DCAL Announces Monthly Meeting and Artists of the Week

Advertising cuts and wood type samples are on display at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers.

The Door County Art League (DCAL) monthly meeting at 7 pm on Aug. 27 will feature Jim Moran, director of the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum. Moran will present a slide show about preserving a living museum in Two Rivers with the help of retired wood type artisans and volunteers.

According to Moran, “This is the only museum in the world dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. With 1.5 million pieces of wood type in a thousand styles and sizes, this is one of the premier collections in the world.”

Everyone interested in the arts is invited to the presentation at the Gibraltar Fire Station on County F in Fish Creek. Admission is free.

“Cherries” by Penny Pfister.

DCAL artists of the week for Aug. 26 – Sept. 2 are Penny Pfister and Dianne Saron.

Pfister, of Fish Creek, has studied with Bridget Austin, Shelby Keefe and Frankie Johnson. Watercolor has been Pfister’s medium of choice over the years, but she also paints in oils. Pfister is active in the operation of the DCAL Gallery.

Saron became interested in capturing the vivid colors of nature in pastel after moving to Door County in 2001. Saron, of Egg Harbor, has studied with Mary Bosman, Franne Dickinson, Margaret Lockwood and Emmett Johns. She is co-chair of the Peninsula School of Art gallery committee.

The DCAL gallery, open daily from 10 am to 5 pm, is located at the Top of the Hill Shops on Highway 42 in Fish Creek.

For more information visit http://www.doorcountyartleague.org.