May 3, 2008, is the opening of the third annual round of installations in Milwaukee, Wisconsin's neighborhoods by IN:SITE, a resource for temporary public art in the city and county. This year's installations, in the Sherman Park neighborhood, include Green Gallery-owner John Riepenhoff's vending-machine project at the Sherman Perk Coffee Shop, retrofitted to show and sell postcard photographs of Milwaukee by ten different artists. Madison artist Melanie Kehoss will show "Local Accents" in the park, sidewalk stencils of decorative elements she observed in local residents' homes. Art student Cari Enot will install "Step It Up Milwaukee," an "interactive trash can" at the bus stop at Chambers and Sherman, intended to raise awareness of the connection between waste, consumerism and their after-effects on the environment. There's also a celebration of the first IN:SITE mentorship project. [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham