“We Love Art: The American Voice” Speaks to Area Students, Families and Art Enthusiasts

Students decorated pinch pots as part of the We Love Winter exhibit.

This year’s We Love Art winter exhibition at Peninsula School of Art, 3900 Cty. F, Fish Creek, focuses on the correlation of historic events with the emergence of five uniquely American art movements. Entitled “We Love Art: the American Voice,” approximately 400 area students, from preschool through high school, will create works for display in the school’s Guenzel Gallery.

In addition to the completed projects, a timeline indicating major world art movements, as well as historical events, will stripe the eight-sided walls of the school’s Guenzel Gallery to offer further perspective on the five highlighted American art movements. The periods chosen to illustrate are: Pre-Columbian Native American Arts, Luminism and Manifest Destiny, American Media, the Harlem Renaissance, and Abstract Expressionism following World War II.

The work in the exhibition will be ongoing until March 27. Half the art is expected to be completed by the time of the school’s other major winter outreach event, SOUP!, on Saturday, February 6, from 11 am – 3 pm.

A toothpaste ad from a St. Peter’s 7th grader.

In conjunction with “We Love Art: the American Voice,” Peninsula School of Art is presenting four lectures to inspire and inform adult art appreciators about these seminal art movements in America. Lectures and discussion will be held each Tuesday in February from 2 – 3:30 pm.

Remaining lectures include: February 9, Westward Expansion and American Landscape Painting with Virginia Maher; February 16, The Invention of Photography with Sarah Detweiler; and February 23, Abstract Expressionism with Virginia Maher. Lectures are $15 for members and $20 for non-members. Pre-registration is encouraged, but not required.

Also, Peninsula School of Art will be hosting two free Family Art Days as part of the exhibition on February 20 and March 20 from 10 am – 2 pm.

For more information call 920.868.3455 or email [email protected].