Hearing our Northwoods
Public Art exhibit and classes
Our 2024 Summer Programming is here! Join us for Hearing Our Northwoods, spurring new ways of hearing, listening, and sharing stories with community and self. Through a public art exhibit and related classes, we hope to celebrate ways to hear our Northwoods.
exhibit “Ergo Sum: a crow a day”
The exhibit “Ergo Sum: A Crow a Day” features 365 small panels of mixed media work by visual artist Karen Bondarchuk, as way to honor her mother, who was in the later stages of Alzheimer's disease. Karen created a crow a day for 365 days in a row as a way of marking time that her mother no longer seemed to recognize.
“The series is simultaneously a marker for my mother’s lost time and a constant and acute reminder of my own days, my life, and an attempt to signal visually the preciousness and individuality of each day. Although the project seemed sober to me at its outset, quirky cheer and serendipity came to inhabit many of the panels.”
- Karen Bondarchuk
The free exhibit will be on display July 9 - August 16
Closed Monday
Tues - Thurs 10 - 4
Fri 10 - 4, + 6 - 9* music events
Sat 11 - 3
Sun 10 - 2
This is a touring exhibition from the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin.
Classes designed for hearing our Northwoods
We also have a variety of classes, designed with Hearing Our Northwoods (and ourselves!) in mind that highlights additional artists, drawing connections to what can and needs to be heard in Our Northwoods.
Registration is required for classes, and spaces are limited. We would like to thank our teachers for connecting to this community.
Hearing our Northwoods 2024
For the past three years, public exhibits and related artistic programming surrounding the themes Connect to the Northwoods (2021), Living WITH the Northwoods (2022), and Seeing Our Northwoods (2023).
Through these experiences, we successfully activated the arts to forge community connections across cultures while establishing a model highlighting an accomplished artist whose work becomes the hub for related programming.
Our 2024 program, Hearing our Northwoods, aims to expand and deepen the connections established over the last three summers.
This programming is in part funded by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board and the National Endowment for the Arts.
