Tenney-Lapham Art Walk

press release: On Sunday, June 24, 2018, 1-5pm, you will experience the Tenney/Lapham Neighborhood’s Seventeenth Annual Art Walk. Twelve artists who live in our neighborhood will exhibit their original artwork. Use our walking map (available at 408 Washburn Place on walk day) to guide yourself to each of the artist’s home galleries. Look for a fuchsia-colored sign at each artist’s house. Parking available at Christ Presbyterian Church in the 1000 block of E. Gorham. This is a free event.

Locations/artists:

1. Sharon Redinger, 408 Washburn Place

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

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, calligraphic 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 '70s with Chris joining him in the mid-'80s & have visited over 60 countries. Photos from 39 countries on all seven continents are on display. Though neither is a professional photographer, both enjoy making photos that capture the faces & places they’ve visited & sharing them with their families and friends.

4. Norma Gay Prewett, 1011 East Gorham

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, collage and recently has embarked upon woodsculpture. Her work has been shown in the Old Town Triangle Gallery in Chicago and the Yellow Rose Gallery in Madison.

5. Jay Solwold, 1127 Sherman Avenue

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 re-purposed materials assembled into free-standing 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 which 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.

6. Hannah Sandvold, 207 N Ingersoll St., hcsandvold.com

Hannah has always used art as a means to process and document life experiences, and uses wood cut, pen &ink, and acrylic to capture moments and impressions from remarkable places, especially the great U.S. National Parks out west that she's had the privilege of visiting. Hannah also freelances as an illustrator and graphic designer. (She also happens to have painted one of the Bucky statues featured all over town this summer- have you seen it?)

7. Shelby Ellison, 936 E. Dayton St.

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 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.Shelby has been making carrot ear rings for the past five years and has had trouble keeping up with demand. 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

8. Ken Vogel, 917 East Dayton Street

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 are walk can guess the identities of the puppets and try them out.

9. Jeannette Deloya & Patti Coffey, 411 Sidney St.

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!