The Big 4-0: An Exhibition Celebrating the Haggerty Museum of Art’s Forty Years
2024-10-17 10:00 - 16:30, 2024-10-18 10:00 - 16:30, 2024-10-19 10:00 - 16:30, 2024-10-21 10:00 - 16:30, 2024-10-22 10:00 - 16:30, 2024-10-23 10:00 - 16:30, 2024-10-24 10:00 - 16:30, 2024-10-25 10:00 - 16:30 (America/Chicago) and 5 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
2024-10-17 15:30 - 17:30, 2024-10-24 15:30 - 17:30, 2024-10-31 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

Illuminating the Dark at Pabst Mansion
2024-10-17 16:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-18 16:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-19 16:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-24 16:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-25 16:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-26 16:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-31 16:00 - 17:00 | Pabst Mansion, 2000 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53233, United States
This specialty afterhours tour offered only in October will take place in a dimly lit Mansion where themes of darkness and the revealing of unseen spaces will be explored, offering visitors an opportunity to see the Pabst Mansion in a ‘new light’. Visitors will be guided by candlelight as they explore the dark, in areas varying from literal light sources in the home, to approaching the darkness of loss, to viewing hidden compartments and seldom-seen lower level spaces.

InSite: Cycles - Wild Space Dance Company
2024-10-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Davidson Park, 3725 W Juneau Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53208, United States
Join Wild Space Dance Company in discovering Davidson Park, the new public oasis on Harley-Davidson’s corporate campus in Milwaukee’s Near West Side neighborhood. InSite: Cycles is a free, site-specific dance performance that explores the park’s architecture and the land’s historical significance. A diverse group of artists choreograph and perform this dynamic dance, traversing the concentric circles of The Hub, the park’s wheel-inspired amphitheater. The circular design drives the audience through layers of visual rhythm, repetition, and return, inspiring us to explore cycles of community, togetherness, and inclusivity. At the historic birthplace of the first Harley, the rumble of motorcycles and echoes of the past roll ever forward in this captivating ride.

NWSP Trunk or Treat
2024-10-21 08:00 - 17:00 | Concordia 27, 801 N 27th St, Milwaukee, WI, 53208, United States
Family-friendly, fun and safe
Halloween celebration. This FREE event offers food, music, games and fun fore the whole family. Costumes and spooky attires are encouraged. In case of inclement weather, the event will be cancelled.

Free Physical Therapy Clinic
2024-10-21 17:00 - 19:00, 2024-10-24 17:00 - 19:00, 2024-10-28 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.

Trunk or Treat
2024-10-26 13:00 - 15:00 | Concordia 27, 801 N 27th St, Milwaukee, WI, 53208, United States
Join NWSP, Marquette Police Department and the Milwaukee Police Department for a safe and family-friendly “Trunk or Treat!” This event is free and offers food, music, games and fun for the whole family! Costumes and spooky attire is encouraged.
In the case of inclement weather, this event will be canceled.

Sensory-Friendly Sessions
2024-10-27 15:30 - 17:30 | Betty Brinn Children’s Museum, 929 E Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53202, United States
Families can enjoy the Betty Brinn Children’s Museum in a calmer, quieter space during our
Sensory-Friendly Sessions. These special playtimes include open-play and facilitated
Programming. Advanced reservations are recommended.
