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Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Michelle Grabner

Virtual Event

November 12 | 7:30 pm 9:00 pm

Artist Michelle Grabner's work in a gallery featuring one large hanging installation and a floor piece with multi-colored patchwork designs.

Date & Time
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 (7:30–9 p.m.)

Location
Virtual

Michelle Grabner is an artist, writer, and curator. She is the Crown Family Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she has taught since 1996. Her work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Walker Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Luxembourg, and the Milwaukee Art Museum, among others. Grabner, along with artist Brad Killam, runs the artist-run project spaces The Suburban (Milwaukee, est. 1999), and The Poor Farm, (Little Wolf, WI, est. 2008). Grabner is a recipient of the 2025 Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists.

Throughout the fall and spring semesters, the Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series welcomes a diverse group of nationally and internationally recognized artists working across traditional, hybrid and emergent disciplines. Join us to explore and expand boundaries of creative visual practices alongside others with an interest in contemporary visual art.

Visit Michelle Grabner’s website.

The Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series is supported in part by the UWM Black & Gold Committee and Differential Tuition funds, Frederick R. Layton Fund, the John Colt Memorial Art Fund, The Queer Curatorial Fund, Center for 21st Century Studies, Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists, Print Club, Focus, and OBJECT.

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