Mural, Mural on the Wall
Jane Kim Artist Residency
Friday – Sunday Nove. 9 – 18
Artist, science illustrator, and founder of Ink Dwell – a studio designed to inspire people to love and protect the earth, Jane Kim specializes in creating large-scale public installations. Her paintings capture the awe-inspiring realism of the natural world.
She received widespread acclaim for her Cornell University Lab of Ornithology mural celebrating the evolution and diversity of birds. During Jane’s Woodson Art Museum residency, observe her at work as she completes a large, commissioned painting onsite, illustrating how bird feathers get their color. She also will lead a “Birds in Art” gallery walk, offer a full-day scientific illustration workshop for teens and adults, and present an evening presentation about her work and artistic process as well as sign copies of “The Wall of Birds,” which chronicles the Lab of Ornithology project.
Nov. 15 Thursday 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Behind The Wall of Birds
Presentation and Book Signing
Join Jane Kim as she tells the story of her 2,500-square-foot mural for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology depicting the evolution of birds. The two-and-a-half-year journey to complete this monumental mural is documented in a new book, “The Wall of Birds: One Planet, 243 Families, 375 Million Years.” A book signing follows Jane’s presentation; books available for purchase at the museum.
On view through November 2018
“Birds in Art”
Birds enthrall us with their stunning plumage, amusing antics, and lilting song. “Birds in Art” artworks inspire in endlessly novel ways, too, evoking the freedom of flight and the fragility of birds’ earthbound existence. Experience this year’s 43rd annual, internationally renowned exhibition; discover how the all-new paintings, sculptures, and graphics of 114 worldwide artists enchant you.
To Woodson Friends Guest Book
For almost 20 years, the museum has welcomed a steady flow of artists in residence, most of whom settled into our modest guesthouse for stays of varying lengths and honored us by not only their extraordinary work in the classroom, in the galleries, and on the grounds, but also by leaving their marks in a guestbook. To celebrate the artist residency program, multiple guestbooks have been carefully unbound and the pages framed and presented in the classroom to inspire students and all visitors during this fall’s residencies with “Birds in Art” artists Kris Parins and Josh Guge and with science illustrator and artist Jane Kim.
On view through Feb. 17, 2019
From the Museum’s Collection
“Dynamic Designs: The Serigraphs of Anne Senechal Faust”
Anne Faust’s vibrant silk-screens affirm her mastery of this medium and a deep knowledge of and affinity for birds and their habitats. Named the Museum’s “Birds in Art” Master Wildlife Artist in 1999, she was the first woman and the first printmaker to receive this recognition. Anne designated the Woodson Art Museum as the repository for her artistic oeuvre, representing a commitment by the artist to ensure the museum’s collection includes each of her screen-prints.
On view through August 2019
“Regal Bearing” Bird Portraiture
“Regal Bearing” Bird Portraiture
“Regal Bearing” applies the tenets of portraiture to more than sixty artworks from the museum’s collection. As with human portraits, the artists represented captured the essence of their subjects using a variety of formats, including a focus on single birds without backgrounds, as well as the inclusion of habitat or attributes that help to characterize a species or place it in context.
“Sharing the Shoreline”
Discover the beauty of shorebirds — sanderlings, stilts, turnstones, whimbrels, yellowlegs and others – through sculptures and works on paper from the collection.
In the Sculpture Garden
“The Dance”
Inspired by the way the seasonal migration of sandhill cranes to their Wisconsin nesting grounds marks the passage of time, Boston artists-The Myth Makers-Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein, constructed 25-foot-tall sandhill cranes of Wausau-area saplings, on-site.
Inspired by the way the seasonal migration of sandhill cranes to their Wisconsin nesting grounds marks the passage of time, Boston artists-The Myth Makers-Donna Dodson and Andy Moerlein, constructed 25-foot-tall sandhill cranes of Wausau-area saplings, on-site.
The Woodson is at 700 N. 12th St., Wausau.
Photo courtesy the Woodson.
