Pyle Center hosts WRAP Exhibition

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Returning to Port 9 x 12 watercolor $380
Dusk 14 x 21 watercolor $640

I am exhibiting two of my favorite paintings on the first floor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Pyle Center – Returning to Port and Dusk. They will be up until April 2 10 am. The exhibit is part of the Wisconsin Regional Art Program (WRAP). The Wisconsin Regional Art Program (WRAP) provides statewide art workshops and exhibits for nonprofessional artists.  Art work is shown in a noncompetitive exhibit in regional communities.  Each one has a different artist demonstration or slide lecture and may have a different judge to lead the afternoon critique.   The exhibit judge answers questions on design, composition, and technique during a group critique and evaluative discussion.  You may enter as many Wisconsin Regional Art Workshops as you like. 

The WRAP Exhibit cycle runs July 1 to June 30.  State Award Winners chosen between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022 will be invited to participate in the Annual State WRAP Exhibit in Wausau in July and August, 2022.  An artist may show only one work, even if multiple State Exhibit Awards have been received.

At the conclusion of the exhibit is the annual State Conference. Two days of festivities celebrating the art and artists of the annual exhibit include a gala Evening with the Arts and “State Day”.   

The Pyle Center is located at 702 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 7:45 am – 4:00 pm and weekends if there is an event there. You may call the front desk to ask to confirm the gallery hours 608-262-1122.

WRAP Exhibition at the Pyle Center, Madison

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Capitol Skyline $270 12" x 24" watercolor

Capitol Skyline $270 12″ x 24″ watercolor

I will have two paintings at the Wisconsin Regional Artists Program exhibition which will be on the first floor of the University of Wisconsin – Extension The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, Madison. (map)

The show runs from March 9 until April 12, 2014.

April 12 will be a workshop day from 10 am to 3:30 pm

Judge and Guest Speaker is Leslee Nelson, recently retired director of WRAP. She will be talking about her extensive work in textile arts, especially about pieces she creates called “memory cloths.” Her lecture will be from 10 am – 11 am on April 12. Guests pay $5 admission and are welcome to stay for the critique as well.

WRAP (Wisconsin Regional Art Program) is a program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Continuing Studies division. It was begun in 1940 by the College of Agriculture Extension as a means of encouraging rural artists and providing them with exhibit opportunities.

The purpose of WRAP is to encourage non-professional artists and to offer them an opportunity to exhibit and develop their abilities through regional exhibitions and workshops.

Today WRAP sponsors 20 non-juried regional exhibits across the state for non-professional artists. The exhibits are held in public spaces for two to four weeks and each participant can submit two pieces of work. Exhibits are accompanied by a workshop day that features a guest speaker or demonstration as well as a judge’s critique of participants’ art. You may enter as many Wisconsin Regional Art Workshops as you like. Anyone 16 years or older can exhibit in any of the regional WRAP shows

Honorable Mention and State Awards are given. The State Award pieces are eligible for exhibit at WRAP’s annual State Art Exhibition and Conference held in September each year. If your work is selected for the State Exhibit at two different workshops, you must choose which one you want to send to the State Art Exhibit.

Helen Klebesadel
Director, Wisconsin Regional Art Program
608-262-3056 or hklebesadel@dcs.wisc.edu

University of Wisconsin-Madison
21 N. Park St., 7th floor, Madison, WI 53715

WRAP website: www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/art/wrap
…………..www.wraawrap.com

WRAP is sponsored in part by funds administered through the UW-Extension as part of a coordinated statewide extension program.