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WDCC Members at Third Ward Gallery Night

Friday, October 19, from 6pm - 9pm

The Wisconsin Designer Crafts Council is partnering up with the Hudson Business + Lounge to present the diverse work of our artists. 

The Historic Third Ward is Milwaukee's Arts and Fashion District. It offers the city's most dynamic array of restaurants, spas, theaters, galleries, and boutiques. The neighborhood was named a Top 12 ArtPlace in 2013. Hudson is located at the heart of the Third Ward on the corner of Buffalo and Broadway.

Food and Beverages will be for sale at the cafe and live music will perform till 7:30pm.

Participating Members: Jef Raasch - Clay Sculpture, Dale Eggert - Glass, Stephanie Bartz - Photography, Joan Kennedy - Fiber, Jen Loberg - Leather, Susan Lukas -Digital Art, Bob Dickey - Wood, Andrew Linderman - Pottery, Michael Thee and Mary Wohlgemuth - Jewelry.

For more information about how to participate in upcoming gallery nights with WDCC, Please Contact member: Kathy Eggert at eggertglass@aol.com

WDCC President Bob Dickey and 25 year member Jean Wells were interviewed by Bonnie North on WUWM's Lake Effect Program.  A separate interview of member Sara Mann, took place with Bonnie North in Sara's home studio.  Click HERE to listen to the interviews.

Chico Art Center, Chico, California announced this week its selections for their National Juried exhibit. Among the selected pieces were a custom sterling, serpentine and peridot necklace created by Stevens Point silversmith, Joan North. This exhibit features exemplary artwork of all media submitted by artists from across the United States and runs from September 7 to 28. North skillfully controls sterling sheet and wire to create unusual designs, often including unusual semi-precious stones. Her necklace, “Circle of Life” incorporates a textured sterling base holding an exquisite serpentine gem, under the watchful eye of three peridots. Custom sterling bezels and chain complete this marvelous piece. Joan is a full time, award-winning silversmith whose jewelry is shown at galleries, museums and exhibits coast to coast, most recently in California, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, Ohio, and Arizona. North has been operating Joan North Designs for eighteen years in her Stevens Point Studio. She is represented by various galleries across the country and locally at Q Gallery, Riverfront Arts Center and Center for the Visual Arts. Find her online at Facebook, Instagram as well as JoanNorthDesigns.com. 

Writer Nancy Herrick produced a wonderful Article for the Journal Sentinel featuring several of our member artists participating in the Morning Glory Fine Craft Fair in August 2018. Click on the link above to see photos and read the article.

Blue Line Arts, Roseville, California announced the winners this week of its Membership Medley exhibit. Among the chosen pieces were a custom sterling and pearl necklace created by Stevens Point silversmith, Joan North. The exhibit has become one of the most highly anticipated events of the year and runs from July 27 to September 8. North manipulates sterling sheet and wire to create unusual designs, often including unusual semi-precious stones. The necklace, “Outa My Way” at Blue Line Arts shows a pearl trying to escape a maze of intersected sterling wire. Also, this past spring/summer North's jewelry has been accepted into the following juried exhibits: Lancaster County Art Association, Strasburg, PA "Open Door"; New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI "Culture & Agriculture"; Riverfront Arts Center, Stevens Point, WI "Visions"; and Center for the Visual Arts, Wausau, WI "Roots - the Growth from Within". Joan is a full time, award-winning silversmith whose jewelry is shown at galleries, museums and exhibits coast to coast, most recently in California, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, Ohio, and Arizona. North has been operating Joan North Designs for eighteen years in her Stevens Point Studio. She is represented by various galleries across the country and locally at Q Gallery, Riverfront Arts Center and Center for the Visual Arts. Find her online at Facebook, Instagram as well as JoanNorthDesigns.com

•  I'll be participating in the Milwaukee Museum Mile Day on Sunday, May 13th. I'll be at my solo art exhibit High Thread Count at St Johns on the Lake,1840 N. Prospect, Milwaukee,WI from 11-2pm. visiting answering questions and maybe working! If you haven't had a chance to see the show -now's your chance before it closes on May 14,2018.     www.milwaukeemuseummile.org/mmm-day/

• I'll be participating in the Milwaukee Museum Mile Day on Sunday, May 13th. I'll be at my solo art exhibit High Thread Count at St Johns on the Lake,1840 N. Prospect, Milwaukee,WI from 11-2pm, visiting answering questions and maybe working! If you haven't had a chance to see the show -now's your chance before it closes on May 14,2018.
  http://www.milwaukeemuseummile.org/mmm-day/
  

Q Artists Cooperative, Stevens Point, announced that its upcoming exhibit, “Stones and Gems in Art” will feature over eighty pieces of jewelry created by silversmith Joan North whose works highlight the rainbow of color and diverse forms found in natural stones and gems. North’s necklaces, rings, pins and bracelets incorporate agate, sodalite, rhodonite, jasper, rhodochrosite, malachite, topaz, peridot, jade and many more.  North says “Stones and Gems in Art” is a reboot of Wausau’s Center for The Visual Arts “Stoned” Invitational Exhibition from 2017.

“Stones and Gems in Art” runs from May 8 through June 30. Opening reception is May 11 from 5 to 7pm

What kind of art comes from the concept of WINDOWS? The Art League of Lincoln, Lincoln, California chose that concept for its most recent nationally juried art exhibit, Windows: A Theme Challenge. This March 21 to April 21 exhibit will include two window-themed jewelry pieces from silversmith Joan North of Stevens Point, WI. North's Stained Glass Pearl necklace suggests a pearl sitting on the other side of a sterling stained glass window. Window to the Future necklace focuses attention on the empty portal in the middle of a sterling frame to suggest that the future can be anything.

More opportunities! The Casting Workshop arranged between WDCC and the Jewelers Guild was purposely planned for a single weekend to minimize travel for those coming from a distance. For those seeking a less intense workshop, we have arranged the same WDCC MEMBER DISCOUNT for the regularly scheduled workshop taking place Saturday the 17th and Saturday the 24th. 

Register at: https://www.jewelersguild.biz/ under the classes menu. WDCC members will receive a 15% discount on this workshop. Fee for the workshop is $335.00 for non-members. Registration limited to 6 so sign up early!

“Carve It, Cast It, Wear It” Workshop