The second installment of ArtOrg’s Five Sculpture project was installed last month from artist Juan Jose Palacios and is called “To Thine Own Mother Be True”. The first sculpture was from Sharol Nau, and the upcoming works are from Ray Jacobson, Ed White, and Mac Gimse. Thanks to Switzer’s Nursery and Landscaping for a shop to build the work in, and for help in transporting and installing the work. On our main page about the project, there is a stop-action video about the trip to the Lampe Plinth. Thanks again to Lampe Law Group for a wonderful location to display public art!
Juan writes his thoughts about the piece: “On November 7, 2011 my mother would have celebrated her 80th birthday. Continue Reading…

[Note: A closing party has been scheduled from 4 to 8pm on Saturday, November 5.] On Sunday, October 2, 2011 over two-hundred artists and fans came together to celebrate the opening of the exhibit at ArtOrg called “Glen Hanson Gallery: Now and Then”. The open hours of the show are Thursdays from noon to 8 pm, and Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 6 pm. Hours continue to November 6. Please click here to see photos and a short video of the opening event, and more information about the Glen Hanson Gallery. Thanks to everyone who made this event such a huge and wonderful success!

On Sunday, October 2, ArtOrg is honored to open an exhibit of 13 artists called “Glen Hanson Gallery: Now and Then”. The Glen Hanson Gallery ran from 1978 to 1982 and anchored the Minneapolis Warehouse District along with the next-door New French Café. Please go to our main page that tells about the exhibit; here we show some historical references, a photoset of the opening preparations, and two videos about Glen Hanson himself.

All of the artists in the exhibit continue to work today: Bruce Anderson, Steve Beyer, Richard Cooper, Harmony Hammond, Glen Hanson, Steve Hartman, Philip Larson, Mike Manzavrakos, John Marshall, Stuart Nielsen, Tom Rose, T.L. Solien, and Steve Sorman. We will be exhibiting one new work and one old work from each artist. The opening event for the exhibit will be on Sunday, October 2 and will start at 3 pm. There will be a performance by the Glen Hanson Band about 4 pm, followed by food at 5 pm, and then comments in the gallery at 7 pm. Please join us.

The ArtOrg Gallery is located eight miles Continue Reading…

The small steamroller printing event for kids and adults that we call the “Thousand Print Summer” has come to an end for 2011, and we are pleased with the results. ArtOrg officially counted 1985 (one-thousand-nine-hundred-eighty-five) prints at 26 (twenty-six) events during the course this summer. On Saturday, September 10, in fact, we set a new record for the number of prints made at one event at the Minneapolis Monarch Festival. In that single event, a team of artists printed for 335 people–nearly at a rate of one print per minute. Of course, it is not really about the numbers, so we ask you to browse through photos of a few of the artists as photographed holding their original print. A big round of thanks go to Continue Reading…

The first artwork from ArtOrg’s activity called the “Five Sculpture” project has been successfully placed at the Lampe Law Group’s office at 105 East Fifth Street in Northfield, Minnesota. The Five Sculpture project exhibits five new works from five different artists over the course of about one year. The first sculpture of the Five Sculpture project was installed on Sunday, August 14, 2011 with a work called “Cementitious Fall(s)” from the artist Sharol Nau. Please watch for ongoing events surrounding the Five Sculpture project. The other four works are awaiting their time on the plinth, and they are from artists Ray Continue Reading…

“Is this ArtOrg traveling to Inkster, North Dakota in a last ditch attempt to get their cruddy projects on the Printeresting blog?”, well apologies to Frank Zappa’s Ruben & the Jets album aside, ArtOrg has completed 21 events and printed for over 1200 kids and adults already this year in our event we call the Thousand Print Summer. On this trip nearly 3000 mile trip, we saw many great young artists, and you can see the photos of their art here. We also saw Sandhill cranes, buffalo, bittern, badgers, and a single young moose almost hit our vehicle. We saw a driveway immortalized in the movie Fargo, a 7-foot-tall 125-year-old oil painting from Alphons Mucha, and a town named Inkster. (The popular blog about printmaking called Printeresting has a fellow named Inkster as a mascot.) Thanks to Continue Reading…

ArtOrg has worked on two big projects with Grupo Soap del Corazon in the past, and we are now is hosting information on their upcoming 11th anniversary exhibit called “El Milagro (The Miracle)” on our website. The exhibit’s opening event is Saturday, August 20 at Intermedia Arts on Lyndale Avenue in Minneapolis, and more information on the show can be seen here. Many of the Grupo Soap del Corazon artists that we worked with in 2006 Northfield and 2009 Fargo large steamroller printing projects are in this show. Felicidades!