A celebration of the arts in a park setting; fun for the whole family; live music, tours, kids activities & concessions.
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Wisconsin Concrete Park Celebration
Kay Lorbiecki
Kay Lorbiecki began work in the field of photography in 1975. Her framed prints and custom greeting cards appear in regional fine art shows and individual shows in mid-western galleries. She studies drawing and painting at the Campanile Conservatory of the Arts. Her work has won numerous awards including, Honorable Mention 2007 Manito Art League Fine Art Show and Best in Show 2008 Presque Isle Fine Art Show. Kay lives with her husband, Steven and Airedale, Justy in Presque Isle, Wisconsin.
Susan Kloch Wendlandt
I was Born in Chicago, IL and moved to Wisconsin in the mid 1970’s. My artwork reflects a blend of my Chicago attitude, energy and perspective, sprinkled with a touch of the Northwoods flavor. I’ve been teaching art for over 35 years through the public school system, YMCA Programs and 4-H Arts Camps at both a county and state level. I’ve been a member of the Manito Art League for five years where I’ve also offered a printmaking workshop and demonstrations. I’m an International Artist and have artwork is in International exhibits in New Zealand and Italy.
Richard J. McCoy Sr.
Richard is a 42 year old Anishinabe artist and proud father of 5. has been drawing and painting for his whole life, but only recently started working on tribal oriented material. Richard’s wife of 12 years is the driving force behind his artistic output. Richard and his family also make dance regalia items and love going to pow wows.
Sara Muender
Sara Muender, pictured at far left with her partner Jennifer Arnett Musson (right), is the owner and main artist of “Moondeer & Friends Gallery”, established in 2001. There she represents not only her own work, but that of over 100 other regional artists. Sara began her career as a commercial artist specializing in graphic design & photography. In the late 1980s she began painting with watercolor and acrylic. Currently most of her work is done using the printmaking method of monotype. All of her work is offered in print form as well as originals.
Bruce Nelson
My passion for photography I guess started on a Christmas morning when I was given my first camera, a Kodak Instamatic with an extra box of flash cubes. I’ve gone through a few cameras since then and have made the transition from film to capturing all of my images digitally. My printmaking has moved from darkroom to desktop. As much as the technology has changed, the one constant has been my love of photography and experiencing so much of my personal and professional life through the eyepiece of my camera. Visit me at Lake Effect Gallery, 8305 Main, Presque Isle.
Marsha Newkirk
I am an artist who likes to paint landscapes. The northwoods is now my home and a great source for inspiration. Painting on location or plein air is my preferred method. Before moving north I taught art in Hales Corners, Wisconsin for 25 years. I have a degree in Art and Art Education from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
Joanne Nock Olsen
Joanne Nock Olsen has been active in the Arts for many years in Milwaukee and northern Wisconsin. She is retired from teaching elementary through college classes. She holds a master’s degree in Art Education and is a member of various art guilds and societies including the Wisconsin Watercolor Society. Her works hang in local galleries, private homes and individual collections. When not painting or weaving, she carves wild fowl and decoys. Joanne teaches a mixed media class in the fall and spring for the Nicolet Area Technical College on its Lakeland Campus in Minocqua.
Debra Ketchum Jircik
Jane O’ Brien
Jane O’Brien has an education degree from the University of Wisconsin Superior. She has taken many art courses at Nicolet Area Technical College in Rhinelander and many workshops with nationally known artists at Dillman’s Creative Arts Foundation in Lac du Flambeau. She taught adult classes at Nicolet for 12 years. Jane works in watercolor and acyrlics and loves doing impressionistic work and experimenting in art. She currently has work showing in the Artistree Gallery in Land O’Lakes, Wisconsin.
Jackie Pavlow
Vlasta Polacek
My art education started in Europe and continued in the United States. At a very young age I started drawing and painting whenever I could, although that wasn’t always possible in the war and then during the Communist regime. Fortunately my artistic ability opened doors to employment for me once in the United States, where I was free to paint again and pursue more education. While attending Fine Art at Triton College in Illinois, I found a new passion in printmaking. This led to a number of awards.
Bill Karaffa
Bill Karaffa established Firemouth Pottery and Gallery in Boulder Junction in 1977. With my work I carry on a tradition of craftmanship, a commitment to strong form, technical innovation, and artistic vision that has been passed on from master to student. I feel ties to historical pottery from many cultures. Their influences have combined over the years. The results have led me to the development of some distinctive decorative techniques. These have allowed me to develop a recongnizable body of work which has been widely shown throughout the Upper Midwest and collected worldwide.
Dottie Reeder
iNgReDiEnTs School of Cooking offers a variety of classes to tempt your culinary interests. Experienced cooks as well as beginners find the learning to be fun, informative and entertaining.
Each of our classes include approximately two hours of food-related topics, demonstration, samples of food prepared, beverages and complete recipe lists. iNgReDiEnTs is conveniently located in Eagle River, Wisconsin. Check our website for current class schedule or more information.
Dottie Reeder, owner of iNgReDiEnTs School of Cooking is also the author of “From Blueberries to Wild Roses” a cookbook using foods gathered in the wild.
Terri Reinke
Reinke is a designer jeweler, in business for over 20 years, specializing in lost-wax casting and making one of a kind pieces for unusual gemstones.
Dennis Robertson
The artist has studied watercolor painting for over 40 years and attended dozens of workshops given by the country’s finest instructors. Favorite subjects include landscape and seascapes in all seasons of the year. The artist enjoys painting on location when weather permits or in the studio. He has won a number of local and state awards.
Karen Kappell
Karen Kappell is a teacher who conducts art workshops in a variety of media at the Marywood Franciscan Spirituality Center in Arbor Vitae. She is an award-winning artist whose art is in a number of local galleries and in private and corporate collections.
Karen has a number of workshops from May 3 – Aug. 31, 2010, at Marywood, as well as a June 2 Manito Art League “Collaborative Art” workshop at the Manitowish Waters Community Center.
Greg Johnson
Greg Johnson is a Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribal member and a master artists. Greg was the recipient of the 2009 Wisconsin Arts Board Folk Arts Apprenticeship award. Greg is an artist making beadwork, birchbark canoes, wigwams, moccasins, and regalia, and partakes in old-time Ojibwe medicine societies. Greg speaks Ojibwemowin and edited the Lac du Flambeau newspaper.
Jane Schmaltz
Jane Schmaltz earned a B.A with a major in art from Valparaiso University. Although her background was in oils, she currently uses acrylics and watercolor and has experimented with many other media — stained glass, calligraphy, metal tooling. Over the years, she has attended many classes and workshops, locally at Dillmans Creative Arts Foundation and Marywood. Jane has won awards for her artwork at the Manito Art League Art Shows and served as league president for two years.
The Manito Art League is a non-profit organization founded in 1965 and dedicated to the development of the visual, creative and performing arts in our region. We are open to the general public. The MAL holds an annual Art Show in July (July 15-18, 2010), as well as monthly workshops (May-Oct). For information regarding MAL membership, scholarships, or workshops, contact president Ann Egan at 715-543-2926. For information regarding Art Show entries, email Jane Schmaltz at janeschmaltz@yahoo.com with “MAL art show” in the subject line, or call 715-686-7505 (after May 1). Entry forms must be postmarked by June 30, 2010.
Richard Schneider
Dick Schneider and his daughter Lora Hagan have been making pottery and baskets in the Northwoods for several decades. Their shop is open 10-5 daily except Mondays all through the summer to October.
Jeanine Semon
I have a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, plus forty-five years of painting, exhibiting, and teaching under my belt. My art is healing and owned by healthcare facilities, corporations, and private individuals. I am gifted in teaching students to dispel their art fears and branch out into the joy of painting. My philosophy of art holds that all things, creatures, trees, stars, all of it, are interrelated and dependent on each other. My art is surreal and spirtual, which you’ll find when you visit my webpage, www.jeaninesdream.com.
Thomas J. Smaglik
A multi-talented musician playing percussion, harmonica, Anglo concertina, trumpet, slide trombone, tuba and saxophone; seeking musicians to perform with. Individuals are welcome to stop in for a visit to view artwork; please call ahead.
Elinore Sommerfeld
I have been a full time resident of Boulder Junciton for almost 7 years. I discovered my love of artistic expression over 10 years ago. I have limited formal training, but enjoy studying locally with Peggy Grinvalsky. I work primarily in acrylic paint, digital photography and colored pencil. My earlier works are mainly representational. But my more recent work is often more abstract.
Joan Stephens
Joan Stephens has been involved in art most of her life, beginning in oils and showing and selling her work at summer art fairs and galleries in Michigan. When her children went off to college, she attempted watercolor and fell in love with the transparency and challenge of the medium. She has studied with well-known artists but credits two Wisconsin instructors, Karlyn Holman and Bridget Austin for having the most influence on her work.
Rodd Umlauf
Rodd Umlauf is a Northern Wisconsin painter living in the small friendly community of Lake Tomahawk. His works feature his vision and reflective thought gathered from the beauty of life all around him. Rodds oil paintings depict local landscape and lake scenes and other nature subject, plus imaginative interpretations of myth and legend.
Ron Warshall
I have been woodturning for over 20 years. A member of American Association of Woodturners, Northwood Turners & Manito Art League. I sell my work in several art galleries.
Tom Hutton
Gallery 51 includes over 80 regional artists. It is also a working location. I am a lathe turner with 15 years of experience. My lathes are located in the gallery and this is where I do my work.
Connie Warshall
I have been designing art quilts for 7 years, and have received awards through Manito Art League, WRAP, and sold pieces of work to business’/individuals. Currently I teach machine needle felting through Nicolet Tech. and demo at various art events.
Frances Whitfield
The area in Northern Wisconsin in which I live is a part of what makes my heart beat. My baskets are my way of preserving the bounty that the forests have to offer. They serve as a record of trees and plants that have been lost to storms, development of land, and old age. A fundamental principle of my life is waste not, want not. Making baskets out of natural materials is a reflection of that. Sustainability of materials is foremost in my mind when gathering materials, and extreme care is taken to leave the area as if no one had trod there before.
I am developing a community arts center – Your Arts Program – that will open June 19, 2010, in addition to the classes I am already teaching throughout the community.
Mary Jackl
Mary Jackl has been working with fiber for 27 years. Her interest in the fiber arts began by spinning their own sheep’s wool into yarn. Most of her nearly 4,000 rugs to date are made of recycled items such as blankets, bedspreads, drapes, tablecloths and clothing. She creates very durable and attractive rugs from old denims, corduroys and woolens. Sock loops, the circular scrap of fabric cut off the toe of a newly manufactured sock are woven into thick, charming rugs. A rainbow of designer handspun yarns, some with small beads plied in, are available. Hats are often hand knit and then felted using these yarns. In addition to Mary’s fiber arts, her husband John, makes delicious maple syrup.
Torrey Youngstrum
I was raised in Shorewood and educated at Lawrence, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Texas at Austin. I’ve lived all over the U.S., but have called Rhinelander home for the past 20 years.
Ester Hoffman
I am married and have four children: Aubra 27, Megan 25, Alex 21, and Christian 11. I am a social worker working in the Special Needs Adoption field and doing research for the University of Iowa, I have made several trips to Zambia to work with orphans and to council women. I am making mittens as a fundraiser to support orphanages and a group of women entrepreneurs in Zambia.
Making mittens from recycled wool sweaters. Mittens will be made from shrinking (felting) wool sweaters. They are cut and stitched by machine into mittens. Linens are made from fleece and a cuff attached. Each pair is unique!
Janice Zindel
Janice Zindel is a handweaver, working primarily on Swedish floorlooms, creating functional works for the home. She also handcrafts wool socks on a 101 year old Gearhart sock machine, spins and felts. Janice is a member of Complex Weavers and The Handweavers Guild of America.
Janice has Shuttle Works Studio that is open by appointment May 29 thru October 17. To make an appointment call (715) 479-5452.
Gail Gumness
My husband and I are retired and have lived on Two Sisters Lake, North of Rhinelander, since 1998. Last summer we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary with our four married children and thirteen grandchildren. Much of our time is happily spent with family and some of our time allows us to pursue our interest in Native American culture, traditions and art.
Dicks woodcarving draws inspiration from the Northwest coast Salish people’s magnificent formline designs to create highly stylized images of the animal kingdom. He enjoys the creative work and the fact that all his carved pieces are from the recycled cedar planking of our old dock.
I enjoy the endless possibilities the gourd provides, and the fact that the history of using gourds for practical use and art dates back thousands of years.
When I pick up a gourd to make a spirit vessel or pot I never quite know what the completed work will be-and that’s the joy of it. The gourds shape and heft encourages my direction and the splendid leather dyes determine the colors. I use leather, pine needles, antlers, beads and other odds and ends to decorate – all natural elements usually found up North.
I also like to make Native style leather bags and the Ojibway Dreamcatchers – again using northwoods material.
Living up north has provided us with an incredible source of inspiration as well as ample materials to create our art.
Lynn Gilles
Lynn Gilles, a fiber artist, works with textiles and yarn in many formats. Her primary focus is nature-inspired art quilts. Fabric landscapes evolve from photographs taken in the northwoods and during travels to both coasts, Peru, Guatemala, and Hudson Bay. Others are based on organic forms from nature. The quilts are composed of batiks, solids, hand-dyed and hand-woven fabrics enriched with much machine embroidery and stitching.
Her art quilts have been juried into exhibits in Paducah, KY, the Quilt Expo, Madison, WI, and the Minnesota Quilter’s show. Her award-winning Hoffman Challenge quilts have been exhibited nationwide.
Lynn is a retired faculty member from UW-Stevens Point and has a M.S degree in Related Art and Education from UW-Madison.
Kathy Furda
My interest in glass art stems from the freedom and expression and creativity that this medium allows. From a beginners class at a local college, to an advanced class in bead making I have continued to express my artistic tendencies in my own way. I am largely self taught, relying on books, trial and error, and hours of practice.
Rene Fleming
Self taught artist painting wildlife, still life, landscape and ethnic subjects using acrylic, ink and scratch board. A finalist in competition for the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, M & I Bank art awards, multiple best of show awards at the Price County Fair Art Exhibit and have published a line of greeting & note cards. Member of the Countryside Artists with work for sale at the CSA Gift & Gallery located at the Wisconsin Concrete Park, Hwy 13 South, Phillips.
Matt Erlandson
Tramper’s Trail Images is a culmination of my lifelong love of Wisconsin’s natural places and more recently acquired passion for capturing and sharing the natural world through photography. Every day spent hiking, paddling or snowshoeing further strengthens my belief that there is no more beautiful place than Northern Wisconsin. I hope you enjoy these images of water, woods and wildlife.
Jane Erickson
Jane Erickson has been an artist her whole life and takes great joy in helping others realize that they have the same creative gifts living inside of them!
The Artists Palette is a co-op operated by local artists and prides itself in featuring the art of over 30 local artists, as well as custom framing.
Louise Engelbrecht
Louise is a native of Chicago, a summer resident of the Northwoods since birth and a full time Wisconsinite since 1971. She now resides with her husband, George, at his family’s old summer place on Camp 12 Lake. Louise received a BS in Art from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1972, concentrating on drawing, painting and Art History. She continued her studies at Zheijang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China, where she studied brush painting. A member of Wisconsin Watercolor Society since 1983, Louise biannually participates in exhibits in prestigious locations. Besides paintings she creates woodcuts, collages, oil monoprints and weaves textiles.
To be the artist I am is my vision. Working with color is my joy in life. I allow the materials (brushes, paper, paint) to guide my art-making. Nature also plays a key role in my art – the sights, sounds, smells and light. Weaving is an extension of my art making as it is painting with threads. Fibers fascinated me from a young age so I learned to weave in high school, took an elective class in weaving in college and have self-experimented ever since. I raised sheep for 25 years and also taught myself how to spin and dye wool, then expanded to weaving linen, cotton and silk.
Florie Enders
Florie Enders claims to be a relative newcomer to painting, noting that she didn’t have time to pursue her interest in art until retirement six years ago. She began painting with oils and drawing in charcoal and today enjoys doing fast sketches in watercolor and painting in oil outdoors. Her interest in Plein Air Painting is infectious. She was instrumental in establishing the Northwoods Outdoors Artists and is critical to its success by setting up its annual schedule, encouraging participation and designing a blog that promotes the group for the Manito Art League.
Ken Drawz
Ken Drawz was introduced to art in college but his first serious endeavors were in charcoal, then pastels and now acrylics. Although he has painted with wildlife artist, Terry Isaac, at Dillman’s Creative Arts Foundation in Lac du Flambeau, Ken is essentially self-taught. Whenever he is walking or canoeing, he always has his camera with him to record interesting scenes. He especially enjoys painting wildlife and outdoor scenes. He says that he paints for fun and if something sells, it’s just a bonus. Ken won the Patron’s Choice Award at the Manito Art League Art Show in 2009 and is currently the treasurer of the Manito Art League.
Linda Christensen
Photography by Linda Christensen features Scenic Images from the Northwood’s of Wisconsin and the U.P. of Michigan specializing in landscapes and nature scenes.
Raised in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago she took up drawing at an early age and progressed to oil painting and dabbled in watercolors, acrylic and chalks. She started 35mm photography for travel vacations and found she had a knack for it. Linda vacationed on their Northwoods property every year with her family since childhood. With her love of the Northwoods, after retiring, moved “Up North” to God’s Country.
Mary Burns
Mary Burns expresses her love of northern woodlands and waters in her weaving and writings. An award-winning weaver, her work resides in private homes across the United States. She weaves custom designed hand-woven rugs and wall pieces. Mary also creates tapestries and felted work that reflect the hues and patterns of the natural world. Her newest loom, a Jacquard TC-1, named Nora, allows her to craft her work in even greater detail, vibrancy and character.
Ed Brodsky
My wife, Lavergne, and I are retired teachers who have been coming to the Northwoods for 15 years. We now live here permanently. We fell in love with the landscape and animals and wanted to give something back by recording the rich diversity of the area.
Catherine Breitholtz
Catherine Breitholtz has been creating baskets for more than 25 years, integrating natural materials along with traditional reed and fibers. She enjoys incorporating antlers, driftwood & gourds, as well as other treasures discovered during nature hikes & travels. As a lifelong art instructor, Catherine encourages and practices individuality in the creation of her own works as well as those of others she might inspire.
Heidi Bramm
I am a lifelong resident of the beautiful Northwoods area and reside in Rhinelander. I have been designing and creating earrings for about 2 years and have been teaching beginner’s earring workshops for about one year. I have a Fundamentals of Art Certificate and enjoy a variety of art mediums including watercolor, pencil drawing, ceramics and jewerly making. In my workshops, it is my goal to make the art of jewelry making easy and accessible to all ages, so that I can share in the pride and pleasure that transforms as a result of ideas and creative expression.
Arlene Bozicnik
First I played in mud. Then came school, where I learned about refined mud – CLAY. Then I created.
Arlene has a wonderful gift for creating beautiful one of a kind pottery items.
Toni Bergeon
My quilts spring from nature. Water diamonds sparkling on the water, spectacular sunsets, the haunting call of a loon, the shape of trees against a foggy sunrise call me to investigate and learn more about my surroundings. Using color, fabric and texture from paint and embellishments add to the fun and allow for an element of detail that hopefully will bring the viewer in a little closer… perhaps to wonder or to remember or just to enjoy the journey. Currently showing at the Artistree Gallery in Land O’Lakes, Wisconsin.
Polly Anderson
The Countryside Artists’ work is on display and for sale at the CSA Gallery & Gifts located at the Wisconsin Concrete Park, N8236 S. Hwy 13, Phillips, WI 54555.
Memorial Day Friday through October 31, open daily 10 AM to 4 PM and November 1 through the Sunday prior to Christmas, open Fri, Sat & Sun 10 AM to 4 PM.
Rosemary Ahmann
Rosemary Ahmann is an award-winning photographer whose photo artwork is in many private collections. She has taken photography classes at the University of Wisconsin and several Photoshop classes in Wisconsin and Arizona. She has traveled with professional photographers to China, Bhutan and India. She has taken on-location classes with Arizona Highways in the Grand Canyon and National Geographic in Mexico.
Jeannine Achauer
Jeannine Achauer is an oil painter specializing in landscapes and seascapes. Layton School of Arts was her first experience in formal training. Later she studied with Yugoslavian-born artist Arso Ivanovich and developed her color technique. Working with world-renowned maritime artist Charles Vickery gave Jeannine the joy of marine art and forever influenced her view of the seas and the ships that sail upon them. “Go to the source” was his advice and she has followed it, finding inspiration and beauty everywhere and capturing these scenes on canvas.
Val Bogdan
Val Bogdan has been working with glass for many years and started a stained glass business in 1993. She created the stained glass windows for St. Isaac Jogues Catholic Church in Mercer and used the money earned to purchase a glass kiln. She has taken hot glass classes from the top hot glass artists in the United States, including in-depth Dichroic jewelry classes. She also took a weeklong, intensive silver-smithing class at Arrowmont School of the Arts in Gattlinburg, Tennessee to enhance her glasswork. Val has won awards at the Wisconsin Regional Art Progam and Manito Art League art shows. She served as President of the Manito Art League and is a founding member of the Artists Palette Cooperative in Manitowish Waters.
Christine Alfery
After living in Madison, WI and teaching at the UW-Madison, the Chasen Museum, and MMOMA for over 9 years, Christine moved almost two years ago to northern Wisconsin where she now maintains her studio and garden at her lakeside home in Lac du Flambeau. The subject matter of Christine’s work has been gathered over years of wilderness travel. Christine has a Ph.D(ABD), MFA, MA and BA all in Art from the UW-Madison. Christine’s work, has been recognized in many juried art competitions and gallery’s throughout the U.S., and is collected by collectors nationally and internationally.
I paint abstract subject matter. It changes from my own unique, imaginative marvels to common, ordered, statements or to motley complex wonderings every time people interact with it. I cherish these motley complex wonderings. They keep things in motion, perpetual motion. Common unimaginative statements do not. The perpetual movement of creative imaginative wonderings is Divine. It creates a web and weave that resembles hundreds of pieces of crumpled paper tossed into a big pile. If we try and order these sheets of crumpled paper, if we try to define them and flatten them and staple them all together, they will stop moving. To date we have found it impossible to flatten the piles of crumpled papers we have created. To date they remain abstract and very complex. Perhaps that is the way they are supposed to be? And that is why I understand them to be Devine.
Christine was recently named the Fine Art Chairperson of the Auxiliary of Howard Young Medical Center.
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