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After a short hiatus, regular figure drawing open studio is resuming at ArtOrg. Every Tuesday evening from 7 to 9 pm, artists will gather in the ArtOrg Moving Walls Gallery to draw the human form. Faculty member Lilla Johnson is teaching drawing at St. Olaf College and will be present on a regular basis to answer questions, but the drawing studio is largely undirected. Please drop in and draw with us in a quiet and informal atmosphere. Cost is $10 for the two-hour session.

As a part of the Friday, October 5 Northfield Gallery Crawl, ArtOrg will be celebrating “Film Stuff”. ArtOrg’s entry into this year’s 48 Hour Film Project called “MASKED DESTRUCTION” will be shown every 30 minutes starting at 7pm, and well as other films. This short 7-minute film, was created in only 48 hours by a 20-person team which included Brendon Etter, Aleshia Mueller, Greg Mattern, Alvin Ho, Chris Ash, Christie Clarke, Jeanne Hatle, Keeny Swearer, Juan Jose Palacios, Dan Freeman and others.

An additional treat will be rediscovery of 12-minute film from 1972 called “RUBICON” which was shot and edited in 16mm by local high school students. This film will be shown every hour starting at 7:40pm. The first showing will include the film’s original 1972 soundtrack, but the second two showings at 8:40 and 9:40 will feature an original soundtrack performed live by an orchestra led by Continue Reading…

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Last year was ArtOrg’s first invitation to submit a report to the Northfield News Progress Edition, and we thank you again for this opportunity. Our group has made much progress during the last year, and this provides a great forum to reflect on that progress.

This year, we would like to simply get right to the heart of what is important to us: action and results. We submit this year a simple list Continue Reading…

The web has been very, very good to ArtOrg. We have had our website for over three years now, and the activity on the site is significant, and the content is rich. ArtOrg loves to be a player in the Northfield “blogosphere”, and is reaping the benefits.

We have organized the site as a blog and post regularly about events and news. We are proud of nearly 100 content-rich posts. Blogs are a great way for organizations to get the information out to the public–the key is that your blog posts don’t just appear on your own site, but go forth into the ether and are aggregated by friends such as Northfield.Org.

We have over 20 videos on Google Video and have received over 10,000 people viewing our content. We chose this service to Continue Reading…

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!

At 6pm tonight, the piano of The Bad Plus, Ethan Iverson, will be interviewed on 770 AM Radio K. Expect a nice interview to preview our Summer Solstice Event scheduled for next Friday, June 22. To wet your whistle for the 6pm interview, here is a 9000-word discussion between Ethan and Stanley Crouch.

Today I happened to drop by the Paradise Center for the Arts as Director Tami Oachs was opening the mail…and it was a check for $300,000 from The McKnight Foundation! The grant was to help many Faribault entities in finishing their wonderful renovation project of this old building. Here are the blueprints for the first floor and the second floor of the project. Congradulations to both McKnight and the Paradise Center for the Arts! –Dave

Over 80 teams took part in the 48 Hour Film Project from the Minneapolis area. ArtOrg’s submission will be shown in the group of about 14 other films which play tonight at 9:15pm at the Riverview Theater at 3800 42nd Ave S., Minneapolis, MN. Our film is called “Masked Destruction”.

All teams were given the same three items to incorporate into their film: the line of dialog was “they will get them, if we let them”, the prop was a portable music player, and the character was Jill or Jason Meyers–a veterinarian. Each team was also given a “genre” that their particular film had to be–and our team received the genre “Horror”. Pretty scary! Join us tonight!

ArtOrg is pleased to present “Summer Solstice with The Bad Plus” on Friday, June 22.

The evening will start at 8pm at the Carleton Concert Hall, and at 10pm will continue with a party in the ArtOrg Gallery with CD signing, refreshments, and art exhibit. We are also pleased that Rob Curto’s Forro For All has agreed to start the concert with a short set.

The Bad Plus continues to amaze the music world with its eclectic approach, and their newly released album “Prog” is enjoying great reviews, and has appeared as high as #6 on the Billboard Jazz Charts. Click here for The Washington Post’s review of Prog, and click here for Prog on Amazon. We are both delighted and humbled to be part of The Bad Plus June concert schedule which includes gigs in Paris, Amsterdam, Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver, Montreal, and New York City. Seeing Reid Anderson, Ethan Iverson, and Dave King of The Bad Plus is an experience you will not soon forget! See their website and some clips on YouTube.

Rob Curto’s Forró For All will open the concert with a short set dedicated to the sound of Northeastern Brazil’s “forró pé de serra”. Rob has brought together a group of New York’s and Brazil’s finest musicians which are currently touring the U.S. and Canada.

After the concert, a short 4 blocks away, we welcome everyone to a gathering in our ArtOrg Gallery. The Bad Plus will be signing CD’s, we will be serving refreshments, and a group of artists will be kicking off their “Summer Solstice Exhibit”. Artists in the gallery will be Cristina Maria O’Brien, Kari Alberg, Xavier Tavera, and others. A special treat will be Cloud Cult band member and painter Scott West who will be showing several original works including paintings from that band’s latest release “The Meaning of 8”. See an introduction to this exhibit here.

Please join us to celebrate the Summer Solstice with The Bad Plus!

This event is current looking for a lead sponsor. Please contact us ASAP for details.

Map to Concert and Party

Northfield is located about 43 miles from downtown Minneapolis and can be reached in about 50 minutes by car.