Wisconsin Regional Arts
  • Blog
  • About Us
    • Contact Us
  • Resources
  • WRAP Workshops

Artists! Sign up to show your art in Richland Center & River Falls

2/18/2015

0 Comments

 

Picture
“Henrietta and Hattie”, watercolor, by Barbara Kettner Recipient of the 2014 Rural Wisconsin Award
This posting has been updated.

There are two Wisconsin Regional Art (WRAP) Exhibits and workshops coming up with entry forms due the end of February.  The Richland Area Arts Council (RAAC)  again sponsors of the Richland Center WRAP exhibition/workshop at the Schmitt Woodland Hills Retirement Center, and the for the first time the River Falls Community Art Base will sponsor a WRAP exhibit/workshop at the River Falls  Public Library in honor of WRAPs 75 anniversary in 2015.  Both sponsors inivite the participation of Wisconsin Artists in the Wisconsin Regional Art Program (WRAP) exhibition/workshops opening in March 2015.  There is a $20.00 fee to enter each exhibit.

The non-profit membership organization Wisconsin Regional Artists Association in collaboration with Wisconsin Regional Art Program administered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Liberal Studies and the Arts co-sponsor the WRAP exhibits that feature the works of Wisconsin and regional lay artists at both venues.   WRAP organizers invite any non-professional artist in the region to submit artworks for the exhibitions. (For our purposes 'non-professional' is defined as someone who does not make their primary income from their art.)

Plan to enter the exhibits AND plan to stop by and see the exhibitions.  

River Falls WRAP Entry Form due February 27th

Entry Blank Due: Friday, February 27, 2015 
DUE DATE EXTENTION.  Entry forms now due with art drop off on March 8th and 9th.
Exhibit: March 9-April 18, 2015
Artwork due: Sunday, March 8, 2015, 1-4pm OR Monday, March 9, 2015, 10am-6pm
(limit 3 artworks per artist) 
Workshop: Saturday, April 18, 2015, 1:00PM-4:00pm (Please note change in time from earlier postings)
Artist's Reception: Sunday, March 15, 2015, 2-4pm
Place: River Falls Public Library Gallery, 140 Union St., River Falls, WI 54022
Make check payable to sponsor: RIVER FALLS COMMUNITY ARTS BASE
Coordinator: Katie Chaffee, Gallery and Event Coordinator, River Falls Public Library, 140 Union St.
River Falls, WI 54022, (715) 426-3496, katiec@riverfallspubliclibrary.org

PictureRiver in Rut painting by Steven Braker


The Wisconsin Regional Art Program is delighted to have our first WRAP exhibit and workshop in River Falls at the Public Library as a part of our celebration of our 75th anniversary in 2015.


The River Falls WRAP will offer a workshop for participation artists on Saturday April 18th.  The workshop theme is:
THE BUSINESS OF ART: It doesn't just happen

Presenters and show judges are Steven Braker and Kim Losse, who between them  represent four art disciplines ~ photography, painting, pottery and printmaking. They will share strategies and practices that will help artists develop their creative talents into a viable business.

All artists participating in the exhibit are welcome to attend the workshop for free.  Guests can attend for a $5.00 fee.


Richland Center WRAP Entry Form due February 28th

Entry Blank Due: Saturday, Feb 28, 2015
Make checks payable to sponsor: RAAC or Richland Area Arts Council
Artwork due: Saturday, March 7, 2015, 10am-noon
Workshop
: Saturday, March 28 from 9:30am-noon, judging and critiques 1-2pm
Place: Schmitt Woodland Hills Retirement Center
1400 Seminary St
Richland Center, WI 53581 
Coordinator: Nanci Buchanan
E4914 Timberline Rd
Spring Green, WI 53588
608-588-2780 or nancibuchanan@frontier.com
PictureSummer Evening Reflection Black Earth Creek at Salmo Pond, watercolor, by Nancy Cox.

The Exhibit Juror for the 2015 Richland Center WRAP will be Black Earth, Wisconsin watercolor painter Nancy Cox.   

An accomplished artist and teacher, Nancy considers art to be her vocation, her life, and her passion.   Working both representationally and with abstraction, Nancy carries her painting supplies with her in all her travels and is a master of capturing impressions of the world around her with gesture, mark, and hue.  

The Richland Center WRAP  Workshop Presenter  will be artist Barbara Kettner whose work is featured at the top of this post.  Barb paints portraits of animals and people, landscapes en plein aire, still lifes, and also paints from photographs. She has exhibited at the Driftless Area Art Festival for the past six years, and was chosen as the feature artist for the 2011 fund raising raffle.   She has lived in the Driftless area since 2006. Barb makes sure to paint or draw for a few hours every day and she finds the Driftless Area endlessly inspiring with its rolling hills, meandering rivers, fast disappearing tobacco sheds, and ever changing skies. 

Wisconsin Regional Art Program General Guidelines

The fee to participate in either of the  WRAP exhibitions and workshop is $20.  Artists should send their entry fee with a completed Registration Form, found on (WRAP's website and below)  to the coordinators listed above by the due dates, and deliver their art to the appropriate venues during the hours designated for delivery.

Wisconsin and regional artists from surroundign states who are at least age 14 are invited to participate.  Artwork must be original and completed in the last two years. Entries will be juried and meritorious works will be displayed at a state exhibit in August and  September 2015 at the Pyle Center in Madison where the award winning artwork by WRAA members is eligible for cash awards.

Guidelines to participate encourage the exhibition of art in a variety of media including:  PAINTING: Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor GRAPHICS: Drawing, Prints, Pastel SCULPTURE: Any Material, Mixed-Media CRAFTS: Clay, Wood, Metal, Fiber, Paper PHOTOGRAPHY: Black and White, Color, Digital: print or photograph. No giclee reproductions of paintings.   

Artists and art-advocates alike are invited to view the exhibitions free of charge.
0 Comments

Wisconsin Regional Art from the 1940s still impresses

2/12/2015

1 Comment

 
Picture
Iris Furman Tellefson, Feeding Time, Oil Painting, 1942
Iris Furman Tellefson grew up on a farm near Oshkosh.  She was a charter member of Rural Arts Program when it started in 1940 and she was in her early twenties.  She continued to paint as she married and raised her family.  This painting and a dozen more from the historical collection of the UW-Madison Division of Continuing Studies'  Wisconsin Regional Arts Program (WRAP)  are currently on display at the Steenbock Gallery in the offices of the Wisconsin Academy of Science Art and Letters, at 1922 University Avenue in Madison, Wisconsin.  The work will be accessible weekdays during working hours until March 13th. 

Plan to join WRAP for a reception for the exhibition on Saturday February 28th from 12:00-3:00PM. 
At 2:00PM a short video from the 1950's of the Rural Art Program founders discussing the inspiration for the program and its relationship to the Wisconsin Idea will be shown. 

All of the paintings included in this exhibit were created in 1950 or earlier and were originally shown in the  annual state art exhibition which has featured Wisconsin’s lay artists since 1940.

Wisconsin Regional Art Program (WRAP)

Since 1940 the Rural Arts Program (which would become the Wisconsin Regional Art Program (WRAP) has provided statewide art workshops and exhibits for Wisconsin’s lay artists.   WRAP was established to encourage Wisconsin citizens with a serious interest in Art, people who make art purely for the love of it, rather than for fame and fortune. The purpose of WRAP is to encourage artists to develop their abilities.  Focusing on Wisconsin artists, 14 or older, who make art for the sake of the creative experience and to not earn their living as artists, the program encourages creative growth among non-professional artists.  
PictureWalter Thorp, Covey of Quails, Crayon and Pencil, 1941

Walter Thorp, RT 3, Baraboo, 1879-1969

Frank Lloyd Wright likened this work to a Japanese print.  Thorp was drawn to nature and to art from his earliest, years despite no memories of others in his family pursuing visual art.  He farmed in Iowa and Wisconsin for eleven years and entered his firs Rural Art Exhibit while he was a tenant farmer in Baraboo.  He sold these two works to the Permanent Collection but found it hard to make time for art while scrapping out a living.  Mostly he gave his drawings away.  He considered Nature to be his principle guide and teacher.

WRAP History

In 1940s what was then called the Rural Art Program, was conceived as part of a larger effort to manifest the philosophy and policies of the Wisconsin Idea through the arts. The Rural Art Program, along with such programs as the Wisconsin Ideas Theatre were formed out of a commitment of the University towards educating not only its students, but encouraging and teaching residents across the state in their creative growth and understanding of the vital role the arts can play in day-to-day lives of people from all backgrounds. 

The first Rural Art Exhibit was held at the Memorial Union during Farm and Home Week in 1940. Under the guidance of well-known regional artist John Steuart Curry, the exhibit grew rapidly, expanding from 30 nonprofessional artists in 1940 to over 100 by 1947. Since its earliest focus on rural artists WRAP has expanded to include non-professional artists from all parts of Wisconsin, including urban areas. 

For seventy five years the program flourished, initially under the leadership of as John Steuart Curry, Aaron Bohrod, and James Schwalbach, and then guided by the energy and enthusiasm of artists and educators Ken Kuemmerlein, and Leslee Nelson, with strong participation by Wisconsin’s non-professional artists, not only from rural areas but also from cities and suburbs.   WRAP continues its seventy-five year tradition to make the exhibition and workshops cornerstones of activity for nonprofessional artists throughout the state.
PictureJoan Arend (Kirkbush), Wisconsin Farm Auction. Oil, 1945

Joan Arend (Kirkbush), Rt. 1, Almond, WI, 1926-2006

Born in Milwaukee but raised on a farm. Joan Arend received early attention in RAP/WRAP winning recognition with this painting in 1945.  Joan She trained as a book illustrator at Layton School of Art in Milwaukee.  In 1953 she moved to Alaska with her husband and embarked on what became a career painting Alaskan native children. She wrote and illustrated several coloring books that were popular with Alaska Natives because the images were so lifelike.



Picture
Clarence Boyce Monegar, The Watering Hole, Watercolor, 1942
Clarence Boyce Monegar (Red Arrow), Black River Falls, 1910-1968

Clarence Boyce Monegar was a Ho-Chunk who also created under the name Red Arrow.  Born in the town of Eland, in Shawano, County.  He received some art instruction at the Tomah Indian School as a boy.  At 17 he traveled with the circus as a rider in a covered wagon act.  He made a living as a sign painter and thrived until his young wife died of tuberculosis, and his despair made it hard to provide for his four young children.  Jailed for non-support he drew and painted from memory in his cell.  The Clark County district attorney paroled him and personally drove him with his paintings to John Steuart Curry’s studio.  After a short period of study with Curry to learn lithography, Monegar began making and selling art.  Drafted he was an ambulance driver.  After he returned to art making and used his GI Benefits to attend the Art Institute of Chicago, and continued to create paintings and prints for the rest of his life.

Plan to see these and other paintings from the historical collection of the Wisconsin Regional Art Program between now and March 13th.  Join us for the February 28th, 2015 reception, and check out the 24 WRAP Exhibits and Workshops offered with cosponsoring arts organizations across Wisconsin.  Better yet, enter your artwork in one of the exhibits.  Find out more here.

1 Comment

Artists!  Hartford WI WRAP Exhibit Entry Forms due February 6th

2/1/2015

0 Comments

 
Picture
Moraine Sunset, Pastel, by Greg Torgeson, Hartford WRAP Coordinator

Wisconsin and regional artists, plan to exhibit your art in the the Hartford WRAP Exhibit and attend the closing Workshop at the Schaure Arts and Activities Center scheduled for February 17th through March 29th.   
Entry forms are due by February 6th to  allow you to be a part of this exhibit
and closing workshop. (See entry form at the bottom of this posting or go directly to the Wisconsin Regional Art Program website and download it from there..

All non-professional artists from Wisconsin and nearby states are welcome to select artworks to show in WRAP exhibitions.  Non-professional is defined as an artist that does not make the majority of their income from their art.  Artwork must be original and artists must be 14 or older.  Additional guidelines on what art is acceptable can be found HERE.

Below are the specifics for entering up to two artworks
in the Madison Wisconsin Regional Art Program (WRAP) . The organizer requests that you get your entry forms right away to ensure your participation.  There is a $20.00 fee to enter up to two artworks.
 
Also plan to attend the Artists reception on February 20th.

Entry Blank Due
: Friday, February 6, 2015
Make checks payable to sponsor: SCHAUER ARTS AND ACTIVITIES CENTER
Artwork due: Tuesday, February 17, 2015, 1-5:30pm
(limit 2 works per artist)
Artist's Reception: Friday, February 20, 2015, 6:30-7:30pm
Workshop
: Sunday, March 29, 205, 1-4pm
Place: Schauer Arts and Activities Center, 147 N. Rural St., Hartford, WI 53027
Coordinator: Greg Torgeson, 
147 N. Rural St. , Hartford, WI 53027, (262) 844-5257, or email:
Pawnee333@yahoo.com

Artist Joyce Eesley Scheduled to Jury Exhibition

Picture
Watercolor still life By Joyce Eesley
Accomplished watercolor painter and member of the Wisconsin Watercolor Society,   Joyce Eesley  is scheduled to be the exhibition judge and presenter in 2015 for the Hartford WRAP.    Joyce has always been intrigued by the process of creating and amazed by the outcome. Recently, she has devoted her time and energy to watercolor painting.  She is fascinated by watercolor's subtlety, the  immediacy of results, endless possibilities, and variations that can be achieved. In each of her paintings she tries to find the beauty in the subject matter whether it is the withered fallen leaf or elegant rose. 

Annually each local WRAP brings in a professional artist to jury the exhibition and present a program of interest to the participants at the closing workshop.  (All exhibiting artists are welcome to attend the closing workshop for free.  Guests may attend for a $5.00 fee.  )

The juror is charged with identifying which art submissions will be recognized with an Honorable Mention for effective creative expression, and which of the submissions woll be recognized with a State Award.  State Awards come with an invitation to the recipient to exhibit their artwork in the State exhibition which will open in August and include works from non-professional Wisconsin artists who are showing their art in the 24 WRAP exhibition which will take place in 2014-2015. 

To learn more about WRAP statewide and the dates for other WRAP exhibits and workshops you can access the WRAP Website HERE.

Watch this blog for more information coming soon about WRAPs 75th Anniversary Celebrations in 2015.
0 Comments

    Art, Artists , and Art Events in Wisconsin!

    Check out events associated with the Wisconsin Regional Art Program and opportunities of interest to the members of the Association of Wisconsin Artists (WRAA)!

    Archives

    August 2020
    June 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    January 2020
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    July 2018
    April 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    December 2015
    October 2015
    July 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    October 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    December 2013

    Art Links
    Wisconsin Regional Arts on Facebook
    Wisconsin Regional Art Program
    Wisconsin Regional Art Association
    The Flourishing Artist

    RSS Feed

Wisconsin Regional Arts
http://www.wisconsinregionalarts.org