ArtOrg is on the road again and traveling to several branches of the Northwest Regional Library system in the next few days. Please check our special page devoted to this arc of events, and visit us at the public libraries in Red Lake Falls, Thief River Falls, Greenbush, Warroad and Warren, Minnesota. A extra-special happening may take place on this trip on Sunday, July 25, so keep watching our Facebook/Twitter on that day.

If nineteen June days could talk, they would probably boast they created many new prints. Our run of steamroller printing at 19 venues in 20 days turned out very well, and we estimate that we helped artists create nearly 1200 new works. Almost 900 of these prints were made for branches of the Great River Regional Library based in St. Cloud, 200 for a Minneapolis Institute of Arts family day, and about 100 for a City of Dundas celebration. We captured nearly every work by digital photo, and those photos have now been posted on our website. We would like to give heartfelt thanks to our sponsors The Great River Regional Library, The Minneapolis Institute Continue Reading…

We have a new post office box, and the new address for mailing things to us is ArtOrg, P.O. Box 2, Northfield, MN 55057-0002. For a nice essay called Jasper Johns: Numbers, please look here.

ArtOrg’s 2010 Thousand Print Summer is going gangbusters, and we have only six events left in the June portion of our schedule. In fact, for the Great River Regional Library System alone, we might even make one thousand prints. Please visit the Royalton Library on Monday, June 21; Foley on Tuesday, June 22; Pierz on Wednesday, June 23; Grey Eagle on Thursday, June 24; and Buffalo on Friday, June 25. Look to our calendar for times and addresses. Let’s go for one thousand prints!

ArtOrg is hitting the road in June with its small steamroller printing activity for kids and adults called the “Thousand Print Summer”. Starting on Monday, June 7 we are printing at no fewer than 19 venues over the next 20 days. The events travel to cities as diverse as Upsala, St. Cloud, Dundas, Grey Eagle, and Minneapolis. Seek out our calendar, to find the nearest location to you. Come early and print often! A special thanks to the Great River Region Library for sponsoring many of the events through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Legacy Fund. A special treat will be on Sunday, June 13 when we are at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts—the prints from this event get integrated into a 100-foot-long gallery exhibit at the Hennepin County Government Center in December of 2010, and that project is called the “Progressive Mural in the Community”.

The ArtOrg 2010 Thousand Print Summer kicks offs at Edison High School during the Northeast Minneapolis Art-A-Whirl. We will be in front of the main entrance of Edison High School from noon to 4pm on Saturday, May 15. Come and make a print with a small steamroller! We already have over twenty small steamroller printing events scheduled this summer from Rochester to Thief River Falls–check our main calendar for a list of all of these events. This first one at Edison is one of five special events–because the prints feed into a special exhibition at the Hennepin County Government Center in December of 2010 for the project called the “Progressive Mural in the Community“. Stop by and find out more. Edison High School is located at 700 22nd Avenue NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418.

At the annual ArtOrg meeting last night, several board of director positions were decided. New member Kathy Ruby was elected Treasurer, Ron Wolfe was elected Vice-Chairperson, Ann Nordby continues as Board President, and Greg Mattern continues as Secretary. In addition, Wendy Sivanich, who is now Director of Operations at the Northfield Youth Choirs, will be doing the books and advising ArtOrg in everything financial. Find our more about them, and the rest of our board on our People and Mission page.