Current Exhibition

Front:

Critical Minerals: In my nightmares, I’m screaming your name like it’s an amulet
M Chang
February 21 - March 28, 2026

Back:
Out Of The Box: An Asian Creative Showcase
Group Exhibition
February 21 - March 28, 2026

Out of the Box celebrates the unique creative voices of artists and designers in Milwaukee. Expanding the Asian artistic canon, the artists in this show express their resistance to the status quo, limits they hope to pass, communities they love or hate, and comfort or discomfort with labels defining their identities. Through this exhibition, Asian artists are spotlighted during a polarizing time for racial identity and an emerging questioning of what it means to identify as an Asian artist. Participating artists are Isabel Arenal, Tanvi Bharadwaj, Nissa (Uni) Chittavong, Paige Cosico, Saira Degala, Tupak Kue, Caesar Nguyen, Abby Phillips, Cyrill Reyes, Amanda Smithivas, Alyssa Wells, and Allie Wite. Presented by the MIAD Asian Creative Union.

Amanda Smithivas
“REHEARSE IN PERPETUITY” (Wayfinding #3), 2025
Stained glass and solder
29.5 x 15 x 9.5 in

Past Exhibitions

Emmanuel Guerra
࣪ ˖⟡ let sleeping dogs lie⟡˖࣪
January 10 - February 14, 2026

Alayna N. Pernell and Billie Carter-Rankin
to live and be loved // to have and to hold
December 6 - January 3, 2026

Joe Willis
Like A Summer With 1000 Julys
October 25 - November 22, 2025

Sara Caron
White Noise
August 30 - October 5, 2025

Eun-Ha Paek, Melissa Pokorny, Sahar Khoury
Pain Stuck Under Soles
August 30 - October 5, 2025

News

We are thrilled to announce our first Artist in Residence with Diana H. Chu

Diana H. Chu (b. 1990) is a first-generation Chinese American artist based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Chu deconstructs and reimagines her subject matter in colored pencil, arranging familiar objects next to ancient relics and imagined creatures on paper. She merges incongruous timelines to introduce a mythic perspective. Her cut-and-paste aesthetic develops her ideas of shifting selfhood, using the vernacular of collage to put her identity directly in conversation with time, belonging, and representation.

Chu’s compositionally dense images were developed from living in Hong Kong for ten years (1998–2008). By what she leaves out of an image, Chu questions how personal history is erased. Chu’s drawings are arranged in sequential narratives and Risograph printed in limited color palettes of 1–4 colors. Her prints are hand-bound into visual art books. Chu employs the Risograph to help blur the line between canonical fine art media and ones co-opted from corporate environments.

Sudden Death (1, 2, 3), 2018

Sudden Death (1, 2, 3), 2018

Sudden Death (1, 2, 3), 2018