City Gathering of Activists, Artists and Culture Creators

Holly Haebig, Jahmes Finlayson, Suzanne Rosenblatt and Harvey Taylor will be performing Thursday, March 17, 5-9pm at The 9th Annual St. Patrick/St. Brigid, All City Gathering of Activists, Artists and Culture Creators at Club Timbuktu, 520 E. Center St.
$5 Donation requested (volunteer for 30-60 min. in lieu of $donation)
At 9pm, Mali Blues will join us and continue the celebration with music and dance!
And Mali Blues is a great band for dancing!!!!

FIGURE IT OUT, THE FIGURE IS IN!

In our artwork we look at ourselves, laugh at ourselves, consciously or unconsciously paint ourselves. Or we gaze into others’ eyes and try to turn our paint into their emotions. We may lose the human figure in its surroundings, or let it overpower the space. Or perhaps we abstract it so much no one else knows it’s human. There are as many ways to look at humanity as there are people looking. And the latest show at the Rosenblatt Gallery features four very different artists, Davey Noble, Eriks Johnson, Virgi Driscoll, and Nancy Lamers, painting their fellow earthlings.

FIGURE IT OUT, THE FIGURE IS IN!
Jan 21, 2011 to Mar 4, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, Jan 21, 6:30-10:30 PM
Featuring
Virgi Driscoll, Eriks Johnson, Nancy Lamers, and Davey Noble
Rosenblatt Gallery, 181 North Broadway, Milwaukee, 414-220-4292

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Holiday Extravaganza – Friday, Dec. 10

Holiday Extravaganza at Rosenblatt Gallery & Artasia Gallery
181 N Broadway, 414-220-4292
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 6 PM to 11 PM
Art, Live Music, Fashion Show, Refreshments

6 PM on Opening Reception for LAND SHAPES LANDSCAPES featuring

Robert M. Girsh, Steven Lubahn, Christian Ricco, and Curt Schroeder.

6 PM Live Music: Speaker Dust

8 PM Fashion Show: GG’s Collection

LAND SHAPES LANDSCAPES Dec 10, 2010 to Jan 14, 2011
Sky, clouds, land, sea, trees and smaller plants, frogs, squirrels, ants, always there, yet we each notice, and admire, different aspects of our surroundings. LAND SHAPES LANDSCAPES will look at the way four Milwaukee artists explore the lay of the land.

Improvisional Dance, Music, and Poetry

Each motion of the dancer flowed flawlessly into the next, like waves advancing or grasses in wind, and I sat entranced. Then it was over. The applause was enthusiastic, but not enthusiastic enough for the friend seated next to me. “What’s the matter with Milwaukee? In New York a performance like that would have brought down the house!” he exclaimed.

That was summer, 2008, at UWM. The dancer was Leonard Cruz, and when I googled him later that night, I found no more Milwaukee performances scheduled.

Now he’s back, and we’re friends. A couple of weeks ago he called me late one evening and said, “I’m performing on December 4th and 5th.”

Puzzled, I replied, “It’s already on my calendar.”

“Yes, but I wonder if you’d like to do some poetry as I dance.”

“Sure! Have you looked at my poems on our web site?”

He hadn’t. He wanted me to improvise. Improvise poetry!

I agreed to do it. Anyway.

Here are the details:

Apachen Tanz
Oppression and Healing

Saturday, December 4, 7:30 PM
Sunday, December 5, 2:00 PM

Featuring
LEONARD CRUZ, dancer & choreographer

With
SETH WARREN CROW, musician
SUZANNE ROSENBLATT, poet & artist
IAIN COURT, lighting design

IMPROVISATIONAL WORDS, MUSIC, AND DANCE
Inspired by true stories of a Filipino-American trying to understand his identity.
With the support and guidance of REBECCA HOLDERNESS.

Studio Theatre, Peck School of the Arts
Theatre Building T-6, Fine Arts Center on the UWM Kenwood Campus
2400 E. Kenwood Blvd. Milwaukee, WI 53211
Phone (414) 231 – 1274
Free Admission The Program will last 45 minutes.

Meet the artists reception

On Friday, November 12, we’re having a Meet-the-Artists
reception so you can meet some of the artists and see the wide range
of work in ROSENBLATT’S FORMER STUDENTS exhibition

Meet-the-Artists Reception Friday, November 12, 6:30 to 9:30 PM
Rosenblatt Gallery, 181 N Broadway, Milwaukee WI

Questions? Call Artasia at 414-220-4292

Featuring:

Michael Davidson, Virgi Driscoll, Mike Fredrickson, Lee Ann Garrison,
Karen Brittain, Tom Brittain, Josie Osborne, Allison B. Cooke, Deidre
Prosen, Steven Crossot, Mark Berson, Ken Kaczmarzyk, Henry Klimowicz,
Kevin Callahan, Dean Nimmer, Wendy Cooper, Mara Manning, Nancy
Lamers, Joe Boblick, Evelyn Patricia Terry, Xav Leplae, Judith Reidy,
Vicki Samolyk, Patter Hellstrom, Mark McBride, Curt Schroeder,
Katherine McChesney, Jenny Anderson, Stephen Johnson, Craig Stone,
and Sarah, Eli, Joshua, Pauline, and Suzanne Rosenblatt.

The exhibition runs October 15 to November 30.

October 15 Rosenblatt's Former Students Reception

Few professors get to see, years later, how their students turned out. Adolph is fortunate: in a few days two different exhibitions of work by his former students will be up at the same time. One has already opened, at UWM’s Inova Arts Center Gallery: Adolph and three of his students.

Trees and Snow

Hundreds of other students, 33 years worth, aren’t in the UWM show, and I wondered what they’re doing. Many keep in touch with Adolph, including me (I married him). So about a month ago I had an idea for a show in Rosenblatt Gallery: ROSENBLATT’S FORMER STUDENTS, with two artworks by each artist. For the next several days I asked the former students we happened to hear from or run into if they’d like to participate, and soon we had about twenty artists. This second show will open on Gallery Night, October 15, and will overlap for a while with the UWM show, which closes November 6.

We have an exciting array of artists: Michael Davidson, Virgi Driscoll, Mike Fredrickson, Lee Ann Garrison, Karen Brittain, Tom Brittain, Josie Osborne, Allison B. Cooke, Deidre Prosen, Steve Crossot, Mark Berson, Ken Kaczmarzyk, Henry Klimowicz, Kevin Callahan, Dean Nimmer, Wendy Cooper, Mara Manning, Nancy Lamers, Joe Boblick, Evelyn Patricia Terry, Xav Leplae, Judith Reidy, Vicki Samolyk, Patter Hellstrom, and Sarah, Eli, Joshua, Pauline, and Suzanne Rosenblatt (I was Adolph’s first student).

ROSENBLATT’S FORMER STUDENTS, Oct 15 to Nov 30, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, Oct 15, 6:30-10:30 PM.
ROSENBLATT GALLERY, 181 N. Broadway, Milwaukee

More information is on Suzanne’s Shorewood Now Blog and the post Adolph’s Students here.

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