The Calling is a public artwork by American artist Mark di Suvero located in O'Donnell Park, which is on the lakefront in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

It measures 40 ft (12 m) in height, and it sits at the end of Wisconsin Avenue in front of the footbridge that leads to the Milwaukee Art Museum.

The Milwaukee Art Museum chose Mark di Suvero, while an anonymous donor offered to fund the sculpture.

Community members and politicians have had a problem with the cost, the use of industrial materials, the abstract design, the placement, and the donor's anonymity.

"Gerald Norland, Director of the Art Museum, led the fight for approval throughout most of 1981, presenting its case to eleven separate hearings.

He told Milwaukee architecture columnist Whitney Gould several times that he had designed the museum addition to relate to the placement of "The Calling.