Workshops & Events

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EVENTS

Faerie House Celebration

• When - Saturday November 15, 9am - 5pm, Sunday November 16, 10am-5pm
• Where- 5021 Richmond Dr.,Edina, MN 55436

Featuring-

• Frank and Bell - Faerie Houses
• Tom Ashworth - 3D Mixed Media
• Doni Jo McBeath - Art for Your Frame
• Marti Johnson - Sparkling jewelry
• Dandra Fynboh - Blue Sky Beads
• Jane Swan - Handmade tiles
• Karla Haugen- Soaps and jewelry
• MN ART CARS on Saturday @ 11am

For more information see: www.faeriehuse.com

Art Attack - Kate Daly Pottery & Studio #414

Where - Northrup King Building, NE Minneapolis
When

• Thursday November 6:  5-9 PM 1st Thursday
• Friday November 7:  5-10 PM
• Saturday November 8:  noon-8 PM
• Sunday November 9: noon-5 PM

ART AT RAMSEY

Fourteenth Annual Art Fair at Ramsey Junior High
in conjunction with Grand Meander in Saint Paul
December 6, 2008

What: ART AT RAMSEY: A Juried Holiday Art Fair of quality fine crafts and fine art, is sponsored by Highland/Macalester/Groveland Community Education in cooperation with Artists’ Circle, a non-profit art organization promoting fine crafts.  This is the art fair’s fourteenth anniversary show.   Free event.

Click  here Art at Ramsey for pictures from last year, as well as a list of the 2008 artists.

When: Saturday, December 6, 2008 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Where: Ramsey Junior High Gymnasiums, 1700 Summit Avenue, St. Paul

What: Sale of quality work by over 60 juried local artists from the upper Midwest who create fine crafts including basketry, clay, fiber, glass, leather, jewelry (gold, silver, pewter, stone, beaded), metal, paper, wood, mixed media, as well as fine arts including painting, watercolor, photography, printmaking, and sculpture.  There will be everything from leather handbags and belts, watercolor paintings, silver and gold jewelry, baskets, pressed flower art and hand-forged iron to woven scarves, stone sculpture vessels, dolls, fused glass pendants, woodcut prints, unique hand-dyed silk apparel, hand-carved wooden birds, mosaics, hand-woven rugs, hats, turned wood, original cards, hand-blown glass bowls, plus pottery tiles, vases, bowls, teapots and cups, and also Hmong needle work and  holiday ornaments.
The 15th Annual Youth Art Fair, with more than a dozen local young artists, ages 12-18, returns to Ramsey’s cafeteria for the third year. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Why: Promote Artists, Ramsey School, and Grand Avenue. ART AT RAMSEY is the premier December art fair in the metro; it provides artists, both juried and youth, with a well-known, accessible community facility (Ramsey Junior High) in which to market their original art works. This popular holiday event gives local St. Paulites, as well as the many metro residents who visit popular Grand Avenue in St. Paul, an opportunity to meet and to purchase from artists, during Grand Meander, the special holiday promotion of Grand Avenue (sponsored by the Grand Avenue Business Association). Art at Ramsey is proud to be part of the Campaign to Buy Local, buying art from local artists.

FLAME & FLOURISH

A joint show by Dyann Myers and Christine Herman

• When: November 1 - 30 2008
• Where: Stillwater Public Library Gallery
  224 3rd Street North, Stillwater

Your “Rascals” Retreat: inner wisdom through art making & play

Rascals Retreat: Brenna Busse and Rosemary Senjem

Space is limited at this special event, so register now and don’t miss out!

Have you ever seen the 1930’s classic television series called the “Little Rascals,” also known as “Our Gang?” We all have our own set of “Little Rascals” inside us. The most famous one is “The Inner Child,” written about in many books. (Read more in this blog entry about Rascals and Resistance.)

There are others! All we need to do is roll call. Some show up like archetypal characters and others are simply another aspect of our Self.
What will we do on this retreat?

• get to know our “Rascals” better through fun exercises, led by me, Rosemary Senjem (and get a sneak peak at my new Handbook to Inner Triumphs for Outer Success)make art dolls to represent our inner
• team with renowned figure artist, Brenna Busse
• easy movement and InterPlay (learn more at www.InterPlayTC.org)
• reflective writing
• plus opportunities to go deeper with role play and get support around building a better team amongst your “Rascals.”

What will we take home?

• more ease with our inner conversations
• more inner support for our big dreams
• meaningful art made by our own hands

What are the possibilities?

• make new friends
• try a labyrinth
• enjoy nature
• laugh a lot
• sing and dance
• have a really good time
• dig into joy
• a conversation with our higher selves through creativity
• momentum in the direction we desire

This workshop is for anyone who is:

• Dreaming of starting a business or creative project
• Already in business or a creative project, yet is stuck on some internal blocks.

Course Title
Your “Rascals” Retreat

Time
Friday 7 PM - Saturday 8 PM

Next Date
October 17-18, 2008

Location
Villa Maria Retreat Center
Frontenac, MN

Note
Please wear comfortable clothing so that you can move freely.

Fee
$ 260 includes program, lodging in bunkhouse, meals, and materials

Register with a friend by
October 8, 2008 and you each get the $30 buddy rebate at the door. One buddy per person.

Pre-registration required.
Space is limited.

To Register go to: Rascals Retreat

Visit Erik at the St. Paul Art Crawl

I will have paintings, woodcut prints and cards for sale, including many new works! I have been painting smaller pieces this summer, some of which are part of my ongoing “On the Road” series.  I load up my supplies, get on my bike, find a building that interests me and paint it on the spot.

Arden Durham will also be exhibiting in my loft, showing her films of artists creating art. She will have 6 volumes of DVDs for sale, including a film of me and my process of painting. The completed painting for the project will also be on display.

St Paul Art Crawl October 2008
Friday 10th………..6-10pm
Saturday 11th……..2-10pm
Sunday 12th……….noon-5pm

Carleton Place Lofts
2285 University Ave. W.
C560
St. Paul, MN  55114

More news on the Venus event…

From Erika Mock

Yesterday we hung a  huge tapestry loom  (5ft X 13 feet tall) that we are inviting anyone who wishes, to weave into.  (see attached photo)   The loom project will be ‘unveiled’ at the reception.
This interactive weaving is to invite the community to have an opportunity to

add voice and hand,  to create  with textiles and poetry  in harmony with the theme of  the exhibit……Venus…
(planet.  Morning Star.  Evening star.   Goddess.
The fool.  Spontaneity.  The ability to laugh at self.  The aha moment.  The energy present in communication and creative process that transforms and engages in new ways.
The ability to expand viewpoints.  Life force.  Beauty.)

In the spirit of the exhibit, we are taking a broad approach…..
participants can use the materials provided or bring something personal or worldy to include… whether it be tangible, fiber or not, a wish, a hope, a statement.
as well as fiber: fabric, grasses, wire,  plastic bags, etc, we invite words, wishes, poems also.  These can be written on fabric strips of paper and woven in.  We are telling people the following things:
1)  … since the beginning of time our textiles have held our stories
2)  …. community is that which you wish to share

3) …. collaboration is willingness to work together.
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Please invite….. your creative imagination,  a sense of play, and an open heart

Wed. nite the Duluth Knitting guild (an offshoot of the MN Knitters guild with an office in the Textile Center) lended their hands and spirit and patience to help finish the warp and prep materials.  A knitting group…. you are asking.  I was thrilled with this because it  was a wonderful stretch and opportunity to bridge worlds for all of us!  I look forward to having them back.
below is a quote from their guild leader:

Thank you so much for opening up this opportunity. I, like you, believe that we all have an artist within and projects like this help to legitimatize the art - work women have done for centuries.

North End Art Gallery and Red Mug Coffeehouse cordially invite you to join us for a dynamic collaborative exhibit and 7 weeks of events, featuring 20 renowned poets and 20 regarded fiber artists.

Venus: Poets and Fiber Artists Reflect
Thursday Sept 11 -  Thursday Oct 30

• Sat. Sept 20:  Round table conversation… 2-4pm Reception…  5-8pm (music by Georganne Hunter, harp and  Kevin Ostedahl, hammer dolcimer)

• Sat. Sept 27:  Eclipsed… 7pm  Patrick Eller, Kathy McTavish, Sheila Packa  Multimedia Performance

• Sat Oct 4: Poetry Night … 7pm Barton Sutter, Liz Minette, Rebecca Paradis, Connie Wanek, Cal bennson

• Sat. Oct 11:  Intertwined … 7pm 2 Writing Groups

1.  Rachel Mock, Jennifer Derrick, Tera Freese, Kyle Elden
2.  Deborah Cooper, Ann Niedringhaus, Candace Ginsberg, Anne Simpson, Ellie Schoenfeld

• Fri. Oct 17:  Signs Out of Time …  7pm Belili Productions documentary film the story of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas

• Sat Oct 18:   Poetry Afternoon…  3pm Louis Jenkins, Jim Johnson, Yvonne Rutford, Bob Monahan, Richard Gruchalla

• Sat Oct 18:   Beauty:  The Invisible Embrace  10am -3pm Fiber Workshop with Erika Mock …. call to register  715.392.1150

• Sat Oct 25:  Closing Reception …. 5-7pm (music by Kathy McTavish, Cello)

Exhibit coordinators Erika Mock, Ellie Schoenfeld, and Jo Wood have arranged events to foster artistic expression, invite community conversation, and  raise imaginative energy in all of us.  Collaboration was intentionally chosen  to unleash possibilities The participants reflect the diversity of poets and fiber artists creating work in Wisconsin and Minnesota.  The activities scheduled offer an opportunity for artists and the community to come together, share thoughts, and enrich one another.

Events are free and open to the public. (workshop offered on a sliding fee scale)
Funded in part by grants from the Community Opportunity Fund of the Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation and the Wisconsin Arts Board.
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For more information contact:
Arna at 715.392.6007 or
info@neartscouncil.org
Erika Mock at 715.392.1150
www.neartscouncil.org
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“This collaboration has created fertile ground for the imagination to soar…”
Kit Eastman,  complex surface design
St. Paul, MN

“Artists and writers spend a large part of time working in solitude.  I am glad to collaborate with visual artists because their images trigger my own creative work.   This project inspired me to put together a chapbook just for the exhibit, “Love’s Cloth.”    I hand colored the cover of my chapbook…it’s available as a limited edition.  ”
Sheila Packa, poet
Duluth, MN

“When a poem arrives full grown, the result is a delight like no other.  I crave those mystical visits of the muse, whoever she is, whenever she comes.

But there is another ecstasy which I experience on occasion in the writing of poetry, an experience which is represented in this show.  That is the spark created by collaboration — collaboration between emotion and nature, between idea and experience, between word, form and music, and, in this show, the collaboration between fiber artist and poet.

Leslie Williamson White shared with me her sense of an aging woman’s body — in a self-portrait fiber torso and in her words.  She also shared a book she loved about the mythology of Aphrodite or Venus.  I responded from my own experience as a woman older than Leslie and with my knowledge of poetic forms that could order images — both those from Leslie’s fiber creation and from the earth.

I believe, working alone, Leslie and I could not have created works with the resonance which came from the echoes between us.  I am convinced this complex creativity is a mystical experience which is no less miraculous than my hoped for visit of the poetic muse.  ”
Ann Floreen Niedringaus, poet
Duluth, MN

WORKSHOPS

The following workshops will be held in conjunction with ArtReach’s annual artist education program. The location is not set yet.

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Moving from Starving Artist to Thriving Artist; keys to success in a noisy world.

The class will cover:
1. The 6 key steps to marketing your business
2. Necessary tools to communicate your value and your brand
3. Delivering your value instead of your commoditiy

OCTOBER 21,2008

Do you feel Zapped by digital submissions? The ins and outs of Zapplication.

We will cover the basics of converting and submiting your images using the Zapplication process.

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