Please join us for Gallery Night and Day!
Each year, as a part of Milwaukee's Gallery Night in the Third Ward, we host an open house for local art fans.
We're thrilled to announce that Overpass Light Brigade and Susan Simensky Bietila have been selected to exhibit their work in our space. Scroll down to read more about the artists.
Who: The ACLU of Wisconsin and you!
What: Join us Friday evening for delicious food, drinks, and an exhibit of civil liberties-themed artwork. Can't make it Friday? The exhibit will be open Saturday, too.
When: Friday, April 19, from 5 to 10 p.m., and Saturday, April 20, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Click here to join the event on Facebook.
Where: The ACLU's Milwaukee office in the historic Third Ward (map here)
Thanks to: Our sponsor, The Marshall Building
About Overpass Light Brigade
Overpass Light Brigade (OLB) was founded in 2011 by artists Lisa Moline and Lane Hall. OLB is a group of volunteers who gather at night on pedestrian overpasses and hold light-up letters that spell progressive political messages to the drivers below. OLB volunteers document each bridge action and disseminate the messages via social media. OLB, which has followers around the globe, has inspired numerous activists to form Light Brigade groups of their own across the nation. Visit overpasslightbrigade.org to see their work.
Artists Moline and Hall have exhibited other works of art at the Brooklyn Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the California Academy of Sciences, the Shanghai World Expo, the Field Museum in Chicago, the Science Gallery in Dublin, and Eyebeam in New York City.
About Susan Simensky Bietila
Susan Simensky Bietila has been making art in collaboration with progressive social movements since the mid-1960s. She works in many different media, including printmaking, drawing, documentary and art photography, murals, and installations. Her art has been widely published, republished and exhibited in the United States, Canada and recently Australia. She is a regular contributor and sometime editorial collective member of World War 3 Illustrated magazine, and has co-curated many Wisconsin-based and national exhibitions, including Graphic Radicals, Drawing Resistance, and a retrospective show of Carlos Cortez prints and labor activist prints made by Midwest artists. Visit www.art-as-activism.blogspot.com to view her work.
Questions about Gallery Night and Day? Please contact Angie or Marion at (414) 272-4032.
We hope to see you there!
