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OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1996 COMPLIMENTARY VOLUME 1 1, ISSUE 1 CASTS OF CONTENTS CHARACTER ;Sfe5 m wm ::ft|f liiiiiiii! isiSiiiaiia ^m W 5S** m till ®m ililii*****"" . .•li.'-ftiiiill '"* •'• : "*"****> €15116 "^""^^feiSS?**! *£& Robert Cottingham, Art (detail), 1992. MAM, Landfall Press Archive, Gift of Jack Lemon. An Exhibition Featuring the Work of Former Artists-in-Residence in the FEHTU RES John Michael Kohler Arts Center's Arts/Industry Program at Kohler Co. Reflections on the Milwaukee Art Museum 12 September 29,1996 - January 5,1997 Photographs by Francis Ford 14 A Tale of Two Cities: Milwaukee vs. Milwaukee 16 TRE' ARENZ • LAWRENCE ARGENT • NANCY DWYER It Could Have Been a Parking Lot 17 PETER FLANARY • LESLIE FRY • MICHAEL GARR Beyond Bovines 18 MARTHA GLOWACKI • RONALD GONZALEZ INDIRA FREITAS JOHNSON • KEN LITTLE A Fine Line 19 EVA MELAS • CINDI MORRISON • JOEL OTTERSON Reflections on the Haggerty Museum of Art 20 CAROLYN OTTMERS • ALBERT PFARR • PAUL SEBBEN Fixing The Leaks 21 BUSTER SIMPSON • JANET WILLIAMS • ANDY YODER Essay/Steven Foster/Studies 22 OPENING CELEBRATION DEPARTMENTS Friday, October 4,1996 • 5:30-8:30 p.m. Refreshments • Music by The Mosleys Plexus/Reflexus 4 Free Admission Grants/Opportunities 6 Post Facto 24 Concurrent Exhibitions Calendar/Out There 28 Anna Torma: Notes and Visions Madison/Chicago 33 Kate Moran: Nine Dolls Full of Color Who Understand Touch through October 27 Rudy Rotter: Mahogany to Mink November 3, 1996 - February 2, 1997 ON THE COVER Opening and Exhibition Preview Front: David Schweitzer, Director, 1986. Photograph by Francis Ford. with Rudy Rotter and Guest Curator Debra Brehmer Back: Les Petite Bon-Bon, 1971. Photograph by Francis Ford. November 1, 5:30-8 VO p.m. For more about Francis Ford's photography, see pages 14 & 15. This is a taste of what's to come on September 28th when Francis Ford: 25 Years of Photography opens at the Walker's Point Center for the Arts. His right hand is currently stained with Dektol from the process of printing the eighty photographs in his exhibit. His mind is unblemished, JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER though. He'll be up and running and celebrating his quarter-of-a-century as an artist in our Sesqui city. 608 New York Avenue, P.O. Box 489, Sheboygan, Wl 53082-0489 414.458.6144 • HOURS: M-F 10-5; TH 10-9; WEEKENDS 12-5 Francis Ford started his career as a photojournalist documenting the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. He went on to become a Free Admission portrait photographer, having shows in New York, Minneapolis and Milwaukee. Currently he is a photography instructor at The Milwaukee These exhibitions have been made possible by generous grants from Kohler Co., Institute of Art and Design. the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Wisconsin Arts Board. 2 Art Muscle ANNIVERSARY JUDITH ANN MORIARTY editor/publisher : FRANCIS FORD ill* photo editor va.0 AT MEGAN POWELL October n-12, 1996 calendar & 'out there' editor Steimke Theater THOMAS FORD art direction/design NICHOLAS FRANK design ANGEL FRENCH advertising director THE WILD ONES December 6-7, 1996 JULIE ANN LANG Steimke Theater sales representative GRETCHEN NEUWALD uw-milwaukee intern DEBRA BREHMER. THERESE GANTZ emeritus personnel still wild after all these vears Printing by Port Publications April 5, 1997 Pabst Theats: FRIENDS OF ART MUSCLE Burton & Kate Babcock Kevin & Meg Kinney FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 271-0307 Catherine V. Bailey Lance Lichter Kit Basquin Ellen McCormick Martens Gary Black Tim Martinez Arthur E. 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Art Muscle (ISSN 1074-0546) is published bi-monthly by Art Muscle- AND FINALLY Milwaukee, Inc., 901 W. National Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53204, (414) 672-8485. Third Class postage paid at Milwaukee, WI 53202 and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to Art MORE THAN ONE FITTING ROOM DOOR! Muscle, 901 W. National, Milwaukee, WI 53204. (ome see us in our new location between Entire contents copyright © Art Muscle-Milwaukee, Inc. All rights Casual Corner and Craig's reserved, except in reviews. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. Art Muscle is a trademark of Art Muscle- Milwaukee, Inc. Subscription rates in continental U.S.:$15 one year; elsewhere, $28 one year; LIS€ & KOTO'S back issues: $3.00. Bayshore Mall 961,-6768 PlEXU£ an QUOTES From those who labor— From Riverwest— stuff and very little original art. This is because Watt'sTea Room, The Leo Feldman beer costs so much. If beer sold for ten cents a Gallery's opening show proved to Recently, while installing (in a new manufac The Riverwest Art Center has di glass, people would buy more art. be a solid plus mark on the Milwau turing facility) a number of sculptures made verse young members who are now — Bob Watt, artist G poet kee art trip. by a friend of mine, I was approached by a occupying our new building on the — Sister Cashbox young laborer at the plant who asked me, "How corner of Fratney S Auer. On Octo much for one of those?" When I replied that I ber 5-6, ArtWalk 96, sponsored by Memorable 1987 Muscle If I was working on a car, make-up had no idea of the per unit cost, or the total RAA blasts off with a weekend of quotes and wardrobe would be the equiva cost for that matter, he asked, "Expensive?" I activities. It will be the biggest and In the other room there's a mattress on the lent of wrench and pliers... I want shrugged my shoulders, and he walked away best ever. floor, a few pieces of sagging, overstuffed fur the audience to wonder, "was that saying, "There goes my bonus." I wondered if — Christine Anderson niture, and several art posters taped to the a man?" he would have preferred working in a dreary ArtWalk co-ordinator walls. No stereo, no television. "I still can't fig — Ginger Spice, female environment and taking home a large pay ure it out," he says, "whether this is just a hobby, impersonator check? I guess this points out that art means From an actor or an obsession." nothing to many people. The artists in this community are —Kevin Stalheim, Present Music I don't think I wanted to be an art — Russ Isaacson hard working and dedicated, how ist when I was a kid. I did art work Graphic Designer ever, they need to give themselves The design of ioo E. Wisconsin, an academic because it was fun. I wanted to be and their city a little more credit. study in histrionics, will take you back ioo years an auto mechanic. From UWM art student — — Megan Powell to the Gilded Age of American Laissez-faire capi- — Fred Stonehouse Students don't have much opportunity to get their stuff into a place. It would make me take Commandment # 4 some of my drawings more seriously if I knew Thou shalt eschew poverty and gar there was a possibility of them being seen by rets wherever possible, and suffer someone other than myself. them only when absolutely neces -MatkPendl sary, for they are but unjustifiably romanticized symbols of a stereo From Brady Street type long ago discredited, and are It's more diversified every year, which pleases more likely to reduce rather than me, but I hope local artists are getting enough enhance an artist's inspiration or exposure. effort. — Michael Wavra — Wisconsin Women in the Arts Grava Gallery co-owner From Up North From Water Street and Damn! It's great fun being an Bay View ——-——— artist!! — EmmettJohns •.^••MV-A.-..- September 27 marks the champagne opening illfiStgiiiiiiislia Ellison Bay of the H2O Gallery on (you guessed it) Water A Bridled Nail-Tailed Wallaby. street. The old ArtCentric Gallery has regrouped with some members heading out to start The From a Racine talism, that romantic era of American imperial I remember reading last summer Industry Gallery of Art in Bay View; others poet ism, the 60 hours work week, child labor, im that there were 90,000 artists liv landed in the Third Ward to reopen Silver Pa I am not a marginal man. migration hysteria, temperance, and the plague ing in New York Gty. So if you think per Gallery as the new ArtCentric. I do not stand on the periphery of tuberculosis. about that in terms of how many — Confused Of desiring someone else's life. —Jerome Schultz bad artists are proportionate...it's I am the center of my own the same in Wisconsin. From a UWM dance existence. — Rene Paul Barilleaux, curator Q. Do you have a basic philosophy? student There is no bridge life has Madison Art Center refused to The smaller Milwaukee dance companies don't A. At least know what you don't want.