Fall Arts Guide 2017

2017

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the Art Museum in the 21st Century

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contents Introduction ...................................... 4 Villa Terrace / Charles Allis Museum ...... 6 September Calendar .......................... 8 Grohmann Museum ......................... 14 October Calendar ............................. 16 Jewish Museum Milwaukee .............. 24 November Calendar ........................ 26 John Michael Kohler Arts Center ....... 30 December Calendar ......................... 32 Milwaukee Art Museum .................. 36 January Calendar ............................. 38 Museum of Wisconsin Art ................. 42 Racine Art Museum ......................... 46 Directory ......................................... 48 2

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Art Museums in the 21st Century As the 21st century accelerates into the future, are art museums—whose traditional mission has been to preserve the past—obliged to keep abreast, and, if so, how do they do this without diminishing their core objective?

We began thinking about this last summer at Villa Terrace as we sat on chairs worthy of a 17th-century hacienda, talking with John Sterr. Sterr is executive director of two Milwaukee art museums, Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum and the Charles Allis Art Museum, both housed in venerable structures. The historic setting overlooking Lake Michigan, seeming timeless as it glistened in the morning sun, helped us wonder about the paradoxical imperatives of preservation and innovation. One thing is evident: Museum programming is increasingly designed to echo the interests of distinct groups within the Milwaukee audience.

Recently, the Milwaukee Art Museum opened its first-ever exhibition by a young contemporary artist with a national reputation, Rashid Johnson. At the Haggerty and the Grohmann, much thought has been given to raising the

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museums’ profiles in the city. The Museum of Wisconsin Art, whose current building was dedicated this century, and the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, open since 2008 in a repurposed building, are exemplary of the trend toward art museums with specialized genre or regional foci.

Our city’s symbol—the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Quadracci Pavilion—reached out to the new millennium when it was completed in 2001. Designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, the pavilion remains a bold architectural statement, enabled by technological advances in engineering and serving a dual role in housing exhibitions that honor the past while acknowledging the present.

The future? All of us have a role to play in writing it.

David Luhrssen Editor, Fall Arts Guide John Schneider Assistant Editor, Fall Arts Guide

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Charles Allis Art Museum Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum When asked about the changing dynamics of art museums in the 21st century, John Sterr, executive director of Charles Allis and Villa Terrace, responds: “Collaboration. Museums can no longer see themselves as monolithic institutions. The key is to collaborate with other partners.”

For the Milwaukee County-owned institutions, the most obvious collaboration has been their membership in the Milwaukee Museum Mile to provide affordable “multiple museum experiences” on the East Side—a joint effort also involving the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, the Museum of Wisconsin Art at St. John’s on the Lake and North Point Lighthouse. The 2017 Milwaukee Museum Mile Day, held on Mother’s Day, offered free or reduced admissions and children’s activities at each of the five institutions. “A lot of families came out that day,” Sterr continues. And that’s the real key: bringing in new faces— especially people who enjoyed the tour enough to consider a return visit.

“It’s like in music—a scene happens when bands help each other. One success builds on another,” Sterr says. “Also, the more we can do together programming-wise, budget-wise, marketing-wise—collaboration takes pressure off the smaller museums.”

Other collaborations involve education. Shana McCaw, Charles Allis’ and Villa Terrace’s senior curator, is excited about her work with Rufus King High School’s international baccalaureate art program.

“I’m talking to students, critiquing their portfolios; we chose work from their senior show to bring to Charles Allis,” she says.

Villa Terrace has also become a site for the performing arts—often site-specific performances. This summer’s Sculpt-cussion saw collaboration between art forms with Wild Space Dance Company and musicians Dave Bayles and Aaron Gardner interpreting the exhibit by visual artists Barbara Manger and Richard Taylor. Visitors to the mansion’s library could peruse a selection of books that inspired Manger and Taylor. A “play room” was set aside for people interested in making paper collages by way of exploring the creative process behind Manger’s monoprints.

“We’re providing an experience. We’re interested in tapping into different audiences,” McCaw says. “Each exhibition has several satellite programs. They are not always academic lectures but also things whole families can come to,” such as the “community meet-up run” organized in conjunction with the Allis exhibit of photographer Lois Bielefeld’s images of the Shorewood Girls Cross Country team.

—David Luhrssen

Charles Allis Art Museum John Sterr (COURTESY OF VILLA TERRACE / CHARLES ALLIS) SHEPHERD EXPRESS FALL ARTS GUIDE •

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Multiple Venues Sept. 7-12 Now in its fourth season, Renaissance Theaterworks’ Br!nk New Play Festival provides an invaluable platform for Midwestern women playwrights to develop their work. The program has expanded its offerings each year since its inception and 2017 promises a remarkable range of events. On the docket are playwriting workshops and staged readings of the festival’s full-length plays followed by talkbacks with playwrights Reina Hardy and Amanda Petefish-Schrag held at Renaissance’s home in the Broadway Theatre Center and touring venues. Artistic Associate and Director of New Play Development Mallory Metoxen speaks to the festival’s latest addition: “Now we are entering our fourth year, and to give more opportunities to more women playwrights, we have launched the Br!NK Br!efs: The 10 Minute Plays.” (Selena Milewski)

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Astor Hotel Pub Sept. 14-Oct. 1 Cabaret Milwaukee’s fully staged 1930s radio show-style productions have been vivifying historic Milwaukee venues for nearly four years. Their latest trilogy begins with The Clockwork Man, origins…, which director Josh Bryan describes as “somewhere between melodramatic romance and Lovecraftian horror.” Set in 1917, it introduces heroes Pelonius and Sinfan in the trenches of World War I, and villain, Dr. Boggs, on a humanitarian mission in India. The show features familiar faces in its entr’acte segments, including stand-up comedian Michael Palmisano II and tap dancer Danielle Weber, as well as a host of new performers for the main storyline, which Bryan hopes will “provide an alternative to the archaic tropes through which people tend to view ‘civilized’ and ‘uncivilized’ cultures.” (Selena Milewski)

A Moon for the Misbegotten THE BAY PLAYERS

Sept. 8-10

Whitefish Bay High School Auditorium Sept. 15-23 Since their first performance in 1951, the Bay Players have promised approachable community theater, and this season’s fall production of A Moon for the Misbegotten, directed by Chelsea Drenning, doesn’t stray from that promise. The sequel to Eugene O’Neil’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten follows Jim Tyrone, an alcoholic landlord struggling with his mother’s death, and his tenants Josie and Phil Hogan, a father and daughter concerned about the threat of losing their farm. The play is a doleful look at family dynamics and the impact of parental expectation. (Morgan Hughes)

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Sept. 8-24

Sept. 15-Oct. 1 The Racine Theatre Guild will take on French playwright Marc Camoletti’s classic farce Boeing, Boeing in a 13-show run over three weeks. The play, which stars Bernard, a Parisian architect who finds himself engaged to three unknowing stewardesses, has been performed everywhere from local theaters such as this to Broadway. The play also has a Wisconsin connection, in the form of Robert, an old friend of Bernard’s who hails from the dairy state in recent Broadway productions. (Rob Hullum)

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Sept. 7-16

Over the River and Through the Woods SUNSET PLAYHOUSE

Sept. 7-24

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MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (STACKNER)

Sept. 8-Nov. 5

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Sept. 11-13

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Sex Please We’re Sixty

WAUKESHA CIVIC THEATRE

Sept. 15-Oct. 1

Elvis!

SUNSET PLAYHOUSE (MUSICAL MAINSTAGE)

Sept. 18-19

Guys and Dolls

MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (POWERHOUSE)

Sept. 19-Oct. 29

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune

MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE

Broadway Theatre Center Sept. 20-Oct.15 Two middle-aged New Yorkers wonder if their one-night stand could turn into something more permanent in this romance from Master Class playwright Terrence McNally.

Todd Denning stars as Johnny, an idealistic short order cook, while Marcella Kearns plays Frankie, a woman whose insecurities complicate what she assumes to be a simple fling. F. Murray Abraham and Kathy Bates originated the roles for the play’s 1987 Off-Broadway debut. (Evan Rytlewski)

Small Things

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An Ideal Husband

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Sept. 22-30

The Who & the What

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Sept. 27-Nov. 5 Playwright and Brookfield native Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Disgraced was staged by the Rep last season and his brilliant mash-up of capitalism and terrorism The Invisible Hand the year before. His fans will deepen their admiration, I think, upon viewing his third play, a black comedy about a female Pakistani American writer’s examination of Islam’s traditions regarding women. Dad is a religious conservative, his daughters are not, and honesty has consequences in this highly relatable family tale. (John Schneider)

David Seebach’s Illusions in the Night Sunset Playhouse Sept. 28-Oct. 1

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Sept. 28-Oct. 8

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UWM Kenilworth Studio 508 Sept. 28-Oct. 7 Dressed as the central character and subject, Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, an openly gay East German transvestite who survived the Nazi and Communist regimes, actor Michael Stebbins will play the 40 characters of this one-man show. Chief among them is the playwright, Doug Wright, who viewed the real life Mahlsdorf as heroic, interviewed her repeatedly and learned to his dismay that she likely spied for the East German Stasi. Isabelle Kralj and Mark Anderson are directing. (John Schneider)

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Sept. 28-Oct. 22 Though she was little recognized in her lifetime, Henrietta Swan Leavitt made invaluable contributions to the field of astronomy, discovering how to measure the distance between Earth and faraway galaxies. With humor and levity, playwright Lauren Gunderson tells the story of how Leavitt and her female lab peers (then dismissively known as “computers”) helped crack the men’s club that was the Harvard Observatory in the early 20th century. (Evan Rytlewski)

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Sept. 29-Oct. 14

Hot Mikado

SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE

Broadway Theatre Center Sept. 29-Oct. 15 Gilbert and Sullivan’s satirical opera about an overzealous government quick to employ the death penalty got a jazzy makeover in this adaptation, which swapped the soundtrack out for the distinctly American sounds of swing music and the blues. The original 1939 musical starred legendary tap SHEPHERD EXPRESS FALL ARTS GUIDE •

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dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson but unfortunately has been mostly lost to time. Unable to find the original script and arrangements, writer David H. Bell and composer Rob Bowman started from near scratch for this version, which has been consistently popular since it debuted in 1986. (Evan Rytlewski)

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will perform quite a variety of works from the Classical, Romantic and Contemporary repertoires. These are works “full of surprise, wit, precision and emotion,” according to the Conservatory’s Adam Shafer. There’s a trio by Joseph Haydn, Johannes Brahms’ Trio in C Major, Op. 87 and the Trio Concertant by Hungarian composer László Lajtha (1892-1963). (John Jahn)

World Music Festival

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The Goat Palace Sept. 14-17 Driving past, you’d pay this Riverwest “palace” no heed.

A greater contrast with Villa Terrace, the setting of Debra Loewen’s major site-specific dance performance last year, is unimaginable. “That was a ‘have’ show,” Loewen said. “This is a ‘have not’ show. It’s a big gritty space with six bays. I thought of an antique mall filled with the junk a person collects, artifacts of lives or a neighborhood. What happens if dancers inhabit them?”

(John Schneider)

Sept. 19 “All music is folk music,” Louis Armstrong once noted with impeccable logic, “I ain’t never heard no horse sing a song.” A similar observation could be made of so-called “world music.” Categorical quibbling aside, an acquaintance with far-flung musical traditions expands one’s ears and demonstrates the commonalities underlying human music making. UW-Whitewater’s one-day World Music Festival presents four groups from as many countries, including a Polish multiinstrumentalist celebrated for using instruments of the Middle Ages, one of the few female soloists on the Iranian lute and headliners representing Galician and Chilean musical traditions. (Tyler Friedman)

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Sept. 16

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Sept. 14

“Music From Almost Yesterday featuring Accordion XXI Century” UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

Sept. 14

“Marco Sartor Classical Guitar Concert”

UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

Sept. 15

“Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony” MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Sept. 15-17

Haydn, Brahms and Lajtha PROMETHEUS TRIO

McIntosh-Goodrich Mansion Sept. 18-19 Setting off upon their 18th year of residence at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, the Prometheus Trio

“A Soulful Tribute: Hathaway and Cooke”

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Sept. 29-30

“De Waart Conducts Mozart”

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Sept. 29-30

VISUAL ART CONTINUING

“Strata & Cipher: Barbara Manger and Richard Taylor” VILLA TERRACE DECORATIVE ARTS MUSEUM

Through Sept. 10

“Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists 2016 Exhibition” HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART

FLORENTINE OPERA @ THE CENTER SERIES

Through Sept. 17

“Gershwin!”

“Rashid Johnson: Hail We Now Sing Joy”

Sept. 22-23

Through Sept. 17

Sam Fazio Trio

“Cedarburg Artists Guild: Endless Expressions”

Sept. 22-23

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

SCHAUER ARTS AND ACTIVITIES CENTER

Sept. 23

“The World of César Franck” FRANKLY MUSIC

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 914 E. Knapp St. Sept. 25 An undeservedly somewhat neglected composer, César Franck gets a Frankly Music concert program all to himself! Frank Almond, Yuka Kadota, Margot Schwartz, Susan Babini, Adam Golka and Christoper Berry perform some of Franck’s sonorous works for chamber musicians: Sonata for Violin and Piano, Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 and several selected pieces for organ (at which the Franco-Belgian maestro was one of music history’s greatest practitioners). (John Jahn)

“Jérémy Jouve Classical Guitar Concert”

UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

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Through Sept. 18

“Collection Focus: Renie Breskin Adams” RACINE ART MUSEUM

Through Sept. 24

“Shie and Acord: Recent Acquisitions” RACINE ART MUSEUM

Through Sept. 24

“Small Gifts from Big Donors—Part 2” RACINE ART MUSEUM

Through Sept. 24

“Inside Job”

“Coalition of Photographic Arts: In a Fashion”

Through Sept. 30

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“The Temple of Flora”

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“Inside/Outside: Katy Cowan: reflected-intothemselves-into-reflected”

“Mary L. Nohl Suitcase Exhibition”

Through Oct. 29

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“2017 Annual Members Show”

“Romano Johnson: The Glitterati”

MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN

Through Dec. 10

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WALKER’S POINT CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Through Oct. 7

“Featured Member Exhibition: PJ Boylan”

MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART

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“The Bonsai Exhibit”

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MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART

Through Nov. 5

“RAM Artist Fellowship Exhibition 2017” WUSTUM MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

WALKER’S POINT CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Through Nov. 25

“Frank Lloyd Wright: Buildings for the Prairie”

“Cultivating Creativity: Celebrating 75 Years of Wustum—Part 3”

MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM

Through Oct. 15

“Cedarburg Artists Guild Annual Juried Exhibit”

CEDARBURG CULTURAL CENTER

Through Oct. 15

“Lois Bielefeld— All In: Shorewood Girls Cross Country”

CHARLES ALLIS ART MUSEUM

Through Oct. 22 The intimate travails of high school athletes are on display in Lois Bielefeld’s new series, which follows her daughter’s cross country team across an entire season. The photos capture workouts, races and the tense and joyful moments of competition. Bielefeld is not new to portraiture, and has shown her work in various galleries, including The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and during her time as an artist in residency in Bourglinster, Luxembourg.

(Morgan Hughes)

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“Karen Johnson Boyd: Unpacking Her Clay Collection”

“Woven Images 2017” (student exhibit)

“Paul Smith: Masters of Craft”

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Sept. 17-Dec. 30

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Sept. 14-Nov. 9

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“Masterworks from the Grohmann Museum – Celebrating 10 Years” GROHMANN MUSEUM

Sept. 8-Dec. 29 “The idea was: we want to celebrate our 10th anniversary with something from our collection,” says James R. Kieselburg II, director of the Grohmann Museum. He adds: “We wanted to go back to where we started”—the Eckhart Grohmann collection of work and industry-related paintings that formed the core of the museum’s holdings. Kieselburg culled more than 30 or so works from the collection for the exhibition, representing each topical subset such as farm laborers, artisanal craftspeople, miners and factory workers as represented by four centuries of artists whose eyes were trained on the men (and women) whose hands and shoulders held up the material world. (David Luhrssen)

“Things are what we encounter: Dr. Charles Smith” JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER

Sept. 10-Dec. 31 Charles Smith’s youth was profoundly affected by racism. His father was killed in what Smith supposes was a racially motivated attack. The next year, his mother brought the family to Emmitt Till’s funeral.

These events led Smith to turn his home and yard into a sculpture garden of African American history later in life. Artist Heather Hart has created an installation at Kohler Arts Center that will house 20 of Smith’s sculptures and help to tell his story. (Rob Hullum)

“Emojis, Lies, Instagram Muses and Headline News” LATINO ARTS GALLERY

Sept.11-Oct. 13 Experimental art meets political discourse at the Latino Arts Gallery this fall. Artist Pedro Vélez combines his fascination with news media, social networking, politics and the anxiety that comes from each of these things into “visual essays” displayed across various media in a new exhibition, “Emojis, Lies, Instagram Muses and Headline News.” In addition to visual art, Vélez is a tenured columnist, having written for several publications including Artnet Magazine and New Art Examiner. (Morgan Hughes)

UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

“The Seventh Day: Revisiting Shabbat”

JEWISH MUSEUM MILWAUKEE

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JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER

Sept. 23

Sept. 13-Dec. 31 Fifty international artists explore the diverse meanings and observances of the Sabbath in an exhibit organized by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum of New York. The Milwaukee museum describes it this way: “When faced with a rapidly changing community characterized by increasing ethnic diversity, interfaith families, challenges affecting the organized institutions of Jewish life and an unprecedented merger into the fabric of North American life, what does the seventh day mean to contemporary Jews?” (John Schneider)

“Wisconsin Painters Studio Alumni Show”

Anthony Hernandez

Sept. 24-Jan. 7, 2018

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Sept. 15-Jan. 1, 2018 Anthony Hernandez could well be deemed the photographer laureate of Los Angeles. The 70-year-old photographer has documented the many faces of La La Land since the late 1960s. His first retrospective gathers some 160 works taken from Hernandez’ more than 45-year career. From early noir-ish black and whites, to color captures of Rodeo Drive’s vanity, through poignant habitats of the homeless, Hernandez presents L.A. in all of its contradictory glory. (Tyler Friedman)

“75 at 75: Significant Works from RAM’s Collection” RACINE ART MUSEUM

Sept. 17-Dec. 30 The Racine Art Museum is the offspring of the Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts.

Like a good doting child, RAM is mounting an exhibition to honor the 75th anniversary of its parent institution. “75 at 75: Significant Works from RAM’s Collection” selects 75 representative pieces from its collection of nearly 10,000, curated to tell stories about their artists, donors and conservators. How has RAM managed to build the nation’s largest collection of contemporary craft? What was the life of these objects before joining the RAM family? (Tyler Friedman)

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Sept. 23-Nov. 6

“Dean Meeker: Myths and Masquerades”

MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART

Sept. 23-Jan. 14, 2018

“Sorehead Hill: Jesse Howard”

JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARCENTER

Morehshin Allahyari (lecture) UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (ARTISTS NOW! SERIES)

Sept. 27

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Grohmann Museum Before becoming the Grohmann’s director, even before the new millennium began, James R. Kieselburg II was already thinking about the changing posture of art museums. As a museum studies instructor at UW-Milwaukee in the 1990s, Kieselburg was discussing the “Disneyesque conception of that time— museums as an experience blending education with entertainment.” He adds that, while the idea “wasn’t entirely wrong,” you won’t be greeted at the Grohmann’s door by Mickey Mouse or find flashy holograms of dead artists amid the museum’s unique collection depicting various fields of work and industry.

Kieselburg understands the Grohmann Museum as “community, not authority,” by which he means a shift away from the art museum’s traditional position as arbiter of taste toward a service role. “We serve the MSOE campus community but also the greater Milwaukee community.” An important aspect is in “supplemental education initiatives.

With the abandonment of art education in many schools, museums can fill that role.”

The annual field trip as experienced by baby boomers, involving a standardized walk-through, no longer cuts it. Recent years have found Kieselburg tailoring tours to fit specific curriculums. For St. Robert Catholic School in Shorewood, he crafted a tour linking the Roman Church’s patron saints of professions and occupations to the art on display.

In the 21st century, Kieselburg concludes, museums must “strive to be more accessible, to use collections in new ways, to tell stories by previously unheard voices. It’s no longer just a matter of what we think you should know. We want to know what you are interested in, what your needs are as a visitor and how we can fill that role.”

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THEATER CONTINUING

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The Clockwork Man, origins...

Through Oct. 29

Souvenir

Boeing Boeing

Through Nov. 5

Through Oct. 1

The Who and The What

RACINE THEATRE GUILD

Sex Please We’re Sixty

MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATRE (STACKNER)

MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (STIEMKE)

WAUKESHA CIVIC THEATRE

Through Nov. 5

David Seebach’s Illusions in the Night

opening

Through Oct. 1

SUNSET PLAYHOUSE

Through Oct. 1

2017

MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (POWERHOUSE)

CABARET MILWAUKEE

Through Oct. 1

Working

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

VOICES FOUND REPERTORY (THE ARCADE THEATRE)

MARQUETTE THEATRE (STUDENT PRODUCTION)

Oct. 9-22

Small Things

FIRST STAGE (FIRST STEPS SERIES)

Through Oct. 8

BOULEVARD THEATRE

Spookley the Square Pumpkin (family friendly)

Plymouth Church Through Oct. 8

Oct. 1-29

I Am My Own Wife

MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (BROADWAY SERIES)

THEATRE GIGANTE

Through Oct. 7

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune

MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE

Through Oct. 15

Hot Mikado

SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE

Through Oct. 15

Silent Sky

NEXT ACT THEATRE

Through Oct. 22

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Rent 20th Anniversary Tour

Oct. 3-8

All the Great Books (Abridged) IN TANDEM THEATRE

Tenth Street Theatre Oct. 5-29 Cocktail parties are a drag. But In Tandem Theatre’s production of All the Great Books (Abridged) should help ease the burden of small talk while preparing you to put those supercilious comp-lit grad students in their place. The curtains open on an English class’ alarming realization that their graduation is imperiled by a difficult final exam. To avoid the unthinkable, the drama professor, student teacher and gym coach join forces for a frantic tour of the literary canon in 90 minutes. (Tyler Friedman)

Dead Man’s Carnival MIRAMAR THEATRE

Oct. 6, Nov. 3, Dec. 1 Dead Man’s Carnival’s First Friday series continues through the fall at the Miramar.

Each show features different carnival acts from around the country performing music, carnival and burlesque acts. The season finale will be a Tom Waits tribute on Dec 1.

(Jennifer Walter)

Pepper’s Ghost

ALCHEMIST THEATRE

Oct. 6-28 Alchemist Theatre’s Halloween show is back by popular demand, featuring a new script with a cast of familiar faces. Throw in some themed drinks and decorations, and the theater becomes frighteningly festive.

In the words of director Aaron Kopec, the Halloween special is more than just a show, “it’s a fun night out for grown ups who don’t want to wait in lines for haunted houses anymore.” (Jennifer Walter)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (family friendly) FIRST STAGE

Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Todd Wehr Theater Oct. 6-Nov. 5 Say “Ian Fleming” and think James Bond, but Fleming was also responsible for a timeless and wonderful children’s book— Chitty Chitty Bang Bang—about an old jalopy that finds new life (literally!) in the hands of dedicated father and eccentric inventor, Caractacus Potts. This enrapturing tale was made into a fabulous 1968 film starring Dick van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes and Lionel Jeffries. First Stage presents a very kid-friendly stage adaptation based upon that classic film and including its memorable, tuneful score by Richard and Robert Sherman. (John Jahn)

Macbeth

BOOZY BARD

Best Place at Historic Pabst Brewery Oct. 9-11 Best Place at Pabst comes alive with drinks and drama for another season. The upcoming show, Macbeth, is a shortened version of the original script, with actors and actresses choosing their roles just minutes before the show begins. Notoriously unprepared and wildly entertaining, this spontaneous adaptation puts the Bard’s

classics in a not-so-sober light. (Jennifer Walter)

Toil and Trouble (student production)

Family Series at the Todd Wehr Theater

UW-WHITEWATER THEATRE

Oct. 9-15

CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE THE WIZ ANTARCTICA, WI JUDY MOODY & STINK: THE MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD TREASURE HUNT

Anna Deavere Smith MILWAUKEE THEATRE

Oct. 11

Sister Act

SUNSET PLAYHOUSE

Oct. 12-Nov. 5 Based on the 1992 hit film starring Whoopi Goldberg, this upbeat musical combines dancing, divas and disguise—all within the walls of a convent. Sent to live with nuns after witnessing a murder, singer Deloris Van Cartier shows the sisters how to brighten up their daily worship. When Delores’ cover is blown, the nuns band together to protect their honorary sister.

(Jennifer Walter)

First Steps Series

SPOOKLEY THE SQUARE PUMPKIN DR. SEUSS’S THE CAT IN THE HAT

Young Company

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH HENRY V

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Don Juan (student production)

UW-PARKSIDE THEATRE

Oct. 13-22

One Drop of Love

UW-WHITEWATER YOUNG AUDITORIUM

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Oct. 16

The Performance Ecology Project (world premiere)

COOPERATIVE PERFORMANCE

Oct. 18-29 The show features a group of performers— actors, dancers, musicians and poets— who “hunt and gather” encounters with their environment. It’s what Jeff Grygny, the show’s director, calls “fieldwork”—testing hypotheses as to how we interact with nature. Whether on the second floor of the Center’s Riverside Branch during the week, or sitting outside at the park on weekends, viewers of all ages are invited to experience this collaborative performance celebrating the outdoors. (Jennifer Walter)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream OFF THE WALL THEATRE

Oct. 18-29

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production of The Hunchback Of Notre Dame features memorable songs from the film (“Out There,”“Hellfire,” “The Bells of Notre Dame”) as well as new music (“Rest and Recreation,”“Flight into Egypt”). (John Jahn)

Esperanza Rising

MILWAUKEE YOUTH THEATRE

Lincoln Center for the Arts Oct. 19-20 A family of immigrants, forced to give up their wealthy lifestyle in Mexico, settle in California during the 1930s to become migrant workers. This theatrical adaptation of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel, published in 2000, couldn’t be performed at a more appropriate time.

“There is a lot of history to be learned from this play for both our actors and for audiences,” says Volunteer Coordinator Judy Swanson, noting the themes of discrimination and acceptance that are still relevant today. (Jennifer Walter)

DANCE Dancing on the Ceiling: performances by women of a certain age

SIMONE FERRO AND FRIENDS @ DANCEWORKS

Oct. 21-22

The Burials

CARDINAL STRITCH THEATRE

ArtsBridge

Indoor/Outdoor

Oct. 27

Oct. 20-29

MILWAUKEE BALLET AND FLORENTINE OPERA

RACINE THEATRE GUILD

Oct. 20-Nov 5

Sex with Strangers

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Oct. 20-Nov. 12

“An American Songbook Soirée”

Beyond The Beatles: The British Invasion

Oct. 4

Oct. 23-24

Rose Ensemble: “Il Poverello: The Life and Legacy of St. Francis of Assisi”

RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS

SHARON LYNN WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS

SUNSET PLAYHOUSE (MUSICAL MAINSTAGE)

UW-WHITEWATER YOUNG AUDITORIUM

Jersey Boys

UW-WHITEWATER, YOUNG AUDITORIUM

Oct. 5

“You’ve Got A Friend”

Oct. 25

SUNSET PLAYHOUSE (SIDENOTES CABARET)

The Clockwork Man’s Delirium CABARET MILWAUKEE

Oct. 5-8

Phantasies Such as These

Thomas Pandolfi: “Gershwin, Hamlisch and the Movies”

Oct. 25-28

SCHAUER ARTS AND ACTIVITIES CENTER

SUNSET PLAYHOUSE (AFTER SUNSET STUDIO)

Oct. 6

Oct. 26-29

“Raphaella Smits Classical Guitar Concert”

The Hunchback of Notre Dame WAUKESHA CIVIC THEATRE

UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

Margaret Brate Bryant Civic Theatre Building Oct. 27-Nov. 12 This musical drama boasts some impressive credentials. With book by Peter Parnell, music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, grounding in the classic Victor Hugo novel and based as well upon the 1996 Disney animated film, Waukesha Civic Theatre’s

Oct. 6

Fine Arts Quartet

HELENE ZELAZO CENTER

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dence; it has, in fact, been such ever since. A look at FAQ’s concert history shows that it has performed live all over the world and made numerous recordings for the Naxos, Mercury, Vox and others over the decades.

Their October concert features Joseph Haydn’s “Sunrise” String Quartet in B-flat Major, Samuel Barber’s B Minor String Quartet and Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No.14, Op.131. (John Jahn)

“A Toast to 70 Strong”

WISCONSIN PHILHARMONIC

Oct. 10

“Under The Street Lamp”

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Oct. 13-15

“Evensong”

BEL CANTO CHORUS

Oct. 15

Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles: “It Gets Better” UW-WHITEWATER, YOUNG AUDITORIUM

Oct. 19

“Skipper’s Alley”

IRISH CULTURAL AND HERITAGE CENTER

Oct. 20

The Glenn Miller Orchestra MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (WILSON THEATER)

Oct. 20

The Merry Widow

FLORENTINE OPERA

Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Uihlein Hall Oct. 20-21 The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe) is a classic operetta about a wealthy widow and her fellow Parisian’s attempts to keep her riches in their own city by finding her the right husband. It’s a work by one of operetta’s masters—the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár (and his collaborators, librettists Viktor Léon and Leo Stein). In this sure-to-be opulent Florentine production, Alyson Cambridge returns to the company in her role debut as Hanna Glawari (the rich widow).

Other cast members include baritone Corey McKern (Danilo) and tenor Cody Austin (making his Florentine debut as Camille). (John Jahn)

“Stars and Stripes: American Icons” CONCORD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Wauwatosa Presbyterian Church, 2366 N. 80th St. Oct. 21 The church in Wauwatosa that will be hosting this Concord Chamber Orchestra concert will at times fairly resound with patriotic tunes both familiar and obscure. And by “patriotic” I don’t mean the simple-minded, chest-thumping, nationalistic kind, but a rather more reflective and thoughtful take upon the music of American composers.

This CCO concert (with guest narrator) features works such as the George Washington March by Francis Hopkinson, Rip van Winkle Overture by George Chadwick, Lincoln Portrait by Aaron Copland and effervescent Candide Overture by Leonard Bernstein.

(John Jahn)

“Capella Pratensis: Missa Lutherana” EARLY MUSIC NOW

Oct. 21

Milwaukee Festival Brass at St. John’s Lutheran Oct. 21

Joey Alexander

SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Oct. 21 Joey Alexander may look like any other fresh-faced 13 year old, but sit him at a Steinway and marvel at the musical maturity that instills envy even in seasoned veteran pianists. Alexander has already waxed two albums that have earned him three Grammy nominations and the admiration of influential contemporary jazzmen such as Wynton Marsalis. The Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts hosts the young phenom for an evening of jazz standards and original compositions. (Tyler Friedman)

“Simple Gifts: A Collaboration”

WAUKESHA CHORAL UNION

Oct. 21

Milwaukee Children’s Choir: “Evoking Sounds 1: Sounds of Color” CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

Oct. 21

“Seasons in Song” MASTER SINGERS OF MILWAUKEE

North Shore Congregational Church, 7330 N. Santa Monica Blvd.

St. John’s Lutheran Church, 20275 Davidson Road, Brookfield Oct. 21-22 (respectively) This concert features the lovely and highly evocative Mid-Winter Songs (1980) by American composer Morton Johannes Lauridsen (b. 1943). The piece’s five movements’ titles give you some idea what you’ll be experiencing: “Lament for Pasiphaë,” “Like Snow,”“She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep,”“Mid-Winter Waking” and “Intercession in Late October.” (John Jahn)

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“MYSO Playathon 2017” MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Bayshore Town Center Oct. 22 Following a concentrated period of fundraising (and hot off a concert tour of Argentina and Uruguay), the 1,000-members of MYSO—three full orchestras, seven string orchestras, a wind ensemble, two flute choirs, several jazz combos and more—will perform for the public for free in this, their only annual event that features every single one of their instrumental groups. (John Jahn)

“Serenade and Swan Songs”

PHILOMUSICA QUARTET

Wisconsin Lutheran College Oct. 23 Entering into their 10th season, the spirited resident quartet at the Wisconsin Lutheran College, Philomusica String Quartet, will continue to enchant their loyal and growing audience with famous and familiar as well as overlooked and rarely heard gems of the string quartet repertoire. Their first concert of the season features works representing three musical eras: Classical, Romantic and Post-Romantic/Modern. These are (respectively) Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet in F

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Major (the “Hoffstetter”), Felix Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, Op. 80 and Gabriel Fauré’s String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 121. (John Jahn)

VISUAL ART CONTINUING

“The Bonsai Exhibit”

Sphinx Virtuosi: “Concerti per Venti”

“The Temple of Flora”

“Romano Johnson: The Glitterati”

SHARON LYNN WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Through Dec. 10

Through Nov. 5

“Mary L. Nohl Suitcase Exhibition”

Black Violin

MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN

“Wisconsin Painters Studio Alumni Show”

Through Oct. 8

Through Nov. 6

Oct. 28 To many ears the sound of the violin indexes a white aesthetic typified by the Western classical tradition.

Such a myopic view overlooks figures such as Eddie South, “the Dark Angel of the Violin,” or longtime Ellingtonian Ray Nance. Wil B. and Kev Marcus, the classically trained violist and violinist behind Black Violin, are the latest avatars of this African American fiddle tradition. Influenced by both hip-hop and classical music, Black Violin serves forth a sui generis cultural compound. (Tyler Friedman)

“2017 Annual Members Show”

“Woven Images 2017” (student exhibit)

Through Oct. 7

Through Nov. 9

“Featured Member Exhibition: PJ Boylan”

“2017 Sum Total”

“Fall Masterworks Concert”

“Frank Lloyd Wright: Buildings for the Prairie”

MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM

Oct. 27

MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

WALKER’S POINT CENTER FOR THE ARTS

WALKER’S POINT CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Through Oct. 7

RACINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Frances Bedford Concert Hall Oct. 28 The Racine Symphony’s annual Masterworks Concert not only contains classical music masterpieces, but also a master musician featured as guest soloist; this year’s event offers the RSO’s current artist-in-residence, pianist Wael Farouk. He’ll play the Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11, of Frédéric Chopin, which was written in 1830 by the then 20-year-old Polish composer and given its premiere in October of that year in Warsaw. Also on the program is Symphony No. 86 in D major—the fifth of the six so-called Paris Symphonies written by Joseph Haydn. (John Jahn)

MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM

Through Oct. 15

“Cedarburg Artists Guild Annual Juried Exhibit” CEDARBURG CULTURAL CENTER

Through Oct. 15

“Emojis, Lies, Instagram Muses and Headline News” LATINO ARTS

Through Oct. 20

“Timo Korhonen Classical Guitar Concert”

“Lois Bielefeld—All In: Shorewood Girls Cross Country”

UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS MUSIC RECITAL HALL

CHARLES ALLIS ART MUSEUM

Through Oct. 22

Oct. 29 Finnish classical guitarist Timo Korhonen will play as a part of the UWM Peck School of the Arts Guitar Series this fall, presented in conjunction with the UWM Classical Guitar Student Organization. Considered one of the most renowned classical guitarists of his generation, Korhonen has been performing since the age of 14, and has been travelling internationally to do so since the age of 17. He has played in more than 30 countries. Currently, he is a docent at the Turku Music Academy in Finland. (Morgan Hughes)

“Coalition of Photographic Arts: In a Fashion” MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART

Through Oct. 26

“Inside/Outside: Katy Cowan: reflected-intothemselves-into-reflected” LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN

Through Oct. 29

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LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN

Through Oct. 31

MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART

SCHAUER ARTS AND ACTIVITIES CENTER

UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

Through Nov. 9

“RAM Artist Fellowship Exhibition 2017”

WUSTUM MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

Through Nov. 25

“Cultivating Creativity: Celebrating 75 Years of Wustum—Part 3” WUSTUM MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

Through Nov. 25

“Masterworks from the Grohmann Museum —Celebrating 10 Years” GROHMANN MUSEUM

Through Dec. 29

“The Seventh Day: Revisiting Shabbat”

JEWISH MUSEUM MILWAUKEE

Through Dec. 31

Jacob Baker

JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER

Through Dec. 31

Peter Jodocy

JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER

Through Dec. 31

“Things Are What We Encounter: Dr. Charles Smith” JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER

Through Dec. 31

opening “James Rosenquist: F-111 (South, West, North, East), 1974” HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART

“Paul Smith: Masters of Craft”

Oct. 5-Jan. 18, 2018

Through Dec. 30

“The World Turned Upside Down: Apocalyptic Imagery in England 1750-1850”

RACINE ART MUSEUM

Anthony Hernandez

MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM

Through Jan. 1, 2018

“75 AT 75: Significant Works from RAM’s Collection” RACINE ART MUSEUM

Through Jan. 7, 2018

“Dean Meeker: Myths and Masquerades”

MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART

Through Jan. 14, 2018

“Sorehead Hill: Jesse Howard”

JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER

Through Jan. 7, 2018

“Variations on a Theme: Vessels from RAM’s Collection” RACINE ART MUSEUM

Through Jan. 21, 2018

“Mythologies: Eugene Von Breunchenheim” JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER

Through Jan. 14, 2018

“Karen Johnson Boyd: Unpacking Her Clay Collection” RACINE ART MUSEUM

Through July 27, 2018

HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART

Oct. 6-Jan. 18, 2018 The social and political changes of the 1700s in England brought with them no shortage of uncertainty and fear, much of which is captured in art from the era.

This exhibit curated by Dr. Sarah Schaefer, a visiting assistant professor of art at UW-Milwaukee, spotlights some of the bleaker art of that era, compiling not only paintings and drawings but also pamphlets, illustrated books and political fliers, all of which convey a palpable sense of gloom and dread. (Evan Rytlewski)

“Rick Shaefer: The Refugee Trilogy”

HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART

Oct. 5-Jan. 18, 2018

“Gerit Grimm’s Fairytales: In a Time Neither Now nor Then” MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART

Oct. 7-Jan. 14, 2018 Gerit Grimm’s life has a fairy tale’s arc. Born in communist East Germany, Grimm was initially trained as a factory potter. Now an assistant professor in the ceramic program at UW-Madison, Grimm’s nontraditional, figurative ceramics range in size from miniatures to life-size and beyond. Inspired by the fairytales of her namesake, the Brothers Grimm, as well as other myths and biblical stories, Grimm’s ceramics fire the imagination like their best literary counterparts.

(Tyler Friedman)

“Small Gifts from Big Donors—Part 3” RACINE ART MUSEUM

Oct. 8-Feb. 4, 2018

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75 at 75: Significant Works from ’s Collection

“Back to School”

VILLA TERRACE DECORATIVE ARTS MUSEUM

Oct. 12-Jan. 28, 2018

“Roger Smith Drawings and Watercolors”

VILLA TERRACE DECORATIVE ARTS MUSEUM

Elise Winters Red Ruffle Cascade Necklace

Racine Art Museum Racine, WI

UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

Oct. 20-Nov. 10

“Perspective: The Chair” MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN

Oct. 19-Jan. 28, 2018

Oct. 20-March 3, 2018

“FANTASTIC: Four Contemporary American Illustration Artists”

Deborah Jojola (lecture)

Oct. 16-Dec. 2

Oct. 25

David Lenz (lecture)

“Día de los Muertos Ofrendas”

MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN

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“Crossing Over 2017” (student exhibit)

UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (ARTISTS NOW! SERIES)

Oct. 18

UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (ARTISTS NOW! SERIES)

LATINO ARTS

Oct. 26-Nov. 17

“Printmakers: Jack Pachuta, Jewell Riano, Susan Steinhafel and Paul Yank” CEDARBURG CULTURAL CENTER

Oct. 19-Nov. 26

“Joan Hollnagel: Absurd Observations” CEDARBURG CULTURAL CENTER

Oct. 19-Nov. 26

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Jewish Museum Milwaukee The Jewish Museum Milwaukee opened this century with one eye on the past and the other on how to present that history in the present tense.

“We want people to relate to the stories we tell, to see themselves in those stories,” says Molly Dubin, the Jewish Museum’s curator. Had the museum opened 50 years ago, it might have consisted entirely of objects in glass cases and text panels on the walls. There almost certainly would have been less emphasis on art.

“Visual imagery is a more universal language—it can transcend the challenge of relating to particular times and events,” she explains. “In the past, museums weren’t as cognizant of whether the audience could see themselves in the story. Stories told visually help us to establish a connection with the viewer. If there’s no connection, there’s no experience.”

And experience is the operant word for museums in the present century—“engaging the viewer emotionally, viscerally,” Dubin says.

The variety of exhibitions mounted at the Jewish Museum testifies to changing definitions of art and the widening scope of offerings by art museums. The recent “Fabric of Survival” featured a series of textile panels illustrating the Nazi occupation of a Polish village by Holocaust survivor-outsider artist Esther Nisenthal Krintz. “Stitching History from the Holocaust” exhibited designs by Prague dressmaker Hedy Strnad, who perished under the Nazis.

“Art museums have a more important role than ever in providing art education as funding for public schools have been depleted,” Dubin adds. “Art is an integral part of the human experience. If children aren’t given opportunities to experience art, to be challenged by it, they are missing a huge part of the human experience.”

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Frank Ferrante’s An Afternoon with Groucho

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (family friendly)

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Through Nov. 5

Souvenir

UW-WHITEWATER, YOUNG AUDITORIUM

Nov. 8

Through Nov. 5

26 Miles

The Who and The What

Nov. 8-12

Through Nov. 5

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Aquila Theatre Company: Sense and Sensibility

MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (STACKNER)

MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (STIEMKE)

UWM THEATRE STUDIO 508

Aquila Theatre Company: Hamlet UW-WHITEWATER, YOUNG AUDITORIUM

Indoor/Outdoor

Nov. 9

Through Nov. 5

On the Verge, or the Geography of Yearning (student production)

RACINE THEATRE GUILD

Sister Act

SUNSET PLAYHOUSE

Through Nov. 5

Sex with Strangers

RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS

Through Nov. 12

The Hunchback of Notre Dame WAUKESHA CIVIC THEATRE

Through Nov. 12

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MARQUETTE THEATRE

Nov. 9-19 Following the story of three time-traveling female explorers, these adventurous women take viewers on a journey over centuries of ancient history, transcending time through thought-provoking, witty language.

Director Maureen Kilmurry fell in love with the script when she first read it, saying On the Verge is unlike anything she’s ever seen. “It is full of surprises on all levels,” Kilmurry says. (Jennifer Walter)

Murder for Two

MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (STACKNER)

The Clockwork Man’s Heart

Nov. 10-Jan. 14, 2018

Nov. 1-11

Holmes and Watson

CABARET MILWAUKEE

The Witch in 204

MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (POWERHOUSE)

MEMORIES DINNER THEATRE

Nov. 14-Dec. 17

KRINGLE…The Musical?

Switch Witch (family friendly)

Nov. 3-19

Nov. 15-18

Nov. 3-12

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SUNSET PLAYHOUSE

The Secret Mask

NEXT ACT THEATRE

Nov. 16-Dec. 10

“Ex Fabula: Risking It”

A Christmas Carol

MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (PABST)

Nov. 28-Dec. 24

SOUTH MILWAUKEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Beauty and the Beast

7 (x1) Samurai Nov. 17-19

THEATRE GIGANTE

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Annie

La Boheme

Nov. 17-Dec. 23

Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Uihlein Hall Nov. 2-5 Already gorgeous at its 2012 premiere, Michael Pink’s transformation into dance of Giacomo Puccini’s beloved opera should be breathtaking now given the careful reworking his ballets receive in revival. Moving the tale of starving artists forward to a more recognizable 1950s Paris, Pink fashioned the intimate scenes of friendship, love and loss at the story’s heart to allow the dancers ample room for passion and virtuosity.

Highly individualized full company scenes are among his finest. (John Schneider)

Nov. 17

SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE

Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol ACACIA THEATRE

Nov. 18-Dec. 3

School of Rock

MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (BROADWAY SERIES)

Nov. 21-26 In this new musical adaptation of the heartwarming 2003 Jack Black comedy, written by the film’s screenwriter Mike White, a failed musician poses as a substitute music teacher at a prep school and finds an opportunity to live out his rock star fantasies. In addition to all the music from the movie, the musical features 14 new songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber. And, yes, the kids on stage are actually playing their own instruments. (Evan Rytlewski)

Miracle on South Division Street

MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE

Nov. 22-Dec. 17

A Charlie Brown Christmas (family friendly) FIRST STAGE

Nov. 24-Dec. 31

The Christmas Schooner

MEMORIES DINNER THEATRE

Nov. 25-Dec. 17

SUNSET PLAYHOUSE

GERIT GRIMM’S FAIRYTALES In a Time Neither Now nor Then

Nov. 30-Dec. 23

Opening Party October 7 | 2:00–5:00

MILWAUKEE BALLET

Artist Talk October 19 | 6:30–7:30 Meet the Artist November 18 | 2:00–4:00 December 2 | 2:00–4:00

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Aparna Ramaswamy: They Rose at Dawn SHARON LYNN WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Nov. 11

Mad Li(m)bs

DANCEWORKS PERFORMANCE COMPANY

Danceworks Studio Theatre Nov. 11, 12 and 16-18 “I always wonder what our audience takes from our work,” the boundary-pushing Dani Kuepper explained. To get some idea, she’ll recreate with her DPC colleagues an honest, heartfelt, potentially very funny dance she made with her UW-Milwaukee students last winter to music by Meredith Monk. Actor-playwrights Jason Powell and Andrea Moser, who’ll also perform, will help restructure the piece to include improvisations driven by audience member’s on-the-spot thoughts about whatever the heck is going on. (John Schneider)

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Maura O’Connell and Karan Casey

“Veterans’ Day Salute”

Stomp

Nov. 10

Silver Linings Arts Center, West Bend Nov. 19 The Kettle Moraine Symphony’s Diana Jonen says that they’re attempting to get “the West Bend High School Chorus as well as the UW-Washington County Community Chorus on the program,” but as of this writing that hasn’t been finalized. Regardless, the works on the orchestra’s program are a patriot’s dream. There’s the American National Anthem, “The Washington Post March,”“The Stars and Stripes Forever,”“Victory at Sea” (TV score themes by Richard Rodgers) and various other musical homages to our men and women in uniform. The classical highlight is Howard Hanson’s Symphony No. 2 (The Romantic). (John Jahn)

Nov. 12

IRISH CULTURAL AND HERITAGE CENTER

UW-WHITEWATER, YOUNG AUDITORIUM

“Take Me To The River”

Nov. 13

MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, WILSON THEATER

MUSIC

Nov. 10

Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony

“A Stritch Music Performance” (Fall Concert)

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Nov. 10-12

CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY

Nov. 2

“Le Poème Harmonique: Danza! Spanish Dances in 17th Century France”

Jarabe Mexicano LATINO ARTS

EARLY MUSIC NOW

Nov. 3

Nov. 11

Chorisma

David Francey

UW-WASHINGTON COUNTY

IRISH CULTURAL AND HERITAGE CENTER

Nov. 3

“Bach in the Basilica”

Nov. 12

Nov. 4-5

“Thanksgiving Promises”

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

FESTIVAL CITY SYMPHONY

Pabst Theater Nov. 12 “The promise of living, with hope and thanksgiving, is born of our loving and sharing with friends and our neighbors.” That’s a line from Aaron Copland’s 1954 opera-for-television, The Tender Land, from which the Festival City Symphony performs an orchestral suite.

Indeed, all the works on the pre-holiday concert speak of the same spirit. There’s also the swirling Spitfire Prelude and Fugue by William Walton (1942), Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award-winning composer Jennifer Higdon’s “Teton Range” from All Things Majestic and more. (John Jahn)

Milwaukee Children’s Choir Fall Recital

ST. SEBASTIAN’S CHURCH

Nov. 5

“Music of the 1960s: The Mad Men Era”

WISCONSIN PHILHARMONIC FEATURING FIVE BY DESIGN

Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts Nov. 7 The musical achievements of the 1960s counterculture threaten to obscure an equally rich contemporaneous musical happening, which we might call the last gasp of the Great American Songbook. A division of labor relegating separate tasks to composer, lyricist, arranger and performer, yielded a sophistication that was lost with the ascendance of the jack-of-all-trades singer-songwriter. The Wisconsin Philharmonic, assisted by vocal group Five By Design, will dedicate a performance to the melodies of Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer and other tunesmiths who provided the sonic backdrop for a more elegant 1960s milieu. (Tyler Friedman)

“Bernstein and Brahms”

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Nov. 17-18

“An Evening of Gilbert and Sullivan” FLORENTINE OPERA @ THE CENTER SERIES

Nov. 17-19

KETTLE MORAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

“Thanksgiving” PRESENT MUSIC

Cathedral of St. John Nov. 19 Present Music’s annual Sunday afternoon Thanksgiving concert in the welcoming setting of the Cathedral of St. John has always been thoughtful, engaging America’s ethnic mosaic. This year’s concert features a world premiere by Ingram Marshall drawn from the tradition of Southern shape note singing. Also on the program are works by Armenian American Mary Kouyoumdjian and Iranian American Sahba Aminikia.

(David Luhrssen)

“Canadian Brass Holiday”

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Nov. 29

“Served Hot”

UWM CHAMBER MUSIC MILWAUKEE WITH TORCH ENSEMBLE

Nov. 30

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“Romano Johnson: The Glitterati”

MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART

Through Nov. 5

“Wisconsin Painters Studio Alumni Show”

SCHAUER ARTS AND ACTIVITIES CENTER

Through Nov. 6

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“Woven Images 2017” (student exhibit) UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

Through Nov. 9

“2017 Sum Total” UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

Through Nov. 9

“Crossing Over 2017” (student exhibit) UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

Through Nov. 10

“The Temple of Flora”

MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM

Through Dec. 10

Through Jan. 14, 2018

Through Dec. 29

JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER

GROHMANN MUSEUM

“The Seventh Day: Revisiting Shabbat”

JEWISH MUSEUM MILWAUKEE

Through Dec. 31

Jacob Baker

JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER

Through Dec. 31

Through Nov. 17

Peter Jodocy

“RAM Artist Fellowship Exhibition 2017” WUSTUM MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

Through Nov. 25

“Cultivating Creativity: Celebrating 75 Years of Wustum—Part 3” WUSTUM MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

Through Nov. 25

MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART

“Masterworks from the Grohmann Museum— Celebrating 10 Years”

“Día de los Muertos Ofrendas” LATINO ARTS

“Gerit Grimm’s Fairytales: In a Time Neither Now nor Then”

JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER

Through Dec. 31

“Things are what we encounter: Dr. Charles Smith”

JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER

Through Dec. 31

“Paul Smith: Masters of Craft”

RACINE ART MUSEUM

“Mythologies: Eugene Von Breunchenheim” Through Jan. 14, 2018

“Sorehead Hill: Jesse Howard”

JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER

Through Jan. 7, 2018

“James Rosenquist: F-111 (South, West, North, East), 1974” HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART

Through Jan. 18, 2018

“The World Turned Upside Down: Apocalyptic Imagery in England, 1750-1850” HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART

Through Jan. 18, 2018

“Rick Shaefer: The Refugee Trilogy”

HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART

Through Jan. 18, 2018

“Printmakers: Jack Pachuta, Jewell Riano, Susan Steinhafel and Paul Yank”

Through Dec. 30

Through Nov. 26

Through Jan. 1, 2018

Through Jan. 21, 2018

“Joan Hollnagel: Absurd Observations”

“75 AT 75: Significant Works from RAM’s Collection”

“Back to School”

Through Nov. 26

Through Jan. 7, 2018

Through Jan. 28, 2018

“FANTASTIC: Four Contemporary American Illustration Artists”

“Dean Meeker: Myths and Masquerades”

“Roger Smith Drawings and Watercolors”

CEDARBURG CULTURAL CENTER

CEDARBURG CULTURAL CENTER

MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN

Anthony Hernandez

MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM

RACINE ART MUSEUM

MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART

Through Jan. 14, 2018

“Variations on a Theme: Vessels from RAM’s Collection” RACINE ART MUSEUM

VILLA TERRACE DECORATIVE ARTS MUSEUM

VILLA TERRACE DECORATIVE ARTS MUSEUM

Through Jan. 28, 2018

Through Dec. 2

“Small Gifts from Big Donors—Part 3” RACINE ART MUSEUM

Through Feb. 4, 2018

“Perspective: The Chair” MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN

Through March 3, 2018

“Karen Johnson Boyd: Unpacking Her Clay Collection” RACINE ART MUSEUM

Through July 27, 2018

OPENING Della Wells (lecture)

UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (ARTISTS NOW! GUEST LECTURE SERIES)

Nov. 1

“Kettle Moraine Fine Arts Guild Holiday Show”

SCHAUER ARTS & ACTIVITIES CENTER Nov. 11-Jan. 2, 2018

“Clandestine Possessions— new collaborative work

by James Pederson and Mariah Klemens” & “Family Time—paintings

by James Pederson and Jackson Hunt” CHARLES ALLIS ART MUSEUM

Nov. 16-April 15, 2018

“2017 MOWA Members’ Show”

MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART

Nov. 18-Jan. 7, 2018

“Main Street Gallery’s Blizzard of Art”

CEDARBURG CULTURAL CENTER

Nov. 29-Jan. 14, 2018

“The Little Show: CCC’s Annual Juried Exhibit”

CEDARBURG CULTURAL CENTER

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John Michael Kohler Arts Center For Sam Gappmayer, director of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, there is no sharp divide between society at large and art museums. Trouble in the one may find treatment in the other.

“Our world is Balkanizing in ways that are frightening and dangerous. That’s clear from the American political landscape,” remarks Gappmayer, “I don’t want to sound Pollyannaish, and I certainly don’t think there’s a silver bullet solution, but I do believe that the arts unite people through shared experiences. In these divisive times, art is part of the glue holding us together.”

While art museums certainly serve as conservators of cultural artifacts, they celebrate not the objects themselves but the values these objects embody. “We are individually and collectively defined by what we choose to keep,” Gappmayer says, likening curatorial practice to the process of moving, “All sorts of decisions have to be made about the things we can jettison and those we can’t bear to part with. Similarly, museums demonstrate commonly held values, while also providing constructive forums for discussing where our values differ.”

Gappmayer’s background at other multidisciplinary arts institutions makes him an ideal director of the forwardthinking JMKAC, which he joined at the end of 2016.

“In the early 2000s, there was a pivot point when museums realized that they needed to be more than just antiquated cabinets of curiosity,” he says, “The John Michael Kohler Arts Center strives to engage people in other meaningful ways. Our collection is especially strong in artist-built environments. There is spontaneity, joy and directness that distinguish the experience of these environments from traditional art objects.”

—Tyler Friedman

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THEATER CONTINUING

The Purfekt Family’s 1st Annual Yuletide Letter —The Holiday Hogwash Begins

Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol

Dec. 1-3

Through Dec. 3

Angels in America

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The Secret Mask

NEXT ACT THEATRE

UW-PARKSIDE BLACK BOX THEATRE (STUDENT PRODUCTION)

Through Dec. 17

Dec. 1-9 The UW-Parkside Theatre Department takes on the dichotomy between politics and love with Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Set in 1980s New York City, Angels in America follows two AIDS patients through the trauma of the disease and the impact it has on their relationships. More than that, though, the play is an expression of the intricacies and unknowables associated with finding and falling in love.

(Morgan Hughes)

Holmes and Watson

Holiday Musical Spectacular

Through Dec. 10

The Christmas Schooner

MEMORIES DINNER THEATER

Through Dec. 17

Miracle on South Division Street MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE

2017

MEMORIES DINNER THEATRE

MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (POWERHOUSE)

CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY THEATER

Through Dec. 17

Dec. 1-10

Annie

A Christmas Carol: The Musical

Through Dec. 23

Dec. 1-17

Beauty and the Beast

The House Without A Christmas Tree

Through Dec. 23

Dec. 1-17

A Christmas Carol

Scrooge in Rouge

SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE

SUNSET PLAYHOUSE

MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (PABST)

Through Dec. 24

A Charlie Brown Christmas (family friendly) FIRST STAGE

RACINE GUILD THEATRE

WAUKESHA CIVIC THEATRE

IN TANDEM THEATRE

Dec. 1-Jan. 7, 2018

“Tales of Hoffman” Showcase MILWAUKEE OPERA THEATRE AND UWM OPERA THEATRE DEPARTMENT

Through Dec. 31

Dec. 2

Murder for Two

David Seebach’s “Magic Merry Christmas”

MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (STACKNER)

Through Jan. 14, 2018

CONTINUING Christmas Carol

FALLS PATIO PLAYERS

Dec. 1-3

SCHAUER ARTS & ACTIVITIES CENTER

Dec. 2

HOMEWARD BOUND: The Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel SUNSET PLAYHOUSE (MUSICAL MAINSTAGE)

Dec. 4-5

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1959 Pink Thunderbird (student production)

UW-WHITEWATER THEATRE

Dec. 4-9

Major Barbara

UWM ARTS CENTER GALLERY

Dec. 6-10

Black Nativity

BLACK ARTS MKE

Dec. 7-17

The Skin of Our Teeth FIRST STAGE

Dec. 8-17

Bing Crosby: Christmas on the Air

MILWAUKEE ENTERTAINMENT GROUP

Dec. 8-23 Bing Crosby was, in the knowing estimation of clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw, “the first hip white person born in the United States.” These days, der Bingle’s once revolutionary vocal innovations have been so thoroughly assimilated as to be shorthand for the musical tastes of yesteryear, as exemplified by the seasonal ubiquity of “White Christmas,” the best selling record of all time. Written by and starring Matt Zembrowski, “Bing Crosby Christmas on the Air” presents a tune-filled evening of nostalgia designed to delight old fans and win new ones. (Tyler Friedman)

Chicago

UW-WHITEWATER, YOUNG AUDITORIUM

Dec. 9

Beauty and the Beast, Jr. (family friendly) SUNSET PLAYHOUSE

Dec. 10-11

A Bronzeville Christmas Story FIRST STAGE

Dec. 12 Part of First Stage’s Foundry Series of new play readings, this second play in Sheri Williams Pannell’s emerging, important Bronzeville trilogy about the history of this thriving and stable Milwaukee African American community is set in 1959 and

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by First Stage. The 7 p.m. reading at the Milwaukee Youth Art Center is free and open to all. (John Schneider)

Arsenic and Old Lace

OFF THE WALL THEATRE

Dec. 13-31 While best remembered as a classic screwball comedy starring Cary Grant, Arsenic and Old Lace began life on the stage, where, between 1941 and 1944 it garnered 1,444 curtain calls. The delightfully dark comedy centers on Mortimer Brewster’s dealings with his homicidal family, comprised of two spinster aunts with a penchant for poisoning pensioners, and two brothers, one of whom believes himself to be Teddy Roosevelt and another who is on the lam.

Sure to please fans of black comedies and comedies in general. (Tyler Friedman)

The Wizard of Oz

MILWAUKEE THEATRE

Dec. 29-31

DANCE “Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker” MILWAUKEE THEATRE

Dec. 1

“On Display” Catey Ott Dance Collective in collaboration with the Haggerty Art Museum HAGGERTY ART MUSEUM AT MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY

Dec. 3 From 2-3 p.m., stationed among the always interesting Haggerty exhibits, you’ll find extremely slow moving human beings, living statues of all ages, body types and physical abilities. Eyes closed, they’ll move as each is uniquely able, fully available to your gaze.

Sometimes they’ll freeze, open-eyed and gazing, perfect statues. Conceived by NYC choreographer Heidi Latsky, this haunting improvisation will happen simultaneously in cities across the nation to celebrate the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities. (John Schneider)

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The Nutcracker

Stefan Kartman and Jeannie Yu

Dec. 9-26

Dec. 3

The Dance Factory: The Nutcracker

Concert at Wisconsin Conservatory of Music

Dec. 16

Dec. 4-5

MILWAUKEE BALLET

UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

“The Boston Camerata & SHARQ Arabic Music Ensemble perform A Mediterranean Christmas” EARLY MUSIC NOW

“Holiday Pops”

Dec. 7

St. Joseph Chapel, 1501 S. Layton Blvd.

Dec. 10 As the early music movement gathered steam in the 1960s and ‘70s, most ears were tuned to Western Europe—Baroque and before. Recent years have seen the concept expand to include other regions. Milwaukee’s Early Music Now has been at the forefront of this shift by presenting music from other cultures and exploring cross-cultural groups. Their mission is evident in EMN’s holiday concert. The Boston Camerata, one of America’s foremost early music ensembles, will perform with SHARQ Arabic Music Ensemble, an Arab American group focused on the art music of the Near East. (David Luhrssen)

Dec. 1-3

“Christmas in the Basilica”

“Northern Lights Holiday Concert”

Concord Chamber Orchestra

Dec. 8-10

Dec. 5

Dec. 2

“Home for the Holidays”

“Our Favorite Things”

Dec. 8-17

Dec. 13-17

“Holiday Pops Concert”

Handel’s Messiah

UW-WHITEWATER, YOUNG AUDITORIUM

PROMETHEUS TRIO

“Holiday G.I. Jukebox”

MUSIC

SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Dec. 6

Sol e Mar

LATINO ARTS

“MSO Holiday Concert”

Dec. 1

CEDARBURG PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

BEL CANTO CHORUS

BASILICA OF ST. JOSAPHAT

FLORENTINE OPERA @ THE CENTER SERIES

Milwaukee Festival Brass ST. MATTHEW’S

Dec. 2

The Snowman (family friendly)

RACINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Dec. 8

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Dec. 2

Black Market Trust

Moraine Symphonic Band Holiday Concert

Dec. 8

UW-WASHINGTON COUNTY

WISCONSIN PHILHARMONIC

SUNSET PLAYHOUSE (SIDENOTES CABARET)

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Dec. 15-17

Ryan Meisel QuArtet

SCHAUER ARTS & ACTIVITIES CENTER

Dec. 15

Dec. 2

UW-WASHINGTON COUNTY

“MSO Performs the Music of Led Zeppelin”

The Tales of Hoffman

Dec. 9

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

“Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”

UWM Peck School of the Arts Music Recital Hall Dec. 2 UW-Milwaukee’s Opera Theatre Department hosts artists from Milwaukee Opera Theatre in a semester-long examination of French composer Jacques Offenbach’s immortal Les contes d’Hoffmann—a tuneful and longbeloved opéra fantastique that premiered in 1881, one year after its composer’s tragically early death.

In something of a culminating final exam of UWM’s and Milwaukee Opera Theatre’s study of this work, there will be a “Tales of Hoffman Showcase,”—a “raw, pared-down and fresh reading of the opera on stage.”

(John Jahn)

“MSO Holiday Pops”

Dec. 15-17

Dec. 10

Milwaukee Children’s Choir: “An Evening of Reading and Carols”

MILWAUKEE OPERA THEATRE

SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Kettle Moraine Chorus Winter Concert

UW-WASHINGTON COUNTY

Dec. 10

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

Dec. 16

Chant Claire Chamber Choir Winter Concert ST. SEBASTIAN CHURCH

Dec. 16

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“The Seventh Day: Revisiting Shabbat”

Dec. 16

Through Dec. 31

Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy: “A Celtic Family Christmas”

Jacob Baker

IRISH CULTURAL AND HERITAGE CENTER

SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Dec. 16

“Welcome All Wonders”

MASTER SINGERS OF MILWAUKEE

Dec. 16-17

E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Dec. 30-31

VISUAL ART CONTINUING

“FANTASTIC: Four Contemporary American Illustration Artists” MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN

Through Dec. 2

“The Temple of Flora”

MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM

Through Dec. 10

“Masterworks from the Grohmann Museum —Celebrating 10 Years” GROHMANN MUSEUM

Through Dec. 29

“Paul Smith: Masters of Craft”

RACINE ART MUSEUM

Through Dec. 30

“75 at 75: Significant Works from RAM’s Collection” RACINE ART MUSEUM

Through Dec. 30

JEWISH MUSEUM MILWAUKEE

“Mythologies: Eugene Von Breunchenheim” JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER

Through Jan. 14, 2018

JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER

Through Dec. 31

“The Little Show: CCC’s Annual Juried Exhibit”

CEDARBURG CULTURAL CENTER

Through Jan. 14, 2018

Peter Jodocy

JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER

Through Dec. 31

Anthony Hernandez

MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM

Through Jan. 1, 2018

“Kettle Moraine Fine Arts Guild Holiday Show” SCHAUER ARTS & ACTIVITIES CENTER

Through Jan. 2, 2018

“2017 MOWA Members’ Show”

MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART

Through Jan. 7, 2018

“Sorehead Hill: Jesse Howard”

JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER

Through Jan. 7, 2018

“Dean Meeker: Myths and Masquerades”

MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART

Through Jan. 14, 2018

“Gerit Grimm’s Fairytales: In a Time Neither Now nor Then” MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART

Through Jan. 14, 2018

“Main Street Gallery’s Blizzard of Art”

CEDARBURG CULTURAL CENTER

Through Jan. 14, 2018

“Things are what we encounter: Dr. Charles Smith” JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER

Through Jan. 21, 2018

“James Rosenquist: F-111 (South, West, North, East), 1974”

HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART

Through Jan. 18, 2018

“The World Turned Upside Down: Apocalyptic Imagery in England, 1750-1850” HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART

Through Jan. 18, 2018

“Rick Shaefer: The Refugee Trilogy”

HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART

Through Jan. 18, 2018

“Variations on a Theme: Vessels from RAM’s Collection” RACINE ART MUSEUM

Through Jan. 21, 2018

“Back to School”

VILLA TERRACE DECORATIVE ARTS MUSEUM

Through Jan. 28, 2018

“Roger Smith Drawings and Watercolors” VILLA TERRACE DECORATIVE ARTS MUSEUM

Through Jan. 28, 2018

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“Small Gifts from Big Donors—Part 3” RACINE ART MUSEUM

Through Feb. 4, 2018

“Perspectives: The Chair” MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN

Through March 3, 2018

“Clandestine Possessions— new collaborative work by James Pederson and Mariah Klemens” & “Family Time— paintings by James Pederson and Jackson Hunt” CHARLES ALLIS ART MUSEUM

Through April 15, 2017

“Karen Johnson Boyd: Unpacking Her Clay Collection” RACINE ART MUSEUM

Through July 22, 2018

opening “Here We Make Our Home: Cultural Arts Curriculum & Student Group Exhibition” LATINO ARTS

Dec. 1-Feb. 25, 2018

Rose Curley (lecture)

UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (ARTISTS NOW! SERIES)

Dec. 6

“UWM Design Entrepreneur Showcase 2017” UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

Dec. 7

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Milwaukee Art Museum In August 2016, when Marcelle Polednik became the first Donna and Donald Baumgartner Director of the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM), the institution was emerging from a $34 million project of renovation and expansion that marked the beginning of a new era. Such a momentous undertaking was the result of reflection about the task of an art museum in the 21st century. That Polednik was hired over dozens of other candidates suggests that hers was the most compelling view.

“The purpose of the museum in the 21st century is to be a place of inspiration and contemplation—a place for learning, reverie and connection between the arts and our everyday lives,” says Polednik. And life in the 21st century presents conditions that make the art museum experience all the more important: “In this age of instantaneity and growing technological sophistication, the art museum provides something increasingly rare: a tangible, material connection to some of the most significant forms of expression ever made by humans, whether centuries ago or just this year. The mandate of the museum is to be that connective tissue that binds the experience of humanity over time, or even at any one moment in time.”

The art museum of the 21st century also contributes to communication in and between communities. “At their best, museums are seats of important community dialogue,” says Polednik, “ones that challenge us to consider different voices and interpretations, and to spark and fuel the discourse that makes us a better society, better individuals and better civilizations.” As forums for dialogue and debate, art museums not only preserve the past, they shape the future.

“I am also drawn to the fact that museums are not just repositories of human knowledge and achievement; they must become the catalysts of future knowledge and achievement, too. In so doing, the relevance of the Milwaukee Art Museum has never been greater.”

—Tyler Friedman

Milwaukee Art Museum Marcelle Polednik (BOTH COURTESY OF MAM) SHEPHERD EXPRESS FALL ARTS GUIDE •

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Through Jan. 7, 2018

Murder for Two

MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (STACKNER)

Through Jan. 14, 2018

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MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER (STACKNER)

Jan. 19-March 18, 2018

Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat (family friendly)

FIRST STAGE (FIRST STEPS SERIES)

Jan. 21-Feb. 25, 2018

Metamorphosis

THEATER GIGANTE— KENILWORTH 508 THEATRE

MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (BROADWAY SERIES)

Jan. 25-28, 2018

George Orwell’s Animal Farm

SOUTH MILWAUKEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Jan. 2-7, 2018

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Jan. 9-Feb. 11, 2018

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SUNSET PLAYHOUSE (AFTER SUNSET STUDIO)

Jan. 11-14, 2018

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Jan. 12-28, 2018

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (family friendly) FIRST STAGE

Jan. 12-Feb. 11, 2018

A Year with Frog & Toad (student production) MARQUETTE THEATRE

Jan. 14-27, 2018

Room Service

SUNSET PLAYHOUSE

Jan. 18-Feb. 3, 2018

Vitaly: An Evening of Wonders Jan. 26, 2018

The Secret of Sherlock Holmes MILWAUKEE ENTERTAINMENT GROUP

Jan. 26-Feb. 10, 2018

2018 Snowdance 10 Minute Comedy Festival OVER OUR HEAD PLAYERS

Jan. 26-Feb. 25, 2018

“Elton John: Rocket Man” SUNSET PLAYHOUSE (MUSICAL MAINSTAGE)

Jan. 29-30, 2018

MUSIC “Edo De Waart Conducts American Masters”

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Jan. 12-13, 2018

Leslie Odom Jr.

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Jan. 19, 2018

Nineteen Thirteen

SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Jan. 19, 2018

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Milwaukee Children’s Choir’s “Afternoon at the Opera” SHATTUCK AUDITORIUM, CARROLL UNIVERSITY

Jan. 20, 2018

“American Classics”

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Jan. 20-21, 2018

“Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto” MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Jan. 26-27, 2018

Venus and Adonis/ Dido and Aeneas FLORENTINE OPERA

Jan. 26-Feb. 4, 2018

Fine Arts Quartet: Farewell Concert

FESTIVAL CITY SYMPHONY

Pabst Theater Jan. 28, 2018

The Firebird (family friendly)

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Jan. 28, 2018

VISUAL ART CONTINUING

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MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM

Through Jan. 1, 2018

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Through Jan. 7, 2018

Germany after the wall came down. Directed by

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surprising and provocative weave of history, sex

Kralj and Anderson, performed by Michael Stebbins, Charlotte’s tale, like her life, is a and politics.

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Through Jan. 7, 2018

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Through Jan. 14, 2018

stage to transform the cinematic classic Seven Samurai into one rip-roaring evening

“The Little Show: CCC’s Annual Juried Exhibit”

of live physical theater. Winner of “Best Solo Performance” in D.C.

CEDARBURG CULTURAL CENTER Artistic Directors ISABELLE KRALJ and MARK ANDERSON

MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART

Through Jan. 14, 2018

“Gerit Grimm’s Fairytales: In a Time Neither Now nor Then” MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART

Through Jan. 14, 2018

“Mythologies: Eugene Von Breunchenheim” JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER

Through Jan. 14, 2018

“James Rosenquist: F-111 (South, West, North, East), 1974”

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Through Jan. 18, 2018

“Kettle Moraine Fine Arts Guild Holiday Show”

“The World Turned Upside Down: Apocalyptic Imagery in England, 1750-1850”

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“Dean Meeker: Myths and Masquerades”

“Saints and Heroes”

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“Back to School”

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“Roger Smith Drawings and Watercolors”

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Museum of Wisconsin Art For decades, West Bend’s Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA) occupied a modest dwelling for its unique collection. In 2013, it moved to a new facility: a compact, wedge-shaped structure situated on a triangular plot along the Milwaukee River designed by Milwaukee’s James Shields of HGA Architects.

Executive Director Laurie Winters believes that MOWA’s smaller scale encourages experiments. “We really like trying new things, and at the top of that list is our groundbreaking membership strategy, which has proven to be very successful,” she says. “Even more important is reducing or eliminating barriers. Museums can be expensive places, so wherever we can, we want to make it affordable or free.”

To that end, MOWA offers a large number of programs for all ages, including a wide variety of artist talks. “When we think about our master classes for adults and kids, we consider what [we can offer] that gives people an opportunity to engage in a different way,” Winters continues. “It can be everything from tie-dye to furniture re-upholstery to doll making.”

For MOWA, being situated in West Bend—or in any one place—is not enough.

“The other thing we’re doing is thinking of the museum as extended—having tentacles into different areas of the state,” Winters explains. We do a lot in Downtown Milwaukee, including MOWA on the Lake, and we did a pop-up exhibition at the Pfister Hotel. I think we’ll be doing more of that kind of thing, taking people to places where they might not have been before.”

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Racine Art Museum The Racine Art Museum boasts the nation’s largest and most significant collection of contemporary craft. This specialty marks RAM as a decidedly 21st-century institution since, not so long ago, such a focus would have been inconceivable for a “serious” art museum. “Museums in the 21st century are breaking down the hierarchies that dictated collections in the 19th and 20th centuries,” explains Bruce Pepich, RAM’s executive director and curator of collections, “There used to be the view that painting is the ‘best’ of the arts while works on paper are less important, and decorative arts are exhibited in the basement, if at all. RAM leads with decorative arts and works on paper—usually regarded as ‘poor stepchildren’ by most museums.”

RAM marshals its collection to satisfy the public’s growing curiosity about the folkways of yesteryear. “The museum thrives on adventurous displays that unite different arts from the same time period— opening a window into the past and giving viewers a taste of what it was like to live in the world of these artists and collectors,” Pepich says, making reference to RAM’s collection of 1930s art from the WPA’s (Works Progress Administration) Federal Art Project.

“Interestingly, as our world becomes more technologically oriented, there is a growing interest in hand-wrought work, like knitting and ceramics,” he continues. “Since RAM has the nation’s largest collection of contemporary crafts, we’re in a good position to exhibit these works.”

Pepich also notes changes in the ways art museums advertise in the 21st century. “Because of concerns about copyright issues, we used to prohibit photography in the galleries. Now, we actively encourage people to take pictures and to share them on social media. Museums are recognizing that this is one of the best ways to promote themselves and the artists they represent.”

—Tyler Friedman

Racoine Art Museum Bruce Pepich (BY CAMELA LANGENDORF) SHEPHERD EXPRESS FALL ARTS GUIDE ’17 •

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