The Cross Connections 2024 International Exhibition and Competition of Visual Communication Design and Emerging Media Design is a global event that showcases the creative works of students and faculty from over ten higher education institutions worldwide.
Visions Unveiled: Contemporary Photography Showcase is an exhibition that highlights the works of contemporary Milwaukee artists who are making thoughtful and engaging photographic-based work from a broad range of diverse perspectives, thematic elements, and expressions. This exhibition is collaboratively curated by 51猎奇 students in the Spring 2024 Contemporary Issues in Photography course鈥� a course created to address critical issues, theories, and practices surrounding contemporary photography and how photographers have worked to challenge, expand, and reinvent the medium. Join us in celebrating the works of artists in our community!
Continuum聽24:聽Where聽Everything聽Begins combines selected pieces from distinct bodies of work by Raoul Deal created both individually and in collaboration with other artists and communities in the United States and Mexico over a period of聽35 years.
Gan Golan's work combines grassroots community organizing with public spectacles that shift popular narratives and mobilize communities. In 2015 he was awarded a Rauschenberg Foundation 鈥淎rtist As Activist鈥� Fellowship as a member of People鈥檚 Climate Arts. He is a co-collaborator of the Climate Clock that counts down the critical time window to reach zero emissions.
Jenie Gao is a full-time artist, creative director, and entrepreneur. She runs an anti-gentrification arts business, specializing in printmaking, public art, social practice, and storytelling. Jenie pulls from personal and professional experiences as a second generation Taiwanese-Chinese American, woman of color, and descendant of working class immigrants.
Brema was born in war-torn Sudan until age five, when his family fled to a Kenyan refugee camp. His family settled in Milwaukee in 2010. While still in high school, he began to experiment with photography, videography, and screen-printing. That鈥檚 where his streetwear label - Unfinished Legacy - emblazoned with bold fonts and bright colors, was born.
Tuwil锚 Raizes uses the visual language of Hip Hop, graffiti, and stencils. His murals appear on walls throughout S茫o Paulo. Mirella Maria鈥檚 installation applies photography, performance, the body and sewing to construct a critical and sensitive perspective on narratives that traverse the memory(ies) of the Black Brazilian population.
Sharif Bey is a Syracuse-based artist and educator. Inspired by modernism, functional pottery, Oceanic Art and Art of the African diaspora, Bey鈥檚 works investigate the cultural and political significance of adornment and the symbolic and formal properties of archetypal motifs, while questioning how the meaning of icons and function transform across cultures and time.
New York/Berlin-based artist Trevor Paglen spans numerous disciplines. He has launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT, contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour, and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan.
Philadelphia-based artist Lauren Mabry is recognized internationally for her bold, dynamic glazes and inventive use of ceramic material, color, and form. Her work embraces experimentation as a way to investigate physical states of matter in relationship to objects, landscape, and abstraction.
Opening Reception is Thursday, October 24 from 7-9 p.m. featuring Jill Wine-Banks, along with remarks from the curator and featured artists. Jill Wine-Banks is a distinguished attorney, former Watergate prosecutor, general counsel for the Army during the Carter Administration, MSNBC Legal Analyst, podcast host, and a specific kind of jewelry collector. Jill uses the pin as a messaging device to convey ideas, make statements, and construct narratives. This is an exhibition and archiving project featuring pins mined from her personal collection accumulated over a lifetime of work in the political and legal landscape in the US.