March 30, 2011 By Dave Machacek
ArtOrg announces the artist collaboration called the St. Cloud Cult Print, which will be completed at the April 16 Cloud Cult concert for St. Cloud’s 26th year of the Mississippi Music Fest. Over 250 printing blocks created by kids and adults at 17 different venues near St. Cloud will be used to make up the overall design inspired by Earth Day. Artist Kari Alberg is putting together the overall design, and reprinting of the 250 blocks is being done in the ArtOrg studios near Northfield. Then, the day before, the illustrator Mary GrandPre (of Harry Potter fame) will contribute a special painting to the design, and finally during the concert, the Cloud Cult artists Connie Continue Reading…
March 28, 2011 By Dave Machacek
ArtOrg has been working on the Five Sculpture Project, and the artists have made considerable progress of late. We are excited to push the project down the home stretch to completion and public exhibition. The artist Sharol Nau was the first to finish carving her 3 x 4 x 8 foot block, and then next came Ray Jacobson and Mac Gimse. Juan Jose Palacios is also almost finished. The artist and ex-Minnesotan Ed White was here last weekend and made considerable progress as well. Photos of the ongoing artist work are located on the page that ArtOrg has devoted to the project. On the right side of the page, one can link to that photo documentation as it happens.
Ed White was the last artist to start carving on his block, and we enjoyed having Ed here from California last weekend. In the town of Julian, near San Diego, he runs an arts group called Continue Reading…
