Common Wealth Development

Gallery Reserved - S.B. Pictures
2024-08-03 08:00 - 2024-08-04 17:00, 2024-05-22 08:00 - 2024-05-23 17:00, 2024-03-12 00:00 - 2024-03-13 23:59 (America/Chicago)

Gallery Reserved - WF
2024-07-31, 2024-07-24, 2024-07-17, 2024-07-10, 2024-07-03

Gallery Reserved - N.M.
2024-06-27 08:00 - 2024-07-02 17:00

First Day of Wanda Fullmore Youth Internship Program
2024-06-17

Community Art Show
2024-06-12 00:00 - 2024-06-26 00:00
Located on the third floor gallery of 100 S Baldwin St in Madison, this community art show features the work of over 50 local artists of all ages, from emerging and amateur artists to award winning professionals. Works in this exhibition showcase the wealth of creativity and imagination in our community.
Free and open to the public, please join us for an opening reception Friday June 14 5 – 8pm. The gallery will be open to visitors Saturday, June 15, 12-5pm, Sunday, June 16, 12-5pm, Thursday, June 20, 4-7pm, Saturday June 22, 12-5pm, and Sunday, June 23, 12-5pm.
If you’d like to arrange a visit to the gallery outside of these hours, contact exhibition director, Loran Schultz, communityartshow2024@gmail.com and we will do our best to accommodate your visit.

Gallery Reserved - CWD: YAB Event
2024-05-30

Gallery Reservation: Slow Down Take Care
2024-05-14 08:00 - 2024-05-20 17:00
“Slow Down Take Care” will be on May 18 at the Common Wealth Gallery (100 S Baldwin) from 4 – 10 pm. It will be free to the public and is an alcohol free + all ages event.
There will be a wide variety of artwork including: animations, canvas paintings, poems, screen-prints, apparel, stickers and more. Artists include:
Stefan Matioc: For the last 10 years, my lines have made their way onto many walls including: Lululemon at Hilldale, The Sylvee music venue, Good Style Shop, Banzo on Willy St, Next Door Brewery, Robinia Courtyard and others. To check out my work please have a look at my Instagram / website.
Michael Doyle Olson and Ethan Jackson will also be sharing work – you can check out their work here: www.mdo.me and Dripsphere
Our show is a chance for everyone to be present together – to slow down & take care
Email: stefanmatiocart@gmail.com

Art Exhibit: Listening to Cheese Gossip
2024-05-07 08:00 - 2024-05-13 17:00
Art Exhibit: Listening to Cheese Gossip
Opening Reception: Friday May 10th at 7:30pm at the Common Wealth Gallery, 100 S Baldwin St (3rd Floor)
Additional hours on Saturday 5/11 and Sunday 5/12 open to the public from 12-5pm.
To arrange a private showing, contact: Sam Bonilla at (608) 347-1510

Gallery Night - L.O.U.D. Art Exhibition
2024-05-03 17:00 - 21:00
Gallery Night Event – Latinos Organizing for Understanding and Development (LOUD)
Located in the Common Wealth Gallery at 100 S Baldwin St (3rd Floor)
Event from 5 – 9pm. Co-hosted by Common Wealth Development
Spring Gallery Night Flyer 2024

Gallery Reserved - O.M.
2024-04-07 08:00 - 2024-05-06 17:00

Gallery Reserved - S.M.
2024-04-02 08:00 - 2024-04-04 17:00

Wanda Fullmore Youth Internship Program Applications Close
2024-03-22 08:00

Gallery reserved - Zuzu's Birthday Pawty 3/10
2024-03-06 08:00 - 2024-03-11 17:00
Mark your calendars for our annual community celebration and healthcare fundraiser for our beloved and hardworking CEO zuzu! zuzu is turning 19 this year and she wants you to come celebrate!
ZUZU’S 19TH BIRTHDAY PAWTY
Sun March 10, from 12pm-4pm
100 S. Baldwin, 3rd floor gallery
The fun will include live interactive screen printing – you can pull your own zuzu print, live oil painted pet portraits, friendship bracelet making, cat coloring pages, zuzu button making, a zuzu-themed photo booth, live mandolin music, vegan cupcakes, and an epic raffle including baby zuzu plushies, a basket of cat toys, a cat tower, artwork by both Bernie and her dad, a quilt by Bernie’s mom and much more. Best of all zuzu herself will zoom in so we can sing happy birthday to her!!! Free and open to the public.
The raffle portion of the event is a fundraiser for zuzu’s health care fund. Zuzu has Chronic Kidney Failure, Hypertension, Thyroid disorder, Osteoarthritis and Acid Reflux. She takes 3 pills every 12 hours, gets subcutaneous fluids twice a week, gets monthly pain shots for her arthritis, B12 shots once a week, and has a senior exam and full bloodwork every 4-6 months. In the last year, Zuzu’s care has cost over $6,000. As a single person who’s sole income comes from selling my artwork and teaching, zuzu’s care is a significant financial burden.
If you can’t make the event or don’t live in Madison, please remember that we have lots of artwork and gifts available in our online store – and workshops too! – https://bernieandzuzu.com/
Thanks so much!
All our best, bernie & zuzu

CWD's 45th Anniversary Kick-Off Event - Competitive Karaoke
2024-03-05 19:00 - 22:00 | The Weary Traveler Freehouse, 1201 Williamson St, Madison, WI, 53703, United States
Common Wealth Development is kicking off our 45th Anniversary with Competitive Karaoke. At March 5th from 7-10 pm, come sing your heart out at the Weary Traveler Freehouse. You can buy $5 coupons to sing, kick someone off the stage, or continue singing after your song is over or you were kicked off. All money raised will go towards CWD’s participation in The Big Share.

Happy Hour at the Weary Traveler Freehouse
2024-03-05 17:00 - 18:00 | The Weary Traveler Freehouse, 1201 Williamson St, Madison, WI, 53703, United States
Come to Happy Hour at the Weary Traveler Freehouse to continue celebrating CWD and our participation in The Big Share.

Coffee Hour at the Rotunda Café
2024-03-05 08:00 - 22:00 | Rotunda Cafe, 1965 Atwood Ave #5220, Madison, WI, 53704, United States
Join us at the Rotunda Café inside Lake Ridge Bank to kick off The Big Share. We will be there from 8-10 am and will be selling coffee where proceeds will go towards our Big Share efforts!

2024 Big Share
2024-03-05 | Online
Join Common Wealth Development in celebrating the Big Share on March 5th. The Big Share is a unique online day of giving hosted by Community Shares of Wisconsin where community members have a chance to support local non-profits who are focused on the most pressing causes in our community.
Save the date for the 10th anniversary of The Big Share. Additionally, Common Wealth Development is celebrating our 45th Anniversary this February. We would love your support this year to commemorate both special anniversaries!
With your donation, we can continue our legacy of providing truly affordable housing, fostering business incubation for local small business owners, and promoting workforce development for youth and adults. You can donate here!

WAEA Gallery - Youth Art Month
2024-02-17 08:00 - 2024-02-25 17:00
Youth Art Month – South West Wisconsin Regional Show
Reception Date: Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024 from 12-3pm. (Teachers will take down art immediately following the reception. Art for the State Exhibit stays with Mandy and the rest can go home with teachers.)
Time: Show will be up and open for viewing, starting Feb. 17th after 1pm, and every day following until Feb. 25th from 9am-6pm.
Location: Common Wealth Gallery 100 S. Baldwin St. Madison, WI (Gallery located on the 3rd Floor)
​Set Up: Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024 from 11am-1pm. Bring your students’ art to hang on gallery walls with hammers and nails. You will hang your own or coordinate with Mandy. Please review all emails about options for ‘framing’ and hanging art so it stays up safely.
More information can be found online at https://www.wiarted.org/youth-art-month.html

Gallery Exhibition - Sound Mind/Sound Body
2024-02-03 08:00 - 2024-02-16 17:00
Sound Mind/Sound Body is an art exhibition that focuses on the intersection between disability and mental health. It features 21 artists from across Dane County working in a diverse range of media.
Sound Mind/Sound Body seeks to destigmatize mental health through art. In particular the exhibition will explore how disability and mental health affect each other. In a pandemic-altered world, we have been forced to reexamine our individual and collective relationships to the concepts of physical and mental health. Recent studies have registered massive spikes in anxiety, depression, and PTSD, and of this, the disability community has taken the brunt, with disabled people often experiencing severe mental distress due to factors including increased isolation, lack of resources, and financial hardships.
Sound Mind/Sound Body provides an artistic response to this world, exploring how physical, cognitive, and sensory disabilities along with stigmatization and marginalization can affect mental health. Conversely, it also addresses the processes by which mental illness becomes physically disabling.
Sound Mind/Sound Body will be having a free, public opening reception on February 3 from 6-9pm at Common Wealth Gallery on Baldwin Street. In order to make this exhibition accessible to the disabled community, masks will be required in the gallery. We are also asking that the space remain fragrance free. The show will then run until February 16, with gallery hours running from 6am – 6pm on weekdays and 8:30am – 1pm on Saturdays. In conjunction with the show, Pinney Library is hosting a free panel featuring a selection of participating artists on February 9 at 6pm. The panel at Pinney Library will feature Anne E Stoner, Briana Richardson, Lyra Dark, Malakai Schulz, Nadine Bearson, Rose Menyon Heflin, and moderator Ty S.
This project is funded in part by a grant from the Madison Arts Commission, with additional funds from the Wisconsin Arts Board. This project is supported by Dane County Arts with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation; The Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times; the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation; and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation.
Sound Mind/Sound Body features the work of: Anne E Stoner, Aeryn Streiffer, Briana Richardson, Carley “Car” Reigger, Dean Amethyst, Hailey McLaughlin, Heather Andersen, Heather Sarabia, K.A.P., kate mackenzie, Lyra Evans, Mabel Thaden, Malakai Schulz, Melanie Sartori, Nadine Bearson, Olivia Knopke-Mooney, Rose Menyon Heflin, Sara Meredith, Ty S, AK Beane.

Job Shop – Meadowood Neighborhood Center
2019-05-01 09:00 - 13:00 | Meadowood Neighborhood Center, 5740 Raymond Rd., Madison, WI, 53711, United States
Job Shop is the central hub of the Southwest Partnership employment continuum, a program of Common Wealth and Joining Forces for Families. Neighbors, volunteers, job seekers, students, social service professionals, and neighborhood center staff come together every week to meet area residents and work together.
Job Shop is a voluntary service center where social work professionals and committed volunteers offer face-to-face, one-to-one, hands-on help for people trying to find work. It is a “front door” to a caring environment and to other help beyond the employment-seeking help offered immediately that morning. Many people take advantage of specific support options, while others choose to connect with us more deeply. The degree to which participants engage with our services is completely up to them.
Services
Job Shop support services include:

The UW Writing Lab, offers resume development support
Staff help participants complete online job applications
Staff assist participants apply for public benefits and programs
Joining Forces for Families attends and offers additional support and resource referral on a wide range of issues that affect job seekers and their families.

Our Employment Continuum Coordinator is on hand every Wednesday to connect directly with individuals, volunteers, and other community stakeholders.
