Martin Luther King Jr. Day - NWSP Offices Closed
2026-01-19 | W

MLK Celebration - "Building Hope and Inspiring Change"
2026-01-19 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Milwaukee Public Library – MLK Library, 2901 N. MLK Drive, Milwaukee, WI
Various events all day long.

Spring 2026 Exhibition Opening Reception
2026-01-22 18:00 - 19:00 | 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, WI 53233, 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, 53233, United States
Celebrate the opening of four new exhibitions! Meet the curators and artists, enjoy seasonal refreshments, and be the first to view freshly interpreted works commemorating 250 years of America, Robert Rauschenberg’s 100th birthday, and an artist’s 10th anniversary project with local community members. The free-to-the-public opening reception features:
This Side of the Stars: Rauschenberg’s Stoned Moon in the Company of Kite, Paglen, and Yi
Let the Real World In
Defying Empire: Revolutionary Prints from Britain and America
Declaration of ____
Image: Robert Rauschenberg, Trust Zone (Stoned Moon), 1969, Lithograph, 40 x 33 inches, Ed. 22/65, published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University ©Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Gemini G.E.L.

This Side of the Stars: Rauschenberg’s Stoned Moon in the Company of Kite, Paglen, and Yi
2026-01-23 10:00 - 16:30, 2026-01-24 10:00 - 16:30, 2026-01-25 10:00 - 16:30, 2026-01-26 10:00 - 16:30, 2026-01-27 10:00 - 16:30, 2026-01-28 10:00 - 16:30, 2026-01-29 10:00 - 16:30, 2026-01-30 10:00 - 16:30 and 14 more dates | Haggerty Museum of Art, 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, WI, 53233, United States
In the 100th year since the birth of pioneering artist Robert Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008), this exhibition highlights a selection of the artist’s “Stoned Moon” prints from the Haggerty’s collection shown alongside the work of three active artists: Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, and composer Kite; artist, geographer, and author Trevor Paglen; and Milwaukee-based multimedia artist Jason S. Yi. Rauschenberg’s color lithographs spark a conversation about humanity’s technological ambitions across the modern era that is brought into our current moment through these artists’ recent work. Kite’s dyed deer hides embroidered with Lakȟóta geometric semiotics are meditations on black holes, functioning also as sonic scores. Paglen’s sumptuous photographs capture unidentified flying objects both in and beyond Earth’s atmosphere, raising questions about surveillance by human and non-human actors. Yi’s installation of Red-crowned cranes cast from mulberry pulp, forms a towering column of the endangered birds that have found a resurgent nesting ground in the demilitarized zone separating North Korea and South Korea.
For his large-scale “Stoned Moon” lithographs, Rauschenberg drew on his experience witnessing the Apollo 11 lunar launch, melded with a range of popular imagery and NASA-provided photographs to reflect on a new sense of human possibility brought about by a leap in technological potential. The three contemporary artists featured in this exhibition consider the ethics of technological innovation and its varied outcomes by taking up current issues such as covert surveillance, humans’ relationships with the non-human, and the upspring of new life under repressive conditions. These artists prompt us to reconceive the dividing lines between what we know and what we believe, between human and non-human agency, and between our impact on nature and its response.
“This Side of the Stars: Rauschenberg’s Stoned Moon in the Company of Kite, Paglen, and Yi” is curated by Jennifer Johung, PhD, Professor of Contemporary Art and Architecture, and Director of the Center for 21st-Century Studies, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and Kirk Nickel, PhD, Haggerty Museum Curator of European Art.
Support for this exhibition is generously provided by Friends of the Haggerty Museum of Art Forward Funders and the Martha and Ray Smith, Jr. Endowment Fund.
Image: Robert Rauschenberg, “Trust Zone (Stoned Moon)”, 1969, Lithograph, 40 x 33 inches, Ed. 22/65, published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University ©Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Gemini G.E.L.

Making Zines, Making Change: A Conversation about Collaborating, Publishing, Selling, and Archiving DIY Art
2026-01-28 17:00 - 19:00 | 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, WI 53233, 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, 53233, United States
You’re invited to a community conversation about the hands-on power of zines and other DIY art.
Inspired by Spring ’26 Haggerty exhibitions Declaration of _____ and Let the Real World In as well as Artifact, the 8th annual Writing Innovation Symposium, scholar-teacher Jason Luther will be in conversation with local, Chicago- and Milwaukee-area artists, authors, publishers, and archivists, including Marc Fischer, Kirsten Leenaars, Liz Mason, and Milo Miller.
All are welcome.
Making Zines, Making Change is made possible by the Haggerty Museum of Art and Marquette English/FAME as well as the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Lemonis Center for Student Success along with long-time WIS partners Raynor Library and Macmillan Learning.

Business Training
2026-01-29 18:00 - 20:00 | Fruition MKE, 825 N. 27th Street, Milwaukee, WI, 53208
IP, Trademark training with Business Lawyers From DeWitt Law Firm.

Washington Park Monthly Meeting
2026-02-02 17:30 - 18:30 | UMCS, 3910 W Lisbon Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Information sharing and an opportunity to connect with neighbors and providers.

Family Support Group - NAMI Southeast Wisconsin
2026-02-10 18:30 - 20:00 | SWIM at Concordia 27, 831 N 27th St
1 in 5 adults lives with a mental illness, but 5 in 5 are affected. Mental Illness can take a toll on family, friends, and co-workers. You want to help, but everything you’ve tried hasn’t worked, or worse, has backfired. Or maybe your loved one is newly diagnosed, and you want to make sure you have skills at the ready for the inevitable challenges that will arise.

You are not alone.
Your loved one’s illness is not your fault
The more you understand, the better able you are to communicate and navigate
Led by trained facilitators with lived experience.

Deborah Bent and
Rick Schultz

Beginning on January 12, 2026.
2nd Tuedays from 6:30 to 8 pm.
No registration required.
For more information, please email: family programs@namisoutheastwi.org or visit our website at www.namisoutheastwi.org

MKE Youth Artscape Exhibition - Opening Reception
2026-02-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital, 2301 N Lake Dr, Milwaukee, WI 53211, 2301 N Lake Dr,, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
MKE Youth Artscape Exhibition
February 2026-June 2026
Opening Reception: February 11, 2026
Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital, 2301 N Lake Dr, Milwaukee, WI 53211
MKE Youth Artscape is a six-month professional art exhibition celebrating the creativity and perspectives of Milwaukee-area youth. Selected artwork will be displayed at Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital from January through June 2026, offering young artists a powerful platform to share their vision with the community.
