The Red Bull Doodle Art Contest empowers a new generation of artists by inviting students and creatives everywhere to let their minds wander through imaginative doodles. Submit your doodle by March 16, 2023.

The East Side Creative Corridor will see some new art this summer as organizers seek three new murals for Black Cat Alley and relaunch the East Side Art Lot.

This July, AARP Wisconsin awarded Milwaukee’s East Side Business Improvement District #20 a Small Dollar, Big Impact Grant to invest in the East Side Art Lot project. This $1,000 award helped fund the creation of a safe outdoor space for the community.

The East Side Art Lot, a new creative public space located in the heart of Milwaukee's East Side neighborhood, will offer a special "Live At The Lot" event featuring drinks, live music, socially-distanced seating and access to 15 nearby restaurants.

Two Milwaukee artists and one Stevens Point artist will paint murals in September at Milwaukee’s premier street art destination, Black Cat Alley. Black Cat Alley is a public arts destination owned by the East Side BID, and managed by the artist-led group that founded it in 2016.

More than 100 artists entered a competition to add murals to the East Side's Black Cat Alley this month and a community jury selected a pair of Milwaukee artists and another from Stevens Point to paint new works in the city's best permanent outdoor art gallery.

Found at 1915 E. North Ave. in between Beans & Barley and Von Trier, the East Side Art Lot turns a flat, unassuming space for parked cars into a vibrant meeting ground and lunch spot, enlivened by ten picnic tables each uniquely hand-painted by local artists.

The East Side Business Improvement District is creating carryout dining space for nearby restaurants on a sparsely used city-owned parking lot at 1915 E. North Ave. Known as the East Side Art Lot, it will help support neighborhood restaurants that have been required to reduce their indoor seating capacity to help combat the coronavirus pandemic.

The East Side Business Improvement District (BID) is finding new ways to add extended outdoor seating for businesses and residents to use safely. For example, the BID is transforming an underutilized city-owned parking lot at 1915 East North Ave.

East Side BID Director, Liz Brodek, noticed on one of her daily walks that the city-owned parking lot at 1915 E North Ave. between Von Trier and Beans and Barley was shockingly underutilized. Support for this art lot has grown since Brodek’s initial realization.

It’s called the East Side Art Lot. And it will breathe new life into the underutilized city-owned parking lot at 1915 E. North Ave., between Von Trier and Beans and Barley. “The East Side Art Lot will bring together our local community, local artists and local restaurants and shops that make the East Side so special.”

A new public space coming to the oft-empty, city-owned parking lot at 1915 E. North Avenue. Businesses stepped forward wanting to do light programming if we could make this happen. We also saw an opportunity to pay local artists to help make the space feel more vibrant.

The East Side Business Improvement District in the city of Milwaukee is taking over a parking lot to provide restaurants additional outdoor seating while highlighting the work of local artists. The BID is creating what it calls an art lot, which will be in the city-owned parking lot at 1915 E. North Ave.

The East Side Business Improvement District (BID) is tackling this issue with its new initiative to create a space for restaurant patrons to go if outdoor seating is at capacity or simply if someone wants a quiet, outdoor space to relax. This space is called the East Side Art Lot and will be located at 1915 E. North Ave.

East Siders pitched the idea of using the city parking lot on East North Avenue between Von Trier and Beans & Barley as a place for additional outdoor dining space for area restaurants and now the idea is moving toward reality. On Wednesday, the East Side Business Improvement District (BID) officially announced the East Side Art Lot at 1915 E. North Ave.

As Snack Boys prepares to open its new East Side location in the former Hotel Foster / Globe East, 2028 E. North Ave., next week, we got another peek at the colorful murals painted inside over the winter by local installation artist Kristina Rolander.

Some places come and go, while some places become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples with fresh eyes, and explore how they might figure in the city’s future. Enter Black Cat Alley. No, seriously: enter Black Cat Alley. Let’s step inside and take a look!

The festival is a one-day event held on East North Avenue on Milwaukee's east side neighborhood. Instead of the physical event, the East Side BID is adjusting to a virtual Tribute To Soulstice event, which will run from April 27 to June 14.

Splash Studio, on the city's east side, wants to add a little color to your world during this pandemic. It's selling "Take & Make Packages" online.

While progress has been made, as last year's UCLA Diversity Report and the most recent redux of #OscarsSoWhite have shown, Hollywood still has a ways to go when it comes to representation in front of and behind the camera.

Best of Milwaukee 2019: Arts & Entertainment. You’ll need some sunglasses with this much star power.

Best of Milwaukee 2019: Imbibing. We do enjoy a drink now and then, don’t we?

Milwaukee, WI – Members of the public are invited to meet the artists of one of Milwaukee's most notable outdoor art galleries on Thursday, July 18 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Back Room at Colectivo on Prospect Ave. Black Cat Alley is an original outdoor art gallery located in a private alley on the East Side between E Kenilworth Place and E Ivanhoe Place.

Remember a few years ago, when the East Side was lousy with empty bars, empty buildings, and gone-out-of-business businesses? Yeah, it’s not really like that anymore. If you needed proof, this past Saturday’s Summer Soulstice Music Festival should have done the trick.

This week Urban Milwaukee will celebrate East Side Week in honor of the historic and innovative area between the lakefront and Milwaukee River. We’ll be publishing an article on a different aspect of the East Side on Monday through Friday.

Milwaukee, WI – The East Side Business Improvement District is on the final climb toward the 19th annual Summer Soulstice Music Festival, Saturday, June 22, 2019 from noon to midnight. Summer Soulstice, presented by Sol Cerveza, is Milwaukee’s hyper-local neighborhood music festival is a celebration of the music, art, and activities that make Milwaukee awesome, officially kicking off the summer festival season. Four Stages of Free Music:

The Summer Soulstice Music Festival – celebrating its 19th year – today announced its lineup of local music hitting its three East Side stages during the upcoming 2019 edition, hosted on East North Avenue and Murray Avenue from noon until midnight on Saturday, June 22.

Splash Studio moved from the Third Ward to 1815 E. Kenilworth Place on the east side of Milwaukee. On Sunday, they held a grand reopening event.

Juried artist selection announced, includes renowned international, national and local street artists

We’ve got something to add to your ‘art stops’ list but you won’t need to squeeze it into the packed schedule of Gallery Night/Day. In fact, you should visit when it’s raining. The evolving art piece is simply known as The East Side’s signature bus shelter with adjoining business shelter on Oakland and North Avenue. It’s easy to miss now that it’s set against the backdrop of looming new development projects, most recently the new 4-story mixed-use building right across the street. Mini donuts are a staple on the corner, with the latest operator Chubby's Drive Thru adding patio seating.

Three imaginative outdoor art pieces on North Ave and Cramer Street will serve as the gateway to the new East Library entrance. The artist was chosen by popular vote and happens to be both an Eastsider and an East Library user.