MUSEUM INFORMATION
OPEN DAILY
- Monday – Saturday:
10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. - Thursday:
10 a.m. to 8 p.m. - Sunday:
Noon to 5 p.m.
CONTACT INFO
- Phone:
(414) 288-1669 - Email:
haggertym@marquette.edu - Address:
1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, WI 53233
This initiative seeks to bring artists and experts from around the country together with groups working in Milwaukee to discuss how arts and educational programming might shift perceptions and attitudes about the criminal justice system and incarcerated individuals. All symposium events are free and open to the public, but advance registration is recommended.
Co-organized with the Milwaukee Art Museum
Sponsored by:
Bader Philanthropies
Brico Fund
The Greater Milwaukee Foundation
Community Outreach Sponsor:The Reva & David Logan Foundation
Media Sponsor:WUWM 89.7 FM — Milwaukee’s NPR
Marquette University Weasler Auditorium
1506 West Wisconsin Ave
Welcome Elizabeth Hinton, Associate Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, and author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America; and Christian Viveros-Fauné, art and culture critic, author of Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art, and curator-at-large at University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum.
Event is free, but pre-registration is encouraged.
Lubar Auditorium
Milwaukee Art Museum
Three artist-led panels, which will also include educators, scholars, and students, will explore the role of the arts in advancing criminal justice reform efforts. Presentations will highlight national models for in-prison programs, diversion programs, and awareness efforts that are designed and implemented by artists or art educators. An evening reception for all registered participants will follow.
Event is free, but pre-registration is encouraged.
Marquette University Eckstein Hall
1215 W Michigan St, Milwaukee, WI 53233
Community members and stakeholders in Milwaukee are invited to discuss how some of the models and artist-led interventions presented during the first two days of the symposium might be adapted to and deployed in Milwaukee and Wisconsin. The day will begin with a series of artist-led workshops, followed by facilitated breakout discussions with symposium speakers.
If you are interested in contributing pamphlets for distribution or in sharing other information about your organization at a community resource table, please complete this form or email us at esmeralda.nungaray@marquette.edu.
Event is free, but pre-registration is encouraged.