East Branch Public Art Series - Santiago Cucullu
Learn about the art of Santiago Cucullu by meeting with the artist whose work is featured in the new East Branch: "Blue Like Just After The Rain" a ceiling work in the community room, and "Again Like an Orange of Affirmation and Selection", a mural in the main library space.
Both works, digitally printed onto wallpaper, are made up of imagery culled from the different architectural environments around existing Milwaukee Public Library branches.
Santiago Cucullu has been a practicing artist in Milwaukee for 10 years and has exhibited his work nationally and internationally as a solo artist and in a group. His work mines quotidian evens for universal human themes. He is a long-time East Side resident, a young artist mentor with the Milwaukee Artists Resource Network and an adjunct faculty member for the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Listen to him speak about his process and come with questions!
Saturday, Dec. 6, 2-3 p.m.
East Branch, 2320 N. Cramer St.
The public art project for the East Branch is funded by grants received from the Milwaukee Arts Board and the Mary Nohl Fund of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation and from the the sale of the former East Library Eames furnishings.