Carlotta Miller
Soaring Renovation, 2024
Watercolor
34 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches
Racine Art Museum, Helen Rusk Memorial Purchase Award from Watercolor Wisconsin 2024
Photography: Tyler Potter

Watercolor Wisconsin 2025

December 10, 2025 – April 18, 2026
at RAM’s Wustum Museum

Now in its 59th year, Watercolor Wisconsin was started in 1966 to honor the depth and breadth of watercolor in the state.

Jurors Jessica Cochran and Peggy Macnamara will select work for the 2025 exhibition. Jessica Cochran is the Deputy Director of the Renaissance Society, an independent contemporary art museum on the University of Chicago campus. She has worked as a curator, administrator, consultant, and educator in the realm of contemporary art for 20 years. Peggy Macnamara has served as the Artist-in-Residence at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History since 1990 and as an Adjunct Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 2001.

Watercolor Wisconsin 2025

December 10, 2025 – April 18, 2026
at RAM’s Wustum Museum
Carlotta Miller
Soaring Renovation, 2024
Watercolor
34 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches
Racine Art Museum, Helen Rusk Memorial Purchase Award from Watercolor Wisconsin 2024
Photography: Tyler Potter

Now in its 59th year, Watercolor Wisconsin was started in 1966 to honor the depth and breadth of watercolor in the state.

Jurors Jessica Cochran and Peggy Macnamara will select work for the 2025 exhibition. Jessica Cochran is the Deputy Director of the Renaissance Society, an independent contemporary art museum on the University of Chicago campus. She has worked as a curator, administrator, consultant, and educator in the realm of contemporary art for 20 years. Peggy Macnamara has served as the Artist-in-Residence at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History since 1990 and as an Adjunct Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 2001.

Sample of Work from Past Watercolor Wisconsin Exhibition

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Exhibitions at RAM are made possible by:

Platinum Partners

The Estate of Karen Johnson Boyd
David Charak
Judith and David Flegel Fund
Ron and Judith Isaacs
Racine Community Foundation logo

The Estate of Marilyn Rothschild
Windgate Foundation

Diamond Partners

Ruffo Family Foundation
Ruth Arts Foundation
Diane Zebell

Gold Partners

Anonymous
Robert E. Kohler Jr. Fund
Osborne and Scekic Family Foundation
Reliance Controls
Trio Foundation of St. Louis
W.T. Walker Group, Inc.
Wisconsin Arts Board 50th Anniversary Logo

Silver Partners

Anonymous
Bader Philanthropies
Baird
Dave’s Wine Garage
Lucy G. Feller
Ben and Dawn Flegel
Sharon and Tom Harty
Paula Kalke
Horizon Retail Construction, Inc.
Johnson Financial Group
Dorothy MacVicar
Willard and Mary Walker

Bronze Partners

Sandy and Gus Antonneau
Carol Baylon
Rose and Peter Christensen
Educators Credit Union
Patricia and Richard Ehlert
Deborah Ganaway
Carol Griseto
Hitter’s Baseball
Bill and Debbie Keland
Susan Manalli
Norbell Foundation
O&H Danish Bakery
JoAnna Poehlmann
Rasmussen Diamonds
SC Johnson
Harold and Lois Solberg
Kathy Stranghellini
Twin Disc
Janna Waldeck
Barbara Waldman
Marc J. Wollman

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