compiled by Mary Vuk, photo by Marie Larson Marie Larson, Chuck Stebleton, Julie Strand and Rob Baumann. There are over 27,000 books shelved neatly in the small reading room at Woodland Pattern. Recently, we asked the Woodland Pattern staff to choose a few of their favorite selections out of this vast selection of small press […]
by Jan Christensen MIAD faculty member and Riverwest resident Jennifer Geigel Mikulay is making a mark in the public art scene. She teaches an Art in Public Places sculpture class at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in the Third Ward. Recently her class completed a project in partnership with the Friends of the […]
By Jackie Reid Dettloff, photos by Tess Reiss There is a politics to gardening. Burned in my memory is an encounter I once had with a baby-boomer white guy who saw me working in a garden on Buffum Street. He wore a Grateful Dead tee shirt and a pair of jeans and he introduced himself […]
Vince Bushell From destruction will this lot arise anew? Again. The Pulaski building, once home to a movie theater, a grocery turned Gordon Park Co-op, one of the Outpost Co-op iterations, and a couple of basement bars was the site of a failed renewal project in the late 80s. It was finally torn down in […]
Cherish the land that no one owns. Li Po, 750 CE by Jean Scherwenka,photos Kurt Johnson Since the article in the November 2005 Currents about Milwaukee PCs Jim Petr clear-cutting the east bank of the Milwaukee River, heres what has happened: The Village of Shorewood hired the Lakota Group, an urban planning firm, to draw […]
