Woodwalk Gallery News

Jodi Brey

Tattered curtains blowing through the broken windows of yesteryear, forest musings, and intuitions spoken by Lake Michigan. These themes of a Door County childhood, and then coming of age, are presented in “Of Voice and Sky”, an exhibit and sale of jewelry and sculpture by Jodi Brey. The exhibit opens with a public reception at Woodwalk Gallery on Sunday, August 5 from 4:30 to 6:30pm. Beth Chafey-Hon will respond to the exhibit with violin meditations.  Appetizers and beverages will be served.

YOU are invited to be there!

From sculptural “woodland muses” to a dynamic collection of the bold jewelry that Brey is renowned for, “Of Voice and Sky” is the artist’s translation of the Door Peninsula and experiences beyond. While the exhibit is comprehensive in presenting her range of artistic explorations, it also quietly honors a coming of full-circle that could be summarized as “spread your wings and fly home”.

Brey presents this exhibit after a four year Door County artistic hiatus during which she pioneered an art-based economic development project in middle Tennessee; offered art therapy/trauma recovery work deep in the Sonoran Desert; and created a giant snow Buddha at North America’s largest yoga retreat center, in the Berkshire Mountains.

“I am so filled with gratitude for the opportunity to bring my life experiences into one project with complete creative abandon and support from friends, family, and Woodwalk Gallery,” says Brey.  “The experience of creating a new body of work has been at once vulnerable and triumphant”.

Brey’s passion for community arts programming and collaboration has been reflected in a month-long residency project at Woodwalk entitled “The Legend Agenda”. In response to an installation at the gallery, community members answered the question “What is possible?” With input from local and national artists in a range of mediums, as well as workshop participants, the responses were woven into a poem. The poem was then interpreted in dance and in environmental sculpture. The resulting artwork is presented as part of Brey’s “Of Voice and Sky” exhibit.

“There’s an energy in this, it’s so wonderful how she’s created an energy” voiced one gallery patron.

Call 920-868-2912 for more information.

Woodwalk and Theatre M are pleased to present “Side Effects May Include”, starring Andrew J. Pond and produced by Chicago’s own Wendy Kaplan/ MadKap Productions.  It was written by Marc Jaffe and Eric Coble.  Marc is a former Seinfeld writer, whose Ob-Gyn wife contracted Parkinson’s Disease.  Laughter is the best medicine right?  Marc approached it as he approaches most things in life.  With humor.

Performances are at Woodwalk  7:30,  Sunday August 12, Wednesday August 15 and Thursday August 14.  Tickets are $20 in advance and $25

Side Effects May Include is a story of sex, drugs and sex-inducing drugs. Phil   is living a relatively happily married life – his only complaint? Wife Maggie’s waning sex drive. It provides fodder for his stand-up act until she is diagnosed with Parkinson’s and then life gets better. At least their sex life. Based on a funny, touching, true story, this  one-man  show explores how sometimes it’s not the disease that changes  you, but  the side effects…

“Side Effects May Include” is a  hysterical  roller-coaster ride through an escalating mountain of pills,  fidelity,  secrets, questions of manhood and womanhood, age, desire,  more pills,  on-stage and bedroom performance anxiety, still yet more  pills, and  ultimately, an exploration of whether our deepest  personalities and  desires are anything more than chemical reactions  within our brains.

10% of the proceed from ticket sales  will be donated to an organization that was set up by Marc and Karen Jaffe in support of the Michael J. Fox Foundation.  The name of that organization is “Shaking with Laughter”. Please have a look at the website,www.shakingwithlaughter.org

Please feel free to review the MadKaapProductions website and call Woodwalk 920-868-2912 for ticket information.

Jody Brey custom jewelry

Jody Brey the Legends Agenda

Jody Brey has arrived from Tuscon and set-up shop in the downstairs workshop space next to Kirsten’s Handmade Paper studio. She has installed her Legends

genda piece in the 4th horse stall space and her workshop schedule begins this weekend with space still available for participants.  Her jewelry and belt-buckles are great examples of her blending of her Cowgirl Rose theme with beautiful, natural objects.

Dappled Woodland

2012 is off to a wonderful start with strong sales and visitors. 26 artists have had sales thru June 30. There is as unusual pattern of sales in groups of three- Levin, Wheeler, Roenning, Henderson, Lockwood, Flemming, Davenport- and several sales of higher end paintings.  It feels like customers are tired of just “looking at” works that they love with several sales to “come-back” frequent visitors.  Recent articles about Woodwalk in The Artist Magazine and Minnesota Monthly magazine have generate new visitors.