Archive of October, 2006

Here is a link showing what to expect.

When: Wednesday, November 1, 6 to 9:30 pm.

Where: Northfield Armory, 519 Division Street, Northfield, MN 55057

What: Family event with food, music, art, traditional ofrenda with sawdust tapete, display of 100-foot-long Dia de los Muertos print, etc.

Everybody is welcome! See you there!

1. We filmed Ray Gonzalez’ poetry reading at ArtOrg last Thursday, and it will run this Sunday at 10pm on NTV local Northfield cable access channel 12. If you missed the real thing, check this out, Ray recites poetry with a Dia de los Muertos theme. Ray was quoted in a Minneapolis Star and Tribune article today about Day of the Dead.

2. ArtOrg donated a Governor’s Ball Litho to the Laura Baker School auction last night and it raised $2000 for the school! Only two of the eight prints remain for sale. So far, ArtOrg has donated 3 of these prints to other community organizations and raised a total of $6600 for them.

3. Rana Raeuchle finished up hosting the 3rd Annual Japanese Animation Festival this past Friday. The attendance averaged about 20 to 30 people for the four screenings. Thanks Rana! Everyone is looking forward to the book that is being produced from Rana’s Comickers Unite! class.

4. A certain young man has begun frequenting our Wednesday night open drop-in drawing studio. Wow!

5. Dreamworks called the other day and asked about when the next John Berkey show was going to be held. We told them probably this winter.

The ArtOrg Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) gallery show opened last Saturday to a great crowd. Here is a link to the photoset of the opening. Art giants David Lefkowitz and Aldo Moroni were in attendance and liked the show. The show continues until November 8, and the hours are 5 to 8 pm on Thursdays and Fridays, and 1 to 4 pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Don’t hesitate to call to arrange a special viewing.

Ray Gonzalez will be reading from his poetry and books this Thursday at 7:30 pm at the ArtOrg gallery. Scott King of the ArtOrg board of directors and Red Dragonfly Press will be introducing Ray. Please come early to take in the art, as well.

Ray Gonzalez is the author of nine books of poetry, including four from BOA Editions–The Heat of Arrivals (1997 PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Book Award), Cabato Sentora (2000 Minnesota Book Award Finalist), The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande (winner of a 2003 Minnesota Book Award for Continue Reading…

Over 100 people turned out to help, and here is a photoset of the event. The event was in the Minneapolis Star and Tribune today in a story entitled “A lively way to mark Day of the Dead“. The print is beautiful, and will be dispalyed in its full length on November 1 at the Nortfhield Armory as a part of the big celebration.

A related Day of the Dead Gallery exhibit opens this Saturday, October 21 at 6pm in the ArtOrg Moving Walls Gallery.

This last weekend, ArtOrg printed about 50 large four-foot-by-eight-foot prints for the artists who are participating in the long steamroller print. Some photos of the two days of printing can be seen here. ArtOrg made a very limited number of individual paper prints of each artist’s work.

On Saturday, October 14, weather willing, we will be printing the LONG print from 11 am to 2 pm (or completion). We will have a band, led by Peter Diggens, that will be interpreting the songs of Buffalo-Springfield and others. The steamroller was in fact manufactured by the Buffalo Springfield Company, after which the band was named which included Steve Stills, Neil Young, Jim Messina and others.

We will be printing in the large parking lot of Mueller-Dahl Remodeling at 527 Professional Drive in Northfield (behind McDonalds and next to Northfield Gymnastics and across from Brick Oven Bakery). View this complete post to view a map. Continue Reading…

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Day of the Dead Celebration includes 100-foot-long Steamroller Print

Day of the Dead Celebration Northfield Armory, 519 Division Street S., Wed., November 1, 6 to 9:30 pm

Steamroller Printing: Public Event, Parking lot of Mueller-Dahl Remodeling, 527 Professional Drive, Saturday, October 14, 11 am to completion (please check www.artorg.info for changes due to weather, etc.)

Gallery Show: ArtOrg Moving Walls Gallery, 200 Division Street S. (riverside entrance), opening reception Sat. October 21, 6 to 10pm, show runs: October 21 – November 8.

Ray Gonzalez Poetry Reading: ArtOrg Moving Walls Gallery, 200 Division Street S. (riverside entrance), Thursday, October 26, 7:30 pm.

Juanita Garciagodoy Talk: ArtOrg Moving Walls Gallery, 200 Division Street S. (riverside entrance), Wednesday, November 8, 7:30 pm.

Contact: Dave Machacek, ArtOrg Executive Director, 507-261-8086, 507-645-2555

The Latino community from Northfield, Minnesota in cooperation with ArtOrg (a community-based arts group) and Grupo Soap del Corazón (a Twin Cities-based Latino arts group) will be unveiling a 100-foot-long collaborative print made with a steamroller as a part of a month-long series of events. The celebration will be held at the Northfield Continue Reading…

ArtOrg with support from the Carleton Cinema and Media Studies department, announce the third year of the four-week Japanese Animation Festival titled “Whose Side Are You On?”.

Rana Raeuchle will be leading the series with talks on each film in the series. Rana is teaching our Comickers Unite class at ArtOrg. The festival happens on four consecutive Friday nights in October: October 7, 14, 21, and 28. The shows start at 7 pm each night in room 104 of Boliou Hall at Carleton College. Boliou Hall is located on the main campus of Carleton College on the north end overlooking Lyman Lakes. Driving out of Northfield, turn right off Highway 19 directly before Lyman Lakes; this lot is the shortest walk to Boliou Hall. Please note that the second film in the series will be shown in the ArtOrg Gallery (an appropriate location for “Gallery Fake”).

[Oct. 3 update: for more information on the phenomenon of Japanese Pop Power, go to American Radioworks radio show of today featuring Ray Suarez.]

Friday, October 6: Castle of Cagliostro – Based on the characters from the popular and long-running manga, Lupin III, this is often considered the best of the feature-length Lupin movies. Directed by award-winning Director, Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Kiki’s Delivery Service), The Castle of Cagliostro is an action-packed comedy and fun for the entire family.

Friday, October 13: Gallery Fake – Fujiya, a former restorer and curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, runs one of the most unusual galleries in Tokyo. Named “Gallery Fake,” he claims to deal solely in fakes and Continue Reading…

ArtOrg’s first glassblowing class, held at Red Wing’s Anderson Center, was a big hit. Rick Swearer taught the class in conjunction with Gail Dahlberg who is an artist in residence and The Anderson Center, and the person who set up the studio. Seven people took the class and produced some nice work. Some of the work can be seen here. ArtOrg’s Fall 2006 class schedule continues: many classes are still open including another section of glassblowing. Take a class, and get excited!