George Ray McCormick Snr.’s bas-relief wood carvings hint at his colorful past, but more importantly provide a keen insight into his personal spiritual awakening in 1991 that drives and informs his work to this day. These colorful, scripture-filled carvings are the physical manifestations of a complex person finding peace, salvation and inspiration.

Kelli Hoppmann’s immaculately and vibrantly-hued paintings reveal an almost surreal world inspired by personal experience, myths and allegories. Filled with humans and animals and dealing with themes of love, death, sin, pathos and contrition in theatrical-like settings, these paintings will enchant and fascinate.

Jayne Reid Jackson is one of America’s finest practitioners of the mezzotint printing process. Using everyday objects as her subject matter, she skillfully pulls beautiful images that are imbued with a stunningly timeless and classic feel.

A glass artist of national renown, Beth Lipman’s gorgeously created glass still-lifes pay homage to the still life paintings of the 17th to the 20th centuries. Seeking to capture its essence and expressive qualities, Lipman recreates the painting in three-dimensions, and photographs it to return the still-life to two dimensions.

Lecture: April 4th, 2:00PM,
lecture FREE with general Admission, members always free.

Tom Jones is determined to change the conventional “beads-and-feathers” portrayal of his Ho Chunk Native American Indian community. His photographs are supremely sensitive to presenting an insider’s view of daily life and his subjects’ determination to maintain traditions and identity with respect to the dominant “white” culture that surrounds them.

One of the brightest prospects to recently graduate from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Emily Siegel Belknap’s extendedlength watercolors and bronze sculptures reflect the interaction and interdependence of modern culture and the landscape.

For the past three years, accomplished international ceramics artist Valerie Zimany has been a post-doctoral fellow in the Art Department at Lawrence University in Appleton. This exhibition will mark the culmination of her work from her time there.

George Ray McCormick Snr.’s bas-relief wood carvings hint at his colorful past, but more importantly provide a keen insight into his personal spiritual awakening in 1991 that drives and informs his work to this day. These colorful, scripture-filled carvings are the physical manifestations of a complex person finding peace, salvation and inspiration.

A painter who loves to sew, Sonji Hunt’s quilts challenge traditional forms in both construction and form. Dominated by movement, color and texture, these elements reflect her everyday life and experiences, deconstructed and reassembled to tell a particular story.

Bird Ross loves the alphabet: her ABC's are forever organized -- and endlessly reorganized. “Take a Letter” explores the alphabet and puts it to work. She experiments with typography in three dimensions, finding new materials that freshen up the familiar. Here is the alphabet you thought you knew: dissected, diagrammed, manipulated, and re-imagined.

A consummate printmaker with more than forty years experience and numerous national awards to his name, Larry Basky is fascinated with the process and the product of printmaking, especially serigraphy. This technique is the vehicle for producing prints that focus on his favorite subject matter – the landscape – and these colorful images can incorporate, on average, twenty colors each.