by Richard Moninski | Nov 30, 2022 | Magazine Article
Richard Moninski’s recent work explores several themes: the systemization of nature, the decorative impulse, the choices between representation and abstraction, and the history and culture of specific places. His paintings and drawings juxtapose indigenous flora and...
by Joseph Mougel | Nov 30, 2022 | Magazine Article
Joseph Mougel’s Herbarium project is a series of photographs inspired by plant archives and the desire to capture and preserve things that comprise a place. Living plants, both native and introduced, are contained or surrounded by floral-patterned teacups, plastic...
by Felice Green | Nov 21, 2022 | Magazine Article
Earlier this year, the nonprofit Milwaukee Water Commons launched a green infrastructure initiative to increase the urban tree canopy in the city’s neighborhoods. The program, called Branch Out Milwaukee, is a community-led, resident-driven collaboration...
by Emily Park | Nov 21, 2022 | Magazine Article
In Loving Orphaned Space: The Art and Science of Belonging to Earth, Mrill Ingram explores the forgotten spaces of both urban and rural landscapes, and finds grace in neglected pockets of human landscapes. Often accompanied by a friend, Ingram documents and ruminates...
by Guy Thorvaldsen | Nov 21, 2022 | Magazine Article
In his new novel, Painting Beyond Walls, David Rhodes returns to the hamlet of Words, Wisconsin, the setting of his two most recent novels, Driftless, and Jewelweed. It is now 2027 and change is on everyone’s mind: environmental degradation, aging, class disparity,...
by Angela Woodward | Nov 21, 2022 | Magazine Article
Unease crackles through an otherwise familiar Wisconsin Northwoods setting in Jill Stukenberg’s debut novel, News of the Air, winner of the Big Moose Prize from Black Lawrence Press. Allie and Bud abandoned Chicago almost twenty years ago to run a mom-and-pop resort...
