Jessica's senior art show is coming up! It's at the UW-L Art Gallery. There will be free food and a cash bar and music and art and great folks! December 4th 5:00-8:00 PM! Go check out her and all the others artist's work.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Jessica Shively's Senior Art Exhibition!
Jessica's senior art show is coming up! It's at the UW-L Art Gallery. There will be free food and a cash bar and music and art and great folks! December 4th 5:00-8:00 PM! Go check out her and all the others artist's work.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Halloween Party
It's time for GBSS' Halloween Party! This costume party will be held on Friday, October 30, starting at 8 pm and going all night. Dust off your sewing machine and shake the spiders out of your masks, since we have some pretty awesome costumes lined up, and some great ideas to boot, so the challenge is on. There will haunting music, classic horrific movies, as well as other terrifying things too horrible to mention. Dress in sinister fashion or suffer the consequences. And how about a prize for the best and weirdest costumes? We're not advertising this year, but instead inviting all of our friends, and yours. Pass it on to anyone you would like to have there!Don't miss our second annual Halloween party. We hope to see you there, if you dare!
Also check out Jenn's pumpkin carvings on the latest issue of the Second Supper!
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Artists brighten downtown window with mural
La Crosse Tribune By GERI PARLIN gparlin@lacrossetribune.comLocal artists Matt Duckett and Jennifer Bushman recently finished an eye-popping mural, which will be displayed in Wittenberg, Wis., as part of Walls of Wittenberg, a program started in 2005 to revitalize the village through development of the arts. In four years, the central Wisconsin village has commissioned and installed 15 murals and opened an art gallery.
This mission struck a chord with the La Crosse artists, who run the Green Bay Street Studio. So Duckett and Bushman created a design that incorporated the nature of the building on which their mural would hang - an eye clinic. Duckett and Bushman's final design mimics the appearance of color-blindness tests and measures an imposing 8 feet by 30 feet. It is made up of more than 2,600 circles in 65 colors.
The artwork is painted on Dibond, an aluminum composite that is two thin sheets of aluminum sandwiching a layer of resin and is most often used in signmaking. Duckett and Bushman created 18 sizes of stencils to create the circles. Then they varnished the completed mural to weatherproof it.
The mural will be installed in Wittenberg late this week but until then is on display in the newly renovated building at 333 Main St. in downtown La Crosse. Duckett said this is a taste of what is about to happen in La Crosse. As a member of the City Arts Board, Duckett is working on a program to install artwork in vacant storefronts in La Crosse.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
How King Gambrinus Got his Groove Back
Second Supper Issue 181 09-24-09 Return of the King
Reviewed By: briana.rupel@secondsupper.com
Standing tall on Third Street is one of La Crosse's most lauded landmarks. We are not talking about the World's Largest Six Pack this time, but rather the King Gambrinus statue, which many consider to be just as big.
Reviewed By: briana.rupel@secondsupper.com
Standing tall on Third Street is one of La Crosse's most lauded landmarks. We are not talking about the World's Largest Six Pack this time, but rather the King Gambrinus statue, which many consider to be just as big.
Back in the 13th Century, King Gambrinus became an honorary member of the Brussels Brewers Guild, thus solidifying his place in history as the unofficial patron saint of beer. Fitting, then, that our own Gambrinus is perched spiritedly in front of the City Brewery, raising his chalice in celebration, as if to say,"Welcome! Be merry!" Perhaps equally as fitting, our beloved king just got a long-overdue, and much-needed, makeover.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Restoration of King Gambrinus statue finished just in time for Oktoberfest
La Crosse Tribune Article 09-22-09
The City Brewery's King Gambrinus statue has been decked out in richer, more vibrant colors, just in time for Oktoberfest.
La Crosse artist Matt Duckett is expected to complete restoration work he began, with help from local artist Erich Boldt, in early July. The king's tunic once again is royal purple; the sun's rays had faded it to light blue over the years.
The statue of the patron saint of brewing is on the west side of South Third Street, in front of the brewery.
According to a 1939 La Crosse Tribune story, it was put in front of G. Heileman Brewery in April of that year after being purchased from a defunct brewery for $100.
Duckett said Monday the project took longer than he expected because of the amount of repair work he had to do. The statue apparently was built mostly with lead, tin and aluminum and had been repaired over the years with copper, fiberglass, steel, wood, flooring compound and automotive body filler, he said. Duckett used fiberglass and automotive body filler for his repairs.
Tom Zieja, owner of Z's Lawn & Landscaping Inc. at 400 Division St., also will donate landscaping work near the statue, such as trees, flowers, shrubs and new sod. It's to thank the brewery for donating 100 plastic drums that the Washburn Neighborhood Association has been converting to rainwater barrels, he said.
The association adds hardware to the 55-gallon barrels and sells them to people who connect them to their roof gutter to collect rain.
The City Brewery's King Gambrinus statue has been decked out in richer, more vibrant colors, just in time for Oktoberfest.
La Crosse artist Matt Duckett is expected to complete restoration work he began, with help from local artist Erich Boldt, in early July. The king's tunic once again is royal purple; the sun's rays had faded it to light blue over the years.
The statue of the patron saint of brewing is on the west side of South Third Street, in front of the brewery.
According to a 1939 La Crosse Tribune story, it was put in front of G. Heileman Brewery in April of that year after being purchased from a defunct brewery for $100.
Duckett said Monday the project took longer than he expected because of the amount of repair work he had to do. The statue apparently was built mostly with lead, tin and aluminum and had been repaired over the years with copper, fiberglass, steel, wood, flooring compound and automotive body filler, he said. Duckett used fiberglass and automotive body filler for his repairs.
Tom Zieja, owner of Z's Lawn & Landscaping Inc. at 400 Division St., also will donate landscaping work near the statue, such as trees, flowers, shrubs and new sod. It's to thank the brewery for donating 100 plastic drums that the Washburn Neighborhood Association has been converting to rainwater barrels, he said.
The association adds hardware to the 55-gallon barrels and sells them to people who connect them to their roof gutter to collect rain.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Matt Duckett's works accepted into Midwest Biennial
2009 Regional Fine Art Exhibition
A Biannual Seven State Regional Juried Fine Art Exhibition brought to you by Midwest Biennial and its sponsors.
The Midwest Biennial’s Wausau Exhibition will be held from September 4 – 25, 2009 in a beautiful gallery space located at 622 N. 3rd Street, in the heart of the Arts District in downtown Wausau, Wisconsin.
"Bruté"
Oil on Board
"Krump"
Oil on Canvas
A Biannual Seven State Regional Juried Fine Art Exhibition brought to you by Midwest Biennial and its sponsors.
The Midwest Biennial’s Wausau Exhibition will be held from September 4 – 25, 2009 in a beautiful gallery space located at 622 N. 3rd Street, in the heart of the Arts District in downtown Wausau, Wisconsin.
"Bruté"
Oil on Board
"Krump"
Oil on Canvas
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