This ArtOrg jazz concert is the fourth in a series and represents the one-year aniversary of ArtOrg’s first event. The concert starts at 7 pm on Tuesday, August 9. This is the fourth jazz concert given by ArtOrg. Please thank ArtOrg business partner The Art Store in Northfield for sponsoring this wonderful event!

Join us to welcome 22-year-old Alicia Wiley with a cast that includes Steve Jennings, Karl Koopman, Jeff Bailey, and Tim Snow.

Join us also to celebrate and review what ArtOrg did in its first year. We have held over 100 classes, attracted over 150 dues-paying members, and held many wonderful gallery shows. The gallery show of the Harry Potter book release event attracted over 200 people in the first hour, and over 550 in one evening. Our summer ASAP kids program is keeping about 35 kids learning about art for 6 weeks, thanks to grants from Grace Whittier and SEMAC.

One of the most important ways to make Northfield an real arts town, however, was also pioneered by ArtOrg starting over one year ago. We call it our Equipment-Intensive-Studios and we are working with Mendota home to make that a reality on the old site of the Byzantine restaurant, right next to SMSQ Architects. Our original business plan was submitted to ArtSpace and the McKnight Foundation in June of 2004 and included many of the same ideas we atre talking about today.