Sturgeon Bay, Wis. (January 17, 2023) – The community is invited to attend a reception on Friday, January 27th from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., at the Door County Community Foundation. The reception celebrates the Lobby Gallery Winter Exhibition featuring works by David Graham and Terri Warpinski. The Community Foundation is located at 222 N 3rd Avenue in Downtown Sturgeon Bay.
David Graham’s subject is the American cultural landscape. A Philadelphia native, Graham taught at the University of Arts for 22 years and has worked regularly for the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Time, Fortune and
Forbes. His photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art among others. He has produced eight books, and most recently, in 2022, the independent Italian publisher Eyeshot produced a retrospective, In Plain Sight. In 2021, Graham relocated to beautiful Northeast Wisconsin. Together with his wife, Terri Warpinski, they run a full-time studio and are co-owners of newARTSpace in De Pere, WI.
Terri Warpinski explores the complex relationship between personal, cultural and natural histories through her photographically based mixed media creative practice. Over the last four decades her various projects have taken her throughout the America West and Mexico, Australia, Western and Central Europe, the Middle East and Iceland. Warpinski was distinguished as a Fulbright Senior Fellow to Israel in 2000-2001, as Professor Emerita of Art in 2016 after a 32-year teaching career at the University of Oregon and was the Honored Educator their international conference in Philadelphia in 2018. A native of Northeastern Wisconsin, she now resides along the Fox River in De Pere.
Each season, different Door County artists will be invited to exhibit their work at the Door County Community Foundation’s Lobby Gallery. The Gallery is normally open to the public during the Community Foundation’s regular hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
The Door County Community Foundation, Inc. is a collection of separate charitable funds set up by individuals, families, non-profit organizations,
private foundations and businesses that are managed, invested and disbursed for the current and future good of Door County. The Community Foundation was launched in 1999, currently administers more than $45 million in assets, and distributes more than $5 million to charities in Door County every year.