We are expecting a big turnout at 7pm this Saturday for the exhibit opening in Minneapolis called “Going to California (Building) with a Boatload of Art”. ArtOrg Director Dave Machacek talk about the exhibit on Marya Morstad’s “Art Matters” show on KFAI (90.3 FM Minneapolis, 106.7 FM St. Paul, and Internet) at 7pm this Thursday, and on Paula Granquist’s “Art Zany” show on KYMN (1080 AM , and Internet) at 9am on Friday. Also, one of the projects in the show, the “Twenty Views of Dundas” has been selected as a featured collection on the mnartists.org home page.

On Saturday November 14, 2009 ArtOrg opens its biggest show ever “Going to California (Building) with a Boatload of Art” at the expanded California Building Gallery at 2205 California Street Northeast in Minneapolis. We are excited to showcase the results of five years of work. Please come to celebrate the recent accession of the “Twenty Views of Dundas” project to the Weisman Art Museum, and also see nine new large steamroller prints from our project with the Plains Art Museum and the Latino artists from Grupo Soap del Corazon.

The Opening Event is Saturday, November 14 at 7pm, but the gallery will be open that day at noon. Hours of the exhibit are: Saturday, November 14 to Sunday, November 29; Thursdays, 12 to 8pm (closed Nov 26), Saturdays and Sundays, 12 to 6pm; appointments encouraged: call Dave at 507-261-8086.

The California Building is the oldest art studio building in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District, and houses eighty artists. Meet a new crowd and rub elbows with many artists and make some new friends! ArtOrg has complete five large collaborative projects in the past, and all of these fifty-eight separate works will be exhibited. Two of the projects have been collected by the Weisman Art Museum, and one from the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, North Dakota. A special treat will be the display of about 2000 printing blocks from kids that have been created at twenty regional art fairs, festivals and family days as a part of our ongoing “Thousand Print Summer” project. Artists represented in the exhibit include: Alexa Horochowski, Alexander Hage, Anselmo Cornejo, Betto Limon, Carol Van Sickle, Carolyn Swiszcz, Claudia Billy Baca, Connie Conway, Cristina Perez, Dave Machacek, David Burt, Diane Schrader, Douglas Padilla, Fred Hagstrom, Fred Somers, Gaylord Schanilec, Gustavo Lira, Hope Cook, James Boyd-Brent, John Saurer, Juan Jose Palacios, Kari A. Klocke, Kari Alberg, Lee Salminen, Lilla Johnson, Liz See, Luis Fitch, Mac Gimse, Maria Cristina Tavera, Marty Harris, Mary GrandPre, Mary Reid Kelley, Meg Ojala, Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas, Pepe Kryzda, Pete Krause, Ray Jacobson, Rick Swearer, Scott King, Scott West, Sharol Nau and Pat Lampe, Steven Nuno Nunez, Ted Tuel, Tom Casmer, Virginia Kelly, and Xavier Tavera.