MARN Mentors

Friday, May 1 through Saturday, May 30, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, May 1, 2009, 5–9pm

To strengthen the network of support for artists, provide in-depth professional resources and to contribute to the health of Wisconsin 's arts community, MARN created MARN mentors specifically for visual artists, literary artists, filmmakers and arts administrators in the Milwaukee area. MARN acts as a liaison between established working artists and administrators and those who are pursuing a career in the arts.MARN and its Mentors believe it is essential to Milwaukee 's art community that we cultivate relationships among our artists, and provide opportunities that encourage emerging artists to stay and work in Milwaukee.

For more information visit the MARN Mentors webpage:

http://www.marnonline.com/arts-resources/2008-mentors.htm

Annual Members Show

Friday, June 5 through July 2, 2009

Opening Reception: Friday, June 5, 5–9pm

For nearly two decades WPCA has offered its members the opportunity to exhibit their work in an annual Members Show. As one of our most exciting exhibitions, this democratic, salon-style show brings together nearly 70 artists at various points of their careers, of diverse backgrounds, and working in a wide range of media and styles. Annual Members Show reveals a rich variety of “art worlds” that constitute Wisconsin art scene. While creative passion and drive to make art are the common threads connecting those diverse “worlds,” our exhibition also reveals variety of motivations and reasons that fuel them. It is a unique opportunity to celebrate and foster the democratic nature of creativity.

Regan Golden & Jennifer Harris

Decorative Directive

Friday, July 24 through August 22, 2009

Opening Reception: Summer Gallery Night, Friday, July 24, 5–9pm

The interests of Jennifer Harris, a metal-smith and industrial designer, and Regan Golden, a visual artist trained in drawing and painting, converge where art and design, the domestic and the public, the hand-made and the industrial, the orderly and the chaotic intersect. This space allows both artists to explore how different notions of femininity manifest themselves in our material culture. Working with labor-intensive processes traditionally associated with feminine craft work, such as cutting, pinning and sewing, both artists create highly elaborate and ornamental – but at the same time highly unstable – works. While on one hand these works question traditional feminine values inherited from the past, they are at the same time nostalgic for the by-gone culture of individual touch and gesture. The wallpaper, the lace curtain and the tablecloth are used as emblems of this ambiguous, contradictory attitude.