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Midsummer Festival of the Arts
Thank you!
Thank you for being a part of the 54th Midsummer Festival of the Arts this past July 20–21, 2024. We appreciate the 10,000 attendees who made it to Sheboygan for a fantastic weekend connecting with artists, community, artists, and the Arts Center.
One hundred juried artist booths featured paintings, photographs, jewelry, wearables, wood carvings, ceramics, glass, leather goods, textiles, and more. Thank you to featured artist Jean Wells for her Under the Sea design for this year’s t-shirts and marketing for the festival.
Four emerging regional artists were invited to participate in this year’s Festival: Fernando Rico, Gabriela Marván, Amal Azzam, and Geornica Daniels. This Arts Center initiative makes arts festivals more accessible to emerging artists. Thank you to artist consultant Frank Juárez of Artdose Magazine for selecting these artists to be part of this experience and to the mentors returning this year, Nehemiah Edwards (Nemo), Sonia Vasquez, and Liala Amin. We were also thrilled to have RCS Empowers, Inc. return this year for the weekend and to feature a tent with Arts Center staff artists and their work.
Festival goers also experienced free art making and workshops inspired by the Arts Center’s Work in Progress theme. Inspired by Arts/Industry alumnus artist David Franklin, people poured plaster mold fish and created mixed media clay landscapes outside under the activities tent in the Festival Green. Inside the Arts Center, a Foundry in a Box workshop was held in the STUDIO for those you wanted to try casting in tin. In the Workplace gallery, attendees joined Justin Favela, Arts/Industry alumnus, in creating a large-scale installation resembling nachos using cartonería techniques, a traditional Mexican method of building structures with paper-mâché.
Entertainment included four Levitt AMP Sheboygan Music Series concerts and strolling performers, including stilt walker Jess Clark and aerial performances with Warped Dance Company. The festival was complimented with the Arts Center galleries, a food court area featuring several food trucks and a beverage tent, and other happenings held throughout the weekend, including an Art Patron Breakfast.
All of this could not have happened without our presenting sponsors Acuity and Lake 98.1, and supporting sponsors Grandstay Residential Suites, Bank First, City of Sheboygan, Meijer, Blue Harbor Resort, 3 Sheeps Brewing Company, and Curt G. Joa, Inc. Additional support provided by Encore Luxury Apartments.
Please mark your calendars and make plans to attend next year’s Midsummer Festival of the Arts, July 19-20, 2025.
Free Admission!
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Featured Artist
Jean Wells
Booth #105
Jean Wells, owner of Jean’s Clay Studio, creates colorful sgraffito pottery in her home studio in Brown Deer, Wisconsin. She studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1985–1988, majoring in ceramics and minoring in portrait painting. After apprenticing at Geneva Art Pottery in 1990, she started her own studio practice in Milwaukee in 1993.
Wells sells her work at regional art and craft shows and in her online shop on Etsy. From 2013–2018, she created a successful series of limited-edition mugs for Colectivo Coffee and was commissioned by the USGA to create commemorative pieces for the 2017 US Open Championship in Erin, Wisconsin.
Wells serves on the board of Wisconsin Craft, Inc., and is a member of the Milwaukee Artists Resource Network. She co-founded Milwaukee Empty Bowls, which has raised over $1 million for local food pantries and meal programs since 1999.
Free Concerts: City Green Stage
These concerts are part of the Levitt AMP Sheboygan Music Series.
Buffalo Nichols
Saturday, July 20
11:00 a.m.
The Grammy Award-Winning Rebirth Brass Band
Saturday, July 20
2:00 p.m.
Copper Box
Sunday, July 21
11:00 a.m.
Patty PerShayla & The Mayhaps
Sunday, July 16
2:00 p.m.
On Saturday and Sunday, enjoy strolling performances including stilt walker Jess Clark, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. and aerial performances with Warped Dance Company, 1:00–2:00 p.m.
Food and nonalcoholic carry-ins welcome. The Arts Center CAFE inside the building will be closed during the festival.
Participating food trucks include:
• JMKAC’s Culinary Art Car
• Paradigm
• Thai Express
• Dereks Curbside Grill
• The Cookie Crate
• Gyros 2GO
• Rosa’s Mexican Bakery
• The Kernel and the Old Maid
• Pork in the Road
• Sweet Escapes
• Junior’s Eats
• Harvest Street
• No Pork On Your Fork
• The Nutman
• Say Cheese
Vendors are subject to change.
No alcohol carry-ins allowed.
Beverage Tent Menu:
• Arts Center Fred Smith Lager
• 3 Sheeps Beer: Pils, Chaos Pattern IPA, Rebel Kent Amber Ale
• NA Upside Down
• 3 Sheeps Cloudless Hard Seltzer: Wild Berry, Pineapple, Mango
• Wine & Sangria: Cabernet, Chardonnay, Moscato, Cruz Real Sangria
• Soda: Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Starry
• Bottled Water
Beverage menu is subject to change.
Plaster Mold Making and Clay Play (Festival Green activity tent)
Engage your creativity in some hands-on fun.
Clay Play Landscapes (Festival Green activity tent)
Drawing inspiration from the Arts/Industry artists in the Work in Progress exhibitions series, create a mixed-media clay landscape. Use colored sand, stones, and natural materials to embellish your one-of-a-kind creation! This project is suitable for all ages.
Plaster Mold Making (Festival Green activity tent)
Inspired by Arts/Industry artist David Franklin, select a silicone fish mold and pour your own plaster fish! Use watercolor paints to enhance your plaster fish details. This project is suitable for all ages.
Foundry in a Box (Social STUDIO inside the Arts Center)
Try your hand at casting with tin in the Foundry in a Box workshop.
Work with Artist Justin Favela (Workplace gallery inside the Arts Center)
Join Justin Favela, an alumnus of the Arts/Industry residency at Kohler Co. factory, in creating a large-scale installation resembling nachos. We will be working on larger-than-life toppings such as tomatoes, cheese, jalapenos, chips, and more created using cartonería techniques. Cartonería is a traditional Mexican technique of building structures with paper-mâché.
Be sure to include the exhibitions inside the Arts Center in your Festival experience. We invite you to connect with community, artists, and the world around us through the current Arts Center theme, Work in Progress. Celebrating 50 years of the Arts/Industry residency program, the exhibitions honor and examine the impact the program has had on hundreds of artists and countless Kohler Co. associates, as well as the value artists bring to industrial environments.
Exhibitions include:Mad Dash: 50 Years of Arts/Industry, Clocking In: 2024 Arts/Industry Residents, Workplace, No Grout, Knock First, Lunch Break: Arts/Industry in Between, Willie Cole: Home Asembly, and Water-Sprouts and Remains (an unfolding).
(Matrix inside the Arts Center)
Four emerging regional artists were invited to participate in this year’s Midsummer Festival of the Arts: Fernando Rico, Gabriela Marván, Amal Azzam, and Geornica Daniels. This Arts Center initiative makes arts festivals more accessible to emerging artists. Thank you to artist consultant Frank Juárez of Artdose Magazine for selecting these artists to be part of this experience and to the mentors returning this year, Nehemiah Edwards (Nemo), Sonia Vasquez, and Liala Amin.
The Arts Center is thrilled to welcome back RCS Empowers, Inc., a Sheboygan-based organization serving adults with disabilities. Please stop by and see their work outside the Arts Center across from the front entrance.
Make plans to visit the Art Preserve and see the Arts Center’s collection of over thirty-five artist-built environments along with these temporary exhibitions: Bea Fremderman and Grottoes and Asberry Davis: Run Your Own Way. Admission is free. The Art Preserve is located at 3636 Lower Falls Rd., Sheboygan.
No unauthorized drones. No bird scooters.
Artists interested in applying to Midsummer Festival of the Arts
Artists must apply through ZAPPlication. Applications will be accepted mid-December 2024 through March 1, 2025. Notifications of acceptance will be sent early April.
Vendors interested in applying to Midsummer Festival of the Arts
Vendors interested in being part of the Festival should email MFA@jmkac.org for application (available early 2025).
Should you have further questions or need more information, please email MFA@jmkac.org.
Past Artists
Ceramics
Carra, Francesco
Elsinger, Cathy
Gaspar Hart, Joan
Hendrix, Kyle
Kaminski, Kate
Krueger, Andrew
Leung, Chris
Lindner, Linda
Nishitateno, Hironobu
Raschick, Rick
Robertson, Elizabeth
Robertson, Richard
Tortorella, Jill
Walker, Dan
Wells, Jean
Williams, Colleen
Drawing
Brandl, Anthony
Katz, Ronna
Strublic, Anthony
Wimmer, Annette
Fiber & Leather
Gereau, Kristin
Kroth, Pat
Lee, Xao
Mattson, Rachel & Quella, Kaylin
Otterson, Susan
Raymond, Gwendi & Quispe Huaman, Wilber
Schomburg, Cora
Skenandore, Liandra
Snider, Tammy
terBeest, Kudla Char
VanAsten, Kate
Vosk, Lana
Wolf, Yuliya & Cieslinski, Kenzie
Glass
Fujimoto, Sharon
Mote, Lisa
Rezin, Sara
Straub, Justin
Vansledright. Marygail
Jewelry
Bahringer, Charles
Bailey, William & Bailey, Lisa
Bird, Chelsea
Burcham, Julie
Jingst, Shayna
Johnson, Marti
Long, Hannah
Mehta, Meena
Meznarich, Katie
Raml, Patti
Richter-O’Connell, Susan
Shaffer, Jane & Shaffer, Susan
Winter, Claudia
Metal
Drizin, Joanie
Grenzow Mauer, Shari
Matyszczyk, Cliff & Matyszczyk, Bronson
Radke, Debbie
Mixed Media
Barenz, Stephanie
Hager, Mary
Hart, Naomi
Knier, Maria
Lee, Randy & Lee, Lisa
Morrison, Connie
Perez Fraga, Eduin
Savarie, Valerie
Schnabl, Babs
Widmer, Don
Painting
Burnett, Kimberly
Christopoulos, Rachel
Fisher, Toril
Greentree, Kelli
Kobs, Timothy
Kornowski, Pete
Kotecki, Jason
Mittelstadt, Frank
Pacini, Kristen
Pankratz, Adam
Rudisill, Andrea
Watson-Newlin, Karen
Photography & Digital Art
Beck, Roger Alan
Bigelow, Ryan
Bossenbroek, Nick
Croatt, Michael
Kullmann, Angela
Lemke, William
Merrill, Josh
Walton, Jon
Zale, Lou
Printmaking
Grabhorn, Craig
Kaczkowski, Erin
Kosten, Andrew
Scheckel, Julia
Steinbach, Raychel
Troller, Rita
Wood
Bemis, Richard
Boris, Scott
Bortz, Brian
Debertin, Jack
Hechel, John & Hechel, Trudie
Hudson, Dirk
Newton, Robert
Featured Artist: Jean Wells
Ceramics
Bada Maloney, Deana
Elsinger, Cathy
Gaspar Hart, Joan
Hendrix, Kyle
Krause, Gordon
Krueger, Andrew
Lindner, Linda
Lovell, Kara
Natkin, Andryea
Nishitateno, Hironobu
Raschick, Rick
Robertson, Elizabeth
Robertson, Richard
Roethle, MaryAnne
Saheb Ekhtiari, Hosseinali & Rouhi, Maryam
Wells, Jean
Drawing
Brandl, Anthony
Compass, Liza
Dominguez, Paul
Strublic, Anthony
Wimmer, Annette
Fiber & Leather
Burke, Alyssa
Gereau, Kristin
Graf, Emily
Lee, Xao
Mattson, Rachel & Quella, Kaylin
Nolan, Kayla & Lindquist, Lori
Otterson, Susan
Raymond, Gwendi & Quispe Huaman, Wilber
Skenandore, Liandra
Tupesis, Nicole
VanAsten, Kate
Vosk, Lana
Glass
Easton, Tammy
Fujimoto, Sharon
Mote, Lisa
Rezin, Sara
Jewelry
Baade, Audra
Bahringer, Charles
Bailey, William & Bailey, Lisa
Bird, Chelsea
Burcham, Julie
Carreon, Claudia
Fairchild, Monika
Farra, Wayne
Houndsome, Jean
Jensen, Chris
Jingst, Shayna
Krahn, Nancy
Long, Hannah
Meznarich, Katie
Nunnelee, Jennifer
Qualley Peterson, Kate
Raml, Patti
Raven, Jan
Richter-O’Connell, Susan
Shaffer, Susan & Shaffer Jane
Shinnick, Emily
Stewartson, Stacey
Metal
Drizin, Joanie
Grenzow Mauer, Shari
Matyszczyk, Cliff
Radke, Debbie
Mixed Media
Barenz, Stephanie
Fraga, Eduin
Hart, Naomi
Ihlenfeldt, Tonja
McDill, Layl
Schnabl, Babs
Theobald, Rich
Painting
Fisher, Toril
Greentree, Kelli
McGee, Melvin
Mullen, Micah
Strobel, Vicki
Thomas, Christina
Tschida Petters, Kimberly
Watson-Newlin, Karen
Wilson, Channing
Photography & Digital Art
Bossenbroek, Nick
Franzen, Emiko & Franzen, Emiko
Hoynik, Joe
Littman, Susan
Merrill, Josh
Robleski, Chris & Robleski, Katie
Printmaking
Kaczkowski, Erin
Kosten, Andrew
Scheckel, Julia
Troller, Rita
Wood
Bemis, Richard
Debertin, Jack
Grob, Chad
Hechel, John & Hechel, Trudie
Krantz, Robert
Newton, Robert
Stevens, Jill
Featured Artist: Tonja Ihlenfeldt
Ceramics
Boer-Henke, Diane
Corner, Sean
Elsinger, Cathy
Gaspar Hart, Joan
Hafemann, Amy
Hansen, Sarah
Hathaway, Alan
Hendrix, Kyle
Kaminski, Kate
Krause, Gordon
Lindner, Linda
McKinney, Rachel
Nishitateno, Hironobu
Raschick, Rick
Robertson, Elizabeth
Robertson, Richard
Rubinstein, Victoria
Wells, Jean
Drawing
Brandl, Anthony
Dominguez, F Paul
Hart, Naomi
Mayhew, Mays
Strublic, Anthony
Fiber & Leather
Esche-Lyon, Kaitlin
Graf, Emily
Lee, Xao
Mattson, Rachel & Quella, Kaylin
Otterson, Susan
Raymond, Gwendi & Quispe, Wilber
Snider, Tammy
Tupesis, Nicole
Wolf, Yuliya & Cieslinski, Kenzie
Glass
Fujimoto, Sharon
Hunt, Kathleen
Mote, Lisa
Rezin, Sara
Jewelry
Baade, Audra
Bailey, William & Lisa
Bird, Chelsea
Dawald, Jeff
Franzblau, Linda
Jingst, Shayna
Johnson, Marti
Nunnelee, Jennifer & J. Ward
Qualley Peterson, Kate
Raml, Patti
Raven, Jan
Richter-O’Connell, Susan
Shaffer, Jane & Susan
Sheahan, Meghan
Stewartson, Stacey
To, Regina
Wilson, Kim
Zach, Shane
Metal
Drizin, Joanie
Grenzow Mauer, Shari
Radke, Debbie
Yocco, Scott
Mixed Media
Barenz, Stephanie
Bevan, Jacqueline
Busch, John
Fraga, Eduin
Gebert, Annelies
Hager, Mary
Hart, Naomi
Heffron Neuhold, Isabella
Ihlenfeldt, Tonja
Knier, Maria
Lockwood, Terri
McDill, Layl
Reckhouse, Dave
Schnabl, Babs
Theobald, Rich
Painting
Ash, Bekah
Austin, Amy
Borman, Beki
Fisher, Toril
Hartsfield, Chris
Johnson, Jane
McGee, Melvin
Millonig, William
Pankratz, Adam
Strobel, Vicki & Anthony
Thomas, Christina
Tschida Petters, Kimberly
Watson-Newlin, Karen
Photography & Digital Art
Brown, Michael
Menaker, Igor
Merrill, Josh
Robleski, Chris & Katie
Skov, Toby
Printmaking
Biwer-Stewart, Lori
Scheckel, Julia
Souik, Jacob
Troller, Rita
Worth, Zachary
Wood
Bemis, Richard
Boris, Scott
Debertin, Jack
Englebert, Ken & Mary
Grob, Chad
Hechel, John & Trudie
Linn, Robert
Newton, Robert
Tyers, Thomas
Featured Artist: Toril Fisher
