Art for Oil is a fundraiser show featuring eleven artists whose pieces range in style from printmaking to photography, drawing to painting, digital to handmade. Clean up efforts are underway in the Gulf of Mexico and there are organizations that need your support.

Artists donated the pieces on display to help raise money for The National Audubon Society and Save Our Seabirds, Inc. NAS is an organization that works directly with oil damaged seabirds while Save Our Seabirds, Inc. works to rehabilitate seabirds. This show began with the belief that art can make a difference.

Each work is original, creative, and affordable for the everyday art lover. Artists come from all over, including Milwaukee, Chicago, Madison, Indiana and Massachusetts.

Reception

Join us at the Project Lodge on Wednesday, September 1st, from 6-8 pm where we’ll celebrate, and you can find out how you can help. 100% of profits from the show will be donated to both organizations.

Artists

Autumn Clark, Lilly Duermeier, Erick Fruehling, Jeff
Herwig, Erik Johnson, NERS , Alejandra Perez, Nate Pyper, Janson Rapisarda, Cassandra Warren, Lindsay Woods

Calling all regional and local artists!  We have the second and third weeks of September (Sept. 9th-15th and 16th-22nd) available for gallery rental. 

We hate bare walls, so please contact us about booking a show for one or both of these weeks!  We would love to help you share your art with the community. 

Entertainment events in the evening and our weekday gallery hours give you exposure to diverse viewing audiences.  Also, at $100/week for gallery space rental it’s an inexpensive way to arrange a group show.

Contact Tyler Mackie, Project Lodge Gallery Manager, at: tyler.mackie@gmail.com to book for your art shows now.
XO,
Pro Lo
P.S. We currently take no commission on artist sales.

Fans of Ryan Adams or Elliott Smith, who prefer their alt country with a liberal dollop of rock and roll on top and a side of soul, will definitely dig Matt Hopper and his band, the Roman Candles. Here’s a chance to pick up his fifth album, “Jersey Finger” and see how his sound has evolved since he migrated even norther north from Madison, back to his home base in Hatcher Pass, Alaska. He’s touring with a pack of passionate Utah troubadours that call themselves the Devil Whale. We hope to welcome him with a full Lodge.

http://www.myspace.com/matthopper
http://www.myspace.com/thedevilwhale

“Alaska native Matt Hopper has the appeal and talent of a quintessential American singer-songwriter. He writes earnest alt-countrified songs that are pop without being clichéd and delicate without being sappy.” - LA Weekly

“Jersey Finger might be one day be considered Hopper’s Exile on Main Street, should he ever grow up to become a craggy-faced graying pop star.” – Anchorage Press

$6

7pm-10pm

“Crosshatxh is a monthly reading showcasing poets of tremendous talent, regardless of style, publications, or degree status, generational affiliation or profession or original language. It shakes out boundaries between academy and community in favor of artistic integrity. In addition to the best performance poets, laureates, and sonneteers it features ghosts of dead writers who rise to laud and poets who just finished serving time, and whose work demands lauding. And it rocks.”

Friday’s readers include Dasha Kelly, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Tim Kloss, and the ghost of Emily Dickinson.

7:30 PM; suggested donation of $3 to benefit the Wisconsin Books to Prisoners Project.