John Michael Kohler Arts Center

The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is a not-for-profit art museum located in downtown Sheboygan, Wisconsin. [http://preview.travelwisconsin.com/travel_item_detail.aspx?travelitemid=3105&menuid=30 John Michael Kohler Arts Center] , Retrieved July 25 2007] Programming at the art center includes dance performances, art exhibits, festivals, music performances, and theatre; an arts based preschool, classes, demonstrations, lectures, and tours. [http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/8356.htm John Michael Kohler Arts Center] , Retrieved July 25 2007]

The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is notable for its Arts/Industry program, the primary component of which is a residency program at Kohler Company. Artists have the opportunity to spend two to six months creating works of art utilizing the industrial materials and equipment. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is known for its artist created bathrooms. [ [http://www.urinal.net/kohler_arts/ The Urinals of John Michael Kohler Arts Center] , Retrieved July 25 2007] The Arts Center reaches 160,000 people each year, and an estimated 4 million since its inception. The Arts Center was established in 1967, and was expanded to 100,000 square feet in the 2000s. The Arts Center has ten galleries, a theatre, performance and meeting spaces, studio-classrooms, a family and children oriented activity space known as The ARTery, an onsight retail shop called ARTspace, and a cafe named ARTcafe. The Arts Center has an adjunct site called ARTspace At the Shops at Woodlake, which is an exhibition space and shop in the nearby village of Kohler.

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* [http://www.jmkac.org/ John Michael Kohler Arts Center Official website]