Congressional Art Contest Winners Selected for 2nd, 6th Districts By Gary Stevens
May 12, 2021 | 7:21 PM
WASHINGTON (WHTC-AM/FM) – The two men who represent the Lakeshore in the US House have had their annual art decisions made.
Both Bill Huizenga (R-Zeeland) and Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph), along with their colleagues on Capitol Hill, stage Congressional Art Competitions, looking to inspire young artists with the opportunity to have their work displayed in the Capitol building for the next year.
“Ruby Red Thoughts” by Kaylynn Barrett (photo courtesy office of US House Rep. Bill Huizenga)
A panel of local art and design professionals, after evaluating 12 finalists, decided on Wednesday (May 12, 2021) that “Ruby Red Thoughts,” created by Kaylynn Barrett of West Ottawa High, was the winner of the 2
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A conversation with Ken Freed
“I was a student of printmaking, and there was a French artist, Félix Hilaire Buhot (1847-1898). He started this thing of making these gorgeous prints,” Freed says. “Then he did all kinds of little drawings and things in the margin. I really liked the informality that it brings to prints, having margins in the plate itself that you can write on or draw pictures on. And so I adopted that for this series.”Freed visited the New York studios of Lowell Nesbitt, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Philip Pearlstein, Louise Nevelson, Richard J. Haas, William S. Haney, Stephen Woodburn, Hiroshi Murata, and Robert Indiana. Their studios ranged from the modest to the luxurious. The grandest of all belonged to Nesbitt.
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U.S. Rep. Fred Upton invites high school students in Michigan’s Sixth Congressional District to participate in the 2021 “Congressional Art Competition.”
Upton’s office is collaborating with the Kalamazoo Institute of Art for the competition. Entries are accepted through March 15.
Entry forms CAC are available at Upton’s website, bit.ly/3bvFROn.
Winning artwork will be displayed at the U.S. Capitol for a year, alongside winning entries from congressional districts throughout the U.S.
The 2020 6th-district winner was Audrey Blough, with “St. Joe Lighthouse Drenched in Beauty,” viewable at bit.ly/30ru7WS.
“Southwest Michigan is full of talented artists, so we are excited to see the submissions this year and crown a 2021 Congressional Art winner,” Upton said in a statement.
Kay WalkingStick joins Hales
NEW YORK, NY
.-Hales is proud to announce representation of American artist Kay WalkingStick. WalkingSticks works are currently included in Site, a three-person exhibition at Hales New York. The gallery will host a solo show of her work in New York City in 2022.
Primarily a painter, Kay WalkingStick (b. 1935 Syracuse, NY) has for over six decades explored the American Landscape and its metaphorical significances to Native Americans and people across the world. WalkingStick has Cherokee/Anglo heritage, and she draws on the Native American experience as well as formal modernist painterly traditions to create works that connect the immediacy of the physical world with the spiritual. Attempting to unify the present with history, her complex works hold tension between representational and abstract imagery. Her paintings represent a knowledge of the earth and its sacred quality.
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