visual arts

Over the past generation, Black women have been at the vanguard of defining Milwaukee’s art scene — even if they haven’t always been recognized for the work. This week, we’re meeting the women and hearing their stories.

Local craft clubs offer third spaces to get out and get creative.

Did you know there’s treasure hiding in plain sight at Milwaukee’s beaches? Beach glass is broken glass that has been smoothed and frosted over time by tumbling in the freshwater waves and sand.

Antoine Carter speaks about gardening, public art, philanthropy and his plan to build apartment buildings on vacant lots near Milwaukee’s Moody Park.

Brenda Cárdenas is Wisconsin’s newest poet laureate. As the state’s ambassador for poetry, the Milwaukee native hopes to inspire creativity through workshops, projects and meeting with young people.

Artist-in-Residence Hattie Grimm is the creator of the Charles Allis Art Museum’s new art exhibit called “BIRD BODY”. The exhibit features 20 wooden paintings and sculptures that she says explore “our bodies' intuitive wisdom.”

There's much more to the Wisconsin 4-H program than learning how to raise livestock. We explore the expressive arts program with specialist Jay Johnson.

Kitchen helped expand underground comics through a long career as illustrator, publisher and defender of other artists.

Next year, Jeff Morin will celebrate ten years as the president of the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design – known as MIAD.

A new exhibit called “Dynamic Range” at the Haggerty Museum of Art features photographs by Bill Tennessen that capture a wide range of scenes documenting Milwaukee's Black community from the 1980s to the early 2000s.