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This Saturday – St. Louis Park Art Fair 2024!
I really enjoy participating in this art fair. The venue is beautiful with a great variety of artists, and excellent food and entertainment. I’m especially looking forward to seeing the Youth MiniMarket (ages 8 – 18); I’ll probably be set up early enough to get a quick preview. Here is my table last year: The…
“Identity Portrait Series” Quilts by Blair Treuer
I recently viewed Blair Treuer’s “Identity Exploration” at the Hopkin’s Center for the Arts in Hopkins, Minnesota. From HCA’s website, her work “is an exploration into the role Native American traditional cultural and spiritual practices and beliefs play in shaping the way her family sees itself collectively and the influences or effect it’s had on…
Surface Design: Traditions & Techniques in Beading, and Beaded Surfaces
The Surface Design Association’s Winter 2022 journal issue celebrated “Traditions & Techniques in Beading,” with beautiful cover art by Catherine Blackburn. To complement the issue, Studio Art Quilts Associates (SAQA) hosted a Textile Talk with Anette Millington and Sébastien Carré. Millington speaks of her class at the Parsons MFA program on beading material and meaning,…
2020 & 2021 McKnight Book Artist Fellows
The Minnesota Center for Book Arts, with the McKnight Foundation, offers two fellowships each year to mid-career artists living and working in Minnesota. Following are samples of the work on display in an exhibition closing soon at MCBA. Mary Hark has her studio, HARK! Handmade Paper, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her work is collected by…
Cochiti Pueblo Potter Virgil Ortiz
I have enjoyed learning about Virgil Ortiz from two different sources in the past week. First was from the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and their This Present Moment: Crafting a Better Future exhibition symposium, and the second was from the American Craft Council. From the Smithsonian American Art Museum website: This…