Are you ready to landscape with Wisconsin native plants but aren’t sure which ones are best suited to your sliver of urban green space?
June 2004
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Spin City
The final issue of Art Muscle magazine was published in the summer of 1997. As publisher/editor, I made the decision to devote our farewell to the “art of criticism.” Four well-known writers were given space to correct the common misunderstanding of the word “criticism,” i.e. that it does not mean to hammer an artist relentlessly…
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REcycle… REpair… REclaim
In response to the Haggerty Museum of Art’s exhibition Agnes Denes: Projects for Public Spaces, students from Milwaukee Public Schools and Marquette University have created large-scale sculptures from discarded materials. The student artists worked cooperatively, each school producing one sculpture. The purpose of the project was for students to learn about and call attention to ecological, cultural, and social issues affecting their communities…
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Havalah’s Wait
At first glance, Havalah Kolb is like any other 11-month-old baby. She smiles, bangs on toys, gets into everything, and is doted on by all who lay eyes on her. Her mother, Kristen, takes her for walks and makes sure that she gets plenty of play time. It’s hard to believe that this beautiful baby is dangerously close to liver failure…
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Townsend House Makeover
Structurally sound, the rooms were just too small. The staircase to the semi-finished second floor was narrow with a ceiling so low you needed to duck to go up. The second floor had two bedrooms with seven-foot ceilings. The remaining space had no ceiling at all. The house was a candidate for an Extreme House Makeover. But Hollywood wasn’t coming to Riverwest.
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