June 21st, 2008 — University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Arts & Crafts Festival, EK39, ExposeKenosha
June 28, 2008
Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Parkside Music Department
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.
June 21st, 2008 — Maureen Fritchen, EK39, 716, ExposeKenosha
by Bryce Ulmer
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.
June 16th, 2008 — EK38, ExposeKenosha
Picture courtesy Mike Gordon`
“The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit”.
~Ansel Adams
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In this issue:
In no particular order
June 16th, 2008 — EK38, Art Leadership, ExposeKenosha
Events Showcase How Policy Decisions Made in Madison are Working for Kenosha
Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton joined Governor Doyle and members of his cabinet for “Capital for a Day” in Kenosha, on Thursday, June 12.
The Capital for a Day program provides a unique opportunity for the administration to get a vivid snapshot of an area from multiple perspectives, and gives area citizens the chance to be on a first name basis with the governor, lieutenant governor and cabinet secretaries.
While in Kenosha, Lt. Governor Lawton held a creative economy roundtable with members of the Arts and Humanities Association (AHA!) of Kenosha, she met with business leaders and entrepreneurs at the Kemper Center, visited a farm that produces its own renewable energy and announced that the Kenosha Unified Number 1 School District joined her Energy Star Schools Challenge. She also appeared on the Lenny Palmer Show.
June 16th, 2008 — Wisconsin Arts Board, Art Leadership, ExposeKenosha
The global shift to a knowledge-based creative economy demands new strategies for states to compete successfully. A state’s role in providing the infrastructure necessary for growth today goes beyond traditional definitions - roads, bridges, dams and air traffic control - to include a healthy arts and culture industry to animate regional economic development.
The Council on Competitiveness recognized back in 2005 that “from an economic development perspective, many communities are still pursuing the old, incentive-based strategies. These don’t work in a world in which firm success depends ever more on the quality of ideas and talent, and ever less on traditional infrastructure. In a knowledge-based economy, new strategies are required to support the prosperity of American workers
Clck HERE to download the “NEW ECONOMIC FUNDING INITIATIVE” from the Wisconsin Arts Board
June 16th, 2008 — EK38, Art Leadership, ExposeKenosha
Presented by:
The Franklin Cultural Arts Center & The South Suburban Chamber of Commerce
Thursday, June 26th
9:00 am - 4:00 P.M.
Indian Community School Franklin, Wisconsin
Registration is only $15.00 and includes a boxed lunch.
About the Symposium
Inspiring and motivating, this event is for people in or sharing a passion for the arts and those seeking answers as to why and how ART WORKS! This highly charged series of speakers and presentations will demonstrate the strength of the arts industry and its positive economic benefit to our region. You will learn how a community that invests in the arts will reap an array of benefits including job generation, economic growth and improved quality of life. You will walk away with a greater an understanding and tools needed on how Art Works!
Who Should Attend Symposium?
Those seeking knowledge on the cultural, educational, organizational and significant economic benefits of the arts on the community! click here to continue reading →
June 16th, 2008 — EK38, Bloomin' Days, ExposeKenosha, Photography
by Mike Gordon
Kenosha’s Bloomin’ Days ‘08
See the MusiciansKenosha’s Bloomin‘ Days started just last year and it has sort of become Kenosha’s flagship of summer fun. The entire downtown is turned into a music and entertainment zone - booths, fun and educational displays scattered throughout Harbor Park, sidewalk sales, musicians playing on every corner on from noon till night on the main stage.
The PeopleThis year’s Bloomin‘ Days was a bit different though, abbreviated by the rains vendors rushed to pack and musicians pulled plugs and ran equipment to the cover of the main tent. But this is Wisconsin, and fun can always be found in the beer tent, and so it was.
The Radioactive Squirrels
But enough words on to the pictures.
June 16th, 2008 — EK38, Bloomin' Days, ExposeKenosha, Photography
Pictures courtesy of Joe Barr
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June 16th, 2008 — EK38, ExposeKenosha
Part II
By S’Zanne M’Chel
When I left you last week, I had just ventured into the first leg of the giant asterisk (*) in the center of Civic Park. Once under the shade of the trees, the breeze was more noticeable, and I was glad for the sweater I’d thrown into my satchel as an afterthought while heading out the door. Even the artists and vendors were vying with one another for a “spot in the sun”.
The first booth that caught my eye offered an array of silk scarves. I immediately spotted a plaid in varying shades of plum. I have a thing for plaid, which needs no explanation to my close friends who are smiling broadly as they read this. It is a “must have”. There are fancy ponchos in the same location. Made from an assortment of sheer, decorative fabrics. Instructions show they can be worn in the traditional manner, with the points centered front and back; turned 90 degrees, creating “sleeves” of the points; or a little off center, pinned with a brooch to whatever garment you have on beneath it. While holding up a deep chocolate brown one that would look great with my new bathing suit as a “cover-up”, an acquaintance puts her two cents worth in, stating that I’m someone who definitely needed something a little more colorful than brown. Although, many of them would be great compliments to other items in my closet, I am able to resist. After all, none of them prove to be plaid.
I began bouncing back and forth from one side of the aisle to the other like a pinball. It was difficult to focus, and I wasn’t making much progress. I found myself in the center of the park with no recollection of how I’d gotten there. That’s when I looked up and became captivated by the work of Michael Edward Voss. Graphite on Black. click here to continue reading →
June 16th, 2008 — 716, Musical, ExposeKenosha
