The 51 artists and artisans profiled in this book have created everything from elegant oil paintings to playful painted leaves, graceful bronze sculptures to exquisite carved eggshells, artistic quilts to atavistic found-object constructions. The roster also includes glass and metal artists, woodcarvers, weavers, photographers, a folk harp builder, a model ship builder, a sailmaker, a greeting card designer, a collage artist, a light artist, and others. Equipped with a camera and a tape recorder, Buz Swerkstrom produced hundreds of quote-rich profiles over the course of more than 30 years,...
The 51 artists and artisans profiled in this book have created everything from elegant oil paintings to playful painted leaves, graceful bronze sculpt...
The 50 pieces in this collection range from the mirthful (mythical creatures, a 19th Century preacher's theory the Garden of Eden was in western Wisconsin) to the dramatic (a case of frontier crime and punishment straight out of the Wild West) to the thoughtful (youthful sports champions look back at their triumphs decades later). Beginning with the geologic and glacial shaping of the landscape, the pieces proceed through time to Wisconsin's earliest inhabitants, the Woodland Indian period, the fur trade and logging eras, to 20th Century events. There are pieces about writers (Hamlin Garland,...
The 50 pieces in this collection range from the mirthful (mythical creatures, a 19th Century preacher's theory the Garden of Eden was in western Wisco...
