Treat yourself to four days of fun & exploration with assemblage, fiber, encaustic, collage, costume, found objects, painting & paper, and eco-pigments! From half-day to multi-day workshops, make a weekend with everything from wind chimes to violins, and new techniques with materials you think you know well.
Connect with other art adventurers and experience the magic of Shake Rag Alley. All skill levels welcome!
Registration deadline August 11
Penelope Cake is a visual artist, choreographer, performer, teacher, and writer who currently lives in Cape May, NJ. Her work has been exhibited and performed in NYC art galleries and theaters, as well as in Cape May at Cape May Stage, The Cape May Artists Cooperative, and The End of the Road Theater. Samples of her performances, videos and artwork can be viewed at penelopecake.com. For more information: penelopecake@yahoo.com.
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Marianne Biagi is an artist living in Morrison, Illinois. Her award-winning beadwork has been shown throughout the United States, and featured in magazines and other publications. Her beadwork was included in the book The Best of Beadwork 2000. She has been teaching beadwork and bead embroidery for over 25 years.
Marianne is a creative maker and always seeking new techniques to express her ideas. In addition to beadwork, she is a skillful artist, working with metals, fabrics, dyes and textiles.
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Cindy Fleming has been in Mineral Point for many years and has been a student, sometime instructor, and constant supporter of Shake Rag Alley. She is a dedicated dot enthusiast, rug hooker, jewelry maker and mosaic artist.
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Woodlanders Gathering: Lazy Susan Mosaic
Trained as a painter, Richard Moninski received a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a master of fine arts from the University at Albany, State University of New York. He completed additional study in surface design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.
Moninski is strongly influenced by history, nature, and numerous decorative arts traditions. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited nationally. Awards include a grant from the American-Scandinavian Foundation for research in Norway, and artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Ragdale Foundation, and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute. An educator with over 20 years of experience, he has employed diverse media and approaches in the course of his teaching. He resides in Mineral Point, WI where he co-directs an art gallery, Green Lantern Studios, with his partner, Carole Spelić.
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Kristin Peterson is a third generation artist, originally from South Dakota. Kristin’s creative passion is inspired and supported by her husband and kids, all who encourage, critique, and promote her work.
Kristin is always exploring and expanding the creative depths of being an artist. She very much enjoys vintage collage work and mixed media. Kristin loves color and things that have a love-worn comfortable feeling-like an old favorite pair of jeans-coffee stained, patched, painted and well loved. She wants her art to project feeling and make people feel good while looking at it. Her style contains vibrance mixed with a little funk, which is sprinkled with discreet sensibility.
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Lorraine Reynolds is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in the transformation of recycled materials. She works primarily in fiber, collage, assemblage and installation. Her creative practice is deeply rooted in an intimate connection with the local environment, utilizing materials gifted by her surroundings. Through her art, she reveres the legacies of the past, seeking to nourish our collective spirits and find meaning within the ceaseless cycles of existence ‚Äì embracing both life’s vitality and its poignant transitions. Believing in the profound potential of art, Lorraine sees it as a catalyst for healing, guiding both creator and observer through the realms of loss and trauma, offering a passage toward solace and understanding.
With over 30 years’ expertise in the apparel industry, Lorraine’s passion for textiles and vintage apparel fuels her artistic expression. Alongside her studio practice and teaching engagements, she works full-time as a Design and Product Development Consultant.
Lorraine earned her MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Art and has showcased her work both regionally and nationally. Her commitment to the arts extends to her community involvement, having contributed to the board of Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts as a past president.
She resides in Mineral Point, WI with her husband and her extremely affectionate German Shorthair Pointer, Ziggy.
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Sustainable Fashion: Introduction to Altered Apparel and Visible Mending
Mending Hearts: Stitching Recycled Fibers into Sculpture
Sarah Rehmer was born and raised in the western suburbs of Chicago, where she still resides. In 2003 Rehmer earned her BA in Graphic Design and Photography from Dominican University in River Forest, IL. She found her love for working with pages from old books while auditing a class post-graduation at the university. Rehmer is an Illinois Arts Council – Professional Development Grant recipient and her work is held in private collections both around the United States and internationally, as well as Institutional and Corporate collections in Illinois and New York. Rehmer teaches classes and workshops around the Midwest.
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Carole Spelić grew up with educator parents and no television, so since childhood she’s been making things in 2D and 3D. She graduated from Bates College (ME) with a BA in Fine Art and earned her MA and MFA from the University at Albany (NY).
After graduate school, Carole lived in Manhattan, New York City for 17 years where she was assistant coordinator for the state university system’s Studio Semester in New York program.
She’s retired from her Senior Lecturer position in the Art area at the University of Wisconsin – Platteville as well as from being Program Director with Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts, and is now enjoying life as a full-time artist, musician, workshop leader, and gallerist. Carole and her partner, painter Richard Moninski, own and operate Green Lantern Studios, a gallery of fine art and handicrafts in Mineral Point.
Recent exhibitions include work at the Museum of Wisconsin Art (West Bend), The Pump House (La Crosse), the Nohr Gallery (Platteville) and other regional venues. Inspired by the Renaissance-era frescoes of Luca Signorelli, she’s currently continuing a portraiture series, combining watercolor, colored pencil, acrylic gouache, and wax crayon.
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Perfect Placemat Pairs – April
Perfect Placemat Pairs – October
Woodlanders Gathering: Rustic Memo Board
Lisa Thill is a mixed Media artist, Art Journal Creator and Papercrafting enthusiast. She lives in Stoddard, WI along the beautiful Mississippi with my husband of 30 years, Dan. Creating is her passion and she does several “hands on” classes a year and loves inspiring others to step out of their comfort zone and experience new mediums. She has been published several times in Somerset Studio and Art Journaling magazines and loves seeing her creations “in print”. She’s working on creating online classes for the future and keeps busy waitressing at the local supper club on the weekends for fun money and new supplies. The focus for her art is to reuse, repurpose and recycle as much as she can by incorporating it in her art and classes.
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Cyn Tennant is a self-taught painter/sculptor/assemblage artist living in Ada, Michigan. She has taught numerous classes over the last 10 years in the west Michigan area. Cyn’s style of art is quirky and twisted with a heavy dose of humor reflected in her Halloween-themed pieces; her teaching style emphasizes humor and encourages students to step outside the box and create totally unexpected artwork! She suffers from essential tremors, so rest assured that she understands and can help each student manage their own dexterity challenges.
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Dawn Wians is a Wisconsin artist working in mixed media to express abstract landscapes and nature-inspired art. She uses nature as a material reference to make sense of and give meaning to her work. She shares: “Trained as a designer, I am drawn to the elements of line, color, value, shape, scale and texture, as well as the forms they become and the way we experience them. These are compositional skill sets that I teach throughout my workshops.” As an instructor, she enjoys guiding and encouraging other artists as they explore experimental approaches with oil, wax and water-based media. In 2019 she removed plastics, toxins and solvents from her studio practice. All of her workshops and classes follow these standards.
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Gail is a mixed media artist who works with photography, assemblage, collage, and ceramics. She loves experimenting and combining as many of these mediums as she can in her work — whatever it takes to express an idea! Having been a teacher in adult education for 30 years, she loves teaching all levels of students. Her work can be seen locally and nationally in museum and gallery shows. She happily lives amid nature in southeastern Wisconsin.
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Thursday, August 21
8-9 am Registration & Morning Treats | Art Cafe
9am-4pm Mixed Media Market & Swap Table | Art Cafe | Pop in when you can!
9am-Noon Meditative Painting with Cindy Fleming | Sardeson Studio
9am-4pm Mixed Media Mashup with Richard Moninski | Lind North
9am-4pm Earth Pigment Laboratory with Dawn Wians | Lind South
12-1 pm Lunch Hour | Pick up pre-orders in the Art Cafe
1-4pm Beaded Glass Wind Chime with Lisa Thill | Cabinet Shop
Friday, August 22
8-9 am Registration & Morning Treats | Art Cafe
9am-4pm Mixed Media Market & Swap Table | Art Cafe | Pop in when you can!
9am-4pm Inside/Outside Boxes with Penelope Cake | Potters House
9am-4pm Give Yourself A Hand with Gail Willert | Sardeson Studio
12-1 pm Lunch Hour | Pick up pre-orders in the Art Cafe
1-4pm Goddess Headdress & Fantasy Crowns with Lorraine Reynolds | Lind South
6-8pm Art Adventure Showcase
Saturday, August 23
8-9 am Registration & Morning Treats | Art Cafe
9am-4pm Mixed Media Market & Swap Table | Art Cafe | Pop in when you can!
9am-4pm Mending Hearts with Lorraine Reynolds | Potters House
9am-4pm Encaustic Transfers: Scaling UP with Sarah Rehmer | Lind South
9am-4pm Prairie’d Primer with Kristin Peterson | Sardeson Studio (Day 1)
9am-4pm NO STRINGS ATTACHED: Faces on Fiddles with Cyn Tennant | Lind North (Day 1)
12-1 pm Lunch Hour | Pick up pre-orders in the Art Cafe
1-4pm Serenity Stones with Marianne Biagi | Cabinet Shop
Sunday, August 24
8-9 am Registration & Morning Treats | Art Cafe
9am-4pm Mixed Media Market & Swap Table | Art Cafe | Pop in when you can!
9am-4pm Spirit Dolls with Lorraine Reynolds | Lind South
9am-4pm A Bountiful Bouquet with Carole Spelic | AMP
9am-4pm Prairie’d Primer with Kristin Peterson | Sardeson Studio (Day 2)
9am-4pm NO STRINGS ATTACHED: Faces on Fiddles with Cyn Tennant | Lind North (Day 2)
12-1 pm Lunch Hour | Pick up pre-orders in the Art Cafe
There is no event fee. Workshops are individually priced. See below.
Nope. No minimum. You may sign up for just one or as many workshops as you like. Most workshops are one full day. Some are half day classes and there are some two-day classes as well.
Register for each class individually. You may register online (see below) or call the Shake Rag Alley office at 608-987-3292.
See the What to Expect section of our Planning Your Workshop Experience page.
See the Cancellation Policy section of our Planning Your Workshop Experience page.
Materials fees are shown in the class listings and are usually paid with the tuition payment, although in some cases materials fees are paid directly to the instructor at class time. Check the class listing.
Our workshops are designed for ages 14 and up, as described on our Planning Your Workshop Experience page.
We do encourage your spouse to accompany you to enjoy Mineral Point! But sorry, only registered students are allowed in class unless there is a medical need for assistance.
Yes, you will receive an email confirmation. If you do not have an email address, we will send a postal mail confirmation.
Mineral Point is located in Southwest Wisconsin about 45 miles from Madison. See our Planning Your Workshop Experience page for travel info.
Shake Rag rents three guest rooms right on campus and two apartments a few blocks away. Students receive a 10% discount on Shake Rag Alley lodging. See our Lodging page for more information. In addition, Mineral Point has a variety of motels, hotels, inns, and bed and breakfasts with a wide range of prices and amenities, many within walking distance of Shake Rag Alley. See our Local Lodging Directory.
Mineral Point boasts a large number of artist galleries/studios and shops, as well as several historic sites. Other cultural offerings can be found in nearby communities. Parks and outdoor activities are available in Mineral Point and outside of town as well. Please see our Planning Your Workshop Experience page for more information.
YES! During Art Adventure we welcome you to:
Click here to check the Mineral Point community calendar, which may be updated with new events as your workshop date approaches, and review the list of possibilities provided on our Planning Your Workshop Experience page.
Coach House
18 Shake Rag Street
Art Café
Ellery House
restrooms
4 of 33restrooms
5 of 33restrooms
6 of 33Open Air Parking
7 of 33Lind Pavilion Parking
8 of 33Roadside Parking
allowed on Commerce Street
Smejas’ Studio parking
10 of 33Smejas’ Studio
30 Doty Street
Curbside Parking
as indicated
Accessible Parking
with curb cut
Accessible Parking
with curb cut
Alley Stage
15 of 33Cabinet Shop
French Cabin
1830 Log Cabin
Potter’s House
Blacksmith Barn
Federal Spring
21 of 33Monarch Garden
22 of 33Lind Pavilion
411 Commerce Street
two blocks to
High Street & Commerce Street
Restaurants, Shops & Galleries
To Grocery Store
Point Foods
622 Dodge Street
Street Parking with Additional Parking behind Smejas’ Studio
26 of 33The Green
open air park
Stair Steps
between
Cabinet Shop & Lind Pavilion
Stair Steps
to Alley Stage
Stone Bridge
over
Federal Spring
Weaving & Fiber Arts Studio
Cannery Row Arts Incubator
121 Water St.
Footbridge
33 of 33ADA accessible buildings: Lind Pavilion, Coach House (first floor), Smejas’ Studio
18 Shake Rag St.
Mineral Point, WI 53565
(608) 987-3292
