“Self-portrait in Studio,” an oil portray by Douglas Pendleton. Submitted.
The Miller Artwork Museum, celebrating its fiftieth yr in 2025, is including two new group members.
Door County-based artist and artistic skilled Leah Karrels has been named the brand new Dome Home Artist Residency Program Coordinator for the Dome Home Al and Mickey Quinlan Artist Residency, which is offered in collaboration with the Quinlan household.
William Paterson College pupil Abigail Herring has been appointed because the museum’s summer time 2025 curatorial intern.
“These appointments replicate a bigger imaginative and prescient for the museum’s future,” Govt Director Elizabeth Meissner-Gigstead stated. “We’re getting into a brand new chapter on the museum – one which requires considerate, gifted folks to assist deliver our growing packages to life.”
The Dome Home Artist Residency Program Coordinator helps artists-in-residence for the 8-week summer time program. Karrels will oversee the logistics, public programming and group engagement facets of the residency, performing as the first liaison between the chosen artist and museum employees.
A artistic entrepreneur and dealing artist, Karrels has a deep private connection to the Door County arts group, together with expertise in advertising and marketing, occasion planning, design and positive arts. Her personal enterprise, Karrels Design, serves Door County companies with pictures, web site improvement and digital advertising and marketing.
Herring, a BFA (Bachelor of Nice Arts diploma) candidate at William Paterson College with a focus in Studio Artwork, will spend 10 weeks immersed in hands-on curatorial work and humanities administration throughout her internship. Although she research in New Jersey, she grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin, and spends her summers in her hometown.
Herring will assist analysis and writing for the museum’s forthcoming late fall exhibition, Mise-en-Scène: Patrick Farrell: Setting the Stage. She can even contribute to exhibition improvement and set up, artwork dealing with, analysis, collections administration and public engagement initiatives.
Along with these two new group members, the Miller Artwork Museum is welcoming Douglas Pendleton, the 2025 Dome Home Al and Mickey Quinlan Artist-in-Residence.
Pendleton, a Detroit-based painter, might be in Door County from Aug. 3 to Sept. 28.
Now getting into its fifth yr, the Dome Home Artist Residency Program honors the legacy of artist and Dome Home visionary Al Quinlan. Designed as a artistic retreat for working artists, this system helps early- to mid-career visible artists from throughout the Midwest by providing time, area and sources to pursue new work in an inspiring atmosphere.
Pendleton was chosen from a pool of 40 candidates by the museum’s Artist Choice Committee and can obtain a $500 stipend in addition to entry to the 5,073-square-foot reside/work Dome Home. His residency will culminate in a public program and presentation of recent work in late September.
“The chance to work in Door County represents a significant probability to shift the rhythm of my observe and deepen my relationship with portray from statement,” Pendleton stated. “I plan to immerse myself within the panorama – spending prolonged intervals working en plein air – and replicate on how that direct engagement can inform my studio work. Finally, I hope to develop large-scale work that weaves collectively figurative parts with visible language drawn from place.”
Pendleton holds an MFA (Grasp of Nice Arts diploma) in Portray from Cranbrook Academy of Artwork and a BFA from the College of Iowa. His work attracts from Renaissance and Baroque traditions, mixing historic imagery with up to date cultural references. Utilizing allegory, theatrical staging and humor, Pendleton interrogates methods of energy, spectacle and style, usually inserting sacred or royal figures alongside shopper items, inflatable toys and artificial textures.
“His work presents a wealthy interaction of custom and disruption, magnificence and critique,” Meissner-Gigstead stated.
Pendleton plans to host open studio hours, current an artist speak, and lead programming all through his residency. The museum will announce dates for Pendleton’s public packages quickly.
Different upcoming occasions embrace Artwork/Speaks, a writing lab led by native poets on June 20, 11 am; and a Dialogue with the Director session with Meissner-Gigstead on June 23, 5-6 pm.
The Miller Artwork Museum is positioned at 107 S. 4th Ave. in Sturgeon Bay.
