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All photos courtesy of Jake Hill.
As part of our ongoing efforts to increase the visibility of women artists, StateraArts puts the spotlight on them every March and April through Support Women Artists Now Day. Today we’re spotlighting SWAN Day Milwaukee, which is now in its 5th year of celebration. We had an opportunity to chat with Jamie Bilgo Bruchman, SWAN Day Milwaukee organizer, to talk about her experience stepping back and asking for help when she became pregnant last year.
“Planning an exhibit like this is basically a full-time job”, she shared with us. “I knew that I couldn’t put that on myself right as I was having my first baby. But it was a huge task, and I didn’t want to ask it of someone else, either.” Check out the video below to hear Jamie share how her volunteer team stepped up to the plate, and all the ways in which the community she created is now the one to catch her in her first few months as a mother.
SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day MKE - An annual exhibition advocating for gender parity in the arts and celebration of Milwaukee women's creativity! Over the past five years, hundreds of women-identified artists of all ages, disciplines, and levels of artistic experience residing in Milwaukee and surrounding areas have participated in an informal, non-juried celebration and exhibition. SWAN Day MKE partners each year with a local non-profit or cause to support women’s equality in all parts of life. SWAN Day MKE exhibitions explore broader themes of women’s artistic and spiritual connections to the environment, society, and each other, and how these roots nourish one’s work, activism, and daily living.
SWAN DAY MKE 2020 EVENTS
SWAN Day MKE 2020 Theme - "TRANSFORMATIVE POWER"
ARTISTS' RECEPTION at the Collective
9224 W. Burleigh Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53222
Saturday, March 28th, 2pm-5pm
FREE and open to the public.
See the Facebook event page here.
COMMUNITY ART STUDIO at Bloom
2230 S. Kinnickinnic Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53207
Saturday, March 28th, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Pay what you are able / Suggested donation of $10
See the Facebook event page here.
EXHIBITION: March 6th - April 3rd
The exhibit at both locations is FREE to view.
SWAN INSPIRED COMMUNITY COLORING PARTY at Art*Bar
722 E Burleigh St, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53212
Saturday, April 4th, 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM
See the Facebook event page here.
Donate to the SWAN Day MKE 2020 GoFundMe fundraiser here. Or donate via Fractured Atlas here.
Interested in adding your women-led art event to the 2020 SWAN Day Calendar? Please submit your information HERE.