Tres Birds' design for the new Kohler Art Preserve hopes for a Marfa-like impact on Sheboygan

2021-06-29T19:01:00-04:00

The highly anticipated new satellite location of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center has finally opened this week in Sheboygan, Wisconsin following almost a year of Covid-related delays.

Dubbed “The Art Preserve,” the fantastic new 56,000-square-foot facility will serve as the home for the Center’s 25,000-object collection.

Photo: Durston Saylor, courtesy John Michael Kohler Arts Center

Tres Birds was instrumental in developing a plan that would respond to the Center’s focus on in-situ art environments. First, the design team had to structure the three-story exhibition space in a way that could allow exhibitions to recreate elements of the original spaces that the works were created in. The result is a tripartite structure whose “stick, earth, stone” elements are meant to embody the sterling natural environment of the surrounding Sheboygan River Basin.

Photo: Rich Maciejewski, courtesy John Michael Kohler Arts Center

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Tres Birds' design for the new Kohler Art Preserve hopes for a Marfa-like impact on Sheboygan