by Jason Smith | Oct 12, 2017 | Magazine Article
Imagine a Milwaukee city skyline that not only lets you know when it will rain, but also reminds you to conserve water when it does. Watermarks: An Atlas of Water and the City of Milwaukee is a new project that proposes to do just this by using art and large-scale...
by Jane Elder | Oct 12, 2017 | Magazine Article
If you live in a flood-prone area, you may be familiar with a term like 500-year flood, which is a description engineers, planners, and emergency agencies use to predict the likelihood, frequency, and scale of flooding events. A 500-year flood, which has a 0.2% chance...
by Jeff Esterholm | Oct 12, 2017 | Magazine Article
The five women, all in their thirties and costumed as pigs in pink cotton onesies, faces hidden by Petunia Pig masks, trotted in through the back door of the house on the corner of 16th and Marquette and into its dark kitchen. The one who led them through the unlocked...
by Judith Woodburn | Oct 12, 2017 | Magazine Article
Perched on a hilltop in LaFarge, Star Cemetery is just across the road from artist Terese Agnew’s house. Over the past decade, Agnew has visited the tiny cemetery almost daily on her walks, finding inspiration in its sweeping views of the Kickapoo River Valley. But in...
by Alyssa Skiba | Oct 12, 2017 | Magazine Article
The inviting orange glow emanating from the back of the Popelka Trenchard Glass studio belies the fury that lies within the 2,000-degree furnace: three hundred pounds of molten soda-lime glass. While the front of the studio is lined with luminous bowls and vases,...
by Krista Eastman | Oct 12, 2017 | Magazine Article
Yeasts are single-celled organisms whose voracious appetite for sugar serves us well. For over ten thousand years, humans have harnessed the fermentative power of yeast to create beer, wine, cheese, and bread. But yeasts are also critical to the process of generating...
