Opening Reception — Saturday, March 22, 2025, from 4–6 PM

Opening Reception — Saturday, March 22, 2025, from 4–6 PM

3:33am, a solo exhibition of works by Kierston Ghaznavi, invites the audience to step into the space between dreams and waking life, a liminal hour rich with symbolism and personal exploration. Inspired by the numerological meaning of 3:33—trusting intuition, embracing creativity, and fostering personal growth—this exhibition reflects Kierston Ghaznavi’s journey through grief, dreams, and self-discovery.

Opening Reception — Saturday, January 18, 2025, from 4–6 PM

Lavender & Green Carnation delves into the rich history and enduring significance of symbols that have quietly connected and empowered the LGBTQ+ community, especially during periods of societal or political repression. By exploring these queer symbols and the symbolism used in an artist's story telling, Lavender & Green Carnation not only honors their historical significance but also prompts us to consider how we can draw on these lessons of resilience and solidarity in today's shifting political climate.

Opening Reception — Saturday, January 18, 2025, from 4–6 PM

Sea Heart / Beach Garbage is a collection of doodle collages made during winter when colors are rare and visible life even rarer. Milwaukee Artist Victoria Robison is inspired by plants visited under microscopes, beachcombing, and hoarding tendencies as well as a desire to color in lines of her own creation. Together these pieces constitute an adult coloring book written by lonely amoebas reaching for signs of spring.

Exhibition

November 30th 2024 – December 14th, 2024

Special Hours

Sunday, December 1st, 2024 from 12 – 5 PM

Opening Reception — Friday, October 18th, 2024 from 4 – 6 PM

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A group exhibition of receently censored artworks in Milwaukee. Artists include Sue Bietila, Amal Azzam, Nayfa Naji, Seth Ter Haar, Barbara Reinhart.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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In this exhibit, Cities and Souls, artists and poets examine the phenomenon of urbanity and how it shapes spaces and souls.

This exhibition is free and open to the public.

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).

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.

Please join us for the opening reception — Saturday, November 11th, 2023 from 3 – 5 PM

Artwork is located in the Small Wall Exhibition space at the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts.

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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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.

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.

Opening Reception — Saturday, June 10th, 2023 from 3 – 6 PM

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This juried exhibition is a celebration of the contribution artists over sixty continue to make to uor community's cultural life, featuring artwork in a wide variety of subject matter and mediums.