BI-MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF THE ARTS Volume 1, Issue 4 March 15,1987/May 15,1987 Art Muscle Editor-in-Chief Debra Brehmer From the Editor Senior Editor I had all kinds of things I wanted to mention lately, so much in fact, it's frustrating not being here in this issue, but it's another one of those able to fit everything in that deserves attention. Kathy Keller 3 a.m. last minute, pressurized bouts with the The Ballet has taken a major step in merging computer typesetting system and I find myself with the Pennsylvania Ballet , and it will be at a loss for words. Well, almost. opening a new alternative Dance Factory in the Third Ward sometime next year. On a Associate Editor Art Muscle really is coming along. We get new sadder note, one of the state's main advocates Calendar Editor subscriptions in the mail every day and in this of Wisconsin Art, Jane Brite, resigned from Business Manager issue we welcome many new advertisers, from her position as assistant curator of Wisconsin the Public Museum to Alternative Concerts to a Art at the Milwaukee Art Museum, where she pet sitter. We're finding that the magazine's ran the Cudahy Gallery of Wisconsin Art. I audience is quite diverse and that the Art worked with Jane for several years and Therese Gantz Muscle word is spreading beyond Milwaukee to witnessed her incredible energy and devotion upstate regions. to promoting artists' work and developing audiences , as well as her warmth and candour Associate Editor-Music In this issue, we present a new book column in dealing with people (a real rarity in the art and the first artist's page . We have an article establishment). She will really be missed . about a man who no one seems to have ever We hope you enjoy the issue. Please call or heard of ~ Arley Curtz (Director of the write with ideas or suggestions. And Bobby DuPah Wisconsin Arts Board) and an article about a remember, subscriptions are awfully nice to group that everyone has heard of — the get in the mail. Now, if Art Muscle could only Violent Femmes. find a permanent office space , complete with a new Macintosh or two Photo Editor There has been a lot of art action in the city Debra Brehmer Frank Ford Pat Grace is the first artist to create an Artist's Page for Art Lending expertise Muscle. You'll find it in the center spread. Pat had this to say about Marian Butters, Tom Collins, Steve his work: Robinson, John Blum, Jim Brozek, Rick Olson, Carri Skoczek, "These are Jrom a series that develops self Lindsay Lochman, Carole Zierhut, portraiture as a way of expressing one's John Pintar, Dana Velden, John thoughts and feelings from daily interaction Gruenwald and Peggy. with the outside world. The medium is acrylic paint on paper bags. I became attracted to paper bags because of the immediate availability and their ability to become something more than a visual image, like a container or a hand puppet." Art Muscle is published bi-monthly Pat Grace Pat Grace Photo byfim Brozek by Milwaukee Art Media Publishers, P.O. Box 93219, Milwaukee, WI 53203. Third class postage paid at Milwaukee, WI 53202 and additional I'm not saying you should be happy when a person dies, but mailing offices. 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Art Muscle is a trademark Andy Warhol of Milwaukee Art Media Publishers. 2 Art Muscle Art Musde O N N FEATURES Arley Curtz Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck 6 Julian Schnabel John Blum/John Sobczak 12 Jacqueline Richards Jeffrey Hayes 22 Violent Femmes John Kruth 26 MATA Therese Gantz 30 DEPARTMENTS AGOG Post Facto-Reviews 9 Previews 10 Linear B 17 Letter Home 20 Ear Muscle 20 Calendar 31 **&U Cover photo: Lyndsay Lochman/Barbara Ciurej ADVERTISE! For information call 962-1579 AGOG Letters to the Editors top of a building downtown sometime Arts sponsoring a traveling women's art Roof Caves In in May. A fleet of 14 figures will be exhibit which will begin Feb. 3, 1988. suspended from a building and three New theater group Deadline for applications is April 15. As one of the founders of the Inner additional figures will be installed on Milwaukee playwright Alan The show will travel to 12 midwestern City Arts Council, I wish to thank you sites nearby. Each figure will be from Zuberbuehler introduced his new galleries and museums. For for the recent article, "The Roof Caves 12 to 17-feet long (that's a lot of theater company March 1 - 8 at the prospectus, send SASE to West Bend In." (Nov. 15 issue). Enclave Theater. The "Possibility chicken wire). Agnew's inspired vision Gallery of Fine Arts, 300 S. 6th Ave., of public art has grown by significant Players" presented two plays written West Bend, WI 53095. Kathy Keller, the reporter, did a by Zuberbuehler, "Fieldstones" and leaps and bounds since she first attached masks to the lion sculptures commendable job of indepth "Indian Summer." "Fieldstones" research and accurate reporting on recently won second prize in a in Lake Park several winters ago. What Kenosha exhibit next? the Council. Please express my thanks national writing competition to her. sponsored by the Little Theater of April 15 is the deadline for a juried exhibition, Alexandria, Va. Zuberbuehler has Grants v Best wishes to you and your staff. been writing for many years, but has "Impressions/Expressions 87," at Gallery 124, Kenosha. Send slides or Continue what you are doing. never really gone public before. "I Artists Foundation Milwaukee needs you type of formed the group so I would have an photographs with $10 to Kemper The Milwaukee Artists Foundation publication. outlet for my own work," he said. " My Center, 6501 3rd Ave., Kenosha, WI (MAF) application deadline for 1987 53140. Call 551-9288 for more work attempts to speak to the hopes Virginia W. Williams and possibilities in life for the arts project funding through the information. individual and for humanity as whole. Country Arts Grant Program is April I believe there's a realm of 15 at 5 p.m. Program guidelines, Gossip undiscovered possibilities which lie application forms and information Likes Muscle can be obtained from the MAF office somewhere beyond our proven and Best anecdote heard this month: in Room 132 of Lincoln Center for the After viewing an exhibition at the unproven beliefs about reality. Often When Theatre X was performing at the Arts, 820 E. Knapp St., or by calling Wright Street Gallery, I discoverd an the key to a happier life is as simple as Goodman Theater in Chicago recently 276-9276 or 276-9273. MAF will issue of "Art Muscle" on my walk out. making the conscious decision to with "My Werewolf," company This publication was much talked create it for ourselves and change our distribute about $50,000 in project member John Kishline did a weekly about between recent personal reality. That has been a quest grants. solo performance at a small local conversationalists. I looked forward to of mine for the last 10 years." For discovering this "thing." Let me offer more information, call 374-3687. NEA Regional Inter-Arts bar/theater. His act required a live snake which he kept in the apartment my congratulations for having the guts to get this going. I won't say it's Loewen forms troupe This grant is for creation and building where the Goodman had housed the theater members. One surprising to see this occur in Dancer Debra Loewen has formed a production of collaborative works evening when Kishline's roommate Milwaukee. After leaving Milwaukee new dance company called Wild between video artists and artists in Debra Clifton walked into the hall she for a period of a year, I've realized that Space, which will debut at 8 p.m. other disciplines. Proposals must saw a tenant stomping on the snake there is a hell-of-a-lot of ability April 10, 11 and 2 p.m. April 12 at incorporate more than one arts which had escaped its tank. Kishline happening in this city. In addition, I Mitchell Hall Chamber Theatre discipline. Write: UCVideo, 425 had to buy a new snake for the act, and have trained and taught at two (corner of Downer and Kenwood) at Ontario St. SE, Minneapolis, MN somehow, this one also escaped and institutions, UWM and MIAD, so I am UWM. Tickets are $6/$5 for students 55414, 612-627-4444. Deadline is was likewise murdered by another a witness to the Art and Ideas which and seniors. The performance will April 30. (Woodland Pattern Book tenant in the hall. (At least this is the exist within these art spaces.