Of the approximately 130 artists with work in this year's exhibition, 73 attended the opening. Some travelled from as far away as Australia, Japan, the Netherlands, and Sweden.
The opening weekend is always a stellar event, and a fun opportunity to visit with friends, colleagues, and the amazingly supportive and enthusiastic citizens of Wausau and its surrounding communities. In addition, colored-pencil artist Alan Woollett of England was named this year's Master Wildlife Artist. Birds in Art includes a mini show-within-the-show of fifteen of Alan's pieces, and Saturday visitors were treated to his presentation under the big tent in the museum's sculpture garden.
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| At the Saturday morning public opening. Find the linocut on the wall in this picture! |
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| Funny thing about trying to shoot a panorama when people are moving around. One tends to get some funny camera effects. Anyway... there are actually TWO linocuts on the opposite wall... mine in the corner and Sue Medaris's by the door. |
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| A better look at that corner, except missing Sue Medaris's piece. To my left, Chris Maynard, to the right Paul Rhymer. |
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| Patron dinner... only half of us in this room! |
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| Alan Woollett's Saturday morning talk. |
An added bonus for me (and hopefully for exhibition visitors) is a short video put together about the process for my piece, Four on the Fence, which is included in the show. The video can be seen on the Woodson Art Museum's YouTube channel, or on the museum's app. Or right here:
Birds in Art continues at the Woodson Art Museum until December 1, so don't miss it!
would have loves to have seen that :)
ReplyDelete(sigh) Wouldn't it be great if some day the show could travel to the UK?
Deletescotland specifically lol London gets enough of the good shows :p
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