Archive of May, 2007

ArtOrg has registered a team to compete in the 2007 48 Hour Film Contest. In a nutshell, all teams are given a prop, a character, and a line of dialog that they must integrate into their film. These three items, plus the additional “film genre” variable which is different for every team, are given to all teams on Friday, June 8 at 7pm. The completed 7-minute films must be dropped off 48 hours later!

Experienced film editor Aleshia Mueller will be directing the team. Aleshia is a board member of the Minnesota Chapter of the Women in Film and Television Society International, and has worked on teams that have entered the 48 Hour Film Project before. See her bio on the WIFT website.

The team will be comprised of Continue Reading…

ArtOrg is proud to announce the exhibit “Brown Box Notes” by Hope Cook who is an artist and former printmaking instructor at Minnesota University at Mankato. The opening reception will be this Friday from 6 to 9 pm at the ArtOrg Moving Walls Gallery.

In this series of nearly 100 small handmade boxes, Hope explores the meanings of individual quotes from Kenneth Patchen’s book Sleepers Awake. Each small box contains a message, and the boxes are presented in groups with titles such as “thoughts on life”, “thoughts on art – artists”, and “thoughts on war”. Here is a small video of Hope Cook discussing the exhibit. Read her complete Artist’s Statement here.

ArtOrg will be hosting a reception for the artist on Friday, June 1 from 6 to 9 pm at the Moving Walls Gallery at 200 Division Street (riverside entrance). The show continues through June 10, and is open Thursdays and Fridays from 5 to 8pm, and Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4pm.

The National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen near Chicago will be displaying a steamroller print created with ArtOrg in Northfield at their annual Day of the Dead Celebration next fall. The artist is Maria Cristina O’Brien, and the print was created in the days preceding Northfield’s first-ever Day of the Dead Festival which was held at the Northfield Armory on November 1, 2006. Maria Cristina O’Brien is a 2005 Archibald Bush Leadership Fellow who recently finished her Master’s Degree in Public Affairs at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota. See the print here. Congratulations Tina!

ArtOrg will be exhibiting work at the Art-A-Whirl festival in northeast Minneapolis this week. We will be showcasing the Northfield Day of the Dead Steamroller Prints and the Northfield Sesquicentennial Governor’s Ball Lithograph.

We will be located in Studio 312 of the California Building at 2205 California St. NE, Minneapolis 55418. A map to California Building can be found here. The hours are 5 to 10 pm Friday, May 18; 12 to 8 pm Saturday, May 19; and 12 to 5 pm Sunday, May 20.

Please come and hang out! Baby squirrels have just hatched and can be seen taking their first steps just outside the window to this wonderful corner artist studio. Experience the “scene” and visit the other 400 artists who will be exhibiting their wares and showing off their studios.

For three days this week, ArtOrg board member and artist Liz See helped Pam Robert’s class at the Middle School Youth Center print. First the history and techniques of printing were presented and then the students printed for several hours over three days. See the photoset here! Thanks to the Northfield Healthy Community Initiative for a grant which made this possible!