Hundreds of shipwrecks lay at the bottom of Lake Michigan. In this online presentation, we will explore the history, archaeology and public interpretation of two significant Wisconsin shipwrecks, Niagara (1856) and Phoenix (1847). Both shipwrecks reside within the recently designated Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary and are part of the new “Wisconsin’s Shipwreck Coasts” exhibit at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc.

The program will be given by Executive Director Kevin Cullen, who has spent the last two decades working in the field of archaeology – both on land and underwater - on three continents and throughout the United States. Since 2022, he has served as a Sanctuary Advisory Council member for the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary.

Charles J. Connick: America’s Visionary Stained Glass Artist is the first comprehensive account of Charles J. Connick, America’s most innovative and influential stained-glass artist working in the first half of the twentieth century. When Connick (1875-1945) began his stained-glass career in Pittsburgh in the 1890s, America’s fascination with the newly invented “opalescent” windows of Tiffany and La Farge meant that the original traditions of the art form were almost forgotten.

This richly illustrated book, representing decades of research, presents the dynamic trajectory of Connick’s artistic development, and analyzes Connick’s work in the contest of the Arts and Crafts and “Modern Gothic” movement in architecture and the applied arts.

Author Peter Cormack is a noted scholar of post-medieval British and American stained glass, William Morris, and the Arts and Crafts Movement. He is the author of a number of books, including Arts & Crafts Stained Glass.