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CURRENT EXHIBITION
ONE OF A KIND
Organized with Adam Correa
4/13/2024 - 5/24/2024
The show is a collaborative art project with Adam and over 30 other artists. This show encapsulates artistic rebellion - from the jagged scrap walls to the clutter core hanging - Correa wants the show to embody the hectic-ness of the city scape and the delicateness of creative impulse.
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
LAYERS OF PERCEPTION
FIDEL ALEX RODRIGUEZ
2/17/2024 - 3/29/2024
“Allow these works of art to act as mirrors” are the words of Artist Fidel Alec Rodriguez. He asserts that his works allow one to better understand parts of your psyche. He wishes the audience to treat the works as mysteries – questions that need answers. It is the audience, the reader, that can provide the answer. Each perception is valid, and as one moves through layers of the work, different meanings may unfold.
Alec does hope that these works will spark curiosity, shock, intrigue, enjoyment, nostalgia, and inner understanding.
Fidel Alec Rodriguez welcomes you to this exhibition, hosted, collaborated, and coordinated with Mitchell Street Arts (MiSA).
MiSA is pleased to present Stitch & Solder, a group exhibition featuring eight local artists running December 8, 2023 to February 8, 2024 in the Mitchell Street Arts gallery.
The Stitch and Solder artists range in disciplines from mixed-media, textiles, and sculpture, to sound, metal, and jewelry. Their works explore themes related to beauty, the body, community, femininity, queerness, and labor. This exhibition interrogates the nuances of art versus craft, and how we blur the lines between the two.
The debate between the relative value of art made to be used (crafts and design), and art made to be contemplated (painting, drawing and sculpture) is ongoing. A handmade quilt, needlework, embroidery, and jewelry is often associated with “women’s work” and less than.
Throughout history women, queer, trans, and non-binary identifying people have often crafted to provide and pass down traditions. Rarely considered is how these mediums have supported entire families, became heirlooms or folklore, and quietly informed what we consider to be “high art”.
What happens when the crafter expresses political or personal experience through their work? More and more contemporary artists are turning to these age old home mediums to intentionally pull at the threads of domestic symbology. This exhibition does not pin art against craft. Instead, it embraces the complexities of the conversation.
THE ART OF LIMITLESS SCALE
The Art of Limitless Scale ran August 24 to November 20, 2023, and was guest curated by Isabel Castro.
THE ART OF LIMITLESS SCALE
The Art of Limitless Scale features the creative minds behind murals you see throughout Milwaukee neighborhoods. This exhibition is both a look at process and completion. While we all enjoy their final products, the work that goes into building-scale art is largely unseen.
This exhibit is not of murals but a mixture of archives and “trapped art” - a style that emerged from street artists through a wave of new canvas styles that pull on mural culture motifs, but are more comprehensive and finished.
Murals are a part of the urban fabric and are embedded into the daily lives of their communities. The works of art develop a deeper purpose by serving as a platform to deliver a message and an experience. It builds communities, tells a story, and inspires pride.
An essential component to mural work is the often hyper-geographic nature of their imagery. They can reflect the unique identity of a place at a neighborhood level and be culturally specific to a few block radius at times. They can announce: you are here, this is us.
A street can operate in a myriad of ways beyond a means of transportation. They can be the extensions of our homes and places of meaning in their own right, when given the opportunity. With social isolation recently being declared a public health crisis by the US Attorney General, our relationship to public space is more important than ever. Murals, and other creative place-making endeavors, inspire connection in the places we call home.
Murals invite us to ask questions and imagine new possibilities in a way that no road sign, bike lane or business improvement district ever can. While so many things in our cities tell us “what”, murals ask “what if?”
Featured Artists
Ramiro Sandoval
Reynaldo Hernandez
Rozalia Hernandez
Aisha Valentin
Bayada Meredith
Yesi Perez
Blyna Perez
Dan Boville
Adjua Norsoma
Teresa Sahar
Whittney Salgado & Katie Avila (LUNA)
Tia Richardson
Anna Rose Menako
Jovanny Hernandez
Cutesy Macabre
Kimberly Burnett
Sav Canales
Mi Salgado
requimart2.0 (Caro)
Genesis Peña
Adalah Mutaaliah
Toni Williams