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On Sunday, October 2, ArtOrg is honored to open an exhibit of 13 artists called “Glen Hanson Gallery: Now and Then”. The Glen Hanson Gallery ran from 1978 to 1982 and anchored the Minneapolis Warehouse District along with the next-door New French Café. Please go to our main page that tells about the exhibit; here we show some historical references, a photoset of the opening preparations, and two videos about Glen Hanson himself.

All of the artists in the exhibit continue to work today: Bruce Anderson, Steve Beyer, Richard Cooper, Harmony Hammond, Glen Hanson, Steve Hartman, Philip Larson, Mike Manzavrakos, John Marshall, Stuart Nielsen, Tom Rose, T.L. Solien, and Steve Sorman. We will be exhibiting one new work and one old work from each artist. The opening event for the exhibit will be on Sunday, October 2 and will start at 3 pm. There will be a performance by the Glen Hanson Band about 4 pm, followed by food at 5 pm, and then comments in the gallery at 7 pm. Please join us.

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The small steamroller printing event for kids and adults that we call the “Thousand Print Summer” has come to an end for 2011, and we are pleased with the results. ArtOrg officially counted 1985 (one-thousand-nine-hundred-eighty-five) prints at 26 (twenty-six) events during the course this summer. On Saturday, September 10, in fact, we set a new record for the number of prints made at one event at the Minneapolis Monarch Festival. In that single event, a team of artists printed for 335 people–nearly at a rate of one print per minute. Of course, it is not really about the numbers, so we ask you to browse through photos of a few of the artists as photographed holding their original print. A big round of thanks go to Continue Reading…

The first artwork from ArtOrg’s activity called the “Five Sculpture” project has been successfully placed at the Lampe Law Group’s office at 105 East Fifth Street in Northfield, Minnesota. The Five Sculpture project exhibits five new works from five different artists over the course of about one year. The first sculpture of the Five Sculpture project was installed on Sunday, August 14, 2011 with a work called “Cementitious Fall(s)” from the artist Sharol Nau. Please watch for ongoing events surrounding the Five Sculpture project. The other four works are awaiting their time on the plinth, and they are from artists Ray Continue Reading…

“Is this ArtOrg traveling to Inkster, North Dakota in a last ditch attempt to get their cruddy projects on the Printeresting blog?”, well apologies to Frank Zappa’s Ruben & the Jets album aside, ArtOrg has completed 21 events and printed for over 1200 kids and adults already this year in our event we call the Thousand Print Summer. On this trip nearly 3000 mile trip, we saw many great young artists, and you can see the photos of their art here. We also saw Sandhill cranes, buffalo, bittern, badgers, and a single young moose almost hit our vehicle. We saw a driveway immortalized in the movie Fargo, a 7-foot-tall 125-year-old oil painting from Alphons Mucha, and a town named Inkster. (The popular blog about printmaking called Printeresting has a fellow named Inkster as a mascot.) Thanks to Continue Reading…

ArtOrg has worked on two big projects with Grupo Soap del Corazon in the past, and we are now is hosting information on their upcoming 11th anniversary exhibit called “El Milagro (The Miracle)” on our website. The exhibit’s opening event is Saturday, August 20 at Intermedia Arts on Lyndale Avenue in Minneapolis, and more information on the show can be seen here. Many of the Grupo Soap del Corazon artists that we worked with in 2006 Northfield and 2009 Fargo large steamroller printing projects are in this show. Felicidades!

ArtOrg’s The Big Print appears in the current issue of Public Art Review on pages 12 and 82. The project is mentioned in the U.S. Recent Projects section and also in full-page size across from Suzi Gablik’s Soap Box editorial. By happenstance, the opening words from Ms. Gablik’s editorial seem appropriate to The Big Print: “like the Tao running wild as a dragon in heat, art is everywhere. In a critical shift from the idea of art as monologue and self-expression, I have defended a more decentralized creativity that is dialogic, interactive and participatory.” More of her writings can be found here. ArtOrg wishes to thank Continue Reading…

ArtOrg is gearing up for a active summer and has no less than 15 small steamroller printing events scheduled in June alone. Please go to our calendar on our main website for the specifics, or if you prefer Facebook, there is a complete event list there, too. The small steamroller printing event we have named the “Thousand Print Summer” and we printed at 32 venues from Rochester to Warroad last year for 2348 kid and adult artists. There were also three projects last year that made use of printing blocks from the Thousand Print Summer to create larger collaborative works. The Big Print, The Peace Caterpillar, and the St. Cloud Cult Print were all examples of the artist print blocks living on after they were first created. Some of these projects were organized by the Minnesota regional library system, and some were funded all or in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. For events in the northwest corner of Minnesota, please see our page devoted to the Northwest Regional Library, and for events in the center of the state near Fergus Falls, please look to our Viking Library System page.

On Friday, April 15 from 4 to 6pm the Harry Potter illustrator Mary GrandPre will be painting live and in person on ArtOrg’s collaborative project called the “St Cloud Cult Print”. This will happen as a part of several other events in the Halenbeck Fieldhouse of St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Mary’s special painting will be near the top of the 30-foot-wide by 16-foot-tall artwork. The St. Cloud Cult Print will be finished off by the stage painters from the band Cloud Cult, Connie Minowa and Scott West, the next day on Saturday during their live concert at the end of this year’s Mississippi Music Fest. The St. Cloud Cult Print is comprised of these three special paintings and about 250 reprinted print blocks created by kids and adults at 17 venues near St. Cloud last June. All events are free and open to the public, and everyone is invited on stage after the concert for a group photo!

The Minnesota-based arts nonprofit ArtOrg said Friday that it had been awarded funding through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Legacy program to repair the roof of the Metrodome that was ripped open during a Dec. 12 blizzard. ArtOrg will reconfigure its collaborative project named “The Big Print” into a large patch. ArtOrg staff insisted that while there were other plans to re-exhibit the huge work at different venues in the future, this permanent home will provide a twofold benefit. “The Big Print is a gorgeous artwork, and if it can live on as a large roof patch, so much the better. We never expected it to be used in such a utilitarian manner. But, hey, if the game is not going well, the fans will have something to look at. The overall design is vintage Norwegian knitting patterns after all, so that kind of fits with the Vikings, right?” Continue Reading…