Events Inspired by New Art Installation

Are We Listening?, by visual artist Rebecca Carlton. Hundreds of clay homing pigeons representing the spoken languages of the world. Submitted.

Three separate events will take place at the Door County Economic Development Corporation (DCEDC), 185 E. Walnut St. in Sturgeon Bay, on Tuesday, April 23; Wednesday, April 24; and Saturday, April 27, as follows.

Art/Speaks: Special Edition, Are We Listening?

A special edition of Art/Speaks, sponsored by Write On, Door County, a free creative lab that takes inspiration from visual art, will take place on Tuesday, April 23, 11 am-noon, at the DCEDC. The session will be held in conjunction with the exhibit, Are We Listening?, by visual artist Rebecca Carlton. 

The session includes an introduction by Carlton, and will be led by poets Carrie and Peter Sherrill, who said the 60-minute writing activity is perfect for both beginning and advanced writers in any genre.

The event is free and open to everyone.

Are We Listening: Artist Conversation 

Join author/editor Katherine Kassouf Cummings and artist Rebecca Carlton for a conversation focused on how we come together in a changing world on Wednesday, April 24, 6:30-8 pm, at the DCEDC.

As the editor of the series, Questions for a Resilient Future, Katherine will present the origins of the question and offer readings of select responses to the question. She, Carlton and audience members will then engage in discussion and explore new responses. 

This event is presented in collaboration with Rebecca’s art installation, Are We Listening?, a visual response to worldwide language loss. As we reach a tipping point in our chasmic depths of global divisions, are we listening? How do we come together? 

The event is free and everyone is welcome to attend. A light reception will follow the conversation, which is sponsored by Write On, Door County.

Sculptor and installation artist Rebecca Carlton, along with her life partner, Tony Staroska, owns Juddville Contemporary Clay Studio and Gallery in Juddville/Fish Creek. She has been a fellowship recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Getty Center for the Arts and the Fulbright Fund. 

Katherine Kassouf Cummings is a Lebanese-American writer born to and living on the ancestral homelands of the people of the Council of Three Fires (Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa), as well as the Menominee, Miami, and Ho-Chunk nations. She is co-editor of the book, What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be?, and serves as managing editor at the Center for Humans and Nature, where she leads the Questions for a Resilient Future publication and the Editorial Fellows program. 

Public Art and the Sturgeon Bay Community

Curious about art in public spaces in Sturgeon Bay? Join members of the Sturgeon Bay Local Arts Board and keynote speaker, Anne Katz, director of Create Wisconsin, for a presentation and round table conversation on Saturday, April 27, 1-3 pm, at the Door County Economic Development Corporation.

Sturgeon Bay Mayor David Ward will provide a welcome before Anne Katz begins her presentation, followed by a roundtable conversation with members of the Local Arts Board: Helen Bacon, Local Arts Board Chair and Alder for Sturgeon Bay; Margaret Lockwood, board member, painter and owner of Margaret Lockwood Gallery; melaniejane, board member, co-owner/manager Holiday Music Hotel; Suzanne Miller, board member, administrative assistant, City of Sturgeon Bay; Claire Morkin, board member, Door County Supervisor, singer, actress and board member for Third Avenue Playworks: Jerod Santek, board member, founding and artistic director, Write On, Door County; Stephanie Trenchard, board member, artist, co-owner of Popelka Trenchard Glass.

Light refreshments will be served as this free event, open to everyone, and sponsored by the City of Sturgeon Bay Local Arts Board. 

The Door County Economic Development Corporation is located at 185 E. Walnut St. in Sturgeon Bay.