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ArtOrg has registered a team to compete in the 2007 48 Hour Film Contest. In a nutshell, all teams are given a prop, a character, and a line of dialog that they must integrate into their film. These three items, plus the additional “film genre” variable which is different for every team, are given to all teams on Friday, June 8 at 7pm. The completed 7-minute films must be dropped off 48 hours later!

Experienced film editor Aleshia Mueller will be directing the team. Aleshia is a board member of the Minnesota Chapter of the Women in Film and Television Society International, and has worked on teams that have entered the 48 Hour Film Project before. See her bio on the WIFT website.

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ArtOrg is proud to announce the exhibit “Brown Box Notes” by Hope Cook who is an artist and former printmaking instructor at Minnesota University at Mankato. The opening reception will be this Friday from 6 to 9 pm at the ArtOrg Moving Walls Gallery.

In this series of nearly 100 small handmade boxes, Hope explores the meanings of individual quotes from Kenneth Patchen’s book Sleepers Awake. Each small box contains a message, and the boxes are presented in groups with titles such as “thoughts on life”, “thoughts on art – artists”, and “thoughts on war”. Here is a small video of Hope Cook discussing the exhibit. Read her complete Artist’s Statement here.

ArtOrg will be hosting a reception for the artist on Friday, June 1 from 6 to 9 pm at the Moving Walls Gallery at 200 Division Street (riverside entrance). The show continues through June 10, and is open Thursdays and Fridays from 5 to 8pm, and Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4pm.

The National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen near Chicago will be displaying a steamroller print created with ArtOrg in Northfield at their annual Day of the Dead Celebration next fall. The artist is Maria Cristina O’Brien, and the print was created in the days preceding Northfield’s first-ever Day of the Dead Festival which was held at the Northfield Armory on November 1, 2006. Maria Cristina O’Brien is a 2005 Archibald Bush Leadership Fellow who recently finished her Master’s Degree in Public Affairs at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota. See the print here. Congratulations Tina!

ArtOrg will be exhibiting work at the Art-A-Whirl festival in northeast Minneapolis this week. We will be showcasing the Northfield Day of the Dead Steamroller Prints and the Northfield Sesquicentennial Governor’s Ball Lithograph.

We will be located in Studio 312 of the California Building at 2205 California St. NE, Minneapolis 55418. A map to California Building can be found here. The hours are 5 to 10 pm Friday, May 18; 12 to 8 pm Saturday, May 19; and 12 to 5 pm Sunday, May 20.

Please come and hang out! Baby squirrels have just hatched and can be seen taking their first steps just outside the window to this wonderful corner artist studio. Experience the “scene” and visit the other 400 artists who will be exhibiting their wares and showing off their studios.

For three days this week, ArtOrg board member and artist Liz See helped Pam Robert’s class at the Middle School Youth Center print. First the history and techniques of printing were presented and then the students printed for several hours over three days. See the photoset here! Thanks to the Northfield Healthy Community Initiative for a grant which made this possible!

The Ole Store will be open after the regular hours of Friday night’s Northfield Art Crawl for a special Art Crawl reception. The time for this event will be from 9 to 11 pm, after the regular hours of the Crawl that run from 6 to 9 pm. Tickets will be distributed at each of the participating galleries on Friday night. Please join all Art Crawl participants and toast to a “Crawl Well Done”!

A complete schedule of upcoming art exhibits at the Ole Store Art Wall will be forthcoming, as the transition to new ownership of the restaurant is accomplished. Special consideration was given to the west wall of the Ole Store coffee shop and this resulted in a special place to display art. A photoset of the construction of this wall can be seen here.

The first exhibit at the Ole Store Art Wall is from watercolor painter Howard Olson. This exhibit is a reprise of a show he did at ArtOrg last fall, and includes several new paintings. More information on all our shows can be found here.

ArtOrg’s regular offering in the Moving Walls Gallery at 200 Division Street (riverside entrance) is an exhibit of art glass which was created in classes from this fall and winter. The classes were taught by Rick Swearer and Gail Dahlberg at The Anderson Center in Red Wing, Minnesota. Gail Dahlberg is glassblower-in-residence at the Center, and holds an MFA in glassblowing from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. The exhibit will include work from Rick and Gail, and students Claire Baker, Ben Finley, Pete Rossmiller, Kari Alberg, and others. Many beautiful works will be available for purchase. The show opens on Friday April 20 from 6 to 9pm as a part of the Northfield Art Crawl, and continues through April 29.

Carol Hannon-Orr’s art students came to use the ArtOrg printmaking studio today from Belle Plaine, Minnesota. This high-school class is called “Research and Development”, and about 10 students took part. The students worked with acrylic plates and scratched their designs into the plates. To see the photos of the morning, please go to this photoset.

Springboard for the Arts is a well-known and established advocate for artists and their careers. Springboard’s entire 9-segment class series starts off this Friday evening at ArtOrg in Northfield. The classes are split into three sections that are all held on a Friday night/Saturday morning and afternoon schedule. ArtOrg has structured this entire set of classes to provide the most benefit to artists. Please take advantage of this wonderful opportunity!

WORK OF ART SERIES Part I

Career Planning for Artists
Friday, Feb. 9, 6: 30 pm – 8: 30 pm
Where do you want to be- both artistically and professionally? This session Continue Reading…

On January 17, 2007 the Elm class of 4th and 5th graders at Prairie Creek Community School under the direction of printer Andy Lum learned about printmaking at the ArtOrg printmaking studio. You can see a photoset here and a short video of the activity here. Rumor has it that one of these prints will be sold at the annual Prairie Creek Auction to occur near the end of February this year.