About the Event: Join The Warehouse Art Museum in welcoming Lisa Schultz, art historian, academic, gastronomist, and curator of curiosities, for an evening presentation on kitchen gardens, historically and present. Gardens have the power to inspire....whether it be patriotism, palette, or plate, an entire nation, an artist’s canvas, or a community. In this talk we will venture beyond the flowers to explore another “secret garden,” the kitchen garden, and take a glimpse into how these gardens reflect the social, political, and personal motivations of their creators.

Lisa Schultz is an award winning educator. She spent many years in Rome working as an art historian, but today she also studies, offers tours, and teaches about food, its origins, the people and stories behind it.

All pre-registered attendees will receive a sprout to take home and start their very own kitchen garden.

Friday May 6, 2022 @ 4pm. Admission is always Free.

About The Warehouse: The Warehouse is an art museum and research center located at 1635 W. St. Paul Ave, Milwaukee. Exhibitions, performances, and lectures are based on The Warehouse’s permanent collection of over 3,600 modern and contemporary works on paper, paintings, photography and sculpture. The collection is available for scholars, students and art enthusiasts, and works are available for institutional loans. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, please visit thewarehousemke.org or call 414-252-0677.

About the exhibition: Inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved novel, The Secret Garden offers visitors a refuge from Wisconsin’s harsh winter months and the gray faceless mask of covid.

The Secret Garden is an explosion of color, fantasy, and imagination waiting to be explored through paintings, drawings, works on paper, photographs, murals, sculpture, ceramics, and glass.The exhibition is curated from The Warehouse Art Museum’s nationally recognized permanent collection, together with new works commissioned for the show.

With every turn through the garden’s secret passageways, you will be surrounded by surprise, hope, healing, serenity, fairy-tale charm and the reassuring red thread of beauty.

Walk barefoot through the cool stream water of William Kentridge’s family garden. Stride with Faith Ringgold through a field of aromatic sunflowers and see, is it possible, Vincent van Gogh? Listen with Pablo Picasso to the spring-time chirps of a just-hatched dove! Meet these artists and many more in your secret garden.For more information, please visit The Warehouse website.

Curator, Danielle L. Paswaters.

Exhibition Dates: February 18, 2022 – May 27, 2022