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Mirror or Photograph? 

Intern, Phoenix Brown caught in the reflection of the mirror while touching up the studio walls.

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In the Studio: Engineer drawings of the upcoming installation of my piece Legend of the White Snake for Sculpture Milwaukee. 

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Working on drawings for the MARNmentor exhibition on Friday, June 2nd at Var Gallery. 

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Detail image of new series of drawings. 

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It has been a week since the install & opening of Tick Tock Rifts with work by Andrea Jespersen and Ben Woodeson at @thepitchproject. Come check the show out! // On view: March 19 - May 15 // Gallery Hours: Thur - Sat 4-8pm; Sun 1-4pm.

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The Pitch Project Platforms: Carpool - Route 1, Saturday, December 12, 7-10pm

Carpool encourages collaboration between independent artists and communities through programming that begins with a shared car ride. The Pitch Project artist, Kyle Seis, is working with MFA candidates Eileen Rae Walsh, Jeanne Donegan, and Jessica Pierotti for Carpool - Route 1, a collaborative exhibition experience that will be conceived and produced during the group's trip from Chicago, IL to Milwaukee, WI. The one-night exhibition will take place in The Pitch Project's second floor Platform Space.

Carpool is an offshoot of Wavepool, a contemporary art blog dedicated to sharing interviews with both established and emerging artists who engage with the medium of photography.

Reception: Saturday, December 12, 2015, 7-10pm in The Pitch Project's second floor Platform Space

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The Pitch Project Talks: Jenna Knapp

Jenna Knapp will present an artist talk on Sunday, December 13 beginning at 1pm followed by an open studio until 3pm. This program is free and open to the public and is presented in conjunction with 'How To Make Liar's Pie', a site-specific exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Kambui Olujimi on view through January 10, 2016 in The Pitch Project Gallery. 

Jenna Knapp is an artist and activist living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Knapp is a recent graduate from Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, founder of Highway Excursion Agency of the Midwest, and studio resident at The Pitch Project. She is a 2014 recipient of the Mary L. Nohl Suitcase fund, and currently included in The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund: Fellowships for Individual Artists 2014 exhibition at INOVA on view through January 9, 2016.

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Ethan Rafal's Shock and Awe Performance Next Monday, November 9 at 7pm

Pie served at 7pm with performance beginning at 7:30pm followed by an open discussion about the issues explored in the project.

A twelve-year, autobiographical project examining the relationship between protracted war and homeland decay, Shock and Awe is a meticulously crafted image, text, and found object journal that blurs the line between author and subject, and personal and authoritative histories. Completed over countless years traveling the United States, the project pulls from the traditions of documentary photography and writing set on the American road.

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Shock and Awe Book Tour

returns the journal to the people and places depicted, bringing author, subject, and viewer into an exploration of the total meaning of the work. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the project, the performance of Shock and Awe is equal parts story-telling, show-and-tell, and group discussion, presented with ample cast-iron pie, whiskey.

Borrowing from American folk traditions, Shock and Awe is a performance of first-person authorship. Balancing sincerity, humor, the project unfolds in real-time, foregrounding the fraught transformation of memory into document, providing a vehicle to revisit this shared period since 2001 - simultaneously fading from memory, yet not cleanly historicized - and radicalize agency over emerging, dominant Histories.

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About Ethan Rafal:

Ethan Rafal is an artist and photographer based in San Francisco. His work deals with the individual and collective experience of violence, and the ways in which subsequent representations of violence inform personal and national mythologies. Photography is an essential ingredient in his practice, due to the unique relationship between image and violence, but his work employs performance, installation, video, new-media, and social-practice methodologies. He teaches, mentors, helps run an art space, and collaborates with Art For a Democratic Society in the Bay Area, where he has been based since 2007. More info about Ethan and the project at ethanrafal.com.

Performance: Monday, November 9 7-9pm

The Pitch Project's second floor 'Platform Space'