Supporters argue change isn't necessary for center's expansion McBride, also a WCD board member, said in an email message that he also has asked Brooks to delay the planned removal until a board review can be conducted. "At a minimum, we would strongly urge you to delay the planned removal until a review by the Wisconsin Center District Board can be conducted," the letter said. Bauman, Coggs and Pérez are members of the WCD board. Coggs and aldermen Jonathan Brostoff, Robert J. "If the reports are correct, the decision to remove it was made without reference to either the Milwaukee Arts Board which supervised the original installation or your own Wisconsin Center District Board," the letter read in part.Īlderwoman Milele A. Milwaukee aldermen ask for delay on art installation's removal until board review conductedĪfter news about the planned removal of the installation spread, six Milwaukee aldermen sent WCD president Marty Brooks a letter questioning the decision. The decision to trash that heritage is an abrupt move in the opposite direction," local historian John Gurda wrote in an email to several WCD board members criticizing the plan. "When the center opened in 1998, the decision to feature literature was praised as a bold and forward-looking departure from conventional design. “It’s such a tragedy that there would be this erasure.” “I don’t understand why our leaders would be afraid of history,” she said. Kimberly Blaeser, a former Wisconsin Poet Laureate and a citizen of the White Earth Nation Ojibwe in Minnesota, has work featured in the exhibit and said some of the other works by Indigenous writers reminds visitors of the colonial history of Wisconsin and how Indigenous people and the atrocities committed against them had been forgotten. Their words are worked into sculptural archways and on the walls of the center. ![]() It features the works of 48 Wisconsin writers through four centuries, including many prominent Indigenous artists and people of color. The exhibit, “Portals and Writings Celebrating Wisconsin Authors,” was installed at the Milwaukee convention center, now known as the Wisconsin Center, in 1998. ![]() MILWAUKEE - Award-winning Wisconsin writers and advocates for the arts are decrying the planned destruction of a literary exhibit in Milwaukee this week.
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