Community Invited to Gallery Reception

The community is invited to attend a reception on Saturday, June 3rd from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., at the Door County Community Foundation. The reception celebrates the Lobby Gallery Winter Exhibition featuring works by Margaret (Mac) Schueppert. The Community Foundation is located at 342 Louisiana Street in Sturgeon Bay, across the street from the Post Office.

Mac is known for her vibrant use of color. “The local color of my subject is only a suggestion as I am always looking for ways to push and expand color,” says Mac. “I paint mainly landscapes but recently I have enjoyed painting cloudscapes and reflective water. I am drawn to dramatic lighting on my subject; strong contrast of of bright light and dark shadows. It’s what inspires me to paint.”

The Community Foundation’s reception is being coordinated with the “Wildlife Biennial XVIII” exhibition at the Miller Art Museum that same evening. Wisconsin’s finest carvers, sculptors, and painters explore the natural world. Guests are encouraged to visit Sturgeon Bay and drop by both the Miller Art Museum and the Community Foundation Lobby Gallery opening receptions.

Refreshments will be served at the Door County Community Foundation by Morag Hornsby and her team at Serves You Right Catering.

Each quarter, different Door County artists will be invited to exhibit their work. The Gallery is normally open to the public during the Community Foundation’s regular hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

For more information about the Community Foundation’s various grant programs, visit www.GiveDoorCounty.org.

The Door County Community Foundation, Inc. is a collection of separate charitable
funds set up by individuals, families, non-profit organizations, private foundations and businesses that are managed, invested and disbursed for the current and future good of Door County. The Foundation was launched in 1999 and currently administers more than $17 million in charitable assets.

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Community Invited to Opening Reception for Artists Karen Lee Denoto and Renee Schwaller

The community is invited to attend a reception on Saturday, January 21st from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at the Door County Community Foundation. The reception celebrates the Lobby Gallery Winter Exhibition featuring works by Karen Lee DeNoto and Renee Schwaller. The Community Foundation is located at 342 Louisiana Street in Sturgeon Bay, across the street from the Post Office.

Karen Lee Denoto is a native New Englander who has made Door County her home. Karen Lee spent over 20 years in the graphic arts business working with museums, publishers and artists. “A passion is a gift that demands you to embrace it if you are to find your authenticity and inner joy and peace,” says DeNoto. “Door County fuels that passion with its natural beauty. The creativity and synergistic energy on the peninsula is seductive and inspiring.”

Renee Schwaller, owner of Off the Wheel Pottery, has her B. A. in communications from The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and studied pottery at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis and the University of Hawaii. “The entire collection of work is created from start to finish in the studio at my home and business,” says Schwaller. “This allows me to draw inspiration from my natural surroundings and the simple things in that bring me joy.”

The Community Foundation’s reception is being coordinated with the “Prints Matter, Master Mimics” exhibition at the Miller Art Museum earlier that same evening. The exhibition will bring together twenty-two master Midwestern printmakers who are inspired by the masters of printmaking through time. Guests are encouraged to visit Sturgeon Bay and drop by both the Miller Art Museum and the Community Foundation Lobby Gallery opening receptions.

Refreshments will be served at the Door County Community Foundation by Morag Hornsby and her team at Serves You Right Catering.

Each quarter, different Door County artists will be invited to exhibit their work. The Gallery is normally open to the public during the Community Foundation’s regular hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

For more information about the Community Foundation’s various grant programs, visit www.GiveDoorCounty.org.

The Door County Community Foundation, Inc. is a collection of separate charitable
funds set up by individuals, families, non-profit organizations, private foundations and businesses that are managed, invested and disbursed for the current and future good of Door County. The Foundation was launched in 1999 and currently administers more than $17 million in charitable assets.

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Community Invited to Opening Reception fot Artist Marjorie Mau

The community is invited to attend a reception on Saturday, September 17th from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at the Door County Community Foundation. The reception celebrates the Lobby Gallery Fall Exhibition featuring works by Marjorie Mau. The Community Foundation is located at 342 Louisiana Street in Sturgeon Bay, across the street from the Post Office.

Marjorie Mau graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in 1979 and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree. She has received multiple awards for her work from both the Neville Public Museum and UW-GB. “I believe in a work that has to find its own way,” says Marjorie. “It has to breathe with open space and possibility.

The Community Foundation’s reception is being coordinated with the Wisconsin Watercolor Society Fall exhibition at the Miller Art Museum that same evening. The exhibition will bring together the work of artists from throughout the state working in watercolor. Guests are encouraged to visit Sturgeon Bay and drop by both the Miller Art Museum and the Community Foundation Lobby Gallery opening receptions.

Refreshments will be served at the Door County Community Foundation by Morag Hornsby and her team at Serves You Right Catering.

Each quarter, different Door County artists will be invited to exhibit their work. The Gallery is normally open to the public during the Community Foundation’s regular hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

For more information about the Community Foundation, visit www.GiveDoorCounty.org.

The Door County Community Foundation, Inc. is a collection of separate charitable funds set up by individuals, families, non-profit organizations, private foundations and businesses that are managed, invested and disbursed for the current and future good of Door County. The Foundation was launched in 1999 and currently administers more than $17 million in charitable assets.

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Community Invited to Opening Reception for Artist Julie Brogan & Kelly Bresnahan

The community is invited to attend a reception on Saturday, June 4th from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at the Door County Community Foundation. The reception celebrates the Lobby Gallery Summer Exhibition featuring works by Julie Brogan and Kelly Bresnahan. The Community Foundation is located at 342 Louisiana Street in Sturgeon Bay, across the street from the Post Office.

Julie Brogan’s paintings reflect the images that she sees in her daily life: her family, friends, her travels, what she reads, and what she hears. “Fragments of images, whether captured through photographs, my sketches, or my memory often serve as the basis for my work,” says Julie Brogan. “Textures, color palettes, and themes surface, evolve, and disappear.  A dominant theme will often provide a transition between various series before fading out.  Sometimes themes reappear; sometimes not.”

Over time, Julie has found herself drawn to certain symbols and motifs such as birds, insects, botanicals, women’s bodies in various states, lunar cycles, numbers, words, and textiles.  These snippets form a backbone for the various media she experiments with whether encaustic, acrylic, paper, or other mixed media.

“The process of woodturning is creation through elimination,” says Kelly Bresnahan, co-exhibitor. “Starting with a large piece of wood and removing material until the perfect form is achieved; Chasing the perfect curve, to ease or soften; Trying to read the wood to know when the best figure is showing on the surface – go too far and that figure could be gone.”

Kelly is often inspired by nature to create the shapes in his work. He strives to have a very organic look and feel to the work by incorporating as much of the voids, knots, burls, and bark inclusions as possible. The natural beauty of the wood is an important, featured part rather than the background for the turning techniques. The warmth and feel of the wood is the intended focus of his work.

The Community Foundation’s reception is being coordinated with the “Portrait Show,” exhibit at the Miller Art Museum that same evening. Guests are encouraged to visit Sturgeon Bay and drop by both the Miller Art Museum and the Community Foundation Lobby Gallery opening receptions.

Refreshments will be served at the Door County Community Foundation by Morag Hornsby and her team at Serves You Right Catering.

Each quarter, different Door County artists will be invited to exhibit their work. The Gallery is normally open to the public during the Community Foundation’s regular hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

For more information about the Community Foundation’s various grant programs, visit www.GiveDoorCounty.org.

The Door County Community Foundation, Inc. is a collection of separate charitable funds set up by individuals, families, non-profit organizations, private foundations and businesses that are managed, invested and disbursed for the current and future good of Door County. The Foundation was launched in 1999 and currently administers more than $16 million in charitable assets.

Margaret Lockwood Featured in Winter Exhibition

The community is invited to attend a reception on Saturday, January 23rd from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Door County Community Foundation to open its Lobby Gallery Winter Exhibition featuring works by artist Margaret Lockwood. The Community Foundation is located at 342 Louisiana Street in Sturgeon Bay across from the Post Office.

Margaret has a constant desire to paint canvases that create the feeling of space. Her tools are color relationships, layers of atmosphere, and rhythmic interludes. Margaret says, “I want each work to gently welcome viewers into a peaceful place within the painting and within themselves. My work sometimes begins with looking at the surrounding landscape or often begins as a conversation with the painting before it.” No matter how they are started, the real work comes in the doing, while she is in the middle of it all. Margaret is required to have trust in the unknown and yet-to-be, remaining open to change and chance along the way, but also to direct the creation.

In Door County, Margaret lived in the woods and then in a farmhouse with open fields all around. Her work is overwhelmingly a response to her appreciation of the fragile beauty of those remembered trees and the peacefulness of fleeting light and color across the fields and in the clouds above.

Margaret shares, “I respond to the atmosphere and the private spaces and moments still to be found in our environment and daily lives as we have entered the 21st century. I am concerned with the layers of connection between our external world and that of our inner worlds, and how we relate to and are informed by our precious environment, each other, as well as our hopes and memories. I want to make visible the mysterious atmosphere of landscapes and spaces within us, our spiritual homes.”

“Each of us is alone ultimately. Understanding this solitude may bring feelings of sadness, but knowing that this is common to all of us can be profoundly reassuring. We can feel connected to our world if we notice. We can feel connected to those who are with us now, along with those who came before and those who are yet to be, if we care,” says Margaret. She hopes there are some who can feel this mysterious yearning mixed with wonder in her work.

The Community Foundation’s reception is being coordinated with the “You Draw & Paint on What?” exhibit at the Miller Art Museum that same evening. The exhibition will feature works of 12 Wisconsin artists who draw and paint with traditional and non-traditional media in new and surprising ways. Guests are encouraged to visit Sturgeon Bay and drop by both the Miller Art Museum and the Community Foundation Lobby Gallery opening receptions.

Refreshments will be served at the Door County Community Foundation by Morag Hornsby and her team at Serves You Right Catering.

Each quarter, different Door County artists will be invited to exhibit their work. The Gallery is normally open to the public during the Community Foundation’s regular hours of 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.