Studio Stories from our WAOW Artists

Watercolor with Judy Thompson
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Watercolor with Judy Thompson

One of the most meaningful projects to emerge from this studio is a collaboration with my daughter, Kristin Gifford, a published poet. Together, we’ve merged our two art forms into Becoming Midwest, Life Between, an exhibition at the Visual Arts Center at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls featuring 27 artworks and 12 poems.

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My Happy Place . Painter Kathy Soliday
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My Happy Place . Painter Kathy Soliday

This painting was from a photo opportunity I had to visit a longhorn ranch at feed time.  These amazing creatures with their longhorns know exactly how to move without hitting those enormous horns.  For being huge animals they move like dancers but their eyes were mainly on the food pellets.

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