East Town + East Side

David Barnett Gallery

Fri: 5-9 PM, Sat: 11 AM-5 PM
1024 E. State St.

Degrees of Focus: Photography and Photographic Mixed Media

While photography was considered to be a mechanical, commercial and noncreative pursuit as late as the 20th century, we now understand it and mixed media to be the result of many complex aesthetic and technical choices. This exhibition will explore some of the ways in which photographic and mixed media art have altered the once singular focus of photography. They reflect, communicate and shape cultural meaning; they manipulate images far beyond their original form; they can be performative; they engage time and memory; and they are ever-more ambiguous, complicated and changing. 

Civilian Beauty Grooming & Education

Fri: 5-8 PM
777 E. Wisconsin Ave., Galleria Level

Strands of Expression

 Join us for An immersive art party! Tap into your creativity with an interactive evening featuring the work of Jaqui J – musician, artist and creative force. Explore the power of self-expression through recycled nail polish art, turning everyday materials into vibrant masterpieces. Now more than ever, creative expression is essential — come be part of the movement! 

Green Gallery

Fri: 5-8 PM, Sat: 1-5 PM
1500 N. Farwell Ave.

Sculpture Milwaukee Benefit 

Please join Sculpture Milwaukee and The Green Gallery for an exhibition celebrating a group Actual Fractals, Acts I-III artists. View and have the chance to acquire new artworks that enrich the experience of our public exhibition by many of the artists who are currently on view. Proceeds from this exhibition support Sculpture Milwaukee’s newest exhibition publication by Pao Houa Her, as well as future public art programming.

Grohmann Museum at MSOE

Fri: 5-9 PM (Gallery Talk: 6 PM), Sat: 12-6 PM
1000 N. Broadway

Going to Work for the Community: A Visual History of the Beckum-Stapleton Little League 

Since former Negro League baseball player James W. Beckum founded the Beckum-Stapleton Little League (BSLL) in 1964, over 25,000 Milwaukee youth have participated in the League’s organized baseball and softball programs. Operating as the oldest Black-led Little League outside the South, the BSLL’s dedicated and diverse community of volunteers, supporters, and players have worked to maintain the League as a vital Milwaukee institution for over half a century. With the recent passing of Beckum in 2024, and the League currently commemorating its 60th anniversary, celebrating and sharing the history of the BSLL is more important than ever to ensure that this essential part of Milwaukee’s Bronzeville neighborhood continues to fill the City of Milwaukee with pride, joy and a love of baseball for decades to come. This exhibition will feature photographs and ephemera from BSLL history and is curated by Dr. Michael Carriere, MSOE HSC Professor, along with Ken Bartelt and Rodney Bourrage, Sr. of the Team Beckum Public History Project.

Kenilworth Square East Gallery

Fri: 5-7 PM, Sat; 11 AM-3 PM
2155 N. Prospect Ave.

Shape & Shadow: MFA Exhibition

The UWM Peck School of the Arts celebrates its graduating MFA artists, who exhibit their finest work and share their creative journeys. Featuring work by Art & Design graduate students Mich Dillon, Howard Leu, William Justice “Bucko Crooks” Mueller II, Tanner MacArthur, Andrew McConville and Rachel Sanders.

La Gente Art Gallery

Fri: 5-9 PM, Sat: 12-8 PM
2478 N. Murray Ave.

The Golden Heart Exhibition

A showcase of local Milwaukee photographers that won the La Gente Art Gallery first photography contest! We will be including their winning photographs amongst other works in their collection and presenting them with their award. Each winner will be showcasing their category of Street Photography, Fashion Photography, and Portrait Photography. You will be able to see this amazing talent and have the opportunity to purchase prints, merchandise, exhibition catalogue, etc.

Saint Kate – The Arts Hotel

Fri: 5-9 PM
139 E. Kilbourn Ave.

Process, Procedure, Presence

Join us for Spring Gallery Night with Saint Kate Artist in Residence, Megan Woodard Johnson. Step into the Artist in Residence studio and be immersed in her mixed-media, abstract practice. Experience bold color, strong composition, and rich detail that evokes joy, sparks curiosity, and encourages close inspection. Megan will show new paintings that consider the relationship between gestures, strategies, media and how, with a little added intuitive human magic, those forces contribute to each artist’s unique vision. While you’re here, grab a creatively inspired cocktail, have a conversation with Saint Kate’s Curator in Residence, Shane McAdams, and visit our galleries to view all new exhibitions featuring artists Jessica Calderwood, Walter Biggs, Stephen Maine, Michael Ware and Andrew Benson.

The Pfister Hotel

Fri: 5-9 PM
424 E. Wisconsin Ave.

Opulent Visions – Pfister Artist in Residence Premiere