Events

The Haggerty Museum of Art's exhibitions and programs are free, open to the public, and take place at the Haggerty Museum of Art unless otherwise noted.

Upcoming events

July 2024

 Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 6 to 8 p.m.
Friends of the Haggerty Annual Meeting and Happy Hour 2024

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Friends of the Haggerty Museum of Art are invited to join the 2024 Annual Meeting and Happy Hour! The event will begin at 6 p.m. with a presentation by the Director followed by an update from the 40th Anniversary committee. After the meeting, you are invited to a Happy Hour with cocktails and heavy hors d'oeuvres. Not a Friends member? It's not too late! Go here to join this special community of Museum supporters.

August 2024

Saturday, August 3, 2024, noon
Interrupted: Your Money’s No Good Here

Nohl Fellow Fatima Laster will be holding a closing reception for her installation Interrupted: Cash for Home. The reception will be on Saturday, August 3, and is titled Interrupted: Your Money’s No Good Here and features a roundtable discussion from 12-1:30 pm and a cookout from 1:30-4 p.m.

September 2024

Thursday, September 12, 2024, 6 to 7 p.m.
Fall Exhibition Opening Reception

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The Big 4-0: New Views of the Collection
Affirmation/Transformation: Fandom Created
Material Muses: Medieval Devotional Culture and its Afterlives
SOS Color Code 2024

Friday, September 27, 2024, 5 p.m.
Marquette University Choral Concert Concealed Language: A Plea for Help

In collaboration with Homecoming 2024, the Haggerty Museum of Art will present Concealed Language: A Plea for Help, a concert by the Marquette University Chorus. The concert was inspired by the Haggerty’s exhibition SOS Color Code 2024, an indoor and outdoor installation comprised of flags and changing colored lights based on the dots and dashes of Morse code. The installation transforms the international SOS signal of distress into a sign of solidarity and connectedness and asks its viewer to reconsider how language, symbols, and color can help us find stability and safety in an uncertain world. Following similar themes, Concealed Language: A Plea for Help explores the emotive power of choral music and the hidden language within the featured compositions.

Saturday and Sunday, September 28-29, 2024
Doors Open Milwaukee 

October 2024

Saturday, November 9, 2024,3 to 4 p.m.
On Display Dance Performance

This deconstructed art experience, created by Heidi Latsky Dance/NYC, is brought to Milwaukee under the direction of Catey Ott Thompson. Milwaukee residents representing professional and non-professional performers of all body types, ages, and abilities/disabilities will move minimally through an hour-long silent installation.

The performance is part of On Display Global, created by Heidi Latsky Dance as a social justice initiative performed annually in honor of the United Nations’ International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3rd. Videos of the live performances of On Display Global from cities all over the world will be presented with their local community members as a vigil on that day.

 Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 5:30 p.m.
Director's Circle Dinner at the Haggerty Museum of Art

Saturday, October 19, 2024
Gallery Day