Category: Art Features
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Alisa Landman’s DIY Approach to Art
Alisa Landman’s open-design home combines the feel of a Soho loft and a white-cube gallery, with its chairs designed by modern architects and bright, abstract paintings illuminated by the morning sun streaming through windows that run the full length of the home. Her view out the window is not lower Manhattan, but Fincantieri’s shipyard across […]
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A Visual Builder: Hal Prize photography judge Lars Topelmann
You’ve probably seen Lars Topelmann’s photography. You might even have stopped to ponder his images for a while as you flipped through the pages of a magazine in the waiting room at your dentist’s office, or took a second glance at a billboard. But you probably didn’t know his name, and you almost certainly didn’t […]
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The Pursuit of Curiosity: The art and adventures of Seth Taylor
Seth Taylor’s studio in Sturgeon Bay appears to belong to many artists. Lifelike portraits are strewn about a table alongside caricatures of politicians; several loose-lined ink drawings of animals — deer, horses, sturgeon — take up an entire wall; a watercolor is beginning to take shape on an easel near the window; and brightly colored […]
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Plein Air Artists Discuss the Draw of the Quick Paint
Ready, set, paint! When the invited artists of the 2022 Door County Plein Air Festival take to the Fish Creek streets July 30 for a fast-paced Quick Paint event, they will be viewing the landscape – and their craft – from a different vantage point. “With a normal plein air painting, you’ve got maybe three […]
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Digging Deeper: Painter Ginnie Cappaert focuses on texture, color and exploration
Ginnie Cappaert’s artwork – with its bright, strong colors and themes of nature in varying degrees of abstraction – is readily recognizable. It makes one wonder how she keeps her work and the craft fresh with each new season. In her March blog post, Cappaert wrote, “My work this winter was focused on exploring what I […]
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Local Steel Fitter Does More Than Just Welding
Shipyard employees sometimes have more talents than they can show in the workplace, but steel fitter Aaron Delorit made a big reveal of his artistic abilities this spring and summer. It began on a day off from helping to build ships such as the M/V Mark S. Barker, when he had watched a prolific local […]
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In The Hands of Fred Wahlen, Furniture is Both Art and History
Fred Wahlen said he was never really good at art. His customers see things differently. “He’s a furniture artist,” said Marsha Krzyzanowski. Marsha and her husband, Steve, have five pieces of Wahlen’s specialty wood furniture in their Fish Creek home, including a custom-made coffee bar and plant stand. The Krzyzanowskis’ interest in his work was […]
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Marcia Nickols: Painting for the Love of It
The two aspects of Door County that Marcia Nickols likes most as an artist are the natural beauty and the camaraderie of the county’s many artists. She and her husband, Tom, started coming to Door County from their home near Madison during the 1980s. After retiring from a 34-year career as a high school arts […]
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TURTLE RIDGE SHOW HIGHLIGHTS JEWELRY
Turtle Ridge Gallery will host a jewelry show July 2-3, 10 am – 5 pm, featuring the work of Arthur Ragauskas. Born in Lithuania, he has been inspired by the historical significance of jewelry craftsmanship and mythology in northern Europe to combine modern metal forms and cuts with traditional styles to create matte, brushed and […]