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Farley Center Volunteer Day in the Sculpture Garden!

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May 18, 2022

Please join us as we work on Gene’s sculptures to get ready for the upcoming August 13th Sculpture Exhibit Reception.

https://www.facebook.com/events/479268210209388

We have hired a professional photographer to photograph the sculptures on May 30.

Please meet front of the red packing shed at 4:30 p.m.

We will be doing outdoor clean up work Please dress for outdoor weather and bring work gloves and water bottles. IF you have a small shovel, please bring that as well.

If you have any questions or want to sign up, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org.

FARLEY CENTER ON SITE SUPERVISOR
Jeanne Meier – Farley Center Board Member

Farley Center Volunteer Day in the Sculpture Garden!

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May 16, 2022

Please join us as we work on Gene’s sculptures to get ready for the upcoming August 13th Sculpture Exhibit Reception.

https://www.facebook.com/events/479268210209388

We hired a professional photographer to photograph the sculptures on May 30.

Please meet front of the red packing shed at 4:30 p.m.

We will be doing outdoor clean up work Please dress for outdoor weather and bring work gloves and water bottles. IF you have a small shovel, please bring that as well.

If you have any questions or want to sign up, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org.

FARLEY CENTER ON SITE SUPERVISOR
Jeanne Meier – Farley Center Board Member

Farley Center Volunteer Day in the Sculpture Garden!

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May 17, 2022

Please join us as we work on Gene’s sculptures to get ready for the upcoming August 13th Sculpture Exhibit Reception.

https://www.facebook.com/events/479268210209388

We hired a professional photographer to photograph the sculptures on May 30.

Please meet front of the red packing shed at 4:30 p.m.

We will be doing outdoor clean up work Please dress for outdoor weather and bring work gloves and water bottles. IF you have a small shovel, please bring that as well.

If you have any questions or want to sign up, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org.

FARLEY CENTER ON SITE SUPERVISOR
Jeanne Meier – Farley Center Board Member

Farley Center Volunteer “Snow Labyrinth”Day!

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Please join us to work on the Farley Center Snow Labyrinth 2022 at the Farley Center from 11:00-1230 on Sunday, February 6.

The Farley Center snow labyrinth has been completed and will be soon open to the public. However, we would like to have volunteers come and walk the labyrinth to stamp down the snow so it is easier for people to walk it. This year we made it closer to the parking area so it is a shorter walk up the trail.

Please meet at the lower parking lot at the Center, We will walk/snowshoe to the labyrinth from there.

Please dress for outdoor weather. Wear good boots or bring your snowshoes.

Please social distance and wear masks if you feel more comfortable. We do require that all volunteers be vaccinated for the safety of all our volunteers and staff.

If you have any questions, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org.

FARLEY CENTER ON SITE SUPERVISOR(S)
Director Shedd Farley
Program Director Caroline Tu Farley

Gene Farley Sculpture Exhibit

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Gene Farley Sculpture Exhibit
Opening Reception – Sat, Aug. 13,
1:00-2:30

Many of you who have been out to the Farley Center have noticed the many sculptures that are grace the land.

Gene Farley was a man of many talents. In addition to being the Chair of the UW Family Medicine, he was active in many progressive groups but he also enjoyed creating these large metal sculptures and drawing what he called doodles.

There are a total of 17 sculptures at the Center. There is another one in front of the Social Justice Center in Madison and another in Golden, CO.

We will kick off the Gene Farley Sculpture Exhibit on Sat, August 13 from 1:00-2:30 at the Farley Center. Please join us for light refreshments and take a map and take a self guided sculpture tour. This exhibit will be a permanent exhibit at the Center.

Linda Farley also was artistic and talented and enjoyed painting with watercolors. The watercolor is from a photo of Gene working on a sculpture. Linda named it “Sculpturer with Red Gloves.”

Farley Center Tree Carving Tour with Artist David Carlson

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Tree Carving Tour and information for wood carvers and other interested folks with Artist David Carlson. This will be a visit to the tree and a walkabout on the grounds for ideas.

See: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1468380859914667

For more information, please e-mail David Carlson at djcarlson30@gmail.com

Please send an e-mail to programs@farleycenter.org if you plan on attending.

Greetings Artists,

I have begun to receive seed catalogues, so we know spring is on its way. My thoughts return to the Farley Center Tree Carving project. This is one of many things that Covid-19 has put on hold. The good news is that we can begin to work towards resuming.

I would like to invite you to consider what you might want to contribute to the project. Remember that the theme is “Rooted in the Land.” This will also be the theme of the 2021 land art exhibition this year.

Simply contact me with what you would like to do. The tree is divided by vine carvings into “panels” of various sizes. You can select one of those to carve, paint, or attach objects that are environmentally friendly and that fit the theme. The challenge is to create with materials that are weather resistant.

I will, when things warm up this spring, be refreshing things and then I will be working on a carving on one of the panels modeled after the oak tree we so often gather around at the center. There are lots of other ideas related to the land, such as farming, bees and bee keeping, wildlife, birds, native flowers and much more.

I hope to hear from you soon.
David Carlson

Sanctuary: Environmental Land Art at the Farley Center

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The Farley Center presents an art exhibition at the Overture Center.

Artist reception on Friday, Sept. 28 from 6:00-8:00. Enjoy light refreshments and music by WYSO Madison Music Makers while exploring the exhibit and meeting many of the participating artists.

“Sanctuary: Environmental Land Art at the Farley Center” exhibit is a photographic tour of these art installations. It will be on display in the Playhouse Gallery at the Overture Center for the Arts September 7-October 28, 2018.

Using natural materials from the land, area artists were invited to be inspired, expand creative boundaries, play with mystery, initiate surprise, explore and celebrate our connection to the earth. The theme was “Sanctuary” which could be interpreted however the artists chose. Sixteen artists took on the challenge and created a variety of pieces on the outdoor grounds of the Natural Path Sanctuary at the Farley Center near Verona, WI the summer of 2017.

ARTISTS
Dave Carlson, Jessica Luer, Betsy Delzer, Drew McCoy, Michael Duffy, Karen Reppen, Patrick Flynn, Cynthia Reynolds, Beverly Gordon, Bobbette Rose, Chris Hindle, Jane Scharer, Lewis Koch, John Scharer, Katrina Kreuger, Sue Schuetz

EXHIBITION PHOTOGRAPHER
Barry Sherbeck

 

The Farley Center thanks Dane Arts, the Dane County Board of Supervisors and private funders for their generous support of this exhibition including funds from the Endres Mfg.Company Foundation, the Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of the The Capital Times, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation.

 

Farley Center also thanks the Overture Center for the Arts for inviting us to exhibit in the Playhouse Gallery and helping us make this show a reality.