NWMAC news: Tiny art exhibit, call for submissions
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The Northwest Minnesota Arts Council (NWMAC) announces “Miniature Magnificence: A Tiny Art Exhibit” featuring more than 133 pieces of art from all over the region.
The exhibit is open through July 26 at the NWMAC Gallery at Northland Community and Technical College in Thief River Falls.
Showcase Specialist Trey Everett of Crookston explains: “It s fun to dream up themes for future art exhibits. Our current show, Miniature Magnificence: A Tiny Art Exhibit, came about as I was thinking of how to encourage people to submit artwork. Teaching art and hosting creative workshops over the years, I ve learned that the smaller the canvas the less anxiety and fear people seem to have around creating artwork. ‘What if,’ I thought, ‘the only requirement for an exhibit was that the art had to be very small?’ It worked! People were so enthusiastic.”
Credit Joyce la Porte [courtesy of Springboard for the Arts]
Annie Dugan let s us know about a few great reasons to celebrate art this week:
AICHO s American Indian Community Housing Organization Arts Program has been designated as a Regional Cultural Treasure by the McKnight Foundation, for its ongoing work to honor the resiliency of Indigenous people by strengthening communities and centering Indigenous values [and providing] a year-round space within Gimaajii-Mino-Bimaadizim for Indigenous artists to showcase and sell their work.
Avenue C in Cloquet has been named as one the cohort of the 2021 Artists on Main Street program, allowing artists to submit proposals for grant funds for the West End Flourish.
Duluth s AICHO recognized as regional cultural treasure with $500,000 grant
AICHO s arts program was one of 10 arts organizations in Minnesota to be designated a Regional Cultural Treasure and receive an unrestricted grant of at least $500,000. 6:59 pm, May 19, 2021 ×
A mural of a Native American woman on the side of the Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center at the American Indian Community Housing Organization dominates the streetscape on West Second Street in Duluth on Friday evening. The mural was created by artists Votan Ik and Derek Brown. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
The American Indian Community Housing Organization has been working with local Indigenous artists for nine years to transform its headquarters at the Gimaajii Mino Bimaadizimin into center for culture and arts.
To this day, if you want to bring chills to the spines of conservative Republicans, just mention the name David Souter.
Souter was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1990 by President George H.W. Bush because he was mild-mannered and thought to be able to avoid the bruising confirmation fight that snared Robert Bork.
“He seemed to have felt a commitment to his conservative philosophy for about six months, and then just fell off a cliff into the dark side of liberalism,” said John Sununu, a fellow New Hampshire native and former governor and senator from the Granite State, who had pushed for Souter’s nomination.
Sculptor Alonso Sierralta will be honored by the Anderson Center at an outdoor reception event commemorating the installation of âHoldâ in the Sculpture Garden. The reception will be 3-5 p.m. Saturday, May 22.Â
This event will also serve as a capstone showcase of art made by students in the Red Wing Youth Outreach and Hispanic Outreach of Goodhue County after school programs. Students worked with Sierralta as part of the Sculpture Garden Engagement Program.
Sierralta moved from Chile to the U.S. when he was 14. He studied in Nebraska before settling in northeast Minneapolis. He has a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Nebraska. He has received several awards, including a Next Step grant from the McKnight Foundation, and his work has been featured throughout Minnesota and in numerous national shows. Sierralta has public work on display at Stevens Point Sculpture Park and at Silverwood Park.