Before I get to the featured local area artist in this post of “The Spotlight” I have a quick news release of a mixed media fabric workshop being held at the Kickapoo Valley Reserve Visitor Center. “Fiber Art Journal: Stretching Boundaries” Saturday, March 20, 2010. “The workshop will focus on creating vibrant backgrounds, collage, printing, [...]
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The Spotlight, January 28th, 2010
I found out about today’s featured artist thanks to an email that was sent to me by our Internet Content Coordinator Brian Smith. I knew that he was a WINONA ST graduate and thought that Brian knew Zakary John Fellman through that connection. Turns out Brian didn’t know Zakary at all. While browsing local Twitter [...]
The Spotlight, January 7, 2010
The Spotlight was a huge success in 2009. Fortysix local area artists were featured and the Spotlight slide show photos were viewed over 61,000 times. So, to start off the New Year I’ve decided to create a new slide show for 2010 and the first featured artist is……………………Rebecca Crowell.
Artist Statement:
The sources of my ideas are [...]
The Spotlight November 13, 2009
In Today’s Spotlight meet Cedarose Siemon, although primarily a painter she also does sculpture, ceramics and black and white photography. Here is her artist statement from her website:
To investigate and uncover what is within the complexity of emotion genuinely, is why I create.
When I began painting in 2007, I awoke to a well inside that [...]
The Spotlight October 30, 2009
In this week’s Spotlight meet Dolores Marusarz. Since moving to the Coulee Region in 2000 she has painted much of the area’s local landscapes. She also paints portraits, on a commission basis, is a juried member of East Bank Artists in La Crosse and The La Crosse Society of Arts and Crafts. From 2003 to [...]