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Mid Career and Established Solo Exhibition
Aug
27
to Sep 18
Art

Mid Career and Established Solo Exhibition

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Deadline for applications is Sunday, Sept. 15th, 202411:59pm. Jurying and notifications of artists will take place by early November, 2024. Exhibition dates will be in Spring 2025.

Dates for the solo exhibition: March 22 - May 17th, 2025 The link for application is: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftHGROapUZl_pNciKLsekvBRZeo00WkEilmr7j3v-lOjyzkQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Annual Members Show
Aug
24
to Oct 12
Art

Annual Members Show

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Group show featuring artworks created by Jazz Gallery Members. Opening Reception: Saturday, August 24th, 3-5pm. Closing Reception/Event Saturday, October 12th, 3-5pm.


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.

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Small Wall: Geornica Daniels. Under Observation
Jul
20
to Aug 17
Art

Small Wall: Geornica Daniels. Under Observation

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Geornica Daniels is a MIAD BFA alumna and current graduate student pursuing her MFA in sculpture at UW Milwaukee, Peck School of the Arts.

Daniels is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in sculpture and site-specific installation. Originally from Richmond, Virginia, she now resides in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. Her recent artistic endeavors delve into the layered histories of found objects and the representation of memory in three dimensions. She explores the visual manifestation of memory and examines how individuals reshape these recollections, either to suppress or assert control over them.

Her piece "Under Observation," crafted from floral foam and beeswax, embodies a fervent effort to preserve and scrutinize her personal narratives and history. It serves as a poignant reflection on the paradoxical nature of memory: the more intensely we observe a memory, the more it undergoes recontextualization.


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.

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Riverwest 24 Exhibition (the gallery will be open for 24 hours during RW24 race)
Jul
20
to Aug 17
Art

Riverwest 24 Exhibition (the gallery will be open for 24 hours during RW24 race)

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During RW 24 race the gallery will be a Check Point and our doors will be open for 24 hours! All riders and passers by are encouraged to stop in and see the exhibition with memorabilia and artworks inspired by RW24.

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.

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Dialogue: Two Emerging Artists 2024 Exhibition
Jun
8
5:00 PM17:00
Art

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.

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Dialogue: Two Emerging Artists 2024 Exhibition
Jun
8
to Jul 13
Art

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.

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Opening Reception. Homage: Honoring Those Who Have Come Before
Apr
13
3:00 PM15:00
Art

Opening Reception. Homage: Honoring Those Who Have Come Before

“Homage” is an art exhibition that invites the viewer to remember, reflect and renew our hopes for the future.  
Whether in recent months or decades long past, we have lost many loved ones, both individually and as members of our broader communities. But it is also springtime, a time to look to the future — in this case, by celebrating, honoring and remembering those who have come before and who have made the world a better place.
The exhibition “Homage: Honoring Those Who Have Come Before,” presents the work of established and emerging Milwaukee-area artists. The works range from the highly personal to reflections encompassing historical and ancestral themes.  

The exhibition will also include a 4-ft by 8-ft post-up board inviting visitors and community members to post personal remembrances, whether photos, poems or reflections.

Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts  is a non-profit organization serving Southeastern Wisconsin with a diverse range of visual and performing arts programming, created by a diverse community of visual and performing artists.

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Homage: Honoring Those Who Have Come Before
Apr
13
to Jun 1
Art

Homage: Honoring Those Who Have Come Before

Opening Reception — Saturday, April 13, 3 – 5 PM

“Homage” is an art exhibition that invites the viewer to remember, reflect and renew our hopes for the future.  
Whether in recent months or decades long past, we have lost many loved ones, both individually and as members of our broader communities. But it is also springtime, a time to look to the future — in this case, by celebrating, honoring and remembering those who have come before and who have made the world a better place.

The exhibition “Homage: Honoring Those Who Have Come Before,” presents the work of established and emerging Milwaukee-area artists. The works range from the highly personal to reflections encompassing historical and ancestral themes. 

In addition: “Homage Celebration” by Earth Poets, Musicians and Special Guests, Saturday, May 18, 8 p.m.

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Opening — Rainbow Rock
Feb
24
3:00 PM15:00
Art

Opening — Rainbow Rock

Elisabeth “Else” Gasparka (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and producer living in Milwaukee. The paintings in Rainbow Rock were made from 2020-present, many of them painted en plein air. The work is a return to form, an answer to the call of painting. In the act of making, Gasparka discovers a vocabulary with which to respond. These works also represent recent travels: to her mother living near Long Island Sound, a solo journey through Nordic countries including Iceland, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, and Mammoth Caves.

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Rainbow Rock
Feb
24
to Apr 6
Art

Rainbow Rock

Opening Reception — Saturday, February 24th, 2024 from 3 – 5 PM

Elisabeth “Else” Gasparka (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and producer living in Milwaukee. The paintings in Rainbow Rock were made from 2020-present, many of them painted en plein air. The work is a return to form, an answer to the call of painting. In the act of making, Gasparka discovers a vocabulary with which to respond. These works also represent recent travels: to her mother living near Long Island Sound, a solo journey through Nordic countries including Iceland, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, and Mammoth Caves.

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Hunter Louis: Head Song
Jan
13
to Feb 17
Art

Hunter Louis: Head Song

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Opening Reception — Saturday, January 13th, 2024 from 3 – 5 PM

Hunter Louis is an illustrator and printmaker based in Milwaukee, WI. Often based around human figures and characters, his work straddles graphic art, digital painting, and traditional illustration. Steeped in melancholy. unease, and dark humor, the work draws from surrealist fiction and music. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking and Narrative Forms from Peck School of the Arts (UWM).

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Ink-credible
Jan
13
to Feb 17
Art

Ink-credible

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Opening Reception — Saturday, January 13th, 2024 from 3 – 5 PM

Printmaking has often been called the most democratic of art media, as it lends itself to creating multiples that can be distributed widely, purchased inexpensively and shared with a broader audience. Printmaking, for that reason, has often been the medium of artistic resistance. The Riverwest neighborhood is home to a number of talented printmakers, studios and collective print shops. This exhibition highlights a variety of print artists work and Riverwest’s rich printmaking resources.

Exhibitions are free and open to the public.

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Opening — Ink-credible
Jan
13
12:00 PM12:00
Art

Opening — Ink-credible

Printmaking has often been called the most democratic of art media, as it lends itself to creating multiples that can be distributed widely, purchased inexpensively and shared with a broader audience. Printmaking, for that reason, has often been the medium of artistic resistance. The Riverwest neighborhood is home to a number of talented printmakers, studios and collective print shops. This exhibition highlights a variety of print artists work and Riverwest’s rich printmaking resources.

Exhibitions are free and open to the public.

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High Fiber 2023
Nov
4
to Dec 9
Art

High Fiber 2023

Opening Reception — Saturday, November 4th, 3-5pm

Southeastern Wisconsin has a strong tradition of working fiber artists and programs that foster them. Fiber artworks often bridge and break down the historic gap between traditional craft and fine arts. They create openings in interpretation, invite exploration of gendered roles/methods of making. This exhibition showcases the work of 15 invited emerging to established artists working with fibers.

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Opening — High Fiber 2023
Nov
4
3:00 PM15:00
Art

Opening — High Fiber 2023

Southeastern Wisconsin has a strong tradition of working fiber artists and programs that foster them. Fiber artworks often bridge and break down the historic gap between traditional craft and fine arts. They create openings in interpretation, invite exploration of gendered roles/methods of making. This exhibition showcases the work of 15 invited emerging to established artists working with fibers.

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Opening — Celebrate! JGCA Members Show 2023
Sep
16
6:00 PM18:00
Art

Opening — Celebrate! JGCA Members Show 2023

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Calling all visual artists, any level of experience, to be part of the annual Member’s Show of the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts. Celebrate the center’s mission as a community arts center! Each member can submit one piece of visual art — all media accepted.

Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts exhibitions are open Fridays and Saturdays, 12 noon-5pm. Gallery exhibitions are free and open to the public. All are welcome.

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Celebrate! JGCA Members Show 2023
Sep
16
to Oct 28
Art

Celebrate! JGCA Members Show 2023

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Calling all visual artists, any level of experience, to be part of the annual Member’s Show of the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts. Celebrate the center’s mission as a community arts center! Each member can submit one piece of visual art — all media accepted.

Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts exhibitions are open Fridays and Saturdays, 12 noon-5pm. Gallery exhibitions are free and open to the public. All are welcome.

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Flatten
Jul
28
to Sep 9
Art

Flatten

Opening Reception — Saturday, July 28th, 2023 from 5 – 8 PM

Flatten explores how artistic practices adapt from 3D to 2D. Sculptors have the freedom to experiment and create large works with the help of tools and studio space after graduation.

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Opening — See You/See Me
Apr
29
3:00 PM15:00
Art

Opening — See You/See Me

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Drawing, painting, printmaking, photographic and even digital self-portraits or portraits of close friends and family have been a way that artists have built their skills, pondered their own or their sitter’s humanity, captured a moment in a life, and shared a direct connection with their viewers. Portraits not only capture a likeness of the sitter but are also capable of expressing an emotional state and exploring identity.

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See You/See Me
Apr
22
to Jun 3
Art

See You/See Me

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Opening Reception — Saturday, April 29th, 2023 from 3 – 5 PM

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Drawing, painting, printmaking, photographic and even digital self-portraits or portraits of close friends and family have been a way that artists have built their skills, pondered their own or their sitter’s humanity, captured a moment in a life, and shared a direct connection with their viewers. Portraits not only capture a likeness of the sitter but are also capable of expressing an emotional state and exploring identity.

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Art As Therapy - Free Workshop
Mar
11
2:00 PM14:00

Art As Therapy - Free Workshop

Get a free sampling of the Art Therapy experience from one to four different practitioners at their tables, all ready to work with you in their own unique ways!

  • Cheryl Ray is a clinical Art Therapist

  • Mari Lynn Young is a Shamanic Healer

  • Haley Fuhr is an Art Therapy Graduate Student

  • Sharon Mergener is a Local Fine Artist using art as therapy

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Word and Image
Mar
4
to Apr 15
Art

Word and Image

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Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts presents the work of a group of artists who work and collaborate with writing and visual art in a show entitled "Word and Image".

"Language is a powerful tool. And no one understands that better than artists who thoughtfully utilize text to make a statement and draw out emotion."

– Jessica Stewart.

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Small Wall: Art As Therapy
Feb
18
to Mar 11
Art

Small Wall: Art As Therapy

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Get a free sampling of the Art Therapy experience from one to four different practitioners at their tables, all ready to work with you in their own unique ways!

  • Cheryl Ray is a clinical Art Therapist

  • Mari Lynn Young is a Shamanic Healer

  • Haley Fuhr is an Art Therapy Graduate Student

  • Sharon Mergener is a Local Fine Artist using art as therapy

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