Politics as Unusual

This exhibit focuses on the city of Milwaukee and the way its governing branches--the Common Council and the Mayors office--have dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic. Via a series of press releases, internal communications, and the actual language in proclamations adopted by these legislative bodies you will get a sense of the tumultuous nature of politics during this pandemic. Every 24 hours a new cycle would begin and with it could come a new ruling, a new policy, a new piece of legislation or new data that could alter or completely change everything done in the previous 24 hours. That has become the world we live in where uncertainty and the anxiety it develops rules the day, politics has not been spared this.