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Art Walk in Story Garden

ART WALK

2026 ART WALK

The Art Walk 2026 shape is a poppy! Seventeen adult artists and twenty youth artists have been chosen to be featured in our 2026 Art Walk.

Artists Reception: Friday, August 7, 5 pm – Join us to celebrate the artists of the 2026 Art Walk with our Artists Reception to be held in the Story Gardens – youth and adults! Light refreshments provided.

2026 ART WALK AUCTION

Tuesday, September 8, 5 pm – All youth and adult poppies will be auctioned in our Story Gardens!

In early September, we host our annual Art Walk Auction to auction off the pieces of art. All proceed directly support the continued development and maintenance of Story Gardens.

Over the last two years we were able to raise over $22,000 for our Story Gardens through our Art Walk Auction!

Milton Public Library Art Walk Artistic Text with paint

Every August, we are thrilled to bring even more art to the library and highlight local artists with an annual Art Walk. Each year, a different shape is chosen for the artists to create into a unique piece of art to display in our Story Gardens!

  • Art Walk 2025: Crescent Moons
  • Art Walk 2024: Butterflies
  • Art Walk 2026: Poppy
Brass Garden Kaliedoscope with three view finders and colorful foliage in the center basin

Garden Kaliedoscope added thanks to our 2025 Art Walk Auction

Outside Musical instruments on walk path

Musical instruments added thanks to our 2024 Art Walk Auction

Art Walk 2026: Adult Division Poppies

Poppy cutout with a mosaic Wisconsin wood viotet design on it

Wisconsin Wood Violet

Bethany Scott
Poppy cut-out with colorful zentangle painting on it

Almost Dazzled

L. Christine
Poppy cut-out with a rainbow paint pour design with a mirror middle

Rainbow Kaliedoscope

Angela Brooks, Ashley Cance, & Ashlee Kunkel
Poppy cut-out with a painting of cartoon animals dressed as The Wizard of Oz characters hiking the Ice Age Trail

Follow the Yellow Blaze Trail

Alison McDole
Poppy cut-out with a painting of a partically covered lion's face with colorful botanicals

Find Your Courage

Angela Brooks

Campfire Dreams

Angela Brooks
Poppy cut-out with a painting of a fantasy world with moons, flowers, a heroine, and sparkles

Only You Can Decide What Breaks You

Ciera Resheske
Poppy cut-out that is painted to look like a hyper realistic read poppy

Pretty Poppy

Connie Bier
Poppy cut-out painted with a scene of an open book, a yellow brick road through large poppies leading to a magical city in the distance

A Storied Path to a Magical Kingdom

Heather Longhenry
poppy cut-out painted with an imaginative scene of imagery from The Wizard of Oz

Dream in a Poppy

Jessica Laehn
poppy cut-out painted to look like a cross section of a tree with tree rings, moss, and quotes

Enjoy the Wild

Sarah Stuckey
Poppy cut-out painted with an impressionoistic style of a red poppy

Wildly Poppy

Wendy Rummelhoff Ramos
poppy cut-out painted as a hyper-realistic red poppy with a hyper-realistic tin man in front

Untitled

Craig Fairbert
poppy cut-out painted with a realistic jersecy cow in front of a poppy

Jersey Poppy

Larry Schultz
poppy cut-out painted with cartoon kittens as each of the characters of The Wizard of Oz

Wizard of Paws

Mary Montanye
Poppy cut-out painted with red and orange sections and parts painted as the yellow brick road

There's No Place Like Home

Pam Veitenheimer
poppy cut-out painted with swirling colors and an eye in the middle

Mynds Eye

Peggy Taylor
poppy cut-out decorated with a colorful mosaice to look like flowers

Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Blue Birds Fly

Vicki Cottam

Art Walk 2026: Youth Division Poppies

Petal Party

Elle Baker

Sundrop Fields

Maya Raby

Botanical Gateway

Quinn Colstad

Summer Day

Josie Baker

Red Poppy

Art on the Fly Kids Art and Nature Camp

Untitled

Quinn Bier

Spring

Margo Sutherland

All Night & Day

Maddie Hahn

Untitled

Rylee Williams

Space Sunset

Lincoln Baker

Kaliedoscope of color

Audrey Sutherland

The Sleeping Dog

Emmerson Williams

Red Hawk Pride

Alfie Thyme

Bee Poppy

Norah Cullen

Imagination Flower

Adele Wright

Sparkle Poppy

Everly Budlong

Snow Fox Ice Skating

Della Walters

Lovely Day

Evelyse Sutherland

Art Walk 2025: Crescent Moons

Moon cut-out with painting of an owl on it

Moonlight Watch

Judy Hatlen
Moon cut-out with painting of an owl on it

Once in a Blue Moon

Pam Veitenheimer

When the Moon is Right, the Fish will Bite

Tom Lieder

Moon of Scraps

Vicki Cottam

Campfire Dreams

Angela Brooks

Always Reaching

Peggy Taylor

Midnights in Bloom

Kristen Martalock

Time & Time Again

Alyson Flynn

Little Rascal

Connie Bier

Shoot for the Moon

Jaimie Mahoney

Stoneware Shadows & Painted Scenes (Front)

Heather & Naomi Hansen

Stoneware Shadows & Painted Scenes (Back)

Heather & Naomi Hansen

Moon Squawk

Craig Fairbert

Fairy Moon

Kristen Niman

Mind Map

Brenda Mathews

Moonlight Prance on the Ice Age Trail

Alison McDole

A Hoot & A Wail!

Bethany Scott

Nocturne in Bloom

Wendy Rummelhoff Ramos

Art Walk 2024: Butterflies

Butterfly Jungle

Craig Fairbert

Moonlight Watch

Judy Hatlen

Monarch Migration

Alison McDole

Monarch (Taylor's Version [Ashlee's Version][Ashley's Version]

Ashlee Kunkel & Ashley Colstad

Oh, Feathers!

Angela Brooks

Wingspirations

Kristin Niman

Madame Monarch

Wendy Rummelhoff Ramos

Mystery of the Moth

Alyson Flynn

Doodle All Day

Brenda Mathews

Magazine Monarch

Kirten Martalock, Lauren Ahlstrom, & Ella Baker

Untitled

Peggy Taylor

View From Above

Pam Veitenheimer

Dottie

Tom Lieder

Hop On, Butterfly!

Bethany Scott

Reflections of Sally

Vicki Cottam

Butter Cow

Larry Schultz

Thanks, Lisa!

Jaime Mahoney

Madame Butterfly

Connie Bier