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September 9,1995 Milwaukee Art Museum, •ill ii ^ Vogel/Helfaer Galleries 7:00 Galleries Open, Special Exhibit 25 Americans: Painting in the 90's PLYMOUTH • WISCONSIN 7:15 Pre-Concert Composers' Forum with Daron Hagen & Michael Torke Saturday, Oct. 7 Sunday, Oct. 8 8:00 CONCERT Living History Exhibits Hog Roast Juried Art Show Barn Dance 9:45 Post-Concert Party with Hands on Workshop Quilting Bee THE ROLLING COHENS for Children Craft Demonstrations Tickets: $18 & $14 Live Music - wool spinning Medicine Man Show - wood carving (414) 2710711 Historic Walking Tours Concert Sponsor: Ameritech • CALL (414) 893-0079 • UWM Art Museum Vogel Hall 3253 North Downer Avenue • Art for the Next Century ARTISTS September 15 - October 22 Opening reception: September 15th from 7-9 pm MAKE YOUR ART ACCESSIBLE Opening night musical installation by Aqua Velveeta and Hal Rammel TO MILLIONS! The artists in this exhibit delve into diverse themes such as surrealism, Japanese cartoons, collage, calligraphy and alchemy, with emphasis on the importance of discovery and the imagination. The exhibiting artists are: J. Karl Bogartte: collages; kerri du pont: multi media; Lois Gieger-Campagna: pastels; Shay Judanony: cartoons; Sean Nelson: collages; Evan Larson: sculpture; Wyatt Osato: collages; & Malvy Westbrook: cartoons. Ronald Cohen: Paintings September 15 - October 22 Opening reception: September 15 from 7-9 pm international Cohen's work investigates the figure from a classical perspective with unsettling overtones of suffering and Artists martyrdom. A marketing Fine Arts Gallery Fine Arts Center UWM Alumni Association's Art Competition 18 September 8 - October 6 Opening reception and awards presentation: /A "Connecting artists and collectors via electronic technology" September 8 from 4:30 - 6:30 pm Through the information superhighway, INTERNET, This biannual exhibition is sponsored by the UWM Alumni Association and is open to all UWM alumni. The juror this year is Haggerty Art Museum Curator James Scarborough. Awards of Excellence are sponsored by through computer CD-ROM, through video slide shows, as Janet and Carl Moebius. well as through the ageless media of print, International Artists Marketing makes your art available for collectors, galleries, interior designers and businesses from around Art History Gallery Mitchell Hall the world. 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Michael Chabon Thus Spoke Zarathustra The Portable Nietzsche I took from my waistcoat-pocket a penknife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the We have re-named the 'Letters' section, Stringent laboratory conditions were throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes 'earwigs,' in honor of a common imposed in making theAnimal Locomotion from the socket! I blush, I burn, I shudder, species of insect sometimes accused of photographs. Several animals and birds creeping into people's ears. This notion while I pen the damnable atrocity. is baseless of course. We welcome your formed part of the series, most of them taken The Black Cat signed letters and comments, though by Muybridge at the Philadelphia Zoo: Edgar Allan Poe sometimes we may have to edit them the lion, tiger, elephant, camel, baboon, kan for length, as we did in this feedback on garoo, pigeon, hawk, vulture, ostrich, stork our review of the Wisconsin Women of One of the older boys (he must have had Distinction exhibit. and swan. Horses predominate and many about a dozen) discovered the alligators types are presented in every conceivable wouldn't bother with a goat with long action. It is only to be expected that follow horns, so the old man carved imitation Critic's Choice ing the date of this (Muybridge's most impor horns about three feet across out of roots ...the inaccurate credit for the photo of tant) publication, artists whose subjects were and fastened them onto his sheep. He didn't Thelma Wasserman-Friedman is inexcus in any way locomotive should find it expedi able. The amateurish-looking photo was not give them all horns, lest the alligators catch taken by Mr. Paul Wendelberger, as stated. ent to consult it as a final and most convenient on to the trick. Was the poorly taken photograph a sublim authority for the representation of humans Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner inal gesture on Ms. Moriarty's part to signi and animals in movement. fy what she thought of the exhibit? And fur Art and Photography Once there had been panthers and wolves thermore, who did take the photo?... I am Aaron Scharf puzzled as to why Ms. Moriarty (or her in this very forest, but they had been killed anonymous cohort?) took such a disliking off, or driven out. From time to time the to this exhibit. Was it something deeper, The goldfinch brings spurge (a poisonous Noir Vulture appeared, a bold vicious perhaps a personal vendetta toward Ms. plant) to its young when they are imprisoned Michaels-Paque? Was there some objection predator that could lift creatures the size of as to the selection of the subjects who were in a cage. It is better to die than to lose one's foxes and fawns into the air, and tear them portrayed in this exhibit?... freedom. It is said of the beaver that when it apart as it flew, ripping and stabbing with its is pursued, knowing that it is being hunted long thin beak: but the Noir Vulture was Adam Danielson for the medicinal properties of its testicles, if nearly extinct... Milwaukee it cannot escape, it stops and in order to be Bellefleur left in peace by its assailants bites off its testi Joyce Carol Oates Art Muscle answers: cles with its sharp teeth and abandons them As to our "inexcusable photo of dubious to the enemy. The walls are hung with what seem like origin," it was mailed to us by Stritch col Leonardo da Vinci huge tapestries, partly knitted, partly lege with the information that it was taken by Mr. Wendelberger. Regarding made like rag rugs, with shifting streams your "vendetta" theory, please read This was Grossman, the nine-foot boa con and islands of colour, which when looked Anthony Lane's review (The New Yorker, strictor who, to their considerable regret had at closely reveal little peering mad June 19) of the movie. The Bridges of been rooming with the Warshaws for the last embroidered faces, green with blue eyes, Madison County. Referring to the novel it black with red eyes, pink with silver eyes. is based on, written by Robert James twelve years. Philly Warshaw had won Waller, Lane says, "it was the worst book Grossman in a Liberty Avenue pool hall dur Swaying crocheted cobwebs hang from in living memory." He further designates ing his senior year at Allderdice, then aban the ceiling, inhabited by dusky spiders it as "jello-headed schmaltz" and prose doned him to his parents' care the following and swarms of sequined blue flies with which calls for a "stomach pump." I doubt fall when he enlisted...Still Grossman lived gauzy wings... that critic Lane was out to get Waller; it's The Matisse Stories more likely that he simply thought it was on, in his heated cage, escaping regularly, by the "worst book in living memory." means of various herpetical stratagems, to A.S. Byatt prey on Irene's ragged tribe of chickens and A Choice Critic Are all of the Gang of Four(QOF) candi dates for re-indoctrination? De gustibus non disputandem est or words to that effect. 1 will never sit on a wall again! I have never seen a member of the QOF with opera glasses. It is not absolutely nec essary for members of the QOF to be pogonothropic and none of them can be described as pogonophoran even if some one might be tempted to illustrate them as such. Is there room for other than warm fuzzy teddy bears in theater peoples' extended families? How comforting, we know that someone has been reading us and Art Muscle knows that we have read them. Mark Bucher's theatre is on KK, but we don't have to print the address. At least one member of the QOF has Italian con nections. Ridi, Pagliacci! Quod scripsi, scripsi. Elephants are noted for having very sensitive skin. These comments from one or more of the QOF have been scram bled to protect the relatively innocent and to give the theater community something to think about and look up. In the spirit of constructive criticism always manifested by the Qang of Four... David M. Doll Milwaukee Critic \ A^YHI trrv—J" H Dke cNew 13rady Street,/t^r 9j i "VrW Opening September 1st! Your Body is a Work off Art. SlflEEfSCRPE AIDS is a Sledgehammer. It's pijk; it's historic. It's rpi; it's old. 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Yes, the Nordic's drawings are glorious, as are the six paintings (including Transfiguration from the Milwaukee Art Museum and Dawn from New Orleans) which flesh-out this cultural coup. Our summer hats are off to the event's supporters, and to the dedicated staff at the sparkling, innovative Haggerty. By the by, the pronunciation ofthe Norwegian Nerdrum's first name, "Odd", was settled shortly before the show opened. It rhymes with God. Appropriately. This heavenly trove is yours through August 27. NORTHERN SKY & WATERMELON Eric McDonald, the Milwaukee producer/director of Northern Sky film and video RlVER-HORSE, TjRSUS, WEB-FOOT, CATAMOUNT production company, recently received "Best Video of the Year" honors at the New and lush at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau is a 1.5 acre 1995 Music Industry Summit Awards in Nashville. His video, using cartoons garden of sculptural delights. Art Muscle treked north and meandered on brick edited to the soundtrack and integrated with performance ofthe band, Asleep at pathways guarded by a Butterfield life-size horse. Resting on teak benches while the Wheel, was cited for its innovation. Northern Sky film and video production observing a napping bronze hippo (The Heavyweight), we took time out to listen company (Art Muscle located them in the historic Matthew Keenan mansion on to a splashing Duck Baby fountain and enjoy a pair of reclining bronze cougars Jefferson street) has also done work for Stevie Nicks and Lynard Skynard, and is and a polar bear. While animal imagery is a fine choice for this particular currently finishing new videos for Watermelon Records and Liberty Records. environment, we also saw giant tea bowls and a hammered aluminum tree jutting from a rock. On September 9th, visitors can move inside the Woodson and thrill to wings and feathered things filling the Birds in Art exhibit. It's free, but call RUFFLED FEATHERS 715/845-7010 for specifics. "My biggest complaint about the whole matter was that I was approached by three U.S. Fish & Wildlife agents as if they were a hit squad. (I was 54 and a grandmother of three). They showed me no identification. I had to demand it. ARTMTJTTS AND SILVERLAND They then threatened to handcuff me and take me to jail. When I asked for a Art Muscle hounded the Milwaukee Art Museum's galleries recently, spotting search warrant, they said that they were above the law. They also made up lies. ArtMutts. We scouted out a pair in Indian Scalp Dance, noted them on a 15th The biggest one was that they told my lawyer that I went around the world century Retable, and discovered one sniffer near a tree in John Wilde's Wilde World. selling these feather creations! This happened to be a once-in-a-lifetime fluke Others, mere dots of oil paint, graced the banks of the Merced River, Yosemite that artists create every now and then." Or so says Michigan artist Judy Enright, Valley, but the biggest and most erotic of mutts was the panting, pink-tongued whose Rise ofthe Phoenix painting was confiscated because it violated a 1918 law Sunny#4, from the kennels of painter Alex Katz. A Blue Ribbon Nasty was the forbidding the use of migratory bird feathers. The Feds feared the feathers were curled-lip canine on the considerable lap of Jacomina Winkler. A yapper yapped from the American Bald Eagle and plucked two from the painting to send to in the upper left hand corner of Keith Haring's acrylic on paper, offsetting the Oregon for testing. Enright did not go to jail nor did she receive a fine. The Feds sleeping mongrels in the Haitian collection. Pick your preferred pooch August 6- suggested the work go to the University of Michigan Hospital art collection, but September 17, when the Dog Days of Summer is unleashed at the museum. For their director went ballistic saying, "no way were the Feds telling them what art the scoop, call 224-3200. ______to put in the collection." Fortunately, a non ; t J t«i»iB; s«li profit museum in Detroit took the work. After playing doggie detective, we left the museum Enright asked the agent during the Federal for a breather and discovered musician Ron Flynn Court hearing why he used SWAT tactics. playing his tenor sax under the soffit outside the "Because that's the way I am," was his answer. Sounds like lots of bird doo doesn't it? & East Wing. Dressed in pink shorts and wearing a CD striped Bugle Boy shirt and cool shades, tuneman O Flynn said he frequents the spot because he loves the acoustics. RIVERWEST WILDLIFE Art Muscle will be walking Riverwest's ArtWalk o Back inside MAM, we visited the lower level to on October 7- 8 in comfortable shoes, armed search out animal imagery in the glittering Silver with a brochure including a map of exhibit in America exhibition which dazzles until August sites, a listing of all artists, and other info for a 13. Here we found insects cavorting on nut bowls; w$gk%_^______& well-informed trek. We may discover a buffalo, bear, and deer antlers on a Bowl & Tray sculpture in a storefront, a restaurant filled with punch set, a set most audacious, as was the rings and things, prints/paintings/porcelains fabulous Four Elephant Fruit Stand by Gorham. in a gallery, a bar of the beautiful, or other Turtles and frogs waited in Tiffany elegance on a artful delights in a variety of businesses hosting coffee pot near dragonflies and butterflies wafting art stuff both wild and witty. Three thousand other walkers will be wearing their most o the surface of a pair of vases near enamel hawks CQ sweeping skies of tenderest blue. Hounds comfortable too. For info and a brochure, B> embraced the handles of a ewer, crabs and lobsters contact Lynne Pelzek at RAC: 374-4722. motifed salad servers, spiders spun silver on silver ' and metal-muscled water buffalo decorated dishes near shining sardines clustered on servers and WmsmmmmSBmss^mmmmm^ ELVIS SLIGHTING herons perched on butter "pats." On departing "Some peoples' ideas of art are velvet Elvis Silverland, we passed a magnificent work appropriately topped by our national paintings. It isn't art unless it matches the drapes. To them, art is a low priority. It bird. Suddenly we were back in the real world of pigeon-doo and disgusting doesn't inspire. It doesn't lift them to new vistas and give them an appreciation throwaways. for what mankind can acccomplish. It's amazing how many people of this type are serving on the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee..."(quote from the Ashland Daily Press, April, 1995 about possible cuts in funding for the Wisconsin CARIUS VIRGINIANUS, FISH, FROG AND CRAB Arts Board) After receiving their beautifully illustrated catalogue, fat with a variety of innovative approaches to animal imagery, Art Muscle traveled west to the Madison Art Center and dropped by the Breaking Barriers: Recent American Craft exhibit. Here we ART ENCORE found deer antlers on Wendell Castle's construction; Jug Line: A Fish Tale and a They're billing the August 26 event as "Art Encore, The World's Classiest Second Portfolio of Prints by Mississippian Ke Francis; an earthenware Antropomorphic Hand Art Sale." If you bring in 2-D work, make sure its framed. Sculptures are Jug Form with Leaping Frog; an elegantly beaded Yellow Bear, a basswood Wing okay too. There's a preview party on August 25, with an anticipated 2,000 pieces sculpture, and necklaces wittily wrought from crab claws. Animal imagery abounds, on view, your chances of finding a treasure are pretty good. For more info on but there are plenty of other sensations at this show on 211 State Street. how you can help MAM/West support their first "used art" event, call 827-0444. O P P o RTUNITES Cooperative a few films and videos. Deadline Sept VISUAL ARTS Seeking solo and group exhibitors. 1. Guidelines and applications: NEA Juried. Deadline Sept 30. Info: Folk & Traditional Arts Program, Wild Laws A.R.C. Gallery,1040 W. Huron, Rm. 710, Nancy Hanks Center, 1100 When a Wisconsin art dealer accepts a Chicago, IL 60622. Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC work, they are required to use a written 20506-0001. contract, or they violate Chapters The wildside of death 129.05 or 129.06 ofthe Wisconsin Artists of all media are invited to Videopoems statutes. Note to dealers: this cannot participate in the Exquisite Corpse Annual Poetry-film/video festival be waived. Any art dealer who violates exhibit. Individuals or groups of looking for videopoems or film that these laws is liable to the artist in the three. Deadline Aug 30. Send info combine the cinematic with the poetic. amount equal to: S50; and the actual outlining ideas to: Cadavre Exquis, No videotaped poetry readings please. damages, if any, sustained by the Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Deadline Nov 1. Info: Poetry Film c ;•:":::: ;,;•--cv.;c: A v : :'A':r-/iz~.., A:A ^1 1 W. National Ave., Milwaukee, WI Workshop, Fort Mason (enter. Bldg. (of course) attorney fees. If anyone 53204. D., San Francisco, CA 94123. put there has questions, contact art law attorney, JoeJCaye, 7355 M.J Abstractions Green Bay Ave., Glendale, WI 53209 National juried exhibit of abstract art; or phone 351-Kayc. E-Mail includes photography. Deadline Aug MTTWT Dream grants "]< ska y"^ csd.uwm.edu." 4. SASH' Schafer Gallery, 118 NH The Wisconsin Humanities Council, the Main St., Wheaton, IL 60187 Audition NEH, and the Milwaukee Foundation are Play it again MAM Milwaukee Symphony chorus enabling the Milwaukee Public Theatre The Milwaukee Art Museum/West is No Mississippi auditions August 1" 18 at Ascension to fulfill their dream project, seeking d< mations of framed paintings, Lutheran Church, 1236 S. I .ay ton Neighborhood Dreams, which posters, prints, and sculpture fur Art exhibit. Deadline Aug 1 1 #10 SASE: Blvd. Sight reading, Accompanist incorporates original musical comedy Encore, 1 he World's Classiest Second Katherine Candy. 109 Audubon Ct., provided. Info: Glen Klotz, personnel (this one's free) and workshops for Hand Art Sale, on August 26. Tax X., Brandon. MS 39042. manager, 764 1905. parade/pageants using banners, deductible. Info: 8270444. puppets, music and dance. There are New Mexico national many other fine neighborhood Inside story National pastel painting exhibit. organizations, businesses and individuals Seeking artists for juried competition Deadline Aug 15. #10SASE: PSNM involved. Call 347-1685 for more info. for October Interiors exhibition. B,PO Box 3571, Albuquerque. NM Deadline Sept 8. Prospectus and info: 87190-33571. Dreamtime African-Irish link Constance Lindhoim Fine Art & Full-length and one-act plays. Grant funds from DanceLink will enable Framing, 964-6220. Beyonc > Playwright's Dream. 1532 1st Ave , the Trinity Irish Dance Company to National watermedia exhibit. Grafton, WI 53024. 377-9649. explore the similarities in rhythm Crafts': yes Deadline Aug 15.310 SASE; Pain patterns and history between the African First-time exhibitors can obtain Caughey, 363 Owings (reek Rd., Auditions and Irish cultures. DanceLink was applications for the 1996 Craft Fair Hamilton. MT 59840. The Boulevard Ensemble will hold established last year as an ongoing season by writing, calling or taxing auditions August 2 5-27 for its consortium designed to support American Craft Enterprises, 21 S. The mild mild West opening production of Moliere's networking between dance artists and Firings Corner Rd.. Highland, NY National Art Wyoming exhibit. "TARTUFFE" at the Boulevard communities across state, regional, and 12528. 800/836-3470, fax 914/ Deadline August 18. No theatre, 2252 South Kinnickinnic. A national borders. It is supported by three 883 6130. photographs. SASH: Casper Artists varied cast of sexes, ranges and ages foundations and the NEA. The Trinity Guild, 1040 W. 15th. Casper, WY are required Those auditioning Irish Dance Company will be featured at Envision this 82604. should prepare two contrasting Irish Fest on August 19. Look for them Seeking art for future exhibits. Inner classical pieces and should call 672- on the Old Style Stage. Visions, 826 E. Center, Milwaukee Crafts? no 6019 to schedule an appointment. 53212. Info: 265-5867. Multi-1-^. "~ ives . >rry, no Beyond cookware crafts. Deadline Aug 25. SASE: An Annual $5,000 commission award for Or this Art Place, 847W. Jackson Blvd., 10th glass artists. Info: Susan Franz, Corning Sell your art through a fine art & gifts Fl., Chicago, IL 60607. WORDS Museum of Class, One Museum Way, catalog due out in the spring of '96. Corning, NY. 607/937-5371. Info: Bella Designs, 6423 W. North Soft on pastels Kalamazoo needs you Ave., Suite 175, Wauwatosa, WI Pastel society ct~ Oregon national Fiction. p( •etrv, essays and interviews. Recovering? 5521? juried exhibition. Soft pastel only FFI: Passage North, 1200 Academy If you have a 10 year record of mature Deadline Aug 30. SASH: PO Box St.. Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, work and need help to recover from Sheboygan seeks 105, Roseburg, OR 97470. MI 49006. crisis, write: The Gottlieb Foundation, Artists' works needed for John Michael 380 W. Broadway, New York, NY 10012. Kohler Arts (enter sales space and Plymouth New St quarterly exhibition*site. Any media. FFI: Men Seeking artists working in any media The Art*l5©rjini. newspaper for the Women at work Clark. IMKAC, PO Box 489, for 1996 exhibition. Deadline Aug visual, performing an$ literary arts, Seeking proposals for Women's Studio Sheboygan, WI 530082-0489. 31. I(ii^pGa|£jy no North, is seeking poetry, short stones, essays, Workshop Book Arts Artists-in-Residence Plymouth Art Foundation, Inc. PO art world news items, visual art and and Production grants. Deadline: Beyon Nicholas Frank {Frank is a 27 year old fan ofthe arts) LANDSCAPES SEX, DEATH & FRIDAY NIGHT Tom Bamberger (a farce without words) Michael H. Lord Gallery Inertia Ensemble May 25-June 24 Broadway Theatre Center June 21-25 While people wolfed pizza at a party following photographer Tom Bamberger's Landscapes open Silent movies were silent because ofthe limitations ing, the artist reminded me that I was the first per of technology. Silent Theatre in 1995 is something son to buy one of his photographs, a portrait of a else entirely, becoming a provocative statement by young German male smoking a cigarette. Though what it lacks. I took the lack of dialogue in this the print was produced a decade ago, Bamberger play as just that—an absence, symbolic of the fad was already technically superb. In the intervening dish '90s inability (or inhibition?) to communicate. years, he's honed his questioning mind, and is In this case, music filled that gap as it does so now, I believe, at the peak of his career. Certainly, many lacunas of the Gap generation. this current series of shelters springing skyward amid utility lines, landfills, and urban flotsam, Action orbits the black hole at the center of the embodies the best of Bamberger. piece, never resolving itself, only revolving around an absent subject. The characters act out crucially For the most part, Landscapes is devoid of mundane issues like fighting over the remote con humans, and Bamberger explains this as a current trol, .the drive for constant inebriation, the interest in how people inhabit their world. In the omnipresent distraction of food, and the circular past he says he was obsessed with the specifics of and poiriTless card game War. But then all games human identity. To my eye, he still is, though this are ultimately pointless, aren't they? new work is "portraiture" more broadly defined. These underemployed slackers live like dogs, In continuing to deal with specifics—the specifics hunting for food but settling for table scraps, •111 for instance, in the glittery bits (of tires, cans, and mooching, begging or stealing to fill their Caged Birds With Mirrors Richard Waswo consumer trash) bejewelling his urban landscapes, needs. This was an accurate portrayal of a typi WASWO he has created portraits of the self surviving amid cal slacker apartment overcrowded with devel Gallery 218 fields of dandelions and cultural clutter. Specific oping personalities. too, are houses clumped shoulder to shoulder, May 5-28 sheltering the compacted crush of humanity in I hope we're not all such easy stereotypes as A welcome relief from the scruffy, waiflike wide- spaces once reserved for the sky above and the authors S. K. McCanles and Christopher Libby sug eyed kids and craggy faced, poignant old men earth below. In his images of shoreline and curve gest: The Beach Guy, the Punk Girl, the Stoner which predominate photography culled from exot of hill, the absence of homo-sapiens made me Neo-Dead Couple, the Ladies' Man, the Bimbo. ic locals, Waswo's twenty-six piece show of sepia yearn for a return to nature. But it was curiously Oddly enough, however, I felt as though I had met toned photographs at Gallery 218 presented his lonely in those romanticized spaces without the each of them before. Cad (Beach Guy played by world vision with an empathetic yet respectful eye. community of man. Existentialism is not enough. Christopher Wolk) was unerring in his portrayal, and Lei's (Punk Girl Emily Christiansen) perpetual Accumulated over the past decade during several I overheard an opening-night celebrant (a subur emotional breakdown was right on. No excuse, short and long jaunts abroad, Waswo's works are banite?) chirp, "This show is all about Spring!" however, for Stoner Guy John Van Slyke's palsy sensitive documents of the subtleties of "place," Then Mayor Norquist stepped forward to point out like mannerisms. His stiff movements were annoy- usually without resorting to the obvious. When the the images of trash in the velvety black of the pho ingly extraneous, if not offensive. tograph's foreground. A moment most perfect, it obvious is thrown in, an example is the portrait of a temple statue in Bangkok, the work comes alive defined our diverse perceptions—our tendency to It seems that too much went unconsidered, even with the same vitality found in his depictions of sea overlook our handprints while searching for the for a farce. One badly overdone proto-domestic soned natives such as the shifty-eyed hashish ven beautiful. violence scene was a joke, and the easy (we can dor of Marrakech and the doleful water seller of assume unprotected) couplings avoided the reali Casablanca. Bits of architecture, sandy landscapes, To those who tag Bamberger as "arrogant," and a ty of AIDS. If my generation has made lack of fore fondly recorded details of an alien culture, became "self-appointed cultural entrepreneur," I say, thought its hallmark, this was a perverse irony. I'm enchanting and vital. Tough Bananas. He's the one who takes the risks, still unsure whether it was intended irony. and at age 46, he's the one who understands which questions matter the most. Nothing is never more than nothing, except when Waswo wisely chose to exhibit the cohesive (but presented as content. While this was no Samuel varied) body of work in warm toned, deep, wood Judith Ann Moriarty Beckett play, I left fully unsatisfied, as I believe I frames and creamy mats; the diversity of image size (without full-frame depictions and crops for effect), emphasizes the individuality of the image. Softly rendered, the images nevertheless incorporate the quiet drama of his subjects' surroundings. Curious and somewhat distracting, is his choice of emboss ing the tide and location of each image, along with his name, on the front of each mat. Particularly strong are the images of the stormy frond-filled sky in Palm Trees, Maui; the sidewalk artist whose vivid chalk depiction of Frida Kahlo fills the viewfinder (artist squatting modestly in the background) in Street Artist-Sydney; the stark, ele gant architectural study of the Steps at the Home of Malcolm Forbes, and Man With A Tusk where a weathered Australian gent stands in dusty ranch- land. The phallic monuments which fill Fertility Shrine - Bangkok are amusing, as is the slighdy gratuitous SelfPortait as ajackeroo. The artist can perhaps be forgiven this litde self indulgence in light of the tender sensitivity of his other images. If you missed this show, many of the same images ViZM* miSmmm* will be at Grava Gallery, 1209 East Brady from August 4-September 30. Deone Jahnke {Deone Jahnke is a photographer and editor of APM Focus magazine) Untitled, Tom Bamberger 12 Art Muscle THE ILLUSTRATED DIARY OF DORIS KOPPLEMAN Sara Belleau John Michael Kohler Arts Center April 23 -July 30. Who was this Doris Koppleman who dressed in plaid and pretty 50's fashions while befriending and healing animals in the woods of Sheboygan? She's fictional and the inspiration for artist Sara Belleau's installation that includes photographs, a diary, and a fabricated environment. Of these three elements, it was the photographs that intrigued me and set the stage for the saga of heroine Koppleman. In their light boxes, the six large images blurred the boundaries defining the surreal and the natural, while engaging me in whimsy. Though the tree branches, dirt, dead leaves and thisdes spoke of the earth, they were distinctly synthetic. As I walked the astro-turf path past plastic plants, stuffed birds and stiff, taxider- mal squirrels, I wondered about this ambiguity. What did it mean? The gallery space was certainly not conducive to a nature walk. The "woods" were set beyond the museum's front desk with its constant chatter from personnel. As the staff at the Kohler wan dered in and out of two doors leading to an addi tional gallery space, it disrupted the illusion of woodland calm. A can of Pet condensed milk indicated that the artist had a sense of humor. And the hick-talk diary which chronicled Koppleman's dissatisfac tion with life and love, provided reasons for her issues. I attended a recent show at New York City's the wall," will display some of her finds at Katie love of animals;—a love which eventually caused Artsphere where her three works had people ask Gingrass Gallery, 241 N. Broadway, during the her metamorphosis into a voiceless hairy hiberna- ing, "are these fact or fiction?" Colored Threads: 1995 Wearable Art Exhibition tor. Though Koppleman escaped the conventional opening September 10. The show will feature (and lost her "self in the process), it was unclear In The Stone Readers, Greuel utilized photographs, wearable works (curated by Elaine Hothe) by whether artist Belleau intended this to be an act of diaries and stones to examine the political prophe more than 50 international artists as well as five empowerment or a critique of the current vogue cies made by a group of women who met periodi jewelry artists (including three Midwesterners) for fuzzy New Age naturalism. cally from 1861-1887 and looked at the future with chosen by Richman. the aid of mystical stones. The piece had attendees Megan Orr who were packed into the alternative space, scruti Jewelry by the aforementioned Tina Fung Holder, ( Writer Orr has moved to the wilds of Windy City nizing the hermetically sealed artifacts and reading a native of Guyana now residing in Chicago, to pursue her career) every line of the diaries. "How did such valuable though described as "alternative," is actually quite artifacts fall into your hands?; does the Historical accessible. Fung Holder transforms simple sewing Society know about this?," they queried. basket items—safety pins, snaps and glass beads;— RECORDINGS into surprisingly luxurious neckpieces, collars and Artsphere Gallery "Is that your vial?," they asked after examining the earrings. Layered snaps cascade over necks and New York City 115 fragments of personal history (some were dis shoulders; from a distance, glass beads glint confi cretely labeled "diplomat," "taxi driver," "sculp dently like precious stones. ..."there is always much that is hidden, and we tor") encased in the tiny glass vials of Sealed must not forget that the writing of history, howev Secrets. A shocked pathologist cornered Greuel to Eve: Clothes Optional, typical of Jocelyn er dryly it is done and however sincere the desire learn more about the confidential information in Chateauvert's humorous, wing-like forms, is a "fig for objectivity, remains literature. History's third Frez which dealt with the intrusion of science and leaf suspended from a necklace long enough to dimension is always fiction." others into women's choice to abort. cover what Eve had to hide back in the Garden of The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse Eden. lowan Chateauvert works with sterling sil It was all very captivating and mysterious. And if ver and a creamy, seemingly delicate yet durable Former Milwaukeean, Sandra Greuel, is a concep you're wondering if the artist answered the ques paper produced from abaca, an indigenous plant tual artist who has always been concerned with tions, let it be noted that she smiled wryly while of the Philippines. the ambiguity of history and the way it is recorded, brushing a hair from her cheek, curled her pale condensed and lost. Furthermore, her work hands around the belt ends of her leather jacket The show's other Midwesterner, St. Paul's self- addresses social, political and psychological and remained silent. named "blue-collar studio artist", Heinz Brummel, utilizes hand-cut enamel shapes fired on silver and She's currendy exhibiting work in the Girl Dreams, semiprecious stones to create pins and earrings Woman Visions show at CB 's 313 Gallery in New reminiscent of his "kindred spirits" Calder and York City. It's where "Blondie" found fame. Klee. Likewise, Massachusetts' Allison Macgeorge creates abstracted, amorphous forms in metal, but Taffnie also subtly suggests spines, pods and sea creatures (Artist Taffnie co-created/curated Drama/Trauma in her brooches. and The Museum of Sexuality with Greuel who is fondly remembered for her Influential Readings South Africa native and Atlanta resident Monica and Lost Knowledge installations.) Tinker closely aligns metalsmithing with art in what Richman calls "wearable sculpture." Tinker works with precious and non-precious metals fabricated COLORED THREADS: 1995 WEARABLE ART into three-dimensional, lightweight vessels. When EXHIBITION not worn as jewelry pieces, the forms are housed as Katie Gingrass Gallery sculptures in their own shadowbox frames. Opens September 10 Though the U.S. apparently can't match Europe as Linda Richman's never-ending search for jewelry a hot market for art jewelry, Richman, who views artists is certainly not like combing the proverbial Milwaukee as "conservative but easily educated," haystack for the needle. Nor a pin, brooch or Tina seems to be turning up the heat with these eclectic Fung Holder neckpiece, for that matter. selections, on view through the end of October. "Sometimes I think there are more jewelry artists than people," the curator says. Richman, who firm Megan Powell ly believes that "art is not limited to the canvas on (Megan Powell is Art Muscle's calendar editor.) 13 endy Christensen-Senk works in any airy space Wat The Milwaukee Public Museum under the watch ful eyes of mounted specimens and WCf^C^it real-life Rex the Iguana and Java the Horned Frog. Her desk draw ers are filled with boxes of glittery the tutelage of her dad. She's hunted the Southwest of Milwaukee on Main street glass eyes and needles and threads Cape Buffalo of Africa, Wisconsin in Mukwonago, Senk stands center stage for sewing skins. Books and manu Whitetail, Alaskan ducks, and two months amid boxes and tables of jumbled hides, als on research line the shelves ago, the Black Bear of Ontario. The bow horns and leering skulls. A menagerie of above tables strewn with plaster and arrow was her weapon of choice in body parts—legs, rumps, wings and casts. A broad expanse of window bringing down a "respectably sized speci diverse relics of the hunt hang out with men." She emphasizes that big game hunt Antelope, Pronghorn, Impala and faces the Court House to the west ing is not part of her museum life. Gemsbok which she collected on safari in where our laws are preserved. the '80's. This is her other workplace, From her 6th floor vantage point, Search for Senk's artistic touch in a Red Wildlife Reflections Studio. it's Senk's responsibility to pre Brocket deer grazing in the museum's Rain serve the history of the natural. Forest exhibit. Those are felt fibers which Among her artistic triumphs is a 450 replaced a patch of missing hair on the pound African lion, jaws open to reveal A huge adjacent room, her "kitchen," deer's head and restored a skin once labeled shiny plastic teeth. It was shot by East houses overhead cranes for lifting "not suitable for mounting." It's her air- Coast attorneys on safari. When she brushing skills (and a tube of green acrylic received the lion's tawny hide (shipped heavy molds, an area for boiling skulls, paint) that updated a sloth and brought it to her salted and dried), she forwarded it and elegant wood-lined cabinets back to the look of the original algae-cov to North Carolina for tanning. In the where the many magnificent skins of ered specimen. Under her sculptor's fin meantime, she studied the skull, measur North American birds are stored. gers, a Jaguar (who spent five years in deep ing and researching other mounts for Band saws, drill presses, and calipers freeze after expiring at the Milwaukee comparison. A commercial urethane are her "utensils." County Zoo) found new life and now sur lion-mannequin approximating the veys the faux jungle through mail-order beast's configuration was ordered and At the tender age of ten, when many eyes. Using the traditional techniques, an sculpted to fit the hide. Working with the young women were fussing over Barbie armature, clay, and finally, a mold, she skill of a plastic surgeon, Senk nipped dolls, Senk received her first set of oil shaped the "essence" ofthe animal. and tucked where needed, striving for paints. Two years later, she mounted the natural, striving for the essence. (the word "stuffed" is not in her vocab ulary) her first specimen, a pigeon, using She mounted it in the "preferred" pose correspondence school guidelines from for lions, which she confides is the the Northwestern School of Taxidermy. By relaxed look and one she certainly prefers age 14 she was taking a basic taxidermy over the "snarling, leaping" look. This course. particular Leo's oval sex glands didn't arrive with the hide, so the big guy left Senk's "Wonder Years" were indeed won her shop without them, castrated yes, but derful, what with entering shows and nevertheless, relaxed. "Apparently the winning numerous awards while working guides must have a market for testes," as an assistant to taxidermist Garry Senk. she laughed. In 1982, at age 19, she was hired by the museum as their first female taxidermist. Like an art patron seeking the biggest to Three years later she wed Garry, who impress their neighbors over cocktails, honeymooned her in the wilds of Africa taxidermy clients are sometimes known where they hunted and bagged a Kudu, to also lust after the biggest. At least one met the Zulu, and collected bird speci For it is essence which defines her art. As in of her clients became ensnared in an ego- mens for the museum. Specimens titled the essence of Caesar the Timber Wolf, her trap by ordering a bear skin stretched ten Crested Francolin, Crested Barbet, personal favorite who dwells deep in the inches beyond its capabilities. Apparently Greenspotted Dove, and Glossy Starling. Wisconsin Mammal exhibit. "I won an to impress another hunter. When the True, most couples sip a Tequila Sunrise international award for the little touches, urethane mannequin arrived (based on and watch the sun set during the honey the interior of his ears, for instance. His the dimensions the customer gave her), it moon phase; the Senks observed nostrils. He's not just a rigid looking fel failed to fit the skin. Eventually, her Warthogs taking mud baths and made low who died at the Timber Wolf hunter/client, admitted that "well, per carefully detailed plaster "death masks" of Preservation Society and was donated to haps he had slightly exaggerated the size a 300 pound Nyala antelope. the museum," she says. of the bruin a bit." Senk isn't beyond fudging measurements, either. When the Wendy's no wimp. She's produced An on-the-spot problem solver, it was her horns of a Gemsbok she shot were lost Proungulatums (a pre-ancestor of our idea to create deer hides from the skin of during shipment from Africa, she fash mammals), created Champsosaurus, and mice for the Tribute to Survival miniature ioned new ones from fiberglass and sculpted the form for a superb Snow diorama exhibit. Faithful museum employ threw in a few inches for effect. Leopard which lounges outside the door ees trapped the rodents in their homes and to the museum's taxidermy department. brought her the tiny bodies. Plumage from At present she's waiting for the bear skin She's beautified Jaguars and and re-coat unfortunate flickers who collided with to arrive from the tannery. Perhaps she's ed a Koati-Mundi, which she clearly museum windows became the feathers of even considering stretching it, but only a recalls hunting in the muddy jungles of eagles, and bison hair bleached red-gold bit. For effect. Costa Rica. was used to simulate the hides of mam moths who were then "tusked" with sand —-Judith Ann Moriarty "It was just like going after a raccoon," ed epoxy. Senk also designed and sculpted she said, "but the guides couldn't believe the wax buffalos that pound over grasses a woman was doing it." Her snapshoot clipped from twine and plunge from styro- ing days took shape in the Wisconsin foam cliffs. "Apparently nobody actually woods, when hardly old enough (or tall teaches the craft of the miniature diora enough) to tote a gun, she tramped the ma," she said, "I had to come up with the hills and valleys, learning the basics under solutions." 14 Art Muscle Wendy with Grant's Gazelle Photograph by Francis Ford U/iUU/^U 15 dragonfly turned enchanting), into a biplane com reminded plete with landing gear. me of child Another inversion of logic hood percep- § occurs in a tabletop diora tions that my f ma from 1992 titled The body was made Early Worm Gets The Bird. up of mechanical A worm pops out of the parts tended by earth to face a bizarre tiny people who bird's head made from an kept everything egg; in the bird's mouth resides a tiny running smoothly. hand that flips the worm the exact gesture the title suggests. Barrett's singlehand- Bret ed defeat of the Barrett incorporates flowers, creatures, Second Law of bones, eyeballs, and all matter of fantastical Thermodynamics (a Barrett's invented elements that morph their way law which stipulates that everything out of his mind and through his able hands. progresses to a less usable state), is an Kin-aesthetic The occurence of re-animated lifeforms like admirable feat. He finds uses for trin deer's legs, bees, dragonflies, and choo- kets most of us would dismiss as junk. "choo trains give us a glimpse into a By breathing life into these geegaws, could say Bret Barrett lives and- "Garden of Earthly Delights" set in motion. filling them with associations and lf works in the Riverwest neighbor- metaphors, he maybe makes them M hood of Milwaukee, but that state- These newly-living things engage in repet more meaningful than they ever were X ment wouldn't be entirely true. To itive interplay with themselves, all gears as tiny specks of information in our * find his studio, I negotiated and twitching switches winding and collid huge and teeming world. through the winding garden courtyard ing. For brief eerie moments, they stop of a stately pair of apartment buildings completely, giving way to a pregnant I found myself delving too deeply into that resembled a quaint castle. I'm still silence, an expectant buzz of half-per the hidden meanings of these crazy uncertain whether the courtyard wasn't ceived electrical currents, much like watch amalgams, seeing all sorts of spectres in some magical vortex that transported ing a sleeping person dream. the idea of giving life to dead things and me through to another world. awakening inanimate objects, but I kept Waiting on the objects are switches which coming back to their more playful The garden gates opened up onto a barn hold threatening possibilities, like "I dare facets. Through his sculptures, Barrett (yes, an actual barn, and yes, it was red), you" and "See if you can get out of the way projects a comedic "I-laugh-at-myself- with its interior converted for Barrett's in time!" No matter how carefully I studied so-you-Iaugh-too" quality that gives the workspace. The sheer oddity of a red barn the working of the pieces and parts, I works undeniable charm. in the middle of the city fit perfectly with found it impossible to predict the intricate the anachronistic qualities and incon movements that spring from Barrett's His work can be compared to Buster gruities of the work inside. quirky, but perfect sense of mechanical Keaton's films, those almost-real worlds logic. Jagged edges and sawed bones cer where the norms of physics don't hold Affable and easygoing, the not quite thir- tainly give the pieces monster-like quali sway (and don't tell me Keaton was tyish artist has been working in Milwaukee ties, but the tension is eased as the con bound by the same physical laws as the for a decade. I didn't ask from whence he glomerated tidbits of junk coalesce into rest of us) and the narrative isn't neces came, afraid that a concrete answer would animal forms. These constructed creatures sarily as important as the stunts and spoil the otherwordly spell. (not quite cute or cuddly, but definitely gags that push it along. In fact, during my visit, Barrett expressed a desire to He led me around his workshop filled with expand into some type of filmmaking, tools and gadgets and inexplicable things and I couldn't help thinking how per that 1 imagined made sense only when fectly his sense of animation and comic subjected to his nonsensical tinkerings. I'd grace would translate into that medium. seen some of the pieces before, but now they somehow meshed with the organized Leaving Barrett's studio was as magical mess of the place. an experience as getting to it. A light rain and overcast sky heightened the The studio was quiet and its denizens per beauty and color of the garden court fectly still. When shown around town, yard, and I began to notice things I however, the sculptures are bestowed with hadn't seen before: a rainbow wind- electric life and show off both themselves sock dangling from a tree, a garden and the ingenuity of their maker by spin hose wrapped up on a cart, an over ning, sputtering, whizzing, whirling, yelp flowing stone birdbath, colored tiles ing and squealing, making noises that add underfoot and brilliant flowers amidst to their uncanny almost-aliveness. the greenery. I have him to thank for at least momentarily heightening my Seeing these things oddly stilled gave me awareness of the world around me, for a chance to regard them more as objects getting color to vibrate in my eyes and than as the loopy children of Barrett's pro giving everyday objects around me an ject. It is easy enough to mistake the sculp aura of expectancy. tures for living beings, especially consider ing the fact that they are brought to exis It was not exactly a serene feeling, but it tence in a barn. Barrett's confluence of was sublime. taxidermy and topsy-turvy taxonomy cre ates another dimension that only some Nicholas Frank times corresponds with ours. A smaller {Look for Nicholas Frank's work in the Gen-X work entitled Anachropod (1993) offers us show until September 24 at the Milwaukee alternate forms of transportation, such as a Art Museum ) 16 Art rvius£le Bret with Buck Photograph by John Sibilski •il-vfe Using Every Last Part tf fawlfcJU.JW h'nefic sculptures, animating these bits of found materials, objects them Don't be dismayed by Barrett's use of 3 selves became anthropomorphic. They actual animal parts in his construc went from machine to becoming like c tions. Owing to a bit of Cree blood, (0 _ animals, or plants blowing in the wind. he feels a deep respect for all living tu o I teel I've completed the circle by actu things, as evidenced by a hunting ally using the natural objects. tale he told me: o Q a — c He mentioned Leonardo da Vinci, 2 o I went hunting recenfjy with my father who made his mechanical parts and his brothers. If they shot a deer, they from scratch: used every last part of it. Nothing was wasted. 1 finally went out with them and Da Vinci would reel in disgust if he shot a deer in 1931.1 felt 1 had gained an walked out onto the street and saw opportunity to really use the deer. 0Q all the things people throw away. c He handcrafted gears out of wood! He used the deer's legs and bones in a If he saw all of the things he could 1994 sculpture, Not A Buck To Be Made. have salvaged... Barrett mentioned his affinity to the Barrett's respect for animals and his work of artists Paul Klee and Hans use of Ihrowaway objects shape a phi Hoffman, who also looked to nature losophy we should all pay attention to: for inspiration: I thinJr people don'f JooJc at things enough. / began by attaching leaves and sticks Our culture forgets the role we play in the to paintings. When I started making the entire ecological system. —Nicholas Frank Last October, after 1 7 years £ 0*> as a commer r cial artist (half of which were spent with the Zoological Society), this Franklin, Wisconsin native sent family, friends and associ ates a whimsical o& loo postcard of himself i.0 attired in fishing gear. "Loose from the Zoo!" it boasted, "free from ringing phones and rush hour traffic." In the middle of nowhere, but not really that far away, he assured his clients. Jocham's work has been on The directions to the central Wisconsin home the Society's posters, note- included a troubling warning from artist Jay cards, brochures, and bill Jocham: boards. His "Zoo Ball" invita tions have won Addy Awards from the Milwaukee Advertising "DearKathy, Club. And his paintings have You have chosen to visit us here in Big appeared since 1989 on the covers of Alive, the Society's membership maga Flats. Thank you and good luck. Even zine. While at the zoo, he created his art though we have made the final 15 miles from a loft studio at the Stackner Heritage Farm. In Big Flats, with the help of a Mac to our house as easy and direct as possi Power PC and a reliable fax machine, he is able to continue producing those covers, ble, there exist many other possible and remarks that transfering copy will run routes, some more direct than others. Be more smoothly when the zoo standard izes their modem software. The week of advised that Adams County does not boards, my visit, he had completed a painting of believe in replacing street signs and ten two yellow Poison Arrow frogs for Alive's cheese summer issue. some hospitable residents have taken chalets, a that task into their own hands. Also, be couple dozen Bold, brilliantly-colored, realistic, and (pri Lutheran marily) airbrushed works have long advised that some of our roads may not churches and defined his style, with pencils and brush one Arabian horse es being used only for fine detailing (such be paved and the deer population excer- farm, I came across as eyelashes), or to capture the glint in an cises their right to feel soft sand ooze a Chevy Baretta animal's eye. But lately, he's been experi parked in a garage menting with a more impressionistic look between their hooves." bearing the license plate featuring ducks, bobcats, cranes, Great "4 Rhino." It assured me Blue herons and Humpback whales. The my arduous efforts weren't paint has just dried on a scene of four for naught. Sandhill cranes, their long necks straight forward as they prepare to land in a marsh set against a soft pink, twilight sky. In the I hit Big Flats during a hectic week, rough draft stages, are two children's according to Jocham. The family books he's writing and illustrating. parakeet, Feathers, had just died and the couple's first child, Annalissa, had been born two weeks early, in this, the "I've had a renewed interest in cranes since first summer spent in their new, simple living here, badgers, too," he said, "but I'm and rustic house near Hancock. A veg still a big fan of the rhino." Prints of his etable garden, set only a few yards away 1989 painting,The Last Rhino, have yield from several sawhorses positioned for the ed almost $14,000 for the Zoological completion of their spacious, south-facing Society which uses the profits to support The deck, yields tomatoes, peppers, peas and staff houses on the 10,000 acres of first radishes. The nearest neighbors include Kenya's Ngare Sergoi Rhino Sanctuary. It's straight-shot grouse, wild turkeys, Pileated woodpeck here that nine Black rhinos and six White of 70 miles from ers and a curious fellow named Emery, rhinos find refuge behind the solar-pow Milwaukee toward whose three Dalmatians drop by more ered fences enclosing the sanctuary, safe Madison angles northward often than the couple think necessary. from poachers who slaughter the animals, into 75 miles of divided high and sell their horns to be carved into dag ger handles or ground to powder for use in way that crosses rows of birch, "We don't know what he does and we're "medicines." Safe from a market-driven pine, and postcard-perfect dairy pas afraid to ask," confides Jocham, referring culture which has targeted these, the tures. After briefly stopping for directions to Emery. "We think it's something with world's second largest land mammals, and at a U.S. gas station, with a marquee that scrap metal. But he doesn't know what I could care less about watching them roam boasts, "We now carry import beers," I pro do either." ceeded westward 11 miles, enduring the freely over the plains of Tanzania. sound of my Uniroyals grinding pebbles We take a short jaunt through ten acres of into the asphalt. I savored the "awe" of glacial-flattened forest land, Annalissa's "I'm finally marrying my interests with my seeing a doe, and a red fox, near the River future playground, evenly dividing our talent. The pace of the advertising busi Roche-A-Cri (River of the Crying Rocks). attention among lush green ferns, white ness is one reason I'm up here. I like to The River, said the historical marker post pines so tall they seem to graze the sky, focus on endangered animals. What can ed beside the road, supplied early French and biting deer flies. one person do but expose people to what settlers with fresh trout and crystal clear might soon be gone?," he says. drinking water. A jagged, weather-worn "Should've bathed in "Off first," Jocham tree stump marked a dirt road that even says, half-apologetically, half-mocking my The tone of artist Jocham's voice becomes tually curved into the Jocham driveway. prissy "Ahow's!" increasingly thoughtful and serious as our After 160 miles, sixteen Noah's Ark bill- conversation meanders from his electric, 18 Art Muscle energy-con To help the Zoological serving heat Society support the Ngare pump to the Sergoi Rhino Sanctuary or success ofthe to purchase a poster or 19 8 2 print of The Last Rhino, Wisconsin Wolf call (414)258-2333. Recovery Plan to the possible repeal of the Clean Water Act. Then it dwells for a while on the many species of birds and mammals lost in the last two centuries. He laments the possibility that in another decade or two we may only be able to view a rhino in a zoo, its sperm carted from one artificial envi ronment to the next. Will this creature eventually live on exclusively through the medium of video, photography, and, of course, in paintings? "Conservation has to be a global con servation," Jocham concludes, after his heartfelt discourse. "Individuals can only be models. I've bought as much land as I did because I know I can protect it. It's my little cor Black Rhinoceros ner of the world that no-one is going to plow through with a bulldozer." The Last Rhino, Jay Jocham •?S:S^ Kathryn Luttkus (Free-lance writer Luttkus' most frequent animal encounter involves trying to outsmart the Downer Woods family of rac coons that forage through her garbage bin.) 19 Dtuck Foot ^Milwaukeean J^H Erickson received her B.Ai in j^ainring and drawing in i$^3*trofn the ilniverMty of Wisconsin taxonomy," can be seen at iafaHeria 20 Art Muscle Ifcutk €a»t Oshkosh and her :flt.A; trom the ^University of Iowa. Her monotype*! which she describes as more "elegy than Ifcel Conte, "&26 N. 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A collaborative project of 1840 N Prospect; 272-2618 AND PRINTS photographer Don Doll, SJ. and prominent members of the Sioux nation, the photographic Now-July 9 essay, on view September 15-November 19, documents 15 reservations in five slates through The American Legacy images of land and sacred sites, portraits of individuals and dancers in costume. Doll, who Now-August 13 OPENING JULY 29-AUGUST 7, has photographed among the Sioux for 30 years, provides a cultural, spiritual and historical Work from the Center for Blind & Visually 3 TO 8 P.M. context for the project with panoramas of Wounded Knee, Wicirpi Owanka, an ancient star- Impaired Children OR BY APPOINTMENT sighting place in Wyoming, and Onagazi, the mesa in the South Dakota Badlands and site of 441A N. MAIN ST. the Ghost Dance whkh eventually led to the Wounded Knee Massacre. The Haggerty A Taste of Philfy Gallery OSHKOSH, WI. Museum is supplementing the show with an opening lecture by Tim Giago, publisher of 4618 W Burleight; 444-8540 (414)850-6386 Indian Country Today, a forum September 16, "Whence Do We Come? What Are We? Now-September 3 Where Do We Go?" and an October 25 colloquium, "Native American Spirituality: Contem Some Jazz, A Little Bit of Hip-Hop &R&B porary Relevance of Tradition," with artist and Sun Dance priest Arthur Amiotte. Call 288- 1669 for details. 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Cafe owner McNamara, known around Memphis as "King of $150 deadline Aug 4 Coffee," has assembled Sorrento's portraits of the Beatles, Hank Williams and other guitar heros, postcard-sized, cartoon-style drawings of characters caught in interaction by tattooist Indian Summer Festival Thursdays-PALOMAS-7-IOpm Joel Hilgenberg, and James Storks' oil meditations on symbols of decadence, fame and Maier Festival Park; 774-7119 611 West National Avenue mourning. As Neo-Post-Now's first guest-curated effort, the show has been do-it-yourself, September 8-10 "organized on gut instinct," owner Julie Lindemann says. They Came from Memphis continues at the Manitowoc gallery through October 20. 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September 21-24 Beauty & the Beast East Side Gallery Trolley Tour MILW. WI* 2S3-3399 Th 7:30pm F 8pm Sa 8pm Su 1:30 & 7pm $10- Meet at Allis Museum, 1801 N Prospect- 276- $56 7545 MR5TERCHRD • VISR - HMERICflH EXPRESS August 27; 1 -4pm free 27 OUT THERE Danceworks Roommates in September Most miniseries seem to include either a Danielle Steele-based script, pounding horses' hooves and palatial mansions, or Jane Seymour. Danceworks' performance art miniseries, presented jointly with The Living Room in September at the Walker's Point Center for the Arts, will lack such dubious virtues. Stephanie Kulke, curator of the twin programs and artistic director of The Living Room, describes the "Room" as "a space for artistic visions to take root and grow." In the first program September 7-9, Kulke will perform her comic look at the perils and joys of teenage years, AdoLessons, during which, Danceworks assures, one lucky .SOUReE winner will receive a free stick of gum. Joining her are Dan Hanrahan and percussionist Nick Frank taking a hallucinatory tour of the globe in Forget There's a World. Hanrahan's stops include Nazi Poland and Battista's Cuba. Performances September 29-October 1 pair Dave O'Meara's Teratology, Or the Monstrosity Here Beside Me, a tale of a man facing a nightmarish new world when he's stranded in a train station, with Ufe Returns by Kate Ryan, ARTISTRY an account of how a Vermont boarding school and revolutionary Nicaragua, among other STUDIO-GALLERY things, intersect in one woman's adventures. Call Danceworks at 481 -2010 for details. DANE ANDERSEN Schwartz Bookshops Milwaukee Jewish Community Chorale ANNE MICHELS 274-8680 Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N Broadway- DAVID A. 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Amethyst founder Pamela Brown, known for her work with the Boulevard Ensemble and Playwright's Studio Theatre, has chosen both play and playhouse in an effort to recreate the magic of a 1978 production of Midsummer at the Villa by the now-defunct PAC Players, but without the headaches of the pre-show dinner of that first mounting. Amethyst's Midsummer, performed August 16-27 on TUMTIES BANTS Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 7 pm, will soak up much of Villa Terrace's graceful atmosphere. The Villa "lends itself to a romantic, magical interpretation of the play," says Brown, and literally will serve as backdrop for the play, which will be staged around the grounds. After opening in the courtyard, the audience will move to me terrace after an Alexander and Radmila Radtccvich's intermission. Then, following another break, viewers will take in the final scenes in the Great Artist ofWisconsin Hall. Brown, who plays Titania under the direction of Playwrights Studio Theatre's Maureen a Fine Arts Publication is now Kilmurry, says the production should be visually stunning, based on 19th-century views of ancient Greece. Call 299-0435 for ticket information. preparing their new Wisconsin edi m tion. This full color publication is an excellent marketing tool for the Established 1971 Fine Artist and an opportunity for SERBIAN them to get National Exposure. GOURMET Mode Theatre Sunset Playhouse 121 S Monroe, Waterloo; 800/280-9632 800 Elm Grove Road; 782-4430 • HOUSE August 6, 19, September 2 Now-August 1 2 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Call 1-800-871-9666 "A. Delightful Experience" All Nets Have Holes Copy Deadlines and Space for liinch or dinner August 25 & 26 Forum September 22-October 8 Reservations are Involved. 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