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Politics and a milkman’s masterpiece
Picture an old time hitched-horse team and driver, but in this instance the horses are a donkey and elephant and the driver is Uncle Sam. “Can anybody do a day’s work with a team like that?” ponders...
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Choosing Change: Raw Green/Watercolor Workshop
Watercolor painting before tasting fruits and vegetables. “Skittles, cookies, potato chips, Snickers, licorice, Flaming Hots.” That’s how 2nd and 3rd grade students answered my question “What foods...
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Jim Godsil: Rainbow Street Party of “100 Names”
Noon gathering at Riverwest Co-op and Café. Photo © by Lee Matz. With the assistance of wonderful weather, over 400 nurturing relatives and friends arriving during the course of the day, Milwaukee’s...
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It’s gotta be in ya to do it
Wisconsin is well-known around the nation for a proliferation of roadside art. Many of the artists were self-taught, adding to the intrigue, if you will, of farmers and tavern keepers becoming artists...
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Explore Art/Enjoy Music and the Outdoors at Nick Engelbert’s Grandview Plein...
Wisconsin is rich with roadside art, and many a weekend can be spent tracking down hard-to-find treasures hidden in rural places that seem almost lost. In the next few weeks some of these sites will...
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It’s gotta be in ya to do it
Wisconsin is well-known around the nation for a proliferation of roadside art. Many of the artists were self-taught, adding to the intrigue, if you will, of farmers and tavern keepers becoming artists...
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Explore Art/Enjoy Music and the Outdoors at Nick Engelbert’s Grandview Plein...
Wisconsin is rich with roadside art, and many a weekend can be spent tracking down hard-to-find treasures hidden in rural places that seem almost lost. In the next few weeks some of these sites will...
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Warrior in the Ring: The life of Marvin Camel, Native American world champion...
Warrior in the Ring: The life of Marvin Camel, Native American world champion boxer Brian D’Ambrosio In the Golden Age of boxing, Marvin Camel—a mixed blood from the Flathead Indian Reservation in...
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Wisconsin art environments host second annual plein-air event
Five fascinating Wandering Wisconsin art environments will host an August weekend of free fun through art making. If you’re not an artist come anyway because there will be plenty of them and they’re...
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The meaning of life
“The Heart of the Matter” report riffs off recent attention given to STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering and Math) by saying the humanities are the bloom on the stem. Photo by Jessica Becker (via...
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Doing it for the kids
Wayne Valliere, packing canoe bark out of the birch forest. Photo by Tim Frandy 2012 I am really concerned that kids are not getting useful and appropriate educations based on what we know to be useful...
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A chicken crosses the road
Chickens in Nyanga, South Africa. Photo by Jessica Becker “In spite of my grandmother’s careful tutelage, I have long forgotten how to tat, and to that skill loss, I say good riddance. There is a...
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Wisconsin State Cow Chip Scrapbook
Since 1975, when the Sauk Prairie Jaycees recognized the twin villages of Sauk City and Prairie du Sac as the cow chip capital of Wisconsin, the community has annually organized the Wisconsin State...
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Choosing Change: Raw Green/Watercolor Workshop Part 2
Student painting watercolor inserts for handmade book. Lois Ehlert’s “Eating the Alphabet” used as inspiration. “Find a way to be a benefit,” my son continually suggested, in response to my constant...
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Choosing Change: Raw Green/Watercolor Workshop
Watercolor painting before tasting fruits and vegetables. “Skittles, cookies, potato chips, Snickers, licorice, Flaming Hots.” That’s how 2nd and 3rd grade students answered my question “What foods...
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Farewell To A Landmark
Building 200 in early 1945, with a giant flag on a towering flagpole in the front lot and banners marking awards for production flying nearby. As far as historical landmarks go, Building 200 is among...
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Antler Basket Weaving
It’s no secret that Wisconsin is filled with talented artists. What isn’t always evident, though, is how willing they are to not only share their craft, but to teach it as well. Such is the case with...
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Snapshots of Heritage
Late last year, I heard the first murmurings of a substantial dry plate glass negative collection at the Sauk Prairie Area Historical Society, the majority of which had not yet been scanned, much less...
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Portal Hawthorne
Although it is bordered by major transportation arteries, the Hawthorne neighborhood in Madison seems sheltered and quiet. At the center is the heart, Hawthorne Elementary School, a welcoming place...
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Building Memory: Milwaukee’s War Memorial
When the Milwaukee Art Museum recently announced that funds would be dedicated to restoring the War Memorial building, I had reason to smile. I smiled because it is a good building that will get some...
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