Category: Art
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A Brilliant Stranger: The Art & Evolution of Dawn Patel
Dawn Patel remembers the scene vividly: yards of organic linen and silk blend fabric lying on her driveway, the bleach she applied in intricate patterns eating away at the delicate and expensive material. It was the only fabric she had to work with, so Patel gathered it up and brought it inside. A cold-water rinse […]
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Hardy Gallery Highlights Mark-Making in Final 2017 Exhibit
Like summer foliage, Door County’s art galleries unfurl for the warm months of the year. They come gradually at first, multiplying their showings in the spring and early summer, and climax in a show of color and change as the season ends. True to this pattern is the opening of the Hardy Gallery’s final exhibit […]
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Not Your Grandmother’s Quilts: Textile Artist Susan Hoffmann
When Baileys Harbor resident Susan Hoffmann welcomes a full class of students to her “Landscape Painting with Fabric” session at next weekend’s Madison Quilt Expo, she will do it with full disclosure that she is not, in fact, a quilter. Instead, Hoffmann prefers the term “textile artist.” Anyone who has seen her painterly landscape fabric […]
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Edgewood Artist Earns Place in Permanent Lambeau Art Collection
Tom Nachreiner has huddled against his bleacher-mates in chilling rain and blustery autumn weather to watch his beloved Green Bay Packers take on their rivals at Lambeau Field, but he’s never once donned a snowmobile suit or risked life and limb to watch the green-and-gold-clad warriors take to The Frozen Tundra. So when the oil […]
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The Xiao Family: Linden’s Ambassadors of Chinese Ink
Linden Gallery of Ellison Bay has had an old friend rejoin their offerings this month. Xiao Shunzhi, Professor of Fine Art in Guilin, Guangxi province, China, has sent representatives of his ink on paper work to Linden Gallery for almost 20 years. This year he’s back. This time, though, he brought some pieces from his […]
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Plein Air Painter Hosts Washington Island Workshops Aug. 4-6
Anyone traveling Door County’s roadways or visiting its picturesque beaches and parks this week has likely noticed an interesting addition to the landscape: droves of individuals donning wide-brimmed hats and sun ray-deflecting clothing, standing before canvases propped on easels and holding a palette dotted with oil paints. These artists have taken to the peninsula’s gardens, […]
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Dimension-Defying Art: Topelmann Debuts Corner-Framed Painting
At 88, Karsten Topelmann has discovered a new way to envision how the landmark locations of the peninsula could look on canvas. It doesn’t involve a shift in the lifelong artist’s chosen media of watercolor and oils, but a literal shift in perspective that pushes the boundaries of his two-dimensional work. Earlier this month, Karsten […]
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Artisan Art Crawl, Summer Cherry Harvest and More Weekend Plans
Midsummer is here in Door County. If you haven’t started hitting the beaches on the bay side, now may be the time to start. To complement your weekend fun in the sun, here’s a list of this weekend’s top festivals and attractions. Friday, July 21 Birch Creek Jazz 1 Concert Series Birch Creek Music Performance […]
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Painter Susan Hale Reflects on Her Lifetime of Art
Walking through an exhibit of Susan Hale’s artwork, an overwhelming aesthetic prevails: vivid, healthy, encouraging countryside. Hale, of Cedarburg, Wis., paints landscapes from her home in the farmlands of Wisconsin as well as scenes from the world over. Witnessed en masse, Hale’s paintings portray this rich and nourishing sentiment in bold fashion. Hale and her […]
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Algoma Farm Hosts Roots Revival Education & Jam Fest
When Laura and Phillip Lotto first purchased their Algoma farmhouse in 2012, they admit to entertaining visions of a sprawling Woodstock-esque music festival taking over their 35 acres. It was a vision that matched their free spirits, love of music and the budding entrepreneurs within. As they began growing their family and transforming their property […]
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Ephraim Quilt Walk Highlights Historic Peninsula Farmhouse
Vicki and Wes Maynard are used to playing the role of hosts to strangers, though it wasn’t a role they expected to take on when they first bought their 1898 farmhouse on Gibraltar Road in Fish Creek. Once they learned the home’s history and its ties to Door County’s oldest family names, though, it was […]
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Third Avenue Playhouse’s ‘RED’ Provides Chilling Glimpse of Painter Rothko’s Life
“What do you see?” Rothko asks his assistant Ken in the opening line of RED, gesturing toward the audience. “Lean in…let them fill your peripheral vision.” Ken stares into the audience, examining what his and Rothko’s eyes see to be a series of paintings. As Rothko speaks of his murals, an eerie sensation comes about […]
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Idea Gallery Opens Doors In West Jacksonport
Dan Cross remembers vividly the day he would go from private fine artist to future gallery owner. It was April of 2016 and he was traveling the countryside of West Jacksonport when he came upon a renovation-in-progress on an old building at the corner of county roads T and V, less than a mile from […]
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A Journey to Discovery: Algoma Potter Jimmy Eddings
Any artist bent on making a mark on the art world will acknowledge the inherent risk of their goal. Countless hours spent working on a piece won’t guarantee its success in the market. Rigorous self-promotion won’t guarantee a place in a gallery. And when pursuing an art professorship at a university, a lengthy resume touting […]
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Digital Artist to Present on Painting in Photoshop
Is the above portrait fine art? If I told you it was painted – brushstroke by brushstroke – on Photoshop, would your answer change? Florida-based digital illustrator Andrew Theophilopoulos believes it shouldn’t. The classically trained, award-winning oil painter has made a career out of Photoshop. Not in editing photos, but going from a blank “canvas” […]
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Independence Celebrations, Blacksmith Demos & More Weekend Plans
The Fourth is almost here. Every village has their own festivities planned. Everyone celebrates in their own way. The rest of the calendar is just as full as usual: live music, theater, and a birds of prey. Here are some suggestions to round out your weekend plans. Friday, June 30 Art/Speaks Hosted by Edgewood Gallery […]
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Questions & Artists: Oil Painter Mara Manning
Cappaert Contemporary Gallery opens its doors to the 2017 season with the addition of Michigan oil and encaustic painter Mara Manning. This award-winning Escanaba artist and recently retired art teacher boasts an impressive artistic resume, having run a pop-up gallery space in Milwaukee, lived out the artist’s dream in the alternative art scene of 1980s […]
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The Clearing Folk School Celebrates New Forge
by Mike Schneider, Executive Director, The Clearing There’s a line in a David Crosby song that goes like this: “It’s been a long time comin.’” I have sung that line in my head countless times over the past year or two with regard to The Forge at The Clearing, the planning and building of which […]
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3D Photographs Highlight Hardy Gallery Presentation June 13
They say a photograph is a door to the past. But what about three-dimensional photographs? On June 13, the Hardy Gallery will host an interactive exhibit of 19th century stereographs which will be presented by Michigan photographer and stereographer Colleen Woolpert at The Clearing Folk School. An early form of three-dimensional photography, stereographs were widely […]
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A Day Away from the Classroom: Exposing Students to the Creative Community
by Ann Soderlund For one day during the school year students step away from the black and white of their curriculum and spend six hours exercising their right brain in unique ways. Through the efforts of Gibraltar High School and Friends of Gibraltar (FOG) Program, in partnership with The Francis Hardy Center for the Arts, […]