Museum art experience benefits high
school students
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Peggy Gregorski, Development
Coordinator
262-653-4428
Apr. 19, 2011
Kenosha Public Museum
5500 First Avenue, Kenosha, WI 53140
262-653-4140
KENOSHA – The Kenosha Public Museum
will host a day-long art workshop May 4 for 16 area high school
students as part of the 2011 Jack Richeson Art Experience Award. An
annual grant from Jack Richeson & Company will fund the workshop
for the next ten years.
The Richeson Art Experience was
formerly known as the Goray Art Experience, which was established by
Liz Goray in memory of her husband John Goray in 1992.
The goal of the award is to
encourage
and enrich young artists’ creative work. It also seeks to broaden
young artists’ exposure to the art profession and familiarizes
students with resources available at the Kenosha Public Museum.
The
award is given annually to five sophomores and/or juniors in art
classes at Bradford and at Tremper and three sophomores and/or
juniors in art classes at Indian Trail and at Reuther. Art teachers
from each school develop their own criteria for selecting students to
participate in the one-day “Richeson Art Experience” and select
students based on those criteria.
Chicago-area
watercolor artist Suzanne Hetzel will lead the workshop. She is
President Emeritus of The Transparent Watercolor Society of America
and does pseudo-realistic
paintings in watercolor. She incorporates a variety of techniques
including salt, scratching, splashing, pouring and repel to create
the finished affect. She works primarily from life and her
imagination, using photographs only as reference.
Hetzel
began painting at the age of 8 and studied at the Wallingford Art
Center in Pennsylvania. She graduated from Moore College of Art and
Design and has worked as a commercial artist, written and illustrated
a children’s book entitled Nony
the Pirate, and
designed textiles for R.A. Briggs. She also has taught various
commercial design courses at College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
She currently teaches watercolor, drawing, and studio classes.
Hetzel has paintings and drawings in collections throughout the
United States and Great Britain. She has works in the Episcopal
Diocese of Philadelphia, and LaGrange Park, Batavia, and Waukegan
Public Libraries. In addition she has designed and executed murals
for a variety of public facilities and private residences.
She is Past President and Founder of the Kendall Arts Guild, Kendall
County, Illinois, and Founder and lifetime member of the Antioch Fine
Arts Foundation.
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Kris Kochman
Special Events Coordinator
Kenosha Public Museums
262-653-4406
kkochman@kenosha.org
