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SUMMARY:Kenilworth Open Studios
DESCRIPTION:Date & TimeSunday\, September 28\, 2025 (11 a.m.–2 p.m.) \n\n\n\n\n\nAgesAll Ages \n\n\n\n\n\nLocationKenilworth Square East \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImmerse yourself in creativity when Peck School of the Arts student and faculty artists open their studios to the public during Doors Open Milwaukee. From exhibitions and studio visits to live performances and family-friendly art activities\, you’ll find something to excite you at Kenilworth Open Studios. \n\n\n\nLocated in the heart of Milwaukee’s East Side neighborhood\, Kenilworth Square East is the Peck School of the Arts’ creative research facility. Formerly a Ford Model T factory\, you’ll now find artist studios along with research\, instruction\, performance and production spaces. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHighlights at a Glance\n\nArchitecture Tour: Professor James Shields\, one of the architects behind the building’s major renovation\, will lead a personal tour at 11 a.m.\n\n\n\nOpen Studios: Step inside faculty studios to learn about their creative research and latest work\, including opportunities to watch them create in real time\n\n\n\nLive Demonstrations: Experience firsthand what goes into documentary filmmaking\, foley sound\, paper maker’s gardens\, and the performing arts \n\n\n\nHands-on Activities: Try out digital fabrication\, stop motion animation\, puppetry\, printmaking\, and make-and-take projects with art education students\n\n\n\nArt Exhibitions & Film Screenings: Explore Sum Total faculty exhibition\, Woven Images student exhibition\, and recent films by students and faculty\n\n\n\n\n\nPlan Your Visit\n\nParking: Street parking is available in the surrounding blocks. Be mindful of signage and restrictions. Good news: many spots are free on Sundays.\n\n\n\nPublic Transit: Kenilworth Square East is located near several bus lines. Visit the Milwaukee County Transit System to view route maps.\n\n\n\nWear comfortable shoes. You’ll want to explore multiple floors.\n\n\n\nCome early. Start with the architecture tour and leave plenty of time to explore the entire building. There is a lot to see!Bring your curiosity. Many demonstrations and activities let you participate.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Kenilworth Square East\nLocated in the heart of Milwaukee’s East Side neighborhood\, 51����’s six-floor\, 500\,000 square foot Kenilworth Square East building serves as the creative research facility for the Peck School of the Arts. Originally built in 1915 by the Ford Motor Company\, the building once housed an automobile assembly plant for the Model T. The building was purchased by the federal government in the 1940s before being acquired by 51���� to house the university motor pool\, mailroom\, and print shop\, among other auxiliary uses. A major renovation in 2006 transformed the building for use by the Peck School of the Arts\, including student and faculty studios\, performance and production spaces\, public galleries\, a screening room and various instructional facilities. In 2016\, the building’s sixth floor was renovated to become the popular performance and event venue Jan Serr Studio\, complete with stunning views of Lake Michigan and the city skyline. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2025 Schedule of Events\n\n\n\nHere’s what we have planned for you at Kenilworth Open Studios. Schedule subject to change. \n\n\n\nArchitect-led Tour\n\n\n\nLocationDescription1st Floor – Prospect Avenue entranceProfessor James Shields\, AIA\, was one of the architects behind the major renovation that ushered in a new era for Kenilworth Square East. Professor Shields will offer firsthand insights into what went into its transformation. Gather at 11 a.m. for the tour.\n\n\n\nArt & Design\n\n\n\nLocationDescription1st Floor – GalleryFaculty Exhibition: Sum Total 20253rd Floor – GalleryFibers Exhibition: Woven Images 20253rd Floor – CommonsPop-up Sale & Display with OBJECT Student Organization3rd Floor – DVC Adream Lab (339)Senior Design & Visual Communication students will be working on projects using the equipment\, including risograph printing\, laser cutting\, vinyl cutting and more.3rd Floor – Digital Fabrication Lab (368\, 375)Hands-on Activity with DigiFab Student Organization3rd Floor – PatioPaper Maker’s Garden\, a paper making farm and interdisciplinary research collaboration with Electra Quinney Institute.4th Floor – CommonsHands-on Activity with Print Club5th Floor – CommonsFamily-friendly\, Hands-on Art Activity with Art Education Faculty and StudentsVarious Floors – StudiosGet an inside look at various faculty\, staff\, and student studios\n\n\n\nFilm & Animation\n\n\n\nLocationDescription1st Floor – Screening RoomScreening: Recent Student & Faculty Work4th Floor – Room 408Lighting & Cinematography Display 4th Floor – Room 416Demonstration of Live\, Interactive Foley Performance: Falling in Terms of Silent with Associate Professor Kelly Kirshtner4th Floor – Room 420Screening: Works-in-Progress by Graduate Students4th Floor – Room 445doc|51���� creates documentaries that connect communities and spark dialogue around social issues. Guests are invited to experience our studio\, meet director Sean Kafer and students\, and join us for a screening of Brady Street: Portrait of a Neighborhood.4th Floor – Room 468Spooky Candy Jam: Make your own animation out of candy using animation cameras with help from Animation Club members. Come play with your food! 4th Floor – Room 485Animation Demonstration: Destructive animation and painting under the camera with Assistant Professor and experimental animator Laura Harrison 4th Floor – Room 491VR Film Experience with Assistant Professor Joel Benjamin4th Floor – CommonsHandmade Film Workshop: Direct Animation\, Scratch Film\, “Film Destroy” Techniques and Loop MakingVarious Floors – StudiosGet an inside look at various faculty\, staff\, and student studios\n\n\n\nMusic\, Theatre & Dance\n\n\n\nLocationDescription5th Floor – CommonsPop-up Classical Guitar Performances 5th Floor – CommonsMusic Historian Research Display5th Floor – Kenilworth Five-0-Eight Theatre Musical Theatre Show Tunes Tune-Up6th Floor – Jan Serr Studio Pop-up Performances by 51���� Jazz’s “Jane’s Combo”6th Floor – Classroom (660)11 a.m. | Winterdances Open Rehearsal with Dawn Springer11:30 a.m. | Care Open Rehearsal with Maria Gillespie12:00 p.m. | The Canvas and the Cage Research project with Maria Gillespie12:30 p.m. | Dance 412: Composition 1 Showing with Maria Gillespie1:00 p.m. | Wild Space Dance Company Rehearsal with Dan Schuchart1:30 p.m. | Winterdances Open Rehearsal with Ishmael Konney\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtist Studios\n\n\n\n\nCam308I’m a printmaker and photographer who works across multiple mediums\, creating art that combines traditional graffiti and digital.\n\n\n\nNeb Berry308Printmaker and fibers artist using fabric\, medical imagery\, and food to dissect the fat body and experience. Currently focusing on food packaging and the way we speak about food and its effect on our bodies\, both emotionally and physically.\n\n\n\nDawn Ellen Van Kley-Imes308Fiber Artist who is doing research in plant dyeing on fabric to use in quiltmaking and fabric collage. Plants gift us with many things which include color\, medicine and food. They also share nutrition with each other through an underground network.\n\n\n\nJosie Osborne325Josie Osborne is a print\, collage and assemblage artist who is also a member of the Art Build Workers collective. Osborne’s personal work is informed by poetry\, written word and personal experience.\n\n\n\nAaron Kia Napunako Boyd331Sculptor and metalworker of Kanaka ‘Oiwi and mixed heritage. Diasporic relationships of knowledge based on place/linking the passing of knowledge within indigenous communities and plant communities\, senescence structures\, and stewardship.\n\n\n\nJacob Alba337Jeweler whose creative research interests revolve around the use of modern Digital Fabrication technology alongside traditional bench jewelry practices. Currently working on sculptural/architectural pieces exploring the skill of stone setting.\n\n\n\nArthur Gibson342Metalsmith whose research focuses on tool making both functional and sculptural. Inspired by the mishmashed dialectical objects of the surrealist movement. Current work involves combining various tools in an inventive and humourous way.\n\n\n\nLily Wilkie-Jones343A sculpture and print maker\, I use found objects and photos to create metal objects and the environments around them.\n\n\n\nJoel Butler349Anti-fascist intermedia artist who explores altered states of consciousness through automatism and flow. Grounded in the tradition of surrealism\, playing with themes of queerness/othering\, the grotesque\, and the visual language of comics. \n\n\n\nJorge Ariel Escobar349Queer/Latinx image-maker exploring the ephemeral nature of analog photography as a metaphor for the fleeting\, intimate connections within queer relationships.\n\n\n\nAmy O’Neill355Observational painter interested in intersections and balances between community and isolation\, and the collaborative effort to build and maintain shared commonalities. Currently working on small landscapes painted from direct observation.\n\n\n\nJeremy Plunkett367Hyperrealist Painter and Printmaker interested in how mundane subjects and cast light further insight metaphor for life and death\, human and artifice\, or use and waste.\n\n\n\nCynthia Brinich-Langlois371Even when we think we’re being subtle and unobtrusive\, animals are aware and regard us with caution. They step aside\, they recede and give us space. But they still watch us. So in these works\, animals stare back at us. Their gaze meets ours.\n\n\n\nKelly Kirshtner416Kelly Kirshtner is an artist and sound designer whose work takes a speculative approach to storytelling through sound\, moving image\, and intermedia practices.\n\n\n\nAlex Witteman424Photographer and sculptor whose work seeks to combine and amplify these two mediums through experimentation and documentation. Mostly explores themes of isolation and commodification of necessities in the modern world.\n\n\n\nkathryn e. martin – meurer435An enthusiastic (and happy) maker who works to find inherent\, potential connections between materials and meaning as a way to cite sculptures in space.\n\n\n\nDaniel Atkinson436Exploring various processes in printmaking and brick sculpture.\n\n\n\nLiya Du437As a visual artist and mother of two\, my work explores the reconciliation of art and mothering life through themes of time\, memory\, domestic labor\, and the mother–child relationship by using painting & drawing\, book art and mix-media.\n\n\n\nEthan Sorge442Photographer who is interested in seeking out community narratives in Milwaukee. My current work is focused on the indigenous people and history of the area\, two big topics that are often overlooked. I am also interested in making films.\n\n\n\nShirine Shah449Filmmaker\, writer.\n\n\n\nAlessandro Streccioni449If I close my eyes and see an image\, where does that image come from? This is one of the questions that Alessandro Streccioni\, filmmaker and artist\, asks himself every day.\n\n\n\nLin Chen455Lin Chen is a experimental and documentary filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist exploring memory and everyday life.\n\n\n\nIsaac Brooks459Filmmaker and sound recordist editing a current short work. \n\n\n\nSteve Wetzel465In addition to my work as the head of school for Peck\, I am an artist and filmmaker. For this event I will be wandering the halls\, but please feel free to walk through my studio.\n\n\n\nJesse McLean467I’m primarily a filmmaker\, making experimental nonfiction films. I’ve dedicated my creative research and art practice to exploring what it means to be human in relation to what is not.\n\n\n\nLaura Harrison485I am a filmmaker whose creative practice incorporates painting\, writing and all forms of animation to create experimental hybrid narrative films. Currently I am working on a new film entitled Partial Love Objects.\n\n\n\nJoseph Mougel494Joseph Mougel’s site-responsive work spanning photography\, video\, & performance. His current explorations bridge historical photograpic processes with current technologies. Visitors can print an AI image as a cyanotype\, to be toned with botanicals.\n\n\n\nGeornica Daniels524In my sculptures and installations\, I navigate the tension between preservation and loss. My works often undergo a metamorphosis during their creation\, transitioning from pliable and moist states to structured and rigid forms.\n\n\n\nNathaniel Stern535Artist\, poet\, and engineer whose art explores the co-evolution of humans and technology – from fire and language to the Internet and AI. Recent exhibition of installations opened in Michigan\, covered in Forbes\, coming to Milwaukee and Kansas.\n\n\n\nWinifred Elysse Newman539I am a researcher in neuroscience and architecture\, and I also serve as the Dean of the College and Schools. For this event\, please stop by for coffee and talk.\n\n\n\nMer Garcia542Printmaker and 3D artist whose explores the ties between memory\, identity\, and tradition. Rooted in storytelling\, it seeks to preserve fragments of my heritage and family history\, capturing memories to keep them alive.\n\n\n\nJack Lehtinen543My art practice looks to critique what is lost because of AI technologies by contrasting automated machine-made processes with tactile\, human-centered practices like print and papermaking.\n\n\n\nAngela Piehl549My collages\, paintings\, and drawings explore tensions found in accumulations.\n\n\n\nJamie Bertsch553The process is the point of it. Jamie Bertsch works in wood\, paper\, textiles + the poetics of color. Always learning about how things are made— and listening intently to the intuitive process of it all.\n\n\n\nCynthia Hayes553A painter whose recent work is inspired by observations made during her travels throughout China while visiting PSOA’s partner institution\, Hubei University of Technology in Wuhan. Colorful contemporary and historical imagery coincide in her work.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew in 2025! Kenilworth Open Studios is taking place during Doors Open Milwaukee.
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LOCATION:Kenilworth Square East\, 2155 N. Prospect Ave.\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53202
CATEGORIES:Alumni & Community,Art & Design,Arts and Culture,Dance,Exhibitions & Showcases,Feature,Film & Animation,Music,Performances,Performances,Prospective Students,Public,Students,Theatre,51���� Campus Events
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