foreign [Music] yourself to go below the surface enjoy beautiful Bubbles and hear the blues on this episode of the Arts page you'll get a special behind the scenes look at a new immersive Art Exhibit called Deep Lake future be captivated by the Marcus performing arts Center's recent public art full of great big interactive bubbles get a look at a Lake Country Arts tradition in Oconomowoc plus hear a song by blues guitarist and Racine native Steven Hull the Arts page starts right now [Music] welcome to the Arts page I'm Sandy Max fuzz pop Workshop it's the name of a brand new milwaukee-based multimedia Production Studio that is creating an interesting experience for all ages Daniel Murray is the founder and creator of the fuzz pop workshop and together with a team of over 20 local artists they have put together an immersive interactive Art Exhibit called Deep Lake future deep lake future transports you to a Fantastical land where invasive species have overrun the Great Lakes creating brand new creatures and an environment never before seen Daniel Murray shares his vision for this otherworldly experience of deep lake future thank you [Music] what I'm interested is in giving people experiences that they've never had before in ways that stimulate their imagination spark their creativity kind of aesthetic experiences that can transport them we are in deep lake future this is the first show of fuzz pop Workshop uh it's an interactive immersive art experience set in a surreal underwater future [Music] well fuzz pop Workshop came because I was trying to develop this idea for a production company a studio but really with the kind of interactive Hands-On approach so something like a workshop that you would really be engaged with and involved with [Music] thank you I love garage Rock which uses a lot of fuzz guitar and fuzz pop had a good ring to it and was you know something a little odd you know that we thought that worked so yeah we've got a great team of 25 artists all people I started meeting about a year ago and everyone was really excited and wanted to do something big you know had heard about these kinds of immersive art experiences and wanted to be part of something huge and so there's a great team of folks working on this we have lighting designers and Engineers sculptors muralists a couple of them Drew York is a muralist who's done some great walls all over Milwaukee but like the rest of us is stretching Beyond and learning new skills working in sculpture and painted most of the surfaces that you see here from the beginning Daniel reached out just I think by hearing my name from other artists and finding out that I was a local muralist so from our first meeting we talked about you know how I could be a part of it and if I could paint things here and there or or where I would fit in and now it's turned into you know learning how to sculpt a large you know 25 foot long lamp rate [Music] Eduardo Zavala is a a young artist recently graduated from myad has created a gigantic Stone godhead that Lords over this world that we've created and has really done some amazing work bringing that to life [Music] I met Daniel here through the studios at a studio space here and he was needing someone to take over this large sculpture and I'd worked with bone before so I was really excited to jump on I've never worked in something this large scale so working this big was really exciting and I still really liked their ideas The Experience starts in a kind of laboratory where a group of scientists has been trying to experiment with or maybe understand strange creatures that that are the sort of merge of merger of technology and biology so in that room we set up the story there have been great floods and since then people have tried to find a way to survive and then that leads people through a kind of portal into this surreal underwater world where they can explore our version of Milwaukee's deep tunnel project filled with strange life forms zebra muscle Mound where they can play on a sturgeon synthesizer and make their own music a rainbow cave that's underwater that glows As you move through it [Music] I think my hopes for this show and for fuzz pop Workshop generally is to create exciting aesthetic experiences to stimulate people's imagination and creativity show them something they've never seen before think about something that's in their world but from a totally different and fantastic point of view [Music] foreign we've really thought of this as a kind of prototype and so the hope is to do this on a much larger scale all still in this interactive immersive world and plan that it's still really focused on the local and the regional so here we've got a deep lake but also a North Woods you know that's also this surreal version that's unexpected and tells a different kind of story about the region in Wisconsin you can experience deep lake future it's now open at the VAR Gallery in Milwaukee's Walkers Point neighborhood on the subject of interactive art exhibits the Marcus performing arts center recently hosted a five-day event titled rainbow summer highlight featuring evanescent evanescent is a traveling public Art Exhibit featuring massive bubble texture giant bubbles made from a special material that reacts to the Sun during the day and it lit up at night inviting interaction and exploration thank you foreign [Music] highlight week is just an opportunity for all of us to gather together to be a part of our own Community to see some amazing bands to walk amongst a beautiful art installation like this and be with one another we have great food we have great music we have great art and what more could you want from a summertime experience [Music] Milwaukee downtown is discovered through a variety of feedback from the general public that connecting with community and what we call our third spaces or our unobligated spaces our Parks our plazas our Green Space it's important because through public space activations and bringing large-scale public pieces of art we recognize it's a really good way of attracting a variety of demographics but most importantly these kinds of activations really just just for that brief moment that you're in the midst of them really Inspire joy and can just make you forget about anything that you're worried or concerned about you can see from looking around that everybody is just enjoying themselves taking in the piece of art posting it on Instagram or what have you and and uh and enjoying the outdoors and enjoying one another foreign [Music] town is the downtown business improvement district and we are engaged in creating an environment that is welcoming to visitors residents and a Workforce and we're also actively engaged in creating public spaces where Community can come together to connect we discovered evanescent really through Gabe Yeager who is our director of public space initiatives and Gabe just has this very creative mind where he's always looking for ways in which we can activate our green spaces and our public spaces having evanescent here this beautiful art installation is a first for me it's a first for this space which this beautiful park-like setting is new for us and it's given us an opportunity to really activate it and bring people together onto these grounds a hundred percent could not have done this without Milwaukee downtown as our partner this was something that uh when Gabe Jaeger who is with Milwaukee downtown approached me about doing a public art installation it was a no-brainer this was this this space had not yet even been completed we hadn't yet uh dedicated our war memorial so this was all something that happened uh organically but very quickly and we worked together uh immediately and hand in hand with bid 21 to make sure that we could bring something this spectacular and this much fun and this big to this space at this moment right when everybody wants to be outside and hang out with one another what's most exciting for me being born and raised in the city of Milwaukee and working right across the street at City Hall I was one of those individuals that used to come across the street every day over lunch in the summer months to enjoy rainbow summer so for me it's a revisiting of rainbow summer so the rainbow summer highlight feature during evanescent is again this perfect perfect intersection of things that bring me joy that that bring back really fond memories but it also is exciting and engaging when you think about all the new ways in which we're activating our public spaces and that our organization and Milwaukee Performing Arts Center together and collaboratively are bringing forward this great activation and this great Community programming thank you if you missed rainbow summer highlight featuring evanescent follow Milwaukee downtown and any of their social media accounts to stay up to date on future Artful activities they have planned around the city the 52nd Oconomowoc Festival of the Arts returns to Fowler Lake Park in Oconomowoc August 19th and 20th this year let's take a look at highlights from last year's Festival in Lake Country thank you and welcome everybody to Oconomowoc you have such an incredible Community event here with the 2022 Festival of the Arts it's a big influence it's pretty much the flagship event of the community we have a 110 artists typically we have many more that apply we have a wide range of medium fiber pottery oils pastels watercolors and we are totally a volunteer organization typically about 500 people in the community involved in helping put the festival on can you imagine 500 Volunteers in a small community like we have here that's really what makes us special that's what makes Oconomowoc special you ask a lot of the artists they'll say they wait all year for their peach cobbler or their rhubarb cobbler foreign Festival starts we have a cobbler bake off and we probably bake probably 140 pans of cobblers we have a bunch of different projects for kids to do we really want them to kind of explore their art side yeah we try and kind of do a bunch of different things to include everybody we have some beading things we have just some coloring if kids want to just sit down and create something we have stickers and stuff like that the mural has been around I believe since the beginning or almost the beginning of the Art Festival we actually have volunteers from the high school that are doing all of the face painting and stuff and they're amazing artists I love seeing the kids create it is amazing to see what kids can actually do and they're just so much fun like I love this area just because it's kids and kids are cool and they're fun my husband and I travel in our Airstream trailer and so we go around the country we started doing shows the reason I love this show particularly is because it's a very community-based show it's in a beautiful venue and all different kinds of people come and there's all different types of art pretty excited this year to be here it's a beautiful location I've done this show back in 2018 and was very excited to be chosen to uh be involved again this year we did this show last year for the first time we heard a lot about it it was amazing last year a lot of people came out our artwork's a little different than you might typically see on the circuit and but people were so responsive to it so we came back again this year and it's been even better this is our 51st year there was an artist by the name of Virginia Harris who was exhibiting her artwork in one of the little parks in town she was a member of the Women's Club and the Women's Club got excited about the fact that well let's just do an art festival so that's how it started I say it gives me goosebumps a little bit man it's just fortunate because it's something that you don't think about as much when you're a kid you're growing up and then you know when you look back and uh just honored you know to be able to pass on uh just the the tradition and be a part of it is is very special I run into people that are still involved with the fair today that remember her and so we reminisce and stuff and it's so it's very special 20 000 artists number 60.

[Applause] congratulations Ben come on up uh just feeling pretty blessed to be honest with you that was I I hadn't really done a competition like that before uh to be able to interact with the crowd was uh pretty fantastic but then be able to cap off the summer back in the hometown man it's uh it's a pretty fun feeling I got a lot of family and friends roaming around so it's good to catch up with them and then yeah just be able to support your your local Affairs and and events is uh it's pretty fun and I can tell you firsthand that there are just some incredible exhibitors here and some that we're going to be honoring this on this afternoon a lot of incredible Craftsmen and wood this year Thomas Tyler's tires in Booth 47 Thomas congratulations so to be chosen here is is just very very important to me I love Wisconsin I love this area so again very exciting for me I always loved birds and I just like how a feather looks the colors the variations so many different possibilities they're so cool uh feathers are very very neat they can fly so I really enjoy that part so many incredible photographers there's a lot to choose from this year it's Chris and KB Katie robleski in booth 24.

Chris he went to mayad in Milwaukee for school he taught himself night photography experimented at night because it was the only time he could take photos for his assignments so then he started just exploring that type of Photography it is long exposure so the shutter stays open on the camera anywhere from two to ten minutes and during the shutter exposure we go inside of all of these buildings cars any kind of structure and light it up with color flashlights he's more of like the photographer concepting the artwork and I'm the light painter and he's the one that sends me inside and you know you can be with the critters in there do your thing no Photoshop no computer manipulation and everywhere we go it's abandoned so we have a lot of fun in the dark playing with lights our best in show this year in painting and for the whole show is Rachel Newman congratulations it was absolutely flabbergasted and you know surprised and so I've never won best of show I've been a full-time artist since 2008.

I started sailing as a late teen so I've sailed in like superiors where I learned how I've sailed on tall ships eventually my husband and I spent almost a two-year sabbatical living on our sailboat and that's really where this body of work came from and for so many people in this world that's so chaotic it's like they they're drawn to my work because it's just a moment to breathe it's time to lend an ear to a local musician here's racine-based Blues artist Stephen Hull performing his song a snake will be a snake from the Milwaukee PBS digital series Rhythm Cafe MKE how are we doing good how are you I'm still breathing is he practicing he's tuning up in here all right look at him go see this is why I like him oh yes the concerto shall begin at noon maestro how we doing good how are you we take it from the five in and then just kind of have a nice stop into the thing I'll show you what I mean when I try to get this thing too yeah [Music] do I clap again take three snake will be a snake [Music] I really thought the life was sweet as a piece of cake [Music] and I found out the people can be faked there you go get mad snakes eyes being a snake [Music] when it gets cold outside nobody it starts to shake [Music] a bowl will float on a lake [Music] snakes nice being a snake all right [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] watch every move they make [Music] leave nothing to chance do whatever it takes [Music] and you can't get mad [Music] when a snake starts being a snake [Music] woman won't bring her back [Music] well he took my woman away [Music] bring her back he's longer than a snake in a wagon track [Music] a snake will be a snake is a song that I came up with just taking note of different events that go on and you know we sometimes put our trust in the wrong people even though we might notice that the behaviors that are now on blast or uh have always been there we just kind of ignored it leave your [Applause] [Music] yo watch every move [Music] so I figured this one should be for the people and we should use it a little bit to talk about you the the obviousness of some malicious people in our lives and and kind of ignore it [Music] you can watch the full collection of Rhythm Cafe MKE volumes featuring local musicians at our website milwaukeepbs.org thank you for watching the Arts page I'm Sandy Max please join us the first Thursday of every month for a half hour full of art on the Arts page [Music] thank you [Music] foreign