by Jody Clowes, Mary Hoefferle | Feb 27, 2017 | Magazine Article
Making marks—scratching in the sand, carving into a branch, or marking stone with a charred stick—is a primal human activity. Since prehistory we have used drawing to visualize, explore, refine, and communicate ideas, from the practical to the purely expressive....
by Lynne Harper | Nov 8, 2016 | Magazine Article
The search for the knowable has led to remarkable discovery and innovation in the sciences. At the same time, this unrelenting quest for knowledge has also fostered in many of us a sense of discomfort with ambiguity—and a detachment from our often-messy internal and...
by Sara Raab | Sep 22, 2016 | Videos
Oneida artist Karen Ann Hoffman of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, is sharing her deep knowledge of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) raised beadwork with a group of apprentices and friends. This short video focuses on Hoffman’s work with Rodrick Elm (also of Stevens Point), who...
by Anne Pryor | Aug 2, 2016 | Magazine Article
There is an arts resurgence occurring across Wisconsin. Women and, occasionally, men, sit around tables with containers of colorful, glistening beads close at hand. Steel needle and waxed thread move deftly through paper and velvet amidst exchanges of advice on...
by Valerie Mangion | May 12, 2016 | Magazine Article
Night Vision evolved out of my strong desire to learn more about the wild creatures that share the 58-acre farm my husband and I own in the Driftless Region of southwest Wisconsin. I love all animals, and feel sad that we see relatively little of our “farm-mates”...
