Tom Groenfeldt

1 week ago | doorcountypulse.com | Tom Groenfeldt

The inaugural Door County Contemporary Art Fair brought 20 galleries from around the Midwest to the Peninsula School of Art in Fish Creek. Photo by Remy Carmichael. The inaugural Door County Contemporary Art Fair, held June 5-8, drew 2,300 people and 20 Midwest galleries to the Peninsula School of Art in Fish Creek. In addition to attracting artists and collectors, the fair brought in a range of arts professionals, from state-level economic development staff to arts nonprofits.

2 weeks ago | doorcountypulse.com | Tom Groenfeldt

“Into the Mystic” by Marc Anderson. I was first attracted to “Into the Mystic,” an oil painting by Door County resident and plein-air painter Marc Anderson, because of its unique perspective. How often does one see a painting of Cave Point partially obscured by fog? The scene shows a pair of cedars diffused by fog that grows denser with height, its base highlighted by flame-yellow grasses.

2 weeks ago | doorcountypulse.com | Tom Groenfeldt

Keven Wilder in her new Annex gallery. Submitted. Keven Wilder, an artist who divides her time between Chicago and Ellison Bay, said she has always been drawn to the visual, but she didn’t think art would pay well. So she got a law degree and went to work as general counsel for Manhattan Cable TV in New York. Her life has consistently moved toward the visual, she said – the visual and the entrepreneurial. “I was fascinated by cable TV because it was entrepreneurial,” Wilder said.

1 month ago | doorcountypulse.com | Tom Groenfeldt

Inside the Portrait Society Gallery of Contemporary Art. Submitted. PenArt hosts inaugural Door County Contemporary Art Fair June 5-8Twenty urban art galleries from around the Midwest will come to Fish Creek the first weekend in June for the inaugural Door County Contemporary Art Fair. Held at Peninsula School of Art (PenArt), the fair will open with a VIP reception on June 5 and run through the weekend.

1 month ago | doorcountypulse.com | Tom Groenfeldt

Jens Jensen at work. Submitted. The Clearing Folk School in Ellison Bay is celebrating its 90th anniversary with a show of founder Jens Jensen’s paintings and an accompanying book, Jens Jensen, Brushstrokes of a Landscape Architect, by Carlynn Trout. The Clearing is one of the stops on the Ellison Bay Art Crawl, May 17-18 this year – a perfect time to visit and see the exhibit. Jensen founded The Clearing in 1935 at age 70 after retiring from his landscape business in Chicago.