Gallery Exhibition Schedule – Mobile

Our Mothers Ourselves is a photographic based exhibit reflecting on the legacies of our mothers and their larger impact. Diverse in ethnic and generational backgrounds and experiences, ten artists share their work of photographic based prints, constructions, and narratives which reflect their maternal legacies. 

The exhibition entices and even challenges viewers to reflect on their own mothers’ legacies and what they themselves hope to pass on to the next generation of Americans. The exhibit also serves to illustrate various visual methods/strategies in the exploration of one’s lineage in deeply personal ways: from historical persecutions or conflicts (e.g. surviving the Holocaust or a Japanese internment camp) to the hardship of immigration, the love of poetry, and even to the legacy of a debilitating degenerative and seemingly genetic disease. The exhibition is designed to engage the community in reflection and conversation by challenging viewers to adopt a ‘legacy mindset’. In addition to the exhibition, there will be a panel discussion addressing the process of art-making within the framework of legacy which often involves family, loved ones, and the ethics/burden of remembrance and preservation.

Curated by artists Ellen Konar and Adrienne Defendi.


The Dry Points are a Milwaukee-based printmaking “rock band” composed of band leader Charles Dwyer ’84 (painting), N. Adam Beadel (letterpress and printmaking), Fernando Gonzalez (graffiti), Stanley Ryan Jones (multi-instrumental), Devin Owsley-Aquilia ’15 (printmaking and drawing), Kruze Karstedt (drawing), and Zachary Rueter ’08 (painting, calligraphy, and digital media). In 2015, they produced a series of over 100 30″ x 40″ collaged prints based on steel-engraved portraits of notable Milwaukee business, religious, and political leaders found in Howard Louis Conard’s History of Milwaukee County published in the late 1890s. This exhibition presents a selection of prints from the series that was donated to UWM Special Collections in 2023.

In monumentalizing and cynically altering the original steal engravings, which frame their subjects as deities of Milwaukee’s success, The Dry Points skewer the self-important patriarchy of these titans, while at the same time back-handedly celebrating their commercial, industrial, and civic successes by layering their portraits with contemporary pop-cultural references, rude insinuations, and Duchampesque facial interventions to satirically represent them as ridiculous spectral figments of a gone world.

Curated by Max Yela and Jon Horvath. 


For more information regarding current and upcoming exhibits, visit MIAD Galleries website. 

Our Mothers Ourselves is a photographic based exhibit reflecting on the legacies of our mothers and their larger impact. Diverse in ethnic and generational backgrounds and experiences, ten artists share their work of photographic based prints, constructions, and narratives which reflect their maternal legacies. 

The exhibition entices and even challenges viewers to reflect on their own mothers’ legacies and what they themselves hope to pass on to the next generation of Americans. The exhibit also serves to illustrate various visual methods/strategies in the exploration of one’s lineage in deeply personal ways: from historical persecutions or conflicts (e.g. surviving the Holocaust or a Japanese internment camp) to the hardship of immigration, the love of poetry, and even to the legacy of a debilitating degenerative and seemingly genetic disease. The exhibition is designed to engage the community in reflection and conversation by challenging viewers to adopt a ‘legacy mindset’. In addition to the exhibition, there will be a panel discussion addressing the process of art-making within the framework of legacy which often involves family, loved ones, and the ethics/burden of remembrance and preservation.

Curated by artists Ellen Konar and Adrienne Defendi.


The Dry Points are a Milwaukee-based printmaking “rock band” composed of band leader Charles Dwyer ’84 (painting), N. Adam Beadel (letterpress and printmaking), Fernando Gonzalez (graffiti), Stanley Ryan Jones (multi-instrumental), Devin Owsley-Aquilia ’15 (printmaking and drawing), Kruze Karstedt (drawing), and Zachary Rueter ’08 (painting, calligraphy, and digital media). In 2015, they produced a series of over 100 30″ x 40″ collaged prints based on steel-engraved portraits of notable Milwaukee business, religious, and political leaders found in Howard Louis Conard’s History of Milwaukee County published in the late 1890s. This exhibition presents a selection of prints from the series that was donated to UWM Special Collections in 2023.

In monumentalizing and cynically altering the original steal engravings, which frame their subjects as deities of Milwaukee’s success, The Dry Points skewer the self-important patriarchy of these titans, while at the same time back-handedly celebrating their commercial, industrial, and civic successes by layering their portraits with contemporary pop-cultural references, rude insinuations, and Duchampesque facial interventions to satirically represent them as ridiculous spectral figments of a gone world.

Curated by Max Yela and Jon Horvath. 


For more information regarding current and upcoming exhibits, visit MIAD Galleries website.