Join AP3 board member Celeste Contreras and DJ Max for a therapeutic Sunday afternoon on May 31st! DJ Max will have harmonic music and Celeste will have tables full of stamps and light refreshments. Bring a friend and leave your stress at the door because it’s time to create! We’ll have paper but feel free to bring your sketchbooks too.
This will be Sunday, May 31st from 1-3 pm at AP3.
Learn more about Celeste’s work here: /about
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the door or in advance on our website, link in bio.
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✨ ✨ Announcement ✨ ✨
✨AP3 Open House
✨Sat, May 23 from 3-6pm
Live printing, member exhibition, artist talks!
We hope you'll join us for our open house, AP3 style! Our member exhibition is still on display down the hall, so you'll get to check out both our studio and the House of RAD gallery. Artist talks start at 4pm. Plus you'll get the chance to get inky with us in the shop!
If you've never been here before and want to learn more about what we do, this is the perfect time! Or if you're here frequently and want to hang out, please do ✨✨✨
Our dedicated a beloved leader Jessica Meuninck Ganger is having an opening reception and artist talk tonight alongside her exhibition partner Christiana Grauert.
Artist Talk and Reception:
Fri. May 8, 6-8:30 pm – Artist Talk at 6:30 pm
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts
3270 Mitchell Park Dr, Brookfield, WI
“Wandering Folds”
On view through August 24, 2026
Whether traveling abroad or traversing familiar landscapes in the Milwaukee area, Christiane Grauert and Jessica Meuninck-Ganger sketch, print, revisit, archive, and actively reimagine their surroundings. Together, they reverently render and reconstruct observations and memories, transforming them into structural, architectural, and often meandering visual arrangements that transcend place and time.
Their collaborative practice draws on a deep well of global experience — observational drawings, photographs, and memories gathered across India, Germany, Mexico, Argentina, Japan, China, South Korea, and beyond. The duo describes their work as understanding place through the lens of what we know, what we’ve lived — a deeply personal reckoning with landscape, culture, and memory. In South Korea, they have studied Hanji (hand-made mulberry paper) and its many applications, using it to recreate spatial experiences that are at once awe-inspiring and quietly curious.
At the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center, this collaborative vision finds new ground. Bridging their international perspectives with the architecture, natural setting, and surrounding landscape of the Wilson Center and nearby Mitchell Park, Grauert and Meuninck-Ganger invite visitors to draw their own connections — to recognize a familiar pattern or encounter an element of the work through a deeply personal memory. Their work offers a gentle reminder of what binds us: the universal human experience of moving through the world and making meaning of what we find there.
Interested in printmaking but don’t know where to start? This beginner friendly linoleum carving workshop is for you! We’ll be going through every step of making a linocut, starting with drawing your image on the linoleum, carving it out, and running your block through a printmaking press to make a small edition.
If you like to draw and appreciate the look of handmade items, you’ll love this workshop.
All materials are provided, but it helps to bring a drawing that’s roughly 6x8”.
Instructor: Ollie Battista @eventoodd
Dates: Thursdays, May 14 - June 4 (four sessions). From 6 PM - 8 PM.
We’ve loved getting to share our studio member’s work with everyone!
Our member exhibition will be on view until June 20 at the House of RAD Gallery. @house_of_rad_mke
Pictured are @ballpoint_ben ‘s multi layer screenprints on panel 🤩
Interested in intaglio or printmaking in general but don’t know where to start? You’re in the right place!
This introductory course will go through the steps of creating a basic intaglio print from start to finish. Intaglio printmaking starts by drawing on a plate, pushing ink into the drawn lines, then using dampened paper and a printmaking press to transfer the ink from the plate to the paper. No previous printmaking experience is necessary, but you should like to draw! You’ll get to create your own image, play with colors, and leave with a small edition of drypoint intaglio prints.
All materials are included in the workshop fee!
Dates: Sundays, May 17 and 24. From 1-4pm.
Instructor: Jessica Lacki
Sign up on the workshop page of our website
Link in bio
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✨Our first member exhibition opens this Friday! ✨
Join us for our first studio member exhibition, held at the beautiful House of Rad Gallery. We’re blown away by the work that our studio members have been producing and hope that you’ll celebrate with us at our opening reception on Milwaukee Gallery Night. You can also check out our studio down the hall and learn more about what we do.
Reception:
Friday, April 17 from 5-9 PM
324 N 12th St, Milwaukee
Inside the House of RAD
@house_of_rad_mke
We started installing the first AP3 members exhibition last night!! It’s opening on MKE Gallery Night, Friday, April 17 from 5-9 at the House of RAD Gallery.
More details will be out soon ✨
More spring and summer workshops headed your way!
First up, we’ve got Intro to Linocuts with our new instructor Ollie! Anyone looking to get into printmaking for the first time is in the right spot. But all experience levels are welcome! We’ll be going through every step of carving and printing your own linocut block and you’ll end up with your very own edition of prints. Thursdays, May 14 - June 4 (four sessions). From 6 PM - 8 PM | $175
Since our first etching workshop filled up so fast, we opened up another section! From plate preparation to aquatint and stage-biting, we will walk through everything step-by-step. Students will be able to experiment with selective wiping and color. Everyone will go home with a small edition of completed prints. This will be taught by our resident artist, Ellie Hogan! Wednesdays, June 3, 10, 17 from 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm | $200
We’ve got another wonderful introduction to printmaking, and another phenomenal new instructor! Jessica Lacki will be guiding you through the drypoint intaglio process. How does drypoint differ from other types of intaglio, like etching? When doing drypoint you draw directly on the plate with a sharp stylus to create a burr that will catch and hold ink, in comparison to etching which uses ferric chloride to eat lines into copper plates. Sundays, May 17 and 24. From 1-4pm. | $100
By the way, our workshop fees cover all needed supplies!
Register online under our workshop tab or follow the link in bio.
/workshops
@oddtoeven@jj.lacki.art@glug0il
In this workshop we’ll be painting with paper! Dyed paper pulp is used to create colorful sheets of paper in this playful process.
Never made paper before? No worries! Experience is not required. Papermaking is a hands-on practice that’s often relaxing and experimental. The instructor will be making the paper pulp for everyone, which consists of beating fibers in water to be malleable. The pulp is then dyed various colors and participants use this vibrant pulp to create their paper. All materials are included!
Dates: Saturday, March 28 from 1 pm - 5 pm
Instructed by Lillith Forsythe
Sign up at link in bio or on our website
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We have so much to be grateful for at AP3! The support we received during our studio grand opening was out of this world ✨
It means so much to everyone working behind the scenes at AP3 that so many came out to celebrate with us and share their enthusiasm.
We’ve only gotten this far because of our volunteers, members, and community support. When people come together we can create a light to guide us through dark times. We look forward to serving the Milwaukee arts community and beyond for years to come!
A big thank you to @mcclains.printmaking.supplies@cranfieldcolours and @legionpaper for generously supporting our silent auction.
