Archive of July, 2010

July 21, 2010

Big Creative Trip Up North

By Dave Machacek

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.

July 8, 2010

1200 New Artworks Created

By Dave Machacek


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…

July 2, 2010

ArtOrg Gets New Postal Address

By Dave Machacek


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.

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      2010 Great River Regional Library Events


      We traveled to
      17 venues in 19 days
      printing for kids and adults.
      See 1000 photos here.

      2009 Plains Art Museum Steamroller Prints

      Plains Art Museum
      The creation of nine large prints
      with Day of the Dead theme.
      Plains Art Museum Collection.
      (12 minutes)

      2008
      Twenty Views of Dundas

      The Twenty Views of Dundas
      A collaborative, historical
      fine-art print suite featuring
      printers and 21 artists.
      Weisman Museum collection.

      Stillwater
      ArtReach St. Croix

      Stillwater
      Stillwater, MN
      A favorite stop
      of the
      Thousand Print Summer.

      2005
      Mary Draws Harry

      Mary GrandPre
      The artist Mary GrandPre teaches
      kids how to draw Harry Potter.
      Filmed at ArtOrg.
      (72 minutes)