Monday, May 27, 2019

Wisconsin Pastel Artists Exhibit "Raw Energy" May 15- June 14, 2019

From: Judy Grochowski <jgrochowski@wi.rr.com>


Friends and family,
What are you doing the first Monday evening in June?  (June 3, 2019) How about a drive out to Whitewater to see the latest  exhibit of paintings by the Wisconsin Pastel Artists, “Raw Energy".  

Our show will be in Roberta's Gallery in the Student Union, from 4-8.  I really hope you'll join us that evening 

We’ll actually have a dual exhibit, displaying along with us will be a watercolorist from Illinois, Tony Armendariz (in case you are curious: armendarizart.com).  Tony has graciously agreed to jury our show and will be announcing ribbons that evening, along with commentary on his selections.

I’ll have 4 pieces in this exhibit (3 new ones based on our recent time in South Carolina) and a plein air from mid December, just after the first snow of this past winter.  The WPA is an incredibly talented group of people whom I am blessed to be a part of. 

As always, if you’ve received this and you live too far to make the trip, just know I wanted to keep you in the loop as to what I’m up to :-)

Namaste and love,
Judy

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Milwaukee Sketch Club at Hoyt Park on 5/23/19

Looked like rain Friday so we went out Thursday. Beautiful day. Towards the end it got quite windy.

Next week we are planning to go to downtown Waterford.

Beer Garden will be open later.
Some of us painting.
 A friend
A sketch of some of the painters
A neat stand up and paint kit.


Wednesday, May 22, 2019

ArtStart Summer Events

from:
 
May 18 | Saturday | 10a.m. - 4 p.m.
ArtStart Filmmaking 101 — Make Movies With Your Phone
In this one day class you will learn a basic overview of the process of filmmaking and be given tools to produce your own short film from start to finish using the smartphone you already have in your pocket! This is an introductory class, so no prior knowledge or experience of filmmaking or videography is necessary.
The instructor will be video and music producer Nate Sheppard. The fee is $20 per person. Class will take place at ArtStart.

- Register -

May 22 | Wednesday | 7-9 p.m.
ArtStart and WXPR Present...In Progress

An evening dedicated to sharing your craft, however finished it may be: storytelling, poetry, music, comedy, theater, film, and all things creative.

- Reserve Your Spotlight - 


June 8 | Saturday | 5-7 p.m.
Opening Reception and Artist Talk with Phillip Faulkner

Exhibition : Layers by Phillip Faulkner
Suggested donation for admission. Cash bar available.

Phillip Faulkner is interested in how technology and the emergence of media outlets inform, affect and intertwine with the historical art canon. His artistic inquiry spans visual media, but the one constant in his work is an embrace of collage philosophy. Faulkner produces work that melds the digital and tangible, bridges technology and tradition, and attempts to create imagery that is both new and nostalgic. The artwork in Layers employs appropriated imagery from disparate sources, combined with original marks that are placed in new combinations.

June 14 | Friday | 6 - 10 p.m.
Outdoor Film and Concert Series:
Bring your friends, family, and a picnic to enjoy our outdoor concert and film.
Boat Patrol will be performing with Scott Kirby and Tyler Watkins with Evening of the Dead: A Tribute to the Grateful Dead. The concert will begin at 6 p.m. followed by a film screening at dark of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1923).
Cash bar available. No alcohol carry-ins please.
Suggested $10 donation. Donations pay the musicians.

June 26 | Wednesday | 7-9 p.m.
ArtStart and WXPR Present...In Progress

An evening dedicated to sharing your craft, however finished it may be: storytelling, poetry, music, comedy, theater, film, and all things creative.

- Reserve Your Spotlight - 
 June 28 through June 30 | 6 p.m. Start
ArtStart 48 Hour Film Contest!
Grab a camera, make a team, and compete for prizes by creating a short film from start to finish in under 48 hours! Each team will be given instructions at the beginning of the contest and then it’s up to you to make the best video you can before the clock runs out.
The contest will start on Friday evening (June 28th) at 6PM with an opening event host-ed at ArtStart. Then, once the countdown begins, you have roughly two days to complete your film. Finished video files will be due by midnight on Sunday (June 30th).
Then, once all the films have been received and judged, join us again at ArtStart on Saturday, July 13th where all of the winning films will be showcased and prizes will be awarded.
The cost is $25 per team if you register by 12PM, June 23rd. Registration will be $35 after that and $45 if you register at the opening event on June 28th.

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July 18 | Thursday | 7-9 p.m.
Concert: Victoria Vox
Suggested $10 admission donation. All concert admission donations pay the musicians.
A beer and wine cash bar is open during all evening concerts.
Co-hosted by WXPR, Local. Public. Radio
https://www.victoriavox.com/home

Victoria Vox is an ukulele-toting award-winning songwriter and performer. Originally from Green Bay, WI, Vox has lived in France, England, Nashville, Baltimore, and now resides in Costa Mesa, CA. With a passion for songwriting since she was 10, she studied at the Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA) and in 2003, she took up the ukulele as her main accompaniment.

Since the release of her first ukulele album in 2006, Vox has been one of the leading songwriters on the ukulele scene (Ukulele Magazine, front cover + feature article). However, she straddles into the folk scene as well, where she has opened for Jackson Browne, Tom Chapin, Leo Kottke, and Cheryl Wheeler. She performs mostly as a one-woman-band, incorporating a loop pedal and bass effect on her ukulele, while taking her own solos (on mouth-trumpet), and cutting through it all with her genuine lyrics and pure voice.

A stage name can be a becoming thing. "Vox" (in latin) means voice, and along with her care for the environment (1% for the Planet Member), she has written and donated songs to the American Aspergers Association and the Duchenne Foundation.
 
On a lighter note, she also has perfected the Mouth-Trumpet which, to some, is considered a form of "beat-boxing". Vox takes improvisational solos echoing the tones of trumpet genius, Chet Baker, solely with her voice. This odd and quirky talent, nonetheless, landed her on the Jay Leno Show (2009) and on the front page of the Wall Street Journal (2015).
 
 
July 31 | Wednesday | 7-9 p.m.
ArtStart and WXPR Present...In Progress

An evening dedicated to sharing your craft, however finished it may be: storytelling, poetry, music, comedy, theater, film, and all things creative.

- Reserve Your Spotlight - 

August 2 | Friday | 11:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Eat To The Beat Lunchtime Concert Series: Phyl Wickham
Grab your lunch and Eat To The Beat of the music at
ArtStart's outdoor stage. The perfect break on a sunny
summer Friday afternoon. All are welcome!
If it rains, we will use ArtStart's indoor stage.
Sponsored by Assoicated Bank.

August 2 - Phyl Wickham
August 9 - Brett Schwartz
August 16 - Michael J. Fox
August 23 - Boat Patrol & Friends
August 30 - Brian McLaughlin
September 6 - Scott Kirby
September 13 - Nate Sheppard
September 20 - Stovepipe Stephens
 August 7 | Wednesday | 8 - 4 p.m.

Redikulas Dae

Stop by our booth in front of Latitudes for our annual Second Hand Art Sale! All sale proceeds benefit ArtStart. 
 August 8 | Thursday | 7 - 9 p.m.

Concert: Brothers Burn Mountain


$10 suggested admission donation. Donations go to the musicians.
http://thebrothersburnmountain.com/

They may be a blur of motion when they perform live, but on their new release, "When You Crave a Sweetness," The Brothers Burn Mountain show that they're also inventive songwriters whose musical panorama extends beyond simple, athletic energy.

Recorded [in part] at Sparta Sound Studios in Sparta, Minn., with Rich Mattson at the helm, the new disc shows it's impossible to pin this duo - brothers Jesse and Ryan Dermody - down to any definitive sound or style, as they simply career from track to track with the abandon of a rabid dog in a vigorous mash-up of sensibilities.

Even the word eclectic comes up short describing the brothers Dermody.

What "When You Crave a Sweetness" brings to light is that they're talented musicians whose palette of aural shades and hues is so varied that they really are unclassifiable." - John Ziegler, The Duluth News Tribune.

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Milwaukee Sketch Club at Waukesha Gazebo & Fox River on 5/16/19

This week we are scheduled to go to Hoyt Park.













Some friends who joined us under the Gazebo when it started raining.

Lourdes Artisan Fair at Oktoberfest looking for artists

From: Elena Olveda <olveda42@att.net>
Date: May 21, 2019 at 8:14:04 AM CDT
To: arlenedavey1971@gmail.com, alminzlaff@hotmail.com
Subject: Lourdes Artisan Fair at Oktoberfest

https://www.ololmke.org/oktoberfest/
Hi, I am on the jury for the fall art fair and was asked to contact your group  
The fair is adding 3-4 more vendor slots and are interested in getting more artists such as your group. The art guild is also being asked to have a space, which we will consider if enough members participate.
The link is above and you can find at parish website also, I will also share contact info for Tanya Gross who is the coordinator of art fair.
tanyamg69@hotmail.com
Thanks

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

This weeks plein air outing is Thursday due to Weather

Plein Air 9am THURSDAY, 5/16/19 not Friday. Supposed to rain Friday. Still OK Thursday morning

We are going to Downtown Waukesha, I think it will work best if we meet at the Gazebo on the north side of the Fox River on Bank Street between Madison St. and Barstow St. It's across the Street from Waukesha State Bank. You can also see the Clock Tower from the Gazebo. (There's plenty of free parking by the Gazebo and it's a lot less congested than the Steaming Cup area which is only about 1-2 blocks away.)

Here's a link to Google maps 

Plein air guide can be found on schedules page

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Milwaukee Sketch Club at Trimborn Farms 5/3/19

Very nice day to paint and sketch outside.
















New Summer Guide can now be found on Schedule page of this blog.
So far, next Friday we are planning to go to the Stage Coach Inn.

Friday, May 3, 2019

A Call for Christmas Market Artists, 11/29-30-12/1/19

from: christmasmarket@historyisfun.com














November 29, 30, and December 1, 2019
A Call for Artists,

The History Center of Washington County is bringing an Old World Christmas Market to Washington County, WI.  We have several vendors committed and are looking for more unique artists to join us.  The event will be held at the centrally located Washington County Fair Park, just off of Highway 45. This location allows for plenty of parking and indoor/outdoor facilities.  We have secured the weekend after Thanksgiving, which is, as you know, when shoppers get serious about purchasing their gift items. 

On-Site Show Hours:  Booths must be staffed during all show hours:
·        Friday, November 29, 2019:  Noon-6:00pm
·        Saturday, November 30, 2019:  10:00am – 7:00pm
·        Sunday, December 1, 2019:  10:00am – 4:00pm

Move-in:   Wednesday, November 27, 9:00am-5:00pm
                 Friday, November 29, 7:00am-show opening at Noon. 


Indoor location at Washington County Fair Park, West Bend, WI
30 minutes northwest of Milwaukee
 
10 X 10 Booth Size Pipe, drape, electric included
 
Expected Attendance 5,000
 
Plenty of Free Parking

Booth Fees $225

If you would like to be considered for the market, please fill out the attached form and send images or your website address.

Patricia Lutz
Executive Director
History Center Washington County
320 S. West Bend, WI
262-335-4678

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

MSC Opening Reception at Inspiration Studios 5/5/19 2-5pm

From: Erico <ericoortiz@aol.com>


Milwaukee Sketch Club Collaborative Exhibit to Open at Inspiration Studios


“Art in any form emotes and invites feelings. The same can be said for life's experiences,” says Arlene Davey, whose acrylic paintings are part of a collaborative exhibit scheduled for May at Inspiration Studios. The Milwaukee Sketch Club Exhibit will feature thirteen artists and their varied body of work, exploring emotions and nature, using several mediums. 
An Opening Reception with the artists, free and open to the public, is scheduled for Sunday, May 5, 2:00-5:00pm at Inspiration Studios, 1500 S. 73rd Street in West Allis.  Refreshments will be served.

Art is an expression of my appreciation for life and the wonder of it all,” says Tom Piedt, who coordinated this exhibit. “I have been compelled to take a unique personal journey for forty plus years when I paint. I'm trying to discover a surreal, ethereal image that reflects relationships of the world around us in an abstract way.”

In her attempts to capture the beauty of light and color as they permeate the world, Julia Pagenkopf explains, “I want the viewer to be able to enter the painting, to smell the air and feel the breeze, or remember a certain place they once knew where their imagination took flight.”  Her pastel and watercolor pieces are an emotional response to the changing moods of the seasons.

”My themes are usually landscape oils,” says Art Bartkowiak. “Many are ethereal or mysterious--to invoke contemplation and mystery. Ambiguity is strived for, especially in my abstracted and mixed media canvases, using foils, marble powder, some pastel and oil paint.”  

Karen Wick‘s paintings (acrylic, pastel, charcoal) will occasionally include words or symbols buried in the under-painting, or they will subtly show through as words or symbols that have significance for the piece. Other times, more noticeable “random” squiggles or lines appear that become an expression of an undefined feeling or energy that she experiences while trying to represent a 3-dimensional object onto a 2-dimensional canvas.

Betty A. Storey of Muskego states “I signed up for the Drawing and Painting class at Wilson Senior Center a few years ago. The facilitator, Al Minzlaf, urged me to keep trying, to pay attention to detail, watch ‘the lightest lights and darkest darks’, to try something new and to stay active and involved. These paintings are the result of his encouragement.”

This collaborative exhibit also includes works by Al Minzlaf (acrylic, watercolor); Bonita Bruch (pastel); Carol Liesenfelder (mixed media); John Peine (oil); Joyce Radtke (watercolor); Lisa Luz (acrylic, watercolor); and Steve Klein (wood). Most artwork will be available for purchase.   

For those who can not attend the Opening Reception on May 5, 
the Milwaukee Sketch Club Exhibit will be available for viewing on 
Sunday, May 12 (2-5pm); 
Friday, May 17 (4-7pm), 
Saturday May 18 (2-5pm), 
Friday, May 24 (4-7pm), and
Saturday, May 25 (2-5pm).  
A Closing Reception will also be held on Sunday, May 26, (2-5pm).  Inspiration Studios is located at 1500 S. 73rd Street in West Allis.  
More information is available at www.inspirationstudiosgallery.com.

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Erico Ortiz
Founder
Inspiration Studios

414 587-3474 c