Next year Friends of Art celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Lakefront Festival of Arts. Mark your calendars now for June 15, 16, and 17, 2012. If you are an artist interested in exhibiting, details for submitting to the festival are available here. Thank you again!

2011 Award Winners

• Award Winners
• Jill Bedford: Dousman, WI – Photography
• Theodore Gall: Ojai, CA – Sculpture
• Daiga Henson & Sarmite Svilis: East Windsor, NJ – Fiber Wearable
• Ning Lee: Livingston, NJ – Painting
• Joe Limpert: River Falls, WI – Glass
• George Raab: Millbrook, Ontario – Printmaking
• Julie Seymour: Hillpoint, WI – Jewelry
• Klaus Spies: Asheville, NC – Jewelry
• Justin Teilhet: Yellow Springs, OH – Ceramics
• Zhou Yu: Yardley, PA – Painting

• Sculpture Garden
• Michael Imes: Pewaukee, WI – Ceramics

• Honorable Mention
• Gene Brown: Urbandale, IA – Mixed Media 2D
• John Charbonneau: Santé Fe, NM – Digital
• Peter Flanary: Mineral Point, WI – Sculpture
• Matthew Hatala: Danielsville, GA – Wood
• William Kidd: Miramar, FL – Ceramics
• Kelly Marshall: Minneapolis, MN – Fiber Non Wearable
• Jennifer McCurdy: Vineyard Haven, MA – Ceramics
• Thomas Meyers: Hancock, NH – Drawing/Pastel
• Lawrence Oliverson: Sullivan, WI – Photography
• Elaine Unzicker: Ojai, CA- Metal

Both inside the Museum and under cover of a state-of-the-art tent, festival goers can visit one-on-one with the artists as they explore the jewelry, paintings, ceramics, metalwork, and more in the different booths. Rain or shine, there are a number of activities on the Museum grounds, from hands-on, interactive fun in the expanded Children’s Area, featuring the PNC Grow Up Great Mobile Learning Adventure, to live music, the Milwaukee Magazine Wine Garden, Silent Art Auction, sculpture garden, food offerings, and more.

Discover work by more than 180 jury-selected artists at this year’s nationally recognized Lakefront Festival of Arts (LFOA). Browse the handcrafted creations and purchase the perfect piece (or pieces) for you! And new for this year, in keeping with the Museum’s theme for the summer, LFOA is hosting five artists from China. “The festival provides a perfect opportunity for Chinese and American artists to exhibit side by side,” says Larry Oliverson, Friends of Art president. “Art speaks a universal language that crosses continents and cultures.”

Learn more about the Lakefront Festival of Arts by reading this year’s welcome letter, written by the festival’s Co-Chairs Mick Dwyer and Annette Melcher.

Committee Chairs

Presenting Sponsors

Greening Efforts

This year’s festival has taken additional steps beyond its successful recycling program to embrace environmental responsibility. In fact, the festival has qualified for Travel Green Wisconsin certification. This program is being printed on recycled paper with specially engineered Enviro/Tech ink, which contains large amounts of renewable resources. The event reuses materials, such as signage, as much as possible. Vendors are encouraged to use less energy, and attendees are encouraged to use public transportation. Artists are asked to use florescent lighting instead of incandescent bulbs in artwork displays. “While there is still room for improvement, we are making strides every year to be as green as possible,” says Annette Melcher, Festival Chair.

Lakefront Festival of Arts Exhibition Policy

The Milwaukee Art Museum and Friends of Art (FOA) do not receive any part of the proceeds from the sale of artwork at Lakefront Festival of Arts. All art sales are strictly between the patron and the exhibitor, and because the Museum/FOA are not part of the transaction, they have no responsibility for the sale. Although FOA cannot resolve problems related to sales transactions, they are interested in your feedback and would like to know if you are dissatisfied with any aspect of your purchase.

• Award Winners
• Shellie Bender, Jewelry, Lawrence, KS
• Donna D’Aquino, Jewelry, Wallkill, NY
• Daiga Henson and Sarmitte Svilis, Fiber Wearable, East Windsor, NJ
• Nicario Jimenez, Mixed Media 3D, Naples, FL
• Seung Lee, Printmaking, Maple Wood, MN
• Shu Lu, Fiber Wearable, Amherst, NY
• Dean Lucker & Ann Wood, Mixed Media 3D, St. Paul, MN
• Thomas Meyers, Drawing Pastel, Hancock, NH
• Susan Otterson, Fiber Wearable, Janesville, WI
• Klaus and Susan Spies, Jewelry, Asheville, NC

• Honorable Mention
• Matthew Adelman, Painting, Oberlin, OH
• Arthur Bartkowiak, Painting, Brookfield, WI
• David Conroy, Jewelry, Baltimore, MD
• Gabriela & Jeremy Firehammer, Sculpture, Lyons, CO
• Rob Greene, Jewelry, Marshfield, VT
• Thomas McGurrin, Jewelry, Sanbornton, NH
• Sandra Miller, Fiber Wearable, West Chester, PA
• Michael Santini, Painting, Mequon, WI
• Diane Harty Schlaefer, Fiber Wearable, Frisco, CO
• Theresa Carson Shafer, Jewelry, Baltimore, MD
• Justin Teilhet, Ceramics, Yellow Springs, OH
• Elaine Unzicker, Metal, Ojai, CA

2010 Map

Download the Lakefront Festival of Arts Map

2010 Poster

Download the Lakefront Festival of Arts Poster

Apply

Submit an application for next year’s Lakefront Festival of Arts online.

Lakefront Festival of Arts Exhibition Policy

The Milwaukee Art Museum and Friends of Art (FOA) do not receive any part of the proceeds from the sale of artwork at Lakefront Festival of Arts. All art sales are strictly between the patron and the exhibitor, and because the Museum/FOA are not part of the transaction, they have no responsibility for the sale. Although FOA cannot resolve problems related to sales transactions, they are interested in your feedback and would like to know if you are dissatisfied with any aspect of your purchase.