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EXPLORE ART IN WISCONSIN With many of us eager to stretch our travel legs this summer – to make up for all we missed during the last one – an easy trip, or two, around Wisconsin to visit the state’s many destinations for art will satisfy your wanderlust as well as your cultural cravings. Check out these highlights on now and hit the road! MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART PHOTO: NICHOLAS SADOWSKI
RACINE ART MUSEUM
Mary Giles, Fading Light, 2007, waxed linen, fine copper wire, and fine iron wire, 13 x 17” D, Racine Art Museum, gift of Jim Harris. Photo: Petronella J. Ytsma. Part of Collection Focus: Mary Giles thru July 3.
The Racine Art Museum holds the largest and most significant contemporary craft collection in North America, with more than 9,500 objects from nationally and internationally recognized artists. A trip to RAM is less than 60 miles from downtown Chicago. • ramart.org
SCULPTURE MILWAUKEE Richard Woods, Holiday Home (Milwaukee), 2019, wood, steel. Courtesy the artist and Cristea Roberts Gallery, London.
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Sculpture Milwaukee’s fifth exhibition will be co-curated by Theaster Gates and Michelle Grabner, running June through fall 2022. One of the largest annual outdoor exhibitions to focus on contemporary sculpture and public art practices, the works selected by Gates and Grabner will be explored through programming and educational initiatives. • sculpturemilwaukee.com
MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART
For 60 years MoWA has evolved from a small hometown gallery to one of the leading regional museums in the country, devoted to exploring the art and culture of Wisconsin. • wisconsinart.org
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM
Mary Cassatt, Spanish Girl Leaning on a Window Sill, ca. 1872. Oil on canvas, 24 3/8 × 19 in. Collection of Manuel Piñanes GarcíaOlías, Madrid. Photo, Cuauhtli Gutierrez
The Milwaukee Art Museum is open to the public again, with several exhibitions planned for this summer, including Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820–1920, the first major exhibition to focus on the influence of Spanish art and culture on American painting. Jun 11–Oct 3 • mam.org
JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ART CENTER
Annabeth Marks, Across the Split, 2019, oil on canvas, 80 x 62”
Painter Annabeth Marks is equally concerned with acts of construction and of deconstruction. Her work considers the boundaries of painting in both process and form. For her contribution to the Return to the Real series at the JMKAC, May 30–Jan 9, 2022, Marks presents a new body of work in a site-specific installation. paintings.
ARTS MINERAL POINT
The creative community of Mineral Point offers a haven for working artists as well as a bucolic weekend art destination southwest of Madison, towards the Iowa border. Enjoy late night shopping, live music, workshops, artist receptions and more. The 8th annual Paint the Point live painting fundraiser takes place August 11–14. • artsmp.org
