JAN
20
by AYZHA Fine Arts Gallery & BoutiqueFree
Parents have a plethora of parenting resources that begins with prenatal development and continues through adolescence. Once a child turns 18, though, the wealth of parental resources vanishes or are minimal at best. Painfully aware of the void while she navigated the waters of parenting adult children, Allison launched The Other Side of Adorable blog to document her experiences, knowing other parents would relate. She coupled her passion for writing with a suggestion of turning the blog into a book, and now … the void is filled.
Allison began her nursing career in Milwaukee, WI, over 20 years ago and is now an independent nurse educator. Allison has an extensive clinical and academic background and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Education. But, no matter how many initials and titles Allison earns, her greatest accomplishments and treasures will always be her children.
Things To Do In Milwaukee Networking Family & Education
Sun, January 20, 2019
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM CST
AYZHA Fine Arts - Gallery & Boutique
275 W Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53203
Delightful abstracts by Milwaukee painter Darron Reed will be the centerpiece of this week’s Gallery Night & Day at Ayzha Fine Arts, 275 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee. Darron’s style (sample above) can be described as expressionist, with touches of cubism. He likes to hide images in his works and otherwise have fun with his art. He became serious about art at age 10 when he surprised himself by winning first place in a drawing contest at Atkinson Library. His twin brother came in second. Darron’s longtime day job is as lead service technician at St. John’s on the Lake, a retirement home. Works of two emerging artists – painter Dezarae Potis and photographer Ja-Mari (Jae) Lloyd - will also be on exhibit. We will feature some of Dezarae’s abstracts (sample below). Like Darron’s, Dezarae’s style is expressionist. Specifically, she uses the terms “abstract emotional expressionism” and “intuitive.” Jae’s photographic exhibit will consist of his take on urban landmarks.
Abstract painting
This weekend at Ayzha Fine Arts Gallery & Boutique:
Young, emerging artists will take over a section of the gallery in an exhibit titled “Fresh Faces.”
Exquisite drawings and paintings by a refugee family from Somalia will be on display.
Trees wrought in metal by a retired Milwaukee welder will be showcased.
Artists will do portraits live.
A DJ-MC duo will jam.
Gallery Night & Day, a Friday and Saturday affair, is bursting with so much activity this time around that the event will spill over into Sunday as part of what Ayzha Fine Arts dubs “Gallery Weekend.” (“Ayzha,” a person’s name, is pronounced like the continent “Asia.”)
A multicultural art gallery with an emphasis on black art, Ayzha Fine Arts sits on the second floor of The Shops of Grand Avenue mall, 275 W. Wisconsin Ave. Gallery Night will run from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 20; Gallery Day, from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 21, and Gallery Sunday, from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, July 22.
The fresh faces in the “Fresh Faces” exhibit include: Natalia Virafuentes, who paints and sketches; Christina Roeder, who paints; Treesa Sellhausen, who paints and works with ceramics; architect Jeff Brown, who paints and does graphic design; Kelly Pritchard, who paints, and Verinia Glass, who illustrates and does portraits. Virafuentes is based in Chicago; the others are Milwaukee-based. Glass is guest-curating the exhibit.
The Osman family, who fled violence in Somalia, has washed ashore in Sheboygan, so to speak. Gunmen had stormed their Mogadishu home and killed their father for his refusal to close an art school he had started. Ayzha Fine Arts is working with four Osman brothers: Abdulahi, 21; Abdurahim, 20; Abdulfatah, 18, and Abdikudus, 17. Their works, produced since their arrival in Wisconsin in 2016, will be on exhibit all weekend and the brothers themselves will be present on Gallery Sunday.
James Binnamin, a retired Milwaukee welder, sculpts trees out of various metals. His works will be on exhibit.
Also on display will be paintings by two multimedia artists: Darron Reed of Milwaukee and Megan Bloesch of Madison.
Verinia Glass, noted muralist Reynaldo Hernandez, his daughter Rozalia Singh and the Osmans will do speed portraits for purchase.
MC Grendyll Ward & DJ Aztek, both noted Milwaukee musicians, will entertain on Friday. Their music is fresh, hot and honest.
Artists will discuss their works. Refreshments will be on hand. The event is free and open to the public.
An injured woman and some butterflies, a hand above her
Prominent Milwaukee muralist Reynaldo Hernandez will be the featured artist at January’s Gallery Night & Day at Ayzha Fine Arts Gallery & Boutique, on the second floor of the Shops of Grand Avenue, 275 W. Wisconsin Avenue. The gallery will show new abstracts and surreal works by the versatile artist.
Gallery Night will run from 5 to 10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19 at Ayzha Fine Arts. Gallery Day will run from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday. Jan 20. The exhibit is titled “Other Sides of Reynaldo Hernandez.”
The works of Hernandez are likely viewed more often than those of any other Milwaukee artist. Thousands of commuters on the I-94 bridge over the near south side daily glimpse his magnificent “Mural of Peace,” where a dove confronts an eagle. And thousands of other passers-by daily eye his other murals across the city, including his newly refurbished painting about the arts on the exterior of the old Inner City Arts Council building at 6th St. and North Ave.
Also on Gallery Night & Day, painter Rebecca Moczulewski will unveil works exploring the ambivalence surrounding black men and the American flag. On display, too, will be abstracts by Jose Alvarez, a globally collected and exhibited artist based in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and by Jeff Brown Jr. of Milwaukee and Ashley Robertson of Washington, D.C. Finally, artistic genius Francis Annan Affotey, a Ghanian turned Milwaukeean, will show off his newly designed scarves and other wearables.
Artists will talk. Refreshments, including a hot beverage, will be served at the free event.
quin·quen·ni·alpronunciation:
kwIn kwe ni l [or] kwIng kwe ni lpart of speech:noundefinition 1:a commemoration or anniversary of something that took place five years in the past. - Wordsmyth
Come on down to Ayzha Fine Arts Gallery & Boutique this weekend – Gallery Night & Day – to celebrate the quinquennial of our opening.
GALLERY NIGHT: Friday, Oct. 20, 5-9 p.m.
GALLERY DAY, Saturday, Oct. 21, Noon-4 p.m.
Event is free and open to the public. Ayzha Fine Arts is on the second floor of The Shops of Grand Avenue, 275 W. Wisconsin Ave. Street parking is free after 6 p.m. Friday and all day Saturday (with a two-hour limit on Saturday).
DVD of the panel discussion will be available at Ayzha Fine Arts
Will Donald Trump return black people to the back of the bus and gay people to the closet?A panel will discuss “The Struggle for a Fair America in the Age of Trump” from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 1 at Ayzha Fine Arts Gallery & Boutique, on the second floor of the Grand Avenue mall, 275 W. Wisconsin Ave.Panelists will include Howard Fuller, former Milwaukee school superintendent and lifelong battler for racial justice; the Rev. Joseph Ellwanger, longtime human rights advocate in Milwaukee; Karen Gotzler, an LGBT advocate, and artists Rebecca Moczulewski and Vedale Hill. The moderator will be Dasha Kelly, spoken word artist and novelist.Moczulewski has done a series of watercolors featuring scenes at Repairers of the Breach, a daytime shelter for the homeless. Hill makes social comment through his paintings. The works of both artists are on exhibit at Ayzha Fine Arts, a multicultural gallery with an emphasis on art from the African diaspora.
The panel discussion is free and open to the public, but participants must reserve seats by e-mailing thegallery@ayzhafineartsgallery.com or calling 414-220-4355.The civil rights movement of the 1960s was but the first of a series of movements to make America fairer – for African Americans, Hispanics, women, gays, poor people, the disabled, etc.Now enters President Trump, who pushed the falsehood that the nation’s first black president was not an American, who characterizes Hispanic immigrants as rapists and criminals, who equates Nazis who kill with protesters of Nazis who kill, who orders generals to discriminate against transgender people.Does the Trump presidency signal a reversal of the decades-long drive o make America live up to its creed that all people are created equal. That’s the urgent question the panel will address.
The panel discussion will double as a book-signing. Three of the participants have recently published books. Ellwanger has written Strength for the Struggle: Insights from the Civil Rights Movement and Urban Ministry. Howard Fuller has written No Struggle No Progress: A Warrior s Life from Black Power to Education Reform. And Dasha Kelly’s latest book is a novel: Almost Crimson. Time will be set aside for the authors to talk about their works and to sign books.
Gallery Night & Day
Friday Oct. 20, 6 to 9p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 21, noon to 4 p.m.
Works of Patricia Obletz, Francis Annan Affotey, Kevin Boatright, Richard Allen & other artists who have shared the years with us
Refreshments. Entertainments
- Fellowship workshop • Tuesday, September 12, 2017, 6-7:30 pm at Ayzha Fine Arts Gallery, The Shops at the Grand Avenue Mall, 275 W. Wisconsin Ave., 2nd floor (enter at 3rd Street & Wisconsin Avenue). This session is co-sponsored by Wisconsin Visual Artists.
Video Curtsy of mondrosenfilme
The 2017 Nohl Fellows will be selected by a panel of recognized visual arts professionals working outside the four-county area: Michelle Jacques, Chief Curator, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada; Allison Peters Quinn, Director of Exhibitions & Residency Programs, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; and Gabriel Ritter, Curator and Head
The 2017 Nohl Fellows will be selected by a panel of recognized visual arts professionals working outside the four-county area: Michelle Jacques, Chief Curator, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada; Allison Peters Quinn, Director of Exhibitions & Residency Programs, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; and Gabriel Ritter, Curator and Head of Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.Artist Mary L. Nohl of Fox Point, Wisconsin, died in December 2001 at the age of 87. She left a $9.6 million bequest to the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. Her fund supports local visual arts and education programs, keeping her passion for the visual arts alive in the community.In addition to receiving an award, the Nohl Fellows will participate in an exhibition at the Haggerty Museum of Art that opens in June 2018. An exhibition catalogue will be published and disseminated nationally.The work of the five fellows selected in the 2016 cycle of the competition—Jesse McLean and Joseph Mougel in the Established Artist category; and Emerging Artists Rose Curley, Robin Jebavy, and Brooke Thiele—remains on view at the Haggerty Museum of Art through September 17. They are completing their fellowship year with a series of free talks, performances, and screenings this fall. More details here: http://www.marquette.edu/haggerty/events.php.The Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship program also includes a Suitcase Export Fund for exporting work by local artists beyond the four-county area. The fourteenth cycle of the Suitcase Export Fund will open on Thursday, December 1, 2017, when the electronic application and guidelines will become available at http://lyndensculpturegarden.org/nohl.For more than a century, the Greater Milwaukee Foundation has helped individuals, families and organizations realize their philanthropic goals and make a difference in the community, during their lifetimes and for future generations. The Foundation consists of more than 1,300 individual charitable funds, each created by donors to serve the charitable causes of their choice. The Foundation also deploys both human and financial resources to address the most critical needs of the community and ensure the vitality of the region. Established in 1915, the Foundation was one of the first community foundations in the world and is now among the largest.
Mayor to help unveil postcards touting cityscape "Scenic Milwaukee"
"Gallery Weekend" comingMayor Tom Barrett will help unveil on Sunday April 23 a series of postcards created by Ayzha Fine Arts and dubbed “Scenic Milwaukee.” The postcards celebrate Milwaukee by highlighting landmarks and other attractive features in the cityscape. Large, framed prints of postcard images will also go on exhibit.
We are stretching Gallery Night & Day -- Friday & Saturday, April 21 & 22--- to include Sunday, April 23 and are calling the result Gallery Weekend. Besides the postcards, the weekend will include an exhibit of works of noted Milwaukee artist Patricia Obletz. Also, by popular demand, the exhibit of Bill Sanders’ blistering political cartoons, which had been scheduled to close in March, will remain up for the weekend and beyond.
“Scenic Milwaukee” showcases the crisp and vivid works of fine arts photographer Richard Allen. An oil painter as well, he shoots pictures with an artist’s eye. Greg Stanford, an amateur photographer and gallery co-owner, contributed to the series.
The series is a response to out-of-town visitors who come into Ayzha Fine Arts looking for Milwaukee postcards as tokens of their trip. A steady share of gallery patrons hail from elsewhere due to the gallery's proximity to the convention center, the Amtrak station and downtown hotels. For visitors and residents alike, the 5-by-7-inch postcards also serve as an inexpensive way to acquire art.
The Gallery Weekend schedule:
Gallery Night: 5-9 p.m., Friday, April 21, program at 7 p.m. (street parking free after 6 p.m.).
Gallery Day: noon-4 p.m. Saturday, April 22, program at 2 p.m. (street parking free all day, with a two-hour limit).
Gallery Sunday: 2-5 p.m. Sunday April 23, program at 3 p.m. (street parking free all day, no limit).
The “Scenic Milwaukee” postcards will officially debut on April 23, when Mayor Barrett will help christen them, but visitors will get a sneak preview on April 21 and 22. Refreshments will be served all three days.
(With a mall purchase of at least $5, parking in the Grand Avenue garage is $1 an hour, if you stay no longer than three hours and get your parking ticket stamped. Otherwise, mall parking is pricey.)
Milwaukee Docent-Led Walking Tour Saturday, July 22, 2017 Hosted by the African American Art Allianc
Milwaukee Docent-Led Walking Tour Saturday, July 22, 2017 Hosted by the African American Art Alliance Cost $10 cash only, upon arrival Please RSVP to by July 18 to blkart2013@gmail.com to reserve your spot and headset. Please join the African American Art Alliance on Saturday, July 22, 2017 at the Milwaukee Art Museum's Windhover Hall Coffee Shop between 10:00- 10:45 a.m. The tour starts at 11:00 and will visit all 22 sculptures.
Ayzha Fine Arts Gallery & Boutique will showcase the hard-hitting editorial cartoons of legendary Milwaukee Journal cartoonist Bill Sanders on Gallery Night & Day, Friday and Saturday, Jan. 20 & 21. Bill’s daughter,Denese Sanders of California, will be on hand to talk about her father’s work. Bill himself will make a live, two-way video appearance from his home in Florida.
Bill penned editorial cartoons for The Milwaukee Journal from 1967 to 1991. Exposing injustice, untruth and unfairness, his cartoons upset the powers-that-be in Milwaukee, particularly Mayor Henry Maier, who spent good chunks of long press conferences on tirades against the cartoonist, even once challenging him to a boxing match. One bone of contention between the two was the mayor’s opposition to an open housing ordinance.
Fittingly, the exhibit opens on Inauguration Day, which has stirred up widespread fears of a new, Trumpian Dark Age disrupting the struggle for social and economic fairness and justice in America. Bill’s artistry is one antidote to the possibly impending gloom. Even his old works still ring true, championing as they do civil rights and human dignity – themes that may resound with even more urgency in the months ahead.
1/4
Milwaukee is the second stop in what may be a travelling exhibit of Bill’s cartoons. The first stop was Seaside, Calif., at Open Grounds Studio, a gallery run by Bill’s daughter Denese. The exhibit was titled “Against the Grain: Timeless Impressions.” The Ayzha Fine Arts exhibit, however, will include cartoons about Milwaukee and Wisconsin, which were absent from the California show.
Gallery Night will take place from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 20, with a program at 7 p.m. Gallery Day will take place from noon to 4 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 21, with a program at 2 p.m. Refreshments and entertainment will be provided. Ayzha Fine Arts is on the second floor of the Shops of Grand Avenue, 275 W. Wisconsn Ave.
Also on Gallery Night & Day a boutique corner of the gallery will debut featuring the wearable art of Francis Annan Affotey, whose paintings have delighted Milwaukee since we opened more than four years ago. Besides his works on canvas, he makes an art of bow ties, shoes, jackets, dashikis, t-shirts and other items of clothing.
Featured as well will be new nature photography by Byron Becker of Milwaukee and African urban scenes painted by Atsu Namadzi, a Ghanian now living in Washington, D.C.
Copyright © 2022
Ayzha Fine Arts Gallery - All Rights Reserved.
Powered by Ruffcopy Films