Celebrate summer and the opening of two new exhibitions! Meet the curators and artists, enjoy seasonal refreshments, and be the first to view freshly interpreted and newly-created works. The free-to-the-public opening reception features:

• The Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists 2024
• Hot Days/Hot Nights: Photographs from the Collection

 

Learn to write your name in Farsi, Nina Ghanbarzadeh’s mother tongue, using stencils and other art supplies. Start with a two-dimensional version, writing right to left, then experiment, as Ghanbarzadeh does in her exhibition, with three dimensions. Her work is on view at the Haggerty from June 12 through August 2 in The Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists 2024.

Nohl Fellow Nicholas Perry will be joined by painters Leslie Vansen and Shane Walsh, all in various career stages, for a conversation about the evolution of their artistic practices. His work is on view from June 12 to August 2 at the Haggerty in The Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists 2024.

The exhibition Parallel Play: The Art of Science & the Science of Art was created as an integral component of Marquette University’s Biology class, Creative Problem Solving. This cross-disciplinary course teaches STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) students to embrace divergent thinking as a path to innovative problem solving. Through art-based activities and small group interactions with artists and STEM faculty, the class emphasizes the similarities between the creative processes of scientists and artists. The class is team-taught by Dr. Deanna Arble, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences and Lynne Shumow, Curator for Academic Engagement, Haggerty Museum of Art.

Through the exhibited art pieces in Parallel Play, connections have been made between the work of artists and scientists with a special emphasis on the essential elements of scientific research—rejection, revision and the formulation of new ideas. Parallel Play aims to demystify the processes of innovation across disciplines and to illuminate the multiple routes of discovery and interpretation that art has to offer.

The Parallel Play exhibition is not currently on display, but all of the included pieces are part of the Haggerty Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Participants in the talk and tour will have the opportunity to view the featured work while touring the Haggerty’s storage vaults with Dr. Arble and Lynne Shumow. An informal lecture by Arble and Shumow about the Parallel Play exhibition and the Creative Problem-Solving class will precede the behind the scenes tour.

This program is presented in collaboration with the Wisconsin Science Festival.

Participants will also be introduced to the current exhibitions on view at the Haggerty Museum of Art. https://www.marquette.edu/haggerty-museum/exhibitions.php

 

Screening of Nohl Fellow Justin Goodrum’s films at the UWM Union Cinema. Goodrum’s work leverages the power of film as a tool for social impact and genuine storytelling. His work is on view from June 12 to August 2 at the Haggerty in The Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists 2024.