RAC Events:
A timely evening of art,
food, theater and wine
Benefitting the Racine Arts Council in their work to foster the arts in our community
A Big Thank You!
to everyone who attended Quick!Draw
and helped make this year's event such a success!
Special thanks to our Artists (see below)
Our Musicians
"I Have Three Hands" and Nate Mortensen
The Over Our Head Players
for their performance of "The Covenant"
and serving as our Auctioneers for the evening
Uncorkt! and the Ivanhoe Pub and Eatery
2010 Quick!Draw Artists:
Don Danowski
Don Danowski is a graduate of MIAD and the Manager of an art department at the Bradford Exchange. A prominent Wisconsin born artist, his works have been featured in many galleries and art shows throughout the state and his work works have won many awards including national. Locally his works have been featured over the years in many galleries and shows including The Monument Square Art Fair and numerous private collections, The Starving Artist Art Fair and the Sixth Street Art Walk.
Ed Danowski
Ed Danowski studied his art at UWM. Another prominent award winning Wisconsin born artist and the senior member of this artistic family, his works too have been featured in many galleries and art shows as well as in collections around the world. Locally his works have been featured over the years in many galleries and shows including Watercolor Wisconsin, The Monument Square Art Fair, The Starving Artist Art Fair and the Sixth Street Art Walk. He is a member of The Wisconsin Watercolor Society. Ed is known for many other creative contributions including as the co-creator of the published comic strip "Happast VII", the inventor of a number of games which he created and sold, music which he has written and for his serigraphs. Ed is also the author of four books, three of which are now in print and can be found at Barnes and Noble where he will be the featured artist at a book signing on June 19th in Racine. Ed is also being scheduled for his third guest appearance on Channel 4's "Morning Blend" TV show during June.
http://www.cobblestoneltd.com/ ("Then click on Featured Artists").
Greg Danowski
Greg Danowski is a graduate of UWM where he studied art. He is the youngest of this artistic family. He too is a sucessful artist in his own right. Also a well known Wisconsin born artist, his works have been featured in a number of galleries and art shows and have also won rnumerous awards and recognition over the years. Locally his works have been featured in many galleries and shows including The Starving Artist Art Fair and the Sixth Street Art Walk as well as in private collections around the world.
Doug Devinny
Doug holds a BA in painting from Colorado State University, 1967. He also holds a MFA in printmaking from Indiana University, 1972. He is Professor Emeritus, Art Department, UW-Parkside and has been teaching printmaking, drawing, and painting in higher education in New York, Indiana, Colorado and most recently UW-Parkside, for 39 years. Doug has exhibited in over 130 regional, national and international exhibitions.
DeeDee Dumont
While I always have known I was an artist I didn't step up to the "REAL" plate until retuning to Racine, my hometown, in 1998.
Mainly a self taught artist I have taken many art classes both accredited and not and even taught a few over the years. Finally I
began showing my stuff in 2000 and since have shown at Anderson Art Center, Wustum Museum, Cedarburg Cultural Art Center, and many local galleries in Racine, Kenosha, and Milwaukee. My art is in many private collections in California, Alabama, Kentucky, Colorado, Illinois, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Wisconsin.
Lauren Johns
Lauren John is an abstract artist that enjoys working in a variety of art mediums including: colored pencils, pen and ink, metal, and her newest art adventure has been learning to make hand-made paper.
Jeffrey Kerr
Works with canvas, thread, pencil, paint, metal.
Jay Mollerskov
Jay Mollerskov works mainly with encaustic wax. His work deals largely with the textural landscape of materials, and the relationships between those surfaces and what becomes exposed beneath. Jay holds BFA in Music & MM degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is an active performer, educator, and artist in southeast Wisconsin.
Brent Oglesby
As far back as I can remember, I have always wanted to wear something just a little different, or as I would tell myself, just a little cooler. And the most creative and cost effective way for me to do this was to begin by making small revisions to existing styles. It’s always reminiscent/funny to think back to what we wore decades ago and sometimes even just a few months ago. My laughable memory was a result of making two pairs of my very own MC Hammer pants when I was in middle school a Walden. I remember jumping off the steps and “poof” these hugely baggy pants would fill up with air. So dorky, yet so cool. A few years back when I was making promotional t-shirts for a BBQ restaurant that I then owned, I got the wearable art bug again. It grew into presenting and promoting myself in a visual space. I would get compliments on items that I made. Little things such as sewing a khaki cargo pocket on a pair of jeans, wearing a two color tie dyed hoodie or having someone buy a tie dyed dress shirt off my back on South Beach. Being a serial entrepreneur began to soon fuse with my creative vent side, I was starting to get a lot of requests for work in addition to wanting to promote the excellent artists that I see daily. Which brings us to where we are now, creating a wearable piece of art for charity. Oh yeah I forgot about the all white pumas than I painted red and yellow…the mind of an artist that is inspired constantly. Live and represent a beautiful life.
Lyle Peters
Kristopher Pollard
Kristopher Pollard has lived and worked in Milwaukee for the past 7 years after moving from his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri. He is a self-taught artist whose work has been shown across the country and published in MKE, Vital Source and The Riverfront Times. Recently Pollard was a finalist for the Pfister Hotel's Artist in Residence program.
Amy Misurelli-Sorenson
Roberta K. Williams
