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Get ready for the holiday season with Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's annual Santa's Wonderland experience! Bring your family to your local Cabela's store to join over two million kids and families in taking a photo with Santa.

Enjoy a complimentary 4x6 photo with Santa and a shareable video of your visit. Photo sessions begin on Sunday, November 3. Reservations are highly recommended, so book your spot online at www.cabelas.com/santa.

Jack Earl, one of the first Arts/Industry artists-in-residence, said the Arts/Industry residency in the Kohler Co. factory felt like a “mad dash at something.” Mad Dash: 50 Years of Arts/Industry is a chronological installation of artworks, letters, photographs, and promotional materials dating from 1974 to the present. It reveals the origin and history of Arts/Industry through the artists themselves.

Every artist donates an object made during their residency to the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s collection. Mad Dash presents artworks from this collection to encapsulate the experience of art making within Kohler Co. and highlight various stages of the artists’ careers.

https://www.marquette.edu/haggerty-museum/material-muses.php

The Middle Ages is often thought of as a period of heightened religious devotion, especially in the Catholic regions of Western Europe. Looking to the Joan of Arc Chapel at the heart of Marquette’s campus and pulling from the collections of the Haggerty Museum of Art and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Material Muses: Medieval Devotional Culture and its Afterlives considers how artists since the end of the Middle Ages have looked back toward art from this period as inspiration for creating “authentic” devotional objects into the present day. Material Muses explores the allure of medieval material religion as it converses with and energizes post-medieval religious narratives.

Material Muses was curated by Abby R. Armstrong Check, Claire Kilgore and Tania Kolarik, PhD candidates in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Image: Eduardo Paolozzi, British, 1924 – 2005, Jesus Colour by Numbers, 1970, Photolithograph, 15 x 10 inches, 81.38.37.33, Gift of Mr. Steven D. Sohackie and Mrs. Bernice Sohackie, Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University

https://www.marquette.edu/haggerty-museum/affirmation-transformation.php

Cheeseheads, Swifties, Beatlemaniacs, Trekkies, Whovians, Potterheads, Beyhive, the Cenation, ARMY. People are fans of all sorts of things. But what makes someone a fan? Is there a difference between enjoying something and being a fan of that thing?

Affirmation/Transformation considers “creation” as the line between casual enjoyment and fandom. Fans are not passive; fans create. Using pieces from the Haggerty Museum of Art’s permanent collection, Affirmation/Transformation looks at the types of things that fans are inspired to create and asks the viewer whether these fan creations are affirmational or transformational—that is, do they affirm the fan object as it is, or transform it into something new? Do fan creations uphold the canon of the original content, or do they take only what they need and leave the rest behind? Is it possible that all fan creations hold both at the same time?

This exhibition serves as a foundational component for the dissertation of Kate Rose, English Literature PhD Candidate at Marquette University. The pieces included in Affirmation/Transformation are available to online fan communities and fans are invited to use them as inspiration in their own affirmational or transformational works. Many of these works will be on display as a part of the exhibition on view at the Haggerty Museum of Art. Through the collection and display of these works, as well as through future interviews with fan creators, this dissertation questions the arbitrary boundary that academics have created between affirmational and transformational fandom and compares academic treatment of fan activities against the ways that these same activities are treated in fan communities.

For more information, or to participate in the Affirmation/Transformation Fandom Event, please visit https://epublications.marquette.edu/fandom/Affirmationtransformation/

Image: Mark Heresy, American, b. 1965, Will to Power, 1992, Ink on paper, 28 x 22 inches, 2000.11.5, Gift of Peter Norton, Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University

Since 1974, over five hundred artists have participated in the Arts Center’s Arts/Industry residency. The program, operated in collaboration with Kohler Co., offers artists the time and space to focus on the creation of new work in the company’s pottery and foundry studios. As part of the Arts Center’s celebration of Arts/Industry’s fiftieth anniversary, the twelve artists in residence at the Kohler Co. factory during 2024 will exhibit their work in a yearlong group exhibition, Clocking In: 2024 Arts/Industry Residents.

The exhibition will present four residents’ work at a time, in rotations of approximately four months each.

Start your new Sunday Ritual with us at The New Fashioned! Join us for a fresh twist on brunch Sundays from noon - 2:30 pm. Indulge in Milwaukee staples like hot ham & rolls, a house-made Bloody Mary with a charcuterie garnish tray, Harvey Wallbangers, Valentine Coffee and more!😋🍽️🍹

The Bridgewater will host live music on Sundays with rotating genres serenading patrons on Sundays from 1-4 p.m., starting May 26th until September 2nd.

To make a reservation and to see the full music line-up, visit: https://bridgewatermke.com/

After its landmark opening year of record-setting audience attendance and universal critical acclaim, The Nutcracker: Drosselmeyer’s Imaginarium is back and more magical than ever! Journey into the Imaginarium to experience the wonder of the holidays.

After its landmark opening year of record-setting audience attendance and universal critical acclaim, The Nutcracker: Drosselmeyer’s Imaginarium is back and more magical than ever! Journey into the Imaginarium to experience the wonder of the holidays.