Festive Fridays: Leahy’s Luck

The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is a nationally acclaimed visual and performing arts complex in downtown Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The Arts Center is devoted to innovative explorations in contemporary art, new models for community arts, unique educational partnering with an emphasis on early childhood education, presenting internationally acclaimed performing artists, as well as supporting practicing artists through a variety of residencies. The 100,000 square foot complex includes ten galleries, a theatre, an interdisciplinary performance space, studio-classrooms, meeting spaces, gift shop, and cafe. The Community Arts Department is one of the programming departments at the Arts Center—the others being Exhibitions, Performing Arts, Education, and Arts/Industry—and is comprised of five programs:  Connecting Communities, the ARTery, the Community Gallery, the Partnership Program, and Community Events.