Gallery Hours are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday afternoons, 12-5 PM
OR by appointment, contact us at info@jazzgallerycenterforarts.org
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Exhibition
July 26th, 2025 – September 13th, 2025
Opening Reception
Saturday, July 26th, 2025 from 2 – 5 PM
Second Muse: Inspiration's Multiple Manifestations
Creating art at a high level is difficult enough in a single medium…but TWO? That’s the challenge fulfilled by participants in “Second Muse: Inspiration’s Multiple Manifestations” at the historic Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts (JGCA) in Milwaukee’s vibrant Riverwest neighborhood July 26 – September 13.
This intriguing and unique collaboration will bring together five Milwaukee artists, showcasing both their visual and musical creations across a wide range of styles. The show kicks off with a very special opening reception and performance on Saturday, July 26 from 2 until 5 pm that will include over two hours of music by the exhibition’s participants:
Ed Barth (printmaking and book arts) and Robert Mercer (oil painting and animation) from Pecking Order (Harrison Warren, also from Pecking Order, will be showing a video during the opening musical performance).
David DaSilva, primarily a block printmaker at his studio in Riverwest, and a player in the band The Paper Flames.
Steve Nelson-Raney, solo piano player and saxophonist, infuses the improvised, visceral and muscular quality of jazz into his visual art, which makes perfect sense since he co-founded the Jazz Studies Department at UWM (he retired from UWM in 2011).
Steph Siegman, whose “Wax Cherubs” music and illustration project produces a dreamy constellation of dissonance, fantasy and plunderphonics.
Both the July 26 opening/performance and subsequent gallery hours (Thursday, Friday and Saturdays from noon until 5 pm) and free and open to the public.
And here’s an extra incentive for coming to the show opening on July 26: you can watch the exciting conclusion to the annual Riverwest 24 bike race, which wraps up twenty-four hours of racing at 7 pm.