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The ArtOrg project named “The Northfield Day of the Dead Steamroller Prints” has been accepted into the permanent collection of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota. Thanks to everyone involved in the creation of this wonderful project! We have arranged a reception to honor the artists and their contributions on Thursday, January 3 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm at the Weisman Museum. There will be a short program at 7:30 pm. The 104-foot-long version of the project will be on display. Located on the east bank of the Mississippi River in a distinctive stainless-steel structure, the Weisman can easily be located on the attached map.

The Weisman has accepted the entire set of 13 prints into its collection, and Continue Reading…

The printmaking studio was busy today as Master Printer John Lund visited ArtOrg to assist work on “The Twenty Views of Dundas” print project. Several artists from the project met with John to hear his advice on their individual works. John prints exclusively for Jasper Johns at his Low Road Studios now, but started his education at St. Olaf College and the University of Minnesota. A short interview of John Lund can be found here.

John will be dropping in on a St. Olaf print class tomorrow, and also giving a short lecture at Carleton College at 4pm in Boliou Hall, Room 161. The Carleton talk is free and open to the public.

Five of the Day of the Dead Steamroller Prints are in exhibit for the next month at the well-known Minnesota company Medtronic. The prints will be hanging as a part of the Medtronic’s celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. Artists represented are Steven Nunez, Gustavo Lira, Anselmo Cornejo, Juan Jose Palacios, and Douglas Padilla. The creation of this print set is captured in this small video. Please join us at our upcoming celebration at 7pm on November 1, 2007 at the Northfield Armory! More news on that celebration will follow…

ArtOrg is traveling to Red Wing’s Anderson Center this Saturday to take part in their annual Summer Celebration of the Arts. ArtOrg will be helping kids make prints using a little steamroller. ArtOrg did this style of steamroller printing (small scale for kids) last September for a Minneapolis Institute of the Arts Family Day. Here is a photoset of the 100 prints and happy kids from last September. We are scheduled to print from about noon to 4pm–the entire celebration runs from noon to 7pm.

Also, please contact ArtOrg if you would like to experience our current “Summer Solstice Exhibit“–this gallery exhibit will come down next week, but it is definately worth a look!

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!

Carol Hannon-Orr’s art students came to use the ArtOrg printmaking studio today from Belle Plaine, Minnesota. This high-school class is called “Research and Development”, and about 10 students took part. The students worked with acrylic plates and scratched their designs into the plates. To see the photos of the morning, please go to this photoset.