The John Michael Kohler Arts Center worked closely with the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation to acquire hundreds of key components from the artist’s last studio environment in 2019, with assistance from Kohler Foundation, Inc. The 486-piece collection includes artwork, collages, assemblages, furniture, and supplies. An installation of Tawney’s studio environment is on view at the […]

The Milwaukee Film Festival starts Thursday October 15, and this year’s lineup includes the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s short documentary Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe. The festival is being held virtually this year, so the 197 selected films will be streaming online October 15-29. The documentary features interviews with collaborators from the Mirror […]

The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) has honored Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe with the 2019 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award for excellence in art publishing.

A series of four exhibitions explores Lenore Tawney’s life and impact, offering a personal and historical view into her entire body of work.

This exhibition of over eighty works by more than sixty artists foregrounds how visual artists have experimented with the materials, methods, and strategies of craft over the past seven decades.

Presented on the centenary of this foundational organization, Weaving beyond the Bauhaus traces the diffusion of Bauhaus artists such as Anni Albers and Marli Ehrman, and their reciprocal relationships with fellow artists and students across America.