Jazz Gallery’s annual membership show. All active members are welcome to submit their artwork.
Deadline to Apply: September 15th, 2025
Milwaukee artists showcase their visual and musical creations in a unique exhibition/performance collaboration at the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, in Riverwest.
Make Music Day!
The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts will be opening their doors to the public for Make Music Day Milwaukee on June 21st from 2-10 pm. All ages, free.
Come and explore electronic and percussive instruments, music production, sequencing, have a chance to meet local Milwaukee electronic music vendors, demonstrations, beat-making, sampling, tape loops and free improvisation. The Out There Series will have a music production table set up outside to jam and will offer an outdoor group sound walk. All are welcome to stay for the evening concert.
Ring in the Summer Solstice with a worldwide day of music making!
2-4 pm Play & Explore: Electronics, Sampling, Synths
Vendors:
Lorna Dune - Ableton, synths, samples, beats
RJ Mann - Golfshoe synths, drum machines
Mike Coakley - Voltage & Co synths and drum machines
Martin Defatte - Ableton Move samples and music production
4-6 pm Experiment & Learn: Tape Loops & Improv Techniques
Presenters:
4-4:30 pm Martin Defatte - Tape Loops
5-5:30 pm Rick Ollman - Improv Techniques
6-6:30 pm Outdoor Group Sound Walk
Presenters:
John Larkin and the Out There Series
8-10 pm Concert
Participants: Out There Series, Milwaukee Synth Meet, Golfshoe Studios, Ableton Milwaukee User Group, Voltage & Company
Instrumental music can influence mood and feelings, particularly jazz. How can this inform our writing?
May we play around and find out about this magic ourselves. In this series Jazz It Up in collaboration with Jazz Gallery, we will see, or rather hear, how jazz music affects what is produced on the page. Art off of art, ekphrastic in ways. Tune into a sense that often gets neglected as a poet's muse.
What could this sound like? Well, local MKE jazz artists will play a song (or two) live whether improv or created prior. During, poets will write. There will be specific prompts for further guidance.
$125 for all 8 workshops in series or $25 per workshop ($25 for whole workshop series for students, vets, and those in need). Hybrid option available.
Please sign up with QR code above or contact yetskd09@gmail.com
For this annual exhibition JGCA invites two recent BFA grads, one from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and one from UWM Peck School of the Arts to participate in a two-person exhibition and related programming. This opportunity is designed as important encouragement and professional opportunities to two emerging Milwaukee artists as they transition from student to professional life.
