Andrew Family Art Gallery
Thanks to our dedicated Art Committee, the gallery regularly features the work of local and area artists. From professionals to hobbyists to elementary school children, we're fortunate to enjoy these inspiring displays all year long. Stop in and browse at your convenience. We think you'll be impressed!
It is the mission of the Creekside Place Art Committee to raise awareness of art and make art accessible to everyone in the community; to support art in the public schools and the community; to support area artists; and to add value to Creekside Place. To accomplish this, the Art Committee will:
- Display a consistent showing of high-quality, professionally presented contemporary artwork for public viewing
- Provide a venue for area artists to present and sell their work
- Promote area artists and present a variety of media
- Provide social and educational opportunities to meet and learn from artists
- Support Creekside Place through commissions from artwork sold
Current Exhibit:
As a retired certified travel agent for 48 years I was able to lead art groups with an experienced watercolor instructor to many worldwide destinations. TRAVELQUEST in Janesville was my business for the last 24 years, and it was there, that I met the most wonderful artists in our area. We traveled to so many great places, such as Italy, Hawaii, Ireland, Caribbean, Mexico, Greek Isles, Sedona, Santa Fe, and many more wonderful destinations that artists just had to visit!
More recently after retirement from the travel agency I learned how to expand my art from watercolors to acrylic pourings. I jumped right in to watching, reading, and experiencing this new method of art. How can one get so excited about pouring paints in and out of cup, literally throwing it on a surface, and not know what is going to happen? No prior experience and having fun, is what this process is all about.
The results are very satisfying for anyone that has never painted before! Everyone sees something different in each painting.
I currently run workshops from my art studio to include children and adults. I was selected to do the Beloit Wisconsin Regional Art Program(WRAP) workshop in June 2018, and have more recently demonstrated my acrylic pouring techniques at a local church. Outside I am helping our Men’s Shelter in Janesville a form of art therapy. I volunteer my time and have felt extensive satisfaction in this process. Most recently I chaired the Bridging Generations committee with 2 art workshops and an art exhibit and reception in November 2018 at Basics Cooperative in Janesville for children ages 3-12 years.
I am a member of the Janesville Art League, Wisconsin Regional Artists Association(WRAA), Whitewater Art Alliance, and the Janesville Noon’s Lion Club. My art is on display at Marling Home Works, Janesville Performing Art Center, and the Janesville Innovation Center. I have been appointed to the WRAA board in Spring 2018 as the coordinator for Bridging Generations.
This exhibit has my favorite acrylic pouring piece - “Within The Deep”, a Wisconsin Regional Art Program State award that was presented to me in June, 2018, as well as a State Conference award in Madison in September, 2018.
I am pleased to have been chosen to exhibit at Creekside Place and hope you are able to enjoy and appreciate my art!
-Nancy McKinnon
Please join us at Creekside Place for the opening reception for Nancy's Watercolors & Acrylics
Thursday, December 6, 2018
5:30-7:00 pm
Free Admission-Complimentary Appetizers-Cash Bar
Exhibit runs November 21-January 14, 2019
More recently after retirement from the travel agency I learned how to expand my art from watercolors to acrylic pourings. I jumped right in to watching, reading, and experiencing this new method of art. How can one get so excited about pouring paints in and out of cup, literally throwing it on a surface, and not know what is going to happen? No prior experience and having fun, is what this process is all about.
The results are very satisfying for anyone that has never painted before! Everyone sees something different in each painting.
I currently run workshops from my art studio to include children and adults. I was selected to do the Beloit Wisconsin Regional Art Program(WRAP) workshop in June 2018, and have more recently demonstrated my acrylic pouring techniques at a local church. Outside I am helping our Men’s Shelter in Janesville a form of art therapy. I volunteer my time and have felt extensive satisfaction in this process. Most recently I chaired the Bridging Generations committee with 2 art workshops and an art exhibit and reception in November 2018 at Basics Cooperative in Janesville for children ages 3-12 years.
I am a member of the Janesville Art League, Wisconsin Regional Artists Association(WRAA), Whitewater Art Alliance, and the Janesville Noon’s Lion Club. My art is on display at Marling Home Works, Janesville Performing Art Center, and the Janesville Innovation Center. I have been appointed to the WRAA board in Spring 2018 as the coordinator for Bridging Generations.
This exhibit has my favorite acrylic pouring piece - “Within The Deep”, a Wisconsin Regional Art Program State award that was presented to me in June, 2018, as well as a State Conference award in Madison in September, 2018.
I am pleased to have been chosen to exhibit at Creekside Place and hope you are able to enjoy and appreciate my art!
-Nancy McKinnon
Please join us at Creekside Place for the opening reception for Nancy's Watercolors & Acrylics
Thursday, December 6, 2018
5:30-7:00 pm
Free Admission-Complimentary Appetizers-Cash Bar
Exhibit runs November 21-January 14, 2019
Attention Artists
Interested in featuring your work in our gallery? Our Art Committee would love to meet with you.
Previously Featured Artists
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Connie Glowacki
Connie says fascination with light and shadow as they define shape and textures has led her to an increasingly wider scope of subject matter. Her goal in painting is to show a time and place which enriches the viewer's life, restores positive values, informs of something new and gives a feeling of awe and joy! |
Karen Gilbank
Karen takes inspiration from the rural countryside of Wisconsin and its animal inhabitants and then depicts her observations through printmaking. This allows her to explore different techniques, including multiple drop monotypes, relief, intaglio, and solarplates. |
Mike McKinnon
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Barbara Mathews
Barbara is an area artist and teacher who specializes in watercolor. “Composition, shape, values, color, design, and my own passion for a subject, leads me through my paintings. My passion has turned into an obsession...it’s my life!” Facebook: @LazyRiverStudio. Email: bmathews2@charter.net. |
Lynn Barber
Watercolor batiks on rice paper. Batik is a technique of layering wax and watercolors to produce varying shades of color. Lynn uses Ginwashi rice paper, a semi-transparent paper with small fibers running through it. “This paper gives the batiks a wonderful texture and a unique natural look,” Lynn said. “The edges are deckled, which gives the batik a feathery finish.” Visit Lynn's website: naturesartstudio.weebly.com/ |
Diane Adams
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Barbara Leonard
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Trent Schmick
Trent painted five vibrant canvases for his exhibit in our gallery. His artwork focuses on painting, drawing and printmaking. Trent lives, teaches and creates in Evansville, WI. Visit his facebook page. |
Jan Norsetter
Jan is an award-winning oil painter known for vibrant landscape paintings en plein air and evocatively detailed studies in still life. Learn more at www.norsetter.com. |
Steve Wagner
Steve's watercolors capture the fluidity and unpredictability of nature. His style invokes daydreams of horses galloping across the plains to birds massing in the sky. More of Steve's work can be seen at www.wagnercolor.com. |
Kristine Moser
Moser has created tapestries for twenty years, and her work can be found throughout the United States and around the world. |
Mary Koehl
A former Evansville teacher who works primarily as a metal smith and sculptor. She has shown her work regionally and nationally. |
James Steeno
A Milwaukee-based artist whose mediums include oil painting, watercolor, sketches, paper collages & illustration. www.jamessteeno.com Like James on facebook |
Mary Mason Braunschweig
A former middle school art teacher, Mary has spent most of her life drawing, doodling, coloring and scribbling. She says, "My current artwork is done just for fun…I finally found a way to turn my doodles into the type of work I’m happy to frame and give to my friends. I hope you like it." |
Butch Beedle & Steve Feeney
Butch Beedle has been to Panama eight times in the last fifteen years, leading more than 140 students and chaperones on trips of discovery. Steve Feeney has been on three of those trips, working with Butch on his photography skills. Fortunately for those of us back home, they've taken countless photos of these adventures. |
Richard Krake
A Wisconsin native who discovered the joy of drawing as a child on his family farm. Visit Richard's blog at Cooksville Farmhouse Inn |