Photo credit: Linda Smallpage

Register to hear Rachal Duggan!

Event details
🗓️ Date: Friday, February 21st
⏰ Time: 8:30 – 10:00 AM
📍 Location: Urban Ecology Center, Washington Park Branch – 1859 N 40 St; Milwaukee, WI 53208

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Learn about our keynote speaker

Rachal A Duggan is an illustrator, author, and workshop instructor. She draws butts, comics, pets, people, houses and so much more. When she’s not creating illustrations, she teaches drawing to all skill levels. 

Visit Rachal’s website to shop prints and view upcoming workshops & follow her on instagram @radillustrates.

Our theme for February is LAYERS.

It was chosen by our Lausanne chapter in Switzerland and illustrated by Catherine Olivia Pearson.Simplicity provides clarity, but layers give our work a richer complexity and depth. 

Musicians fuse melodies, harmonies, and rhythms to create more dynamic compositions. While other artists use a juxtaposition of colors, textures, images or materials for greater visual impact. The creative magic happens when those choices conjure different interpretations and emotions. 

Because people have layers too. Just like a collage is created by overlapping layers of found materials, we pile up experiences that form our beliefs and reactions. 

The cliché “beauty is only skin deep” means that a pleasant appearance does not guarantee a virtuous character. We are a mess of competing emotions and personality traits. So how we act to the outside world doesn’t always reflect how we feel inside. We make polite chit chat when it takes vulnerable conversations to form meaningful connections. 

Surface level pleasantries and superficial decoration have their place. But it is the layers that give life meaning. We must peel them away to discover our deeper truths.

Photo + directions by John December

About Urban Ecology Center (Washington Park Branch)

It’s pretty simple, the Urban Ecology Center gets people outside. 

At the Urban Ecology Center’s three locations the wonders of the outdoors bring curious people together. Their programs bring our city’s children and families into nature and as a result, our urban parks are safe to visit, our kids are acquiring the science skills they need to succeed, and adults keep on learning about how our changing world around us works.

The Urban Ecology Center provides year-round educational programs for kids, families and adults of all ages.

The Washington Park Branch opened earlier this month! Be one of the first to explore its many offerings. 

Public Transit + Parking

The Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) bus route 30 stops just south of the entrance to the Urban Ecology Center on N 40th Street at Roberts Street.   MCTS bus route 57 stops north of the entrance to the Urban Ecology Center on Lisbon Avenue near 40th Street. For more details, see RideMCTS.

There is quite a large public parking lot open for our use. Please note, it is about about a 5 minute walk slightly uphill from the parking lot to the main entrance. 

Did you know the #1 way people learn about CreativeMornings/Milwaukee is through their friends? 

This month, we invite you to forward this email to a friend. Invite them to sign-up for our newsletter & register for this event with you!

We can’t wait to see you and your buds, pour out some more coffee, and expand our circle of morning people.