June 6, 2014 at 2:07 p.m.
ArtStart to welcome summer with reception June 13
ArtStart to welcome summer with reception June 13
By By Daryl Youngstrum-
"Folk Story includes not only folk art but also decorative, naïve, outsider and tramp art with some of the pieces embodying more than one form," Rowe said.
Included in the exhibit are African American, Polish, Dutch, Native American, Mexican, Slovakian and Haitian works. Area artists, including Florian Beischke, a master of hand bookbinding and restoration, and Rene Iannarelli, Elizabeth Tornes and Jane Kocmond who collaborated on a piece that marries fabric art with poetry.
The exhibit also includes historical folk art from county historical societies around Wisconsin, curated by Breanna Norton.
"Some of the work you will see includes Pisanki (Polish egg art), Mexican masks and Aztec featherwork, African American quilts, Iroquois raised beadwork, Hindeloopen-style painting (a traditional style originating in the 17th Century in Hindeloopen in the Netherlands), porcupine quillwork, and Slovakian straw work," Rowe said, adding "two of the exhibiting artists have work in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian."
The exhibit will open with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, June 13, at the ArtStart Gallery, 68 S. Stevens St. Many of the exhibiting artists will attend the reception, but the list of attendees is not as yet complete. The public is invited to this event at no charge.
ArtStart Gallery hours are Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday from 1 to 7 p.m. Folk Story: Hand Made Meaning will run through Aug. 30.
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