Join us on February 8th for an open house to mark the reopening of the Vilas-Rahr Mansion and closing of the Rudy Rotter Exhibit. The new mansion exhibits will include a celebration of Midcentury Manitowoc, and highlights about how the Rahr-West Art Museum came to be the Art Museum is it today.
Open House Schedule
| 11:00 am - 4:00 pm | New Scavenger Hunts
Explore new exhibits in the Vilas-Rahr Mansion |
| 11:30 am | 75th Anniversary of the Museum Tour with Director Greg Vadney |
| 1:00 pm | Art of Conversation with Laura Bickford |
| 2:00 - 3:00 pm | Quick Create: Accordion Sketchbooks |
Art of Conversation: with Laura Bickford
Saturday, February 8, 2025 at 1:00 pm
Laura Bickford, Curator – John Michael Kohler Arts Center
In conjunction with the Essential Creativity: The Self-Taught Art of Rudy Rotter exhibit, Curator Laura Bickford will speak about the preponderance of artists in our region who made art work in addition to other full-time jobs.
Laura Bickford is Curator at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center where she oversees the Art Preserve and related exhibitions at the Arts Center. Previously, she was the William S. Arnett Curator at the Souls Grown Deep Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia. Bickford has had a lifelong love of all things handmade, embellished, encrusted, fried, miniature, and oversized which has led to her professional pursuit of the vernacular, the extraordinary every day, and objects created on the margins of culture.
Image: Astre du Labyrinthe, 1967 aquatint by Joan Miró, 1988.011.002, Gift of Mrs. John D. West