MARY KAY NEUMANN
Mary Kay Neumann uses watercolor in bold and unusual ways, using vibrant color as language to convey emotion and energy. Using wet onto wet techniques requires simultaneously being in and out of control of the medium, which is an essential component of her work. Her paintings have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and art centers throughout the United States. This includes the Rhonda Schaller Studio in New York City; the Mendocino Arts Center in Mendocino, CA; Woman Made Gallery in Chicago,IL; Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, WI; the Trout Museum of Art in Appleton, WI; Arts Center on Main in Garden City, KS; and the Pyle Center of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
She has had numerous solo exhibitions, including : Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton's Office at the Wisconsin State Capital; Hudson Hospital's Healing Arts Program (in collaboration with the Phipps Center for the Arts), Hudson, Wisconsin; the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics in Madison, WI entitled "Art Has Truth, Take Refuge There". She has exhibited in group shows at Wisconsin Arts Board, in Madison, Wisconsin, and the 25th Annual Artful Women Show at the UW Hospital and clinics where her painting "Falling Slowly" won an honorable mention. Her paintings have been published in Her Mark 2009, a journal of art and poetry, published by Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL and in Small Rays of Hope and Fragments of a Larger Idea, published by Blue Pearl Press, Rhonda Schaller Studio, New York City. She was selected for Artsy Shark Featured Artist, August 2017 and featured in SPLASH: The Ocean Conservancy Newsletter "Mary Kay Neumann: A Voice for the Oceans and the Future", August 2019. The Global Association of Interpersonal Neurobiology (GAINS) will be publishing her article in August 2020 on the intersection between art, climate change and relational neuroscience. Both Mary Kay and Helen will be interviewed for GAINS monthly Living Journal webinar in the same month to discuss their new exhibition "Oceans A Rising".
Mary Kay's paintings are held in numerous private, public and corporate collections. See more about Mary Kay and her artwork here.
She has had numerous solo exhibitions, including : Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton's Office at the Wisconsin State Capital; Hudson Hospital's Healing Arts Program (in collaboration with the Phipps Center for the Arts), Hudson, Wisconsin; the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics in Madison, WI entitled "Art Has Truth, Take Refuge There". She has exhibited in group shows at Wisconsin Arts Board, in Madison, Wisconsin, and the 25th Annual Artful Women Show at the UW Hospital and clinics where her painting "Falling Slowly" won an honorable mention. Her paintings have been published in Her Mark 2009, a journal of art and poetry, published by Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL and in Small Rays of Hope and Fragments of a Larger Idea, published by Blue Pearl Press, Rhonda Schaller Studio, New York City. She was selected for Artsy Shark Featured Artist, August 2017 and featured in SPLASH: The Ocean Conservancy Newsletter "Mary Kay Neumann: A Voice for the Oceans and the Future", August 2019. The Global Association of Interpersonal Neurobiology (GAINS) will be publishing her article in August 2020 on the intersection between art, climate change and relational neuroscience. Both Mary Kay and Helen will be interviewed for GAINS monthly Living Journal webinar in the same month to discuss their new exhibition "Oceans A Rising".
Mary Kay's paintings are held in numerous private, public and corporate collections. See more about Mary Kay and her artwork here.
HELEN R. KLEBESADEL
Helen Klebesadel is best known for her environmental and women centered artworks. Her watercolors push the traditional boundaries of the medium in scale, content, and technique. Helen was a tenured professor and chair of the art department at Lawrence University (1990-2000) before becoming Director of the University of Wisconsin System Women’s Studies Consortium, (2000-2018). Helen now maintains an art studio in Madison, WI, focusing on art-making and private teaching and coaching.
Klebesadel exhibits her work nationally and internationally, including showing her watercolors in several American Embassies through the Arts in the Embassies Program. The Bergstrom-Mahler Museum presented her first solo museum exhibition in 1994. Her artwork is represented in the art collections of the American Council on Education, The Racine Art Museum, Lawrence University, UW Hospitals and Clinics, Central Wisconsin Center, the Dubuque Medical Clinic, the St. Francis Medical Center in Grand Island, Nebraska and numerous private collections. Several of her watercolors addressing environmental themes are also in the collections of the UW-Madison”s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. as well as the University’s Trout Lake Research Station. Helen’s public commissions include a twelve-foot watercolor for Ellen and Peter Johnson HospiceCare Residence, and a series of large watercolors for UW Hospitals and Clinics in Madison, Wisconsin.
Klebesadel’s watercolors and prose have been published in Frontiers, Feminist Studies, Interweave, CALYX and Femspec. Additionally her creative work has been documented in books and exhibition catalogues, including the 2022 book from the Cedarburg Art Museum, A Creative Place: The History of Wisconsin Art.
Helen Klebesadel is a past national president of the national Women’s Caucus for Art (1994-96). Klebesadel served as a member of the Wisconsin Arts Board as a member from 2006-2013, and on the Madison City Arts Commission from 2003-2006. Helen has also served in leadership roles on the boards of the Grassroots Leadership College, and the National Women’s Studies Association. In 2021 she was the recipient of the national Women’s Caucus for Art International Caucus’s United Nations Program Honor Roll recognition, an award designed to recognize important artist/activists who have made significant contributions to the field. In 2023 Klebesadel was named as one of 50 Wisconsin Artists for 50 Years recognized by the Wisconsin Arts Board in celebration of the organization's 50th Anniversary, and she was a finalist for the 2023 Forward Women Art Prize.
Helen's art works can be seen on her artist website here.
Helen offers art classes and workshops, consultations, and creativity coaching opportunities. You can find them on her Creativity Lessons here.
Klebesadel exhibits her work nationally and internationally, including showing her watercolors in several American Embassies through the Arts in the Embassies Program. The Bergstrom-Mahler Museum presented her first solo museum exhibition in 1994. Her artwork is represented in the art collections of the American Council on Education, The Racine Art Museum, Lawrence University, UW Hospitals and Clinics, Central Wisconsin Center, the Dubuque Medical Clinic, the St. Francis Medical Center in Grand Island, Nebraska and numerous private collections. Several of her watercolors addressing environmental themes are also in the collections of the UW-Madison”s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. as well as the University’s Trout Lake Research Station. Helen’s public commissions include a twelve-foot watercolor for Ellen and Peter Johnson HospiceCare Residence, and a series of large watercolors for UW Hospitals and Clinics in Madison, Wisconsin.
Klebesadel’s watercolors and prose have been published in Frontiers, Feminist Studies, Interweave, CALYX and Femspec. Additionally her creative work has been documented in books and exhibition catalogues, including the 2022 book from the Cedarburg Art Museum, A Creative Place: The History of Wisconsin Art.
Helen Klebesadel is a past national president of the national Women’s Caucus for Art (1994-96). Klebesadel served as a member of the Wisconsin Arts Board as a member from 2006-2013, and on the Madison City Arts Commission from 2003-2006. Helen has also served in leadership roles on the boards of the Grassroots Leadership College, and the National Women’s Studies Association. In 2021 she was the recipient of the national Women’s Caucus for Art International Caucus’s United Nations Program Honor Roll recognition, an award designed to recognize important artist/activists who have made significant contributions to the field. In 2023 Klebesadel was named as one of 50 Wisconsin Artists for 50 Years recognized by the Wisconsin Arts Board in celebration of the organization's 50th Anniversary, and she was a finalist for the 2023 Forward Women Art Prize.
Helen's art works can be seen on her artist website here.
Helen offers art classes and workshops, consultations, and creativity coaching opportunities. You can find them on her Creativity Lessons here.