John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Otis Houston Jr.: My Name is My Word
John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United StatesLiving in Harlem, New York, Otis Houston Jr. acts as an alchemist. He mixes everyday items, movements, and thoughts to create multimedia assemblages, paintings, performances, and text-based signs. Houston is best known for his public performances and installation work on FDR Drive by New York’s East River, where he has been working since 1997. These […]
SPACES Spotlight: Vollis Simpson
John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United StatesIn the mid-1980s, retired repairman Vollis Simpson (1919–2013) began using his collection of old farm equipment to construct monumental whirligigs in the fields around his Lucama, North Carolina, home. The site became a tourist attraction, enticing visitors to his rural property. In 2010, the nearby town of Wilson announced a plan to work with Simpson […]
Alexander Stewart: Void Vision
John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United StatesAlexander Stewart’s Void Vision is an abstract science-fiction short film in which the line between the real and the simulated are blurred and distorted; a space where doubles, twins, duplicates, re-creations, and copies merge. Combining a science-fiction sensibility with the aesthetic of early CGI animation experiments, Stewart presents rotating arrangements of lasers and duplicated women that fade […]
Ways of Being Celebration
John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United StatesEnjoy an evening at the Arts Center exploring reimagined ways of being in our world. Join us as we celebrate the launch of the Ways of Being exhibitions. Saturday, May 21, 2022 7:00–9:00 p.m. Conversation, appetizers, cash bar, and music Free Open to the public Reserve your tickets for the Ways of Being Celebration at: […]
Creative! Growth!
John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United StatesCreative! Growth! will be the first exhibition to consider the history of Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California. Founded in 1974 by artist Florence Ludins-Katz (1912–1990) and her psychologist husband Elias Katz (1913–2008), Creative Growth emerged from the larger social, cultural, and political narratives associated with the Bay Area in the late 1960s and early […]