As is our tradition on this day, we present a post that has nothing really to do with Boxing Day, but everything to do with Boxing. This year we thought we’d have a little pugilistic fun with Milwaukee artists Marc Tasman’s and Clayton Haggarty’s boxer installations from this year’s Look Here! project. You may recall that the project invited 15 Milwaukee-area artists to create new work based on their research in UW-Milwaukee Libraries’ distinctive collections, including Special Collections, UWM Archives, Digital Collections, and the American Geographical Society Library. One of the images Tasman and Haggarty researched was a 1920 photograph of Milwaukee boxer Emil Kayer from the UWM digital collection Milwaukee Polonia, digitized from a collection of photographs from the studio of Roman Kwasniewski preserved in the UWM Archives. Shown here are:
* The original 1920 photograph of Emil Kayer.
* A digital mock-up of wheat-paste cut-outs of Kayer in the courtyard of Milwaukee's Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, where this summer's Look Here! exhibition was held.
* Marc Tasman and Clayton Haggarty (on right) along with fellow Look Here! participant Jake Hill with their two-story paste-up of Kayer at Redline Milwaukee, where all three are resident artists.
We show these images because portions of this summer’s Look Here! exhibition have been reinstalled here at UWM Special Collections and will remain on view through February 1, 2019.
View our post on Tasman’s and Haggarty’s Look Here! installations at Villa Terrace.
View other Boxing Day posts.
