The Sherman Park Arts Festival Community Arts Day is a free, fun-filled day for family and friends of all ages, to gather to create art and music, using a variety of arts media.

Culturally-rich Sherman Park is one of Milwaukee’s most diverse communities.  Like many such neighborhoods, it faces educational, economic, safety and health care challenges and was hit by some publicized unrest in 2016. 

The Festival includes a series of activities throughout 2019 that encourages the diverse populations of Sherman Park to create and enjoy neighborhood harmony—through the arts. 

The first of these activities is the Community Arts Day which will be held at the Mary Ryan Boys & Girls Club, 3000 N. Sherman Blvd., on Sunday, March 31, 2019 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public and features arts and music activities for all ages. 

Participating artists include individuals and organizations located in the Sherman Park area, or with close ties to the Sherman Park community. 

Activities will include:

• Watercolor Painting;
• Instrument “Petting Zoo”;
• Pen and Ink Wash;
• Drawing with Charcoal Pencils;
• Instrument Making;
• Tempera Painting;
• Face Painting.

The Sherman Park Arts Festival is sponsored by Bader Philanthropies, Inc., the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, the Bert L. & Patricia S. Steigleder Charitable Trust, the Clarice S. Turer Charitable Fund, the Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation, Herb Kohl Philanthropies, Bud and Sue Selig, and the Gene and Ruth Posner Foundation.

RUACH, in collaboration with many neighborhood partners, is coordinating the second annual Sherman Park Arts Festival.

Festival partners include Mary Ryan Boys & Girls Club, Sherman Park Community Association, Milwaukee Police Department – District 7, Sherman Multicultural Arts School, 53^rd Street School, Ascension – St. Joseph Hospital, Yeshiva Elementary School and others.

Join us for fun art activities and refreshments at this free-to-attend event! Kosher laws are observed.