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Sign Painters
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Sat Nov 3
7 pm
Sign Painters at Sugar Maple
Milwaukee artist Faythe Levine has never been one to sit still. In addition to organizing the annual Art Vs. Craft fair, curating the Sky High Gallery in Bay View, and producing the 2009 documentary Handmade Nation, Levine has been working on a project—along with former Milwaukeean Sam Macon—about the world and lost art of American sign painters. And if that seems like a strange subject, consider that a full-length documentary was once made about a font. Levine and Macon’s project bears its first fruits tonight at the release party for the aptly titled Sign Painters book. (An accompanying film is due soon.) Both authors will be on hand here for a talk and book signing, and a free Lakefront beer will poured with each book purchase.
Sugar Maple 441 E. Lincoln Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee artist Faythe Levine has never been one to sit still. In addition to organizing the annual Art Vs. Craft fair, curating the Sky High Gallery in Bay View, and producing the 2009 documentary Handmade Nation, Levine has been working on a project—along with former Milwaukeean Sam Macon—about the world and lost art of American sign painters. And if that seems like a strange subject, consider that a full-length documentary was once made about a font. Levine and Macon’s project bears its first fruits tonight at the release party for the aptly titled Sign Painters book. (An accompanying film is due soon.) Both authors will be on hand here for a talk and book signing, and a free Lakefront beer will poured with each book purchase.
Updated 05/08/2013
