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Dimension in Door County, Hardy Gallery Features Off-the-Wall Exhibit, Opening Sept 3

Posted on 30. Aug, 2010 by Melissa Ripp.

One of the first solely three-dimensional shows in recent Hardy Gallery history opens with an Artists’ Reception on Friday, September 3 from 5:30 – 7 pm.

The Hardy Gallery is pleased to announce the final exhibit of its 2010 season, entitled Dimension in Door County: Form Transcending Function. The exhibit will feature three-dimensional [...]

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10th Annual Gills Rock ArtFest, North of the Tension Line at Charlene’s Gallery Ten, Sept 4-5

Posted on 28. Aug, 2010 by Stephen Kastner.

More than twenty diverse artists working in a tent village, a ginormous Choc-a-lot group-art painting project, a burning man bonfire and drumming circle and the world’s greenest runway fashion show – who in Door County still thinks it’s  “remarkable that life exists north of Sister Bay?”
For the past ten years, Charlene Berg has been evolving [...]

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Algoma Sculptor Believes in the Power of Art to Heal, Earns “Best of Show” in New York

Posted on 16. Aug, 2010 by Staff Reporter.

Bren Sibilsky, an Algoma sculptor and painter, has been awarded “Best of Show” in sculpture for “Daedalus” in the most recent Manhattan Arts International show entitled “The Healing Power of Art 2010.”
The show received artwork from every continent and has over 50 artists. In 2008, Bren was a finalist in the Healing Power of [...]

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Paul Lurie lecture and presentation at Gallery Ten: “Fine Art Photography Using Film and Digital Tools,” Aug 14

Posted on 11. Aug, 2010 by Stephen Kastner.

Door County artist Paul Lurie calls himself “a road photographer,” in that he finds his inspiration along the roadside while walking, biking or slowly driving.
“I enjoy the vistas of the landscape, whether it is the wilderness, the water, a rural farm or an urban streetscape,” says Paul Lurie. “I am interested in how those landscapes [...]

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Ray Kapfamer’s Paintings of the Great Door County ‘River’ Now Showing at Charlene’s Gallery Ten in Gills Rock

Posted on 02. Aug, 2010 by Stephen Kastner.

Artist Ray Kapfamer believes that “Door County lacks only one important feature, a great river!”
In his current body of work he solves that problem by painting the Door County ‘river’ – a moving force made up of the flow of energy manifest in the people who come to enjoy the Peninsula.
“These paintings have been created [...]

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7th Annual Door County Festival of the Arts in Sister Bay, Aug 14

Posted on 01. Aug, 2010 by Stephen Kastner.

Artists sharing the artistic process – from blank media to masterpiece, all day on Saturday, August 14 in Sister Bay.

Artistic demonstrations at art festivals may be commonplace, yet few festivals require every artist to demonstrate their craft for the public as artists must do at the Door County Festival of the Arts (DCFA). The 7th [...]

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Door County Trunk Show, Features Work of Guatemalan Painter Juan Francisco Guzmán, July 31

Posted on 27. Jul, 2010 by Stephen Kastner.

Charlene’s Gallery Ten Presents One-day Trunk Show of Paintings by Guatemalan Artist Juan Francisco Guzmán in Gills Rock.

In the Sololá region of Guatemala, Juan Francisco Guzmán is known as an inspiring, demanding, life-changing high school teacher and the director of the school’s Spanish language arts curriculum. His writing won the national prize for literature. [...]

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Door County Artist, Ram Rojas Exhibition in Appleton at Harmony Café Fox Valley

Posted on 12. Jul, 2010 by Stephen Kastner.

Enjoy an evening of fine art, refreshments, an artist’s talk and live entertainment by singer/songwriter Debra Hadraba.
Muralist and painter Ram Rojas will exhibit a retrospective collection of his paintings at Harmony Café Fox Valley in Appleton, opening with an artist’s reception on Friday, July 16 from 5:30 pm ‘til closing (10 pm). Rojas is known [...]

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Kewaunee Academy of Fine Art Relocating Operations to Algoma, Supplies and Moving Sale July 17

Posted on 09. Jul, 2010 by Stephen Kastner.

Six years after its launch, The Kewaunee Academy of Fine Art under the direction of Norma Bell is moving operations from Kewaunee to Algoma.
The school will be located in a new facility in the Lake Michigan shoreline town of Algoma, 12 miles north of Kewaunee. The move will be completed just in time for [...]

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Explore the Digital Art of Fingerpainting at the Flying Pig, July 12

Posted on 01. Jul, 2010 by Staff Reporter.

Susan Murtaugh paints on the iPod Touch’s small screens and then outputs the results to paper archivally.
On July 12 at 7 pm the Flying Pig Gallery and Greenspace will host a return engagement with artist Susan Murtaugh, a followup to her January presentation on the digital art of finger-painting. She will explain and demonstrate how [...]

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