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Art, museum exhibits in Kenosha, Racine counties this week

Cultural institutions across Kenosha and Racine counties in Wisconsin have announced their exhibition schedules and public hours for the week of April 9, 2026. Featured venues include the Anderson Arts Center, the Carthage College Art Gallery, and the Kenosha Public Museum, which continues to showcase its permanent collection including "The Wisconsin Story" and "Mammoths at the Museum." Local galleries such as Lemon Street Gallery and OS Projects are also hosting open hours for the public to engage with regional contemporary art.

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Linguistics

The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) announced a lecture by linguist Dr. Salikoko S. Mufwene, exploring the evolution of language and symbols, alongside an exhibition of Gelsy Verna's artwork "Mother, Father, Please Help Me" (May 7–September 27, 2026). Verna, a Haitian-born Canadian artist and former University of Wisconsin–Madison professor, created the piece as a palimpsest over several years in collaboration with David Dunlap; the reverse side has been reproduced for display. MMoCA has added the work to its permanent collection.

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MOWA hosting new landscape exhibition for America’s 250th

The Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA) in West Bend is presenting a new exhibition titled "The American Landscape: Beyond the Horizon" from Saturday through July 19, in celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. The show brings together works from MOWA’s permanent collection and select loans, spanning the 19th century to the 2020s, to examine how artists have interpreted Wisconsin’s landscape through painting, photography, and sculpture, highlighting native voices and immigrant narratives.

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Miller Art Museum Announces Student Award-Winners

The Miller Art Museum in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, announced the award winners of the 52nd-annual Salon of Door County High School Art at a free public reception on April 6. The exhibition features original artwork by 105 students from five local high schools—Gibraltar, Sevastopol, Southern Door, Sturgeon Bay, and Washington Island. Awards of Excellence were given to Abigail DeMeuse, Lilian Saltou, Audrie Schley, Rowan Ploor, and Thomas Pratt, while honorable mentions went to Molly Virlee, Lola Georgenson, Angelina LeCloux Herrera, Ryan Felhofer, and Teagan McGrane. Gianna Roman of Sevastopol won the fourth-annual Jim Rericha Legacy Award, named after a longtime art teacher, which included a $100 cash prize. The museum also announced a Potter’s Panel on May 9 featuring master potters discussing the legacy of Abraham Cohn, and the return of its Art and Treasures fundraiser starting May 30.

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Nature photography exhibit now open at Mason City art museum

The Charles H. MacNider Art Museum in Mason City has opened a solo exhibition titled "Ray Colby: Nature Photographer" in its Kinney-Lindstrom Gallery. The show features digital photographs printed on canvas, focusing on three specific themes: backyard insects and arachnids of the Midwest, urban birds from Minneapolis, and migrating Sandhill Cranes in Wisconsin. The works on display will be sold via auction to benefit the museum's programming.

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Showcasing lasting art

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater's Crossman Gallery recently hosted the BA & BSE Senior Show, a showcase of diverse artworks created by graduating students. The exhibition featured a wide range of mediums, including photography, painting, sculpture, and print design, highlighting the creative versatility of the senior class. The event served as a professional milestone for students, allowing them to navigate the gallery submission process and network with faculty and the community.

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Philadelphia Museum of Art Names Katherine Anne Paul as the Newly Appointed Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has appointed Katherine Anne Paul as the Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art, a role named after the pioneering scholar and curator. Paul previously served as Assistant and Associate Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art at the PMA from 2002 to 2008, and most recently held the Virginia and William M. Spencer III Curator of Asian Art position at the Birmingham Museum of Art, where she also served as Lead Curator. She holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and has curated notable exhibitions including "Silver & Ceremony from Southern Asia 1830–1930" and "Expanding Darshan: Manjari Sharma, To See and Be Seen."

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New art exhibition of large-scale wool felt sculptures on display at SJU

Artist Nicole Havekost has opened a solo exhibition titled "Totemic" at the Alice R. Rogers and Target Gallery at Saint John's University. The show features large-scale wool felt sculptures, ranging from six to ten feet tall, that explore the human body's dichotomy between controlled and uncontrollable elements. The figurative works, which lack heads, hands, and feet, evoke themes of mothering, caretaking, and exhaustion.

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article local schedule Jan 15, 2026 visibility 15 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

The Phoenix and Hesterly Black galleries host art openings Jan. 16 & 23

The Phoenix Gallery and Music Hall in Burlington, Vermont, will host the exhibition “Sensual Turns” opening January 23, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. The show features new work by guest curator and featured artist Elizabeth Powell, alongside pieces by artists Jenny Kemp and Bonnie Morano. Powell, a painter and printmaker, holds an MA and MFA from the University of Iowa and has exhibited at Kishka Gallery and Hexum Gallery. Morano, based in Brooklyn, earned an MFA from Hunter College and has been selected for the XL Catlin Artist Prize. Kemp, a 2015 NYFA Fellowship recipient, has shown work nationally and internationally.

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“Water’s Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe” Opens Nov. 25 at the National Museum of the American Indian

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., will open “Water’s Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe” on November 25, 2025, running through January 2027. This is the first major retrospective of Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk) artist Truman Lowe (1944–2019), featuring nearly 50 sculptures, drawings, and paintings from public and private collections, including 28 from the museum’s own holdings. The exhibition is organized around four themes—Moving Water, The Land Holds Memory, Woodland Structures, and Memory and Shared Knowledge—highlighting Lowe’s use of natural materials like willow branches and feathers to evoke the waterways and woodlands of his Wisconsin upbringing.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 12, 2025 visibility 8 link 2 artists

Trout Museum exhibit and lecture hall honor Li Hu’s legacy at UW-Oshkosh and beyond

The Trout Museum of Art in Appleton, Wisconsin, opened a retrospective exhibition and named a lecture hall in honor of Li Hu, the late UW-Oshkosh emeritus art professor. The event, titled "A Tribute to Li Hu: Celebrating a Visionary Legacy," included a ribbon cutting for the Li Hu Lecture Hall, a panel discussion featuring former students and colleagues, and an exhibition of Hu's sculptural and painted works spanning his career. Hu, who died in 2016, was born in Shanghai, survived the Cultural Revolution, earned a degree from Shanghai University Fine Arts College, and moved to the U.S. in the early 1990s before teaching at UW-Oshkosh for nearly two decades. The exhibition is on view through January 4, 2026.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 29, 2025 visibility 10 link 2 artists

UM Museum Announces Fall 2025 Exhibitions

The University of Montana's Montana Museum of Art and Culture (MMAC) will present three solo exhibitions by Montana artists this fall: Sara Mast's "Standing in the River" (opening Oct. 16), Manette Rene Bradford's "Unsettled Lands" (opening Nov. 13), and a posthumous show for Rand Robbin (opening Dec. 4). The exhibitions span painting, glass sculpture, collage, drawing, and printmaking, with each artist offering a distinct perspective on landscape, nature, and Montana's artistic traditions.

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Above & Beyond, Wisconsin folk artist will explore Mexican immigrant experience in next cultural exhibit

Above & Beyond Children's Museum (ABCM) in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, will host a listening session on May 4, 2025, as it prepares the second iteration of its Culture Exchange Exhibit, this time focusing on the Mexican immigrant experience. The museum is partnering with Gabriela Marván, a Mexican artist from Viroqua and co-founder of the Mexican Folk Art Collective, who specializes in cartonería (paper sculpture). Marván will create monumental alebrijes, an ofrenda altar, and papel picado for the exhibit, which will be installed in November. The project also includes workshops, Aztec dance, bilingual story times, and loteria games, aiming to engage visitors in Mexican folk traditions over several years.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 19, 2026 visibility 4 link 5 artists

Landscape and Imagery Help MOWA Celebrate the Country’s 250th Birthday

The Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA) in West Bend has opened a new exhibition titled "The American Landscape: Beyond the Horizon," celebrating the role of Wisconsin artists in capturing the state's contributions to the United States ahead of the country's 250th birthday. The show features over 60 works, 60% from the museum's permanent collection and 40% borrowed from artists and collectors, including pieces by John Stuart Curry, Lois Ireland, Georgia O'Keeffe, Native American artists like Helen Lonetree and Lila Greengrass Blackdeer, and contemporary works by incarcerated artist M. Winston. Guest curator Rafael Salas, a professor at Ripon College, also includes three of his own works.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 11, 2026 visibility 14 link 6 artists

Presenting a Summer Showcase Featuring Local Artists and a Reflection on America’s 250th Birthday

The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University in Milwaukee announces a summer 2026 season featuring three exhibitions: the Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists 2025, showcasing five local artists; After the Empire: American Prints from the Haggerty Collection, examining American identity through satire and social commentary; and Defying Empire: Revolutionary Prints from Britain and America, challenging traditional narratives of the American Revolution. The exhibitions run from June 4 to August 1, 2026, with the Nohl Fellowship co-presented with the Lynden Sculpture Garden.

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Capture the Senses: Attraction and Horror in Early Modern Art // Haggerty

The Haggerty Museum at Marquette University will present 'Capture the Senses: Attraction and Horror in Early Modern Art' from August 22 to December 20, 2025. The exhibition draws from the museum's own collection to explore how Early Modern artists combined aesthetic pleasure with terrifying subject matter, featuring works by Albrecht Dürer, Ferdinand Bol, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and Francesco Solimena. Curated by Kirk Nickel, the show examines themes such as the end times, human sacrifice, imperial decay, and fate, using paintings, prints, and sculpture from Europe and the Americas between the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution.

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article local schedule Feb 9, 2026 visibility 12 link 1 artist, 3 galleries

Local art gallery to open new music venue in Oshkosh

Jambalaya Arts Inc., a non-profit art gallery in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is expanding by opening a dedicated music venue called The Jamb on High Avenue. The new space, set for a soft opening at the end of March, will host live music events, allowing the gallery to stop the labor-intensive process of converting its existing Main Street gallery for performances.

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Saad Khan Archives the Detritus of Censored Culture

Saad Khan, a New York-based archivist, has developed Khajistan, an expansive digital and physical archive dedicated to preserving censored and overlooked mass media from South Asia to the Maghreb. The collection features a diverse array of ephemera, including homoerotic imagery, working-class street posters, and banned magazines that are often erased from official cultural records. By documenting everything from WhatsApp forwards to vintage film posters, Khan creates a space where the lived experiences of queer, trans, and working-class individuals in these regions are validated and archived.

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article local schedule Dec 3, 2025 visibility 8 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

Senior Art Exhibition “Yours Truly”

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (UWL) is presenting "Yours Truly," a senior art exhibition featuring work by graduating art and art education majors. The show, on view from November 21 to December 14, 2025, in the University Art Gallery at the Lowe Center for the Arts, includes paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media pieces developed over the Fall 2025 semester in the capstone course ART 498: Professional Practices and Exhibition, taught by Assistant Professor Joshua Doster. Fourteen student artists—including Gracie Acklam, Sarah Hermann, Avery Wilson, and others—display their final projects, with artist talks scheduled on select December dates.

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article local schedule May 14, 2026 visibility 10 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

Plum Bottom Hosts Outdoor Art Show

Plum Bottom Gallery in Egg Harbor, Wisconsin, will host its annual outdoor art show on Memorial Day weekend, May 23–24, 2025, from 11 am to 4 pm. The event features sculpture, glass, painting, jewelry, and mixed media works by a roster of nationally collected artists, with featured artists Sue Pruss, Rose Kleman, and Curtis Hall appearing on Saturday. The gallery has also recently added Wisconsin-based photographer Tommy Nigbor to its artist roster, known for his minimalist landscapes and rural scenes.

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article local schedule Sep 18, 2025 visibility 11 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

Peninsula School of Art Hosts Ingwersen Gallery Open House

Peninsula School of Art (PenArt) is hosting a free open house at the Ingwersen Studio and Gallery in Sister Bay, Wisconsin, on October 11, 2025, to honor the late James Ingwersen and his wife Phyllis, who donated the 40-acre property to PenArt earlier this year. The event will include tours of the historic buildings and opportunities to meet staff and board members. Separately, PenArt has announced the return of its Family Art Days program for the fall season, featuring hands-on projects inspired by artists Jodi Rose Gonzales and Abigail Hedley, and has appointed four new members to its Board of Directors: Rebecca Carlton, Marsella Fults, Mynn Lanphier, and Monique McClean.

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Art, museum exhibits in Kenosha, Racine counties this week

This article provides a weekly listing of art and museum exhibits in Kenosha and Racine counties in Wisconsin, including details on hours, locations, and current or permanent exhibitions. Featured venues include the Anderson Arts Center, Artists Gallery, Carthage College Art Gallery, Civil War Museum, Dinosaur Discovery Museum, Kenosha History Center, Kenosha Public Museum, Lemon Street Gallery, OS Projects, and Photographic Design Gallery & Framing.

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Manitowoc Rahr-West offers monthly summer gallery tours with experts

The Rahr-West Art Museum in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, is offering free, monthly drop-in gallery tours throughout summer 2026, led by museum staff and guest experts. Tours include sessions on the art of David Roberts, recent acquisitions, salon-style installations, and a local artists exhibition, with no registration required. Additionally, docent-led tours of the historic Vilas-Rahr Mansion will be available on Thursdays from June through September.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 13, 2026 visibility 11 link 2 artists

'The Art Thingy Part 1' imagines world where artists run art markets

Curators Maureen Ragalie and John Brogan have launched "The Art Thingy Part 1," a one-day experimental exhibition at Task Creative in Cudahy, Wisconsin. Featuring works by five artists—Heidi Parkes, Julie Brogan, Meg Lionel Murphy, Anita Ragusa, and Phoenix S. Brown—the show is framed as a "notes-app inspired experiment" that envisions an art market governed by creators rather than traditional institutional gatekeepers.

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museum exhibitions schedule Aug 21, 2025 visibility 11 link 3 artists

In Milwaukee, Four Artists Unravel Trauma to Move Toward Collective Wellness

An exhibition titled 'No One Knows All It Takes' opens at the Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee, featuring four artists—Bryana Bibbs, Raoul Deal, Maria Gaspar, and Swoon—who use their work to address concealed trauma and its connection to collective wellness. Curated by Colossal, the show includes Bibbs’ weavings made while caring for her dying grandparents, Deal’s portraits and sculptures exploring immigration, Swoon’s installation confronting her mother’s addiction, and Gaspar’s interactive series on incarceration in Wisconsin.

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article local schedule Jul 9, 2025 visibility 15 link 3 artists

New art exhibit showcases local artist's nostalgic portrayals of La Crosse landmarks

A new art exhibit at the Pump House Regional Arts Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin, features the work of local artist John Smith, who creates nostalgic paintings of iconic La Crosse landmarks. The show, titled 'Memories of La Crosse,' includes depictions of the historic Riverside Park bandshell, the Cass Street Bridge, and other beloved sites, rendered in a warm, impressionistic style that evokes the city's past.

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Racine Art Museum to host 17th annual PEEPS exhibition in April

The Racine Art Museum (RAM) in Wisconsin is preparing to launch its 17th annual PEEPS exhibition on April 1, 2026. This quirky community-driven show invites artists of all ages to create dioramas, sculptures, and paintings using or depicting the iconic marshmallow candies. To accommodate growing interest, the museum is moving the exhibition to its larger first-floor gallery and will feature a special installation by Chicago-based artist Andrea Jablonski.

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Racine Art Museum exhibition brings children’s jewelry designs to life

The Racine Art Museum (RAM) opens a new exhibition, 'Designed by Me: Imagined Jewelry Realized,' on September 10, 2025, featuring jewelry pieces designed by local children ages 5 to 18 and crafted by Rasmussen Diamonds, a Racine-based jeweler celebrating its 125th anniversary. Winning designers Leo Philipp, Cali Jacobs, and Savannah Yanakowicz had their drawings transformed into fine jewelry by goldsmiths Laura Istvanek and Lizzie Spankowski, with the original drawings displayed alongside the finished pieces. The exhibition runs through October 4, after which the three winning pieces will be auctioned to benefit charities chosen by the young designers: Kindred Kitties, Wisconsin Humane Society, and Rescue Outreach.

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article local schedule May 7, 2026 visibility 16 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

Sheboygan welcomes its visual artist gallery

Sheboygan Visual Artists, founded in 2007 by artists Frank Juarez and Dale Knack, has opened a new gallery at 534 S Pier Dr in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The gallery features community outreach programs like Kaleidoscope, which offers free art workshops for children and adults in shelters, foster care, and the county juvenile detention center, and provides scholarships for local high school graduates. Current programming includes the "Rhythm and Beats" exhibit, judged by Lakeland students and graduates, running from April 24 to May 24.

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Cedarburg Art Museum announces summer exhibitions

The Cedarburg Art Museum in Wisconsin has announced its summer exhibition lineup, running from April 30 through October 4. Featured shows include "Deeply Rooted: Small Family Farms," a photography exhibition by Cedarburg native Leslie Witte documenting life on her family’s farm; "This is Cedarburg," a display of landscape and plein air works from the museum’s permanent collection; the annual juried exhibition "America: A Wisconsin Perspective," showcasing artists from across the state; and outdoor sculptures by local artist Dan Grunst on the museum grounds.

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