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CreativeMornings Milwaukee CreativeMornings/Milwaukee is a monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types. Each event is free of charge, & includes a 20min talk, plus coffee!

10/13/2026

Not a morning person? Neither is christina persika! But she’ll be there this Friday, and so should you :) Tickets are free and we have coffee and tea ☕️ Snag your spot and register!

Thank you Linda Smallpage Linda Smallpage for a glorious photoshoot finale of the year 💕 and Christina Persika for welcoming us into your inspiring studio space and showing us your nifty sock collection.

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Event Details
🗓️  Date: Friday, October 16, 2026
⏰  Time: 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
📍  Location: Saint Kate The Arts Hotel — 139 E Kilbourn Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53202
🎟️  Tickets are FREE! 🎟️  RSVP to save your seat.

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🎞️ Reel by Annie Werner

Meet us at Saint Kate! Our last event of the year deserves an extra special setting 🥰 See you morning people next Friday...
10/09/2026

Meet us at Saint Kate! Our last event of the year deserves an extra special setting 🥰 See you morning people next Friday.

📸+🗺️ Venue photos and directions by our dear John December — thanks John!

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Event Details
🗓️  Date: Friday, October 16, 2026
⏰  Time: 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
📍  Location: Saint Kate The Arts Hotel — 139 E Kilbourn Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53202
🎟️  Tickets are FREE! 🎟️  RSVP to save your seat.

Meet our October speaker, Christina Persika! 🎨🖼️🩷Join us next Friday at Saint Kate for our last event of the year :) Reg...
10/08/2026

Meet our October speaker, Christina Persika! 🎨🖼️🩷

Join us next Friday at Saint Kate for our last event of the year :) Registration required— sign up today!

📸 Gorgeous editorial portraits by the gorgeous Linda Smallpage. Thank you, Linda!

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Event Details
🗓️  Date: Friday, October 16, 2026
⏰  Time: 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
📍  Location: Saint Kate The Arts Hotel — 139 E Kilbourn Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53202
🎟️  Tickets are FREE! 🎟️  RSVP to save your seat.



Christina Persika is a Midwest-born and raised artist, muralist and educator. Her studio, Persika Design Co. in Bay View, hosts workshops on creativity, art history, painting and more, with visiting artists teaching alongside Christina.  
Christina designs and creates stationery, art prints and paper products, working primarily in watercolor, gouache, acrylic and digital media. Her products are inspired by her Midwestern roots, Scandinavian heritage (‘Persika’ is Swedish for peach!), and folk art.

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Christina’s art practice focuses on personal narrative, the home, spirituality, femininity, nature, joy and craft. You can find Christina’s murals on the sides of buildings, inside restaurants, schools, ice cream shops, offices, homes and basically, anywhere you can find a wall. Persika Design Co. (est. 2016) products are carried in shops across the country and frequently, at local markets. Christina’s paintings are available to collectors on her website.

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Christina teaches art and creativity workshops several times per year at her studio and local businesses around Milwaukee. Keep an eye out on social media and sign-up for Persika Design Co.’s email newsletter for opportunities to sign-up for a class!

Event Details
🗓️  Date: Friday, October 16, 2026
⏰  Time: 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
📍  Location: Saint Kate The Arts Hotel — 139 E Kilbourn Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53202
🎟️  Tickets are FREE! 🎟️  RSVP to save your seat.

LAST 👏 CREATIVEMORNINGS 👏 OF 👏 THE 👏 YEAR!!!! 👏👏👏👏Rounding out an incredible third year together with muse christina pe...
10/06/2026

LAST 👏 CREATIVEMORNINGS 👏 OF 👏 THE 👏 YEAR!!!! 👏👏👏👏

Rounding out an incredible third year together with muse christina persika 🌼🐸👩‍🎨 The theme is ALTITUDE, and Christina will speak to us about the perspective that being an artist gives her.

Christina’s studio neighbor and friend of our venue, Saint Kate, Aaron Van Oudenallen Aaron Van Oudenallen will kick off our morning together with his sweet saxophone tunes 🎷🎶

Looking forward to one more early morning with you all 🧡 Registration is open! Secure your *free* ticket today.

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Thank you to our cm volunteers Linda Smallpage for the editorial portrait! John December for venue photos + directions! Sarah Schauf for this whimsy collage graphic!

Event Details:
🗓️ Date: Friday, October 16, 2026
⏰ Time: 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
📍 Location: Saint Kate The Arts Hotel—139 E Kilbourn Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53202
🎟️ Tickets are FREE! 🎟️ RSVP to save your seat.

October’s global theme is ALTITUDE. It was chosen by our Toowoomba chapter in Australia , illustrated by Alex Hotchin Al...
10/01/2026

October’s global theme is ALTITUDE. It was chosen by our Toowoomba chapter in Australia , illustrated by Alex Hotchin Alex Hotchin, and is presented by .

Our Toowoomba chapter had this to say about the significance of this month’s theme:

“Toowoomba quite literally sits above; perched on the edge of the Great Dividing Range. ‘Altitude’ speaks to elevated views, both geographically and creatively. It reflects the fresh perspective our community brings and the headspace we make for big ideas.”

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Take your ears to greater heights with our playlist for October’s theme ALTITUDE curated by our global community. Listen now on the CreativeMornings blog. 🎶

Meet Alex Hotchin Alex Hotchin, who illustrated our ALTITUDE theme for October! She is a cartographer, illustrator and writer currently living and drawing on a small farm in Australia. Explore some of Alex’s favorite works on the CreativeMornings blog.

Gem drops! 💎💎💎 Our panelists left us with so many insights, these are just *a few* of the highlights. Watch September’s ...
10/01/2026

Gem drops! 💎💎💎 Our panelists left us with so many insights, these are just *a few* of the highlights. Watch September’s CURRENT event (filmed by the one, the only AVRA LLC) in its entirety so not to miss a single mic drop moment.

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What happens to storytelling when the tools for creating, editing, publishing and even imagining stories are changing fa...
09/29/2026

What happens to storytelling when the tools for creating, editing, publishing and even imagining stories are changing faster than we can keep up?

That was the current running through our September gathering at Hubbard Park Lodge, where four of Milwaukee’s sharpest storytellers joined us for a conversation about creativity in the age of AI.

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✒️ Enjoy these incredibly cool human-created illustrations by Sam Hanson + more BTS of our panel :) THANK YOU, SAM!! 😍



Matt Wild (Milwaukee Record), Lainey Seyler (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), James Groh (WTMJ 4) and Carole Nicksin (Milwaukee Magazine) come to storytelling from different corners of Milwaukee’s creative and media landscape. Together, they offered something more interesting than a simple debate about whether AI is “good” or “bad.” They invited us to think more deeply about what happens to our work and our passion for the work, when the tools change.

We talked about the practical realities: policies and process, idea generation, intellectual property, sourcing and the increasingly complicated relationship between speed and substance. But beneath those questions was a more fundamental one:

What makes a story worth telling—and what makes it worth trusting?

The conversation kept coming back to the value of human perspective. AI may help organize information, accelerate certain tasks or move an idea from point A to point B. But it cannot replace the lived experience, curiosity, judgment and point of view that shape how a person sees the world.

For storytellers, that distinction matters. And so does the experience.

Carole brought perspective to the value of human-generated work in a landscape increasingly saturated with content.

Matt reminded us of the joy and the deeply human process of creating, writing and publishing.

James challenged us to consider the difference between organizing information and actually having a perspective on a story that only humans who embody empathy can have.

And Lainey spoke to the responsibility of protecting sources and the trust that makes journalism possible.

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Perhaps the most inspiring takeaway wasn’t a

Milwaukee, thanks for being real. You morning people packed the Hubbard Park Lodge to the brim for our journalist panel ...
09/28/2026

Milwaukee, thanks for being real. You morning people packed the Hubbard Park Lodge to the brim for our journalist panel discussion on the use of ai and creativity on the theme of “Current” for September. Love you, mean it.
📸 Thanks to Kat for capturing the day.
📰 Thanks to our moderator hollyapotter and panel Matt Wild Milwaukee Record Lainey Seyler Milwaukee Journal Sentinel James Groh TMJ4 News Carole Nicksin Milwaukee Magazine for the lively conversation.
💐 Thanks to Kavon Cortez Jones for your Love Letter to Milwaukee and to Ayanna✨I bring the vibes 🎶💐💃🏻Global House Music DJ for the tunes 🎶
One more morning event to go for 2026!! Stay tuned to our newsletter for details. 💌

09/18/2026

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We loved seeing each and every one of you morning people in real life today. Our community exists because you care, and you show up. Especially when it’s early. ☀️
Thanks to Discourse Coffee Workshop, Alice's Garden and Jobea Bakes for the tasty breakfast goodies. ☕️🫖🥐
Thanks to Ayanna✨I bring the vibes 🎶💐💃🏻Global House Music DJ and Kavon Cortez Jones for sharing your music and poetry magic with us. 🎧🎶🎤
Thanks to Matt, Lainey, James, Carole and Holly for your thoughtful words in the panel discussion. 🗣️🙌.
What a beautiful September backdrop you were, Hubbard Park Lodge
Thanks to our volunteers and community partners. We will see you next month, Milwaukee.
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We’re very fortunate to be in the presence of artists Kavon Cortez Jones and Ayanna✨I bring the vibes 🎶💐💃🏻Global House M...
09/17/2026

We’re very fortunate to be in the presence of artists Kavon Cortez Jones and Ayanna✨I bring the vibes 🎶💐💃🏻Global House Music DJ tomorrow morning ✨

We hope to see you at Hubbard Park Lodge (Friday, Sept. 18!). Doors open at 8:30 a.m.

Registration required— link in bio!

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