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”...
by Rafael Francisco Salas, Tom Berenz | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
I met Tom Berenz back in 2008 when we were teaching together at Ripon College. Both Wisconsin-based painters with backgrounds in traditional methods, we often met to discuss our views on painting and art. Since then we have exhibited together and from time to time...
by Helen Klebesadel | Oct 16, 2015 | Magazine Article
In terms of American Democracy, the arts are for everyone. They are not reserved for the wealthy, or for the well-endowed museum, the gallery, or the ever-subsidized regional professional theater. As America emerges into a different understanding of her strength, it...
by Lorrie Moore, David McLimans | Jul 20, 2015 | Magazine Article
I first met David McLimans the summer of 2001, on a blind date at the Greenbush Bar six weeks after my divorce was finished—done and dusted, as the Irish say—and six weeks before 9/11. I had been told, somewhat misleadingly, that David was a commercial illustrator....
by Randall Berndt | Nov 1, 2013 | Magazine Article
In his seminal book on landscape painting, Kenneth Clark writes that “we are surrounded with things which we have not made and which have a life and structure different from our own: trees, flowers, grasses, hills, clouds. For centuries they have inspired us with...
