Category: Art Scene
The latest news on the Door County art and literary scenes, including features, gallery openings, exhibits, and literature events.
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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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a dark quiet night the violin is silent patiently waiting the bow awakens slowly moving back and forth the music begins soon moving faster the bow crosses from string to string in clouds of rosin a blue glow appears as ions accumulate and the music builds now sparks are flying rivers of color and light […]
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Novel Ideas Welcomes Back Wisconsin Author Lesley Kagen
On Saturday, September 13 at 2 pm, Wisconsin author Lesley Kagen will return to Novel Ideas Bookstore in Baileys Harbor for a reading and book signing for her new book, Land of A Hundred Wonders.
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Poetry Performance at Woodwalk
R. Virgil (Ron) Ellis will be performing his electrifying verse at Woodwalk Gallery on Saturday, September 13.
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A Review: “An Unfinished Season” by Ward Just
Ward Just provides a rich portrait of life on the North Shore of Chicago during the 1950s. This novel features finely crafted writing and dialogue. It is one of those rare instances where I was hooked by his very first words, which begin as, “The winter of the year my father carried a gun for his own protection was the coldest on record for Chicago.”
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Peninsula Pulse Senior Correspondent Bjorn Bakken reports on the political scene in Fish Creek, Ephraim, and Ellison Bay on a continuing but irregular schedule, with emphasis on town and village meetings he cannot always attend.
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When Jerry Donovan began delivering the Chicago Herald American two months after school started, summer had already breathed its last. It was the repeated stabs of cold northern air that had emphatically closed the season.
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I have on my desk a baseball. To say why I keep or tend or enshrine a baseball is less straightforward. The ball is not autographed other than to say in faint blue letters it is “official,” in the loop of the red seam exclaiming “premium leather.”
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Whenever anyone tried to pigeonhole the late Madeleine L’Engle, she would protest. After the success of A Wrinkle in Time, she was described as a Christian children’s author.
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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.