by Sonya Jongsma Knauss I am in the midst of packing boxes as I write. I may still be in the midst of packing boxes as you read. We are getting ready to leave our first residence in Riverwest and moving to our first home. It’s only seven blocks from where we live now, but […]
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Eighteenth Annual Artwalk: A Community Celebrating the Creative Spirit
Each year at the height of the fall season, members of the Riverwest Artists Association put down their rakes and open their homes, studios, and galleries for one of the finest walking art tours in the Great Lakes Region.
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The Hide House: Bay View Artist-Entrepreneur Creates Unique Opportunity for Riverwest Artist-Entrepreneurs
Gentrification has been a hot topic around the city lately. Whether you think it is good or bad, the renovation of The Hide House Arts Complex by Gibson (Gib) Bathrick of Alton Enterprises, LLC is a shining example of how the entrepreneurial spirit can benefit artists, musicians, and budding small business owners.
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BurningSnow Center and Snowflake Village
“There were people from Milwaukee there before us, but we were the first to really get organized. We wanted to give something back. So in 2000 we organized the first-ever theme village from the Midwest, and every year it just gets bigger and better. Call it Urban planning in a temporary city…”
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Milwaukee Group Makes Impact at Nation’s Strangest Festival
There might seem little connection between such a decidedly “left-coast” event [like Burning Man] and stolid Midwestern Milwaukee. But a local group has been gaining influence at the festival, and has created a related arts organization here in the city. It is called the BurningSnow center for the ExperiMENTAL arts, devoted to bringing a distinct Midwestern voice to this important event.
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