The long awaited Southern Graphics Council International Print: MKE 2013 conference concluded last weekend, a highlight to the year's creative events. Over 2000 artists, educators, and supporters of printmakers flowed through the city’s streets to study art, and the art of printmaking. For last Friday’s Public Print Crawl, galleries throughout Milwaukee overflowed with peop...

When participating in the Southern Graphics Council International Print: MKE 2013 conference this week,  art lovers and printmakers travel to local art galleries throughout the city to view an exceptional array of art. With all the printmaking to view, there could be one exquisite exhibition that might be unintentionally overlooked. At the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, SGC Internatio...

Printmaking has often been used to illustrate protest, whether for social, political or environmental issues. The UW-Milwaukee Union Art Gallery showcases this history in the exhibition “Uprisings: Images of Labor,” featuring

An intimate, intriguing show at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Art History Gallery presents over more than two-dozen prints that briefly illustrate how the medium developed over five centuries. “Dürer to Dine: 500 Years of Printmaking” opened March 7 and runs through the Southern Graphic Council International Print:MKE conference to close on March 28. The quiet Mitchell Hall Gallery (...

 On display through April 6, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts presents “La Ceiba Gráfica,” an exhibition of prints from the Veracruz, Mexico workshop dedicated to transforming the local community through instruction in how to

Printmaking will be a focus of Milwaukee’s visual arts in the months to come. Crowning the activities is the prestigious Southern Graphics Council International’s annual conference, “Print:MKE,” which is coming to the city

What defines freedom? The freedom to vote instantly comes to mind in 2012, an election year for the United States. Marquette University's Haggerty Museum of Art further explores the crucial idea of freedom in a trio of exhibitions opening Aug. 22...

Many artists have extraordinary careers and yet remain relatively unknown to the masses. The Racine Art Museum (RAM) presents the work of one such artist from the San Francisco area in the upcoming exhibition...

On July 1 Elaine Erickson, together with her gallery housed in the Historic Third Ward's Marshall Building, celebrate four years of her passion for art. While a relative newcomer to the gallery scene in Milwaukee, she represents a number of estates from prestigious Wisconsin artists including Joseph Friebert, Schomer Lichtner, Charles Thwaites and Ruth Grotenrath. On June 6, a new art show ope...