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WAUKESHA –
Letha Kelsey teaches art at the University of
Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County but paints what she learns from the
land. She will exhibit “Rural Solitaire,” which expresses some of
those lessons, in the Fine Arts Center Gallery at the University of
Wisconsin-Waukesha, 1500 N. University Dr., Waukesha, March 5-April
13. Admission is free and the public is welcome.
Gallery hours are 10:00-11:00 a.m. Mondays and
Wednesdays and also 3:00-4:00 p.m. on Mondays. It is open noon-1:00
p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, during special events, or by
phoning (262) 521-5445 for a private viewing. The faculty secretary,
located in Room 010 (521-5494) of the same building, can provide
access from 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Monday-Friday as well.
A native of rural Iowa, Kelsey takes her
artistic cues from the Midwest’s natural settings. She is fascinated
by the way different creatures perceive and interact with the
environment. She observes these by day, draws from memory at night,
and completes the work as a reminiscence of nature.
She uses paints to sensually convey feeling.
Pigmented plasters accept media in different ways, and the surfaces
can be manipulated with sanding, layering, or encasing, she points
out. With these techniques, she tries to capture such elusive
concepts as the whisper of a spring breeze or the smell of a May
evening after the rain.
A 2000 graduate of
the Minnesota State University, Kelsey earned an MFA from UW-Madison
in 2002. Within the last couple years, she had a solo show at the
James Watrous Gallery in Madison, participated in the STRAY Show in
Chicago, was the featured artist during the Contemporary Arts Month
in San Antonio, and served an artist-in-residency at the Vermont
Studio Center, Johnson, VT. She's also given a lecture at Edgewood
College, Madison, and has work in the permanent collections of
UW-Madison's Memorial Union and Minnesota State's Centennial Union.UW-Waukesha has the largest enrollment among
the 13 freshman-sophomore University of Wisconsin Colleges campuses.
For information about programs, admission, or financial aid, contact
the Student Services office at (262) 521-5200 or visit the Web at
www.waukesha.uwc.edu.
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