A visual art exhibition featuring a diverse group of Milwaukee artists who also teach art in Milwaukee Public Schools.
Steven Madison is a Milwaukee-based artist and has been a longtime member of the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts (previously Riverwest Artist Association). In the 1970's Steve studied art at UW-Milwaukee where he majored in ceramics with a secondary focus in metals. Since then he has continued to practice his art in many different ways including large scale paintings on canvas. His primary focus in recent years has been paintings, large and small, of many different subjects from nature to his imaginings. Steve was chosen for a Solo Feature Wall exhibition in the 2025 JGCA Membership Exhibition.
Each September Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts hosts the annual Members' Exhibition. Join 40 plus artists in a fun, diverse exhibition that also builds creative community and celebrates the many voices and talents in our midst. Exhibition related events and gallery talks offer relationship building opportunities. Five exhibiting artists will be selected for artist feature Small Wall Exhibition Awards from the Members' Exhibition.
Jokes and Jazz
Jokes and Jazz is a comedy show with jazz accompaniment. This month will feature headliner Justin Leon, as well as Ethan Schenzel, Adyn Hamann, and Henry Blaney
Date: June 19
Time: 8:00
Cover: $10 ($5 Students)
Introducing our newest Small Wall Gallery feature, Bruce Pattison! Bruce Pattison (b. 1959, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) defies the labels that gallerists and critics have tried to place on his work. He has painted and drawn for decades. He studied studio art at UW Milwaukee in the 1980’s and 90’s and then exhibited in shows at St. Michael’s Waiting Room, Metropolitan Gallery, KM Art, Bay View Gallery and others.
Dialogue is an annual Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts exhibition that honors and lifts up two emerging artists immediately after their BFA exhibitions have closed. Graduating BFA students are chosen from UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School for the Arts and MIAD in an opportunity designed to support and encourage emerging artists and build a stronger community between the two largest university level arts programs in Milwaukee.
Louis Thayer Hills Memorial Exhibition and Art Sale
Interested in obtaining art from a Wisconsin-based artist? The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts will be hosting a memorial exhibition and art sale for Louis Thayer Hills. His work from various periods, and in a variety of styles and media will be displayed and for sale at the Jazz Gallery. A reception will be hosted on Friday, June 5th, from 5-8pm, and the sale will continue on Saturday, June 6th, 12-5pm.
Louis Thayer Hills (1935-2019) was an American artist who made Southeastern Wisconsin his home for the larger part of his career. His passion was painting, printmaking and later experimenting with all kinds of mediums and materials in his work. Louis was a gentleman farmer with a studio on his property near Burlington. He was a prodigious artist who was less concerned with selling during his lifetime, but more interested in creating and expression.
His early works in the 1950’s were in oil and their palette was dark and brooding. As the decades progressed, his palette lightened and his media expanded to include printmaking, drawings, acrylic and some forays into textiles and sculpture. He even collaged various materials such as maps, burlap and other commercial packaging into his later canvases.
Please join us for this art exhibition and sale pop-up event. Art work is priced to sell (larger paintings, works on paper, prints and sketchbooks). 50% of sales goes to support the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts.
Date: June 5
Time: 5-8pm
Featured Small Wall Artist Mike Brylski is a longtime Milwaukee resident, active Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts member and accomplished artist with a powerful creative voice. Brylski’s colorful assemblage/collage found object constructions possess an order and symmetry that draws the viewer in. His use of bold color, unexpected materials and marks, balanced by precise and intense organization and repetition seems to reference music or sometimes sounds in nature. His works both comfort and energize.
