The 14th annual Lost Arts Festival at the Grohmann Museum will celebrate our working past on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025 from 12 to 4 p.m. The family-friendly event will celebrate the activities and ways of work captured in the paintings and bronzes in the museum’s permanent collection. Visitors will enjoy live music by Frogwater (1 to 3 p.m.) and watch live demonstrations (12 to 4 p.m.) with artisans including:

• master painting
• Roman technologies from 700BC to 1453AD
• wooden shoe carving
• spinning
• rug hooking
• glassblowing
• bobbin lacemaking
• fiber processing
• proportional measuring and tailoring
• lapidary (stone and gem cutting, engraving and polishing)
• flintknapping (the shaping of the flint or obsidian by striking it with another stone)

Throughout the galleries, artisans will share their expertise and demonstrate their techniques as the Grohmann Museum, 1000 N. Broadway, becomes a laboratory for the creation of Lost Arts.

Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for students and seniors, and free for children 12 and under. For more information, call (414) 277-2300 or visit msoe.edu/grohmann-museum/exhibitions-events/