Each year for over four decades, the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission's annual art poster has showcased a different, talented local artist. This tradition lives on in 2025. Poster donations help support the Commission's mission and programs: fostering public participation, increasing access, and forging alliances in support of local arts, culture, and history.
Helen Klebesadel, High Summer Prairie I, 2023, Watercolor on Paper, 30” x 40”
Poster Size: 18" x 24"
Helen Klebesadel - Artist Statement
Wisconsin artist Helen Klebesadel has made Dane County her home for over forty years. Her visual concerns run the gamut from careful study to poetic, symbolic and sometimes political representations of nature and human nature. With watercolor as her medium of choice, Helen’s recent paintings focus on prairie ecosystems. Her works explore the native and not so native forbs that make prairies so beautiful, as well as the pollinators and other songbirds that depend upon them. Prairies are one of the rarest and most endangered ecosystems in the world. Happily, the Dane County Park System contains over 9,000 acres of natural areas that include prairies, wetlands, oak woodlands, and forests that inspire her art. Helen desires her paintings to encourage us to help do what we must to save the prairies, pollinators, songbirds, and perhaps, in so doing, learn how to save ourselves.
Learn More: Klebesadel.com
The 2025 art poster is available to the public by voluntary donation at locations throughout Dane County as follows:
Dane Arts would like to thank Douglas Art & Frame for their generous support in annually framing the Dane County Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission poster!
While you're here, don't miss our 2025 Art Calendar, featuring Dane County Artists!
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Richie Morales, Pangea, from The Effects of Time on Memory Series, “Human Animals,” 2023 Art Poster
Molly Krolczyk, Summer Night, Indian Lake, 2022 Art Poster
Steve Wagner, Strolling, 2020 Art Poster
Karen Watson-Newlin, Pleasant Valley Conservatory, 2019 Art Poster
Reed Jones, Sunflower on Ely Place, 2018 Art Poster
John Ribble, Solitude, 2017 Art Poster
Judy Patenaude, Hide N' Seek, 2016 Art Poster
Brian McCormick, Lagoon, 2015 Art Poster
Kay Brothol-Hostvet, Steadfast, 2014 Art Poster