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SUMMARY:Special Edition Slow Art: “Seeking Revelation”
LOCATION:Milwaukee Art Museum\, 700 N. Art Museum Drive\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 
 53202\, United States
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Cordula Grewe\, professor of art history at Indiana Un
 iversity Bloomington\, Stephanie O’Rourke\, senior lecturer in art histo
 ry at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland\, and Nikki Otten\, associ
 ate curator of prints and drawings and curator of Seeking Revelation: Germ
 an Romantic Prints and Drawings\, for a guided exploration of works in the
  exhibition. Through close looking and thoughtful discussion\, this intima
 te gallery experience invites participants to slow down\, reflect\, and en
 gage with the German Romantics’ enduring search for meaning. \nThis drop
 -in experience is included with Museum admission and is free for Members. 
 Admission tickets are available at the door or online. The Milwaukee Art M
 useum is grateful to its exhibition sponsors. \n  \nAbout the experts\nDr
 . Cordula Grewe specializes in modern European art\, with research spannin
 g visual piety\, word-image relationships\, aesthetics\, and art as politi
 cs. She is the author of several books\, including Painting the Sacred in 
 the Age of Romanticism (2009)\, The Nazarenes: Romantic Avant-garde and th
 e Art of the Concept (2015)\, Wilhelm Schadow (1788–1862): Werkverzeichn
 is der Gemälde (2017)\, and The Arabesque from Kant to Comics (2021)\, as
  well as edited essay collections on museums and print culture. Her curren
 t research explores modern theo-aesthetics\, the body as medium\, and art 
 in the Third Reich. She is also writing a nonfiction memoir\, Mink in Flam
 es\, examining immigration\, intergenerational trauma\, and the American D
 ream. \nStephanie O’Rourke is a historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-
 century European art\, particularly in relation to resource extraction\, s
 cientific knowledge\, and media technologies. She is a Senior Lecturer in 
 art history at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Stephanie is the 
 author of two books: Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction (Universi
 ty of Chicago Press\, 2025) and the prize-winning Art\, Science\, and the 
 Body in Early Romanticism (Cambridge University Press\, 2021). She is curr
 ently a Mid-Career Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British
  Art and she was previously a professeur invité at the Sorbonne and a Res
 earch Consortium Fellow at The Museum of Modern Art. She holds a BA from H
 arvard University and a PhD from Columbia University. \nNikki Otten is Ass
 ociate Curator of prints and drawings at the Milwaukee Art Museum where sh
 e is responsible for a collection of works on paper that spans the 15th to
  the 21st century. Since arriving at the Museum in 2018\, she has curated 
 the major exhibitions Currents 39: LaToya M. Hobbs\, Carving Out Time (202
 4)\, Always New: The Posters of Jules Chéret (2022)\, and Landfall Press:
  Five Decades of Printmaking (2019). She has also organized several rotati
 ons of American and European art drawn from the Museum’s collection. Pre
 viously\, Nikki held fellowships and internships at the Weisman Art Museum
  at the University of Minnesota\, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk\, 
 Virginia\, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. She holds a PhD in art hi
 story from the University of Minnesota.
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