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May 31, 2016

Mary Miss is an artist and Founder of CALL / City as Living Laboratory. Mary Miss has reshaped the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, landscape design, and installation art by articulating a vision of the public sphere where it is possible for an artist to address the issues of our time. Her remarks will...


May 24, 2016

As Milwaukee experiences an unprecedented surge in downtown development, it has an opportunity to translate that investment into substantial and meaningful jobs for low-income residents.  New research by the Public Policy Forum seeks to shed light on whether the City has the right policies and programs in place to do...


May 17, 2016

Michael Telzrow, Director of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, will present on "The Role of the Military in Wisconsin", and how the museum depicts Wisconsin's contributions through exhibits and interviews with veterans.  This is our Armed Forces Day program.


May 10, 2016

John Norquist is the former Mayor of Milwaukee and the retired president of Congress for New Urbanism. He will talk about Jane Jacobs, author of “Death and Life of Great American Cities", who would have been 100 on May 4th. He will talk about the effect she has had on the development, planning and revitalization of...


May 3, 2016

Understanding how trauma response influences behavior has the power to unlock all forms of human potential - from the world of child welfare and the court system to the world of corporate Milwaukee. This presentation will introduce members to this new science, focusing on the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)...