MILES OF ART TOUR: OCTOBER 6 and 7, 2012
We need your help! The WOWSPACE will again be a site on the MILES OF ART TOUR. This is a countywide event, widely publicized, with 4 artist studios (each with additional selected artists) and 2 galleries, the WOWSPACE being one of them. Last year, this tour brought hundreds of visitors to the sites who PURCHASED as well as admired the work of the artists. Each site will have its own page on the TOUR web site.
This year our fall show will be “ARTIST’S FREE PLAY: II” which we moved from the summer to the fall to provide a variety of works of art, something which brought many favorable comments last year when the fall show was the “ARTISTS OF ANTIGO,” featuring 18 artists.
WHAT DO WE NEED FROM YOU?
Several sentences or a brief paragraph about you and your work and a photo that best represents your work to put on the WOWSPACE page. We may edit your paragraph for length or clarity.
Our page will note that you have been a past participant in shows at the WOWSPACE because neither of us knows if you will be entering again this year. We very much hope that you do! New instructions will be coming out shortly.
TWO MORE REQUESTS:
1) GROUP PHOTO SHOOT: A high quality mailer is being created and will have a group photo of artists, each holding a piece of their work.
Gresham Lower Dam, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 7PM. Rain date is THURSDAY, MAY 17, 7 PM. (Map will follow). Let me know if you would like to participate.
2) DEMONSTRATORS: Would you be interested in being a demonstrator at the WOWSPACE on October 6 or 7? Last year we had demonstrators working with pastels and scratch board as well as watercolor painting in the ART PARK. Each artist worked about 2-3 hours; visitors enjoyed meeting the artists and being able to ask questions. Again, let us know.
Get in touch if you have questions. Send me your paragraphs and photo. Let me know if you want to participate in the photo shoot or be a demonstrator. This is a great opportunity for you and your work to get publicity, entice visitors to the WOWSPACE and Shawano County, a win-win for all.
Susan Hanson
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Welcome to the blog of the Wisconsin Visual Artists' Guild! We are a group of creative and inspiring artists from northcentral Wisconsin exhibiting work in all visual media including fiber arts, painting, photography, sculpture and more.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Walls of Wittenbeg
Hello:
My name is Susan Hanson and I'm a member of the Walls of Wittenberg, Inc., a non-profit arts organization based in Wittenberg. I've been trying to contact your Life editor in hopes to run a press release with a few photos for our Spring art show, "Those Johnson Girls and All Their Horses", that opens on Saturday, April, 21 with a wine, beer and cheese gala.
We are featuring wonderful artwork focused on their passion for horses from a family of artists with roots in Tigerton. More information and details are attached in our press release. I've also attached a few photos that will give a taste of the work that will be on display.
Please let me know who to send this to in your Life department, or please forward along to the appropriate people.
You may contact me with any questions by email at sehanson@wittenbergnet.net or 715-253-2580.
I appreciate any support in helping us get the word out about this great art show.
Thank you,
Susan Hanson
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Culture and Agriculture Reprieve!
It turns out I failed to hit "refresh" after entering the correct date on the culture and agriculture time remaining countdown on the right side .
A sharp-eyed Patrick Plunkett caught it and sent me the correct dates which are really a Deadline for entries of Friday April 23rd.
Thanks Patrick!
A sharp-eyed Patrick Plunkett caught it and sent me the correct dates which are really a Deadline for entries of Friday April 23rd.
Thanks Patrick!
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Someone needs a good Old Caning
As a CVA service to the community, following is a request for "chair caning".
Can anyone re-cane a chair? Please contact directly:
Ray Jahns
715-355-5742
507 Lawrence Ave in Rothschild
re-posted from the WvAA
Can anyone re-cane a chair? Please contact directly:
Ray Jahns
715-355-5742
507 Lawrence Ave in Rothschild
re-posted from the WvAA
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Americans in Glass Legacy exhibition at Woodson
There is still time to see this wonderful exhibit!
----- Original Message -----
From: Amy Beck
To: Amy Beck
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 4:00 PM
Subject: Glass exhibition on view at Woodson Art Museum
Greetings,
Attached and below is a press release about The Americans in Glass Legacy exhibition, on view through April 7, at the Woodson Art Museum -
part of a national initiative in 2012, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the American Studio Glass Movement.
Thank you for helping to let others know about the amazing forty-three works on view from the Museum's collection.
Best regards,
Amy
Amy Beck
Marketing & Communications Manager
Woodson Art Museum
700 N. 12th St.
Wausau, WI 54403-5007
715.845.7010 - office
715.845.7103 - fax
abeck@lywam.org
Escape to Dinotopia! The art of James Gurney is your passport to an island adventure at the Woodson Art Museum, January 28 through April 7.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Amy Beck
715.845.7010
abeck@lywam.org
Glass Exhibition at Woodson Art Museum
Celebrates 50th Anniversary of American Studio Glass Movement
Wausau, Wisconsin: Part of a nationwide initiative celebrating 50 years of contemporary glass artistry, the Woodson Art Museum presents The Americans in Glass Legacy, an exhibition of forty-three works acquired from the Museum's three hot-glass exhibitions held in 1978, 1981, and 1984.
The Woodson's exhibition, on view through April 7, features artist Harvey K. Littleton, one of the internationally recognized founders of the American Studio Glass Movement, which in 1962 ushered in a new medium of artistic expression.
The evolution from factory-made, mass-produced to individually designed, studio-produced glasswork led to an explosion of creativity as artists experimented with fluid glass through blowing, molding, layering, cutting, polishing, and embellishing. Once advances in technology enabled the cost-effective construction of small glass furnaces for studios, artists eagerly began stretching the boundaries of the medium.
In the spring of 1962, Harvey K. Littleton, professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Dominick Labino, fellow artist and glass research scientist at Johns Mansville, held a two-week glass-blowing workshop. Working in a Toledo Art Museum storage shed, the small group of artists repeatedly tweaked the initial batch recipe to get a consistent, usable glass. Problems with the slow, controlled cooling of the glass - called annealing - meant that few works survived, yet knowledge gained through the experimentation proved to be groundbreaking. Littleton and Labino became regarded as the forward-thinking duo who sparked the American Studio Glass Movement. By the fall of 1962, Littleton offered the first glass-blowing classes at the University of Wisconsin.
Americans in Glass, a thrice-held, triennial exhibition inaugurated at the Woodson Art Museum in 1978, promoted the burgeoning glass movement. The first exhibition featured 110 works created by juried and invited artists, including Littleton, Dale Chihuly, Marvin Lipofsky, and Joel Philip Myers. Subsequent Americans in Glass exhibitions were organized in 1981 and 1984; extended national and international tours followed, garnering considerable attention for studio glass.
The Americans in Glass Legacy presents forty-three works from the Museum's permanent collection acquired from artists participating in the three Americans in Glass exhibitions, in tandem with the national studio glass celebration. The Woodson Art Museum joins ten Midwest museums in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan in hosting exhibitions and special events during 2012 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the studio glass movement in the United States. For information about upcoming national events, check the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass website, http://contempglass.org/2012-celebration.
URL links to images:
www.lywam.org/media/glasswarff.jpg
Ann Warff-Wolff, Pa Festen (At the Celebration), ca. 1977, blown and acid-etched glass
www.lywam.org/media/glassfujita.jpg
Kyohei Fujita, Green and Gold Pavilion, 1980, mold-blown glass and gold foil
www.lywam.org/media/glasslittleton.jpg
Harvey K. Littleton, Double Downthrust, 1976, gift of John and Alice Woodson Forester
www.lywam.org/media/glassMCGAGMuseumDirectory.jpg
Other museums in the Midwest participating in the 50th anniversary celebration.
Woodson Art Museum
Hours: Tuesday - Friday 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
First Thursday of each month 9:00 am - 7:30 pm
Saturday - Sunday Noon - 5:00 pm
Closed Monday and holidays, including Easter
Admission: Always Free Admission
Phone: 715.845.7010
Fax: 715.845.7103
Email: museum@lywam.org
Location: Franklin and 12th Streets, Wausau, Wisconsin 54403-5007
(700 N. 12th Street)
Online: www.lywam.org
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----- Original Message -----
From: Amy Beck
To: Amy Beck
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 4:00 PM
Subject: Glass exhibition on view at Woodson Art Museum
Greetings,
Attached and below is a press release about The Americans in Glass Legacy exhibition, on view through April 7, at the Woodson Art Museum -
part of a national initiative in 2012, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the American Studio Glass Movement.
Thank you for helping to let others know about the amazing forty-three works on view from the Museum's collection.
Best regards,
Amy
Amy Beck
Marketing & Communications Manager
Woodson Art Museum
700 N. 12th St.
Wausau, WI 54403-5007
715.845.7010 - office
715.845.7103 - fax
abeck@lywam.org
Escape to Dinotopia! The art of James Gurney is your passport to an island adventure at the Woodson Art Museum, January 28 through April 7.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Amy Beck
715.845.7010
abeck@lywam.org
Glass Exhibition at Woodson Art Museum
Celebrates 50th Anniversary of American Studio Glass Movement
Wausau, Wisconsin: Part of a nationwide initiative celebrating 50 years of contemporary glass artistry, the Woodson Art Museum presents The Americans in Glass Legacy, an exhibition of forty-three works acquired from the Museum's three hot-glass exhibitions held in 1978, 1981, and 1984.
The Woodson's exhibition, on view through April 7, features artist Harvey K. Littleton, one of the internationally recognized founders of the American Studio Glass Movement, which in 1962 ushered in a new medium of artistic expression.
The evolution from factory-made, mass-produced to individually designed, studio-produced glasswork led to an explosion of creativity as artists experimented with fluid glass through blowing, molding, layering, cutting, polishing, and embellishing. Once advances in technology enabled the cost-effective construction of small glass furnaces for studios, artists eagerly began stretching the boundaries of the medium.
In the spring of 1962, Harvey K. Littleton, professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Dominick Labino, fellow artist and glass research scientist at Johns Mansville, held a two-week glass-blowing workshop. Working in a Toledo Art Museum storage shed, the small group of artists repeatedly tweaked the initial batch recipe to get a consistent, usable glass. Problems with the slow, controlled cooling of the glass - called annealing - meant that few works survived, yet knowledge gained through the experimentation proved to be groundbreaking. Littleton and Labino became regarded as the forward-thinking duo who sparked the American Studio Glass Movement. By the fall of 1962, Littleton offered the first glass-blowing classes at the University of Wisconsin.
Americans in Glass, a thrice-held, triennial exhibition inaugurated at the Woodson Art Museum in 1978, promoted the burgeoning glass movement. The first exhibition featured 110 works created by juried and invited artists, including Littleton, Dale Chihuly, Marvin Lipofsky, and Joel Philip Myers. Subsequent Americans in Glass exhibitions were organized in 1981 and 1984; extended national and international tours followed, garnering considerable attention for studio glass.
The Americans in Glass Legacy presents forty-three works from the Museum's permanent collection acquired from artists participating in the three Americans in Glass exhibitions, in tandem with the national studio glass celebration. The Woodson Art Museum joins ten Midwest museums in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan in hosting exhibitions and special events during 2012 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the studio glass movement in the United States. For information about upcoming national events, check the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass website, http://contempglass.org/2012-celebration.
URL links to images:
www.lywam.org/media/glasswarff.jpg
Ann Warff-Wolff, Pa Festen (At the Celebration), ca. 1977, blown and acid-etched glass
www.lywam.org/media/glassfujita.jpg
Kyohei Fujita, Green and Gold Pavilion, 1980, mold-blown glass and gold foil
www.lywam.org/media/glasslittleton.jpg
Harvey K. Littleton, Double Downthrust, 1976, gift of John and Alice Woodson Forester
www.lywam.org/media/glassMCGAGMuseumDirectory.jpg
Other museums in the Midwest participating in the 50th anniversary celebration.
Woodson Art Museum
Hours: Tuesday - Friday 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
First Thursday of each month 9:00 am - 7:30 pm
Saturday - Sunday Noon - 5:00 pm
Closed Monday and holidays, including Easter
Admission: Always Free Admission
Phone: 715.845.7010
Fax: 715.845.7103
Email: museum@lywam.org
Location: Franklin and 12th Streets, Wausau, Wisconsin 54403-5007
(700 N. 12th Street)
Online: www.lywam.org
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Woodson Art Museum Cuba trip
Greetings,
Below, and attached, is a press release about two trips being offered by the Woodson Art Museum
to encounter the people while exploring the art, architecture, and bird life of Cuba this fall.
Thank you for helping to let people know about these two rare opportunities.
Best regards,
Amy
Amy Beck
Marketing & Communications Manager
Woodson Art Museum
700 N. 12th St.
Wausau, WI 54403-5007
715.845.7010 – office
715.845.7103 – fax
abeck@lywam.org
Escape to Dinotopia! The art of James Gurney is your passport to an island adventure at the Woodson Art Museum, January 28 through April 7.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Amy Beck
715.845.7010
abeck@lywam.org
March 27, 2012
Woodson Art Museum Offers Two Fall Trips to Cuba
Wausau, Wisconsin: Travelers to Cuba encounter the people of this Caribbean island nation while exploring its art, architecture, and bird life on two, eight-day trips offered by the Woodson Art Museum in late October and early November, 2012.
The door for travel to Cuba, has been officially and largely shut to U.S. travelers since the 1960s, but recently was propped open by President Obama in January 2011 for museums, colleges, and universities to organize Cuba trips that are focused on meaningful people-to-people exchanges. After nearly a yearlong application process to the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the Woodson received the required people-to-people license.
The Museum, along with its Travel Services Provider (TSP) partner Academic Travel Abroad, offers Discover Cuba: Its People, Art, and Birds on the following:
Wednesday, October 31 through Thursday, October/November 8 (pending confirmation)
Wednesday, November 7 through Thursday, November 15
Currently a hot travel destination, Cuba was listed as number 10 on the New York Times’ 45 top travel spots for 2012.
The Woodson’s Cuba itinerary offers travelers opportunities to experience the “real” Cuba with one-on-one visits with artists, art historians, and art educators as well as farmers, naturalists, environmentalists, and ornithologists. Travelers also explore the rich and colorful Cuban culture by sampling music, dance, and culinary treats.
Highlights of the Woodson’s Discover Cuba trip include the following:
· Havana’s Museum of Fine Arts with a curator as a guide
· Spanish Colonial architecture tour with a Cuban preservationist
· Finca Vigía, Ernest Hemingway’s rural home in the company of a curator
· Bird watching with local ornithologists in various locales, including the Pinar del Rio Province, San Diego de Los Banos forest, Boca de Guama Flora & Fauna Conservation Center, and the village of Santo Tomás on the Zapata Peninsula
· Cienfuegos, Cuba’s “Pearl of the South,” where an evening get-together with locals provides an insider’s view
· Trinidad, a Colonial gem, where local art students will share their work
Each departure will be accompanied by a Woodson Art Museum staff member, a Museum representative tasked with maintaining the people-to-people schedule, and a bilingual local guide.
The trip price – $5,350 for Museum members (per person, double occupancy) or $5,500 for nonmembers (per person, double occupancy); $495 single supplement – includes roundtrip air transportation from Miami to Havana; accommodations for six nights in Havana and two nights in Cienfuegos; eight breakfasts, seven lunches, and six dinners; all admissions and guides throughout as well as all gratuities; transportation within Cuba; and all visa processing. Each Museum trip will be limited to twenty four travelers.
To request more information or to reserve a spot, call the Museum at 715-845-7010 or email museum@lywam.org.
Woodson Art Museum
Hours: Tuesday – Friday 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
First Thursday of each month 9:00 am – 7:30 pm
Saturday – Sunday Noon – 5:00 pm
Closed Monday and holidays, including Easter Sunday.
Admission: Always Free Admission
Phone: 715.845.7010
Fax: 715.845.7103
Email: museum@lywam.org
Location: Franklin and 12th Streets, Wausau, Wisconsin 54403-5007
(700 N. 12th Street)
Online: www.lywam.org
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
Below, and attached, is a press release about two trips being offered by the Woodson Art Museum
to encounter the people while exploring the art, architecture, and bird life of Cuba this fall.
Thank you for helping to let people know about these two rare opportunities.
Best regards,
Amy
Amy Beck
Marketing & Communications Manager
Woodson Art Museum
700 N. 12th St.
Wausau, WI 54403-5007
715.845.7010 – office
715.845.7103 – fax
abeck@lywam.org
Escape to Dinotopia! The art of James Gurney is your passport to an island adventure at the Woodson Art Museum, January 28 through April 7.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Amy Beck
715.845.7010
abeck@lywam.org
March 27, 2012
Woodson Art Museum Offers Two Fall Trips to Cuba
Wausau, Wisconsin: Travelers to Cuba encounter the people of this Caribbean island nation while exploring its art, architecture, and bird life on two, eight-day trips offered by the Woodson Art Museum in late October and early November, 2012.
The door for travel to Cuba, has been officially and largely shut to U.S. travelers since the 1960s, but recently was propped open by President Obama in January 2011 for museums, colleges, and universities to organize Cuba trips that are focused on meaningful people-to-people exchanges. After nearly a yearlong application process to the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the Woodson received the required people-to-people license.
The Museum, along with its Travel Services Provider (TSP) partner Academic Travel Abroad, offers Discover Cuba: Its People, Art, and Birds on the following:
Wednesday, October 31 through Thursday, October/November 8 (pending confirmation)
Wednesday, November 7 through Thursday, November 15
Currently a hot travel destination, Cuba was listed as number 10 on the New York Times’ 45 top travel spots for 2012.
The Woodson’s Cuba itinerary offers travelers opportunities to experience the “real” Cuba with one-on-one visits with artists, art historians, and art educators as well as farmers, naturalists, environmentalists, and ornithologists. Travelers also explore the rich and colorful Cuban culture by sampling music, dance, and culinary treats.
Highlights of the Woodson’s Discover Cuba trip include the following:
· Havana’s Museum of Fine Arts with a curator as a guide
· Spanish Colonial architecture tour with a Cuban preservationist
· Finca Vigía, Ernest Hemingway’s rural home in the company of a curator
· Bird watching with local ornithologists in various locales, including the Pinar del Rio Province, San Diego de Los Banos forest, Boca de Guama Flora & Fauna Conservation Center, and the village of Santo Tomás on the Zapata Peninsula
· Cienfuegos, Cuba’s “Pearl of the South,” where an evening get-together with locals provides an insider’s view
· Trinidad, a Colonial gem, where local art students will share their work
Each departure will be accompanied by a Woodson Art Museum staff member, a Museum representative tasked with maintaining the people-to-people schedule, and a bilingual local guide.
The trip price – $5,350 for Museum members (per person, double occupancy) or $5,500 for nonmembers (per person, double occupancy); $495 single supplement – includes roundtrip air transportation from Miami to Havana; accommodations for six nights in Havana and two nights in Cienfuegos; eight breakfasts, seven lunches, and six dinners; all admissions and guides throughout as well as all gratuities; transportation within Cuba; and all visa processing. Each Museum trip will be limited to twenty four travelers.
To request more information or to reserve a spot, call the Museum at 715-845-7010 or email museum@lywam.org.
Woodson Art Museum
Hours: Tuesday – Friday 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
First Thursday of each month 9:00 am – 7:30 pm
Saturday – Sunday Noon – 5:00 pm
Closed Monday and holidays, including Easter Sunday.
Admission: Always Free Admission
Phone: 715.845.7010
Fax: 715.845.7103
Email: museum@lywam.org
Location: Franklin and 12th Streets, Wausau, Wisconsin 54403-5007
(700 N. 12th Street)
Online: www.lywam.org
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