Milwaukee’s art scene

The gleaming white Milwaukee Art Museum, seen in the distance, has become a symbol of the city. (Lori Rackl/Chicago Tribune )

Chicago Tribune

Sept. 18, 2017 10:05 AM PT

Brew City is brimming with art, especially during Gallery Night and Day, a long-running event held four times a year.

Var Gallery’s annual “30 x 30 x 30 Exhibition” invites 30 artists to make 30 pieces in 30 days in the month of January. Those works are on sale in April. “The goal is to encourage people to start collecting,” said Josh Hintz, owner of Var Gallery in the Walker’s Point neighborhood of Milwaukee. (Lori Rackl/Chicago Tribune )

Guests examine the goods at Var Gallery’s annual “30 x 30 x 30 Exhibition” earlier this year in Milwaukee. The gallery invites 30 artists to make 30 pieces in 30 days in the month of January and then displays them in April. ( Lori Rackl/Chicago Tribune )

During Gallery Night and Day last April, a visitor checks out Milwaukee artist Todd Mrozinski’s drawings at the Portrait Society Gallery in the Marshall Building. ( Lori Rackl/Chicago Tribune )

Tintype photographer Margaret Muza, artist-in-residence at the Pfister Hotel, displays some of her work in her studio/gallery in the hotel lobby, one of the venues for October Gallery Night and Day. (Lori Rackl/Chicago Tribune )

Pfister Hotel artist-in-residence Margaret Muza uses a large format view camera to make images on tin and glass. Her studio is in the lobby of the historic hotel. ( Lori Rackl/Chicago Tribune )