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10/01/2025

Nō Studios welcomes Fall by attending celebrations throughout the City.

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09/23/2025

When: On View now thru December 15th
Location: MIAD'S Frederick Layton Gallery, 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee, WI
Written by Anna Rose Menako

As a Milwaukee native, The Dry Points exhibition, curated by Max Yela, felt like stepping into a living collage of historical figures whose names have been in the air for as long as I can remember. The men featured in the portraits built legacies that continue to shape the city’s identity and live on in its infrastructure, whether or not we ever asked for their presence in our lives.

The portraits on display, drawn from 19th- and early 20th-century steel engravings, remind us that the faces of power in Milwaukee were overwhelmingly white, male, and wealthy. That reality is an elephant in the room that this show doesn’t shy away from. By reworking the engravings with contemporary motifs and mischievous interventions, The Dry Points poke fun and punch up at these moguls of yesteryear, inadvertently holding their cultural dominance up to the light and acknowledging their lingering relevance in our city’s infrastructure and memory.

What’s most compelling is how personality creeps into the reimagined works.

The original steel engravings, created with the painstaking practicality of its time, left little room for individuality or warmth. Here, flamboyance, humor, and idiosyncrasy are brought in, as if the artists are resurrecting subtleties that time and technological limits once flattened.

Much like a sonic rock band, The Dry Points bring together distinct artistic voices to form a sum that is richer and more nuanced than what any individual artist could create. Their mashup of historical gravitas with enigmatic, pop-cultural irreverence transforms these portraits into a collaboration across time. More specifically: a collaboration that examines who we immortalize, how we remember them, and who today might be building the kinds of legacies that will loom over Milwaukee tomorrow.

See more articles and information at nostudios.com/newsletter or on our Culture Reporting YouTube channel. Links are in the bio.

09/16/2025

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See the trailer for Beyond Our Senses - the newest addition to our emerging filmmaker YouTube channel. Also, explore our event planning services.

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07/20/2025

Nō Studios is thrilled to welcome Ailey II to Milwaukee to headline Dance Fest 2025. Meet Carley Cruzat Brooks, one of the Ailey dancers performing at Dance Fest this year.

Now in its fourth year, Dance Fest is an all ages, family friendly event featuring a combined performance showcasing dance companies from across the country. Participating company dance styles will range from contemporary, Irish step and tap to traditional ballet and street dance.

Date: Saturday, August 2nd
Place: Marcus Performing Arts Center

See the link in the bio for details or nostudios.com/dance-fest-2025.

06/27/2025

Nō Studios is thrilled to partner with the Milwaukee Rotary Club to socialize Dance Fest 2025. The event date is August 2nd. See details in the link in the bio or at nostudios.com/dance-fest-2025.

02/10/2025

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Nō Studios is thrilled to bring Dance Fest back to the Marcus Center Peck Pavilion in August! We are also pleased to announce that Alvin Ailey II will headline the combined performance.

We are seeking dance companies to participate in this event. This is a compensated opportunity. And travel expenses will be reimbursed. Apply using the link below:

https://issuu.com/nostudios/docs/2025_dance_fest_submission_form

12/20/2024

Credible Messengers
A Nō Studios x WISN 12 News production

Nō Studios has partnered with WISN 12 News to explore the Credible Messengers program, a Milwaukee Count initiative designed to support at risk youth. Join us for a viewing party for the television broadcast premiere and meet the program organizers and participants.

If you are watching at home, the program airs at today (Friday) December 20th 6:30pm CT on WISN Channel 12.

Viewing Party Details
🗓️: Friday, December 20th • 6pm Doors
📍: Nō Studios

See the link in the bio for the registration. This event is free and open to the public.

11/21/2024

On episode 52 of Doc Talk, Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald joined the podcast at SFFILM to discuss his latest film One to One: John & Yoko. The film captures John and Yoko’s relationship in an interesting light, as well as protests over the Vietnam War, political conflict over the emerging women’s rights and gay rights movements, and a sense that the feeling of endless possibility unleashed in the 1960s was quickly dissipating.

Director Robinson Devor and producer Jason Reid also joined the show to discuss their documentary set in the turbulent early ‘70s, Suburban Fury. The central figure in the film is Sara Jane Moore, who attempted to assassinate then-President Gerald Ford in San Francisco in 1975. How did she go from an apparently “ordinary” suburban woman with Republican leanings to FBI informant, tangled up in the effort to track down kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst? The answers help untangle an entire era fraught with anxiety, desperation, and a paradoxically “idealistic” sense that a bullet, properly aimed, could change history.

Listen to the episode through the link in bio or on major podcast platforms including Spotify, iHeart and Apple.

11/17/2024

Shop Local

Join us for a Small Business Saturday Open House featuring vendors, product demos, free films and food! Sponsored by We Got Soul and MKE Black. See the link in the bio for details and registration.

🗓️: Saturday, November 30th, 10am

📍: Nō Studios

11/14/2024

Christian Yelich was in our house recently recording Thanalysis Episode #60.

See the link in the bio for the podcast.