Category: Art News
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Door County Arts: The Fiery Furnace
To anyone who might potentially complain about their heating bill this winter, take note – Jeremy Popelka and Stephanie Trenchard’s furnace in their gallery and glass studio is on 50 weeks out of the year.
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Food for the Soul and Gifts from the Heart at Edgewood Orchard Galleries in Fish Creek
Edgewood Orchard Galleries will celebrate the opening of its fifth and final show of the season with a reception from 1 – 5 pm on Saturday, September 27.
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Door County Arts: Culture Club – Peninsula Arts and Humanities Alliance
Sometimes tragedy invokes the best in us. After grief and mourning of deeply felt losses, we can take time for introspection and look to hope for the world, remembering the thousands of voices of those who work for environmental, social and political justice for all of humanity.
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Door County Arts: DCAL Demonstrations and Monthly Meeting Upcoming
Several demonstrations are planned at the Gallery of the Door County Art League, located at the back of the Top of the Hill Shops, Highway 42 and County F on Spring Road in Fish Creek.
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Door County Arts: Gallery Ten’s Latest Exhibiting Artists Celebrate the Feminine
In her final show of the 2008 season, Charlene Berg exhibits the works of two artists who individually find their muse in the eternal feminine. In the Second Floor Gallery, a show entitled “Women Extraordinaire” will feature 20 recent watercolors about women by Wisconsin watercolor artist Marie App.
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Family Art Day Calendar Released in Door County
Kids and families are invited to free Family Art Days every third Saturday of the month throughout the 2008-09 school year. Family Art Days are a great opportunity for parents and kids spend time together in a creative atmosphere.
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Door County Arts: Installation Tells “Bedtime Stories” at Guenzel Gallery
Employing metaphorical imagery throughout her textiles, artist Rebecca Pearson explores what she views as society’s mixed messages regarding the loss of innocence in the exhibit, “Bedtime Stories, an installation by Rebecca Pearson,” at Peninsula School of Art.
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Door County Galleries and Art – Michael Doerr to Host Artist’s Talk in Fairfield’s Main Gallery
On Thursday, September 11, the Fairfield Art Center in downtown Sturgeon Bay will welcome acclaimed Door County-based artist Michael Doerr for an Artist’s Talk in the first-floor Main Gallery.
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Door County Arts and Galleries – Pipka’s “Antique Car Santa” Wins National Award
Artist Pipka Ulvilden, who creates the original art for her Santa figurines, has captured Second Place/Holiday in the 2007 Collectors Choice Awards. The awards are presented by the Collector’s Information Bureau (CIB), a trade organization composed of manufacturers of limited-edition collectibles, and recognize outstanding collectibles in a number of product and price categories.
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Door County Galleries and Art – Klopack Art Up at Mr. Helsinki
Ken Klopack is an acrylic painter and political cartoonist who has taught art in the Chicago public schools for over 30 years. Klopack, who is now retired from full-time teaching, is an art education consultant and divides his teaching duties between Chicago and Door County, where he is a member of the teaching staff at the Peninsula School of Art in Fish Creek and teaches painting classes for children and adults in the summer months.
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Door County Galleries and Art – Beauty Out of Brokenness
In Wisconsin, we’re used to uneven roads and sidewalks; the snow and ice of our bitter winters are with us year-round in the form of cracks and potholes in the surfaces we use to get around.
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Door County Galleries and Art – Fenendael to Receive DCAL 2008 Master’s Award
Annually, the Door County Art League (DCAL) has the distinct pleasure of naming the Door County Master Artist. This year at the opening of the league’s 22nd Annual Fall Juried Exhibit, the very well-known and well-loved painter, Ed Fenendael of Morning Mist Studio at Windmill Farm in Baileys Harbor, will be presented the 2008 award.
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Door County Arts and Galleries – Vietnam War Era Photo Show
Peter Boice, Vietnam army photo-journalist and long time Door County resident, opens his one man show “A Brief Intense Love Affair with Photography, Vietnam and Wisconsin” at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship hall in Ephraim with a special reception on Sunday, Sept.
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Door County Galleries and Art – Base Camp Coffee Presents “The People I Know” Portrait Exhibition
Base Camp Coffee Bar, located below Ecology Sports in Sister Bay, announces an opening reception for “The People I Know” portrait show of acrylic paintings by Door County native Jen Hough on Saturday, September 6 from 6 – 8 pm.
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Vietnam Photos Featured at UU Gallery
In Peter Boice’s words, “a brief yet intense love affair with photography” aptly describes his relationship to the camera. Without ever having used a 35mm camera, it unexpectedly became his tool for framing his world during and after the Vietnam War.
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Glassworks by Satava on Display
The Santa Fe Shop in Fish Creek has added glassworks artist Rick Satava to its growing list of new artists. Richard Satava, a master glassblower, was introduced to glassblowing in 1969 while attending Ocean High School in Pacifica, CA.
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Jewelry Trunk Show Labor Day weekend at Patricia Shoppe
This Labor Day weekend Patricia Shoppe of Egg Harbor will be hosting a jewelry trunk show by David Tishbi. Tishbi’s work has been one of the boutiques top selling jewelry collections for over five years, and he is known for the unique handmade look and high quality.
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Slide Presentation in Conjunction with Tribal Textile Exhibition
In conjunction with the exhibit “Tribal Textiles of Southwest China,” at Peninsula School of Art, 3900 County Road F in Fish Creek, Brian and Jeanee Linden will present a slide show of their travels to the region where these rare textiles were obtained, on Thursday, September 4 from 7 – 8:30 pm at the school.
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Outpost Gallery and Café Hosts Annual Quilt Show
The third Annual Quilt Show and Sale will take place Labor Day Weekend, Aug 30, 31, Sept 1 and 2 at the Outpost Gallery & Café located at 4690 Rainbow Ridge, Egg Harbor.
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Linden Gallery and Barnsite Gallery express gratitude to Door County for making the recent Earthquake Relief Auction successful. Over 50 works of art from around the country were sold at the auction with proceeds totaling enough to build two to three permanent homes for extended families displaced by last May’s Sichuan earthquake.