It’s Gotta Be In Ya!

Associate Producer: MADELINE POWER

DIRECTOR: KARA MULROONEY

PRODUCTION COMPANY: 371 PRODUCTIONS

Ruth Kohler tells the story of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center‘s initial steps on The Road Less Traveled—the preservation of Fred Smith’s Wisconsin Concrete Park.

Dr. Smith’s African American Museum

Producer

Meet Dr. Smith, an eclectic artist who has turned his Louisiana home into a sculpture garden of literally hundreds of figures from black history. He’ll make you laugh out loud one minute and dig deep in your soul the next as he takes you — and three kids — on a tour of his self styled Museum of African American History and Veteran Archives. Whether he’s imploring his visitors to read the paper or sharing his grief from Vietnam, Dr. Smith is one artist you will never forget.

The Saga of the Whittled Hodag

Associate Producer

This fantastical sung story tells of a whittled Hodag that came to life when "The Thief" snatches him from his creator. The song and visuals are inspired by the life and work of Wisconsin visionary artist Levi Fisher Ames and the tall tales he would sing with his family band about the hundreds of real and mythic creatures he would carve out of wood. One of those specimens was the Hodag, a creature of Wisconsin folklore thought to have originated in Rhinelander, WI.