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Link Gallery Exhibits Kopischke's "Garments of our Foundation"
By Door Community Auditorium
Jan 18, 2011 - 12:30:00 AM
Award-winning
theatrical and opera costume designer Kärin Kopischke shares her knowledge and
experience with Gibraltar Middle and High School students and presents historic
renderings of Door County women in "Garments of Our Foundation" at the Link
Gallery in the Door Community Auditorium from January 7 through February
18.
The
exhibit features portraits of ten compelling women from Gibraltar’s history,
the result of nine months of research, writing, sketching, painting and
fabric-swatching. The ten women include members of the Claflin, Thorp, Noble, and
Duclon families among others, spanning the decades from 1842 to 1918.
Kopischke approached each subject as she would a character in a play,
researching the available facts of their lives and the historical
context. The renderings are augmented by historic fabric swatches and
notions and accompanied by first-person narratives.
As
part of Friends of Gibraltar’s Door County History Year, Kärin Kopischke will be
doing a week-long artist in residency program with Gibraltar students in grades
8 and 9. The students will work with
Kärin Kopischke, Gibraltar Social Studies teachers Lauren Mittermann and Andrew
Holdmann, and Gibraltar Art teacher Sally Bahrke to create historical
renderings of either a person in their family or a person from Door County
History from the 1800s. The
students will research the life and historical era of their selected
person. Then the students will
write a first person narrative, create sketches, and paint a rendering of the
person at a specific age. Student
renderings will be added to Kärin Kopischke’s “Garments of Our Foundation”
exhibit during the week of January 31.
“In
what I call ‘Historical Rendering,’ I am taking theatrical costume rendering
one step further; from a means to an end to a work of art in itself,” says Kopischke.
“I seek fascinating, real-life characters that have been lost in time, and
represent them in a fully-explored rendering, showing their significance in
their time, their place, and their story.”
Now
Gibraltar students will have an opportunity to experience Door County history
by discovering and creating a rendering of the stories of local family and/or
community members that lived here in the 1800s.
Kopischke
earned a self-designed degree from Lawrence University in Studio Art and Piano
Performance with a theatre emphasis. Kopischke regularly designs costumes
for top regional theatres and operas around the country, including Peninsula
Players.
“Garments
of Our Foundation: Pioneering Door County Women and their Clothing” is
funded by the Gibraltar Historical Association and by grants from the Wisconsin
Arts Board and the Peninsula Arts Association, with funds from the State of
Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Link Gallery is open to the public Monday through
Friday from Noon until 5:00pm, and on show days from Noon until show time. The
Link Gallery is located in the Door Community Auditorium, 3926 Hwy 42, Fish
Creek. Please call the box office at (920) 868-2728 with questions, or visit our
Web site at www.dcauditorium.org.
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