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Young Auditorium
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The Sweet Spot
Crossman Gallery
First Citizens Gallery
Studio 84
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Visionary
Artists
Second Annual Spring Show
Two
years ago a group of artists met to have a critique group and to enrich their
artistic energies and charge their creative batteries to pursue their individual
passion for painting.
The group of artist became known as the Visionary Artists.
Their Second Annual
Spring Show is at the SweetSpot Gallery at 226 Whitewater Street in Whitewater
until
June 30th.
The Guest Artist is Bob Grant (left) featuring his "Candid Photographs.
" Bob's photos tell a story. Check out the 'Gossip Girls' and see if you
recognize his
lovely wife and mother. Great photography!
Karolyn
Alexander is a watercolor, acrylic and collage artist. Karolyn is known for
her
vibrant paintings, especially her Red Poppies. Her work was chosen for the
CAC Grand Opening Poster. This show has Karolyn's trademark red poppies painted
on
yupo, as well as other paintings done in watercolor.
Marilyn Fuerstenberg is a watercolor artist known for her florals and
downtown Whitewater scenes. Marilyn enjoys the challenge of watercolor and
paints a variety of subjects. This show highlights her "Tropical Theme".
Barb Grant (right) paints with emotional passion. She explores many
mediums and subjects. This show is composed on the theme 'Straddle the Turtle'.
Stop in and find out how this came about and what it means to Barb.
Tom Jewell
(above) has been drawing and painting for as long as he can remember.
His chosen medium changes with his mood from watercolor, oil, acrylic to
graphite.
This show highlights his landscape and wildlife/bird paintings.
In the future plans for the Visionary Artists is a show at the Hoard Museum
during the 2011 Wisconsin Dairy Expo entitled "Visions of Wisconsin."
Attention All Artists and Budding Artists -
You Can Still Think Outside the Box
For the Whitewater
Public Arts Project!
click here
Art of the Flower
“Art
of the Flower”
is an art competition and exhibit. The competition and exhibit will recognize,
promote and reward excellence in floral art and enhance public awareness.
This exhibit is being held in conjunction with the Whitewater Federation of
Women’s Club’s
“Garden Walk” on July 11, 1:00 - 4:00 PM.
Click here for the details & Entry form
Ms. Nass
writes "All of us can pinpoint moments in our lives that caused
an abrupt change of direction, leading us on a distinct future course. My
initial high school art class
was such a moment-from the start, drawing
my first pencil profile of a classmate, I was hooked on the limitless
possibilities of communicating through art. The teacher of that first art
class told me I could never be a professional artist. That was all a
stubborn
German teenager needed to catapult her into an art career. A day after
receiving an art education
degree (University of
Wisconsin-Madison) I
married a classmate, and Rick and I three years later opened our
illustration
studio, Ampersand, which we continue after 30 years to operate from a
home/studio on the Wisconsin
River at Prairie du Sac.
I am grateful to
make a living doing what brings much joy. Please go to
www.rnass.com
for samples of my work and drawing and painting workshop details."
(WHITEWATER – May
13) Artists from Cambridge, Fort
Atkinson, Jefferson, Johnson Creek, Lake Mills,
Waterloo, Watertown and Whitewater - the communities in Jefferson County - will
be featured in an
exhibit celebrating the creative spirit made visible in Jefferson County.
The exhibit opens on Friday, June 4
and runs through Sunday, June 27 at the Whitewater Arts Alliance’s Cultural Arts
Center on 402 West Main Street.
The exhibit will be open Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from
noon to 5 p.m. in June, and it is free
and open to the public. An artists’ reception will be held
on Sunday, June 6 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., and it is also free
and open to the public.
One major goal of this exhibit is to showcase the artistic
talent that prevails in Jefferson County. Jefferson
County
is the only county in Wisconsin to have three Main Street communities.
“Clearly there exists a significant
level of creativity here that has led to the development of so many artistic
and entrepreneurial endeavors within this county,” said Karen Goeschko,
Assistant Director for Programs and
Services, Wisconsin Arts Board. The Wisconsin Arts Board is
the state agency that nurtures creativity,
cultivates expression, promotes the arts, supports the
arts in education, stimulates community and
economic development and serves as a resource for people of every culture and
heritage.
The exhibit is a
result of a partnership between the City of Whitewater, the Jefferson County
Arts Group,
the Whitewater Arts Alliance, and the Wisconsin Arts Board.
Any artist who
lives in Jefferson County is welcome to submit their art for the exhibit.
Interested artists
should contact Dawn Hunter at hunterdawnm@charter.net or 262-473-2730.
Whitewater’s Cultural Arts Center
is located on 402 West Main Street in the historic White building near the
Birge Fountain. Parking is behind the building, with an
elevator available from the parking lot entrance.
The
artwork of Amy Kaul is on display during
May and June at the First Citizens Gallery.
The gallery is located at
First Citizens State Bank,
207 W. Main Street, Whitewater, Wisconsin,
262-473-2112. Hours are
Monday-Thursday 8:30-5:00, Friday 8:30-6, Saturday 8:30 to noon.
This is an exhibit of Amy Kaul’s paintings of North American Indian pottery. Each of the pots depicted in her artwork exists somewhere in a museum or someone’s private collection. All are over a hundred years old. Amy chose to paint this pottery because she loves the feel, design, colors and art of it.
She has always been interested other cultures, but the Native American culture was the easiest for her to get to. A native of Whitewater, she moved out west in 1986, something she had wanted to do all her life. As a young girl, she found a beautiful picture in a magazine of a mountain and its reflection with pine trees in a lake. She asked her mother what it was, because she had never seen a mountain before. When she was told what it was and that they could be found out west, she asked if they could go live there. This was not the only time in her life that her request to move west was turned down, but she held onto that dream for many years.
It was not until her own children were grown and on their own that she remembered this longing. It happened one morning when she was getting ready to go to work, standing in front of the mirror while curling her hair. She looked at her reflection and asked, “Do you want to move out west?” The answer was, “Yes!” She unwound her hair from the curling iron, put it down, went to her phone book, and picked the first name in the real estate agency listing. She soon moved west, spending about nine years in southern California and three more years at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, before returning to Wisconsin in 1998.
Amy is a quiet person, not one to toot her own horn. It was her brother, David Williams, owner of Country Builders in Whitewater, who brought the idea of exhibiting Amy’s beautiful painting to the attention of First Citizens Gallery. Some may also have known their grandparents, Vanetta (Netti) and Charlie (CW) Williams, who had a farm outside Whitewater on Howard Road.
First Citizens Gallery
is located at
First Citizens State Bank
207 W. Main St., Whitewater,
262-473-2112.
Hours are Mon-Thurs 8:30-5,
Fri. 8:30-6, Sat. 8:30 to noon.
Taste of Whitewater Art Sale
Contact: Audra or MLyssa at
artonthelake@gmail.com
4th Annual Horizontal Grandeur
Quiet Desperation: Putting the
Pieces Together
~more
info here~
Middle and High School
Student
Art and T-Shirt Competition Open for Big Read 2010
more info
here!
JANESVILLE – A Taste of Culture
A new
art/artisan gallery & shoppe called
"theGuild ontheTriangle Gallery &
Shoppe ~
TeaHouse & WineSalon"
will be opening in just a few weeks in the old Wisconsin Dairy Supply
Building at 141 West Whitewater Street in downtown Whitewater. Artisans
of all kinds (painting, sculpture, fiber,
mixed media, wearable art, jewelry, etc.) are
presently being recruited to have their artwork for sale in this newly remodeled
space. If you are interested please visit the website:
www.triangleguild.com
and click on the "Artisan Guru" menu tab or call
262-473-3373
(until
11/1/09:
608-868-5217).
TAKING RESERVATIONS NOW!
theGuild Wine 101 Evening!
Join your friends at theGuild every 4th Saturday evening of the month
2010 Project is “Thinking Outside the Box”
If you thought you were left out of the Whitewater Public Arts project for 2010, you are still in luck. There are many boxes available for those inspired minds to paint, print, collage . . . the sky’s the limit to your creativity!
"Thinking Outside the Box" will decorate the streets of downtown Whitewater in May when the creations of local artists are displayed on the Main Street light poles. You can still get a blank box to embellish for display. The blanks cost $25 and are available at GMA Printing at 136 W. Main Street, Whitewater. But you have to hurry. The completed boxes are due back to GMA May 7 so they can be readied to for their perches.
The box forms need to be prepared, decorated and "sealed" on all sides to protect them from the elements. You have your choice of either a closed box (a cube with six flat sides) or an open box (the frame of the box with all sides open). Think of the possibilities! You can add things; dangle things; embellish it almost any way you want. The boxes will be hung from light poles above Main Street all summer and will come down in September to be auctioned off to the highest bidder in late September. Proceeds from the auction support the Whitewater Arts Alliance. Instructions about the box preparations come with the blank.
So get a group together to make it a cooperative project to do a box or make it a solo art project but we need artists and aspiring artists to provide the public art for Whitewater for 2010.
If you have questions you can contact Roni Telfer, rtelfer@ameritech.net or
920-728-1777. Please get those creative juices going and add your creation to "Thinking Outside the Box".
WAA Needs Volunteers, Members
and Programs for FutureThe Whitewater Arts Alliance needs to grow in members, volunteers and programs in order to continue to be a successful organization it was stated at the annual meeting of the organization on December 2. Artists and art-advocates alike shared suggestions and opinions with the board of directors.
“We hope anyone who is interested in the arts and the future of the arts in Whitewater will consider becoming a member of the Alliance, of the board, a docent or help to volunteer in another capacity,” said Roni Telfer after the meeting. Roni is president of the board of directors of the Whitewater Arts Alliance.
As one attendee remarked, “We are victims of our own success.” Recent survey results suggested that people from the community generally view the Whitewater Arts Alliance as successful, and yet there is a relatively small group of members and an even smaller group of volunteers who do the work of the Alliance. And, the volunteers DO work, from opening the CAC to setting up the exhibits, to closing events and everything in between. The group discussed how to add members, provide varied and crowd-pleasing programs (with the focus on more performance programs), increase volunteer participation, and perhaps add a facilities manager at the Cultural Arts Center.
In other action, a new member was elected to the board. Tracey Lyons, costume design instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, was very pleased to become involved on the board.
Tracey will bring a perspective from the performance side of art, and we look forward to tapping into her energy and great ideas,” said Telfer.
There is one open position on the board of directors. Those interested in the position should contact Roni Telfer at (920) 728-1777 or rtelfer@ameritech.com.
The Cultural Arts Center is available for exhibits, performances or other art-related events in February and March, 2010. Those interested in exhibiting or performing at the CAC should click on “forms” then click on “Whitewater Arts Alliance Proposal Form”. Complete the form and submit it to rtelfer@ameritech.net.
Did You Know
- You can receive email updates on current
Whitewater Arts Alliance events !
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Click here for the NEW Calendar !
The
Spring Newsletter is here.
Calls
for
Art
Click for more info
The
Whitewater Arts Alliance monthly
gallery shows have moved to the
Sweet Spot
Coffee Shoppe & Gallery
on Whitewater St .
Hello to all committed and
interested
parties concerning the possible
Fort Atkinson Artisan Co-op
Click here for more info.
Whitewater Artists Receive Awards
presented by
the
Wisconsin Regional Artists Association 2009
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Cravath Lakefront Arch Project
The Cravath Lakefront Arch was design by artist Brady Lueck, a world class artist from Southeastern Wisconsin. His work focuses on welded steel as a direct art medium. He has created mini-sculptures of each of the images in the arch that are important pieces of Whitewater's history. Click here for the rest of the story. (Warning ! this Power Point show is a 2.2mb file)
Have an idea for an Arts
Alliance project ?
Click here to download a proposal form that you can
fill out and submit to get the ball rolling !
You can now
receive email updates on current
Whitewater Arts Alliance events !
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Do you have any
ideas for other Arts Alliance projects. Share your ideas with an Alliance officer or board member.
For info on Downside UP and MASS MoCA visit:
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Whitewater Cultural Arts Center