Create Space MKE is the main project resulting from an artist residency at Cardinal Stritch University. In early 2017, we had a series of events in the Joan Steele Stein Building - within the Northwestern Mutual Art Gallery. Check out more from Create Space MKE by visiting www.createspacemke.com

January 17th, 5-6:30 PM

Shorewood High School, Visual Journalism Capstone Presentations

January 20th

Phase 1 of the exhibition - See Below*

January 21st

Create Space MKE meet up & stream The Women's March on Washington

*Our aim was to understand the idea of the city of Milwaukee. Like many things we aim to understand, so much depends on the visual. What does Milwaukee look like? This is the guiding question. 

We designed the scope of our inquiry around the "issues at hand." This helped to direct our questions, nudging us in 8 directions for our creative investigation.

Our job in the exhibitions was to take our discoveries and present an auidience with new visions to consider - to saturate our work with the ideas radiating all around us as we interacted with the city, so that viewers leave the space feeling as if they were splashing around in the waters of Milwaukee's consciousness. 

Our exhibition was interactive - presenting audience members with a large table in the center of the gallery. We invited our guests to lay down their perspective, answering the question: "What Does Milwaukee Look Like?" Groups of students, community members, teachers, and artists took time to write or draw their response. We then sifted through the responses, and turned what we found into a mural.