The Spring 2025 Art Events Kickoff

Three weeks ago, my wife and I attended the 2025 KUSD district-wide Student Art Show at the Kenosha Public Museum (Wisconsin, of course). That’s the Kenosha Unified School District. The show ran from March 15^th to April 13^th, 2025, at the Kenosha Public Museum. Last year our niece had a piece of art in the show. I blogged about that. This year she had another piece of art in the show, so we went and checked it out. It seemed that it wasn’t as large as last year’s show, but there was still a lot of outstanding art pieces to see. On display were paintings, drawings, mixed-media, collages, sculptures, pottery, weaving, silk-screening, photography… all variety of medium. I love looking at all of that creativity from so many young artists we haven’t yet heard of. Some of the pieces were inspiring and gave me ideas for techniques that I would like to try myself.

I took a lot of photos. I kept it to the pieces that stood out to me the most. Enjoy!

Another highlight of our visit was a lone male mallard duck that was hanging around outside by the entrance, greeting people. He didn’t appear to be injured, only muddy. He was hanging out there and wasn’t afraid of anyone. He walked right up to us. He didn’t behave aggressively, as if he was protecting a nest nearby. He just stood there calmy among our group as if he was participating in the conversation. After a few minutes of us talking to him, he walked away back to the flower beds. The museum is right on the lakefront, by the way. He didn’t appear like he was in distress or needed help. Maybe he was used to being fed and was expecting something to eat? It was nice meeting him, anyway.

I have finished at least three pieces of art since that show. I posted a blog entry a couple of days ago called “There’s A Place…” That post is about one of those pieces. And I have created two graphite drawings which I will write about shortly. I’ve also added several new prints to my web store. One is a limited-edition print of 10. You can check it out here.

Thanks for stopping by and taking time to read this! I hope you enjoy the photos. I enjoyed this show very much. I enjoyed the previous one and I’m sure I’m going to enjoy the next one as well.