Down the Road $300 14″ x 21″
I am back to walking slowly without assistance and I have been very busy painting. I want to invite all of you to see my new collection of paintings at the University of Wisconsin Extension The Pyle Center at 702 Langdon Street, Madison on the first floor. (map)
Keep It Simple will run from August 28 through September 26. The Pyle Center is open from 7:30 am – 4:30 pm.
Opening Reception
I had a show opening at the University of Wisconsin, Sheboygan Fine Arts Gallery the week after my surgery. The exhibit Keep It Simple II was supposed to be installed on Saturday, two days after my accident. My wife Jane loaded the paintings into our Jeep and carried them into the Gallery for installation. Two friends…Chuck Ausavich and Judi Roblee.. helped install the 44 paintings. Chuck and Judi did a wonderful job hanging the paintings. Very professional. Thank You!!
I sat and greeted visitors at the Opening Reception on Thursday, April 10. I was so happy to see so many of you at the reception. Last Friday, Jane took down the exhibit and I packed them into the Jeep. I couldn’t do much with my leg in a cast and crutches.
My studio is on the second floor of my home, so I have not been up there to do any painting.
It has been almost four weeks since the surgery, but I am still feeling a lot of pain. It will be a long recovery. Whenever I get up from lying down, my foot hurts again. I have been able to return to work part-time, but it is difficult to keep my foot elevated above my heart. It doesn’t take long before my foot gets swollen and I need to go home and lie down.
Now you will understand if you don’t hear from me for awhile. Please pray for a swift healing/recovery for me.
VW Classic $150 10″ x 12″
I have a solo art exhibit entitled Keep It Simple II at the University of Wisconsin, Sheboygan Fine Arts Gallery from April 1, 2014 – April 25, 2014.
Reception Thursday, April 10, 2014 5 pm – 7 pm. Refreshments will be served.
Gallery is open from 9 am – 6 pm.
The Fine Arts Gallery is located inside the Fine Arts Building, just outside the Theater entrance; 1 University Drive, Sheboygan (map)
Website: http://www.sheboygan.uwc.edu/student-life/fine-arts-programs/FineArtsGallery.html
Dodge Preserve oil $500 16″x19″
Reception April 4, 2014 from 5 pm – 8 pm.
Entertainment: 5:00 – 6:15 pm Robert Herrman, Piano, Iona Herrman, Clarinet.
6:15 – 7:30 pm Kathy Arndt, Piano & Harp
Sponsored by Mooney & Siegert Law Office and Plymouth Rotary Club.
Water’s Edge Artists is an alliance of plein air artists dedicated to artistically recording historic, endangered or threatened places.
Water’s Edge Artists meet monthly to creatively capture both celebrated and humble environmental or historically significant treasures.
The group engages with one another and the public, both as individuals and as a whole, through collaboration with and financial support of local environmental and historic preservation stewardship organizations.
Through these joint efforts, WEA endeavors to stimulate awareness of the need to protect and celebrate our unique, precious and essential natural resources and historic places.
Gallery 110 North, 520 East Mill Street, PO Box 253, Plymouth, WI 53073 (map)
GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday 12 – 4 pm; Sunday 1-4 pm, closed Monday, holidays
Admission is free.
Donna Hahn, Executive Director
Email: info@plymoutharts.org
Phone: 920.892.8409
I partnered with Joanne Lensink, a member of the Mead Library Poetry Circle, to create a painting which will be on exhibit at the Sheboygan Visual Artists exhibit entitled, Making it Speak: Poets and Artists in Cahoots at the EBCO ArtWorks Gallery, 1201 Erie Avenue, Sheboygan. (map)
Come to the opening reception on March 28, 2014 6 pm – 10 pm.
There will be poetry readings beginning at 7:30 pm. This event, complete with refreshments and valet parking, is open to the public, free of charge.
Sixteen members of the Mead Library Circle were paired with sixteen SVA artists, resulting in a joint exhibit of art and poetry in the main gallery.
The artist took on the challenge of creating a new work of art based on one of three poems submitted by a poet. That new work of art and the poem that inspired it will be displayed side by side.
Each artist submitted photos of three already completed works of art. Mead Library Poets chose one work of art to inspire a new poem. Both the work of art and the new poem that it inspired will be exhibited side by side.
The end result will be two works of art by each artist exhibited alongside two poems by members of the Mead Library Poetry Circle.
EBCO Artworks Gallery is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 am – 4 pm March 29 & 30, April 5 & 6, April 12 & 13
For more information, please contact Erico Ortiz at 414-587-3474 or Marilyn Windau at 920-467-6614
EBCO Artworks, 1201 Erie Avenue, Sheboygan
(262) 416-1278
Capitol Skyline $270 12″ x 24″ watercolor
I will have two paintings at the Wisconsin Regional Artists Program exhibition which will be on the first floor of the University of Wisconsin – Extension The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, Madison. (map)
The show runs from March 9 until April 12, 2014.
April 12 will be a workshop day from 10 am to 3:30 pm
Judge and Guest Speaker is Leslee Nelson, recently retired director of WRAP. She will be talking about her extensive work in textile arts, especially about pieces she creates called “memory cloths.” Her lecture will be from 10 am – 11 am on April 12. Guests pay $5 admission and are welcome to stay for the critique as well.
WRAP (Wisconsin Regional Art Program) is a program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Continuing Studies division. It was begun in 1940 by the College of Agriculture Extension as a means of encouraging rural artists and providing them with exhibit opportunities.
The purpose of WRAP is to encourage non-professional artists and to offer them an opportunity to exhibit and develop their abilities through regional exhibitions and workshops.
Today WRAP sponsors 20 non-juried regional exhibits across the state for non-professional artists. The exhibits are held in public spaces for two to four weeks and each participant can submit two pieces of work. Exhibits are accompanied by a workshop day that features a guest speaker or demonstration as well as a judge’s critique of participants’ art. You may enter as many Wisconsin Regional Art Workshops as you like. Anyone 16 years or older can exhibit in any of the regional WRAP shows
Honorable Mention and State Awards are given. The State Award pieces are eligible for exhibit at WRAP’s annual State Art Exhibition and Conference held in September each year. If your work is selected for the State Exhibit at two different workshops, you must choose which one you want to send to the State Art Exhibit.
Helen Klebesadel
Director, Wisconsin Regional Art Program
608-262-3056 or hklebesadel@dcs.wisc.edu
University of Wisconsin-Madison
21 N. Park St., 7th floor, Madison, WI 53715
WRAP website: www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/art/wrap
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WRAP is sponsored in part by funds administered through the UW-Extension as part of a coordinated statewide extension program.
Rounding the Mark, $350 watercolor
I will have five paintings on exhibit at the Stone House Gallery at North Shore Bank, 2301 Wisconsin Avenue, Grafton (map) from March 3 – March 28, 2014.
Reception on Saturday, March 15, 2014 from 9 am to 12 noon.
Light refreshments will be served.
Gallery is open during business hours: Mondays – Thursdays 9 am – 5 pm; Fridays 9 am – 6 pm, Saturdays 9 am – 12:30 pm
Website: http://www.northshorebank.com
Winter Field $500 15″ x 22″ watercolor
The intent and purpose of the Art Initiative is to create a welcoming, warm, healing space for patients, guests, staff, and community members who visit the St. Nicholas Hospital through a gallery style display of artwork created by local and regional artists
St. Nicholas Hospital will become an additional gallery space for local and regional artists to exhibit and sell their art work. Christina Wynveen, Cassy Tully’s manager and art director, will serve as a fine art liaison for four exhibition seasons per year.
Artists donate a percentage of the sales of their work back to the Friends of St. Nicholas Hospital fund. This fund helps those in need pay their medical bills acquired while being serviced at St. Nicholas Hospital.
Contributions are also used to purchase much-needed equipment, support programs and services for patients and their families, and provide healthcare-related academic scholarships.
This project was conceived and executed by Andrew Bagnall, CEO of St. Nicholas Hospital; Charmaine Jankowski, Fund Development Coordinator; Cassy Tully, artist and owner of Cassy Tully – Fine Art; and Christina Wynveen, manager and art director.
Pigeon River 11″ x 14″ oil on January 4, 2014
The Plein Air Painters of Chicago, Indiana Plein Air Painters, and the Wisconsin Plein Air Painters Association are participating in the first of its kind friendly on-line competition for plein air artists. It’s free, but all posted work must be done 90% plein air.
To post a painting, you must first post the painting to your own blog or website and then link the url to this blog: midwestpleinairborderwars.blogspot.com.
Click the “add your link” button at bottom of the page. When entering your name, prefix it with your state’s abbreviation (ie: WI Keary Kautzer).
This challenge is open until March 21st. There is no limit to the number of images you may post. The challenge will be expanded in the spring.
You are invited to go to this blog site to see the beautiful paintings that other artists have entered: midwestpleinairborderwars.blogspot.com
Enjoy the Day $350 18″x28″ watercolor
My painting Enjoy the Day won the Second Place Award at the Gallery 110 North 18th Annual Holiday Membership Art Exhibit. 530 E Mill Street, Plymouth. December 6, 2013 – January 24, 2014. Admission is always free.
Artist Bonnita Budysz was the judge for this exhibit. Budysz is a nationally awarded painter whose works are exhibited in the United States and abroad, an art instructor, and an avid artist/activist with organizations such as Waters Edge Artists who endorse Painting for Preservation. Her paintings consistently garner prestigious awards at the American Impressionist Society, Oil Painters of America, and the Pastel Society of the West Coast As founder of the ecologically sensitive plein air painting group, Water’s Edge Artists, she continues to champion conservation issues.
The exhibit sponsors are Bank First National and Paul and Kathy Sartori.
The Plymouth Arts Center, the premier arts destination for residents of Western Sheboygan, showcases the original work of Wisconsin artists. A wide range of media is displayed with exhibition changes six times each year, including an annual juried exhibition, “Alive in the Arts”. Plymouth Arts Center Gift Shop features fine art gifts made by members
The Arts Center is well-known for its signature annual fundraising event, the Cheese Capital Jazz Crawl for the Arts, and other favorites such as, Plymouth Festival of Fine Arts, Plymouth Oktoberfest, variety of theatrical productions and musicals by the PAC Theatre Company, Shamrocks & Shenanigans-Irish Music Show, Spring Concert by the PAC Singers, Mill Street Live, Paint the Town, en Plein Air, a Wisconsin Performing Artists series, monthly acoustic open mic sessions, art classes, workshops, bus trips, New Year’s Eve Party with the “Big Cheese” drop, and so much more.
The Plymouth Arts Center is entering is 21st membership year in 2014 and you are invited to join us. If you like the arts and enjoy experiencing the arts as a delighted observer, or actively as a participant and volunteer, please consider a membership today. A variety of membership levels (starting at $10) are available such as: student; family; individual; senior; business; etc. and your membership contribution may be tax deductible as the PAC is a charitable non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
Plymouth Arts Center members enjoy special benefits including: personal invitations to events; exhibition privileges in the annual Holiday Membership art exhibit and the Member’s Gift Shop; discounts on special performances, classes/ workshops; a subscription to the newsletter; and finally to be part of a lively organization that continues to provide a cultural base to enhance the quality of life as well as economic growth in the greater Plymouth area.
Gallery 110 North, 520 E. Mill Street, Plymouth (map)
(920) 892-8409
Gallery hours are: Tuesday-Friday 10 am – 4 pm. Sunday 1 pm – 4 pm
info@plymoutharts.org
Donna Hahn, Executive Director