Last stop — the Art Bus
Before heading over to Bay View Gallery Night, Newaukee‘s Art Bus stopped on Mitchell Street for a spring through Listening to Mitchell. There was no audio installation to hear, but the group […]
Author Archives: Listening To Mitchell
Deinstallation
Clearwing Productions came to the space today to deinstall the 18-channel audio installation. It was up almost two months longer than initially planned, and it had a good run, but we […]
Getting in-depth for Doors Open
With slightly more than a week remaining until the official end of the installation, we gave our final public tour as participants in Doors Open Milwaukee and it couldn’t have asked […]
Community leaders on the street
While a public art installation at its core, to produce a public art installation embedded in a place as complex as Mitchell Street, Listening to Mitchell needed to be a hybrid. At times, we did our best […]
Listening together
Through the course of the summer, many participants in our interview process stopped by to experience Listening to Mitchell and hear their own voice. While their many voices had been woven together, sitting […]
Visitors from UW-Milwaukee
As we approach the end of this month/installation, we’ve appreciated the chance to share the project with groups representing a wide range of disciplines. Speaking of which, we were happy […]
Interview with ArupConnect
Among the many benefits of collaborating with global architecture/engineering firm Arup, we were fortunate enough to spend a long morning on the street with ArupConnect writer Sarah Wesseler. From hours […]
Visitors from MIAD
Jill Sebastian, MIAD Professor and public artist, brought a group of students studying public art to the street for a tour — for their first day of class! We appreciated the […]
Tuesday tour
Today, we gave an in-depth walkthrough of the installation to a small and amazing group. We were joined by Gina Stilp from the Zilber Family Foundation, Arijit Sen from UW-Milwaukee’s Buildings Cultures Landscapes […]
Review in the Wisconsin Gazette
An excerpt from Kat Murrell’s review of Listening to Mitchell for the Wisconsin Gazette: The highlighting of personalities and personal stories is a move toward mindfulness that applies not only to […]
The Making of Listening to Mitchell 