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Allison R.Bethune Milwaukee Book Signing
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Description
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.
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Date And Time
Sun, January 20, 2019
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM CST
Location
AYZHA Fine Arts - Gallery & Boutique
275 W Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53203
Gallery Night & Day October 19th & 20th 2018
Darron Reed's fun abstracts on exhibit at Ayzha Fine Arts
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
Gallery Night & Day July 20th & 21st 2018
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
Gallery Night & Day 1.19.18
OTHER SIDES OF REYNALDO HERNANDEZ
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.
Quinquennial
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.
- Video retrospective of Ayzha Fine Arts’ first five years
- Exhibit of works by artists from those five years
- Artist talks
- Performance by jazz & r&b vocalist Lloyd Stephens, leader of the Lloyd Stephens Band
- Live sketching by artist Verinia Glass
- Refreshments supplied by chef Marvin Jones
GALLERY DAY, Saturday, Oct. 21, Noon-4 p.m.
- Video retrospective of Ayzha Fine Arts’ first five years
- Exhibit of works by artists from those five years
- Artist talks
- Live sketching by Verinia Glass
- Anniversary cake and other refreshments
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).
Are we better off?
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.
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.