Monday, October 31, 2011

Minutes from the week of 24 Oct

This week you missed documentarians Pam Minty and Alain LeTourneau accompanying their 16mm film Empty Quarter -- a feature length contemplation of the farming and ranching communities that comprise nearly 33% of the states geography and 2% of its demography -- at the UWM Union Theatre for Experimental Tuesdays; a weekend of Super-8mm film presented by UWM Peck School of the Arts's Dept. of Film, which included  Adept-8 a slew of contemporary American film featuring UWM alum -- local and scattered -- among other recognizable names, at Woodland Pattern on Friday and Dutch film maker Jaap Pieters's visit B91 in UWM's Mitchell Hall with his Eye of Amsterdam Tour on Saturday.

Crossing Over, an exhibit of work from under- and graduate students in a variety of visual media, continues at the UWM Union Art Gallery thru 11 Nov, a Friday.  Current Tendencies II, an exhibit of local visual art (accompanied by criticism by faculty at the host university), continues at Marquette's Haggerty Museum of Art thru 31 Dec, a Saturday.  The Nohl Fellowships, an exhibit of the local artists who received the 8th annual fellowships continues at UWM's INOVA/Kenilworth thru 4 Dec.