Guest Curator Talk

Join Annemarie Sawkins for a Guest Curator Talk of A Creative Place. This event is open to museum members and guests of the Women’s Fund for the Fox Valley Region.

In honor of Women’s History Month (March), this informal walking tour of the exhibit, A Creative Place: Art from Northeastern Wisconsin 1940 to Present will focus on the women artists in the show. The first hour will be the tour, with an hour after for guests to continue looking at the exhibit or to talk with Annemarie.

Free to museum members.

Annemarie Sawkins, PhD, is a Milwaukee-based independent curator, art historian, and co-author of A Creative Place: The History of Wisconsin Art, published by the Cedarburg Art Museum (2021). She has curated over twenty exhibitions nationally, including A Creative Place, and her most recent: Profound Prints: Art by Exceptional Women at the Hilliard Art Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana (2024 – 2025) and the comprehensive retrospective Rediscovering Ruth Grotenrath: All things belong to this earth (2023) for the Warehouse Art Museum, Milwaukee. From 1999 to 2012, she was associate curator at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University. Prior to the Haggerty, she worked at the Milwaukee Art Museum, where she contributed to A Renaissance Treasury: The Flagg Collection of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture (1999). A frequent juror and portfolio reviewer, Annemarie Sawkins has a MA and PhD in Art/Architectural History from McGill University in Montreal, CA.

Image: Lauren Semivan, Old Roses, 2008. Instagram: @lsemivan

Date

Mar 22 2025

Time

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Location

Trout Museum of Art
Trout Museum of Art
111 W College Ave Appleton
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