Tenney-Lapham Art Walk

press release: On Sunday, June 30, 2019, 1-5 pm, experience the Tenney/Lapham Neighborhood’s eighteenth Annual Art Walk. Sixteen artists who live in our neighborhood will exhibit their original artwork. Use this map to guide yourself to each of the artist’s home galleries. Look for a fuchsia-colored sign at each artist’s house. The artists have described their own artwork in the following paragraphs. For more information, email: sharonredinger@gmail.com Get additional maps at 408 Washburn Place. Parking is available in the Christ Presbyterian Church parking lot, 1000 block of East Gorham.

1. Sharon Redinger, 408 Washburn Place: WATERCOLOR PAINTING The close-up world of leaves and the splendor of landscape has captured Sharon’s attention in her painting. Sharon’s watercolor style is described as Hard-edge Watercolor Painting. Each wash of color is left to dry before another is placed next to it. Multiple layers of color washes create saturated colors and dark shadows. Google Redinger Creations to see Sharon and Bill’s art Facebook page.

1. Bill Redinger, 408 Washburn Place: SERIGRAPH PRINTING & WATERCOLOR PAINTING Since 1987, Bill has found it enjoyable to depict scenes from creation—imitating nature. A favorite subject matter is wild flowers—flowers that have become a metaphor of the brevity of life. The prints Bill creates capture the light and fleeting beauty of objects of nature. A serigraph is an original color print made by pressing ink/pigment through a silkscreen stencil. Bill is also working on a watercolor series, along with Sharon, called “Fruitful Art”.

2. Jane Scharer, 842 Prospect Place: Jane has always loved art; it was her avocation until she retired to make a commitment to becoming an artist. Madison is a great town in which to practice art with its excellent museums, galleries and studio courses. Today, she primarily considers herself a printmaker creating works using woodcut, etching, callographic and monoprint techniques. Most recently, she has been experimenting with ink on oriental papers.

3. Chris Julson & Mike Franke, 421 N. Paterson, #2:  Chris and Mike have managed to combine two of their favorite pastimes: travel & photography. Mike has been traveling the world since the early 70’s with Chris joining him in the mid-80’s. Photos from over 40 countries on all seven continents are on display. Though neither is a professional photographer, both enjoy making photos that capture the faces and places they’ve visited and sharing them with their families and friends. This year they’ve added photos from their fall trip to Papua New Guinea, so please come & take a look!

4. Brian McCormick, 407 North Brearly Street: WATERCOLOR PAINTINGS & WOODBLOCK PRINTS Previously a preservation architect, Brian now spends much of his time making art. While he began painting watercolors in college, his woodblock prints are a newer endeavor. He often combines the two media, adding watercolor to his prints. He is inspired by both the natural and built environments that create a special sense of place. Brian has been active showing his work in juried exhibitions regionally. More of Brian’s work can be seen at U-Frame-It on Johnson Street; Stone Fence on Atwood Avenue; Outside the Lines Art Gallery in both Dubuque, Iowa, and Galena, Illinois; Water Street Gallery in Douglas, Michigan; and at his website: brianmccormick.artspan.com.

5. Norma Gay Prewett, 1011 East Gorham (Pink): PAINTING Norma Gay Prewett (aka Gay Davidson-Zielske) has been practicing art sporadically from high school through her early years of college, but became a more prolific painter after retirement from the English Dept at UW-Whitewater in 2011. She works in acrylics, oil, and collage and recently has embarked upon wood sculpture. Her work has been shown in the Old Town Triangle Gallery in Chicago and the Yellow Rose Gallery in Madison.

6. Jay Solwold, 1127 Sherman Avenue: ASSEMBLAGE ART Have you ever noticed how many feathers you can find on the sidewalk? Whenever I see one I have an urge to pick it up. Always have. Feathers, interesting rocks or sticks, shiny objects, and other things lying around can catch my eye. Kind of like a crow. My artwork consists of found and repurposed materials assembled into freestanding and wall hung sculptural pieces. Some of my artwork is bird inspired, some is figurative, and others are collage like. An intention of my artwork is to use ordinary things that have no real value, in and of themselves, and put these things together to build something interesting. I hope people will see these ordinary objects in a new light. Locally, my artwork can be seen at Hatch Art House on Williamson Street.

6A. Jeannette Deloya & Patti Coffey 411 Sidney St.: GLASS FLOWERS Patti Coffey and Jeannette Deloya are long-time Tenney residents who have a shared appreciation for shiny things. Come check out these whimsical, locally ‘grown’ glass flowers that are perfect for garden beds and potted arrangements. They bloom year round and never die!

7. Glen Skolaski, 1423 East Johnson Street: MULTI MEDIA Since his days of sore fingers and worn-down nails as a result of smearing chalk into sidewalks and throwing clay cylinders on the wheel, to his time at UW Eau Claire for ceramics, Glen has always had a love of multiple mediums. Glen’s style is best categorized as abstract, process driven art. Through initiating and executing his freeform, his work results in a truly unique experience. Glen uses the entire environment around him, allowing internal and external stimuli to influence his art. The end result is large, fast overlapping colors, mixed with tight layering to create a crisp sculptural appearance.

8. Chris Norris, 105 North Few Street: PHOTOGRAPHY Chris Norris’s photographs are a hyper-local, intimate look at the residential, industrial, and green space areas of the Madison Isthmus. His most recent series of photographs was taken within walking distance of his house over a few short periods during the past five years. They serve as a document of the area as it was at a specific point in time. The style is heavily influenced by architecture and documentary photography and the photographs were produced using a deliberately slow, contemplative technique. Chris is a founding member of the strange.rs international photography collective and has been a part of exhibitions in England, France and Serbia, as well as galleries in Madison and Milwaukee.

9. Hannah Sandvold, 207 N Ingersol Street: WOODBLOCK PRINTS, PAINTING, & MIXED MEDIA Hannah has always used art as a means to process and document life experiences, and uses woodcut, pen &ink, and acrylic to capture moments and impressions from remarkable places, especially the US National Parks out west that she has had the privilege of visiting. Hannah also freelances as an illustrator and graphic designer.

9.Will Sandvold, 207 N Ingersol Street: DIGITAL MEDIA & PAINTING Will is a made-up pixel engineer who draws spaceships and animals having fights with missile launchers, etc.

10. Shelby Ellison, 936 East Dayton Street: VEGETABLE JEWELRY Shelby became passionate about designing and creating jewelry at a very early age. She was also very intrigued by biology and nature and in 2012 received her PhD in plant genetics from the University of California, Davis. She returned to Madison and now works as a USDA scientist, at the University, in a carrot research lab. Realizing the beauty in the various pigmented carrots she worked with, Shelby wanted to find a way to artistically display her study organism; enter carrot earrings. She came up with the idea of carrot earrings seven for the past five years ago and has had trouble keeping up with demand ever since. She will be displaying her earrings and several other pieces tying together nature and art. See some of her work here: https://ecals.cals.wisc.edu/2014/10/29/natural-beauty- horticulture-postdoc-designs-colorful-veggie-earrings

11. Mary Gill, 941 East Dayton Street: PAINTING I grew up in Trinidad and Tobago but have lived in the USA for over 30 years. Many of my paintings are about my Caribbean experience. I am a graduate of UW-Madison in Art Education. I taught at Western Illinois University and at Kennesaw University, Kennesaw GA. I work mainly with oil paint and since retiring, I have been exploring imagery that address my Caribbean experience. The theme of my current work is the different ways cultures celebrate themselves.

12. Ken Vogel, 917 East Dayton Street: PUPPET MAKER Ken Vogel, the Puppet Mogul, has been making puppets (mostly marionettes) for about 50 years. Most of them are of people, famous and not so famous, and made of papier- mache, fabric, and miscellaneous ingredients. Visitors to the Art Walk can guess the identities of the puppets and try them out.