The Wisconsin Regional Artists Association will be sponsoring the WRAP exhibit, featuring the works of non-professional Wisconsin artists at Whitewater’s Cultural Arts Center, 402 West Main St. Jan. 5-26, 2014. Any non-professional artist from Wisconsin in invited to submit up to three pieces for the show.
The fee to enter the Whitewater WRAP show is $20; artists should send that with a completed registration form (form found on wraawrap.com) to Joyce Follis, 252 South Ardmor Drive, Whitewater, WI 53190.
Artists need to submit their entry form by Jan. 1 and artwork is due at the CAC between 9:30 and 10:30 a.m., Jan. 4. Artists from Wisconsin will be exhibiting art in a variety of media including 3-D and photography.
The exhibit will run Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays noon to 5 p.m. beginning Sunday, Jan. 5 and ending with a workshop ($5 fee) on Sunday, Jan. 26. The workshop will begin at 9:30 a.m. and go to approximately 2 p.m. and is open to all for a $5 registration fee (exhibiting artists can attend for free). To register, please contact Joyce Follis at 262-473-2360.
The Whitewater Arts Alliance won the Wisconsin Regional Arts Program (WRAP) award for the greatest increase in the number of artists participating in our 2011 regional exhibit.
The Wisconsin Regional Art Program was established to encourage Wisconsin citizens with a serious interest in art – people who make art purely for the love of it, rather than for fame and fortune. The purpose of WRAP is to encourage nonprofessional artists to develop their abilities.
The program consists of many artist workshops and exhibits throughout the year statewide. Each one has a different artist demonstration or slide lecture and a different judge to lead the afternoon critique.
Artists winning a State Exhibit Award are eligible to compete for monetary awards at the WRAA State Day in Madison but to qualify must be a member of the Wisconsin Regional Arts Program and can sign up online at wraawrap.com.
The first Rural Art Exhibit was held at the Memorial Union during Farm and Home Week in 1940. Under the guidance of John Stuart Curry, the exhibit grew rapidly, from 30 nonprofessional artists in 1940 to more than 100 by 1947.
WRAP is developed and administered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Liberal Studies and the Arts.
