CULTURE | SPONSORED BY THE MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM
This Month in Milwaukee 13 THINGS TO DO FROM APRIL 7 THROUGH MAY 2 BY ALLEN HALAS, DAVID LUHRSSEN, TYLER NELSON AND JOHN SCHNEIDER
THROUGH MAY 2 SAINT KATE—THE ARTS HOTEL “RAFAEL FRANCISCO SALAS: IN FLOWERED FIELDS” Midwesterners feel overlooked and disregarded—until politicians start calculating electoral votes. Ripon College art professor Rafael Francisco Salas is part of a long tradition of regional landscape painting but brings a dark and evocative contemporary twist to his work. Says Museum of Wisconsin Art curator Tyler Friedman, “The exhibition is sure to initiate discussions about the Midwest—its overlooked beauty, contemporary conflicts and the sins that remain inscribed on its soil.”
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ACA MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT’S ACA LIVE ACA Music & Entertainment have been producing regular weekly live streams to keep artists playing during the pandemic. Every month, local artists take the stage at ACA’s production studio to perform via livestream with proceeds benefitting the artists. The April slate of shows includes Peter Thomas & Steve Vorass and Swing Explosion featuring Pete Sorce. The shows start at 7 p.m. on Facebook Live.
MILWAUKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY “CAPTAIN FREDERICK PABST: BEYOND THE BREWHOUSE” As one of Milwaukee’s greatest beer barons, Frederick Pabst was a legendary character beyond the brewhouse. The Milwaukee County Historical Society hosts a free talk by historian John C. Eastberg on the life of the Pabst founder, from his days as a cabin boy on a steamship to working his way up to captain in his early twenties. After the success of his brewery, Pabst was able to pursue other interests like horse breeding, art collecting and promoting Milwaukee as the “German Athens of the West.” 7:30 p.m. on the Historical Society’s Facebook and YouTube pages. APRIL 12
EVERY WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY MILWAUKEE DJS ON TWITCH On any given night, Milwaukee’s vibrant DJ scene is hitting the virtual club, broadcasting sets from the comfort of home. DJ Bizzon has been producing live streamed sets every Wednesday and Friday night on his channel, as well as Sunday afternoon’s R&Brunch streams. DJ SnackDaddy every Saturday night. Milwaukee-born DJ KidCutUp is also regularly live on Thursday and Saturday nights.
LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN WOMEN’S SPEAKER SERIES STEPHANIE DRAY Three wars as experienced by three powerful women are the heart of the novel The Women of Chateau Lafayette, the latest historical fiction by The New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray. “I love to immerse the reader in time and place,” she says. “I also love to explore the moral dilemmas, difficult choices and heartbreaking sacrifices that shaped these women’s lives.” Dray is coming to town virtually as part of the Lynden Sculpture Garden’s Women’s Speaker Series. Admission is $5 for the 7 p.m. talk. Visit lyndensculpturegarden.org.
THROUGH 2021 MILWAUKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY “WHERE WATERS MEET” Historian John Gurda put it well in the title of one of his books, Milwaukee: A City Built on Water. The confluence of three rivers and a useable harbor made Milwaukee an industrial and transportation hub and spurred UWM’s School of Fresh Water Science to take a leading role in research. The year-long exhibition “explores the role water played in the city’s history through geography, commerce and recreation, and highlights the reasons that Milwaukee is considered a water-centric city today.”
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