March 10 and 12, Chicago, Detroit: Margaret Noodin, Chuck Stebleton, Paul Druecke / February 26, 2016 by Paul Druecke

Milwaukeeists Reading March 12 @Trinosophes, Detroit MI / February 13, 2016 by Paul Druecke

Trinosophes
Saturday March 12th 7 pm

Margaret Noodin, Chuck Stebleton, and Paul Druecke will be conducting a reading tour in the spring of 2016. The tour kicks off March 10 at Sector 2337 in Chicago and travels to Trinosophes.

Chuck Stebleton is author of two full-length collections of poetry, most recently The Platformist (Cultural Society, 2012). His first book, Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises, 2005), was winner of the inaugural Jack Spicer Award.

Margaret Noodin is the author of Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature and Weweni, a collection of bilingual poems in Ojibwe and English published by Wayne State University.

Paul Druecke has published two books, Life and Death on the Bluffs (2014), and The Last Days of John Budgen Jr. (2010), with Green Gallery Press. Druecke's work was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.

Come.2 @CondensedMatterCommunity / December 23, 2015 by Paul Druecke

The exhibition is highly recommended, curated by Evan Gruzis and Kristof Wickman. The video is a short edit of the live stream we did for the opening. Rumor has it the wall-size Li Po poem will be dismantled the first week of January. Nice mention by Rachel Krivichi. #synchrotron #condensedmattercommunity

2500KW x's 4 beam searchlight

Condensed Matter Community @ Synchrotron Radiation Center / December 5, 2015 by Paul Druecke

This is going to be an amazing exhibition at the Synchrotron Radiation Center. Opening on Saturday December 12th, 5 - 8 pm. Curated by Evan Gruzis and Kristof Wickman. Stellar roster of artists. http://www.condensedmattercommunity.org/

I'm thinking of reprising my 2010 piece, Come.

Angelique Roy's Passage / October 15, 2015 by Paul Druecke

Angelique Roy's Passage at The Suburban in conjunction with the Terrain Biennial. The inauguration took place on September 19th, 2015.

Matt Cook Plays Blue Dress Park / September 30, 2015 by Paul Druecke

Brilliant in the rain. Matt Cook's opening comments for Full Moon @ Blue Dress Park. August 29, 2015. Thanks to Shelleen Greene for video.

Angelique Roy's Passage | Terrain Biennial | The Suburban | Woodland Pattern / September 18, 2015 by Paul Druecke

Opening on September 19, 2015. At the Suburban, 2901 North Fratney, Milwaukee, WI.
8 pm Gangway Performance, featuring Joshua Ballew, Margaret Noodin, and Laura Hunter. Fergus Feehily in the gallery.

Coinciding with Susan King's opening at Woodland Pattern.

Terrain Biennial 2015 / August 15, 2015 by Paul Druecke

The Terrain Biennial 2015. The Suburban opens at 2901 North Fratney in Riverwest, Milwaukee. September 19th. Fergus Feehily. Angelique Roy's Passage.

BDP Unchanged / June 30, 2015 by Paul Druecke

A selection of photos from the christening of Blue Dress Park on its fifteenth birthday. With thanks to the many people who helped along the way, we hope you enjoy this Milwaukee time capsule. Image selection: Laura Hunter, Elizabeth Rath, and Paul Druecke. Photo credits: Pete DiAntoni, except invite cover by Paul Druecke. More info below.

Blue Dress Park was christened on June 30, 2000. The project-as-naming-right left the space — an unused slab of concrete — transformed yet physically unchanged. Fifteen years later, the park remains a place of pure potential. Awkward, defiant potential. The conceptual transformation continues in a compellingly minor key and in that spirit, please join us at the park on August 29th. Details forthcoming.

In his 2015 book, The Contemporaries, Roger White writes about Blue Dress Park:
“So Druecke’s act of designation, however wan, was just the most recent in a very long chain. It stretched all the way back to the Algonquian and Siouan peoples who’d lived in the area before the waves of French Canadian traders, missionaries, and soldiers showed up, garbled a few of their place-names, and eventually ended up with the name Milwaukee. And in the context of present-day gentrification, naming something art has serious implications. I suspected that the slightness of Druecke’s intervention pointed to a certain scruple about this fact: a desire to tread the city with the lightest possible footprint.”