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Jun. 2023

Rose B. Simpson: Counterculture

Jun. 17, 2023 @ 10:00 am - Feb. 24, 2024 @ 4:00 pm
John Michael Kohler Arts Center,
608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI 53081 United States

The seven cast-concrete figures in Rose B. Simpson’s Counterculture are witnesses—reminders that the natural world is continuously watching humanity. Despite their over ten foot height, the feminine-bodied forms show grace in their vigilance and space taking, carrying necklaces made of ceramic beads instead of taking up weapons. Simpson’s sculptures are traveling to different sites across the country, including the grounds of the Art Preserve, where they will observe the seasons shift from summer to fall and into winter. Their presence…

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Patricia Piccinini: encounters of another plot

Jun. 17 @ 12:55 pm - Oct. 29 @ 12:55 pm
John Michael Kohler Arts Center,
608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI 53081 United States

As a storyteller, Patricia Piccinini gathers information from scientific research and current events to envision genetically and physically adapted organisms. These creatures, predominantly constructed with fiberglass, silicone, and hair, are geared for survival against human impact and rapidly changing environmental conditions. The creatures’ reconfigured bodies and new survival mechanisms hint at possibilities of new earth-dwelling species, modes of resilience, and evolutionary potentials in response to our changing Earth/home. Inspired by local ecosystems, a life-size diorama constructed with recycled materials shelters…

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Jul. 2023

Asberrry Davis: Run Your Own Way

Jul. 22, 2023 @ 10:00 am - Jan. 7, 2024 @ 4:00 pm
|This is a Recurring Event [see all in the series]
Every day until January 8, 2024

Asberry Davis began making “things,” as he called them, in the early 1970s, on land in the Congaree Swamp in South Carolina. In the late 1960s, a widow named Ella Riley had moved onto the land near Davis, living in a one-room construction he built for her. After her death, in 1973, Davis stacked all of her possessions into a pseudo-mausoleum memorial, which he planted with flowers and tended to for the rest of his life. This act of remembrance…

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Sunny Leerasanthanah: Naturalization

Jul. 29, 2023 @ 10:00 am - Feb. 18, 2024 @ 4:00 pm
John Michael Kohler Arts Center,
608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI 53081 United States
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In a newly commissioned multimedia installation, artist Sunny Leerasanthanah uses invasive species as a lens to look at human immigration and xenophobia in the United States. In one video, three actors role-play as American National Park Service rangers and respond to prompts about invasive species. The improvisational performances deconstruct xenophobic ideas and language, using satire as a guiding tool to explore lived experiences and belonging. In a second video, a collection of audio recordings taken in nature accompanies Leerasanthanah’s use…

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Sep. 2023

Women’s Art History Lecture | Artemisia Gentileschi

Sep. 26 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts,
51 Sheboygan St, Fond du Lac, WI 54935 United States
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Thelma’s Women’s Art History Lecture Series aims to highlight influential women in art history. Artemisia Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished seventeenth-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio. Discover her life and work in this exciting and engaging lecture. Date: Tuesday, September 26 Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM For Ages: All Ages Welcome! Price/Tickets: FREE Admission

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Women’s Art History Lecture | Artemisia Gentileschi

Sep. 26 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts,
51 Sheboygan St, Fond du Lac, WI 54935 United States
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Thelma’s Women’s Art History Lecture Series aims to highlight influential women in art history. Artemisia Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished seventeenth-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio. Discover her life and work in this exciting and engaging lecture. Date: Tuesday, September 26 Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM For Ages: All Ages Welcome! Price/Tickets: FREE Admission

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Women’s Art History Lecture | Artemisia Gentileschi

Sep. 26 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts,
51 Sheboygan St, Fond du Lac, WI 54935 United States
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Thelma’s Women’s Art History Lecture Series aims to highlight influential women in art history. Artemisia Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished seventeenth-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio. Discover her life and work in this exciting and engaging lecture. Date: Tuesday, September 26 Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM For Ages: All Ages Welcome! Price/Tickets: FREE Admission

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Sports Discovery Night

Sep. 26 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Community First Champion Center,
5000 W. Champion Dr. , Appleton, WI 54913 United States
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Join us for the first ever Sports Discovery Night presented by the Community First Champion Center on Tuesday, September 26th from 5:00-8:00pm. Sports Discovery Night was created to provide the people of Fox Cities with a dedicated night to discover the many sports opportunities in the area. You and your children can meet with leaders from area sports organizations and programs and participate in activities and contests in the Mary Beth Nienhaus Fieldhouse, BayCare Clinic Seasonal Arena, and our Main…

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Lighthouse Big Band | It’s Autumn!

Sep. 26 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts,
51 Sheboygan St, Fond du Lac, WI 54935 United States
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Whether we call it Autumn or Fall, that time of year is upon us now, and the LBB would like to celebrate that by “falling back” to some music from days gone by. These will include many songs that are new to the band’s library but well known to most, as well as a few “Fall” tunes. Join us for an evening of “new” but “old“ music with many of your favorites and music from the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s.…

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TL;DR League: Session 1

Sep. 28 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
|This is a Recurring Event [see all in the series]
Every week until September 28, 2023
John Michael Kohler Arts Center,
608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI 53081 United States
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Part social hour, part show-and-tell, part book club—TL;DR League (Too Long; Didn’t Read) brings the Arts Center’s Considering Kin theme into sharper focus through short-form content such as flash fiction, short films, articles, music, podcasts, and recipes. Each meeting will be led by an artist, writer, or activist who will select conversational material that requires very little preparation. Session 1: Screening of Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, led by Andrea Chung, Tao Leigh Goffe, and Kelli Morgan Film Screening:…

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Jan. 2023

Andrea Chung: if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

Jan. 28 @ 10:00 am - Oct. 1 @ 4:00 pm
John Michael Kohler Arts Center,
608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI 53081 United States

In a new multiroom installation, artist Andrea Chung confronts the legacy and trauma of slavery from the perspective of an Afrofuturist utopia. For this work, Chung activates the possibility of a new world, a “Black Atlantis” called Drexciya, to subvert the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. Drexciya is an underwater world populated by the READ MORE

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May. 2023

Kea Tawana: I Traveled into the Future in a Dream

May. 13 @ 10:00 am - Oct. 8 @ 4:00 pm
John Michael Kohler Arts Center,
608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI 53081 United States
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Kea Tawana (c. 1935–2016) is known for creating the Ark, an 86-foot-long, three-story ship she built in Newark, New Jersey, starting in 1982, with the intention of making it her home. For decades prior, she had collected salvaged wood, glass shards, and other materials from abandoned buildings in the city’s Central Ward. Incorporating those materials, READ MORE

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May. 2023

Sharing the Same Breath

May. 20, 2023 @ 10:00 am - Apr. 21, 2024 @ 4:00 pm
John Michael Kohler Arts Center,
608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI 53081 United States
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In her 2021 essay “A Family Reunion Near the End of the World,” botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer contemplates our kinship with nature and proposes a road map for deepening our care and respect for all living things. “Being a relative,” she writes, “is more than shared blood from a common past. Real kinship arises when READ MORE

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Aug. 2023

Harmony & Dissonance Photography Exhibit

Aug. 11 @ 4:00 pm - Oct. 6 @ 4:00 pm
Plymouth Arts Center,
520 E. Mill Street, Plymouth, WI 53073 United States

The Plymouth Arts Center and sponsor, Van Horn Auto proudly present Harmony & Dissonance, a juried show featuring the works of CoPA, the Coalition of Photographic Arts. The public is invited to the festive opening reception on Friday, August 18 from 5 to 7:30 pm with awards and comments presented at 6 pm. Musical entertainment READ MORE

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Aug. 2023

Open Call: Home is a Teddy Bear

Aug. 31 @ 1:00 pm - Oct. 12 @ 5:00 pm
John Michael Kohler Arts Center,
608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI 53081 United States
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Call closes Friday, October 12, 2023, 5:00 p.m. CST Open to JMKAC members and Wisconsin residents withing 125 miles of the Arts Center A handmade gift from a cherished friend. A favorite song that takes you back to your childhood. A photograph you look at every day. What if the answer to the question, “where READ MORE

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