Free to the public
2-5 pm (Gallery Talk Begins at 3 pm)
Join artist Faythe Levine for a gallery talk introducing her exhibition, Time Is Running Out, followed by a conversation with artist and curator Seth Ter Haar. For the past several years, Levine and Ter Haar have been pursuing their own lines of research on Charlotte Partridge and Miriam Frink, partners, educators, and co-founders of the Layton School of Art. As artists and curators, Levine and Ter Haar approach the act of remembering as a form of queer world-building; they also extend their historical research beyond the page and into the gallery and the studio. Their conversation will move between the exhibition, shared research subjects, methodology, and the broader implications of their work. Together, they will explore how curatorial practice, archival research, and community work coalesce to unearth and re-present overlooked histories.
About Faythe Levine
Faythe Levine has been in service to the arts for over twenty years, advocating for creative output to build connections between community, personal independence, and empowerment. She is currently the Hauser & Wirth Institute Archivist for Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, where she manages, oversees, and increases public visibility of the archives and special collections. Her position focuses on WSW’s work as an important hub for radical thought for the past 50 years, modeling economic viability for print and book culture.
Levine has worked extensively as a freelance artist and curator in traditional and DIY spaces. From 2017 to 2021, she served as director of the Arts/Industry program at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, where she was responsible for developing and administering the residency hosted by Kohler Co., as well as curating related exhibitions and projects. She is also currently the facilitator for a three-year pilot for the Ruth Arts Mary L. Nohl Alumni Award.
Her personal practice revolves around deep research, storytelling, and reimagining archives and collections through a queer feminist lens. Prior work includes Sign Painters (2013) and Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY Art, Craft, and Design (2009), feature-length documentaries that toured extensively. Each was accompanied by a book published by Princeton Architectural Press.
Her most recent book, As Ever, Miriam (2024), explores the fifty-year intertwined professional and personal lives of Charlotte Partridge and Miriam Frink. It will be available for purchase at Lynden during the exhibition.
www.faythelevine.com
About Seth Ter Haar
Seth Ter Haar is a Milwaukee-based curator, artist, and Fellow with Docomomo US/Wisconsin, a nonprofit dedicated to celebrating, conserving, and advocating for mid-century modern architecture within the state. His work bridges scholarship, curation, and community practice to illuminate overlooked histories and bring them into dialogue with contemporary life.
While studying at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD), Seth became the first student to curate a major exhibition at the school with Predecessor: Works for the Layton School of Art, drawn from MIAD’s collections. That project laid the foundation for his continuing research with Docomomo Wisconsin on the Layton School, its Bauhaus-inspired campus, and its pioneering queer founders, Charlotte Partridge and Miriam Frink. Building on this work, Seth later developed Mothers of Milwaukee Modernism, a lecture and upcoming essay that received a Docomomo US 2025 Modernism in America Award. Both projects explore how Partridge and Frink brought Bauhaus ideas to Milwaukee and shaped Wisconsin’s art and architectural scene as we know it today.
Beyond his research on the Layton School of Art, Seth also leads contemporary LGBTQ+ community projects that connect history to lived experience. In 2025, he curated Lavender and Green Carnation at the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, an exhibition that explored queer symbols and cruising codes in the charged political climate of the Trump era. He also runs Frederick Avenue Gallery, lovingly nicknamed FAG, a DIY art space in Milwaukee dedicated to sparking joy, fostering dialogue, and providing a vital third space for the city’s LGBTQ+ community. Recent projects have included a community pageant supported by the Open Fund and presented in collaboration with Blue Dress Park’s Weather Permitting, continuing Seth’s commitment to blending scholarship, art, and public life in ways that affirm queer identity and build collective pride.
