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Jane Lethlean
Special to The Journal-Standard
FREEPORT Roger Goodspeed of Freeport won a state award through the Monroe Arts Center s Wisconsin Regional Arts Program competition for his painting “Barn Silo,” which will be on display for the next week at the center and then displayed in September at a Wisconsin location yet to be determined.
Goodspeed, who has been painting for much of his life, said he was pleased to be part of a program that recognizes artists for their work through the University of Wisconsin Division of Continuing Studies.
“I used to take tours of barns when they held them a few years ago. I walked into this silo, looking at the light coming through filtered by the sun, and I came home and began painting, Goodspeed said. The competition was related to Wisconsin and I think about how many of the old barns and silos that is disappearing and I knew I had to depict this through my art.”