Habitat ReStore - Salvage Art Show and Auction

The Habitat ReStore - Salvage Art Show and Auction is inviting artists to submit applications for the next show in October 2010. The fun part of this show is that the art has a salvaged component --what a challenge for some of us to figure into our art!

This is a fund raiser for the ReStore --details for application are at www.restoredane.org then click on art show. They had a great show and auction last year, and as always, are hoping for even a bigger event this year.

Artisan Opportunity

Artisan Opportunity

We are Main Street Portage, a non-profit organization that is working to revitalize downtown Portage.

As part of the revitalization process, a building known as the Mercantile was purchased in downtown Portage as an incubator to help new small retail businesses, such as area artisans, sell their goods and prepare them for opening a business of their own in the future. We wanted to introduce ourselves and let you know we have openings for additional artists to participate in the Mercantile project.

If you are interested in learning more about this opportunity, please don’t hesitate to contact us by e-mail at croberts.msp@gmail.com. We would love to have you! To learn more about Main Street Portage in general, please check out our website: http://www.mainstreetportage.org/.

Carolyn Roberts
Executive Director-Mainstreet Portage
Agent for “The Mercantile”

Midwest Biennial

Call to Artists

Midwest Biennial is now accepting entries for the 2010 Wisconsin Artists Juried Exhibition themed “Vermiculture, Artists, and the Tao Te Ching”. This spring exhibition will be held from April 1 through May 30, 2010 in celebration of Earth Day, Arbor Day, and Mother’s Day. The competition is open to all artists, 18 years or older, residing in the State of Wisconsin. A Reception for the Artists and Awards Ceremony will be held in the gallery in conjunction with Wausau’s “Exhibitour”. Visit MidwestBiennial.org for more information and how to enter this exhibition.
The Midwest Biennial, located in Wausau, Wisconsin, was inspired by the desire to provide a serious venue for artists and patrons to experience fine art at its best in a firmly rooted arts environment.
Wausau is also home to the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Center for the Visual Arts (CVA), Artrageous Weekend, Exhibitour, Wausau Area Performing Arts Foundation, University of Wisconsin Campuses, and The Grand Theatre, making the Wausau area a vibrant, thriving art community for artists and patrons alike. Centrally located in the State of Wisconsin, the city is unrivaled in its support of the arts, attracting thousands of viewers to its events, with numbers increasing every year.
We believe that Wausau’s solid foundation in funding and promoting the arts, makes it an ideal community to exhibit contemporary works from across the nation by emerging and established artists of all disciplines.
Midwest Biennial will hold two major juried fine art exhibitions each year. Our premier event was hosted in September of 2009 with a Regional Juried Exhibition, bringing artists into our community from seven mid-western states including Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa, and Ohio. In May of 2010, we will exhibit works by Wisconsin Artists only. September of this year will bring our National Exhibition to Wausau. Our schedule for May of 2011 will consist of artists from Marathon and neighboring counties; (North Central Wisconsin). Because we are the Midwest Biennial, in September of 2011 we start again with the Regional Exhibition, and rotate our four shows biennially in the following years.

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Contact Information:

David Hummer
Curator
MidwestBiennial.org
david@midwestbiennial.org
715-571-6551