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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Artwork is located in the Small Wall Exhibition space at the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
With music by the Don Linke Trialog jazz trio!
Featuring the work of five photographers: Autumn Elizabeth Clark, Michael Lagerman, Angelica Rocha, Naomi Shersty, and Larry Tuckman. Also on display in our Small Wall gallery area, the artwork of jazz guitarist Don Linke.
(Older. Wiser. Local) is a public service program, created by the Jazz Gallery center for the Arts, and funded by Bader Philanthropies. Our purpose is to enrich local senior citizens (50 and up) with a wide variety of topics, including art. This exhibition focuses on the artistic creations made within our time, as we have gathered together since 2018.
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 11 invited emerging to established artists working with fibers.
Announcing our Annual Membership Exhibition: open to all visual artists of any level of skill and experience. We are encouraging you to be a part of our annual Membership Exhibition. Each member can bring in one piece of visual art for this exhibit. All media is accepted. Membership is required to be included in this exhibition.
Membership supports the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts and our mission as a community art center. Individual Membership is $20, family and business memberships are $30. Pay on our website using PayPal, or in person when dropping off work.
This body of work was created by the Rising Artist Council program managed by lead artist Abigail Ziesemann with supervision from Program Director John Kowalczyk.
Rising Artist Council is a group of middle and high school students that meets every week to grow their creative skills through the execution of a variety of projects. This season, participants focused on storytelling and created zines, characters, comics, maps, and more.
The Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts will feature the work of five recent gradates from the visual art programs at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.
The artworks of these fives artists focus on abstraction with three dimensional elements and other unique approaches to artmaking.
Featured Artists: Olivia Ann Tharpgeorge (UWM), Jimmy Cobb (MIAD), Nadia Alkhun (UWM), Kya Harris (MIAD), Sarah Gerbasi (MIAD).
This lively Fine Art Exhibition includes a wide variety of Art Mediums:
Linocut Print | Sculpture | Comic-Book Illustration | Photography | Assemblage Box-Making | Encaustic | Pastels | Screen Print | Painting | Digital Drawing
In recent years, Milwaukee has seen a Renaissance in public mural art. The new diversity of locations and approaches has transformed parts of the city into art destinations.
