ArtWalk

Welcome to our virtual ArtWalk of 2020, the 41st anniversary of this event. As with most public events during the COVID pandemic, ArtWalk, the oldest walking art tour in the state, is now online.

There would be no ArtWalk without art from our community of artists. This year, we bring you art through our annual Membership Exhibition, now on view at the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts from September 19 – November 7. We are open Saturdays from 12:00 to 5:00 PM or by appointment. Please contact us at info@jazzgallerycenterforarts.org to set up a showing (24 hours’ notice required). This exhibit can also be seen and artworks purchased on our website.

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Flourish

August 15th-September 12, 2020

Many art students get internships; some change their lives dramatically while in school. This exhibition highlights local and regional emerging artists who lived or worked for a year or more in Milwaukee area elder-care communities. There were participants in the Student Artists in Residence (SAIR) program, which has enriched the lives of art students and their elder partners by fostering a rich and deep exchange across generations, experiences, and time.

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ArtTyler RobertsArt, Exhibit
Pancakes!

Exhibition Runtime: July 13th - August 14th, 2020

Ramona Spehert-O’Gallagher is seven years old and likes to make art. Many children make amazing imaginative art, when they decide to focus on it on rare occasions or are assigned to make it by teachers or other adults. Ramona decides on her own that creating art is an important activity for her. We feel that she deserves this chance to show the world that she’s a committed artist. In this time of uncertainty, young folks like Ramona give us all hope for a brighter future.

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The Quarantine Gallery Show

Started April 1, 2020, as a Facebook Group—now installed at the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts and here on our website! This initiative has inspired and connected hundreds during these strange times.

Jay’s motivation:

To spread a little light during dark times, I have created a space to post art being made while we’re all spending a little more time at home! Professionals, Amateurs, kids, adults, ANYONE! Post your scribbles, sculptures, paintings, prints or whatever you make!

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Thom Ertl: Assemblages

Showcasing his wall art assemblages, Thom J. Ertl Designs is a hybrid of wall art and furniture. It incorporates and recycles common, everyday items—bottle caps, beads, fabric, bric-a-brac, just to name a few—into modern, artistic, practical, original home furnishings and interior design. It is a reflection of over 35 years of artistic experience, combining visual merchandising, graphic design and contemporary urban assemblage with a strong sense of whimsy and color and a thought-provoking element of surprise.

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Jay Arpin: Prints

Jay Arpin is a printmaker and jazz musician. Music and printmaking (artmaking) feed off of each other—creative, narrative, and improvisational energies are at work. Jay’s prints are powerful and intriguing, often juxtaposing incongruous elements. His portraits of musicians honor their roles and characters as jazz greats.

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Faces of Milwaukee

Exhibition Runtime: March 14th - June 4th

This exhibit was created by the sophomore Photography/ Image Technology Class students at the Milwaukee High School of the Arts (Instructor, Carrie Hoelzer) in cooperation with Instructor Leah Good from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.

Students interviewed community members they had not met before the project as well as family members.

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Beyond the Fray

EXHIBITION RUNTIME: NOVEMBER 21ST - DECEMBER 7TH, 2019

OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST, 6-9:30 PM

Presented by the Fibers Club and juried by Sarah Eichhorn, this exhibition offers a survey of textile works produced at the MIAD Textiles Lab. Join us for the opening reception! On view through December 7.

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Chain Reaction 5

Exhibition: August 3rd - September 7th, 2019

Opening Reception: August 3rd, 2019

This show represents the work of fifteen artists linked together by their reactions. Each artist had only one week to react to the artwork that was created by the person working just before them. Each reaction reveals ideas related to an artist’s personality, visual style and his or her view of the world. All of the work is connected by the shared love of making things and the willingness to find inspiration from another artist's ideas.

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Parallel Portals: Doors Unlocked

OPENING RECEPTION: JUNE 29TH, 7:00PM - 9:00PM

EXHIBITION: JUNE 29TH - JULY 27TH, 2019

Welcome to Parallel Portals. Allow us to unlock the doors for you. Glide in on whichever vehicle suits you best, be it spiritual, scientific, or recreational.

Perhaps once inside, you'll discover another vehicle... new transportation to a realm of discovery, where you’ll see what your genuine self wants to see.

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A Flock of Siegers!

Exhibition Runtime: May 11 - June 29, 2019

All of the art in this gallery was made by members' of the Sieger family. If you are born into or even just fall in love with a Sieger, you probably are at least one of the following:

  1. A chronic, incurable doodler

  2. Someone who uses rulers and mechanical pencils on a daily basis

  3. "Sorry, I have band practice later"

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Lost & Found

Exhibition: March 22nd - May 4th, 2019

Lost & Found: Mike Brylski and Brian Schneider. An ambitious display of the work of two exceptional multi-media collage artists. Now on exhibit at the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts.

Presenting the work of two artists of differing backgrounds and approaches to the often under appreciated art of collage.

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