A I'.I-MON'HMY I'UI'-I l( ATION OF THE ,x.x,, Volume 5, Issue 6 Com|!iinentary JULY 15/SEPTEMBER 15,1991 Editor-in-Chief Debra Brehmer
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Associate Editor-Music I hadn't given the art show in the mayor's offices any thought during the opening, except the usual thought I have at these kind of events which goes along the lines of "get me outa here." It wasn't until I was editing the review Bobby DuPah of the show (Page 8, this issue) that I began to sense that there were some issues generated by this assortment of art work that the reviewer didn't address. My compulsion was to add these thoughts to the review. Since that Editorial Assistants isn't a very ethical practice, I decided to discuss them here. Judith Ann Moriarty, Mark Bucher This is the second year the mayor has invited artists to hang work throughout his suite of offices. This year he & Niccona Teichert asked a local photographer, Tom Bamberger, to select the work. The show was apparently put together quickly and Bamberger drew from those artists most familiar to him and most accessible. Our reviewer talks about Photo Editor whether he will be criticized for including too many photographs and mentions that it would be nice, next year, Francis Ford to include more experimental works, some additional sculpture and maybe a video. But, having taken in these art goods at a very crowded, name-tag-type invitational opening, what struck me as being missing was not one Design type or another of my peer's work, but the voice of distinct communities — diversity. Chris Bleiler The work on view was that of artists who had already been validated by the art bureaucracy, whether it was a gallery, a curator or the academic institution where many of them are employed. These artists cleanly paralleled Sales the broader, political power structure of the city. After all, it's the educated middle class that has always had free Angel French, Sales Manager access to the mayor's office, the greatest visibility and the loudest voice. Some people like to think that the Lisa Mahan, Sales Representative political structures that gridlock a city don't exist in the art world—that art can inherently question and defy those hierarchical assumptions and expose the limitations of the body politic. Yet which artists were awarded a very privileged audience at the mayor's office, which visual dialogs were permitted a voice? Only those of the Printing by Port Publications majority. Where was the art that speaks from a specific community, about cultural issues and conditions? That art remains in the same place as its community — ghettoized, marginalized and misunderstood. There is exciting art taking place in the margins as well as the mainstream. What differentiates this art from that of all the familiar names is that if s about community and it speaks directly to a community. We can't put out shows FRIENDS OF ART MUSCLE like the one in city hall anymore and not question the implied presumption that these are the only voices that Perry & Bobbie Dinkin Ellen Checota count in the art world. The subtext of this show reveals an overt cultural bias and in-group dynamics. It reveals Barbara & Jack Recht Barbara Kohl-Spiro Jim Newhouse Thelma & Sheldon Friedman how we haven't even begun to address the rigid political structures in the beal arts community. Racial issues Peter Goldberg Mary & Mark Timpany are at the center of the city's concerns right now. Yet, as suggested in this show, the many minorities that Theo Kitsch Dr. Clarence E. Kusik Gerald Pelrine Tina Peterman comprise this city still have no access to the mayor's office. Of course, if s easy to point fingers and there are Jay Brown Babcock Mechanical innumerable examples of this limited viewpoint. But because the work was in the mayor's office and not in the Christine Prevetti Katie Minahan Richard & Marilyn Radke Richard Cler "neutral" zone of a gallery or museum, these issues become especially relevant. The broader question of how Dennis Hajewsky Patti Davis to begin Integrating" the art world as well as the city is an even tougher concern. Do we simply pull a group of Harvey & Lynn Goldstein Robert A. Holzhauer work from the central city and intersperse it with the historically correct (white, heterosexual, male, middle class) Robert Johnston Gary T. Black Polly & Giles Daeger Joel & Mary Pfeiffer output? What kind of a confusing dialog would that create? We have found that to look at art work from various Judith Kuhn Nicholas Topping ethnic communities, we have to drop our western-learned assumptions of quality and apply different critical Dorothy Brehmer C. Garrett Morriss Karen Johnson Boyd Geralyn Cannon criteria. This art work may not fit into the modernist legacy role, so we can't use the quality-criteria developed Tim Holte/Debra Vest Roger Hyman out of that history when we encounter it. It seems that despite what jarringly disruptive visual juxtapositions might Jack & Ellen Weller Dean Weller occur in a show of "integrated" art at the Mayor's office, however, it would be a refreshing and challenging Arthur & Flora Cohen Remy Sandra Butler David & Madeleine Lubar alternative to the "sameness" we all accept as the ruling operative in the art community. I don't want to blame Jimmy G. Scharnek Sidney & Elaine Friedman Bamberger for not seeing beyond his own office door. Any of us could have assembled the same group of art, Mike & Joyce Winter Carolyn & Leon Travanti Mary Joe Donovan James B. Chase given a short deadline. We do draw from what is familiar and close. It's the expedient way. But I also believe Jerome J. Luy Cynthia Kahn that we can't accept this anymore if we want the art community and the broader community to be viable and Nate Holman Chris Baugniet alive. Patrick Farrell Riveredge Galleries Albert & Ann Deshur Bob Brue Pam Jacobs Jewelry Burt & Enid Dinkin To further explore some of these important questions, Art Muscle will be co-editing the next issue, Sept. 15 to Ginny & Gerry Robbins Ello & Guido Brink Taglin Enterprises/Access Milw James & Marie Seder Nov. 15, with publisher Nathan Conyers and his staff at the Milwaukee Times. We plan to put together an issue Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops Randi & John Clark about African-American art and culture in Milwaukee. Through this project, we hope to establish an ongoing Robert E. Klavetter Keith M. Collis Linda Richman Jewelry Mary Paul collaboration with many new voices in the central city. By getting to know each other's neighborhoods, we'll gain Richard Warzynski Joan Krause a much better perspective on our own. I sense that some of the most viable, exciting art work in this city is Janet Treacy Morton & Joyce Phillips happening next door and it's time to explore new territory. Monica Cannon Haskell Delphine & John Cannon Jim & Julie Ansfield Daniel S. Weinberg Sharon L. Winderl Mary Streich Dori & Sam Chortek Carole & Adam Glass In this summer issue of Art Muscle, we've gone visual and devoted the bulk of the editorial space to children's Janet & Marvin Fishman Diane & David Buck art, another fringe group that isn't usually heard from. The nice thing about children's art is that it exists freely Steve & Amy Palec William James Taylor Kathy & Neal Pollack Julie & Richard Staniszewski outside the realm of the commercial. It is what it is. The freedom and intense directness of the work reminds Blue Dolphin Gallery us that we all possessed the ability to tap true expression, at least once in our lives. And maybe it's still there, buried somewhere deep within our years of accumulated baggage. 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Art and elitism resource guides. My hope is that you do The world of art is a world of elitism. some follow-up; it is our personal re Artists create art for other artists. Critics sponsibility to investigate, question and write for other critics. All are swept up in educate ourselves. To address griev their pursuit of notoriety and money. Lost ances and delineate the policies which is the contact with the publ ic, which is the have led to current situations and negate audience artists should aspire to. the policies which have led to current situations and dilemmas, we must realize In the past few months I have exhibited that Columbus is alive and well. my work locally in malls at arts and crafts fairs. My artist peers scowl in horror. They To study the man in his own time, one say it belittles artists to show their work may find occasion to empathize with with that of craftspeople. They are afraid Columbus. The millions of dollars being or unwilling to take the time to deal with spent by various nations (the U.S. in the public saying that the public doesn't cluded) to celebrate one of the forefa know how to buy art work. I ask, 'Whose thers of the tenet "people as commodi fault is that?" ties'' while domestic crises such as home- lessness, AIDS, unemployment, failing The fault is with the artists. Artists need to public education and abrogated treaty learn to communicate more directly with rights fall by the wayside, attests to the their public. For too long they have tried imbalance of historical coverage and the to shock the art world in an attempt to irreverence of policy-makers toward the wake it up. They have done this to try to human condition. Plants, animals, and change things. What happens, unfortu Earth have also been affected, and for the nately, is that they are presenting art to most part, ignored. people who are regular art viewers and are accustomed to these notions. In the The few historians and politicians who end the work is ineffective. are striving, if not to rectify, at least to ac knowledge the injustice served to the Artists are lazy with their thoughts. They "losers" in these mythologized historical put them into their art and then leave it to accounts, is not enough. For a more the galleries and critics who try to place holistic view we must call upon all sectors the ideas within the context of history. of society, not only rely upon historians The information rarely reaches the pub to fill the void of cultural storytellers, but lic. Art critics write articles that are only petition indigenous peoples to tell their coherent to their peers in expensive art own stories and evoke the imagery of the magazines for elite art "connoisseurs." seers and visionaries that dwell in the They are interested in their careers, not realms of the "Art World" as artists, poets, the public. If more articles were written playwrights and film-makers. and published in accessible publications such as local newspapers, I believe a new 1992 also marks the beginning of the final art-buying public would emerge. 20 year cycle in the Mayan calendar. As we approach a new millennium, the Artists should rise to meet this and learn voices grieving in our past can no longer to write their thoughts for people and not be silenced. The wounding that has taken be reclusive. They also need to market place must be acknowledged in open themselves and to try new ways of selling dialog before healing can begin. We their work and gaining recognition. must face ourselves and each other with an honesty that is homegrown and heart Too many artists fail. Too many things are felt if we are to help bring this nation and in the way, barring success. Recognition this planet back into equilibrium. and fame is not sufficient. We need to speak out and no longer be subject to the What can we do? Perhaps as artists we whims of art critics, historians, gallery could develop a think-tank of creative owners and museum directors. We need responses. New collaborations could be to reach out to the public. sparked, and if we don't stumble over ourselves (transcending individual artis Many artists feel they are too good to tic visions) we might create an artists' make art for the home and snub anything collective of social conscience. In an that appears at all crafty. I believe that it is informal and perhaps unconscious way in the home where we can reach the this is already happening. To bring it to greatest audience. We need to learn to the foreground could be an empowering create art that communicates directly with and enriching experience. the people and brings them together rather than trying to horrify and dismay them. Some things that are being planned na tionwide include alternative tours of lo Artists need to see themselves as healers cal historical sites that have been kept in and as the conscience of society. Only by obscurity, such as Wall Street having been getting into the homes, work and malls the site of a slave market, with accompa will we reach anyone. It is time to heal nying plaques and statues being created. and to communicate directly with the After the United Nations refused to de people. clare 1992 the "Year of Indigenous People" Suzanne K. Vinmans because it would conflict with the invest Madison ments already secured for the Quincen- tennial, the Traditional Circle of Elders Columbus is alive and well has taken it upon themselves to declare 1992 is just around the corner. And what's this commemorative without U.N. sanc so significant about 1992 ? Well, to name tion. Radical reform to bring truthful a few things, it is an election year, it's the curricula into public education is being 100 year centennial of the Pledge of Alle undertaken. Renaming Columbus Day giance, the 500 year anniversary of the and designing a new Pledge of Allegiance, expulsion of the Jews from Spain during which could reflect the values and ethics the Inquisition, and it is the Quincenten- necessary to go beyond survival in the nial of Columbus... marking 500 years 21st century, are also being discussed. of Indian resistance in North, Central and The possibilities are endless. Getting the SouthAmerica. Although some may view ideas will not be as difficult as getting the accidental invasion of the Americas them done. But we must begin. by Columbus as a historical moment of Milwaukee's Longest Lunch.11 am-Midnight. expansion in terms of global perspective, Can it be history is in our hands and the there is no cause for celebration. 1992 is future is being written accordingly? In a a time for somber reflection... or should nonlinear universe of simultaneity, it's all Rosie's Water Works be. To recount the atrocities, genocide happening now. What is our role? We 2111 AC Water 274.7213 ^and planetary ramifications of the grand have the opportunity to creatively partici father of colonialism in the Americas, pate in this story... what will we do? would be lengthy and is not my reason Cristina Herrera for writing. There are many excellent Milwaukee 6 Art Muscle •"•"I
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rama installations — similar to Lechter's imagining art d'objects made of reworked cell. These naturalist habitats replace the white bread, like the way we used to former sterile tiled exhibits that are still squish bread into our own mock Roman used in the feline and primate exhibit Catholic holy wafers. I do remember halls. The new aviary dioramas house neighborhood parents, after bridge clubs tropical rain forest, African savannah, and martinis, occasionally doing Gretchen shoreline, island, and Australian birds Colnik Show stand-ups, ala Stan Freberg and simulations of their habitats. Along and Allan Sherman. I believe white bread, with these improvements, a re-landscaped martinis, Gretchen Colnik, Stan Freberg, central atrium now houses wetland birds and Allan Sherman were all very much in and a redecorated aquarium displays King the air those days. and Rockhopper penguins. The aviary's Ron Bitticks, P.S.T.: Part n, encaustic. foyer has been redone in a fast-food I did have the pleasure of meeting 1991 WISCONSIN Mexican adobe style. Gretchen a couple of times when I was Another recurring theme was a romantic, ARTISTS BIENNIAL putting together a series of Milwaukee Beuyssian respect for existence and a This Latin-theme space is a clue to the celebrity postcards. At the time, Gretchen June 27-August 31 fear of our psycho/social contrivances. overall inspiration for the aviary's design was getting about with the help of an Haggerty Museum of Art The seductively beautiful surfaces of — the 1950's B movie / Walked ivith a aluminum walker — she had recently dense black tar and precious gold leaf in Zombie. The chief set designer for the broken a hip and was confined to her The 1991 Wisconsin Artist's Biennial is Bob Gill's Heavenand Fossil Fuel depicts aviary, Mark Miskimen, said after looking living quarters on the second floor of her a handsome show worth the time of a Armageddon and the all too frequent at many sources, it was / Walked with a home. (The first floor was a quasi-shrine/ slow and careful viewing. This exhibi apocalypse within ourselves. Another Zombie that gave him the fanciful idea to warehouse to her father, Cyril, and it tion shows more accomplishment than poignant commentary is Julia M. Barello's set the scene with pith helmets, machetes, housed many of his exquisite wrought any of the WP&S Biennials in the last Passage. Rose canes, festooned with tin cups, rugs and masks. Viewer spaces iron works). She was adroitly ambulatory decade, having been culled from 925 silver thorns are both support and prison are decorated to resemble rooms that —brewing tea, presenting a variety of entries and scrutinized through two jury for a silver, conical armature, while grains create the sensation of looking out a cookies — and her wit was far from pe processes with three jurors of interna of black, powdered granite spill from the panoramic window, similar to the inte destrian. We talked at length about her tional stature. Most of the work is tech rock trapped within. rior views of the Zombie film. Unlike life, her creations, her travels, her values, nically and/or aesthetically polished, museum dioramas, these displays feature her father. She had me pull out two old 78 emotionally cool, conceptually slick and Most pieces in this exhibition merit indi living vegetation and animals, creating rpm records: popping and crackling, the "a la mode." There is little angst or per vidual scrutiny and appreciation. If an uncanny corporeal manifestation of records were of one of her television sonal narrative and none of the "embar something is lacking it is not a "lack of tomorrow's Disneyland and the ultimate shows — in this very special case, a rassing" provincial trappings associated courage," but rather the lack of appropri hyper-real, virtual reality technology. eulogy delivered by the family minister with a regionalist school or the heritage ate venues and competitions for artists to for her father, who was recently deceased. of the Chicago/Midwest imagist tradition. exhibit their works. Other venues could All in all, the ecological kitsch dioramas She seemed a bit nervous, however, when The irony of the show's success is that the serve as an alternative to the opportuni are handsome rooms with a view and will Frank Ford and I, having just lugged up a viewer is left searching for the quirk in the ties available in a system that is ultimately hit the spot with bird watchers. Postmod seamless backdrop, power packs, lights, quilt to assure that it was made by hand commodity, (thus trend) based. The ern enthusiasts will enjoy the interfacing and other photographic paraphernalia, and not machine. considerable curatorial conundrums of endangered nature and cult culture had to rearrange some of the living room inherent in an exhibition such as this media to create a walk on the wild side. furniture and tiptoe amongst hordes of A venture organized to exhibit the di probably cannot ever be overcome. New age goes new cage. However, ani knickknacks to accomplish the shoot. verse and multifaceted production of Certainly out of 925 works a multitude of mal rights sympathizers may be disheart Since nothing broke, I can only assume artists from a specific geographic area unique shows could have been assembled ened to see Rockhopper penguins, which we stayed within her good graces. presents obvious problematic issues. The and some of these surely would have dive 800 feet in the wild, painfully re connective tissue of the Biennial is that it shown that curious, inexplicable thread stricted to three feet of water space. The Marquette's memorial tribute to Gretchen shows the work of select, contemporary that pervades the work of the best re constant gridlock of baby buggies and Colnik was an elegant and esteemed Wisconsin artists. Beyond that, a string of gional shows. But then again, bored and tired children, who curiously occasion, but far from stuffy. The Helfaer polemic considerations must be ad "everybody's a critic." reflect the zombie characters in the movie, stage was peppered by the results of her dressed: One juror expressed dissatisfac Michal Carley make the displays difficult to see so it's many adventures in millinery: cocktail tion that the work submitted didn't situ best to visit on an off day. Check it out. hats and picture hats, cloches and pill ate itself in a particular "sense of place THE AVIARY Like they say, it really is happening at the boxes, sequins and feathers (nothing and the history of living here." Another Milwaukee County Zoo zoo! ruffled), lavenders and greens (no shrink stated: "I don't find anything that dictates Jerome Schultz ing violets). With a healthy-sized audi a specific place — this work could be ence of 150, there were significant num made anywhere. Why?" While it seemed In the film Silence of the Lambs, the bers of grandmothers in attendance, some necessary to invite jurors from outside macabre love connection between Clar having trouble navigating the Helfaer the area so as not to knowledgably recog ice Starling and Hannibal Lechter treats GRETCHEN COLNIK incline, with its low-slung stoop, sans nize and promote local favorites, the se movie-goers to a historical overview of MEMORIAL TRIBUTE railing, some bedecked in hats of their lection process suffered from a lack of an society's comprehension and confine (1906-1991) own creations. astute understanding/perception of what ment of the wild. Starling's Dantesque is indigenous to a midwestern culture. walk down the aisle to Lechter's chamber Marquette University Helfaer Theatre And there was a rather august body of Could these jurors have brought a New is a didactic "lifestyles of the sick and aim June 20, 1991 speakers, each presenting a different York/LA/mainstream prejudice to the less" where shackled and blabbering wild perspective on Gretchen. Longtime friend project and thus have excluded our ver men appear in dimly lit cells with jail Mrs. Margaret Platz waxed anecdotal, nacular without even knowing it' Did house bars. In contrast to his untamed reciting stories about Gretchen's interior artists submit work that was uncharacter peers, Lechter's suite is a fully-furnished decorating habits, art classes, Christmas istically derivative in order to posture for "Ajax was here" department store tableau time teas, and stint as vocalist to the specific jurors? Jurors stated that they complete with glass facade. But it's not Hildegarde's piano accompaniment — saw a "lack of courage and conviction" just his quarters that set him apart. Unlike two Milwaukee chanteuses if ever there and no "sweet madness of the poet/ his fellow savage inmates, Lechter is a were any. Former mayor Frank Zeidler prophet." Yet it seems that the selections scientific specimen filled with vital infor (Milwaukee's most Honorable Citizen, a excluded all but the sophisticated and re mation that must be protected and nur gentlemen who lives and breathes Citi strained. In an era where two important tured. zenship the way some do Art or Sports, or operative terms are "cultural diversity" Sex or Sleaze or Greed) placed her within and "alternative voices," did the jurors The treatment of the wild shown in this a pantheon of Milwaukee women "pio consider these concepts? hit movie is aptly reflected in the Milwau kee County Zoo's new and improved neers" and provided an intelligent essay aviary and in the overall perception of on her impact on social and cultural Wit and satire were vehicles to examine wild animals within the zoo industry. Gretchen Colnik. Photo by Francis Ford. matters in town. Former Marquette Presi personal, economic and social issues in Since the adoption of a Species Survival dent John Raynor, S.J., reflected on her some of the more engaging pieces. In Plan in the early 1980s, zoos have be lifefromthe perspective of G.K. Cheston's Vanity, Wyatt Osato played out a search come Noah's Arks for the survival and notions of Christian Optimism, and had a for identity, conflating his xerographed I didn't really know Gretchen Colnik that propagation of endangered wild crea few good tales about afternoon conver self-portrait with the superimposed, well. Being of a much different genera tures. Zoos are now breeding centers for sations with her over beer and sand rococo elegance and pomp of J.A.D. tion — I was only a tyke when The the endangered complete with survival- wiches. Sharon Murphy, Dean of the Ingres' Portrait of Napoleon as Emperor. Gretchen Colnik Show was running on ist day care. Wild animals have gone from College of Communications, Journalism Andrew Rubin makes our reverence for Milwaukee television in the '50s and '60s objects of visual exotica to surveyed and and the Performing Arts, embellished on and objectification of "great art" literal — I did have certain memories of her analyzed specimens. buried deep in the grey matter some Gretchen's many contributions to the through his carved and stained swirls of university, including her final one — blue and an image of man's devoted best where. And these, over the course of So what's happening at the zoo? In May, time, often became unreliable: I conflated endowing the university with the Cyril friend in Van Gogh Sky (Wood). A and Gretchen Colnik Chair. cibachrome print by John Taylor portrays the new aviary was opened. The old images of her arts and crafts show with a pimply fleshed young man in red satin. aviary was closed in 1987 when a tuber those from the televised art classes I re The tribute was marked by other note Slip, encased in a floral frame, provokes a culosis epidemic wiped out the birds. ceived in grade school. Or I confused worthy items, including the reading of an discomfort with both the sensuality and The $2.8 million make-over features birds images of her creations with those of her official proclamation from the mayor's constrictions of female (thus male) codes. from around the world in real-life dio sponsor's product, Mrs. Karl's Bread, 8 Art Muscle PT:
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office, the unveiling of a portrait of Miss gelatin prints from Dick Blau's 1980 Psy called "pleasure machine" can just as easily style overshadowed Duerrenmatt's fine Colnik as a young woman, and a video choanalysis of Water series, a pair of turn on the family circle it seems to be character shadings thus betraying the taped presentation of her life and times, Steven Foster's Ektacolor River Series long to as provide it with entertainment. tragic fable's impact. Cash's cannonball composed of photographs, home mov Makom VI1 photographs, and two ele Like when the favorite son whom every-, theatrics (as the avenging billionairess) ies, and snippets from her television show. gant J.B. Atterbury silver gelatin prints. one remembers as such a pol ite Boy Scout rapidly diminishedherappeal. Otherper- turns out to be Ted Bundy. Like when you formances lacked subtlety and showed I'm not too sure about this, but I suspect The show was assembled by photogra stay home from grade school hoping to little character growth. They relied in that today many might reject the legiti pher Tom Bamberger, who was there wallow in re-runs of "Have Gun Will stead on almost vaudevillian comic macy of such memorial tributes, present wearing his bad boy cap. No doubt he Travel" and instead see President Ken punching of lines or bordered on the ing, as they do, such apparently lopsided will be criticized for showing so many nedy getting his head blown off... cardboard hysteria of television's "Dark views: the A side played over and over photographs, but there were just as many Shadows." Only Maury Cooper as Cash's while the B side remains buried, face works in other media. What was lacking Of the ten installations, Bruce Nauman's butler/judge and Josef Sommer as Cash's down, never to see the light of day. If here were cutting-edge works. The show piece provides the best example of the former lover, capably played out the there was a "dark" side to Gretchen Colnik needed a couple of good spritzers. The television set as familiar but potentially script's tragic irony. Finally, their efforts —well, I wouldn't know anything about artists selected by Bamberger were the threatening object. His installation, set were strangled by the production's and it. But I know as eulogies go, this seemed tried and true art professionals from a apart from the rest of the exhibit by a director's onslaught of riches. Although right on the money, presenting to the sampling of conservative Milwaukee black wall, invites us to sit down in front The Visit remains a great play, more was public one who has lived the moral, ethi galleries and artist's reps. Though the of two benign-looking sets that simulta less in this instance. cal, and self-realized life, one worthy of show screamed for fresh faces, perhaps neously present us with the tv-platitude emulation. the visitors (by appointment only) pass of yet another person talking at us. The Prodigal Theater Company's 2359 West ing through on their way to mayoral busi pair here earnestly recite phrases that Was the antithesis to the Goodman pro Many of Gretchen Colnik's handmade ness will be seeing these artists for the would sound pretty harmless on their duction. Presented at the 40 seat hats and dresses have been donated to first time, so the effect may be one of own, such as "I am having fun, you are Playwright's Center, author Tom Marquette University's Helfaer Theatre. freshness. After all, Bamberger is em having fun, we are having fun. This is Wawzenek's 2359 West also tells a tale of Her collection of Cyril Colnik's iron works ployed by the Milwaukee Art Museum, fun." But their recitations are gradually love and revenge, but this time in a famil have been donated to Villa Terrace. and the show looked decent considering permeated by an anger that isn't ex ial setting. The play consists of four sib John C. Blum he was working under the constraints of plained, a sense that we are somehow lings (two brothers and two sisters) re available inventory, size, and a certain being reprimanded for not responding to counting their distinct versions of child censorship indigenous to the workplace. a question that must be implicit in their hood, their father's death, and the eldest CITY HALL ART SHOW But yes, it was a tad heavy on the side of platitudes. There is a real tension that sister's reluctance to sell the family home June 11 -August 16 the old boy network. Happily, the mayor builds between the complete banality stead. As told in separate monologues by Mayor Norquisfs Suite, wants to continue the shows, and local of the phrases being recited and the ur four seated actors on a plain set, the play 2nd Floor, City Hall artists are clearly doing him a big favor by gency with which they are delivered. and production was a textbook example generously loaning their inventories. Jamie Daniel of theatrical simplicity. Director George If the success of an exhibition can be Hopefully, future years will give the public Tafelski understood the production gauged by the number of wanna be's a chance to see exciting experimental needs, and provided balanced pacing, standing in front of the art, then this was works, at the very least some free-stand THE VISIT/2359 WEST wisely allowing script and cast free rein in a five star event. The artistically and po ing sculpture, and a selection of video Chicago theater illustrating the story of the Ruskiewicz litically knighted, as well as those who productions for the reception area, which family. wished they had been dubbed, and other is currently featuring a monotonous photo A twenty dollar train ticket to Chicago invitees, elbowed through the narrow melange of past mayors. Thanks, too, for buys more than an opportunity to merely Wawzenek's characters are well-drawn hallway to see whose work was hanging an administration that wants something discover Chicago's restaurants, galleries and grow increasingly complex as the in John's office. A woodsy Tom Uttech on the walls other than honorary plaques, and museums. It also purchases an aisle story escalates to a sad, but believable "up north" oil won the prime spot directly posters, and "stuff" that has been handed seat in a city renowned for THEE-AH- conclusion. The cast portrayed the family across from the mayor's desk. The paint down from one dusty politico to the next. TUH. Although Milwaukee has added with earnest clarity and honest apprecia ing lacked the weird pinks, oranges and It's a start. fine theatrical troupes and drama temples tion that assisted the play greatly. Al reds for which Uttech is famous. (No Judith Ann Moriarty to its dramatic roster, Chicago has gained though the evening was not without minor paintings with those particular colors were an international reputation for regional faults (brief lags in the cast's energy and available at the time the show was as theatre of all sizes and shapes. Is this concentration, lack of sustained drive, sembled). Wisconsin Conservative didn't THE PLEASURE MACHINE reputation deserved or does Chicago and one character missing fullness which entirely monopolize the office, however, was present in the other three), 2359 Recent American Video simply have more theatre to offer? I ex as an energetic Mark Mulhern pastel of a West provided an opportunity to view Milwaukee Art Museum plored this question on a recent trip to mustached Frida Kahlo stared from the some exciting Chicago theatre. In this Through August 18 The Windy City. east wall. In the center of the office, case, less was more. which also includes a landscape (with As the penultimate production of its 1990- cow) painting by Norquist's great grand Comparing the creative chaos of The Visit father, stood the mayor, shaking the hands 91 season, Chicago's Goodman Theatre with the dynamic simplicity of 2359 West, of those who made it through the crush. presented Friedrich Duerrenmatt's sel dom staged drama/tragedy, The Visit, proves only that Chicago, despite its many featuringfilm/stageactress Rosalind Cash venues and offerings, is capable of the A Fred Stonehouse painting, large and in a central role. Under Artistic Director atre with vision or without vision. Like mysterious, was installed in the secretary's Robert Falls' guidance, the Goodman has any city. And that is enough said. More or office, and I heard it remarked that it earned a reputation for a certain stylistic less. looked good with the wood paneling. grandeur which often affects all facets of Mark Bucher Stonehouse, who is beginning to resemble production, including casting (this sea his paintings more and more, stood son alone featured Brain Dennehy in The CONFRONTING CANCER sweating profusely, taking it all in. This Iceman Cometh and Joan Cusack in A acrylic painting, May They Rest In Peace, Midsummer Night's Dream). Sometimes THROUGH ART Quieter Than a Fish, had a strange resem Bruce Nauman, video still. largess and celebrity casting serve the June 1-30 blance to the nearby formal portrait of production — sometimes more is more. Alverno College Art & Cultures Gallery Solomon Juneau, a majestic old work Although the idea of incorporating any But Duerrenmatt's twistedtale of spurned from City Hall's permanent collection, love and patient revenge is a seething, This exhibition didn't establish or ex wisely left up for the show. Opposite the thing having to do with television into the American art institution was once consid emotive opera of plot and character that plore any new aesthetic criteria. No for Stonehouse was Luis Roldan's darkly requires little embellishment to capture mal barriers were passed, no aesthetic glorious black and gold oil abstraction, ered somewhat scandalous, those of us who grew up with television sets as per the audience's attention and emotions. issues challenged or redefined. How swimming with understated shapes, but ever, life's fragility, terror, celebration sadly in need of a gentle floodlight to manent fixtures in the front room may The narrative tells of the world's richest and hope were represented in abundance illuminate its murky depths. In the adja find ourselves hard pressed at this late woman returning to her destitute birth in these 50 works by 41 artists. cent hallway, competing for space with a date to find anything shocking about an place and offering the village a bounty of table groaning under seasonal fruits and art form that uses such a familiar object as unimaginable wealth, contingent on the Thomas Brady was on the art faculty at sweets, was a watery work aswim with its basic material. Like the narrator in a execution of her former lover (who cru UW-Oshkosh until his death last August seasonal and sweet flora, by painter Bill recent novel by Botho Strauss, we may elly rejected her years before). Still resid after a six-month battle with throat can Nichols. A wall hanging, Undersea World feel that we have already seen too much ing in the village, the former lover watches cer. His Final Series lino cut prints ex of Jacques Cousteau, (carefully con television to still have any faith in its the slow tide of human greed and ration press with formal power the end of life. structed by Terese Agnew of cotton, satin, images, much less be shocked by them. alization engulf his neighbors until his In Final Statement, a black void sets off a and chiffon) would have been better doom is sealed by the visit of his now terrified face and seizes Brady by the placed at the Lakefront Festival of the There is nothing really shocking about fabulously wealthy former paramour. throat. Mouth opened without utterance, Arts. It looked silly sharing a room with any of the work in this show; Nam June Director David Petrarca used sweeping hands clutching his comforting glass of Dennis Carey's outstanding Grapes and Paik seems to want to reassure us that the movements and frenetic pacing in vodka, the left eye and mouth are as black Begonia (1989 silver gelatin print), and television set is just another family mem mounting The Visit on the Goodman's as the shroud that engulfs him. The sculptor Jill Sebastian's small and superbly ber when he assembles old television sets large stage; yet Paul Steinberg's glori enlarged ear seems to anticipate words of conceived wall pieces, Apt I and II (maple, and radios into oversized friendly-look ously adaptive and elegant set upstaged hope in this painful image of a dying linen and paint). Lining the narrow hall ing "Family of Robot: Grandmother" and Petrarca's flamboyance. But the same man's self-awareness. way, were modest and painterly "Grandfather" figures. But several of the Baroque production values (set, cos monoprints by Estherly Allen, two silver other installations still manage to be fairly intimidating, reminding us that the so- tumes, music) and the broad directorial Marilyn Hatfield says her oil, Let Me Share ^¥51/Tf!pi:l%7? r-*s JiV jpLsa i? J«—'j V XV tfcgrX
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Arriving 90 minutes early at the Old World Third Street studio-residence of Sandra Greuel, I was greeted with Victorian polite ness, and an apology that she hadn't had a chance to "tidy up." Greuel was concentrat ing on pulling together the last pieces of her June 8th installation, Influential Readings, a project she has been assembling for over a year, in the time left over from her daily job as head designer for Reliable Knitting Mills. Funded by a 1989 grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board, the work was just a week from completion, but Greuel had things under control. She explained that her work was being exhibited in her studio because she had given up dealing with the art bureaucracy's slow and squeaky wheels. The work is well-suited for a studio show - visitors reap the double benefit of seeing where she lives and where she works.
Greuel has been a quiet and steadily pro ductive force on the Wisconsin art scene for a decade. This effort is an articulate summa tion of her historical, literary, and philo sophic views, as was her 1989 "Lost Knowl edge" installation. The work is skillfully crafted and elegant.
Several years ago I began making a list of literary works which impacted my life. As the list developed, and was fi nally narrowed to 10, I was concur rently thinking about opposites and life's contradictions. The first childhood book I recall was Bobbie Bear's Annual. In sixth grade, I read Hiroshima, and my world split in half.
Photo by Francis Ford Greuel uses this security blanket split to develop her conceptual language. Artists have the bones of opposing views. particularly difficult problem of merging formal The mirror, symbolic of the physical and emotional elements of composition with the foggy "middle turmoil reflecting youth and young adulthood, is The first Concept, Security/Reality, is centered attached to a girl's white vanity, and is central to ground" of philosophy. With installation art, found around a child's bed. That snuggle-sack of warmth or constructed objects represent figure and ground, Concept #3. The vanity is staged with bottles of and fantasy becomes a plunge into the underworld lotions and potions and make-up that puts on a but it's idea which binds the whole. Greuel has de of "what's under there?" when Sandra the girl reads veloped each idea carefully (seldom relying on happy face and guarantees the fulfillment of Hiroshima, and gives up the safety of her favorite EverygirFs dream. Or Everyguy's. Admonishments words scrawled ad infinitum across objects - a tar childhood book, Bobby Bear's Annual. pit fallen into by more than a few installation from a high school booklet, A Girl And Her Figure, artists). For the mature artist, broadly based in his (stenciled onto the mirror), caution against armpits If the 1945 bomb that changed the world can tory, philosophy, and literature, words become in and legs grown wild with hair, menstrual odor significant and ideas take over. The written word, cause skin to come off like a glove, what's (offensive!), and praise the virtue of hair rollers, when Greuel uses it, is subtle and fully integrated ahead for Bobby Bear? My familiar bedroom deodorants, and styles which complement a young into a statement. It is never an afterthought, and toys suddenly became Grim Reapers, snicker girl's face and figure. A poem by the late (she put therein rests her brilliance. She is not an angry ing over Bobby Bear bashing. I began think her head in an oven) Anne Sexton stands nearby, a feminist kicking and bullying audiences into sub ing about God and questioning good and eviL reminder that one of us found the rowing too mission, but a highly skilled female artist, who in tough. I asked if her teen years were reflected in the corporates life experiences in her works. She has A ladder, the central figure in Concept #2, ascends mirror. the cool good sense to not slap the paddles too into light and descends into darkness. Despite loudly as she "rows towards God." The quiet also religious and philosophic messages which claim to In retrospect, the rules in the high school arrive on the far shore. steady the ladder (but can also stuff cotton into our book seem blatantly superficial, and yet I ears), what's out there is unknown, and exists followed them religiously. It's curious, the behind the transparent and mysterious camouflage use of the wordretigiously, but the rules were The installation is divided into eight Concepts, of Greuel's gau2y fabric. I asked her why she chose analagous to a young girl's Bible. which are presented in two large rooms, and is this particular format. Unfortunately, they had nothing to do with accompanied by meticulous collages, some from feelings. I read Anne Sexton in college, and past series, and ominous sound recorded by her The fabric has the look of a war disguise, immediately identified with her, for she had son, Adam. Writers as diverse as Richard Brauti- where leaves and patterns merge with back nothing to do with superficiality, and every gan, Gustave Flaubert, Herman Hesse, Anne Sex ground, concealing the danger beyond. The thing to do with feelings. It was a time of fur ton and others, provide the ideological armature, ladder is referred to in The Bible. Bertrand ther questioning and casting about for solid but also included are ideas from the queen of Russell's Do We Survive Death? solidified my ground. cooks, Betty Crocker; a health manual for high ideas about heaven and hell. Essentially, this school girls; a guide for pregnant women and is a work about questioning mortality, and countless other memorabilia, both tangible and in Concepts #4 and #5 deal with Sensuality/Repro which way to climb in order to find happi duction and the Cerebral/Functional. The former, tangible, gathered over many years. Using Socratic ness. logic with a sure eye for design, she exposes the an ethereal set, is swathed in heavenly peach satin. 1 2 Art Muscle side. However, Greuel wraps the lounger in strips of bandage, which suggest bondage as well. Behind the lounger, Madame Bovary, long ago released from her constraints, lies si lent, sealed within a mausoleum en graved with labels lauding The Per fect wife, mother, daughter, lover, hostess, etc.
I was raised with assigned rules and roles, i.e. to be the Perfect Everything to Everyone. It's im possible for a woman to achieve anything substantial in her life if she tries to fill those expectations. Those rules are laid on us early; they are mental training bras, not unlike foot binding in eastern countries. The problem is, the mind gets bound as well.
In the end, that old rockin' chair (the central figure in Concept #8) gets you, and it cares not if you are around to enjoy its gentle motion. Rocking on, it observes life's cycle, a historically de termined "given" shaped by the na ture of the beasts who war against their own, and reproduce more of the same seed-carriers of planetary de Photo by Francis Ford struction.
If you think Bobby Bear has prob What juicy draping - a tender trap for unsuspecting which would please and delight. It wasn't too lems, live and see what happens. males! Behind the peaches lies the cream, the long before I tired of playing happy house headless torso of the possibility for reproduction, a wife, and thought about going backto school. whispered suggestion, the fashionably correct I readSteppenwolfe, and shifted from the func come-on. So ladylike, my darling, forthis torso is no tional to the cerebral. It was a difficult time. I That's what Greuel intends to do, and considering tramp. Clinical diagrams of the stages of pregnancy had to give up what I'd been trained for, and the alternative, it's not such a bad idea. From the charted on plexiglass hang in front of the emerging run for my life. light and downy comfort of childhood's bed, to the figure, and we walk through, and into the real leaden weight of history's message, Influential nature of our species: the reproduction of self. The 6th Concept, Human Condition/Human Na Readings awakens the sleeping mind. Greuel's ture, describes the minutes, the hours, the weeks, studio is open for viewing by appointment through Here I was, a young wife and soon to be and finally, the cumulative years that persons in a July 19th. mother. I was startled by the dichotomy be bureaucratic society spend waiting: in lines, in tween sensuality and the reality of pregnancy rooms and in chairs, for things to happen (welfare and child bearing. My first information about to be granted, bills to be stamped paid, machines Sandra L. Greuel graduated from The University of sexuality, at age thirteen, came from Lady to be revived, traffic to be cleared, junk to be Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1986 with an MA in Chatterly's Lover, where I learned that sex sorted, sentences to be imposed). And fill out Design. She has participated in numerous lectures could be hot and wild. I took that information those forms in pencil only please! Twelve chairs, and workshops and received funding from The very seriously. It was quite a contrast to the set on a platform symboli2ing the universe (all are National Endowment for the Arts/Inter-Arts, The pregnancy charts I saw years later in the pasted with pages from Kafka's The Trial, and Wisconsin Arts Board, and The Milwaukee Artists gynecologist's office! What happened to the Notes From The Underground by Dostoyevsky), Foundation. She has also directed fine art exhibi romance? wait for us to wait. While humankind sits numbly tions at alternative sites including: General Mitch above, the answer, perhaps, lies just below in the ell Field, The Park East Hotel, and the 10 on 8 Fine Concept #5 invites us to sup at a tableau for two, underground. Greuel poses the question, severely Art Space in New York City. In conjunction with In covered with a yin/yang tablecloth, and correctly and directly, executing it in the executioner's style. fluential Readings, students from Roosevelt Middle set with black and white tableware. Betty Crocker It's a razor sharp reminder that while we sit still as School created art work from their reading experi and Steppenwolfe are meeting to discuss the merits dummies, time can and will outwait us. ences, and it was exhibited infune at the Roosev of tuna fish casserole and its relationship to what elt Middle School Gallery. A note of humor: Ms. hides under the table. She presents her offering, he This certainly was a time of waiting, because Greuel was solely responsible for developing a line presents his. The possibility for changing places, I was divorced with three children, trying to of bedroom slippers at Reliable Knitting Mills. She holding hands, and getting together exists, if only educate myself, and had no job. I spent hours christened them "Solely Ours." Somehow, that fits. they could get past that damned yin/yang dividing filling out questionnaires, documents, and line. Greuel, cynicism at full tilt, adds more than a requests in order to survive. The rules and dash of wickedly appetizing wit. I mean, couldn't regulations were overwhelming. Betty Crocker get to /t&eSteppenwolfe? Couldn't he grow fond of her tasty tuna casseroles? What they The final Concepts, #7, Options/Limitations, and need is a recipe exchange which wouldsatisfy both #8, Cycle of Life/Human Spirit, explore the bounda physical and spiritual hunger. ries imposed by specific lifestyles and the ultimate limitation — death. Some seek comfort in the pil As a bride, I referred constantly to The Betty lowed patio lounge chair, tied to a world of astro- Crocker Cookbook, searching for recipes turf; for like the bed, life on the lounger has a safe 13 The current international trend in art is to borrow rather than develop new techniques and styles; to show no concern with language or communication; to entertain, rather than to express, creative values. Most art of this kind is by birth academic, derivative, and elitist. But abstract painting will ultimately outstrip these extravagant concoctions of coarse materials and dead ideas. Abstraction lives, because the hope it both expresses and generates will not
Piero Dorazio, The Journal of Art, Summer 1981 Bruce Dorow Just Do It
Three blocks north of the Bradley Center, home of comforts. The kitchen is tiny and the bathroom is a I want people to experience that quality. Milwaukee mega athletes, and a few yards east of long winter's walk to the floor below. Most of the the sweeping manicured greens of Wisconsin Elec remaining areas are filled with Dorow's paintings Dorow's works snap with obsessively wild energy, tric, is thirty-two year old Bruce Dorow's studio- (some are 18 ft long), sculptures (including a 12 ft and he takes great pride in creating exotic forms residence. It is a serendipitous spot for this former vertical forest), a variety of handmade tables and which have their source in what he sees "out there." track coach who keeps his head and heart in shape chairs, and a proliferation of ceramics. Many works Softspoken and articulate, he is interested in people, with daily five to ten mile runs. are in progress. Dorow recently opened his studio in observing the world, and in exploring the change, to the public, because he feels it is important for an both within and outside of himself. As an athlete, Inside, a huge motor and pulley system (the power artist's work to be seen in its natural environment. he pushes through space. As an artist, he pushes source for the building's elevator), thrums in the ideas to the brink of chaos. The best of his prolifera southwest corner of the 3,600 square foot second Painting is a significant language. It often tion of pieces bring order out of the piles of his floor space. Nearby, rectangular windows frame loses meaning when placed in galleries and working materials, and he optimistically sees fail approaching storms, blue skies, and the setting interpreted by dealers. Living in and around ures as ideas to be reworked and solved. His sun. Very little space is given over to creature my work creates a good quality of life for me.
By Judith Ann Moriarty
14 Art Muscle • «pi!SPSgwjf ail? jipa* aa in paintings, whiplashed with color, are fre 1/ I llli quently bordered with elaborate and intri llli |5|i cate wood carvings, which extend rather iiiir fa a a mmmm than stop the eye. If not for the confines of ; Jill! •"fjlll yill 111k the room, they seemingly could go on for ilia tgll! lllitiif! c J|lt ever. Powered by wattage from his psyche, Up •iplSa it becomes apparent these works are, as iiii Dorow says, "personal signposts, marks of energy similar to progress in developing the body for championship competition."
His work has been wrongfully compared to Jackson Pollock and Frank Stella, and Dorow says, "That's alright. The difference is that my works come from a reservoir of spiritual well being, wholeness, and hope, rather than from torment or dissatisfaction." He understands that it is difficult to escape com parisons, but thinks his pieces are rooted in nature and lack the cool formality of a Pol lock or Stella. Though he makes big art, it is not for the sake of grabbing attention. He does 3 by 4 inch nature sketches, too, and works toward incorporating their tiniest elements in his larger paintings. Big is not necessarily better, according to Dorow, it just grabs the viewer first because most art watchers don't take the time to study the smaller elements within the large format. It's the lazy way out, and Dorow is anything but lazy.
As a youngster, spending time alone in the woods of Wisconsin, he hunted and fished, while sorting out his concerns about where he fit into the universe. He enjoys putting things together, (both philosophically and physically) and the image of the circle has become a gathering place for his ideas; it is a safe home base where he can spin off and explore the unknown. The circle, a recur rent motif throughout his works, also sym bolizes people enclosed by commonalities. Photo by Taffnie Bogart
Confronting wood, clay, and paint with equal in Dorow's clay vessels, both decorative and func When Dorow isn't unraveling chaos, he's out the tensity, his perceptions revolve around landscapes: tional, are pinched and pulled into mini-landscape door for a ten miler, or taking care of daily demands. rutted, rolling, heaving, ever-changing, and sel surfaces, then glazed with the same frenzied color But whether running or making art, he believes dom tranquil. Dorow has a healthy compulsion for skeins that cover his paintings. Chairs and tables, that hard work and discipline unscramble a world visual expression, and he wants viewers to carry carved and constructed of rosewood, walnut, which is essentially crazy. the energy he generates forward into their lives. purple-heart, and pine, evolve into organic circles and curves, and recent paintings are filled with Bruce Dorow is a Milwaukee painter and sculptor The first time I made a clay object, a vessel, I jazzy clouds and his favorite forests. They are ec who has exhibited in various neighborhood spaces. went back to the studio three or four times a centric and charming interpretations of nature He graduated with a degree in Art Therapy in 1982 day, just to look through the window and see gone wild. He is experimenting with rectangles from The University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is my effort standing there. I had struggled with and squares of wood, mounting them on paint aformer South Division High track and field coach. that piece, and through that struggle, I felt a ings, a further probe between the second and third new pride in accomplishment. dimensions.
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Virginio Ferrari
Richard Hunt
Ed McCullough
Zulmiro Caralho
Robert Hodgell
Guido Brink
David Phelps
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Vopat teaches at Carroll College but also works independently on projects aimed at integrating art into other elementary school courses. He is currently implementing a Parents Project funded by the Joyce Foundation in which "at risk," primarily inner city parents, work on the same art projects as their kids. The point is to involve the parents with the schools. Both Vopat and Lawson are interested in how children's art becomes increasingly rigid and self-conscious as they move through the school system. "We end up with a lot of adults who can't think creatively at all, who don't know how to look beyond the structure they've been handed. They get discouraged if their work doesn't look real," Vopat said. In a time when all art teachers feel threatened by funding cuts (their programs are usually considered peripheral), this exhibition reveals how potent nonverbal forms of expression are for students at a pre-writing level. It also demonstrates the transition that takes place in imagery as children progress in age — works from students in kindergarten through fifth grade are included in the show. Vopat and Lawson originally sent about 125 letters to different schools asking art teachers to participate. They received about 25 responses. From there they visited each school to select the art work. They hope the exhibition will "reveal something of the dynamics through which this naive vision often vanishes in an individual, leaving the process of reawakening it difficult and lengthy. The original creative voice is a very precious and vital aspect of the psyche deserving much greater attention and care than it generally receives." The art work on the following pages is from the exhibition.The work is unattributed at the request of the exhibition organizers. 17 '*™^mfr~ •^ Bad 6 Bridgette. WII son December 20,1990 A Bad Day I had a terrible horrible no good very bad day. 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Today's core constituency for clas 3 sical music is, in effect, the New Audience, grown old and ossified. £ Demanding Great Music and Per T n the restroom at Vituccis one recent, late eve ning, two women were having one of those "in -•- front of the mirror" discussions that women and probably men frequently have. I had the feeling they had just met. One of the women, nearly weeping, was telling the other how her boyfriend had burned her cello two weeks ago and that she just hasn't been able to get over the loss. She couldn't afford a new cello. She didn't know what to do. When I came out, the conver sation switched to shoes. In the 1800s this may not have been such an unusual discussion to overhear. Most people at that time had some ability to make music in their own homes. In the pre-recording, pre mass-media days, there were no alternatives. Practically everyone owned a cello or a flute or a violin that carried a great deal of meaning to them and some of those instruments undoubtedly became the innocent victims of domestic squabbles. Most people today can't read music or play an instru ment and have probably never attended a chamber concert in someone's home. Classical music has a Kevin Stalheim started Present Music to trample some very different role today. In Robert Levine's book High of these barriers. As Present Music begins its 10th well as Great Composers. It is this legacy we live with. brow, Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy anniversary season this year, he is moving even more in America, he examines how and why we present strongly toward music that crosses over into every But many symphonies today are in trouble. Their classic art forms the way we do. He proposes that conceivable realm, merging classics with electronics, audiences are aging and they haven't found a way to Shakespeare, classical music and opera were, in the pop with experimental and addressing multi-racial con attract new, younger ones. Pops concerts may bring in 1800s, popular art forms that were often presented in cerns. He is responding directly to the sacralization of the masses but do nothing to further the art form. This mixed repertories (folk singers, jugglers and storytell the classical composers in trying to shape a new categorization of repertoire results in predictable and ers with Shakespeare and Verdi). Robust and vocal audience that embraces musical challenges and sur often lifeless programming. audiences actively participated in the works by freely prises. It's not an isolated avant-garde but excitement hurling their reactions toward the stage. In the 1900s, through eclecticism that Stalheim is after, using his In today's culture, music is a segregated business. symphonies started turning into institutions and wealthy own diverse tastes as his programming guide. audiences began deifying the classic artists and Music lovers of different genres seldom cross over. Yet in the visual arts, it would be unlikely for a Renaissance demanding that the work be presented in formal, Debra Brehmer: What are you trying to get at in your scholar to be uninformed of contemporary art issues. isolated programs to polite, attentive audiences. The 10th year? Art Museums, while being educational institutions and classics became known as "highbrow," difficult art Kevin Stalheim: We are finally financially stable this forms directed at a cultural elite. Symphonic music and storehouses of the past, maintain examples of current expression. Not so with music. New Music groups such year which will enable us to take more risks in the opera lost their popular appeal which led to today's upcoming season. We'll be bringing together a lot of mausoleum-style productions. After World War I a as Kronos Quartet or the Daniel Lentz group have had to create their own category. Experimental or current different kinds of expression that normally wouldn't be larger audience was regained. As wealth spread and put together. It's not a narrow minded view of things. recordings proliferated, a diversified new audience music is perceived as having nothing to do with a symphonic history. The audiences are not the same. We are not just doing world premieres of avant-garde emerged who began worshipping Great Performers as music, not just academic music, not just pop, not just 28 Art Muscle old music. There's an entire range. Thef irst concert, for DB: Is there any overlap between the symphony au DB: What about Present Music teaming up with the example, will feature our group doing Michael Torke, dience and yours? symphony as part of a concert? George Antheil, Charles Ives, Donald Erb and John KS: Some. But if I were to think about who the KS: I don't know if they need us. What they need is to Cage along with guest performers popping in (Flora audience would be that would most likely enjoy our throw ping pong balls around after the Bruckner sym Coker, Mark Anderson, Art Kumbalec, Sigmund concerts, I would guess it's those interested in the phony. That would be a good idea. Add an element of Snopek). We'll also do the ping pong ball piece (a multi visual arts and theater. They're more open minded to surprise and some fun. People think they can have fun media performance of a work by Donald Erb, de art as a living thing as opposed to a museum thing. The playing softball on Tuesdays and then they goto Bruck scribed as a giant crescendo, with audience participa reason we don't aggressively pursue the symphony ner and can't seem to connect the two. Everything is in tion, silly string, black light, flying ping pong balls and audience is just the fact that they're probably satisfied its place and that makes it dead. I don't see anything a weather balloon) and afterward it will dissolve into a with what they're getting. And if that's what they want, wrong with having some fun and then doing a really party with Paul Cebar and the Milwaukeeans. All of our it's slightly anti what I'm into. At the same time, I have profound piece by Charles Ives. That's what life is. It's concerts next season end with parties of sorts. We to say, I love symphonic music and there are some unlife-like to put things in categories. want the concerts to be social events conducive to symphony people and musicians who come to our more interaction, so people can meet each other, talk concerts. Although symphony lovers aren't known for DB: Because of the symphony's prominence and large about the music and meet the musicians. being adventurous, I think they might get a kick out of audience, don't they have a responsibility to present a our concerts. more diverse range? DB: You don't find the category thing as much in visual KS: In the early 20th century, a few rich people were arts or other art forms. Why is mus'ic such a divided Unfortunately, there's a natural tendency for people funding things to such an inordinate amount that they field? (audiences) to create boundaries and walls. I'm in controlled the programming. The programming be KS: Music tends to be the most conservative art form, trigued by walls, and I often respect them. I like to came more elitest and everyone today just seems to the narrowest. Music exists in the moment and music challenge and understand those walls. Walls give accept it without asking how it happened. It would take is the most direct art form. It's sound. It comes right into people comfort even when they are contrived. It's like some guts to acknowledge how things got the way they your ear and is immediately translated into art. Sounds when you go to Minnesota and the license plates are and then give listeners more credit and respect by don't really mean anything in a representational way. change. Don't you feel like you're in a different state offering them livelier, more diverse programs. I'm proud With painting, you look at it and then you think about it and the people are different? But it's bullshit. At the of our Present Music audience. At the Lentz concert, and start identifying things. It triggers associations and same time, I do think the people in Wisconsin are a people actually laughed out loud during pieces and it is then later becomes a piece of art. You can go back to little different than the people in California. It fasci damn funny stuff. Some musically educated people it. Somehow it's more fun to be confused with visual nates me, that whole segregation thing. People with walked out after the first half and that really turns me on arts and theater. People don't like to because the music obviously had a big be provoked with music. They don't effect on them. like being confused. But someone like Lentz is really interested in con Unfortunately, too many people still be DB: Maybe they were bored. fusion — because life is confusing KS: I don't think so. They were irritated. and he sees a link between music People don't like to feel tricked, espe and life. He explores what is beauti lieve that there are only two kinds of cially with music. ful and what is too beautiful or too sugary, what is serious and what is women and two kinds of music - one too DB: You're really a lone wolf in this town. un-serious. He explores that in such KS: Yeah and I like that. I have a lot of a subtle way that you sometimes freedom and power in programming. don't know where you are in it and popular to be good and the other too good What you're getting out of me in pro that really pisses some people off. gramming is what I like, so it's honest. But it's very honest. When we think to be popular. No formulas. It's a human, truthful thing. of Beethoven now, we think he had a It just happens that my tastes are di direct purpose, to gof rom A to B to C. verse. As Dizzy Gillespe said, 'There are But I don't think Beethoven was so Richard Rodgers, Musical Stages, an autobiography only two categories of music, good and obvious in hisday. He was just as ex bad.' I love Aretha Franklin and I love ploratory and crazy. Mozart. They're different, but to sepa rate them into high and low is stupid. DB: You're saying then that the way we're presenting certain incomes feel comfortable with similar people. the classics now is kind of perverse. DB: And the future? KS: It's false. We got into these categories and people DB: The problem with that is that it's boring. Same KS: Michael Torke is using Madonna licks in his bass bought into it. That's why I love thinking about how ness is dull. Why aren't people more curious? lines. Guys like Lentz are using electronics and don't Shakespeare and Verdi used to be on the same KS: People don't like contradictions. People are al shy away from music with a groove. Hirsch is combing program with jugglers and stuff. It was natural. People ways seeking their identity. You become a classical all these things so a musical intellectual could get into used to parody Shakespeare all the time. He was that music person because you love it and want to know it as well as a non-intellectual. Allen Bloom, the author well known. But now Shakespeare is in the holy tower what you are. But it's the easy way to a narrow identity of The Closing of the American Af/ndwould think I'm full and people have bought into that. It's the opposite of and it's false. I like to challenge myself. Music is most of shit. He thinks the classics are being neglected and democratization. In a lot of ways capitalism has made effective and alive in a context that's provocative. You trivialized. He thinks it's time to gather around these categories split apart even further. can do something old like Monteverdi and then do Shakespeare. But we really don't have to gather around something new by John Harbison. Both pieces will one or two inflexible icons. I think it's possible to gather DB: People are so passive now, so removed from most benefit by the relationship. There's even snobbery in around diversity, something like a camp fire, alive and art forms. Audiences are reluctant to even tap their the avant garde. People can become obsessed with always changing. That's real, that's life. It's something feet. It's rather sterile. So much of music seems to have their own thing to their own detriment. that moves and changes. Don't gather around icons lost its connection with life. and make them sacred and worship and bow down to KS: Look at Mozart. He used to love it when people DB: But maybe there is something to say for maintain them. Let's meet, cross over, talk to one another, would stand up and dance and shout during his con ing the formal settings. Seeing a classical concert in bounce off one another. I'm optimistic. In 50 years certs. That really turned him on. Now people treat him that context emphasizes its importance, maybe allows someone like Daniel Lentz will be in Uihlein hall with like a God. At a recent Chicago Symphony Concert I it to be on a different spiritual plane, removed from the 2,000 people and Present Music might be there too. laughed out loud during the last movement of a Mozart mundane. Electronic music will enable small groups to play big piano concerto. After a really sublime second move KS: No. Bruckner might be holier and more appreci halls. ment, his third movement starts with a nice light thing ated and reach a larger and more diverse audience if then all of a sudden this 'up yours' horn lick comes in, there was a Sousa march included on the program. DB: If Present Music will be in Uihlein Hall, where will sounding real nasally and sarcastic. Noone around me I'm a bit of a missionary. I really believe Paul Cebar's the symphony be? even smirked. But it was really funny and I'm sure he audience would get a kick out of the Unanswered KS: They'll still be there, but they might not be as big of meant it that way. The concert hall atmosphere makes Question by Ives and that Ives lovers might get into a presence. The Baltimore Symphony just had the everyone think it's all very serious. The hall tends to Paul Cebar. So I feel like I'm doing something good. A Lentz group on one of their concerts. Some sympho generate afalse reverence. But things are beginning to lot of people might think that our ping pong ball piece nies are reacting. The Milwaukee symphony will be turn around. Look at Kronos Quartet, Richard is a gimmick or that we're selling out. I'm trying to say different 10 years from now. They have to change. Stoltzman, and the Daniel Lentz Group. They didn't that it's worthwhile to bring in a Sousa or a Cebar lover Their audience is dying. exist 20 years ago. Good and new and diverse can be and then expose them to other things. 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Lord Gallery, Landscapes & Furniture issue is August 23 Biennial Alumni Competition 420 E Wisconsin; 272-1007 Contemporary landscape & furniture artists; Works of 48 alumni artists; UWM: Fine Arts Katie Gingrass Gallery, 241 N Broadway; Gallery, 2400 E Kenwood Blvd; 229-4454 Now-August 3 289-0855 Unless otherwise stated, all phone Waters of Wisconsin numbers are area code 414 Now-Jury 26 Maynard Szopinski, acrylics Now-August 25 Recording the Illusion: The Circus Double Exposure Pioneers of Bird Illustration Leon Travanti & LeeTishler, paintings; Charles Tony & Mary Scodweli, photography; Leefer Wild animals in wood engravings & etchings; Allis Art Museum, 1630 E Royall; 278-8295 Gallery, 817 S 5th; 645-4487 Artists in Line: An Al Hirschfeld Retrospective caricatures of American stage & screen stars; Continuing Now-July 28 Now-August 3 Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Franklin Governors Words Melt Lynch Mob Urban & Rural Landscapes Milwaukee Dances & 12th, Wausau, 845-7010 Photography & sketch exhibit: Learn the per Lost or legendary scenes of the midwestern Jim Eukey, photographs; Water Street Gallery: sonal side of citizenry cooperation which plains; West Bend Gallery of Fine Arts, 300 S Bank One, 111 E Wisconsin; 272-7446 Now-August 25 underpinned the struggle (or democracy in the 6th; 334-9638 The Seat of Elegance: civil rights movement; America's Black Holo Now-August 9 An Insider's Guide to the Chair, 1720-1760 caust Museum, 2479 N Martin Luther King Dr; Now-July 28 Street Talk European & American chairs; MAM: Teweles 372-0690 Maps & The Columbian Encounter Local street artists go inside with graffiti; Gallery; 271-9508 UWM: Main Gallery, Memorial Union, 800 Walker's Point Center for the Arts, 911 W Now-Julyl8 Langdon; 229-4452 National; 672-2787 Now-August 30 Cathy Luawig, oil paintings Disappearing Architecture of Wisconsin Tim Neve, etchings Now-July 31 Now-August 10 Sam Dadian, photographer; Milwaukee Pub Eastbrook Art Gallery, 2844 N Oakland; 332- Myth, Magic & Mischief This Stuff Really Cooks lic Library. Wehr-McLenegan Gallery, 814 W 7730 Karen Fischer, installation; Ron Kibble, paint R. Neville Johnson Wisconsin; 278-3572 ings & photographs; Juan Lagares, assem Recycled aluminum cookware sculpture, Silver Now-July 19 blage; opening reception July 19 6-9pm; Paper Gallery, 825 E Center; 264-5959 Now-August 31 influential Readings Gailery 218, Walker's Point Artist Associa Wisconsin Painters & Sculptors Biennial Sandra Greuel tion, 218 S 2nd; 643-1732 Now-August 11 Marquette University: Haggerty Museum of Studio installation explores life's light & dark Illustrious Visions from Literature Art, 13th & Clyboum, 288-7290 side; 1023 N Old World 3rd, viewing by Now-Jury31 Selections from the Permanent Collection; appointment; 347-1961 Aaron Bohrod, A Mini-Retrospective Balanceobjekt; installation by Hubertus Von Now-August 31 Current oils, decoratives, & WW II drawings der Goltz; UWM: Art Museum, 3253 N Rotating Summer Show Now-July 19 Now-September 30 Downer; 229-4454 Glass, paintings, drawings, & jewelry; Art Gallery Artists Show Wearable Sculpture Elements Gallery Ltd, 1400 W Mequon Rd; Goldblatt, Ford, Moriarty, Prophet Blackmon, 20 Wisconsin jewelers & sculptors; RiverEdge Now-August 16 241-7040 Bryiski, & others; Metropolitan Gallery, 900 S Galleries, 432 E Main, Mishicot; 1 /755-4777 Games 5th; 672-4007 James Donnelly's design class explores games, Now-August 31 Now-July 31 game theory & the philosophy of play; God's Beauty In Oriental Watercolors Now-July 20 Japanese Surimono & Textiles Good Things: The Art of Living in Milwaukee Art in the Chinese manner by Boehm, Ehr, African & Indonesian Art From the Frank Lloyd Wright archives, woo Artifacts provide inventory of local values; also Gnadt, & Hirsch; Village Church, 130 E Jun From the past 30 years,l 1 am-5pm; David dblock prints & textiles; Milwaukee Public eau; 354-5534 Barnett Gallery, 1024 E State; 271 -9132 Museum, 800 E Wells; 278-2737 „ v^/v^1/v^•v^•v^/^^ /\ /\ August 3 & 4,1991 /\ DGCORrlTION /\ •••• 10-5 p.m. A. vyv.yv>vyv A- 20th Century furnishings Modern Age />• V V V V ' and accessories In the beautiful Victorian gardens of the /v. - Tubular chrome Kneeland-Walker House, 7406 Hillcrest Dr., A Streamliner and Modeme furniture Wauwatosa, WI Quality '40s and '50s -More than 50 juried artists furniture and accessories Just -Heirloom Quilt Exhibit three of Italian art glass -Mansion tours more than • Mission art pottery -Silent auction /\ 60 quality Bakelite and silver jewelry -Food - Music - Fun! /\ dealers. Period art and prints Adult admission - $2 A Sponsored by Wauwatosa Historical Society Water Street antiques (414) 774-8672 318 N. Water Street 278-70081 » Open seven days Welcome to World-Famous-Water-Street, home of Tony's Bar "n Cafe BENJAMIN'S CAFE WISCONSIN'91 TONY'S [NN An Exhibition of Wisconsin Art Juried by Thomas II. Garvcr RESTAURANT WATER STREET BAR November 10 - December 1, 1991 Relaxed, informal elegance CALL FOR ENTRIES Deadline for entries: Sept. 14, 1991 BAR N $5 to $16 For Prospectus and Entry Form contact: Historic Hutchinson House Stanley I Grand, Director CAFE Edna Carlslen Gallery Room Rates $40 to $115 University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point 278-TONY Valet Parking Stevens Point, WI 54481-3897 800 E. Wells (800 N. Cass) (715) 346-4797 Tony's is your pbce anytime of day • 3 blocks before Lake Michigan Eat Hearty! 1247 N. Water Street 414-276-1577 32 Art Muscle Now-Seplember 1 July 20-27 Alumni of the '80s A Multimedia Collaboration Lawrence University: Wriston Art Center, Poetry, film screening & music; opening recep Appleton; 414/832-6586 tion July 20 7:30; SE corner of Wright & Bremen; 372-2026 Now-September 3 John Tryba July 28 Memorial exhibit: Cardinal Stritch College: JoAnna Poehlmann, prints, collages & books San Damiano Studio, 6801 N Yates Rd; 352- Opening reception 2-5pm; Charles Allis Art 5400, ext. 284 Museum, 1630 E Royall Place; 278-8295 Now-September 8 July 31-September 1 Celebrity & Notoriety In Nineteenth Century Figurative Wood Carving Photography 3 midwestern artists working in bas relief & 3d; Well known faces, both famous & infamous; opening reception Aug 4 1:30pm; lecture & MAM: Segel Gallery; 271-9508 demonstration 2pm; West Bend Gallery Of Fine Arts, 300 S 6th Ave, West Bend; 334- Now-September 15 9638 Artists Look at the American Yard: Yard Gnomes, Pink Flamingos & Bathtub August 1-31 Grottos; Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Robert Kushner Arts, 2519 Northwestern, Racine; 636-9177 New bronze sculptures created from found objects; Michael H. Lord Gallery, 420 E Wis Now-September 15 consin; 272-1007 The Bay Boys: Wadzinski & Basch Civilization's relationship to the organic envi August 4-September 29 ronment; MAM: Cudahy Gallery of Wisconsin Felix Closseau & Other Illustrations Art; 271-9508 Original illustrations by children's author, New Yorker Jon Agee; Now-September 22 August 4-October 20 Recent Acquisitions Moving Light Photography; American artists Showcasing 130 new permanent art works; explore moving light in still photography; Berman MAM: South Entrance Gallery; 271 -9508 Gary Noffke Retrospective, textured metal- Brooks $o$e August 10 Third Annual MAM Kite Fly Design, build, decorate & fly an art kite; free August 2 materials to 1st 300 people; 1 -4pm; MAM; City Ballet Theatre 271-9508 Featuring students from the Summer Youth Arts Camp; 7:30pm; St Peter's Evangelical Lutheran August 10-11 Church, 3908 W Capitol; rickets 445-3006 Morning Glory Crafts Fair Artists from around the state in the gardens & courtyard; Sa 10-5 Su 11 -5; Charles Allis Art Museum, 1801 N Prospect; 278-8295 August 14 Now-September 1 Senior Day Kilbourntown House tours & complimentary coffee & doughnuts for Historic house with colonial furnishings; T,Th, seniors; 1 Oam-noon; MAM, info 271 -9508 Sa 10-5pm, Su 1 -5pm; Estabrook Park; 273- 8288 August 15 T-Shirts & Tunes July 17 Art & music for teenagers; 4pm; MAM; info Senior Day 271-9508 Tours & complimentary refreshments for senior citizens; 10-noon; free; MAM; 271 -9508 August 17-18 Oconomowoc Festival of the Arts July 19 10-5pm, Fowler Park, Oconomowoc; 567- Summer Gallery Night 1243 Start at MAM with a 5:45 pm mini- lecture on The Pleasure Machine; walk, drive, or ride the August 18 Gallery Night Express to East Town, The 3rd Lavender Mardi Gras Ward, & Historic Walker's Point, MAM; 271 - 8th annual benefit for The Milwaukee Aids 9508 Project; 6:30-11:30pm; $30 per person ind hors d'oeuvres, beer, soda & cash bar; Renais July 20 sance Place, 1451 N Prospect, reservations: Ar-Fest 265-6188 Festival of arts; 9am-dusk; 2640 W Mequon Rd; info 242-1952 August 20 SCRAMBLE OVER EASY OR Tye-Dye Party July 20 Backyard fun with cookies & juice; 7pm $1 GET BASTED SUNNYSIDE UP. MELD donation; Peace Action Center, 1001 E Keefe; You get breakfast the way you like it at Le Peep. 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament; benefit for New 964-5158 Eggs prepared two dozen ways. Pancakes, OJ, 100% Concept Self DevelopmentCenter; 9am;Meaux Colombian coffee. Crispy bacon and savory sausage. Park, 1904 W Villard; info/New Concepts; August 25 A great breakfast, at a fair price, served with a smile. 271-7496 Bradley Sculpture Garden Party Picnic, jazz, art, botanicals, & children's play TWO LOCATIONS July 20 area; sponsored by Friends of Art; info 271 - 250 E. Wisconsin Avenue • 273-PEEP Quilt Making 9508 3900 W. Brown Deer Rd. • 355-8188 Catered lunch & filmt/ncfer ihe Covers; Amer/- Open Mon-Fri 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. / Sat. and Sun. 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. can Quilts; 10-lpm; $12.50-$15 adv/regis- August 31 tration by July 17; Charles Allis Art Museum, Fashion Fest 91 1630 E Royall Place; 278-8295 Benefit for Muscular Dystrophy Association; fashion, food, fun & music; 3-9pm; Washing July 20-21 ton Park Bandshell; info 562-1662 or 347- Craft Fair USA 1491 400 craftspersons/artists exhibit original works OOP indoors; 10-5pm; State Fair Park; 321-2100 September 6-8 Indian Summer 1991 July 20-21 A showcase of American Indian heritage; $6; TO]® Jogs ®fl ©QPffiDffiDGpfl Arts & Craft Fair F 5pm-midnight Sa noon-midnight Su noon- Original artworks outdoors; Sal 1 am-6pm Su 10pm; Summerfest Grounds; Milwaukee 11 am-5pm; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, lakefront; 383-7425 608 New York, Sheboygan; 458-6144 September 7 July 21 Artspace Festa of Art Woodlake Renaissance Tours of Italian masterworks; 2pm; free w/ Revelry of the Italian Renaissance on the shore membership or admissions; MAM; 271 -9508 of Woodlake; 10am-5pm; free; John Michael Kohler Arts Center; 608 New York Ave, She July 25 & August 8 boygan; 414/6144 @ rsfe © © Do ® CD Children's Art Festival Ages 6-12; workshops, tours, & films; 1- September 13 3pm;$2/child; registration required; MAM- Ebony Fashion Fair 271-9508 Outstanding international designers; benefit for YMCA; 8pm; $20; PAGUihlein Hall; info July 26 374-6060/ 224-9622 MAM Fishboil Door county-style; children's activities & live ;0 l&£ music; reservations required; lakefrontgrounds; MAM; 271-9508 34 Art Muscle July 21, August 4 & 21 July 18-September 1 Milwaukee County Historical Society I i t Concerts In The Gardens Jeremiah Curtin House July 18 - Water Street Tavern Band Free tourso f the first stone house in Greenfield; July 25 - Razzmatazz, honkytonk banjo 1 -5pm; Curtin House, S 86th & W Grange; August 1 - Paul Henry, classical guitarist Now-July 31 info 273-8288 Mondays August 8 - Trinkle Brass Works The Bohrod Touch Poet's Monday; ongoing; August 15 - Special Concensus, bluegrass Produced by art critic James Auer, July 13, 20 July 22 August 19 - MacCanon Brown September 1 - Knightwind Ensemble (Su 4pm); & 27, River Edge Galleries, 432 E Main, AARP—To Serve & Be Served Open mike & featured acts; open to poets & Th 7pm unless noted; $3; bring something to sit Mishicot; 755-4777 In conjunction with The Seasoned Eye exhibit musicians; Cafe Melange, 720 Old World on; Boerner Botanical Gardens, 5879 S 92nd, at St. John's; 10am; free; St. John's Tower, Third Street; 291 -9889 Hales Corners; 425-1131 Now-August 9 1840 N Prospect; 291-4991 War Parade July 18 July 19,20,21 Crisis July 22 Frances Sherwood Milwaukee Symphony SummerNights Sacred Heart Claymation A reading of her recent fiction; 7pm; free; The Best of Disney Videographer Mark Mars with montage of Clay animation from creations to film; grades UWM: Vogel Gallery; 229-5070 James Christensen, Conductor Persian Gulf events; Walker's Point Center for 6-9; 9-4pm; tuition; John Michael Arts Center, 8pm; $10-$25; PAC: Uihlein Hall; 273-7206 the Arts, 911 W National; 672-2787 608 New York Ave, Sheboygan; 414/458- July 23 6144 Poetry July 20 July 20-Augusf 18 Suzanne Rosenblatt & Harvey Taylor; 7pm; Machupicchu Reel Art Film Series July 23 Peace Action Center, 1001 E Keefe; 964-5158 Andean music benefit for Nicaraguan cholera In conjunction with The Pleasure Machine The Bay Boys: Wadzinski & Basch victims; 7pm; St. Peter & Paul Parish, 2480 N July 20 & 21 - The Eternal Ant Farm, The Ant Gallery Talk with Janet Treacy; 1:30pm, MAM: Cramer; 961 -2094 Farm, Possibly in Michiganjhe Damnation of Cudahy Gallery of Wisconsin Art; 271 -9508 Faust: Evocation, Peggy & Fred in Kansas July 20 July 27,28 August 3 & 4 - Colorschemes, July 24 A Tribute to Persian Music A Spy in the House that Ruth Built StreetTalk/Street Artists July 15 & 22 Mohammad Reza Lofti & Houmon Pourmehdi August 10,11,17 & 18 - Leaving the 20th Cen Overview & discussion of street art plus demo Summer Evenings of Music 8pm; $15; Marquette University: Weasler tury, Ritual Clowns, Joyride, Lilith by local street artists; 7pm; Walker's Point Fine Arts Quartet; M 8pm; $12; UWM: Recital Auditorium, 1442 W Wisconsin; 277-0544 1 & 3pm; MAM:Multimedia Theater; 271- Center For The Arts, 911 W National; 672- Hall; 229-5714 9508 2787 Jury 20-August 10 July 15-19 July 20 - La Vie Parisienne Now-August 14 July 24 Rainbow Summer Music Under The Stars; sounds from the Paris Children's Rainbow Summer Film Festival Gallery Talk by J.B. Harley; 7pm; UWM: Main July 15 - Cooler Near The Lake opera to the cabaret July 17 - A Good Thing About Spots Gallery, Memorial Union; 229-4452 July 16 - Mickey &The Memories (also 7:30pm); July 27 - Invitation To The Dance; Cat Journey July 17 - Dr. Robert James August 3 - Memorable Moments In Music The Mouse & The Motorcyde July 25 July 18 - Joe Martino & Luigi Lenzi; Italian August 10 - Shari Lewis On Stage! July 24 - The Lion & The Mouse Andre Emmerich Dance 8:15pm; free; Washington Park Temple of Nate The Great & The Sticky Case Sculpture In a Natural setting; slide lecture; free July 19 - The Willy Porter Trio Music; 278-4389 Whatzzat? w/museum admission or CAS membership Noon-1:15pm free PAC: Peck Pavilion The Story About Ping 6:15pm;MAM: Vogel/Helfaer Galleries; 271 - July 21 July 31 - Alexander, Who Used tob e Rich Last 9508 July 16-17 Marge & Dean Fowler Sunday Les Petits Chanteurs de Douai Art songs 8c works by Hammerstein, Porter, Waltzing Matilda August 4 Boys Choir from Douai, France Weill & others; 3pm; free; Villa Terrace, 2200 Henry Hamilton Funny Business 7pm; $5/$3; Cathedral of St. John the Evan N Terrace; 774-5316 Kick Me Caricaturist Bob Bowman demonstrates draw gelist, 802 N Jackson; 769-3349 August 7 - Harold & The Purple Crayon ing; l-3pm; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art The Fall Of Freddie The Leaf Museum, Franklin & Twelfth; Wausau; 715/ July 17 & 18 Corduroy 845-7010 Milwaukee Symphony SummerNights I'll Fix Anthony The Best of Brahms August 14 - Tne Hare & The Tortoise August 5-16 Neal Gittleman, Conductor; Cho-Liang Lin, The Crying Red Giant Arts Day Camp Violinist; 8pm; $10-$25; PAC: Uihlein Hall; Curious George 2-5th grade program of integrated arts; poet/ 273-7206 The Hundred Penny Box performer Ann Filemyr & Jon Agee, author & W 1:30pm; 50 cents; PAGVogel Hall, 273- illustrator will lead the sessions; 9:30pm- 5480 3:00pm; tuition; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 608 New York Ave, Sheboygan; 414/ Now-August 17 458-6144 Academy Award Film Festival The Ones That Didn't Win August 6 July 17 - A Place In The Sun (1951) The Current State of Video Art * July 20 - Seven Brides For Seven Brothers Dean Sobel; 1:30pm; MAM: Journal/Lubar ALL VEGETABLES AND MEAT (1954) Galleries; 271-9508 HAND SELECTED AND CUT July 24 - Mildred Pierce (1945) FRESH DAILY. EVERY SAUCE July 27-Tootsie (1982) August 7 AND MARINADE MADE BY July 31 - GoodBye Mr Chips (1939) Docent Gallery Talks HAND FROM SCRATCH. OUR August 3 - Funny Girl (1968) 1:30pm; MAM; info 271 -9508 DOUGH MADE BY HAND. August 7 - To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) PINCHED AND ROLLED BY San Francisco (1936) August 10 HAND. EVERY PEANUT, August 14 - The Quiet Man (1952) Ikebana Workshop v ALMOND, CASHEW, WALNUT, August 17 - Fiddler On The Roof (1971) Doris Schwartz, instructor; 9:30-11:30am; HAND ROASTED TO CRISPY 7:30pm; $2; PAGVogel Hall; 273-7206 Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts; PERFECTION. EACH HERB^ 2519 Northwestern, Racine; 636-9177 SPICE AND EXOTIC SEASONING DELICATELY July 17-31 CRUSHED BY HAND FOR CASTSIDCR July 17 - The Ladykillers August 7-11 ROBUST FLAVOR. WE DO THIS July 21 - The Middle Ages: A Wanderer's Shakespeare & Shaw Festivals Tour FOR YOU, OUR CUSTOMER. Guide to Life & Letters; Castle, & Castle Man; Milwaukee Chamber Theatre THE "EMPEROR" ALWAYS July 24 - Why Do Birds Sing?; The Mystery of Tour to Ontario, Canada with Montgomery GIVES A LITTLE EXTRA. 926 E. Center Mesa Verde; Message fromth e Stone Age: The Davis; info/registration 276-4886 Story of the Tasaday; 562-271 1 July 31 - Bernstein on Beethoven: A Tribute; August 20 EMPEROR OF CHINA Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist; Scott Joplin; Chicago Bus Trip 1010 E. Brady Street 271-8889 Tues. thru Sat. 12-5 3 & 7:15pm; Charles Allis Art Museum, 1630 Enjoy Art in the Windy City; registration dead E Royall Place; 278-8295 line August 13; John Michael Kohler Arts •Highly rated Chinese food* Center, 608 New York Ave, 414/458-6144 August 1 &15 Up-and Coming Video: Recent Student Works August 20 from Southeastern Wisconsin Celebrity & Notoriety in 19th Century Photog 7pm MAM:Multimedia Theater; 271 -0508 raphy Gallery Talk by Terrence Marvel; 1:30pm; New Studio Spaces Now Open MAM: Segel Gallery; 271 -9508 August 23 Artists' Book Workshop ARTS INCUBATOR Saturdays Leslie Fedorchuk will focus on the altered book; Metaphysical program & social hour; 7pm; $1 9-4pm; Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine • Fully Renovated Custom Built Studios donation; Light-Streams, 6027 W Greenfield; Arts, 2519 Northwestern; 636-9177 • Skylights and Lots of Windows 964-1379 August 29 • Full Capacity Freight Elevator July 17 & 24 Gallery Walk-Through • Business Development Assistance July 17 - Garden Stick Sculpture; Informal tour of current exhibition; artists will • Shared Services Workshop for kids & adults be present; 5:30-6:30pm; MAMGudahy July 24 - Beadworking; workshop for kids & Gallery of Wisconsin Art; 271 -9508 • Inexpensive Rates adults; 1 -3pm; $3; Cedarburg Cultural Cen • Exhibit Space ter, W62 N546 Washington Ave; 375-3676 September 7-8 Doing the Dance of Love • 24 Hour Access July 18 A weekend for couples; $195 couple; Trans • Currently Houses 60 Small Companies Undoing Racism formations, Inc, 4200 W Goodhope Rd; 351 - L G Shanklin-Flowers & Gene Gala7.cn; 6:30- 5770 SPACE IS LIMITED, CALL NOW 9:30pm; $7/$5; Peace Action Center, 1001 EKeete; 964-5158 September 11 Brian O'Malley 372-3936/964-2770 (after 5 p.m.) When Heart & Hand Are One July 18, August 1, September 5 Panel discussion with organizers of children's Milwaukee Enterprise Center 450 Years of The Face & Form art exhibit; 7-9pm; Milwaukee Insitute of Art & Docents present ARTREACH reproductions; Design: Frederick Layton Gallery; 276-7889 2821 North 4th Street 12:45pm; free;Northwes t Senior Center, 7717 W Good Hope; 271-4704 35 July 22-26 Rainbow Summer July 22 - The Sun Rhythm Section July 23 - Paul Cebar & The Milwaukeans (also at 7:30pm) July 24-Rick Wilcox Now-July 20 July 25 - Musik Kapelle Patscherkofel Buam The Voice of the Prairie July 26 - The Remainders John Olive Noon-1:15pm; free; PAC: Peck Pavilion Summer Theatre '91 Comedy/drama about radio stories which July 25, 26 sweep the country; 8pm; John Michael Kohler GALLERY 2 1 8 MILWAUKEE Milwaukee Symphony SummerNights Arts Center, 608 New York, Sheboygan; 1 / Doc Severinsen 458-6144 MOTION Neal Gittleman, Conductor WTALKEPQ WORKSHOP 8pm; $10-$25; PAC: Uihlein Hall; 273- Now-July 27 PQINT 7206; Fiddler On the Roof HOLISTIC CLASSES: Relaxation, Creative Stein/Bock/Harnick W (n Dance, Space Harmony for Non-Dancers Julv27 West Allis Players and more CHILDREN'S creativity classes Milwaukee Symphony SummerNights F,Sa 8pm; $6.50-$7.50; Central Auditorium, ASSOCIATION drawn from nature images. Pops for Presidents 8516 W Lincoln; 278-8886 TECHNIQUE: All Levels Modern, Jazz, UPAF Benefit; 8pm; $10-$25; PAC: Uihlein A COOPERATIVE GALLERY Space Harmony. OPEN HOUSE - FALL REGISTRATION Hall; 273-7206 Now-August 4 Sunday, Sept. 8,1991 2 - 5 p.m. Steel Magnolias HOURS: FRIDAY 12-6 2:30-3 p.m. Free open sample class July 28 Robert Harling SATURDAY 12-6 3:15-3:45 p.m. DANCECIRCUS Milwaukee Symphony SummerNights Acacia Theatre Company performance Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Th-Sa 8pm Su 3pm; $7-11; 3300 N Sherman; SUNDAY l-5pm Zdenek Macal, Conductor 223-4996 OPEN GALLERY NITE. STUDIOS OF 7pm; $12-$20; indudes admission to Ger- BETTY SALAMUN'S manFest; Marcus Amphitheater, Summerfest Now-August 18 414/643/1732 DANCECIRCUS Grounds; 273-9388 Baby 218 SOUTH SECOND STREET 404 S. 7 th St. (& Virginia St.) Shire/ Maltby MILWAUKEE, WI 53204 FREE PARKING 272-M0VE July 28 Sunset Playhouse Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Th-Sa 8pm Su 7pm; $9; 800 Elm Grove Rd; Works to be performed during MYSCs sum 782-4430 mer European tour; 2pm; $5-$l 5; PAC: Uihlein ART CLASSES Hall; info MYSO 272-8540 July 16-August 11 FOR THOSE COMING HOME Bullshot Crummond July 29-31 House/White/Andrews/Shearman & Cun Rainbow Summer ningham Come home to your SELF July 29 - Rosewood Percussion Belfry Theatre HOLOGRAM & NEON GALLERY through creativity - your July 30 - Koko Taylor (also 7:30pm) Parody of grade B, 1930's detective movies; T, natural gift of healing. July 31 - Frank Cappelli Th, F 8pm, Sa, 5 8.8:30pm, W & Su 2pm; $ 10- August 1 - Da Yoopers; State Fair Mascots $12; Hwys 50 & 67, Lake Geneva; 245-0123 August 2 - Rosetta Carr 8c James Cleveland "Beyond Drawing" - combines Worship Choir July 19-September21 technical instruction and art therapy Noon-1:15pm; free; PAC: Peck Pavilion Nunsense MAYFAIR MALL Dan Goggin (414J258A6250 for those wanting personal change July 31-August 1 Broadway Baby Dinner Theatre; W 7:30pm, F, and growth. Day and evening Milwaukee Symphony SummerNights Sa 8pm, Su 4pm; $23-$27 incl dinner;5132 classes. Limited size. Personal Beethoven's Greatest Hits W Mill Rd;358-2020 Zdenek Macal, Conductor • interview required with Sandy Andre-Michel Schub, Pianist; 8pm;$10-$25; July 26-28 GRAPHICS Zahn, art therapist and educator. PAC: Uihlein Hall; 273-7206 The Runner Stumbles POSTERS Milon Stiff 1 2 0 9 E Call: 871-8176 August 2-3 Theatre Terra Nova FRAMING BRADY ST. Milwaukee Symphony SummerNights Events surrounding the 1907 murder of a nun; HOURS: Musical Madness with PDQ Bach; 8pm; $4/$5; Cardinal Stritch: auditorium, M-F 10-6 Newton Wayland,Conductor 6158 N Alberta; 962-2248 SAT. 10-5 8pm; $10-$25; PAC: Uihlein Hall; 273-7206 277.8228 August 8-17 August 4 Stop the World! I Want To Get Off G R A V A Master Singers Bricusse/Newley David Mohr, Conductor The life 8c times of Litrlechap, a modern day G A L L E R Y 3pm; free; Villa Terrace, 2200 N Terrace; Everyman; M-Sa 8pm; August 11 matinee 774-5316 3pm; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 608 New York, Sheboygan; 1/458-6144 Language Center August 5-9 Rainbow Summer AMERICAN ABSTRACT-PRIMITIVE ART August 13-September 2 International August 5 - Dick Strauss & His Many Happy The Miss Firecracker Contest PHIL'S INCOGNITO GALLERY Returns Orchestra Communication by Design Beth Henley 1032 COLLEGE AVE. #5 / 637-4353 August 6 - Dick Holliday & The Bamboo Gang Language Courses Given by Native Speakers Belfry Theatre (also at 7:30pm) RACINE, WIS 53403-1476 T,Th,F 8pm, Sa 5 8c 8:30pm, W 8c Su 2pm; • August 7 - Traveling Hands $10-$l 2; Hwys 50 & 67, Lake Geneva; 245- Translations, Interpretations, Cultural August 8 - Generations In Jazz; Tom Green 0123 Orientation, Organized Trips Abroad August 9 - Big Bang Noon-1:15pm; free; PAC: Peck Pavilion design • September 11-October 6 Plus, A Complete Library - Books and Tapes Lady In The Dark (video and Audio) free for our students August 12 Kurt Weill Celebrate Harmony For complete details call: Skylight Opera Theatre take chants Mobilization for Survival 265-2101 W,Th 7:30pm F,Sa 8pm Su 2 8c 7:30pm (2pm Music by select musicians; 7pm; $12; Villa only Sept 29 8. Oct 6) $19-$26; 813 N Terrace, 2220 N Terrace Jefferson; 271-9580 August 12-16 September 13-29 Rainbow Summer The Boys Next Door August 12-Survival Revival Revue Tom Griffin August 13-Capitol Drive (also at 7:30pm) Next Act Theatre August 14-The Flyers Comedy about 4 mentally handicapped men; MASSAGE August 15-Blarney & Cherish The Ladies Th,F 8pm; Sa 5 8c 9pm; Su 7:30pm except Sept Therapeutic approach uses key August 16-Snakebite 29 2pm; $12-$14; Centennial Hall, 733 N points to release tension, promote Noon-1:15pm; free; PAC: Peck Pavilion energy flow, relax and rejuvenate. 8th; 278-7780 608-251-5255 6^M^»ynQton,Modt$onWIToeSat 125 California-trained • Certified August 19-20 Oil or Chinese (clothed) massage Rainbow Summer By appointment only August 19 - Ballet Cultural Hispano MARLY GISSER • 962-7844 August 20 - Street Life Noon-1:15pm; free; PAC: Peck Pavilion ART MUSCLE August 25 STUDIO SPACE Master Singers CLASSIFIEDS Walker's Point Antique Center Building, Martha Doads Conductor Third Floor. 400 to 800 sq. ft. spaces. 3pm; free; Villa Terrace, 2200 N Terrace, $20 an inch Electric included. South exposure. 774-5316 546-0569 September 5 Next issue: Sept. 15-Nov. 15 Take 6 CUSTOM FRAMING A capppella sextet fuses gospel & jazz; Pabst AT AFFORDABLE PRICE? Theater, 144 E Wells; single ticket info/ 229- Ad deadline: Aug. 20 4308 1668 N. Warren Ave. M-W-F 10-6 Madison gallery is looking for artists willing (Off Brady & Farwell) T-Th 12-7 September 13 Call: 672-8485 to make a commitment to a membership Milwaukee, WI 53202 Sat 12-4 PRESENT MUSIC: 10th Anniversary Concert gallery. Send 6-10 slides, a resume and a A surreal movie, flying ping-pong balls & a S.S.A.E to: _ „ _.„, new work by Michael Torke, plus Kumbalec, Gallery B106 Snopek, McQueen; dancing to Paul Cebar & 644B West Washington The Milwaukeeans; 8pm; $15; Renaissance • •M n Madison,WI 73703 Place, 1451 N Prospect; 271-0711 608 257-7333 36 Art Muscle J.V1. A.OI S ON SO I. JND W P. By Gregory Conniff S;SsgfrtfpS|s5^ particular talent or trend, but to give Black American children and their families a sense of who they are as African-Ameri Somewhere in Africa, sometime after cans. Lucy-the-Mother-of-Us-All, set the human gene pool in motion, a mother silenced a Talking about this accessibility and the crying child by playfully dangling in its orientation of children with painter Henry field of vision something that came to Hawkins, something suddenly became hand. It could have been a stick of pecu clear. "Art in the African-American com liar shape, perhaps a rock that looked as munity is driven by experience and the if it had eyes and a mouth, maybe a people expect to participate," Hawkins feather. Whatever it was and whoever did said. "It's call and response. It was so in it, though, are secondary to the ancestor the fields and it is in the churches and you who drew a connection between the can see it in movie theaters if there is a manipulated object and the fascinated Black crowd. Accessibility is an impor silence of the child. That ancestor, dupli tant part of that call and response. The cating the act, set us on the path of magic work has to strike a human chord. And (have you ever quieted a screaming in the messages in the art are value-laden in fant at three in the morning?). Religion a way that abstract art is not. Art is a way and art set us, if you will, on the path of of reconciling the spirit with the world. It human culture. was this way in the beginning and it is this way for some of us still. I grew up in Until recent times (those described by the Alabama and I got my MFA from the rise of the machine), art was at one with University here, but I don't want to paint life. It was put to use in the service of anything those people who grew up in systems of belief, but those systems were poor Montgomery couldn't relate to." at the heart of how people found order and hope in a disordered world. Art and The Madison area offers frequent oppor belief entwined with geographical isola tunities to hear jazz and blues, at the tion gave rise to cultures of enormous Monona Pub and the Crystal Corner, uniqueness and complexity. respectively, and The Civic Center pres ents occasional performances rising from However, from the rise of mercantilism, the African-American cultural heritage. through the scientific and industrial revo But those of us who are not part of this lutions to the limp pleasures of mass community don't get to see art function "tourism," we can see humanity steadily ing in a culture where it is primary. Rose cut loose from its moorings of art, belief Onama, a dancer says, "We dance to talk and culture. We live on a televised planet to people, to insult people, to thank obsessed by desire for material goods. people." Or as Lee Stanley says, "I try to Distinct cultures are vanishing through live the life I sing about," and gold smith the holes in the ozone layer. We are Varnette P. Honeywood, Like Father Like Son Fyli Sissoko, can't imagine his jewelry for disconnected and adrift in a market that sale in the Madison Art Center's gift shop has reduced art to entertainment and belief residence composer at Edgewood Col because, "My work isn't dead. Why should to public relations. off from fire fighting to serve'as artist-in- lege and recent appointee to the Board of residence at various grade schools in the it be in a museum?" A culture where the Directors of The Wisconsin Arts Board. Madison area. human spirit is alive in its art, has some Some of us, though, are less adrift than WBAG is intended to be a support base thing important to say to a culture whose others. Over the past few years I have for artists of color, and is open to anyone What linked these three events, and a art devours its past in search of its soul. spoken with artists who are troubled by interested in the artistic contributions of number of individual artists with whom I the feeling that they play no useful role in African-Americans. It is committed to il spoke, was wanting to reach children For information on the Wisconsin Black society - that art and art commentary luminating that contribution in music, through art—of reinforcing their African- Artists Guild (soon to have a branch in have become no more than gossip. They theater, art dance and literature. American identity through art. The WBAG Milwaukee) write 731 State Street, Madi feel a loss of something that the market's meeting was co-sponsored by the Wis son, WI 53703 or call 608/257-1039 or "postneofaux" tactics mock. They are Ten days later the Positive Images Gallery consin Arts Board, but its focus was not 1/800/444-4861. Positive Images is at 708 trying to find a connection - a way home- opened. Run by former mayoral aide, on grant getting, but on the board's Artist- 1/4 Johnson Street 53703,608/255-0277. - but in the twentieth century, espe James Thomas, the gallery specializes in in-Residence program: how to get Afri For a monthly schedule of events target cially, the old roads have been obscured. affordable African-American art. can-American art and artists into the class ing Madison's African-American commu room. Positive Images Gallery (which is nity subscribe to UMOJA at P.O. Box Looking for black, African and African- And right after that, Lee Stanley, a Madi looking for black Wisconsin artists) is 44653, Madison 53711-4653. 608/ 273- American artists recently in Madison, I son fire fighter and gospel musician, hung with prints which range in subject 1982. stumbled across one of the oldest roads received Dane County's Liesl Blockstein matter from picking cotton, through jazz, (This is the first in a two-part series look without realizing it. In early June an or Award for outstanding community serv to Malcolm X. The accessibility of the ing at foe African-American art commu ganization called The Wisconsin Black ice. Using the arts to reach people with work is a surprise to eyes more used to nity in Madison). Artists Guild held its first meeting. It was special needs or to improve racial and abstract and obdurate images; Thomas founded by Jonathon Overby, artist-in- cultural relations, Stanley utilizes his time says that the point is not to showcase a ART EXHIBITIONS August 17-October 20 Vaiperine Gallery LECTURES From the collection of the Museum of American Now-August 31 Grace Chosy Gallery Folk Art; exhibition designed for blind & visu Gallery Artists Madison Art Center Now-August 3 ally impaired September 7 Now-August 2 Gayle Cole & Paula Shuette Kraemer August 17-November 11 Monroe Street Festival Frank Lloyd Wright: In the Realm of Ideas Prints, monotypes & paintings Brooks Stevens Forest Floor Dwellers Presentations by apprentices from Taliesin East; September 13-October 5 A survey of car & boat designs Sarah Aslakson; poster signing & exhibition F 12:15pm; free w/exhibit admission; 211 Windows 211 State; 608/257-0158 1719 Monroe; 608/256-4040 State; 608/257-0158 Group exhibit; opening reception Sept 13 6- 8pm; 218 N Henry; 608/255-1211 Spaightwood Galleries Wisconsin Union Galleries UW-Madison University Outreach Now-July 28 Theater Gallery: August 1 -2 Jura Silverman Gallery COBRA & Friends; Group Show Now-July 28 Wsconsin-Madison Writers Institute Now-September 15 August 2-September 22 Works from the permanent collection George V. Higgins, author of 7f>e Friends of Wisconsin Artists Showcase 30 Years of American Prints August 4-September 7 Eddie Coyie is the featured speaker; practical Works in all media; 143 S Washington; Spring 1150 Spaight Street; 608/255-3043 The Madison Photo Club; selected works; information & skill building sessons; Green; 608/588-7049 opening reception August 4 4-7pm; Wsconsin Center, 702 Langdon; info Christine Story Pottery Main Gallery: DeSmet 608/262-3447 Madison Art Center Now-August 26 Now-July 28 Now-August 4 Word Works Maps & The Columbian Encounter THEATER Frank Lloyd Wright: In the Realm of Ideas Jamie Ross combines words with visual im Historic events in the Old & New Worlds Text panels, photographs scale models, origi agery in photographs & assemblages; 105 August 4-September 7 Madison Repertory Theatre nal drawings & art pieces plus video presenta Commerce, Mineral Point; 608/987-2903 Essences of Nature July 28-August 25 tion; includes Jacobs House I at 441 Toepfer Scott Zupanc; watercolors; opening reception Nunsense Ave ;211 State; 608/257-0158; Sunprint Cafe & Gallery August 3 4-7pm; UW-Madison; 608/262- September 6-22 Now-August 18 5969 Eleemosynary John Berger, photographs $12.50-$16; Isthmus Playhouse, 211 State; Documentation of intergenerational clay stomp; 608/266-9055 2701 University Ave; 608/271-9330 37 CJHICA Through July 10, the Robin Lockett Gal ART EXHIBITIONS By Michelle Grabner May Weber Museum of Cultural Art lery screened "videos and a film about ARC Gallery September 12-December 29 some schmoes who are trying to conform "ConTEXTual", a group exhibition at Now-July 27 Containers of Spirit & Substance (yet miss)." Participating artists/ Zolla/Lieberman Gallery through July 19, Emerging Images, Evolving Selves Noon-5pm; $1 admission; 299 E Ontario; filmmakers were Kevin Carter, Sean Art Therapists identify problems through ex 312/787-4477 features the work of six artists who employ Landers, Raymond Pettibone and pressive means; panel discussion July 19 7- text to convey allegorical, descriptive and Jacque Tati. Particularly indulgent is 9pm;1040 W Huron; 312/733-2787 Museum of Contemporary Art autobiographical as well as formal quali Pettibone's Sir Drone which stars Mike Now-September 8 ties in their work. A gamut of media Artemisia Gallery Sigmar Polke Retrospective Kelly and Mike Watt. Working in the provided the viewer with intimate, play Now-July 27 Paintings, drawings & watercolors, 1960- genre of "Wayne's World," SirDrone pairs ful and confrontational insight into the Response to War, fiber & paintings; present; two wanna be punk rockers jamming on combination of text and image. Jamie July 30-August 31 July 20-Septemberl electric guitars, sporting dark sunglasses The Other Nine, Chicago Women's Caucus Chicago Realism: Selections from the MCA Branson's series of and "I'm Mellow" t- For Art, opening reception Aug 2 5-8pm; 700 permanent collection; 237 E Ontario; 312/ 7 small, diagonally shirts and asking N Carpenter; 312/2267323 280-5161 hung canvases titled life's biggest ques Without explore the Art Institute of Chicago N.A.M.E. Gallery tion, "What should irony of AIDS through Now-July 21 Now-July 26 we name the band?" superimposing such | Paul Strand: A Retrospectivel 50 photographs; Uprooted The whiny, unpro phrases an "Love Now-August 25 Group exhibit examines physical & emotional fessional acting The Golaof Africa: Jewelry & Ornaments disorientation; 700 N. Carpenter; 312/226- Without Guilt" or makes their state- Now-September 1 0671 "Pleasure Without ments(i.e., "I would Manet & the Etching Revival; Death" over the sil like to think people Now-September 2 Nancy Lurie Gallery houetted images of a English & French Printed Textiles; June 28-August 30 appreciate me for coffin, microscope or Now-September 8 Chicago area artists;1632 N LaSalle; 312/ my music") seem beaker. The photo Power in the Blood, the North of Ireland; 377-2883 especially face graphic works of Pat Photographs by Gilles Peress tious, while at the Now-September 8 1935 Gallery rick JB Flynn in same time chal Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant Garde Now-July 27 stantly bring to mind lenge fundamental in Nazi Germany; You Stare Too Much the works of Barbara concepts of enter Now-September 1 5 Elisabeth Condon, paintings Kruger and Louise Photography by Calum Colvin; Opening reception June 21 6:30-10pm;l 935 tainment and its Lawler, however Now-October 27 SHalsted; 312/829-0485 commodity-based Flynn flips the femi Pottery: Selections from the Root Collection; power structure. nist coin and rein Now-November 10 Paper Press Contemporary Prints & Portfolios June 24-August 2 states a male, euro- Now-January 21, 1992 Registered Paper, group show centric tradition of art 111 Perhaps the most Austrian Architecture & Design; September 13-October 27 history and practice. significant exhibi- Now-January 22, 1992 The Black Hills Series, handmade paper by History, a high con SigmarPoIke, Liebspaar II (Lovers II), 1965 tion to tour N0rui From Pontormo to Seurat;Recently acquired Dennis Navrat;opening reception Sept 13, 5- trast black and white image of America this year is the Sigmar Polke drawings; Michigan at Adams; 312/443-3626 7pm; 1017 W Jackson; 312/226-6300 Michelangelo's David inflicted with the Retrospective which is currently featured words HIS STORY is a fine example of at the Museum of Contemporary Art Beacon Street Gallery Perimeter Gallery Now-July 31 Now-August 31 Flynn's flippant efforts to appropriate a through September 8. On the back of Urban Worship Group Show: recognizable style and instill new suspi French Artist Pierre Raynaud's show, this Multicultural, multimedia group celebration of Ying, Cheairs, Keland & Dietemann cions and light heartedness within the retrospective of one of Germany's most the city; 4520 N Beacon; 312/561 -3500 September 6-October 5 contemporary feminist genre. In contra celebrated artists (second only to Kiefer), Dona Look, contemporary baskets dicting the sociopolitical commentary of nicely illustrates the conceptual and aes Catherine Edelman Gallery Walter Hamady, collages & sculpture Brunson's and Flynn's work, Leslie Bel- thetic division between two major Euro Now-August 20 Opening reception Sept 6 5-8pm; 750 N lavance utilizes text as a diaristic tool to pean countries. The show contains over Marc Hauser Orleans; 312/266-9473 Portrait photographs; 300 W Superior; 312/ invent personal history. A wall installa 60 paintings and works on paper created 266-2350 Peter Miller Gallery tion of old photographs which appear between 1963 and the present. Early Now-August 31 randomly tacked to a painted copper acrylic paintings reveal a German simula Chicago Historical Society Summer Session 11 wall reveal Bellevance'sfine, gold enamel tion of America's Pop movement. Plastik Now-October 27 New work by gallery artists Gilmore, Johnson, embellishments. She adds wings, illustra Wannen(PlasticTubes, 1964) is a transat Prairie in the City: Naturalism in Chicago Landis, Myers, & others; 401 W Superior; tions from books, halos and text to the lantic equivalent to Warhol's Coke bottle Parks, 1870-1940; 312/951-0252 photos which plays off the turn-of-the- studies. While experimenting with hallu August 25-October 27 century tradition of placing a X over the cinogenic drugs in the early seventies, IDream a World: Portraits of Black Women Rockford Art Museum Who Changed America; Now-July 21 heads of people who have died. Also Polke's weaving of patterns and images Clark Street at North Avenue; 312/642-4600 Robert McCauley, sculpture & drawings; included in this exhibition were paint confuse and distract the viewer from a 711 N Main. Rockford: 815/965-3131 ings by Paul Chidester and Libby Wad- single reality. Alice in Wunderland,1971 Contemporary Art Workshop sworthand intentionally esoteric sculp combines polka-dotted and printed fab Now-August 12 School of the Art Institute of Chicago tures by Adam Brooks. As a side note, ric on which a linear sketch from Lewis New Talent 1; Group Show; 542 W Grant- Gallery II Now-July 26 the Zolla/Lieberman has announced that Carroll's tale is rendered along with other Si 2/472-4004 Lucy Ruth Wright Rivers: The Locker they will be moving to 325 W. Huron randomly stenciled and painted imagery. Galerie Thomas R Monahan Installation & group show; 1040 W Huron; (previously the Donald Young Gallery) This monumental canvas clearly reveals Now-Through August 31 312/443-7284 in August and opening to the public Polke's influence on such important Gallery artists: Matta, Castagnozzi, Aresti & September 6. Donald Young is leaving American artists as Salle and Schnabel. others; 301 W Superior; 312/266-7530 State of Illinois Art Gallery Chicago and relocating in Seattle. Other highlights include Polke's lantern July 22-September 6 paintings which reflect his former occu Gallery Ten Ed Shay: My Backyard, paintings August 16-September 21 Multiple Images; selections from the 20th cen pation as a stained glass craftsman. His Jean Apgar & Deborah Stromsdorfer, paint tury collection of the Illinois State Museum; Willow, aspen and dogwood are the politically charged canvases subversively ings; opening reception Aug 16 5-9pm; 514 E opening reception July 26 5:30-8pm; 100 W organic materials which Clifton Mon- rethink the French Revolution and the State, Rockford; 815/964-1743 Randolph; 312/814-5322 teith transforms into functional sculp Holocaust, and are as conceptually en ture. By bending, shaping and stacking gaging as his use and invention of mate Holdn Kaufman Gallery Ten in One Gallery branches, Monteith makes, chairs, bird rials and techniques. His works culmi Now-August 16 Now-July 27 houses and screens into gothically lyrical nate in large scale computer paintings of Will Crockett: Celebrity Photographic Portraits Robert Huff, Colin Rich, & Mike Slattery 210 W Superior; 312/266-1211 works of art. Inhabitating the Carl Ham a single wood engraving mark extracted 3 artists with similarities;! 510 W Ohio; 312/ mer Gallery from June 14 - July 13, 850-4610 from the prints of Albrecht Durer. Gilman/Gruen Galleries Monteith's works display a reverence for Now-August 3 World Tattoo Gallery nature combined with a unique vision of Group show featuring Chicago artists July 26-August 31 One of Chicago's most exciting multi form and mass. The results are far more 226 W Superior; 312/337-6262 Tony Fitzpatrick, Richard Hull & others; open spiritual than their functional intent. media events is back and scheduled for ing reception July 26 5pm-8pm; dance 8- September 12-15. Around the Coyote Klein Art Works midnight;! 255 S Wabash; 312/939-2222 '91 again promises to bring together July 23-September 1 Jennifer Bartlett: Elements and Sea Elements of Abstraction, gallery artists LECTURES sons exhibited at the Richard Gray Gal enthusiasts, fellow professionals and the general public, with local and interna SculptureGarden: Jesus Bautista Morales, gran lery throughout the month of June con ite sculpture 400 N Morgan; 312/243-0400 Museum of Contemporary Art tional artists through tours, performances, sists of a series of simplified landscapes Sigmar Polke Retrospective: on which Bartlett stages a consistent vo exhibits, lectures and discussions. In Lannon Cole Gallery July 23 - Chief Curator, Bruce Guenther cabulary of visual and symbolic elements. addition to the visual arts, Around the July 16-20 July 30 - Associate Curator, Beryl Wright Employing pastel on paper, Bartlett Coyote '91 will feature greater attention Artist of The Day; featuring Bartone, Gearan, August 6 - Museum educator, Rebecca Keller Gentner, Haney & Parola; 365 W Chicago; August 27 - Museum educator, Rebecca Keller combines a collage-1 ike handl ing of some on music, theatre, cinema, dance and 312/951-0700 Realism, Figurative Paintings, & The Chicago images while gesturally building up oth story telling this year. Held in Chicago's ethinically diverse art communities of Viewpoint: ers with agitated marks. A single ani Marx Gallery August 20 - Associate Curator, Lynne Warren mated skeleton, hand prints and a red Wicker Park and Bucktown, this extrava September 6-October 12 free;! 2:15pm; 237 E Ontario; 312/280-5161 crypt occupy each drawing in a quasi- ganza celebrates the energies and enthu Illinois Glass: A University of Illinois & Illinois narrative arrangement which is quickly siasm of Chicago's artists. State University Perspective; opening recep interrupted and flattened by such decora tion Sept 6,5-8pm; Sept 21 educational semi nar with artists present; 10:30am-noon; 208 tive elements as tartan patterns, fleur-de- WKinzie; 312/661-0657 lis, playing cards and dominoes. 38 Art Muscle W*LK THIS W^Y DIAL M FOR MILWAUKEE By Jerome Schultz from the politically correct LA Law to the nificant and admissible evidence for his murder. So far, the self-defense plea has sensational hysteria of America's Most defense. Recently, this defense has been only been successfully argued within Wanted. It's the '90s and Americans are Milwaukee, long known as the teen-preg successfully applied to both men and home-violence or abusive partner situ living in criminal anarchy. nancy capital and one of the most racially women who have killed a spouse or do ations. The defense has not been argued segregated cities of America, added to its mestic partner because of psychological, in reference to racial, ethnic, and gay The theme of criminal violence has long national identity the Newsweek honor of emotional, or physical abuse. Hundreds bashing cases. The passage of the Hate been a big money maker for Hollywood. America's new murder capital. For Mil- of these cases have resulted in the acquit Crimes Act last year finally expressed a The film industry's most intriguing ex waukeeans, whose neighborhoods are tal and freedom of people who formerly legal consciousness for the victims of ploitation of the subject is this summer's riddled with senseless violence and the would have been charged with murder. such horrendous and unforgivable crimes ball buster Thelma and Louise, a woman- panic-zone muzak of sirens, it was an These self-defense killings by victims of on the federal level. Victims of such abuses centered road show celebrating the rise easy bullet to swallow. But public offi abuse do not have to be heat-of-passion now have the ability to legally document of white trash and unrequited violence. cials reacted in the classic manner of moments. In many of the tried and won the incidents and establish admissible Featuring two female fugitives, the film is someone in need of treatment: denial. cases, concrete evidence of premedita evidence of an abused history for pos a gender bending, classic Hollywood Most startling about the official city re tion has been overruled with the "abused sible pleas of self-defense killings. It is buddy shoot-'em-up flick. What's most sponse, which was bound up in statistical victim" defense. That is why the fleeing of because of this possible defense that it is disturbing about the film is the America's debate, was its reaction to the effects of Thelma and Louise from the law is so mandatory for victims of hate crimes to Funniest Home Videos orientation of the Newsweeks claim upon the city's tourist insulting and makes the character of law- report them to the police and other men-bashing scenes, and the inability of industry. No statements were published informed Louise such a disappointment monitoring agencies. And, if these vic the film to become a political cause celebre or broadcast about compassion for the and cop out. tims have purchased a gun for protection, for the developing phenomena of self- loved ones of the victims and the perpe to properly register it. defense murder by victims of violence trators, or the emotional and psychologi With the continued escalation of violence and abuse. cal scars they carry. Instead, officials and the growing arsenal of guns in From the snide sexual remarks of Louise's whined about the effects of Milwaukee's America, the dilemma of Thelma and boss to the verbal assaults of the semi new dubious honor upon the lakefront From her obsessively clean apartment Louise will become a more common driver, Thelma and Louise were trapped festival industry and the trickle-down loss and idiosyncratic obsession with appear experience as we reach the millennium. in a vicious world of hate crimes against of tourist dollars upon hotel and restau ance and time control and her apparent The continued inability of government to women. In reality, their predicament was rant incomes. These offensive reactions, self-taught knowledge of the law, Louise, control law and order, coupled with the not unusual. It is a common occurrence which defended the city's large invest who pulled the trigger, had been the financial burden of the prison system, throughout American society. Unlike the ments in the leisure-time dollars of the victim of a violent crime which most and an overworked police force will re film's creative crew, who ignored these middle class, were incriminating testi- likely was rape. Instead of addressing sult in more and more people taking the abuses and treated them with black monytoAldermanMichaelMcGee's battle Louise's self-defense killing of the poten law into their own hands. Given this grim humor, it is mandatory for victims of hate cry that Milwaukee is only interested in tial rapist and making the movie a '90s 9 situation, the number of abused victims crimes to know their legal rights. They "white folks having fun." to 5 , a rallying cry for the victims of of violence will escalate. The self-de must get everyone's support in protect heterosexual testosterone oppression, fense plea, already accepted within ing their civil liberties. Even if it means As Milwaukee's claim to fame goes from Thelma and Louise prostitutes itself to domestic situations, will undoubtedly be being forced to take the law into their "beer, brats, and baseball" to "bigotry, the box office draw of charm school extended to a multiplicity of other op own hands. babies, and bullets," America is witness rambimbos and proselytizes post-shoul pressed victims. After all, what is a privi ing the development of a new growth der pad feminism. lege for "consenting adults" must also be Hopefully, by the year 2000, America will industry — violent crime. Over the last extended to innocent victims of racial, no longer be dialing M for Milwaukee but few years, violence has escalated within The issue of murder versus self-defense ethnic and gay hatred and,rage. With will be living in a state where life is all economic strata of our society. On an killing is presently a controversial debate education and information, the social respected. In the meantime, unlike Lou international level, we've gone from free within the American judicial system and acceptance of victims suffering from the ise (who obviously knew her rights), dom sanctuary to new world order rent- tabloid talk shows. The issue first entered post-traumatic stress of psychological, victims not only have to know their rights; a-cop. Military armaments and technol the national public eye with the Bernard emotional, and physical abuse will be they must take advantage of them. Hang ogy have become our major export in the Goetz shooting of potential muggers in a come more widespread. tough! trade deficit battle. On a national level, New York subway. Goetz, who had been prison construction has become our only the victim of similar past violence, suc It is within this context that Milwaukee formof public housingexpenditure. Prime cessfully argued that the post-traumatic has the potential to be a hotbed for an time entertainment has centered on crime stress and terror of these crimes was sig expanded interpretation of self-defense opportuNitie/ Videos Wanted Call for Art New Wauwatosa Gallery sessions with live musicians will take place. WYOU, Channel 4, Madison's public-ac Greenview Arts Center Gallery seeks work. ArtEscape, a new gallery in Wauwatosa, is Contact Debra Loewen at 271-0307. cess station, is looking for art or music Send 5 slides, SASE, and resume to 6418 N. looking for original art work in ceramics, related videos from amateur producers to Greenview, c/o K. Kirk, Chicago IL. 60626. mobiles or anything unusual. Send photos Mad Planet/Lizard Lounge broadcast on Alternative Music Television. or slides to ArtEscape, 1510 Underwood Artists are wanted to exhibit work in the Mad Contact Rick Sheridan at (608) 258-9644. Group Exhibition Ave., Wauwatosa, WI 53213, or call 774- Planet nightclub in Milwaukee and the Liz Submissions needed for a group exhibition 7472 for an appointment. ard Lounge in Chicago. Call the Mad Planet Auditions titled "The Family of Man/Reconsidered." for information, 263-4555. The Metropolitan Opera is holding auditions Work must be photo-based, submit a maxi Wisconsin '91 on Oct. 19 at Alexander Hamilton High mum of five slides along with SASE for Artists are invited to submit work to Wiscon String Auditions School, 6215 West Wamimont Milwaukee, return. Deadline is Sept. 1. Send to sin '91, an exhibition of Wisconsin art juried The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee WI. Cash awards will be given and two NewWorks Gallery, School of Art and De by Thomas H. Garver, Nov. 10 to Dec. 1 at Symphony Orchestra will hold auditions for winners will compete in Upper Midwest sign (M/C 036), University of Illinois at Chi Edna Caristen Gallery, UW-Stevens Point. string players on Friday, Sept. 6 from 10 a. m. Regional Auditions. Requirements must be cago, Box 4348, Chicago IL 60680. Deadline is Sept. 14. For prospectus and to 7 p.m. at the UWM Music Building, Room met for entry. For eligibility and more infor entry form contact: Stanley I Grand, Direc 220,2400 E. Kenwood Boulevard. Auditions mation call Patricia Crump (414) 786-7642. 3-D Entries tor, Edna Caristen Gallery, University of will consist of a three minute prepared solo Furniture, glass and ceramics are needed Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, and sightreading. For an appointment and Part Time Positions Available by Patrick King Galleries. Submit slides, WI 54481-3897, (715) 346-4797. information, call 229-4609. The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design resume, and SASE to 720 E. 65th St. Indian has open positions for figure drawing, print- apolis, IN 46220 Arts Conference One-act Festival and auditions making/water based screenprinting, and The Statewide Arts Conference sponsored The Village Playhouse of Wauwatosa will photography. Send letter of intent, resume, National Photo Competition by the Wisconsin Arts Board will stress the hold its Eighth Annual Festival of Wisconsin 20 personal and student slides SASE to The cultural significance of food in the U.S. implementation of multi-cultural program Playwright's One-Act Plays March 6 to 15. Chair, Fine Arts Dept. MIAD, 342 N. Water is the subject of the 7th annual photo compe ming and the arts as a cultural bridge and Playwrights interested in submitting work St., Milwaukee, WI 53202. tition hosted by the Museum of Anthropol source of community healing on Thursday, should contact the Playhouse at PO Box ogy at California State University, Chico. Sept. 26 to Saturday, Sept. 28 in Milwaukee. 13095, Wauwatosa, WI 53213. Auditions for Art Walk 91/Film and Video Deadline is Aug. 27. For entry banks and in For more information or registration mate "Look Homeward, Angel" will also be held The Riverwest Artists Association is looking formation write: Museum of Anthropology, rial, call the Arts Board at (608) 266-0190. Aug. 19 and 20. Ten men and eight women for films or videos for screening as part of its State University California, Chico, CA 95929- are needed. Auditions for "Cheaper by the studio/gallery walk. Guidelines: Video 3/4" 400 Dozen" will be March 16 and 17. Nine men or 1/2" VHS or High 8. Film 8m or 16m with Fall Art Festival and seven women are needed. sound. All 5 minute maximum or an excerpt Computer Services To Be Awarded The Milwaukee Fall Art Festival will be at of 5 minutes. Deadline Aug. 31. Send SASE The Last Word will donate up to $5,000 in MECCA Sept. 21 and 22. To apply, send Poetry, prose, articles for prospectus to Art Walk 91 /Film and Video, computer services to one or more art groups three slides of work, one of display, resume A new literary publication, The Nobody Quar c/o 815A E. Hadley St. Milwaukee, WI 53212 in the Greater Milwaukee Area. Applicants and business sized SASE to Audree Levy, terly, seeks prose, poetry and articles for 264-9792. should contact The Last Word office 1123 N. Invitational Art Fairs, 10629 Park Preston, publication. The new publication seeks pri Water St., Milwaukee, WI 53202 272-3787. Dallas, TX 75230, or call (214) 369-4345 for marily new and unpublished writers. 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