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“Make Milwaukee”: Behind and In Front of Art

Listen: About a month ago, on a remarkably warm early-February evening, I biked over to Riverwest and the complex of art studios known as the Nut Factory. They were having their annual open house and the entire building was buzzing with art lovers fortunate enough to get a glimpse of where the art-magic happens.
Rather than circulating [...]

“Make Milwaukee”: Yevgeniya Kaganovich

 
Listen: Almost ten years ago, I stepped into the massive building that is currently the Peck School of the Arts for the first time. Back then, it was drastically messy and had a mysterious feel. It tapped into that image of the artist as a solitary, clandestine creator somehow disconnected from the world around them. [...]

“Make Milwaukee”: Muneer Bahauddeen

Listen: Some time this summer, when biking across town from East to West, I stumbled upon Amaranth Cafe on 34th and Lisbon. It is, in my humble opinion, the best bakery in the world. But then again, what do I know? The point is, I was delighted to find out that ceramic artist Muneer Bahauddeen’s [...]

“Make Milwaukee”: Green Gallery East

Listen: Walking south on Farwell from Brady Street, there are a few landmarks that I’ve become familiar with: Mr. Shoe, that tattoo place, Shank Hall, the antique store that never seems to be open. Now, Riverwest’s Green Gallery has a cousin on that drag — Green Gallery East. A couple weeks ago, I stopped by and [...]

“Make Milwaukee”: Children’s Author Andrea Skyberg

Listen: Just a few blocks away from our studios in Washington Heights, I met with self-described “Jill of all trades” Andrea Skyberg and the most artfully assembled masking tape children’s book characters I’ve ever seen. Check out a little bit of our conversation, which gives a little insight into the process of putting together and publishing a [...]

“Make Milwaukee”: Mutope J. Johnson

 

Listen: For most Make Milwaukee interviews, I’ve met artists in their studios (or if they don’t have a studio, their kitchens). This interview was different — I met Mutope at the very hip, yet very official offices of Bvk/G Marketing. In our interview, he cut through a commonly held romanticized notion of the artist:

After the interview, [...]

“Make Milwaukee”: Shana McCaw and Brent Budsberg – A Modern Art Love Story

Listen: Want to find love in Milwaukee? Join a cutting edge performance art group! Wha? Yeah, you read right. Take a listen to this short audio piece featuring Milwaukee artists/sweethearts/health-care-benefit-sharers Shana McCaw and Brent Budsberg:

We did that interview in their Riverwest art studio and let me tell you, they were charmingly bashful the whole time we [...]

“Make Milwaukee”: Redline Milwaukee

 

Listen: During the Make Milwaukee campaign, we’ve been featuring Milwaukee artists doing uncommonly cool things in and around the community. How about an organization that’s cooking up plans to do uncommonly cool things for the community and Milwaukee’s artists? Well, that’s Redline Milwaukee. Find out a little more from c0-founders Steve Vande Zande and Lori Bauman:

And that’s just [...]

“Make Milwaukee”: PBRrt Outtakes

With nearly every audio piece I produce, there is way too much interesting stuff to ever squeeze into two minutes. The problem is, everybody I talk to in Milwaukee seems to be charming and funny and generally entertaining! Ah! So, rather than leave it all on the cutting room floor, I’ll start posting some of [...]