Award-winning plein air painter, Diane Washa, captures the varying atmospheres of midwestern landscapes. Often painterly and dreamlike, Washa’s paintings not only depict the formal structure and color of these scenes but manifest the indescribable aura and presence of the spaces. Borrowing her exhibition title from twentieth-century, Wisconsin objectivist poet, Lorine Niedecker, Washa too creates works […]
New Art Exhibition Investigates Marine Debris
A new art exhibit on humanity’s reliance on plastic is currently on display at the Chazen Museum of Art. The exhibit, called Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials, originated at the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State. Chazen Museum of Art editor Kirstin Pires says the exhibition takes a broad view of the ubiquitous – and […]
