Nohl Fellows Presentations
About this Event
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Join us for presentaitons by members of the 2025 Nohl Fellows cohort. The jury-chosen Fellows are recipients of the Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists. The Fund provides unrestricted funds for artists to create new work or complete work in progress. The program is open to practicing artists residing in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington counties.
Presentation by Open Kitchen (Rudy Medina & Alyx Christensen)
The Open Kitchen art collective opens the Fountain Kitchenette installation at the Haggerty for a poetry reading and snacks. palm readings is a poetry program organized by Antonio Vargas-Nieto. Food and beverages will be in partnership with Sam Lopez and Olivia Keidl.
Rudy Medina and Alyx Christensen are artists and founding members of Open Kitchen (2016-present, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) and filmfront (2014-16, Chicago, Illinois). They are artists-in-residence at the Lynden Sculpture Garden, where they have exhibited work and currently organize public, interdisciplinary programs around experimental ecological pedagogy based on their research and co-stewardship of the “Lynden Apiary” and the “Cultural Garden.” OK has been a guest at the Poor Farm Experiment (Little Wolf, Wisconsin), ACRE Residency (Steuben, Wisconsin), SodA Mundial (Mexico City), Bishkek School of Contemporary Art (BiSCA, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) and at Postane, Istanbul, Turkey, where they have presented programs and exhibited work.
Tour and Conversation with Margaret Griffin
An informal tour and conversation about sculpture with Margaret Griffin and the Sculpture Club, a student-founded and directed group of young sculptors.
Margaret Griffin is a Milwaukee-based sculptor from the Chicago area. She earned her BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design in 2023, and upon graduation was accepted into the Plum Blossom Initiative’s 2023–24 Bridgework program. In 2024, she was awarded the Gener8tor Art x Sherman Phoenix grant. Her work has been exhibited throughout the Midwest, including at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, the Trout Museum of Art, and numerous Milwaukee and Chicagoland galleries.
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Agenda
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Presentation by Open Kitchen
🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Tour and Conversation with Margaret Griffin
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