ISBN: 9781597114790
Photographs by Sara Cwynar. Text by Sheila Heti and Legacy Russell. Interviewer Rose Bouthillier.
Sara Cwynar (born in Vancouver, 1985) graduated with a bachelor of design honors degree from York University in Toronto in 2010. After working as a freelance graphic designer for the
New York Times, she earned an MFA in photography from Yale University in 2016. Her debut solo US museum exhibition,
Sara Cwynar: Image Model Muse, opened at the Minneapolis Institute of Art in September 2018, prior to traveling to the Milwaukee Art Museum. Cwynar’s
Red Film (2018) was included in the 2018 São Paulo Biennial, and she completed a residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, in summer 2018. In June 2019, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, opened
Be MKE: The best places to work, new restaurants and vaccine hesitancy
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What are the best places to work in southeastern Wisconsin? I got you. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has put together its annual listing of the top workplaces in the region. West Bend Mutual Insurance Co. topped our list for large employers. Small, medium and large companies are recognized on the listing of 141 employers. See which companies made the list for the first time and those recognized with special awards.
Portrait Society Gallery of Contemporary Art opens an exhibition of Shari Urquhart s tapestries
Shari Urquhart, Its 10 o Clock Do You Know?, 1982. 71 x 107 inches.
MILWAUKEE, WI
.-Portrait Society Gallery of Contemporary Art is presenting this major exhibition in conjunction with The Warehouse. Forty years of Shari Urquharts fiber art tapestries are being presented in two Milwaukee venues. This is the first time this extraordinary group of more than 30 monumental, figurative textiles from the artists estate has been shown together.
In addition, Portrait Society presents a related show featuring the work of Chicago artist Phyllis Bramson, who attended graduate school with Urquhart.
While Milwaukeeans already know just how cool their city is, Esquire recently took notice.
The city was featured in the May 5 article 5 Unexpectedly Awesome Domestic Cities to Fuel Your Wanderlust by Ashlea Halpern. The story highlights five places with an abundance of culture, architecture and good food, but are less trafficked than cities, like Los Angeles or New York.
While most locals don t pronounce Milwaukee as mill-e-wah-que like Alice Cooper did in Wayne s World and Halpern reminded us of in her piece, she did give some well-deserved shout-outs to a handful of Milwaukee favorites.
One of the restaurant s Halpern highlighted was the small-plate eatery Odd Duck, which is reopening Tuesday for in-person dining after more than a year without.