Sites # 2, 3, 4, 5 The Anderson Center

Ardee Rosasco
Studio: The Anderson Center 5354 Tower View Drive, Red Wing, MN.
Ardee Rosasco is surrounded by a visually stimulating environment of water, bluffs and seasonal landscape colors. Art has always been a passion for her. Ardee paints with oils and watercolor in a Classical tradition including the Impressionist style of light to produce a painterly work of art. A few of her idols include Velazquez, Sargent, Vermeer, Artemisia Gentileschi and Hals. Subjects include landscape, portraiture, still-life and art design. Her work is shown locally and out-state in several private collections. She regularly participates in workshops with well-know artists. 

Art Kenyon
Studio: The Anderson Center 5354 Tower View Drive, Red Wing, MN.
Art is a long time resident of Red Wing who believes in the valuable relationship between drawing, painting, and printmaking. He constantly explores new techniques, styles and compositions to mix detailed realism with abstract forms. His studio displays oil paintings, watercolors, sepia-tone coffee paintings, detailed graphite portrait drawings, and printmaking images from hand-drawn lithographs, Intaglio copper plate etchings, and original hand-rubbed woodcut prints.

Guest artist: Neal Topliff
Born and raised north of Duluth, Minnesota, Neal has been a resident of Red Wing for 10 years. He is a composer and pianist with nine solo piano CDs to his credit. His soothing and relaxing music reflects his northern Minnesota heritage. Neal will be performing live both days of the Ramble. - Visit www.harbourlightmusic.com to learn more about his music

Peg Simonson
Studio: The Anderson Center 5354 Tower View Drive, Red Wing, MN.
Peggy's love of color is apparent as you enter her studio tucked behind the historic Anderson Center. Her painting mediums include: soft pastels, watercolor, where she often incorporates textured papers and ink, and a unique method of painting dyes on silk fabric which are then mounted on canvas. She also hand dyes and paints sumptuous silk scarves using a wide variety of techniques.

Ted Florine
Studio: The Anderson Center 5354 Tower View Drive, Red Wing, MN.
A Graduate of Red Wing High School, he went on to receive his Bachelors of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota in 2006. He is a third generation butcher who found his love first in pottery and then in sculpting. He enjoys the functionality behind all pots and the way they feel in your hands, but also enjoys creating wall pieces that play on shapes, colors, and shadows to create a unique feel for each viewer. He draws his influences from his surroundings (nature, urban areas, etc.) as well as traditional Japanese and American pottery.

Dan Wiemer
Studio: 491 Spring Creek Road.
Bold, direct watercolor with strong design best describe Dan's work. For twenty five years Dan has balanced a career of commercial illustration and fine art. His regional workshops are in demand and his paintings can be found in homes and businesses throughout the country. Dan has a passion for the landscape and draws much of his inspiration from vista views around the Red Wing area. Original art as well as prints and cards will be available. Visit www.danwiemer.com for more information.

Lynn Brown
Studio: 1700 Twin Bluff Road.
Returning again in a new location in Red WIng with two guest artists. Lynn works in a variety of 2-dimensional mediums which include oil, watercolor, oil-pastel and mixed media with an emphasis on color. Most of her work is of landscapes, still-life, and abstracted images derived from nature.

Guest Artist Karen Caldwell
Karen works in oils on linen. Her work ranges from figurative and still life to landscapes. She also works in porcelain creating unique one of a kind masks. The finishing of the masks are done in mixed media from oil paint, glazes and found objects. Originals and archival prints available. Visit: karenacaldwell.com/ to see more of her work

Guest Artist Gale Berndt
She is a landscape painter inspired by nature. She paints her surrounding area in plein air of the White Water and Mississippi River near her home studio in Weaver, MN. Gail loves to travel to see and paint a variety of landscapes, and is particularly fond of the mountains.

Maggie Paynter
Studio: 108 East Seventh Street, Red Wing, MN 55066
Margaret Paynter is an artist working in oil, acrylic and watercolor. “The process of painting has been a personal journey that has challenged my technique and furthered my growth as an artist. Paynter’s work are images from nature. Flowers, landscapes, and riverscapes are all subjects that she paints in a plein air or studio setting.

Doris Gardas
Studio: N1602 Co. Road VV, Hager CIty WI.
Doris’s love of Nature and the surroundings of her native Wisconsin are the primary inspirations for her work. Drawing at am early age has developed into a life of art whether it involves capturing her grandchildren on canvas or painting the natural world.

Susan Weigenant
Studio: N1804 County Rd. VV - Hager City, WI
Susan has been developing her artistic style for the last six years. Her current work features garden, landscape, and horse themes. Along with transparent watercolor and palette knife paint applications, Susan's three-dimensional horse portraits are so highly textural that they resemble bronze bas relief. Come visit Susan's studio in a commercial building converted into a home and work space.

Dave Matheny & Jean Sherlock
221 South Oak Street, Lake City, MNI
Sherlock/Matheny Studio. This husband and wife work in a wide range of media – pastel, oil, watercolor, pen-and-ink, pencil – with an even wider range of subjects: Landscape, fantasy, portrait, still-life, nautical, wildlife, aviation, and much more.

Dave Matheny
He is an illustrator whose work currently appears in a national magazine, Sport Aviation. He was an illustrator with the Minneapolis Star Tribune for over 30 years.

Jean Sherlock
She has been painting in oils since childhood. Her originals and prints are in collections around the world, and she is a much-sought-after teacher of drawing and painting.

Kathy Jo Rodester
120 W Lyon Ave Lake City MN
New this year. Kathy is a jewlery artist who strives to create beautiful jewelry that woman want to wear everyday. Her interests includes all type of bead weaving and working with seed beads. The smaller the better.Visit her site at: www.dragonflydreamsretreatcenterllc.com