2026 Artist Talks - The Why and, maybe the Why Not?
Frederic Arts will again present a series of three Artist Talks that we hope will help all of understand each other better; Not just how we work but why we choose to create. (after all, why not?) These will be relatively short sessions but we hope open windows into the speakers’ world told with plenty of visuals.
Each talk will be held at the Frederic Art Center, begin at 7PM and last 45-60 minutes plus time for questions.
Come, learn and enjoy!
Thursday, September 10 - Carol Adleman
Carol Adleman of Luck works with both collage and cyanotype and often combines them into works on fabric and paper. She has worked in her home studio for over 25 years and previously lived in a suburb of Mpls. She is always interested in trying new ways to express herself in art as she explores the variety of sources around her. Influences in her work include Hans Hoffman, Sean Scully and Richard Diebenkorn. Over the years her work has been shown in juried shows around the country and is now shown in two local galleries, One 10 Gallery in Frederic and ArtZ in Amery.
Thursday, October 8th - Barbara Bend
Barbara Riegel Bend
Some people are readers, or runners, or travelers these activities can inspire a greater understanding of the world we live in, I am a maker. I like to make things out of the materials that come my way. In some ways, a group of friends and I, have become a leftover fabric digester. Over the years we have gathered boxes, bags, and bails of zippers from factory overstock, been gifted unused fabrics from all over the world, gathered a car full of silk tie fabric from a closing factory, and once a truck load of fabric from a widower who needed the space after his wife died. I look for the buried gems in these cultural remnants; the materials that inspire a transformation from the everyday object to an unearthed concept waiting to show its self. That is why I am a maker, I transform the inert object into a living idea or emotional connection.
I live with my husband in the St Croix Valley Watershed of Wisconsin, we garden, manage the woods and native prairies. I share a working studio space at Color Crossing in Roberts WI and show my work in an artist managed gallery, Price Krishnan Gallery in the Northrup King Building in NE Minneapolis, MN and at Season on St Croix in Hudson, WI
Thursday November 12 - Michael Whiteside
