If there is one word to describe artist, storyteller, musician, husband and father Don Nedobeck, it would be expressionist. To listen to his name is to hear the sounds of basic keys on a clarinet, Ne-do-beck, and with practice it becomes more fluid. Talking with Nedobeck is like sitting in your most comfortable old worn […]
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Sep
This painting of a round cat face on a fish’s body entered the world as an improvisation by Nedobeck, a Florida-based artists who’s returned to Wausau’s Festival of Arts for decades. He started the piece with a backdrop of blue and yellow shading that looked like light coming through water. Then Nedobeck decided to add a catfish. Rotund felines permeate his collection of […]
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Oct
Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a sentence using words beginning with that letter, which is illustrated by a fanciful drawing. This is a super fun book for both kids and their parents or grandparents. The artwork is fantastic and the author/artist gets silly with each letter – Terri the tall thin tan […]
Don Nedobeck’s world of music and art is filled with sleepy hippos, puffy-cheeked cats, birds wearing red shoes and a clarinet that toots Dixieland. A street artist, creator of children’s books and leader of the North Water Street Tavern Band, Nedobeck counts himself fortunate to be living in this decade. ”At no other time in […]