page_title: John Michael Kohler Arts Center
hierarchical_section_title: John Michael Kohler Arts Center
caption_attribution_description: English: part of the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA. Deutsch: Das 1967 gegründete „John Michael Kohler Arts Center“ erinnert an den Mitbegründer der angesehenen amerikanischen Unternehmer- und Politikerfamilie Kohler. Das Originalgebäude der in einem Innenstadtviertel von Sheboygan befindlichen Anlage ist das John Michael Kohler House, der restaurierte Wohnsitz John Michael Kohlers im Stil des Gilded Age (dem vergoldeten Zeitalter der 1870er und 1880er Jahre). Mehrere moderne Gebäude ergänzen das vielseitige Kulturzentrum. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 82001850
context_page_description: The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is a not-for-profit art museum operated by the Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc., located in downtown Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States. The original house at the facility is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the John Michael Kohler House.
  The Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc. was created in 1959 and its first board included Mrs. Walter J. Kohler III.
  In 1966, the Kohler Foundation donated the Kohler family homestead to the Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc. for the use of the arts center. The center was established the following year and was expanded to 100,000 square feet beginning in 2000. It reaches 160,000 people each year and an estimated 4 million since its inception. The center has ten galleries, a theater, performance and meeting spaces, studio-classrooms, an all ages/all abilities activity space known as The ARTery, an on-site retail shop called ARTspace, and a cafe named ARTcafe. The center also has an adjunct site called ARTspace at the Shops at Woodlake, which is an exhibition space and shop in the nearby village of Kohler.
context_section_description: The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is a not-for-profit art museum operated by the Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc., located in downtown Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States. The original house at the facility is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the John Michael Kohler House.
  The Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc. was created in 1959 and its first board included Mrs. Walter J. Kohler III.
  In 1966, the Kohler Foundation donated the Kohler family homestead to the Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc. for the use of the arts center. The center was established the following year and was expanded to 100,000 square feet (9,300 m²) beginning in 2000. It reaches 160,000 people each year and an estimated 4 million since its inception. The center has ten galleries, a theater, performance and meeting spaces, studio-classrooms, an all ages/all abilities activity space known as The ARTery, an on-site retail shop called ARTspace, and a cafe named ARTcafe.  The center also has an adjunct site called ARTspace at the Shops at Woodlake, which is an exhibition space and shop in the nearby village of Kohler.
  Programming at the center includes dance performances, art exhibits, festivals, music performances, and theatre; an arts based preschool, classes, demonstrations, lectures, and tours. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center has an 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 industrial materials and equipment. The center is known for its artist-created public toilets,  which cultural historian Barbara Penner uses as the introduction to her 2013 book Bathroom.
caption: John Michael Kohler House
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