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Sunday, June 4
ARTventures are an opportunity for convention participants to stretch their legs and explore Milwaukee and its surrounding communities. Experience area neighborhoods through tours guided by local experts and learn how different communities are using the arts to improve the quality of life for their residents and visitors. ARTventures will take place on Sunday, June 4, 2006, 2:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated.* All tours will begin at the Midwest Airlines Center and end at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center.
Tour #1: Racine: Arts and Cultural Renaissance on the Lake
*This tour will return to Milwaukee by 7:00 p.m.
Racine has long been recognized worldwide for its Frank Lloyd Wright-designed and influenced arts and architecture, and the New York Times recently featured Racine as a city that’s reinventing itself as an artist colony. The tour will include stops at the Wright-designed SC Johnson Administration Center and the Golden Rondelle Theater, created as the SC Johnson Pavilion for the 1964 New York World’s Fair. Participants will also get a peek at the local Dale Chihuly sculpture commissioned by Johnson Bank. The tour will conclude with a flourish at the hub of the city’s downtown renaissance—the new Racine Art Museum, which houses one of the most significant collections of contemporary craft in North America.
Tour #2: Ten Chimneys: The Home of Theatrical Legends Lunt and Fontanne
*This tour will return to Milwaukee by 7:00 p.m.
From the 1930s through the 1960s, Ten Chimneys was the summer home and cherished retreat of the most revered acting team in American theater history, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The duo came home to Wisconsin after their national and international tours, often joined by theatrical friends such as Laurence Olivier, Noel Coward, Katherine Hepburn, and Helen Hayes. A lovingly restored, living monument to theater and the arts located 25 miles west of Milwaukee in rural Genesee Depot, Ten Chimneys is a unique historic treasure and a national arts and educational center. Tour participants will have the opportunity to explore the main house, in which the interiors and décor remain as they did when Lunt and Fontanne lived here. Familiarity with Lunt and Fontanne is not necessary for the tour to be inspirational and relevant—volunteer docents share stories from their own perspective, offering unique insights into the couple, the interiors and collections of their estate, as well as 20th-century theater and world history.
Tour #3: Arts, Industry, and Creativity in Sheboygan and Kohler
*This tour will return to Milwaukee by 8:00 p.m.
This visit to Sheboygan will give participants a taste of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, a vibrant community-based center for performing and visual arts education, forms, and ideas that impact the lives of both artists and the public. Even the bathrooms are works of art! This ARTventure will also include a stop at the Kohler Company for a tour of the Arts/Industry residency program, undoubtedly one of the most unusual ongoing collaborations between art and industry in the United States. The program makes industrial technologies and facilities available to artists through long-term residencies, short-term workshops, tours, and other programming. Created in 1974, the primary component of the Arts/Industry program is a residency at the Kohler Company, the nation's leading manufacturer of plumbing ware. Tour participants will have the opportunity to interact with program artists.
Tour #4: Regional Arts in the 21st Century: A Model from Suburban Milwaukee
(Title for registration form: Suburban Milwaukee)
*This tour will return to Milwaukee by 7:00 p.m.
The Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, a new arts center in suburban Brookfield, just west of Milwaukee, is a national model for regional arts cooperation and collaboration that has established partnerships with Milwaukee and local organizations and serves as a civic and educational resource for the community. Gain perspective and insights into the changing physical and cultural landscape in our country through discussion and conversations with the people who work in and care about the arts center and the community.
Tour #5: Riverworks Business Park: An Emerging Arts Neighborhood
Urban industrial parks come alive when they exist along the boundaries of a city’s most arts-focused neighborhoods. This ARTventure tour will enable participants to meet several of the artists and experience the design businesses that have availed themselves of affordable, well-located industrial buildings in the Riverworks Business Park, currently and continuously reinventing itself as a home for creative entrepreneurs. The tour will start at the Nut Factory, a converted factory building that houses artist studios and businesses; then proceed to artist Richard Taylor’s public art design studio; and end with a tour and reception at Flux Design, a multipurpose, award-winning design firm offering a cutting edge business interior showcasing the diverse talents and interests of its designers trained in a variety of mediums and disciplines.
Tour #6: RiverWest: An Active Gathering Place in Milwaukee
Walking tour—all locations within six blocks
In every city there are neighborhoods that over time become creative, active gathering places filled with artists, co-op groceries, creative small businesses, and artist studios. In Milwaukee, it's RiverWest, long viewed as one of the city’s most diverse residential neighborhoods. Tour participants will visit some of RiverWest’s cultural and creative gems. The first stop will be a literary reading at Woodland Pattern Book Center, a more than 25-year-old poetry center and bookshop that brings nationally and internationally known writers to town for readings and workshops. The tour will also include a visit to the studio of Jason Yi, an artist and Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design professor; the Art Bar, a local bar/gallery with a mission to provide affordable art in its gallery and arts programming several nights a week; and end with a reception in the sculpture garden at the Hotcakes Gallery, described as one of the hottest new galleries at Art Chicago 2005.
Tour #7: Diverse Voices and Re-emerging Histories: Milwaukee's African-American Past, Present, and Future
Milwaukee’s historic Martin Luther King Drive business district, Brewers Hill, and Bronzeville areas have been the focus of architectural preservations, renovation, and cultural research and awareness campaigns during the past few decades. These historically interconnected African-American neighborhoods are undergoing a renaissance of increased visibility, business rejuvenation, and public awareness. The historic Bronzeville District is a long-time hub of jazz and blues music clubs and restaurants, several of which will be explored during the tour. After Bronzeville, the tour will move on to a reception and performance at Greer Oaks, a historic mansion in Brewers Hill, renovated through creative vision and energy within the African-American community.
Tour #8: Walker's Point: Neighborhood Arts and Education on the Shores of Lake Michigan
Walking tour—all locations within six blocks
Milwaukee is a city of neighbors and neighborhoods, each with its own unique character and personality. The South Side neighborhood of Walker’s Point is one of the most diverse, authentic, and vibrant in the city. Tour participants will visit the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, a center for visual and performing arts and learning in a multicultural environment, and the United Community Center/Centro de la Communidad Unida (UCC), Milwaukee's multifaceted center of Latino arts, education, and human services. The tour will feature performances by UCC’s performance group, art exhibits by community members and nationally known artists, and a reception of delicious Latin American food catered by UCC’s Cafe el Sol.
Tour #9: Arts Centers in the Historic Third Ward
Walking tour—all locations within six blocks
Where it's at in Milwaukee! The buzz on the street in the Historic Third Ward—an important Milwaukee business center for over a century—comes from the dance, music, and theater centers that have led the neighborhood’s renaissance for the past 15 years. This tour will start at the intimate performance space of The Off-Broadway Theatre; move on to the Eisner Museum of Advertising and Design, an interactive educational center focusing on advertising and design and their impact on our culture; and finish with a delicious flourish at the new Broadway Theatre Center, home to several of Milwaukee’s most exciting opera and theater companies.
Tour #10: The Historic Third Ward’s Visual Art and Design
The Historic Third Ward is a vibrant hub of artistic activity and arts education, filled with people and places bringing Milwaukee’s creative economy to life. This tour will take participants behind the scenes into some of the city’s most interesting and artistic working spaces. Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD), the first stop on the tour, is one of the country’s most acclaimed higher institutions of visual arts education, whose graduates put their educations to work Milwaukee’s art design and media industries. Participants will then explore several MIAD alumni-owned businesses and studios located in the Third Ward, including Hanson Dodge Creative. The tour will end with a reception at the Broadway Theatre Center.
Tour #11: Bucketworks: Milwaukee’s Creative Exercise Center
Here’s your chance to do art during the convention! Spend the afternoon getting thoroughly involved in, inspired by, and refreshed through the arts. Explore hands-on art, theater, technology, or dance at Bucketworks, a “health and fitness club for your brain.” The afternoon’s activities will end with a reception and spoken word performances by artists Kwabena Nixon and Adebisi Agoro.
