Saturday, July 5 - Saturday, July 19, 2008
101 W. Lake Street, Lake Mills

I am thrilled to announce that Key Artworks will be sponsoring its FIFTH WRAP SHOW IN LAKE MILLS! It will be held in a brand new gallery near downtown Lake Mills. Paintings will hang in the Sweet Lips Art and Gift Gallery on the corner of Lake and Church Streets, with regular store hours. It's a great venue!

There is one drawback, however. Due to space limitations, artists will only be able to submit TWO paintings or other works of art for this show. Calendar is as follows:

Entry Form due - June 28, 2008
WRAP entries due - July 5 (10am-4pm)
Workshop - July 19, 10am-Noon
Artwork Awards - July 19, 1pm-3pm
Place - Sweet Lips Art and Gift Gallery at
101 North Lake Street, Lake Mills
Make checks payable to sponsor:
Key Artworks
Coordinator: Carolyn Liedtke
920-648-7816 - carolyn@keyartworks.com

I am also excited about the workshop. I have arranged for Key Artworks, in coordination with the Arts Alliance of Greater Lake Mills, to sponsor a Plein-Air Painting session at the Lake Mills' Art Fest which takes place on that same Saturday morning, July 19. WRAP exhibitors should bring their painting or drawing supplies and come prepared to paint out-of-doors from 10 am to Noon.

If you wish, your completed plein-air artwork can then be offered for sale at a silent auction at the Arts Alliance tent that afternoon. (If sold, 10% of the sale price will be paid to the Arts Alliance as a commission.) Those who do not wish to take part in the Plein-Air Painting session can watch me do an outdoor demonstration instead.

Please bring folding chair or camp stool, a hat, sunblock and camera (for later reference). We will set up our easels throughout the Commons Park, where the Art Fest will be held. There are lots of fine subjects to spark your interest. Artists will have their exhibit booths around the park's perimeter, and there will be food tents and other facilities grouped in the center.

Following the Plein-Air Painting session, we will have lunch and return to the WRAP exhibition at 1 p.m. for jurying of the artwork for State Awards and Honorable Mentions. Since many of my friends are taking part in this WRAP exhibition, I have arranged for another professional artist to evaluate the work and choose the awards.

Last year, we had 21 artists sign up for the WRAP show. We hope for an even greater turnout this year. However, if you are unable to exhibit paintings for the WRAP show, you are still welcome to take part in the Plein-air Painting Session. Report to the WRAP exhibit before 10 am. Fee for Plein-air Painting only is $5.

Look at some of the pictures from last year's WRAP show, and make your plans as soon as possible to take part in this year's show. There will be more applicants than before and, again, space is limited. The winners of last year's State Awards and Honorable Mentions are listed below:

Kari Jo Pauli and Mandi Runte

Marvin Kaufmann

Virginia White

Cornelia Parente

Ruth Morgenson

Patricia Punzel, Mary Ann Higgins and Louise Fuerstenberg

Holly Paulsen (a special thank you to Holly for supplying most of the pictures from last year's show).

Dorothy Birner and Pat Forest

Eugenie Cox and Marilyn Knipfer

Sharon Baldwin-Blasing

Veronica Davis and Patricia Punzel

Roberta Jucket

Susan Mortenson and Jean Pascek

To enter this year's WRAP show in Lake Mills, Please click on the Prospectus target, print out the application form and send it in with your fee. Deadline for application form is June 28!

Prospectus

Saturday, July 19, 2008
Commons Park, Lake Mills, WI

If you are a professional artist who would like to take part in the Lake Mills Art Fest, contact artist coordinator Robin Untz for details and an application form. Her e-mail address is jruntz@jefnet.com.

More than 200 artists took part in last year's show, and several hundred people wandered through the booths, finding every category of art--paintings, pottery and ceramics, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, woodworking, and more. Whatever your expertise, there is room for it at this festival.

Arts Alliance of Greater Lake Mills will host Members- Only tent at Art Fest

Saturday, July 19, 2008
Commons Park - Lake Mills, WI 53551

Members of the Arts Alliance of Greater Lake Mills are invited to exhibit one of their paintings, sculptures or photographs at the Arts Alliance booth at Art Fest.

AAGL also hosts an Art Yard for young painters in the morning,

and will exhibit and conduct a silent auction of plein air paintings in the afternoon.

If you are interested in becoming a member of the Arts Alliance of Greater Lake Mills, please contact Membership Chairman Susan Lange at lang.susan@gmail.com for more information.

The Workshop at last year's WRAP exhibition covered portrait artists from before the Renaissance until the present day. How many of these artists can you identify?

	Answers: DaVinci, Memling(2), Michaelangelo, Rembrandt (2), Picasso, Cassatt (2), Warhol.

LOOKING FOR SOME SUMMER FUN?

If you are interested in participating in Saturday morning Plein-air Painting workshops sponsored by Key Artworks, e-mail carolyn@keyartworks.com or telephone Carolyn at 920-648-7816.

The Art Institute of Chicago is presenting a side-by-side exhibition of the works of Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper, providing a survey of the American realist tradition and charting the growth of modern subject matter--from Homer, America's first modernist, to Hopper, the nation's best known 20th-century realist.

	Windslow Homer - The Color of Light February 16 - May 10, 2008 Windslow Homer (1836-1910) became a master of watercolor while living along the English coast on the North Sea and settling permanently in Maine, with trips to the Caribbean. His dominant theme became the sea and an endless struggle against an uncaring nature.
Edward Hopper February 16 - May 10, 2008 Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is one of the most enduring and popular American painters of the 20th century. A pivotal artist who was intensely private, Hopper made solitude and introspection important themes in his paintings, which have been celebrated as a part of the very grain and texture of the American experience.

For more details on this and other AIC exhibitions, log onto www.artic.edu/aic/

Chazen Museum of Art, Madison: Ongoing exhibition: A new installation of 18th and early 19th-century English ceramics features four recent acquisitions of rare, mid-eighteeneth century Staffordshire wares gifted to the museum by alumnus Charles Vaughn. Harry A. Atwell, Circus Photographer April 19 - June 29, 2008 42 black-and-white photographs by Harry A. Atwell (1879-1957) survey his significant career photographing the golden age of America's tented shows. Over 40 years, he amassed more than 5,000 negatives, now in the collection of Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Atwell's images of roustabouts, Big Top crowds, sideshow performers, and center-ring stars capture "Circus Day," when shops, schools and factories shut their doors so that all could enjoy the fleeting pageantry of the traveling shows. Circus Celebrations on May 9 and 10! Ringmaster: Judy Onofrio and the Art of the Circus April 19 - June 29, 2008 Judy Onofrio's life-sized sculptures of extraordinary performers, animals, and circus acts will be exhibited alongisde examples of banners, posters and carvings--drawn from the Circus World Museum collection--that have inspired her work. A documentary of the 1920s and '30s Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and a filmed interview with artist Judy Onofrio will be available in the Ringmaster exhibition.

The Milwaukee Art Museum is presenting a multi-media exhibition called Sensory Overload and an exhibition of photography .

SENSORY OVERLOAD: Light, Motion Sound and the Optical in Art Since 1945 Sensory Overload tracks the development of Kinetic and Op art, whose optical stimulation and interactivity introduced new dimensions to art. Stanley Landsman's Walk-In Infinity Chamber (1968), which has not been on view for nearly fifteen years, together with Erwin Redl's dramatic Matrix XV (2007), a 25 x 50 foot LED installation, punctuate this extraordinary immersive experience.

Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945 February 7 - May 4, 2008 In the 1920s and 1930s, photography became an immense phenomenon across Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary and Poland. It fired the imagination ofhundreds of progressive artists, provided a creative outlet for thousands of devoted amateurs, and became a symbol of modernity for millions through its use in magazines, newspapers, advertising and books.

If you are interested in attending any of these exhibitions as part of a group, please contact carolyn@keyartworks.com and we will endeavor to put together some like-minded artists.