{"id":34,"date":"2012-07-31T20:48:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T20:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www5.milwaukee.k12.wi.us\/school\/gaenslen\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:12:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:12:05","slug":"weaving-center","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mps.school\/gaenslen\/about\/weaving-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Bertschy Kadish Memorial Weaving Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the basement of Frederick J. Gaenslen School, every color (of dye) in the rainbow, artists of all ages, and a century of Midwestern art history come together in the Alice Bertschy Kadish Weaving Center.<\/p>\n

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The ABK Weaving Center is an artistic home for Gaenslen eighth graders and an inspiring gathering place for fiber artists statewide. The center might be one of the only places in Milwaukee where you\u2019ll find an eighth grader threading a loom for the first time, creating alongside an artist whose work has been featured in galleries around the country.<\/p>\n

Classes<\/h2>\n

ABK Weaving Center \u2014 a collaborative effort of Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee Recreation, Wisconsin Handweavers Inc.<\/a>, and the Halbert & Alice Kadish Foundation \u2014 is open to the public and provides weaving and fiber-arts education to Gaenslen students and to the wider community.<\/p>\n

Artist educators from Wisconsin Handweavers Inc. teach weaving to Gaenslen School\u2019s eighth graders on Fridays during the school year.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee Rec hosts weeknight adult classes in the center: weaving, wool-needle felting, knitting, zen stitching and jewelry making. An updated course list<\/a> and complete registration details are available through Milwaukee Rec.<\/p>\n

To request a tour of the ABK Weaving Center,\u202fplease call the center director at (414) 267-5771.<\/p>\n

Mission & History<\/h2>\n

Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee Recreation, Wisconsin Handweavers Inc., and the Halbert & Alice Kadish Foundation joined creative forces in 2000 to establish a permanent studio at Gaenslen to make weaving and fiber arts education available to people of all ages.<\/p>\n

To fulfill this mission, artist volunteers maintain a museum-worthy collection of art supplies, artwork in progress and art history in the center:<\/p>\n