John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Chair City Celebration
James Tellen Woodland Sculpture Garden 5634 Evergreen Drive, Sheboygan, WI, United StatesJames Tellen Woodland Sculpture GardenSunday, August 6, 1:00–4:00 p.m.5634 Evergreen Dr, Sheboygan, WIFREE and Open to All Ages Spend an afternoon exploring the James Tellen Woodland Sculpture Garden and celebrating the Arts Center’s current theme of kinship with each other, creatures, and the land. This family friendly event will include tours, presentations, live music, […]
Recent Acquisition: Mary Jo Schwalbach
John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United StatesRecent Acquisition: Mary Jo Schwalbach will showcase a selection of the artist’s so-called “collages,” made from detritus gathered on the shores of Lake Michigan. These assemblages are part of a recent gift to the Arts Center from her son, Fitz Gitler, and the Kohler Foundation, Inc. Born in Wisconsin in 1939, Schwalbach followed her artistic passions […]
TL;DR League (Too Long; Didn’t Read)
John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United StatesThursdays—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 […]
Bea Fremderman: Weeds Compared to Flowers
John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United StatesIn 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 […]
Open Call: Home is a Teddy Bear
John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United StatesA 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 […]