Join Dane Arts as we celebrate thirteen artists selected for the 2025 Poster and Calendar!
The 2025 theme is "Curious by Nature." Artists were selected for inspirational interpretations of "curiosity" within Dane County life.
Calendar Artists: Charlotte Easterling, Karen Faller, Kati Fernandez Lambert, Jane Ferris, Pamela Grabber, Jessica Gutierrez, Ren LaDassor, Maron Massey, Sara Meredith, Christy Nesja, Briana Richardson, Barbara Zellmer
Poster Artist: Helen Klebesadel
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Bring the quiet beauty of winter woods into your home with "The Trees Beckon," a hand-carved, four-color reduction linocut. Trees have long been a source of comfort and inspiration to the artist, Christy Nesja. Childhood hours spent playing in the woods and exploring wooded trails grew into a lifelong love of hiking and quiet reflection in natural spaces.
This print was inspired by a favorite trail in Stewart County Park, Dane County, Wisconsin. On a steep hillside, the trees bend and curve together, forming a kind of natural cathedral. The scene evokes a feeling of welcome, stillness, and reverence for the beauty of the woods—an atmosphere captured in "The Trees Beckon."
The work was selected as the January 2025 image for the Dane Arts calendar, published by the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission.
Reduction linocut, carved from two blocks and printed in four color passes on a Vandercook SP15 proof press
Limited edition of 20 signed and numbered prints
Trim size: 14 x 11 inches
Sold unframed
Paper: Neenah Cotton 110 lb. Fluorescent White, 100% cotton, tree-free
Packaged in a clear sleeve with backing board, ships flat
Each print comes with a signed certificate of authenticity
International shipping available for this item when purchased through our Etsy shop: https://nesjapress.etsy.com