Visual Art

Friday, Nov. 21 • 9am-5pm

Artist Co-Op Art Sales

The Valley Art Association will hold sales at the former Fiedler's Jewelry Store. Art items for the holidays or anytime.

Grand and Bridge Streets, Chippewa Falls (715) 723-4970

 Visual Art

Friday, Nov. 21 • 3-9pm

Holidaze Arts Festival

Coming to the Holidaze Arts Festival in downtown Eau Claire, and buy thousands of works of art by regional artists plus an Active Health Chiropractic spa and lounge.

Adults $3, Kids under 12 FREE

Ramada Convention Center • Eau Claire • 832-6942 •

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Sunday, Jan. 4
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Hope and Change in Uncertain Times

The Creamery's Brickhouse Art Gallery Exhibits four local artists. Featured work includes Helen Heinz Peterson painted furniture, Miriam Houg’s monotypes, Brianna Capra’s paintings, and Clay Vajgrt’s digital prints.

FREE

The Creamery Restaurant & Inn • Downsville • (715) 664-8354 •

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Wednesday, Dec. 31
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Mixed Media by Amy Krause

No description available.

FREE

Acoustic Cafe, Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 832-9090 • www.theacoustic.com

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Thursday, Jan. 1
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Susanne Schroeder: Fine Art Flower & Nature Photography

Owner of Bruce, Wisconsin's Clear Creek Nursery, photographer Susanne Schroeder's works display moments of natural beauty in flowers, bugs, cats, dogs, and landscapes.

Avalon Floral • Eau Claire • 838-8880 • www.flowersbyavalon.com

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Friday, Nov. 28
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In Support of the Arts: A Janet Carson Retrospective

Join us in a very special gallery event as we host a retrospective of work from 1947 to the present of noted artist and educator, Janet Carson. Every piece will be for sale with all proceeds being donated back to the Art Gallery. From Carson's artist statement: "From an early age I knew my destiny was to be a writer or an artist. With the middle name of WELLINGTON how could I do other? My drawing as a child was unremarkable. I designed dresses for my paper dolls and copied pictures from a dog book. I did not win the poster contest! However, the older I became the more I felt that making art was my main source of comfort and joy. As an art teacher I witnessed children discovering a reassuring sense of self through making art as well. As an aging adult looking back on those years of making and teaching art, I have experienced elation in sharing it, and I do so now in hopes that the work still in my possession will generate funds for a front door entrance to this gallery."

FREE

Eau Claire Regional Arts Center • Eau Claire • 832-2787 •

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Saturday, Nov. 22
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Sense of Place: Landscape Paintings

Four women artist working in oil & pastel evoke a 'Sense of Place' with landscapes painting on location. Artists include Holly Swift, Barbara McIlrath, Dodie Logue and Jean Accola. Artist Reception: Friday October 17th, 5-8pm

Free

Accola Gallery, 502 2nd Ave. E, Durand (715) 672-8188

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Saturday, Dec. 20
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Artists of the Month: The Valley Art Association

Though many members of the Valley Art Association have exhibited their works separately, they will be exhibiting as a group for the first time at the Heyde Center for the Arts. The VAA has about 40 members that meet once a month at the Chippewa Falls Library for socialization and education. Painters, photographers, fabric artists and others come together to hear guest speakers on many topics of interest to artists.

FREE

The Heyde Center for the Arts • Chippewa Falls • 726-9000

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Thursday, Dec. 4
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Changing the Way We Think: New Media Art

The millennium has witnessed the growing vitality of new media art, mediated via digital means, often with the internet as its platform. Originating from an increasingly technologically dependent society, it not only challenges traditional creative media and ways of thinking, but also posits new questions concerning all realms of contemporary life.

Free

Foster Gallery, Haas Fine Arts Center, UW-Eau Claire • Eau Claire • 836-2328 • www.uwec.edu

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Monday, Nov. 24
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Eau Claire Area Art League Exhibit

The Eau Claire Art League, founded in 1944 by a group of nine local artists, is an organization that works together in the spirit of creativity to foster and promote art in the area by encouraging new artists and accepting them into its membership. The group sponsors various art shows to help members display their work in the area. This exhibit features over 30 new pieces in a variety of media created by 15 local artists.

FREE

L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library • Eau Claire • 839-1648 •

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Friday, Nov. 28
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Exhibit: Common Thread Quilters

When Bob and Deb Aaron’s house burned down in the Dunn County town of Otter Creek in 1984, one thing that grew out of the ashes was a women’s quilt group, Common Thread Quilters. The fire quilt they made as their first project for the Aarons was followed by baby quilts, wedding quilts, graduation quilts, and now includes grandchildren quilts. The membership has changed a little over the years, but the majority are founding members with many still living in western Wisconsin, and a few “social members” scattered from Duluth to Madison to New Mexico. The ladies still gather for monthly working sessions in each others' homes, as well as summer quilt retreats at a cabin near Tomahawk on Crystal Lake.

$1 suggested donation

Mabel Tainter Memorial Theater • Menomonie • 235-0001 •

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Friday, Dec. 5
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Prints from Oaxaca + Poster Offensive 4

"Prints from Oaxaca” features artists from la Universidad Autonoma Benito Juarez de Oaxaca in Mexico. Most of the exhibition's prints were printed from reliefs that the artists carved into sheets of plywood. Other artwork processes include lithography, intaglio, silk screen and monotypes. “Poster Offensive 4” features non-partisan posters by 40 artists. The themes of the posters are peace and democracy.

FREE

Furlong Gallery • Menomonie • 232-2261 • furlonggallery.uwstout.edu

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Saturday, Nov. 29
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Native American Art Showing

Menomonie Artist Susan Rhead has been involved with the Native American Culture for many years. It is her special joy to express this love through the medium of watercolor. Susan has many beautiful paintings for your enjoyment.

Free

School of the Arts, 107 Wilson Court, Menomonie (715) 639-2403

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Thursday, Jan. 8
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Private Soldiers: A Year in Iraq with a Wisconsin National Guard Unit

This exhibit honors Wisconsin's participants in the Iraq War and helps viewers understand the conflict's human side. "Private Soldiers" is an exhibit version of a Wisconsin Historical Society Press book of the same name. The exhibit showcases photographs and text provided by three members of the Wisconsin Army National Guard's 2-127th Infantry Battalion. This compelling firsthand documentation chronicles the battalion's yearlong deployment from the unique perspective of the soldiers themselves. Through the candid prose of Capt. Benjamin Buchholz and the vivid camera work of Lt. Nathan Olson and Staff Sgt. Joseph Streeter, "Private Soldiers" captures the experiences of these citizen soldiers from training and deployment to their unique mission to their return to homes, jobs, and families. Their mission took them into the most dangerous regions of Iraq, where they withstood hundreds of attacks, saw dozens wounded, and lost three members killed in action.

$4 adults

Chippewa Valley Museum • Eau Claire • 834-7871 • www.cvmuseum.com

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Monday, Nov. 24
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The End of A Beginning - Senior Show of Deb D'Souza, Tim Howe, Karen Barthels, and Ashley Sudden

The Senior Show of Debra D'Souza, Timothy Howe, Karen Barthels, and Ashely Suddendorf. The culmination of our BFA degree, come and see our show of fine art paintings, drawings, and prints based on nature and memory.

FREE

Gallery 209, Applied Arts Building, UW- Stout, 415 13th Avenue East, Menomonie (715) 232-2261

 Visual Art

Event Ends: Sunday, Nov. 30
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Flesh & Bonsai Paintings by Kaz Kuroki

Talented local painter Kaz Kuroki will be displaying some of his more impressive pieces through the month of November. A reception will be held for Mr. Kuroki on the evening of Thursday, Oct. 30th, 7-9pm. If needed, check venue for hours.

Free

Infinitea Teahouse, 112 East Grand Ave., Eau Claire (715) 514-1975