“Be Heard”: Milwaukee’s Latest Public Art Discussion

Listen: If you haven’t paid attention this past week, there’s been an ongoing conversation with a bit of a déjà vu feeling. More public art in Milwaukee, more argument and misunderstanding. While it may not feel that way, we’re fortunate to have a couple controversial public art pieces in our recent past — if we’re lucky, we [...]

“Make Milwaukee”: Looking Back Even Further

Listen: Going into the Make Milwaukee campaign, one of our goals was to debunk the myth of the artist, or at least get to know what working artists are like in Milwaukee. As it turns out, Milwaukee’s creative types aren’t clandestine recluses, painting by moonlight in isolated factories… at least not the artists I met. In [...]

“Make Milwaukee”: Looking Back Part 2

Listen: During the span of this campaign, I’ve said “Make Milwaukee” so many times, it’s easy to gloss over the words and not really consider what that short little imperative phrase means. Make Milwaukee. Create your setting. Support what you love. Bring the change you want to see. But why paraphrase? Make Milwaukee is so much shorter and [...]

“Make Milwaukee”: Looking Back

Listen: A little incite into the audio pieces we’ve done for the Make Milwaukee campaign — any given artist interview would last anywhere between 10 and 45 minutes. From that conversation, we’d come up with an audio piece 1:30-2:30 in duration. This was no easy task, not simply because of the volume, but because of the [...]