Archive of June, 2013

ArtOrg submitted several works from our collaborative projects to the DeVos Art Museum in Marquette, Michigan for their yearly juried exhibition called “North of the 45th”. Two large steamroller prints from our 2009 project at the Plains Art Museum were selected from artists Maria Cristina Tavera and Pepe Kryzda.

ArtOrg Director Dave Machacek was a presenter at this year’s Rural Arts and Culture Summit in Morris in a session called “Participatory Artmaking”. Then, after the morning session, the whole ArtOrg crew printed with the little steamroller for the assembled Summiteers. It was an auspicious trip, because the very next day, we printed in Browns Valley, one of the westernmost cities in Minnesota. This event at the Browns Valley Library, as hosted by the Viking Library System, and was the 100th time ArtOrg performed the Thousand Print Summer event!

The ArtOrg project called the Seat Suite created a dozen seating elements for the Flint Hills International Children’s Festival at the Ordway, in St. Paul, Minnesota. This year is the second year in a row for the exhibition of the set, and in fact, many people sat on them. The Seat Suite is a collaborative project from artists Judy Onofrio, Mary GrandPre and Kari Alberg.