“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
Help us increase the positive buzz surrounding the artistic community and bringing more awareness to all Kenosha has to offer. If you know someone that needs to be exposed, send an e-mail to info@exposekenosha.com
Come and enjoy refreshments and entertainment. If you have questions or for more information, please contact the Kenosha Art Association at 262-654-0065, kenoshaartassoc@yahoo.com, or visit the website at www.kenoshaartassoc.org.
The Anderson Arts Center kicked off its 2008 Twilight Jazz Series on Tuesday June 10th with The John Crawford Jazz Band. “The weather cooperated and we had a great first event,” said Flora Doody, Executive Director of Special Events.
The Twilight Jazz at Anderson 2008 Schedule continues . . .
Tuesday - June 24 Parkside Reunion Big Band featuring vocalist Larry Zarletti
Founded in the early 1990’s by Jack Plovanich and Tim Bell, the Parkside Reunion Big Band was formed to give musicians who attended the University of Wisconsin Parkside a chance to play and socialize on a semi-regular basis. Jack and Tim have been involved in “rehearsal bands” since the mid 1970’s when Tim arrived in Kenosha from Texas. Continue reading →
The Kenosha Theatre is located at 5913 6th Avenue, at the south end of downtown Kenosha. For further information about the project call 262-658-2355 or visit www.kenoshatheater.com .
Water is essential. The importance of water is obvious and universal, yet it can embody a deeply personal and sometimes spiritual significance. It enables life, but can also take it away. It is in this duality that artists have found inspiration. Whether literal or symbolic “water” is the theme to this show.
Do not miss the opening reception of “Water” at Art-Works Kenosha.
Saturday June 28 from 6:30pm to 9:00pm
Art-Works
5002 7th Ave. Suite 100
Kenosha WI 53140
Telephone #(262) 652-5911
Debra is a singer songwriter who performs original blues, folk and country music as well as covers by artists such as Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, and Linda Ronstadt to name a few. She’s been playing guitar, singing and writing her own music for about 30 years. She’s been making a recent comback into performing at local coffeehouses and is a memeber of NSAI (Nashville Sonwriters Assoc. inernational) She is also an elementary music teacher for Kenosha Unified School District. Check out her music at www.myspace.com/debraland
The ever-charming Dan Stika recently interviewed Actor’s Craft Acting Coach Maureen Cashin Bolog for DLS Media Productions’ Inquiring Minds Want to Know. The half-hour interview takes place in the Actor’s Craft studio in the Rhode Center for the Arts in downtown Kenosha.
If you’ve been curious about Actor’s Craft, this would be an ideal way for you to find out more. The show started airing on June 18th and runs for 5 weeks on Channel 14 in Kenosha. Watch it on Wednesday Nights at 7:30 p.m. and Fridays at 6:30 p.m.
We do appreciate Dan Stika and Channel 14 for giving us this opportunity!
Jay McRoy, Associate Professor of English and Cinema Studies at UW-Parkside, recently completed his first DV feature, “Acts of Contrition” which he is sending out to festivals. Currently, he is hard at work editing his second DV feature, “Abandon.” Now, Jay is casting for a third film, “Yellow Banners.” Shooting will take place in Kenosha and Racine.
CALL FOR ACTORS Local independent filmmaker seeks actors for “Yellow Banners,” a digital video feature slated to be shot from late June through July 31st. Open roles include: 7 women between 18 and 30 (1 lead role, 6 supporting roles) — 1 woman between 30 to 40 years of age (lead) — 2 men in their mid to late 20s with athletic builds (leads).
Experience preferred, but not required. For additional details regarding this project or to arrange an audition, contact Jay McRoy at jaymcroy@hotmail.com or call (262) 914-8680.
The weekend of June 20 filmmakers throughout the Milwaukee area will take part in the 48 Hour Film Project.
Our list of teams for Milwaukee is posted to the right. At the Kickoff Event, each team will draw the genre for its film out of a hat. In addition, a character, prop and line of dialogue will be announced and must appear in each film.
All of the completed films will screen on Wednesday, June 25th!
It is not too late to participate in the Milwaukee 48HFP! Click HERE for more info.
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside celebrates summer on Saturday, June 28, 2008, with its annual Arts and Crafts Festival. The campus becomes a colorful marketplace with approximately 200 artisans offering unique handmade pieces. Proceeds from the event benefit UW-Parkside music scholarships.
Items to be found during this year’s Arts and Crafts Festival include handmade doll clothing, custom woodworking, ceramics, pottery, stained glass, air-brushed clothing, soaps and gels, outdoor decorations, braided rugs and much more. Vendors from throughout the region, from every corner of Wisconsin and from as far away as North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Minnesota, Michigan, Idaho, Iowa, and Illinois also will display their wares.
Admission to the festival grounds is free and music is performed throughout the day. Food will be available.
For more information, please call the Fine Arts Office at 262-595-2581, e-mail: jennifer.filippone or fax to 262-595-2271.
With summer in full swing, 716: Fine Art presents “Maureen Fritchen: Environments” in downtown Racine, Wis.
Fritchen, a Racine resident for twenty years, works in a mixed media of natural elements and paint to capture the “cellular level ele-vated to environments” in her new works. “Forms are recognizably organic, floating, as if blown by wind…pulsating and peculating,” Fritchen stated. The natural elements are contrasted with linear lines and geometric forms to “define order, balance and interconnect-edness.”
The somber and warm tones of Fritchen’s works, at first reminiscent of Rothko’s grand canvases, appear minimalistic. However, Fritchen rewards patient observers with increased complexities on and below the work’s surface. Beginning with a chaotic and sponta-neous layer of decomposing leaves, dust, hair, Fritchen buries the piece’s history with layers of paint. Whereas the underpaintings are free form and expressive, the final works are “resolved” and “controlled” paintings in which the surface is manipulated and sanded to reveal their stories. The effect is truly impressive.
This will be Fritchen’s second solo show at 716: Fine Art, having previously shown at the gallery’s former Kenosha location.
“Maureen Fritchen” runs from June 27 through July 20. The opening reception is Friday, June 27 from 6-9 p.m.
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Parkside Reunion Big Band featuring vocalist Larry Zarletti
June 28, 2008
Whereas the underpaintings are free form and expressive, the final works are “resolved” and “controlled” paintings in which the surface is manipulated and sanded to reveal their stories. The effect is truly impressive.
