Bea Fremderman: Weeds Compared to Flowers

John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United States

In a bay on the Atlantic Ocean, the tides slowly expose closed landfills littering coastal zones with Depression-era glass, soles of shoes, and conglomerations of inorganic and organic materials. Artist Bea Fremderman collects discarded detritus from this shoreline, imagining personas of those who may have used or cast the objects away. After a deep cleaning […]

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Open Call: Home is a Teddy Bear

John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United States

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 are you from?” was not a place, but the thing that feels like home? Wisconsin residents living within 125 miles of the Arts […]

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TL;DR League (Too Long; Didn’t Read)

John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United States

Thursdays—New session each month Locations vary FREE Learn more and RSVP at jmkac.org/events 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 […]

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TL;DR League (Too Long; Didn’t Read)

John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United States

Thursdays—New session each month Locations vary FREE Learn more and RSVP at jmkac.org/events 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 […]

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Cloth Origins: Textiles from the HMong Journey

John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United States

Cloth Origins: Textiles from the HMong Journey unravels ancient practices rooted in human connections, landscapes, and ancestral wisdom that nourish people through kinship. In their migration from China into Southeast Asia, many HMong crossed the Red and Green Rivers centuries ago. These waters signify the colors of a living textile imagination that define real regions between […]

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