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The ArtOrg exhibit “Going to California with a Boatload of Art” announces collaboration with Aldo Moroni’s “ART BAR” tonight (Friday) from 5pm to 1am, right next to the California Building Gallery, at the Mill City Cafe. Also, this ArtOrg exhibit has also been picked by the editors of the mnartists.org Walker Art Center blog as one of the “TOP TEN” things of interest in art world this week. Final hours of the show are: ART BAR Friday, Nov. 20, 5pm to 1am; Saturday, Nov. 21, noon to 6pm; Sunday, Nov. 22, noon to 6pm; Saturday, Nov. 28, noon to 6pm; Sunday, Nov. 29 noon to 6pm. Appointments are also encouraged, please call Dave at 507-261-8086.

We are expecting a big turnout at 7pm this Saturday for the exhibit opening in Minneapolis called “Going to California (Building) with a Boatload of Art”. ArtOrg Director Dave Machacek talk about the exhibit on Marya Morstad’s “Art Matters” show on KFAI (90.3 FM Minneapolis, 106.7 FM St. Paul, and Internet) at 7pm this Thursday, and on Paula Granquist’s “Art Zany” show on KYMN (1080 AM , and Internet) at 9am on Friday. Also, one of the projects in the show, the “Twenty Views of Dundas” has been selected as a featured collection on the mnartists.org home page.

On Saturday November 14, 2009 ArtOrg opens its biggest show ever “Going to California (Building) with a Boatload of Art” at the expanded California Building Gallery at 2205 California Street Northeast in Minneapolis. We are excited Continue Reading…

On Saturday November 14, 2009 ArtOrg opens its biggest show ever “Going to California (Building) with a Boatload of Art” at the expanded California Building Gallery at 2205 California Street Northeast in Minneapolis. We are excited to showcase the results of five years of work. Please come to celebrate the recent accession of the “Twenty Views of Dundas” project to the Weisman Art Museum, and also see nine new large steamroller prints from our project with the Plains Art Museum and the Latino artists from Grupo Soap del Corazon. Continue Reading…

The Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos is an important Latino holiday. We have collected videos and other stuff from projects and celebrations in one place on our website. Please go here for a page we call “Learn About Day of the Dead”. The videos in particular may provide a good resource to explain the Day of the Dead traditions, because we have artists talking about their Day of the Dead inspired art, poet Ray Gonzalez reciting his related Day of the Dead works, and Day of the Dead scholar Juanita Garciagodoy talking about her book on the subject. The traditions of Dia de los Muertos are quite a bit different than Halloween!

The recent Plains Art Museum Dia de los Muertos project has been completed successfully, and a video describing the events is finished. Here is a link to the 14-minute high-definition video describing the event and the artist works. All nine artist prints turned out very well, and the art is now hanging at the museum until January 3, 2010. A special Day of the Dead celebration is planned in Fargo for November 7 from noon to 3pm. ArtOrg is also planning a Minneapolis showing of the prints for November 14, as well.

Thanks to everyone who helped out on the project. From Plains Art Museum, we particularly thank Director Colleen Sheehy, Andy Maus and Rusty Freeman. We also thank Rick Swearer who Continue Reading…

The ArtOrg collaborative print project called the “Twenty Views of Dundas” was recently accepted into the permanent collection of the Fredrick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota. We congratulate not only the artists and printers of the set, but also the people of Dundas who welcomed us into their homes, family photo albums, and historical records. Each of the twenty-one artists interpreted an aspect of the City’s history in a work of art, and working together with an art printer, created hand-pulled sets of prints in a very limited edition size. In this way, important aspects of Dundas have been Continue Reading…

ArtOrg has maintained two different facilities in downtown Northfield, but now after five years we are closing the gallery. Our office will be moving into our 2500-square-foot Printmaking Studio and Classroom on the riverside floor of 314 Division Street in Northfield. Please see the attached page for a retrospective of the gallery at 200 Division Street, where we held an average of eight significant exhibits per year over the five-year run. Watch for other gallery exhibits and activities in other locations—for example we are working on a large exhibit (that is too big physically to fit in the old gallery space) for late fall.

Several important details have been finalized with regards to the “Day of the Dead: Latino Artists Create Steamroller Prints” project. The main steamroller printing event is on Saturday and Sunday October 3rd and 4th at the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, North Dakota. The associated museum exhibit runs October 8, 2009 to January 3, 2010. There will be a community celebration on Saturday, November 7 from noon to 3pm at the museum. There are also two small steamroller printing events for kids scheduled at local Fargo/Moorhead schools, and those prints will also be part of the museum exhibit. All events around the activities at the Plains Art Museum will be added to the ArtOrg calendar, and everyone is welcomed to take part. Artists include: Alexa Horochowski, Maria Cristina Tavera, Douglas Continue Reading…

The 2009 Friends of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has accepted the 2005 Northfield Sesquicentennial Governors Ball Lithograph for their yearly juried charity auction called Art Perchance on Friday, September 25. This event raises money for transportation of kids to MIA events. This year there was a record number of submissions to the auction and ArtOrg was pleased that our work was accepted. Last year, a set of the Twenty Views of Dundas was also accepted into this fundraiser with good results. The Friends of the Institute is a 87-year-old organization associated with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.