend Art Museum 5906 WVliet; 453-2436 visitors. Call 414-854-5535 for details. Artists, hobbyists, art crafters- 300 S 6th, West Bend; 334-9638 Aug 2-8 - Charade use your quiet retreat whenever JTf.671-1232 Now-September 15 Tt^H#uJE Ft<*4M$Bf& ^-~ Aug 9-15 - Chinatown you wish. A place where you can Drawings of Carl Von Man- Aug 16-22 * The Great Escape law £. &o|gEi*L, work and snow your products. Ijfjp&ography for Weddings Nightly 7 & 9pm Sa Su matinees 2 & 4pm $2.50 Charles A Wustum Museum of Fin* Arts Michael H Lord Gallery 277-9898 The Window Gallery 832 E Clarke; 562-4359 2519 Northwestern, Racine; 636-9177 420 E Wisconsin; 272-1007 *86-77«* Now-August 12 Now-September 1 Now-August 24 Carlos Schmilt, MixedMedia Paintings & Drawings Just Add Water: Artists & the Aqueous World Lawrence Laatsch, Painling,Sculpture, Assemblage CL*4§$t$ - V^F.KjHftPJ • LOOK AHEAD The Lunar Landscape: NASA's Surveyor III • Constance Undholm Fine Art Photographs the Moon 1966-1968 Wisconsin Painters & Sculptors/Wisconsin 3955 N Prospect; 964-6220 Artists in All Media •Where can you find Beuys, INT'L BEADTRADER INC. Now-August 26 - No Body's Perfect Milter Art Center On-line at http://www.win.net/~wi-art *DeKooning, Katz, Polke, MILWAUKEE SUMMER 2107 N. Prospect Ave. August 24 - Virtually the First 107 S 4th, Sturgeon Bay; 746-0707 (414) 224-0555 •Uchtenstein and Warhol? Dine a showing of recent works by city artists David Barnett Gallery August 3-September 24 Summer classes offered almost dally *12 class­ Woodlot Gallery 1024 EState,- 271 -5058 Tugs & Tugs: Working Boats of Lake Michigan land Duckworth?At the Milwau­ American Academic" es to choose from • Something For Everyone 5215 Evergreen, Sheboygan; 458-4798 August 7-31 September 28-November 12 CONTACT MANAGER FOR MORE INFO CUSTOM FRAMING kee Art Museum's Contempo- Constructions, Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings Abstract Primitive Ongoing 21st Juried Annual 10:30 - 6 TUES-SAT F>HONE HOURS September 7-28 Mannerist Art & Poetry^ 414-272-0277 MWF 10-6 Bill Weaver •rary Art Society Auction on Sat­ TTH 12-7 Joan Bontempo David J Barnett, Watercolors Milwaukee Art Museum l INCOGNITO.. .(loli) 637-l*3#l 1601 N. Van Buren St. SAT 12-4 urday, October 19. Ranging In 750 N Lincoln Memorial; 224-3200 •price from $250 to $40,000, ^Barbara Czarnecki Gallery ltd. Now-August 18 S-^JL< - U-4U-1 fHtLM % 1030 E Juneau; 272-1611 Recent Acquisitions •the outstanding works will raise Peg Haubert* | Ongoing Now-August 25 DANCE 'monies to purchase new glories Gallery Artists John Singleton Copley in America •for the Museum. A Preview Sally Gauger Jensen Now-September 1 "OBSESSIVE VISIONARY" Classic contemporary museum quality Ko-Thi Dance Company _ Frogtown Gallery American Landscape Photography from the EUGENE VON BRUENCHENHEIN BARNEY'S BROTHER custom made exhibition frames at wholesale *Party Is set for October 10, and Caroll College, Shattuck Auditorium, 100 N W. Peter Scotland 8142 Hwy 57, Baileys Harbor; 839-2566 Permanent Collection Full Service Hair and Nail Salon prices. Available in Maple, Cherry, Walnut, •it will mark the first opportunity ORIGINAL NYCZ Collection East Waukesha; 273-0676 Now-August 2 Now-September 8 Ash • Unfinished or 16 custom finishes. ^taigz-Septi4 J? of 9 Significant Paintings Floater frame options tor canvases on September 12 •for write-in silent bidding. Mu- Laura Meddaugh: Rooms With A View; Gloria Warrington Colescott Artist"J Receptiojfr* among most outstanding of stretcher bars in standard and non standard Van Dixhorn: Earthen Ware Creations 7pm free *seum Director Russell Bowman Friday Aug z 6-9 PM August 23-November 3 American outsiders. In Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward sizes. Complete custom packages available August 17-30 Ink on Paper: The Quad/Graphics Collection Artist's Work Referenced in: Award-Winning European Trained including: custom cut mats, plexi, backing Milwaukee Ballet •will lead a tour. For reserva­ Mike Judy, Acrylics on Paper September 13-November 10 Art & Antiques Kip Spiering Presents The Personal Grooming boards. Call for free color catalog. Marcus Center for the Performing Arts: Uihlein Landfall Press: 25 Years of Printmaking tions, contact Joyce Pabst, 961- Grava Gallery Raw Vision * Intuit Salon For People Who Care About Their Look Hall; 273-7206 Grava Gallery September 20-December 29 1-800-626-3139. •7082. Bidding inquiries can be John Michael Kohler Art Center September 26-29 1209 E Brady; 277-8228 City Stories: 150 Years of Photography in 1209 East Brady Street 207 EAST BUFFALO STREET A Midsummer Night's Dream •made by calling the Auction line, August 2-September 14 Milwaukee Catalogue METROPOLITAN 1 leJrilo-wPrl Satio-sPM Offered by appointment SUITE 604 Th 7:30pm F Sa pm Su 1:30 & 7pm $11 $60 *224-3236. Milwaukee Summer. A Showing of Recent September 27-January 19 Picture Framing Works by City Artists Tulsa: Photographs by Larry Chirk Tarry 541-01219-5 pm 414.276.6555

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UWM Union Theatre Milwaukee: Through the Lens of Lyle Oberwise SILENT AUCTION 2200 E Kenwood; 229-6971 276-6237 AND RAFFLE September 27-October 3 August 1-30 9m Annual Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Portionsof exhibiton view at: Bay View Library, Call (or schedule 2566 S Kinnickinnic; Atkinson Library, 1960 W Atkinson; Mill Road Library, 6431 N 76th; Zablocki Library, 3501 W Oklahoma LECTURES vvvusic ACLU/WI Speak Freely Workshops 272-4032 Saturday Evening Events Include: August 19 - Cyberspace Uncensored Alverno Presents 7pm MSOE Auditorium, 1047 N Broadway Pitman Theatre, 3401 S 39th; 382-6044 Poetry Readings, Film Screening, September 24 - Literature Uncensored September 20 and Live Music Throughout Riverwest 7pm Woodand Pattern Book Center, 720 E Locust R Carlos Nakaiwilh William Eaton & Will Clipman 8pm $12-$28 Tickets and T-shirts Available Now! Milwaukee Art Museum Call Christine at 372-5692 750 N Lincoln Memorial; 224-3200 Audubon Court Books Gallery Talks 383 W Brown Deer Rd; 351 -9140 Aug 13 - John Singleton Copley in America Fridays & Saturdays - Live Music The Riverwest Art Center is Growing and Moving. 1:30pm free w/admission 7:30 pm Mondays & Thursdays - Alia Levin, Classical Piano Watch for poetry, exhibitions, performance and music 6pm throughout the Summer!!! Sundays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays 3178 N. Fratney, the corner of Fratney and Auer! LITERATURE Zoya Makhlina 6pm

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:::: ""•".. :: :" •:.:: ' \ ' :" ••'." S; ' .".-'•" .. ..,• :: ' ' •• 383 W Brown Deer Rd; 351 -9140 Washington Park, Sherman & Lbyd; 286-3663 .' - J£MB Aug 10 - Patricia Lorenz, Stuff That Matters for August 3 Single Parents 2pm An Old-Fashioned Park Concert Aug 12 - Jerry Dennis, The Bird in the Water­ 8pm free fall: A Natural History of the Oceans 7pm Aug 15 - Norihshore Writers 7pm Jazz in the Park Are you a All readings free Cathedral Square, N Jefferson; 271 -1416 August 1 & September 5 Evening Concerts Espresso Poetry Aug 1 - Douglas Spotted Eagle w/Random 7pm followed by open mike free Walk & Peter Buffeti Aug 8 - Chesterfield Kings Cafe Melange Aug 15 - Johnny Frigo 720 Old World Third; 291 -9889 Aug 22 - Victor SowardJazz Ensemble Mondays Aug 29 - East Town Jazz Orchestra Poet's Monday 6:30pm free If so, do w(S>e have th)e placeJunkie for you. Over 500 papers fro(Stm all around) the Open mike & featured performers 8:45pm Noontime Concerts world are on display & at your fingertips. From hand marbled to floral Aug 1 - Kaye Berigan Quartet inclusions to bright colors. We've got the paper for you. Lava Java Aug 8 - Acoustic Warriors 722 E Burleigh; 265-JAVA Aug 15 -BAL Saturdays Aug 22 - Curt Hanrahan Quartet Stop in and see our paper store. Next Saturdays Aug 29 - Newberry Brass Located in rear of third building The Vicki Schober Co. Inc. Open mike 6pm featured performers 7pm free Noon free north of North Avenue. For more 2363 North Mayfair Road information call: 476-8000. Milwaukee,Wisconsin 53226 Schwartz Bookshops Marcus Center for the Performing Arts 274-8680 929 N Water; 273-2787 Writers to Readers Series Rainbow Summer 4093 N Oakland: Aug 1 - Mark Shurilla Aug 14- PaulaSharp. Crows Overa Wheatfield Aug 2 - Random Walk 17145WBIuemound: Aug 5 - Chuck Hedges Aug 18- Jan Karon. These High. Green Hills2pm Aug 6 - The Dirty Dozen Brass Band Aug 22 - Tipper Gore. Picture This: A Visual Diary Aug 7 - Sean Emery 10976 NPt Washington: Aug 8 - The Mosleys AJJO^B-JonKcron.TheseHiah.GreenHills^^am Aug 9 - Greg Koch & the Tone Controls 7pm unless otherwise noted free Aug 12 - Road Damage Aug 13 - Paul Cebar & the Mihvaukeeans Y-Notll Aug 14 - Trinity Irish Dance Company 706 E Lyon; 347-9972 Aug 15 - Blarney, Moving Cloud, Bembe Salsa 2nd & 4th Wednesdays Jazz Orchestra Poetry Slam Aug 16 - The Temperaments 8:30pm $2 Aug 19- WcfcConfomo&rfieEasfTcwiJazzOrtnesfrcr A BENEFIT FOR THE MILWAUKEE AIDS PROJECT Aug 20 - Streetlife Aug 21 - David H B Drake, Lil' Rev, David Fox SEPTEMBER 28, 1996 • 8-11 PM Aug 22 - Penny Goodwin, Mary White, Ma­ sonic Wonders, Reed Sisters SURViVAL'REViVAL RESALE SHOP ESQUICEhfTENIMIAL Aug 23 - Booze Brothers 246 E. Chicago St. in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward All performances noon free

Happy Birthday, Milwaukee Celebration Milwaukee Art Museum Fashion Commentary by SISTER CASK BOX East Library, 1910 E North; 286-3058 750 N Lincoln Memorial; 224-3200 with Emcee B.J. DANIELS August 8 Music in the Museum 2pm free Aug 6 - / 930s Hollywood 5:30pm $15/$12 Music by TrlE iMWiflfe *MlCEM Milwaukee Public Theatre 347-1685 Milwaukee Jewish Community Chorale Hair & Makeup by BEAUTY SALON & August 1 & 3 - Neighborhood Dreams Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N Broadway; THE SKIN INSTITUTE & DAY SPA Aug 1: Lisbon Ave Neighborhood Develop­ 291-7800 ment, 1952 N 36th, 5-8pm; Aug 3: Merrill August 14 & 15 !!!!Raffle Prizes!!!!!! Refreshments!!!! Park, 3326 W Michigan, 10am, & Neighbor­ Shuvah Tzion (Return to Zion) hood House, 941 N 28th, noon free 7:30pm $6-$21 28 Art Muscle OUT THERE

Outdoor Art Fair Takes Over Chicago's New East Side

Unlike Milwaukee's Great Circus Parade or Firstar Fireworks, which both cause terrific bottlenecks in the downtown area, it's art that slops traffic in downtown Chicago, at least from August 15-17 (except, of course, the Windy City's famous St. Patrick's Day Parade). Chicago's New East Side ArtWo'rks will-feature more than 200 artists from throughout the United States and Canada in a juried show held on Lake Street at Michigan Avenue, just %m north of Grant Park and south of the Chicago River. Look for the Amoco and Prudential Wit-. buildings as nearby landmarks. A broad selection of fine art and crafts are available for purchase, including painting, photography, printmaking, wood, metal, glass, ceramics and fiber. A special exhibit, Ambiance, held on the Prudential Plaza, will feature ten French- speaking artists from Canada, Haiti and France, and three stages of live musk roundou t the event. And a couple of award-winning Wisconsin-area artists will returnt o the ArtWorks: Ken Swanson will present his linocuts, and Joan Gasperhart will show works on paper. Call 312-551-9290 for details.

Theatre X RADIO Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Broadway Baby Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N Broadway; TV Ma reus Center for the Performing Arts: Uihlein 5132 W Mill; 358-2020 278-0555 Hall, unless otherwise noted; 273-7206 Now-August 31 September 18-October 6 September 6-8 Little Shop of Horrors Theatre X Presents: Singing in a Strange LandAlternatin g Currents in 20th Century Music Pops: Mancini, The Movies & Doc W 7:30pm F Sa 8pm Su 4pm $28/$31 w/ W Th 7:30pm F 8pm Sa 5 & 8pm Su 2pm Sundays F Sa 8pm Su 7:30pm $14-$47 dinner DJ Hal Rammel 6:00pm WMSE 91.7 FM September 12-14 Classics: Luloslawski & Beethoven Cafe Melange Waukesha Civic Theatre Brandon Marsh Entertainment Th F 7:30pm Sa 8pm $13-$45 720 Old World 3rd; 291 -9889 506 N Washington; 547-0708 Tuesdays September 20-22 Sundays September 13-29 Aug 6 - Jason Stuart Classics: Verdi, Bolcom, Rachmaninoff Hotel Milwaukee: A Weekly Variety Show (Taping) Nunsense Aug 20 - Pulsations, Rod Benedict F 11:15am Sa 8pm Su 7:30pm $13-$45 5pm $4 F Sa 8pm Su 2pm Sept 22 2 & 7:30pm $10/$9 Sept 3 - TRUE to Desire Sept 17 - Pride Around the Year Old Town Serbian Gourmet House Dale Gulzman Presents Windfall Theatre 9pm Milwaukee Cable 14 522 W Lincoln; 672-0206 Marcus Center for the Performing Arts: Vogel Village Church, 130 E Juneau; 332-3963 Fridays-Sundays Hall; 273-7206 September 12-28 Guitar Nuts Strolling Siring Minstrels September 6-14 Is There Life After High School? Mondays 7pm-close Macbeth ThFSa8pmSu7pm$10 9pm Milwaukee Cablel 4 & Viacom 11B 353- FSa8pm$16 5052 Piano Gallery Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival 219 N Milwaukee; 276-3525 Dead Ale wives Center for the Arts, Platteville; 608/342-1298 Hotel Milwaukee September 28 - Patty Stevenson Comedysportz, 126 N Jefferson; 272-8888 Now-August 10 Thursdays & Saturdays 8pm free Alternative, uncensored improv comedy w/ live In Rotating Repertory Th 7pm Sa 4pm WHAD 90.7 FM music W 8pm Th 10pm Macbeth Present Music Aug 1, 3, 9 8pm Aug 7: 2pm Joy Farm Milwaukee Art Museum, 750 N Lincoln Me­ first Stage Milwaukee Taming of the Shrew Mondays morial; 271 -0711 Marcus Center for the Performing Arts: Todd Aug 2, 7 8pm Aug 3, 4,10: 2pm M 10 pm Warner Channel 14 September 7 Wehr Theatre; 273-7206 Twelfth Night Season Opener & Parly September 27-October 13 - Peter Pan Aug 6, 8, 10 8pm Aug 3: 2pm Notes from 52nd Street 8pm $7.50-$l 8 All performances Sa Su 1 & 3:30pm $9-$17 F Sa 8pm-2am Su 11 pm-2am Smooth WFMI 106.9 FM UWM fine Arts Recital Hall John Michael Kohler Arts Center 2400 E Kenwood; 229-4308 Roberto Wiffiamnn, My Love, 1996 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan; 458-6144 Pin {sterling, quartz, coord, aba lone, mother of pearl, sheB, September 5 & 8 August 8-17 - Don Juan paper) On view at John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Lipatti Quartet Concert Th F Sa 8pm Aug 11 3pm $9.50/$7.50 Sheboygan, Now-August 18 Th 8pm Su 7pm $4/$2 September 8 Marcus Center lor the Performing Arts New Generation Concert 929 N Water; 273-7206 3pni Now-August 24 The Phantom of me Opera |pg»^ Waukesha Symphony Orchestra Tu-F 8pm Sa 2 & 8pm Su 2 & 7:30pm $16.50- Mill Creek Farm, S47 W22099 Lawnsdale, $66.50 Waukesha; 547-1858 August 18 Milwaukee Repertory Theater Sunday at the Farm with George (Gershwin) 108 E Wells; 224-9490 Afternoon $10-$12 Powerhouse Theater: September 13-October 13 Woodland Pattern Book Center Arcadia 720 E Locust; 263-5001 Stackner Cabaret: August 9 - Marilyn Crispell, Solo Piano September 7-November 24 7:30pm $5/$3 Hula Hoop Sha-boop All performancesTTh 7:30pm W1:30 & 7:30pm F 8pm Sa 4:30 & 8:30pm Su 2 & 7:30pm

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