Time and Place

Date: Saturday, December 9, 2017 from 10:00am to 11am
Location: Grove south of the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts

SARUP Exhibition: The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley and free walking tour of Dan Kiley’s Downtown landscapes.

Dan Kiley (1912-2004) was an important and visionary Modernist landscape architect, acclaimed for more than 1,000 designs worldwide. The exhibit, “The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley,” curated by The Cultural Landscape Foundation, features recent photographs of Kiley-designed spaces. It continues until January 12 in UWM School of Architecture and Urban Planning’s gallery (AUP 126), at 2131 E Hartford in Milwaukee. The exhibition is free and open on weekdays, not including holidays, Monday through Friday, 7 am to 3 pm, and by appointment.

About the Walking Tour

Jennifer Current will lead a free walking tour of Dan Kiley’s Downtown landscapes on Saturday, December 9, from 10 to 11 a.m., starting in the grove south of the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. The walk will continue to the Milwaukee Museum of Art, concluding in the museum’s new east wing cafe. Kiley’s major work in Milwaukee is the Cudahy Gardens, part of the museum’s 2001 expansion. Read more here. The tour will proceed if there’s rain or snow, but not sleet. Contact currenthabitat@gmail.com to register.