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Join artist Nicolas Lampert and Voces de La Frontera for a hands-on screen-printing workshop where participants will create their own picket signs. Learn the basics of screen printing while exploring how art, messaging, and visual expression can be used to make a statement.TICKETS
$25 per person
$17 per MCHS Members and Voces de La Frontera Members
Ticket proceeds support the mission of the MCHS and VDLF. Museum admission included in ticket price. Children under 12 are free – must be accompanied by an adult.
IMMIGRANT STORIES AND ART WORKSHOP SERIES
The Milwaukee County Historical Society (MCHS) will host a new series of artist workshops titled Drawing Connections: Immigrant Stories and Art Workshop led by local artists from multiple ethnic and immigrant groups of Milwaukee. Each workshop will specifically focus on the experiences of immigrant groups throughout Milwaukee County’s history through modern day. The art workshops will occur bi-monthly in relation to the MCHS’ new exhibit, We the People: Milwaukee Stories of Immigration, Citizenship, and Community.
MEET THE ARTIST
Artist Nicolas Lampert is a Milwaukee-based interdisciplinary artist and author whose work focuses on themes of social justice and ecology. His artwork is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Library of Congress, and over sixty archives and special collections across the world. Lampert is the area head for the Community Arts program in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Lampert is also the volunteer art organizer with Voces de la Frontera – Wisconsin’s largest immigrant rights organization. He first began collaborating with Voces in 2015 and helped form the Voces de los Artistas (VDLA) art affinity group within Voces in 2016. Lampert established a rapid response art space at the Voces building in Milwaukee in 2024. He co-organizes art builds for Voces, curates the art within the Voces building, and co-organizes the Voces de la Frontera archive through the UWM Libraries and Booklyn.
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910 N. Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Milwaukee, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53203
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