Material Muses: Medieval Devotional Culture and its Afterlives
2024-08-23 - 2024-12-22 | Haggerty Museum of Art, 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, WI, 53233, United States
The Middle Ages is often thought of as a period of heightened religious devotion, especially in the Catholic regions of Western Europe. Looking to the Joan of Arc Chapel at the heart of Marquette’s campus and pulling from the collections of the Haggerty Museum of Art and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Material Muses: Medieval Devotional Culture and its Afterlives considers how artists since the end of the Middle Ages have looked back toward art from this period as inspiration for creating “authentic” devotional objects into the present day. Material Muses explores the allure of medieval material religion as it converses with and energizes post-medieval religious narratives.
Material Muses was curated by Abby R. Armstrong Check, Claire Kilgore and Tania Kolarik, PhD candidates in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Image: Eduardo Paolozzi, British, 1924 – 2005, Jesus Colour by Numbers, 1970, Photolithograph, 15 x 10 inches, 81.38.37.33, Gift of Mr. Steven D. Sohackie and Mrs. Bernice Sohackie, Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University

Affirmation/Transformation: Fandom Created
2024-08-23 - 2024-12-22 | Haggerty Museum of Art, 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, WI, 53233, United States
Cheeseheads, Swifties, Beatlemaniacs, Trekkies, Whovians, Potterheads, Beyhive, the Cenation, ARMY. People are fans of all sorts of things. But what makes someone a fan? Is there a difference between enjoying something and being a fan of that thing?
Affirmation/Transformation considers “creation” as the line between casual enjoyment and fandom. Fans are not passive; fans create. Using pieces from the Haggerty Museum of Art’s permanent collection, Affirmation/Transformation looks at the types of things that fans are inspired to create and asks the viewer whether these fan creations are affirmational or transformational—that is, do they affirm the fan object as it is, or transform it into something new? Do fan creations uphold the canon of the original content, or do they take only what they need and leave the rest behind? Is it possible that all fan creations hold both at the same time?
This exhibition serves as a foundational component for the dissertation of Kate Rose, English Literature PhD Candidate at Marquette University. The pieces included in Affirmation/Transformation are available to online fan communities and fans are invited to use them as inspiration in their own affirmational or transformational works. Many of these works will be on display as a part of the exhibition on view at the Haggerty Museum of Art. Through the collection and display of these works, as well as through future interviews with fan creators, this dissertation questions the arbitrary boundary that academics have created between affirmational and transformational fandom and compares academic treatment of fan activities against the ways that these same activities are treated in fan communities.
For more information, or to participate in the Affirmation/Transformation Fandom Event, please visit https://epublications.marquette.edu/fandom/Affirmationtransformation/
Image: Mark Heresy, American, b. 1965, Will to Power, 1992, Ink on paper, 28 x 22 inches, 2000.11.5, Gift of Peter Norton, Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University

The Big 4-0: An Exhibition Celebrating the Haggerty Museum of Art’s Forty Years
2024-11-27 10:00 - 16:30, 2024-11-30 10:00 - 16:30, 2024-12-02 10:00 - 16:30, 2024-12-03 10:00 - 16:30, 2024-12-04 10:00 - 16:30, 2024-12-05 10:00 - 16:30, 2024-12-06 10:00 - 16:30, 2024-12-07 10:00 - 16:30 (America/Chicago) and 6 more dates | Haggerty Museum of Art, 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, WI, 53233, United States
The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University presents an exhibition in celebration of its 40th anniversary. Curated by Dr. Kirk Nickel, Marc and Lillian Rojtman Curator of European Art, the show comprises a two-part installation of the exhibition galleries, in fall 2024 and spring 2025, and features well over 100 works of art from the museum’s collections.
Ranging widely within time periods, geographies, and artists’ careers, the exhibition highlights major works in the Haggerty’s collection, organized into six curated galleries each semester. These distinct but conceptually linked spaces reflect the museum’s enduring commitment to the work of modern and contemporary artists, while also featuring a select group of Renaissance and Baroque artworks. The exhibition draws particular attention to the ideas and impulses that have fueled artists through the recent century, including novel approaches to modern materials + processes, political satire, kinetic and op art, migration, photography’s relationship to truth, mail art, and the challenge of representing life after war. Artworks by Mark Bradford, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Enrique Chagoya, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jeffrey Gibson, Sam Gilliam, Philip Guston, Keith Haring, Wifredo Lam, Elizabeth Murray, Diego Rivera, and Richard Serra will appear in the opening installation. Many of the works on view have benefitted from new research and conservation efforts, shedding additional light on their fabrication and display histories, and in some cases, the identity of their maker.
At its opening in 1984, the Haggerty Museum of Art was envisioned both as a repository for Marquette’s collection of fine art and as a center for learning through the visual arts in a way that emphasized necessary connections to other disciplines in the humanities and sciences. Four decades later, the museum reaffirms that commitment to interdisciplinary connection. The Haggerty’s broad and varied collection is the product of passionate art collectors and supporters in the Milwaukee area and beyond, to whom we are exceedingly grateful. Their gifts to the museum allow us to present the brilliant and inspiring work of artists who speak boldly to their time and place, and to generations to come.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the museum will host a slate of curator-led gallery talks and a lecture series with invited specialists to address works on view in the exhibition.
Support for this exhibition is generously provided by the Emmett J. Doerr Endowment Fund and in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Image: Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (Kids of Survival), “Second Study for Amerika – The Stoker, South Bronx”, 1992, Mixed media and collage, Gift of Allen and Vicki Samson, 2004.15.7, Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University

Community Art Therapy Studio
2024-11-28 15:30 - 17:30, 2024-12-05 15:30 - 17:30, 2024-12-12 15:30 - 17:30 | SWIM Movement Room, 831 N 27th St, Milwaukee, WI, 53208, United States
This creative support group is facilitated by a Bloom art therapist. Participants of all ages are offered an art directive but may choose to freely create. No prior art therapy or art experience is needed and materials are provided. Using art to build relationships, foster a sense of belonging, experiment with materials that regulate the nervous system, learn skills and techniques, provide safe and supportive community space

Free Physical Therapy Clinic
2024-11-28 17:00 - 19:00, 2024-12-02 17:00 - 19:00, 2024-12-05 17:00 - 19:00, 2024-12-09 17:00 - 19:00, 2024-12-12 17:00 - 19:00 | SWIM Movement Room, 831 N 27th St, Milwaukee, WI, 53208, United States
The ComMUnity Physical Therapy Clinic is a student-operated physical therapy initiative. We provide physical therapy services to medically uninsured and underinsured individuals of Milwaukee by incorporating licensed physical therapists and physical therapy students in a collaborative educational model.

Father Christmas at the Pabst Mansion
2024-12-01 15:00 - 17:30, 2024-12-08 15:00 - 17:30, 2024-12-15 15:00 - 17:30 | Pabst Mansion, 2000 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53233, United States
With his lantern, walking stick and red cloak with white trim, a whimsical Father Christmas travels south each Sunday during the holiday season to wander gracefully through the Pabst Mansion’s three floors. Create magical memories with letters to Santa, holiday treats for purchase, and room after room of enchanting Christmas displays.

Washington Park Monthly Meeting
2024-12-02 17:30 - 18:30 | UMCS, 3910 W Lisbon Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Information sharing and an opportunity to connect with neighbors and providers.

SKY Schools Intro to Breathwork
2024-12-04 08:00 - 09:00 | SWIM Movement Room, 831 N 27th St, Milwaukee, WI, 53208, United States
Get to know the power of your breath! These 60 minute intros to SKY Schools will give you a chance to learn how targeted breathing can be used to regulate your emotions, focus mind, and help help you improver your performance in many areas of life. The SKY Schools team will give you some background in the neuro-science of stress and how it blocks us from being our best self. Join us at Concordia 27 to learn these powerful techniques.

Coffee Social
2024-12-05 07:30 - 10:00 | Fruition MKE, 825 N. 27th Street, Milwaukee, WI, 53208
FREE coffee, tea, and donuts. Learn about housing initiatives, events, and Near West Side Partners. Tour Concordia 27 & network with your neighborhood!
