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Event Series Exhibit: Transparent Watercolor Society of America’s 48th Annual Juried Exhibition

Exhibit: Transparent Watercolor Society of America’s 48th Annual Juried Exhibition

Kenosha Public Museum 5500 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

View the 80+ works of watercolor artists using a technique known as "transparent watercolor". According to TWSA this technique is described as: "All watercolor pigments applied in a transparent manner allow light to penetrate the layers of glazes and reflect back through the pigments from the paper below. The whites are brilliant paper left unpainted. […]

Event Series Exhibit: Printmaking – Pop Culture of the Civil War

Exhibit: Printmaking – Pop Culture of the Civil War

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

June 15, 2024 – August 18, 2024 During the Civil War, printed images had the power to influence perceptions and popular opinion, equal to today’s visual and digital media. The quick rise of popular media during the Civil War had a powerful and lasting impact on our country. This special exhibit of prints from the […]

Event Series Exhibit: Transparent Watercolor Society of America’s 48th Annual Juried Exhibition

Exhibit: Transparent Watercolor Society of America’s 48th Annual Juried Exhibition

Kenosha Public Museum 5500 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

View the 80+ works of watercolor artists using a technique known as "transparent watercolor". According to TWSA this technique is described as: "All watercolor pigments applied in a transparent manner allow light to penetrate the layers of glazes and reflect back through the pigments from the paper below. The whites are brilliant paper left unpainted. […]

Event Series Exhibit: Printmaking – Pop Culture of the Civil War

Exhibit: Printmaking – Pop Culture of the Civil War

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

June 15, 2024 – August 18, 2024 During the Civil War, printed images had the power to influence perceptions and popular opinion, equal to today’s visual and digital media. The quick rise of popular media during the Civil War had a powerful and lasting impact on our country. This special exhibit of prints from the […]

Toward Justice

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

Tuesday, July 30  |  5:30pm – 7:30pm  |  Free, registration required  |  Register Here We invite you to attend a special artistic commemoration marking the 156th Anniversary of the Equal Protection Clause and the ratification of the 14th Amendment featuring captivating performances by The Prairie String Quartet and Dr. Shannon Sloan-Spice. Experience “Toward Justice,” a musical […]

Morning Tai Chi on the Mezzanine Summer Session

Kenosha Public Museum 5500 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

Mondays, August 5 – September 16  (no class on Labor Day)  |  9:00am – 10:00am  |  Instructor: Sharry Flaherty  |  $52 ($65 non-members)  |  Register Here Enjoy the spaces of the museum as you practice the gentle movements of Tai Chi. Tai Chi is a slow-moving mind and body exercise, patterned after movements in nature. This […]

Event Series Exhibit: Printmaking – Pop Culture of the Civil War

Exhibit: Printmaking – Pop Culture of the Civil War

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

June 15, 2024 – August 18, 2024 During the Civil War, printed images had the power to influence perceptions and popular opinion, equal to today’s visual and digital media. The quick rise of popular media during the Civil War had a powerful and lasting impact on our country. This special exhibit of prints from the […]

Second Friday Lecture Series: A New Look: Gainesville and Brawner Farm

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

Friday, August 9  |  12:00pm – 1:00pm  |  Speaker: Lance Herdegen The Iron Brigade’s opening battle came August 28, 1862 on the John Brawner farm near Gainesville, Virginia. The story has been told before, but never from a fog of war view with one author writing of the Union side and another from the Confederate. […]

Event Series Exhibit: Printmaking – Pop Culture of the Civil War

Exhibit: Printmaking – Pop Culture of the Civil War

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

June 15, 2024 – August 18, 2024 During the Civil War, printed images had the power to influence perceptions and popular opinion, equal to today’s visual and digital media. The quick rise of popular media during the Civil War had a powerful and lasting impact on our country. This special exhibit of prints from the […]

Illinois Holds the Key: The Vicksburg Campaign

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

Tuesdays, August 13 and 20  |  6:00pm – 8:00pm  |  Presenter: Mr. Robert Girardi  |  $24 ($30 for non-members)  |  Register Here President Abraham Lincoln remarked, “Vicksburg is the key! The war can never be brought to a close until that key is in our pocket.”  He recognized that control of the Mississippi River was a […]

Fused Glass Workshop: Sun Catcher

Kenosha Public Museum 5500 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

Thursday, August 15  |  6:00pm – 8:30pm  |  Instructor: Jayne Herring  |  $52 ($65 non-member)  |  Register Here Step into the shimmering realm of fused glass and create your own sun catcher. All supplies included in workshop price. 

Workshop: Cyanotypes (Printing with the Sun)

Kenosha Public Museum 5500 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

Saturday, August 17  |  10:00am – 12:00pm  |  Instructor: Tiffany Knopow, MFA  |  $44 ($55 non-member)  |  Register Here Use the sun to make beautiful cyanotypes and photograms (sun prints) of three-dimensional objects on paper. The result is a beautiful silhouette of the object placed on the photosensitive paper. We will start off using nature as […]

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