Gallery Hours are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday afternoons, 12 – 5 PM
Opening Reception
Saturday, June 8, 2024 5 – 7 PM
Exhibition
June 8th – July 13th, 2024
Dialogue: Two Emerging Artists 2024 Exhibition
This new annual exhibition invites two recent BFA grads, one from MIAD 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 artists as they transition from student to professional life.
Programming during the exhibition will include artist talks, gallery talk with Older Wiser Local (OWL) also open to the public and possible hands-on workshops for community or exhibition related programming (depending upon the artists included). Other possible opportunities for the two artists will be encouraged/connections made with additional exhibition venues, residencies, visiting artist talks, etc.
This year’s selected artists are:
Dora Peregrine - Dora Peregrine (any pronouns) is an artist and recent BFA graduate of UW-Milwaukee, Peck School of the Arts with a dual emphasis in Painting & Drawing and Printmaking & Book Arts. The Village, the title for their current body of work, centers a canon of folklore that Peregrine constructed as an investigation of human nature and existentialism. As they explore the breadth of life in all its tragedy and ecstasy, the villagers depicted fall in love, tell secrets, grieve, have regrets, make art, bury the dead, betray people they love, try to live forever, move away from home, and cook meals.
Peregrine is currently a resident artist at House of Rad where they are excited to continue their pursuits post-graduation. Aside from their artistic practices, Dora works as an orchestra strings technician and enjoys cycling and beach combing along Lake Michigan.
Allison Billingsley - Allison Billingsley is an artist and recent BFA graduate from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She is a versatile portrait photographer notable for her use of the cyanotype process. Through extensive research and experimentation with variations on cyanotype,involving bleaching and toning, she discovered the potential of tricolor cyanotypes. The resulting body of work imbues her portraits with a variety of color and tones not found in direct cyanotype images.
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts (JGCA) is a non-profit organization serving Southeastern Wisconsin with a wide range of visual and performing arts programming, created by a diverse community of visual and performing artists. At JGCA we provide opportunities to create, present, and experience the arts.