Birds in Art: 31 Years Young and Still Soaring at

The Wildlife Experience

Birds in Art, the Wausau, Wisconsin's Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum's annual exhibition offers, a bountiful abundance of both birds and art for aviary aficionados and will be nesting at The Wildlife Experience during the cold winter months.

When Birds in Art opens on November 29, an array of artwork from a wide variety of artists will grace gallery walls and pedestals. As a group, the paintings, sculptures, batiks, woodcuts, etchings, and graphite drawings comprising Birds in Art prove that flights of fancy are always in store during this yearly exaltation of birds and the global artists who depict them in varied mediums and styles.

Visitors to The Wildlife Experience can expect avian art adventures at destinations ranging from the pastoral, such as painter Cindy House's portrait of a snipe in a boggy New England pasture, to the exotic as in John Banovich's herd of running gnus seen from a vulture's in-flight perspective. In between are familiar birds in familiar settings depicted in styles ranging from sketches to fool-the-eye realism in genres that include landscapes and seascapes, still life, and portraiture.

Birds in Art is a juried exhibition. The Wildlife Experience's own exhibits manager, Connie Mohrman, was one of three esteemed judges chosen to select from nearly 1,000 pieces from around the world the artworks that have made the 2006 exhibition as exquisite as it is.

The Wildlife Experience is honored to display Birds in Art, for its artistic value and relevancy to its mission of promoting wise conservation of wildlife, habitat and natural resources. The exhibit will be on display at the museum from November 29, 2006 through January 28, 2007.

For more information on Birds in Art and The Wildlife Experience, visit thewildlifeexperience.org or call (720) 488-3300.