The Cedarburg Cultural Center (CCC) is proud to announce the award winners of its current exhibit and sale entitled “All Things Big and Small.” The exhibit is a new take on the Center’s annual “Little Show,” this year highlighting large scale works alongside miniatures. The show is comprised of a diverse group of artworks by 23 Wisconsin artists, exploring a thrilling contrast of sizes from the very small to the very tall! Media represented in the exhibit includes paintings, sculpture, ceramics,...

McMann & Tate Productions is the resident comedy troupe of the Cedarburg Cultural Center. Many people don’t know that. But the nearly 500 fans (“Taters”) that packed the Center in mid-December for “Instant Fruitcake” sure know it.

It seems that my mother’s parenting—like her mother’s before her—was highly effective in at least one regard: I have a well-developed sense of guilt. I feel remorse when I look back at perceived lost opportunities. I am ashamed that I do not do more for those less fortunate.

The Vitrolum Republic is: a) A tiny Eastern European country b) A boutique clothing store specializing in retro-inspired, “shabby chic” clothing c) An electrifying local band with a sound that unabashedly channels wandering minstrels, Simon and Garfunkel, with a dash of Jack Sparrow swagger. The answer is “C,” and I admit it: Spending an evening with The Vitrolum Republic made me want to run away with the gypsies... A few months after hearing the group on public radio, David and Courtney Olson i...

The UWM Faculty Art Exhibit and Photography by Vicki Reed opened on October 16. Installation was a gargantuan task executed flawlessly by our Exhibits Manager Jeanette Gabrys…especially challenging with the constant rubbernecking by staff and visitors. The UWM Faculty Art Exhibit stretches the imagination as well as—for many—the definition of Art.

The Cedarburg Cultural Center: Where Art, Music and History Thrive. It’s our slogan, and we revel in it—as an organization and as Cultural Center members—daily. That makes me proud, and it makes me happy.

I had been looking forward to the Girls' Weekend getaway to Door County for six weeks, and when the weekend finally came, Mother Nature decided to shed a little “water weight”…for three straight days. We became one of the countless damp, little bands of women roaming the streets of Egg Harbor, Ephraim, and Sister Bay darting in and out of charming storefronts and art galleries like packs of she-wolves on the hunt. Starting out at the venerable Edgewood Orchard Galleries in Fish Creek, we focused...

Recently, two friends and I went to visit the John Michael Kohler Art Center to view their latest exhibit, “Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts.” The installation was divided into four segments: · Holding Memory: We keep, preserve, and store memories almost as though they are objects unto themselves. · Forget Memory: In innovative ways, maintaining a connection with loved ones whose memories have slipped away. · Shared Memory: Exploring specific memories that we share with others.

The Cedarburg Artists Guild is in the midst of their Annual Fall Show at the Cedarburg Cultural Show. It’s a juried show which means that jurors (judges) decide whose work is accepted into the show, and ribbons are awarded for the most exceptional pieces. The 2011 Fall Show jurors were Steve Horvath of the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) and Tom Lidtke of the Museum of Wisconsin Art.

A recent press release reads: “Cedarburg artist Claudette Lee has been selected by the Kohl’s 2011 ‘Every Ribbon Has a Story’ project to paint a 6’ fiberglass breast cancer ribbon sculpture. Ribbons, painted by 16 Milwaukee area artists, will be on display at local Kohl’s stores prior to the ‘Susan G Komen Race for the Cure’ which takes place on September 25th. Ribbon sculptures are to be auctioned off via a national on-line auction with proceeds going to the ‘Susan G Komen for the Cure’ foundat...

The Cedarburg Cultural Center has borrowed a very good idea from the Hardy Gallery in Door County. With help from the Rita Edquist Memorial Foundation, the Center purchased 325 six-by-six inch canvases and asked artists to complete a mini masterpiece in any medium. Canvases must be returned by September 1, and they will be assembled into a vast canvas mosaic (think patchwork quilt) inside the Center.

The Cedarburg Cultural Center’s Working Artist Series/Artist in Residence program is flourishing in its second month. Mary Groh Mendla started things out in her elegant style, oil painting her way through four weeks of ethereal abstracts, sunrises, and sunsets. Now, it’s oil painter Catie Barron’s turn at the easel.

In concert with the blazing hot sun, it was also Mequon’s weekend to shine. Nearly 650 visitors and volunteers converged on five historic homes and an historic church this past weekend, August 6 and 7. The 42nd Architectural Treasures Tour (formerly known as the Stone House Tour) was a success by any measure.

Louro Faia. Sounds like the name of a beautiful, exotic woman. Italian?

What’s “public art?” What's "street art?" We recently watched a movie titled, “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” a controversial documentary on street art that, according to the NY Times, may have actually been an elaborate hoax. That aside, it was a darned good story. Street art can be synonymous with public art...or it can be worlds apart.

You just had to be there…and over 300 people were. Last Thursday (July 14), it was an almost surreal scene. Washington Avenue was blocked off from Columbia to Mill.

I can only imagine the scene when some of my artist friends raised the subject of majoring in fine arts with their parents. I can envision a collectively raised parental eyebrow. My own father refused to lend me money for college when I said I wanted to be a teacher.

Finally summer has truly arrived. There is no going back this time. Some call it “the three months that make the other nine months tolerable.” Today, in with that warm southerly wind, came Mary Groh Mendla, the Cedarburg Cultural Center’s first Artist in Residence!

Now into my seventh month as the director of the Cedarburg Cultural Center, I can unequivocally state one thing: You can tell a lot about what’s in an artist’s head by what’s on his canvas. Today, I am surrounded with beauty in our galleries. It is my first Plein Air experience, and everywhere I look, I see warmth and light and “fecundity” (love that word) spilling forth from the paint brushes of our winter-weary artists and igniting canvas after lush canvas.

The Cedarburg Cultural Center is pleased to announce the award winners of the fourth annual miniature exhibit, The Little Show: 2011. The exhibition and sale, which is on view at the Center through Sunday, February 27 features nearly 200 diverse miniatures by 41 working artists in various media. Best of Show: was awarded to Michael Santini, who will be featured in a future solo exhibition to be held at the Cedarburg Cultural Center.First Place: was awarded to Pamela Ruschman.Second Place: was aw...

The Board of Directors and staff of the Cedarburg Cultural Center welcome Lauren Rose Hofland as our new Executive Director. Lauren previously was the Director of the Women's Division and Women's Annual Campaign at the Milwaukee Jewish Federation. Prior to that, she was the Assistant Manitowoc County Executive and formed a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation "Friends of the Manitowoc County Courthouse" to facilitate restoration of this historic building.