Blog Posts and Press Releases

Madison artist James H. Widder, whether he's painting a whale flying over the Great Wall of China or the Wisconsin State Capitol, creates playful, vibrant, and surreal scenes that he makes sure appeal to a broad audience. Widder is one of the first artists Carnelian...

 Wisconsin ranks 49th in its art spending, according to 2024 numbers from the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. The only state that's below us is Georgia. As the marketing director of a young art gallery, I think that's a huge problem. Even the word "huge" is...

Carnelian Art Gallery has taken on the enterprise of offering art workshops and classes for the first time. When I was hired, part of my role as the marketing director was to see how the gallery could best utilize its back open studio space, which offers about 1,500...

Carnelian Art Gallery, being located at 221 King St., Suite 102, in downtown Madison, is the perfect destination to integrate into your date night, day trip, or general shopping plans. Dining out AND soaking in some beautiful art? Count me in. King Street in general...

Keegan Wenkman is a Madison artist who prefers to remain a mystery. He told me, Emilie, that he likes his art to speak for itself. Wenkman wants the any onlooker of his pieces to develop their own interpretation of what they mean. And so this last installment of our...

Chicago-based artist "Marksy," also known as Sam Stoiber, made a stop to Carnelian Art Gallery this week to demonstrate his process for creating his ethereal, dreamy, and even melancholy figurative works. That's because Marksy is one of five artists participating in...

Katie Hogan put the finishing touches on an oil painting depicting her mother one morning as she described for Carnelian Art Gallery her process as an artist who creates portraits and figurative pieces. "She was visiting from out of town and agreed to sit for us,...

It was Steve Swagerle's late grandfather's sign shop that ignited Swagerle's passion for creating his surreal, yet humorous, pop art. His grandfather didn't paint "Stop" signs, rather lettering on glass windows. Swagerle could be seen painting in his grandfather's...