WVAG Summer Show 2014 Award Winners

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR TALENTED WVAG MEMBERS!

BEST OF SHOW:  Sally Johnson "Lily Pad"

1st Place:  Christine Alfery "Campfire"

2nd Place:  Mary O'Flyng "Spring Awakening"

3rd Place:  Carol Hettinga  "In My Garden on a Hot Summer Day"

HONORABLE MENTIONS;

Sharon Dowis "If Munch Had Peeps"

Sharon Feathers "Sky Dance" and "The Way it Was"

Jean Huntoon "Edge of the Woods"

Lynn Ott "Early Return"

Sharon Rotz "Spring Burst"

Be sure to check out these award-winning pieces and more now through September 2nd at the Reaching New Heights Gallery located on the first and second floors of Marshfield Clinic-Weston Center, Weston, Wisconsin. 

WVAG Cattails and Flowers 2014 Exhibit

Enjoy a colorful and inspiring walk through the Cattails and Flowers exhibit now through June 3rd at the Reaching New Heights Gallery at Marshfield Clinic - Weston Center, 3501 Cranberry Blvd, Weston, WI. The show is located on the first and second floors of the clinic, and is open from 8 am - 5 pm, Monday through Friday.

A few selections from the show...

"Cattails 3"

© Rene Iannarelli

NFS

"Moving Water"

© Sally Johnson

$325

"Carved Cattails"

© Krista Gunderson Vendetti

$125

To purchase artwork, contact Sharon Dowis at 715-297-4779 or Sally Johnson at 715-218-8751. With every piece of artwork sold, the WVAG makes a 25% donation to the Marshfield Clinic Patient Cancer Care Fund. 

Interested in becoming a member of the Wisconsin Visual Artists' Guild? Click the "Join the WVAG" tab on the blog, or contact one of our member chairs for more information.

Winter Show Award Winners and More

2014 Winter Art Exhibit Award Winners

On display now through March 4, 2014

Reaching New Heights Gallery

Marshfield Clinic-Weston Center

Best of show:  David Kapszukiewicz - "Evening Solitude"

 1st place:  Christine Alfery  "Downeys and Birches"

 2nd place:  Theda Hewuse  - "Trees of Color "

 3rd place:  Cindy Markowski  - "Chief of the Bear"

Honorable Mentions

Karen Aulik Now – "The Bridge Into Town"

Lynn Block

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"Photo Montage"

Sharon Dowis

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"In the Glow of His Flaming Guitar"

Betty Ebel

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"Embryonic" 

Andrea Fenner

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"Power Play"

Pat Gaska

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"Earth and Sky "

Jean Huntoon

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"Winter Remembered" 

Sally Johnson

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"Fish Lips" 

Nancy Laliberte

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"Caliente" 

Mabelle O'connor

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"Village Autumn" 

Congratulations to all!

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Congratulations to WVAG member Audrey Wilde!

Her artwork, "Endangered Species," graces the cover of the Spring 2014 issue of Contour Notes,

a publication of the Wisconsin Regional Artists Association (WRAA).

 

When describing her cover art, Audrey says, "I put these cows together to try and emphasize the loss of the family farms in Wisconsin that are being replaced by the large commercial farms." 

Audrey is one of the four winners for the yearly cover contest.

WVAG Member News

Congratulations to WVAG Members participating in the following shows:

24th Annual Midwest Seasons 
January 10 - March 15, 2014
Center for the Visual Arts, 427 N 4th St., Wausau, WI

"Ravens In The Backyard"

Christine Alfery

40x30
 On Paper

Award of Excellence winner • 24th Annual Midwest Seasons 

Members:  Christine Alfery, Sharon Dowis, Bette Ebel, Sharon Feathers, Terry Gunderson Shulta, and David Kapszukiewicz.

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Winters Garden 

January 23 - February 16, 2014

Riverfront Arts Center, 1200 Crosby Ave., Stevens Point, WI

"Social Climbers" by Sharon Rotz; 

photo by Riverfront Arts Center

Members:  Sharon Dowis, Sharon Feathers, Terry Gunderson Shulta, Gail Jaeger, Sally Johnson, Cindy Markowski, Theda Neubauer Hewuse, Sharon Rotz, and Audrey Wilde.

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"Fairies Series" and "Artist Muse" Series – Christine Alfery Exhibit 

February 1 - March 31, 2014

Presque Isle Community Library, Presque Isle, WI

Christine will give a presentation at 2 p.m. at the Presque Isle Library on Monday February 17th on: "An Imaginary Place That Really Exists."  Christine says, "To create art an artist must have courage to search and embrace the mystery that lies deeply within the notions of the real and the imagined. To find the song and dance within a work of art the artist must be the medium in which song and dance are transmitted.  Each time I approach a blank canvas I gather up my courage and embrace that space where she allows herself to dance and sing." She will be talking about the spirit and inspirations within her work, the artists muse.

You can view Christine's artwork during the following hours at the Presque Isle Community Library, MWF 10 to 4, Tues/Thurs 4 to 9 and Saturdays 10 to noon.  For more information call the library at 715 686 7613.  Be sure to tell the library staff that you are there to see Christine's work.

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Central Wisconsin Cultural Center "Featured Artist" - Nancy Laliberte

February 1 - March 1, 2014

Central Wisconsin Cultural Center, 

240 Johnson St., Wisconsin Rapids, WI

"The Family Farm" by Nancy Laliberte

18x24, acrylic on canvas

New to the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center, Nancy Laliberte is the Center's featured artist for the month of February. The selection of paintings currently showing at the Center include many of the artist's favorite landscapes and still life pieces painted in a contemporary impressionist style.