Miller Art Museum Talk Relates to Current Exhibit

The public is invited to attend an exhibit related Museum Talk held in conjunction with the current exhibit, “The Kewaunee Academy of Fine Art: The Making Of An Artist.” On Thursday, April 10 at 10:30 am, Craig Blietz, Artistic Director of the Kewaunee Academy of Fine Art (KAFA), students and faculty will share their experiences at the academy. Because the exhibition fills the Miller Art Museum, the talk will take place in the Friends’ Meeting Room in the Sturgeon Bay Library at 107 S. 4th Avenue. Coffee will be served from 10 – 10:30 am.

The Kewaunee Academy of Fine Art is located in a 100-year-old dairy barn, beautifully remodeled to house this classical realism school of training. The three-year program is designed to heighten the visual skills and acuity of the students. Utilizing objectives and curriculum exercises used throughout history, students work directly from life which allows the faculty to see what the student perceives. Each exercise in drawing and painting must be achieved before moving on to ever increasing levels of difficulty.

Each exercise is stationed sequentially to challenge a student’s visual faculties in the areas of seeing shape, value, edges and transitions, the primary factors in establishing form and space in a two-dimensional plane and lastly, color in all its complexities.

One student, Suzanne Barnes, remarks, “I have been looking for a place like the Kewaunee Academy of Fine Art for a long time. I have wanted to learn how to paint in an unhurried atmosphere, maybe over a period of years. The structure of this program allows for individual growth, as new skills are built on old. It is somewhat like a Montessori School.”

Artistic Director, Craig Blietz, feels the objectives and considerations of the academy’s rigorous and intense program of study will ignite the skills within a student to enable him/her to express his/her vision with clarity.

The audience is invited to spend time in the exhibition where examples of most assignments are on display, along with a re-creation of an actual artist studio. The exhibit continues through April 15, 2008. Hours: Mondays 10am – 8 pm, Tuesday through Saturday 10 am – 5 pm. For more information call 920.746.0707.