Picture an old time hitched-horse team and driver, but in this instance the horses are a donkey and elephant and the driver is Uncle Sam. “Can anybody do a day’s work with a team like that?�...
https://portalwisconsin.wordpress.com/2017/09/22/politics-and-a-milkmans-masterpiece/
With the assistance of wonderful weather, over 400 nurturing relatives and friends arriving during the course of the day, Milwaukee’s Jim Godsil celebrated his 70th birthday on August 22. Affir...
https://portalwisconsin.wordpress.com/2015/10/01/jim-godsil-rainbow-street-party-of-100-names/
Wisconsin is well-known around the nation for a proliferation of roadside art. Many of the artists were self-taught, adding to the intrigue, if you will, of farmers and tavern keepers becoming ar...
https://portalwisconsin.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/its-gotta-be-in-ya-to-do-it/
Wisconsin is rich with roadside art, and many a weekend can be spent tracking down hard-to-find treasures hidden in rural places that seem almost lost. In the next few weeks some of these sites w...
The first of five Wandering Wisconsin 2015 arts events will feature the Painted Forest in tiny Valton, Wisconsin. The Painted Forest is a very unique environment created in an old Modern Woodme...
https://portalwisconsin.wordpress.com/2015/08/01/take-a-drive-to-art-outdoors-august-2-2015/
Five fascinating Wandering Wisconsin art environments will host an August weekend of free fun through art making. If you’re not an artist come anyway because there will be plenty of them and th...
I missed the introduction to the “rapid fire” lecture of UW-Madison professor and painter Leslie Smith III. Smith, in full force, as I entered the dark auditorium, showed little inclination t...
https://portalwisconsin.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/leslie-smith-iii-i-want-people-to-just-get-it/
“The first reason why I chose to go on this field trip was to miss school. When I got there, I discovered it was actually super interesting.” So said a 16 year-old high school student in refl...
https://portalwisconsin.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/what-high-school-kids-want/
Four of Wisconsin’s fascinating art environments have got a great event for artists coming soon. Actually the Wandering Wisconsin Plein Air Competition has something for everyone, regardless ...
https://portalwisconsin.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/artists-invade-environments/
The humanities world is talking about a new report, released by The Academy of Arts & Sciences, calling attention to the importance of the humanities in 2013. I already believe the humanities are...
https://portalwisconsin.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/the-meaning-of-life/