Trinity College’s Widener Gallery is hosting Milwaukee 1980, an exhibition of documentary photographs by Visiting Professor of the Practice in Fine Arts Bud Glick capturing everyday life within Milwaukee’s Mexican American and Puerto Rican neighborhoods. Opening November 16, this exhibition is the most extensive of this body of work to date.
From intimate home portraits to candid moments on neighborhood stoops and sidewalks, the exhibited images offer defining glimpses of the traditions and values of families, neighbors, and friends in these communities.
Connection—between photographer and subject, as well as subject and viewer—is central to Glick’s practice. Inviting viewers to look closely and reconsider preconceived notions, the artist said that he seeks “to make work that is honest about my perspective, grounded in connection, and capable of expanding how we see one another and the world we share.”
Glick began the Milwaukee series as a photography student, prompted by a class assignment to photograph his neighborhood and driven by a desire to cross cultural boundaries and connect with the wider world. Today, nearly five decades later, that impulse remains deeply relevant, and Glick intends the photographs to stand as a refutation of bigotry. He said, “While art does not exist separately from the unique time it was created or the person who created it, it can enlighten the present and help us make decisions about the future.”
Milwaukee 1980 is a precursor to Glick’s acclaimed Chinatown project, which was recently acquired in its entirety by Yale University’s Beinecke Library.
Location: Widener Gallery/Austin Arts Center, Trinity College
Exhibition Dates: November 16, 2026–February 24, 2027 (Closed November 25–29 & December 15–January 24)
Reception: November 19, 4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Widener Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. (Evening and weekend appointments available upon request)
The Widener Gallery exhibition is sponsored by the Department of Fine Arts at Trinity College and is free and open to the public.
Bud Glick received a B.A. in history from the University of Wisconsin and an M.F.A. in photography from Brooklyn College. For more than four decades, he has worked as a commercial photographer, photojournalist, and documentary photographer. While pursuing a freelance photography career, he also has focused on personal projects in documentary photography, been widely published, and in 2018-2019 had a major solo exhibition at the Museum of Chinese in America in New York. Glick’s photographs are in the collections of the Yale Beinecke Library, Museum of Chinese in America, New York Public Library, Latino Arts – United Community Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and numerous private collections.
Glick has taught photography at numerous colleges and universities and is currently visiting professor of the practice in fine arts at Trinity College.
Widener Gallery is Trinity College’s premiere exhibition space of contemporary art by local, national, and international artists addressing global concerns. Directed by the Studio Arts Program, scholarly curation at the gallery engages with critical issues through the works of invited visiting artists and selections from the Trinity College Art Collection. Located on the ground floor of the Austin Arts Center, Widener Gallery is free and welcomes the public.
Learn more about the Widener Gallery here.
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