Bonnie Cutts
Wed, June 18, 6-8pm
Tuition: Member Free / Non-Member Free
Open to All Levels
Think you know everything about painting with acrylics? Curious about making the move to acrylics? Want to experience new options in color, texture, collage, or mixed media. Explore Golden Acrylic products during this
lecture/demo, highlighting acrylic paints, liquid acrylics, gels, and mediums. Learn the difference between mineral and modern pigments and feel how paints and gels mix together. Extend your paint to save yourself money, and mix gels with paints to create gorgeous textures and surfaces to paint on. Open to all levels of painting experience. Information packets and free samples for all attending. Pre-registration required! Minnesota artist Bonnie Cutts graduated from the University of Minnesota with a BFA in Studio Arts. She has exhibited her drawings and paintings professionally for over 25 years, and her work is included in numerous private and corporate collections nationwide. As a part of the Golden Working Artist program she has been lecturing and teaching workshops about acrylic paints, gels and mediums. Bonnie exhibits her work at Opening Night Gallery in Minneapolis where she has had a solo exhibits. www.bonniecutts.com
AMERICAN ART REVISITED: LECTURE AND LUNCH (LE807)
Virginia Maher
M-F, June 23-27, 10am-1pm
Tuition: Member $185 / Non-Member $210
Open to All Levels
The special attraction of American art is the vision it projects of America: how our country evolved, how masterfully our art has matured, and what our greatest art reveals about our national character. Join art historian, Virginia Jones Maher, for a survey of American Art from the 1600s to today. Included are Colonial portraiture and folk art; history and genre paintings; the Hudson River School of landscape painting; American Impressionism; American Scene and Regionalist painters; Abstract Expressionism and other influential contemporary American art movements. Each day will begin with a slide lecture in the beautiful Hamming Room 
followed by box lunch and informal discussion on the patio. Art Historian
Virginia Jones Maher has an MA in Art History from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Listed in Who’s Who in America, Virginia is author of The Spirit of the Times: American Arts and Crafts Furniture and numerous articles and papers on American art and architecture. In addition to teaching at the Peninsula Art School, Virginia has lectured in art history at Cardinal Stritch University, the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Miller Art Museum in Sturgeon Bay.
SUMMER ESCAPE: DEMONSTRATION, LECTURE AND SUPPER IN THE STUDIO (LE808)
Bonnita Budysz
Wed, June 25, 5:30-8:30pm
Tuition: Member $55 / Non-Member $65
Open to All Levels
Join us as plein air painter Bonnita Budysz develops a large studio painting from several small on-location studies. Her on-site studies are small jewels that capture the “majesty of the moment” and become an invaluable reference for larger, more finished studio pieces. Witness the logic of her limited palette, dynamic design choices, and Bonnita’s signature bravura brushstrokes as the painting unfolds, all while enjoying a delightful summer supper. Supper includes a selection of main dishes, dessert, wine and other beverages.
Bonnita Budysz has been a featured artist in the national American Artist and Art of the West magazines, as well as being selected for the International Artist Magazine’s new book How Did You Paint That? She is an award-winning member of the American Impressionist Society and the Oil Painters of America, and a signature member of the Pastel Society of the West Coast. Through intense study with masters of the Russian Impressionist school and year-round plein air painting, Bonnita has enhanced her joyful style with the radiant, luminous color found in her widely collected landscapes, still lifes and commissioned portraits. She is represented locally by Edgewood Orchard Galleries.
UNTOLD STORIES: MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM’S PERMANENT COLLECTION (LE809)
Barbara Brown Lee
Sat, July 19, 3-5pm
Tuition: Member $25 / Non-Member $35
Open to All Levels
As Chief Educator of the Milwaukee Art Museum for 45 years, Barbara has gathered humorous, anecdotal stories that are not published anywhere. She is a true storyteller and will have you rolling in the aisle. Share her behind-the-scene stories on how art is found in the most unusual places—such as how the Last Spartan really arrived at the museum! Find out the inside scoop about the mummy and other fascinating legends known only to 
Barbara. She will illustrate her stories with images of the collection and encourage questions during her talk. Come to experience one of the most priceless works of art at the Milwaukee Art Museum—Barbara Brown Lee.
Barbara Brown Lee is the very definition of a people person. She speaks her mind with a “Barbara glossary of terms” to enhance your experience. She started at the Milwaukee Art Museum in 1963 and has continued to be a driving force and major inspiration as the Chief Educator. She heads the docent program, coordinates lectures, seminars, school programs and extended offerings of art appreciation and studio classes. Barbara also serves as a teacher in MAM’s Milwaukee Public Schools High School Satellite Program and is a frequent lecturer for the university classes and community groups.
GREAT ARTISTS SERIES
Virginia Maher
Tuition: Member $25 / Non-Member $35
Open to All Levels
Peninsula Art School’s 2008 Great Artists Series gives you an in-depth look at four masters of American art: Winslow Homer, Grant Wood, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol. Each day we will focus on one artist: the artist’s life, major influences and most significant works will be covered in a multi-media presentation.
GREAT ARTIST SERIES: WINSLOW HOMER (LE810)
Mon, July 28, 10am-Noon
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is one of the greatest painters of 19th century America. Largely self-taught, Homer worked in a variety of media including commercial engraving, drawing, watercolor and oil paintings. We will trace the evolution of Homer’s career from his early work sketching Civil War battles for Harper’s Weekly; to later idyllic scenes of rural life and the American landscape; and finally to his spirited seascapes painted in Prout’s Neck, Maine.GREAT ARTIST SERIES: GRANT WOOD (LE811)
Tue, July 29, 10am-Noon
Grant Wood (1892-1942) was the quintessential artist of middle America and the people who lived there. His 1930 painting, “American Gothic,” is the most recognized image in the history of American art. Like many of Grant Wood’s works, American Gothic presents a satirical vision of American provincialism, while simultaneously reaffirming faith in the traditional values of American life. We will also study Wood’s paintings of historical scenes and boldly stylized landscapes to uncover hidden significance in the American heartland.GREAT ARTIST SERIES: JACKSON POLLOCK (LE812)
Wed, July 30, 10am-Noon
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) was a leading member of the New York school of Abstract Expressionism, America’s most monumental and innovative art form. Pollock’s action painting style was a breakthrough, marking a turning point in the history of abstraction and American art. Pouring and dripping paint directly onto canvases laid on the floor, Pollock created an all-over texture of lines and splatters, an intricate web of beauty. Pollock’s emphasis on process proved enormously influential to future art movements, most of which are a reaction, in one way or another, to Abstract Expressionism.GREAT ARTIST SERIES: ANDY WARHOL (LE813)
Thu, July 31, 10am-Noon
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was a painter, graphic designer, film-maker, and the bestknown American Pop artist. We’ll review his early work as an advertising illustrator, his 1960s Pop art paintings and screen prints of everyday household objects—Campbell’s soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles; celebrities Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy; his Death and Disaster series of race riots and car crashes; and then turn to his films and later work of the 1970s and ’80s. Throughout his career, Warhol’s major themes of fame and death strangely echoed his self-promotional, carefully marketed, persona and lifestyle.
CULTIVATE YOUR LIFE AND REAP THE REWARDS IN YOUR ART (LE814)
Colette Odya Smith
Wed, Aug 13, 4:00-5:30pm
Tuition: Member $25 / Non-Member $35
Open to All Levels
Wisconsin artist Colette Odya Smith leads a presentation and discussion on 
the nature of the artist’s journey. Colette sees the artist’s growth and progress as intimately connected to one’s experience and development as an essentially spiritual being. Concepts of self-reflection, meaning-making, and personal responsibility will be thoughtfully considered as they inform our quest to become ever better and better artists.
Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Colette Odya Smith received her BA in Fine Arts, Humanities and Education from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America, an active member of Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors, the League of Milwaukee Artists and serves as chair of the Milwaukee Visual Artists Roundtable. Both as an educator and an artist, Colette is an ardent believer in the power of the arts to nurture, challenge, inspire and to reveal what is best in each of us. Her work is available through Woodwalk Gallery in Door County and the Katie Gingrass Gallery in Milwaukee. www.coletteodya.smith.net.
WISCONSIN FOLK ART ENVIRONMENTS (LE815)
Tony Rajer
Sat, Aug 16, 3-5pm
Tuition: Member $25 / Non-Member $35
Open to All Levels
Join raconteur Tony Rajer for an armchair travelers’ guide to eccentric, self-taught artistic treasures in the Badger state. The fun, fully illustrated talk takes you on the back roads to see a dozen sacred and secular sites created by everyday people with a special artistic talent, such as Fred Smith or Rudy Rotter. Each of them has embellished the world with a unique personal beauty. Our narrated trip takes us to Dickeyville, Concrete Park, Wegner Grotto and many more exciting sites, all in the comfort of the classroom. Road maps available. Pie and coffee up ahead!
Tony Rajer is an instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and professional art conservator educated at UW-Milwaukee and Harvard University. He is the author of the new book Museums, Zoos and Botanical Gardens of Wisconsin—UW Press.