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The latest news on the Door County art and literary scenes, including features, gallery openings, exhibits, and literature events.

  • Plain Error Festival at Gallery Forty Two

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    A Door County artist, Tim Nyberg, is a red head who’s fair skin won’t allow him to paint in the sun during Door County’s Plein Air Festival (even when liberally doused with sunscreen).

  • Events Continue Throughout July at Fairfield

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    On Thursday, July 24, the Fairfield Art Center in downtown Sturgeon Bay will welcome acclaimed Door County-based artist Margaret Lockwood for an artists’ talk and slide presentation in the first-floor Main Gallery.

  • Edgewood Orchard Galleries Opens Exhibit III

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    Edgewood Orchard Galleries will be hosting an opening reception for its third exhibit of the season on Saturday, July 19 from 4 – 7 pm. Refreshments will be served in the gallery courtyard, and the public is welcome.

  • Stuff-o-Rama Flea Market

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    Everyone is invited to the Celebrate Sister Bay Showcase on Saturday, July 19 at the Stuff-o-Rama flea market. The flea market will be held on the grounds of Domicile from 8 am – 3 pm.

  • DCAL Artist Demonstrations Series

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    Door County Art League (DCAL) artist Marjory Allingham will be demonstrating Bauernmalerei during business hours on Saturday, July 19 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.

  • Door County Art – Peninsula Arts and Humanities Alliance

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    Two summers ago, the staff and Board of Directors at Peninsula Art School saw the opportunity to re-invent their summer fundraising event. With lofty goals of bringing new visitors to the county and diversifying the audience, the art school began planning what would become the Door County Plein Air Festival.

  • “Artist, Friends, and Family”

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    To celebrate the summer season, the Blue Dolphin House and BDH Studio will be presenting a series of events showcasing the relationships artists have with friends and family.

  • Door County Photographers Invitational Opens

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    A new exhibition, “The Focus of Our Lives,” opens Saturday, July 26 at the Miller Art Museum; a public reception that evening from 7 – 8:30 pm celebrates the event.

  • Miller Art Museum Calls for Entries

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    The Miller Art Museum invites artists 18 years or older to submit up to two pieces in all two-dimensional media for the upcoming 33rd Juried Annual Five County Exhibit.

  • Fine Line Designs Features Jeweler Barbara Bosco

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    Fine Line Designs Gallery is pleased to present a jewelry trunk show featuring jeweler and photographer Barbara Bosco on Saturday, July 19 from 10 am – 6 pm.

  • Plein Air Rendezvous

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    The peaceful and whimsical sculpture garden of Ephraim’s Fine Line Designs Gallery will be host to many of the nation’s premier plein air painters on Tuesday, July 22 from 11 am – 2 pm.

  • A Review – “Why Women Should Rule the World”

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    Imagine the following scene: At 10 am in the golf clubhouse, Younger Golfer approaches Older Golfer.

  • Bjorn Bakken Reports

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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, which he cannot always attend.

  • A Helping Hand

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    It was a morning near the end of summer in 1944, and Dayton Street was crowded with children of all ages playing. With the war on, gasoline was rationed and new automobiles weren’t being built, so there were only a few parked along the curb and only an occasional one slowly making its way down the street.

  • Hometown Girl

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    For “her” My hometown is two women. Or perhaps she’s just one – with a split personality. Yes, that’s it: a single body, but two personae. She is a pair of good-hearted girls-next-door whom I think I’ll call “Dora.

  • Farm Dog

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    There is a new dog in the house. Twelve weeks old, border collie, for the record; farm dog. Our lab is getting on and while I am nonchalant about death of human millions, overdone as we are, I am distressed over the end of an honest dog.

  • Authors and After Words

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    If, as we have already seen, C. S. Lewis was fond of the way George MacDonald fashioned his dream visions – he called them mythopoeic, i.e. both mythic and poetic – he was even more enthusiastic about the fantasy novels of William Morris.

  • 2 Poems

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    An Inventory Taken on the Eve Of the Year in which I reach my Seventieth Birthday I have them still: My adenoids, My tonsils, My appendix, My prostate, Except a wisdom tooth, The only one I ever had. I am missing it. *** Don’t Look Now, But There Is a Hole in the Calendar And […]

  • Zabler Design Features 4th Century BC Coin Jewelry

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    Imagine touching and holding a silver drachm of Alexander the Great, which he may have used to pay his legions of men around 336 to 323 B.C. Russ Zabler, owner of Zabler Design Jewelers in Ephraim, became inspired by that experience.

  • Upcoming Events at Woodwalk

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    In connection with “Friends A’Field” there will be a few other events taking place on the grounds of Woodwalk Gallery. On July 23 from 11 am – 2 pm many of the invited artists of Peninsula Art School’s Plein Air Festival will be painting on site.