Along with the sword swallowers, the carny barkers, the chunk-o-choco cookies, and really large hogs, there is real art at the State Fair again this year. The largest juried Minnesota only annual exhibit has once again something for everyone. Everyone that is unless you were rejected.
Not that we need to toot our own horn, but a number of Art Alliance members, lapsed members, and past entrants to our Arts in Harmony exhibit (the largest juried annual national exhibit in Minnesota) are present.
Six members of the Arts Alliance were among those whose work was chosen to be shown in the 96th Annual Fine Arts Exhibition at the Minnesota State Fair. Over 1,900 artists vied for one of 371 spaces in the exhibit.
Local artists accepted into the show are Kathleen Braud, who received a third place award for her watercolor Park Trails. Kathy Braud will be a guest on Dave Phipps Creative Department Radio Show on Sunday, September 9th, at Noon on Newstalk 1450 KNSI, The Talk of St. Cloud. Check out the live webcast at http://www.1450knsi.com.
Rita Beyer Corrigan who also received a third place for her pastel Morning Walk and Ron Merchant had his oil on canvas Street Walkers juried in.
Mark Pederson is showing his pastel Maroon and Gold Landscape, Richards Poey took first place honors for the second year in a row. His alabaster sculpture this year is Daydreams, and Kasey Westra is showing her oil on panel Blue and Yellow in Winter.
Other area artists exhibiting are Jody Brosko of Big Lake with an acrylic on canvas titled Chrysler in Pink Sky, Steven Hudak of Big Lake is showing his wood sculpture Body Broken - Faith Bruised - Cancer, and Chris Wilson of Otsego has an acrylic wash called Rooster 2.
When you are at the Fair this weekend don’t forget to check out the student art work in the Education Building, especially the shoe lace piece, and the fine crafts in the Crafts Building. We think creativity comes in lots of different packages, so enjoy the neon, the curly fries, the braided manes on the show horses, and of course the seed art in the Ag Building.
30 August, 2007
29 August, 2007
Other Ways to Help the Arts Alliance Help You.
On our website, elkriverart.org, we have installed a couple of new buttons.
On the left hand side, just above the Blog button, there is a Donate Now button. You can securely donate to the Arts Alliance through this nonprofit portal. It’s easy, quick, secure, and helps the Arts Alliance to better fulfill its mission of providing access to the arts for everyone in our communities. This nonprofit group takes a small handling charge, less than any credit card service, to process your donation.
Another small button down below the Ticket Button, is the iGive.com Button. This is an on line portal to over 484 companies where when you shop on line. A percentage of your purchase comes back to the Arts Alliance. This for-profit company arranges with the vendors on their site to provide a portion of the sales to come to the Arts Alliance. If you are going to shop on line, and we all know we shop on line at least a little, why not support your favorite arts organization while you do it.
Our Ticket Button has some new twists too. You can now purchase tickets for our Performance Series on line too! Just click on that Ticket Button and purchase a season pass, or single or Family Pak tickets for the next performance, October 6th: C Willi and Laura Harley.
Memberships too! You can now purchase membership to the Arts Alliance on line so that you can take advantage of reduced entry fees to Arts in Harmony, get the Eddy delivered to your US Postal mailbox, and reduced prices on future performances.
Maybe some day we'll sell t-shirts, coffee mugs, CDs, and original art work. . . no, just kidding about some of that. . . well, maybe. Stay tuned as we work to make your interaction with us on line just a bit easier, fun, and more rewarding for you and us.
On the left hand side, just above the Blog button, there is a Donate Now button. You can securely donate to the Arts Alliance through this nonprofit portal. It’s easy, quick, secure, and helps the Arts Alliance to better fulfill its mission of providing access to the arts for everyone in our communities. This nonprofit group takes a small handling charge, less than any credit card service, to process your donation.
Another small button down below the Ticket Button, is the iGive.com Button. This is an on line portal to over 484 companies where when you shop on line. A percentage of your purchase comes back to the Arts Alliance. This for-profit company arranges with the vendors on their site to provide a portion of the sales to come to the Arts Alliance. If you are going to shop on line, and we all know we shop on line at least a little, why not support your favorite arts organization while you do it.
Our Ticket Button has some new twists too. You can now purchase tickets for our Performance Series on line too! Just click on that Ticket Button and purchase a season pass, or single or Family Pak tickets for the next performance, October 6th: C Willi and Laura Harley.
Memberships too! You can now purchase membership to the Arts Alliance on line so that you can take advantage of reduced entry fees to Arts in Harmony, get the Eddy delivered to your US Postal mailbox, and reduced prices on future performances.
Maybe some day we'll sell t-shirts, coffee mugs, CDs, and original art work. . . no, just kidding about some of that. . . well, maybe. Stay tuned as we work to make your interaction with us on line just a bit easier, fun, and more rewarding for you and us.
US Army Field Band and Chorus, Saturday, October 27 at 7:30pm
US Army Field Band and Soldier's Chorus, Saturday, October 27 at 7:30pm
Rogers Field House.
The Arts Alliance is proud to sponsor the visit of the US Army Field Band and Soldier's Chorus at the Rogers Field House, at 7:30pm, Saturday, October 27. The last time they visited us in 2005, there was a full house at the Zabee Theater in Elk River, so this time they will be performing at the Rogers Field House, 20855 141st Avenue, Rogers, Minnesota.
The concert is free, but you must have a ticket in order to attend. To order your FREE tickets to the US Army Field Band and Soldier's Chorus at the Rogers Field House, October 27, at 7:30pm, you need to send a self addressed stamped envelope to the Arts Alliance Office, Handke Center, 1170 Main Street, Elk River, MN 55330. Limit of four tickets per request.
You'll be able to read more about their visit on the website, when you get the next issue of the Eddy (you are a member aren't you?) and when we send out press releases, but we wanted you blog readers to know about it first.
Rogers Field House.
The Arts Alliance is proud to sponsor the visit of the US Army Field Band and Soldier's Chorus at the Rogers Field House, at 7:30pm, Saturday, October 27. The last time they visited us in 2005, there was a full house at the Zabee Theater in Elk River, so this time they will be performing at the Rogers Field House, 20855 141st Avenue, Rogers, Minnesota.
The concert is free, but you must have a ticket in order to attend. To order your FREE tickets to the US Army Field Band and Soldier's Chorus at the Rogers Field House, October 27, at 7:30pm, you need to send a self addressed stamped envelope to the Arts Alliance Office, Handke Center, 1170 Main Street, Elk River, MN 55330. Limit of four tickets per request.
You'll be able to read more about their visit on the website, when you get the next issue of the Eddy (you are a member aren't you?) and when we send out press releases, but we wanted you blog readers to know about it first.
24 August, 2007
Artist Member links
The Arts Alliance has a long history of mentoring, collaborating, assisting, and promoting artists; especially artists that are members in good standing. So, as a baby step in helping out member/artists better market themselves and help create a creative community we have implemented a page on our website that lists artist/members and links to their websites. Ideally, we would love to be able to highlight an art piece on that page. For now, we are listing your name, your phone number, and a hotlink to your website.
As of this morning we only a couple of names, but as we go public in the Eddy next month and here on this blog, we anticipate we will be getting more members that want to have a link.
How do you get on that page.
1) make certain your membership is paid up to date.
2) send us a link at elkriverart@sherbtel.com with your name and phone number.
3) please wait. We have a volunteer that updates our website, and she has a day job, and a couple of other things she does, so we will probably be updating every couple of weeks.
4) put a link to our website on your website.
So, you say you don’t know the first thing about creating a website? If you live in Minnesota you can go to www.mnartists.org and put up some images and a bio on their site. Then you can send us that URL and we can link to you. This site is funded by the Walker Art Center and the McKnight Foundation.
If you want to know more, check out the Springboard site, as they regularly run seminars on the arts of doing business for artists.
In fact, CMAB is hosting a series of workshops by Springboard this fall on ”The Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists.” Check out CMAB’s website for more info: www.centralmnartsboard.org.
We are starting this page with visual artists, but know there are musicians and authors that are members and if you raise your collective voices we will see that we can link to you too!
As of this morning we only a couple of names, but as we go public in the Eddy next month and here on this blog, we anticipate we will be getting more members that want to have a link.
How do you get on that page.
1) make certain your membership is paid up to date.
2) send us a link at elkriverart@sherbtel.com with your name and phone number.
3) please wait. We have a volunteer that updates our website, and she has a day job, and a couple of other things she does, so we will probably be updating every couple of weeks.
4) put a link to our website on your website.
So, you say you don’t know the first thing about creating a website? If you live in Minnesota you can go to www.mnartists.org and put up some images and a bio on their site. Then you can send us that URL and we can link to you. This site is funded by the Walker Art Center and the McKnight Foundation.
If you want to know more, check out the Springboard site, as they regularly run seminars on the arts of doing business for artists.
In fact, CMAB is hosting a series of workshops by Springboard this fall on ”The Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists.” Check out CMAB’s website for more info: www.centralmnartsboard.org.
We are starting this page with visual artists, but know there are musicians and authors that are members and if you raise your collective voices we will see that we can link to you too!
17 August, 2007
Dave Phipps and the Creative Department.
Dave Phipps will has as his guest Patrick Grace, Executive Director of the Arts Alliance on Sunday, August 26 at noon on Newstalk Radio 1450 KNSI, St. Cloud.
Dave has worked as a cartoonist, is a writer, was a stay at home dad, and now has two radio shows, the Creative Department, and the Home Show with co-host Katie Harms.
He really tries to emphasis the whys and how comes of the creative process with his weekly Creative Department shows. His regional focus, that is central Minnesota, is an area of conversation sadly neglected by the statewide public broadcasters.
Unfortunately his programs are not archived or available as podcasts, yet. So, if you want to hear this show or any of the weekly shows about the creative process you have to hear it as it is broadcast. You can hear it anywhere in the world, because it is broadcast on the internet.
Check out the live webcast at http://www.1450knsi.com
(click the link by Dave’s photo at 12:05p Sunday).
As Dave says, “Be creative. Do good. And pass it on!”
P.S. he loves getting emails from his listeners
Dave has worked as a cartoonist, is a writer, was a stay at home dad, and now has two radio shows, the Creative Department, and the Home Show with co-host Katie Harms.
He really tries to emphasis the whys and how comes of the creative process with his weekly Creative Department shows. His regional focus, that is central Minnesota, is an area of conversation sadly neglected by the statewide public broadcasters.
Unfortunately his programs are not archived or available as podcasts, yet. So, if you want to hear this show or any of the weekly shows about the creative process you have to hear it as it is broadcast. You can hear it anywhere in the world, because it is broadcast on the internet.
Check out the live webcast at http://www.1450knsi.com
(click the link by Dave’s photo at 12:05p Sunday).
As Dave says, “Be creative. Do good. And pass it on!”
P.S. he loves getting emails from his listeners
13 August, 2007
Members Show in October
Calling all Arts Alliance members!
It is almost time once again for the Arts Alliance members to show off their latest art work. All Arts Alliance members are encouraged to submit up to four original art pieces on October 8th at the Sherburne County Government Center between 5:00pm and 7:30pm. This is a nonjuried show that is meant to highlight the depth and breadth of the many talented artists who are nurtured, mentored, and encouraged by their association with the Arts Alliance.
Artists are responsible for providing their own labels, which should include the artist’s name and title of the work, price of work, and phone number. The Arts Alliance takes no commission for any work sold during this show. It is one of the benefits of being a member of the Arts Alliance.
Artists are also responsible for hanging and securing their own work, and when it's time for the show to end you are responsible for picking up your work too.
The show runs October 8th through November 9th. It is open to the public during normal business hours at the Government Center, M-F, 8AM -4:30PM.
Call the Arts Alliance office for more information, 763.44.14725.
It is almost time once again for the Arts Alliance members to show off their latest art work. All Arts Alliance members are encouraged to submit up to four original art pieces on October 8th at the Sherburne County Government Center between 5:00pm and 7:30pm. This is a nonjuried show that is meant to highlight the depth and breadth of the many talented artists who are nurtured, mentored, and encouraged by their association with the Arts Alliance.
Artists are responsible for providing their own labels, which should include the artist’s name and title of the work, price of work, and phone number. The Arts Alliance takes no commission for any work sold during this show. It is one of the benefits of being a member of the Arts Alliance.
Artists are also responsible for hanging and securing their own work, and when it's time for the show to end you are responsible for picking up your work too.
The show runs October 8th through November 9th. It is open to the public during normal business hours at the Government Center, M-F, 8AM -4:30PM.
Call the Arts Alliance office for more information, 763.44.14725.
03 August, 2007
Arts in Harmony prospectus available
The prospectus for the Arts in Harmony 2008 national juried art exhibit sponsored by the Arts Alliance is now available online for download at our website: elkriverart.org.
Over $9000 in cash prices will be awarded in what will be the thirteenth rendition of this popular exhibition.
In past years we have received entries from over twenty states and two nations.
This year's jurors are artist and educator Paul Benson and Lyn Nelson-Mayson, director of the Goldstein Museum of Design, see the July 19th blog entry for more information about them.
Once again volunteers will be doing much of the work for this exhibit, including Dave Beauvais, who swears after this year he is retiring.
The exhibit has been supported by the Central Minnesota Arts Board through a grant from the McKnight Foundation.
To download the prospectus as a pdf go to our website: elkriverart.org. For more info contact the Arts Alliance office: 763.441.4725.
Over $9000 in cash prices will be awarded in what will be the thirteenth rendition of this popular exhibition.
In past years we have received entries from over twenty states and two nations.
This year's jurors are artist and educator Paul Benson and Lyn Nelson-Mayson, director of the Goldstein Museum of Design, see the July 19th blog entry for more information about them.
Once again volunteers will be doing much of the work for this exhibit, including Dave Beauvais, who swears after this year he is retiring.
The exhibit has been supported by the Central Minnesota Arts Board through a grant from the McKnight Foundation.
To download the prospectus as a pdf go to our website: elkriverart.org. For more info contact the Arts Alliance office: 763.441.4725.
Exhibit time open
We are looking for a member-artist that is seeking to show a new body of work just in time for the holidays. The December 17, 2007 through January 25, 2008 time slot at the Sherburne County Government Center is still open.
We encourage you to contact us soon, as these time slots usually fill up quickly.
Don’t have enough new work to fill the halls at SCGC? Consider pairing up with a friend, or contact us and we can see if there is someone else in the same spot.
Heck, that’s four months out, you could have a whole new body of work done by then!
Nothing like a deadline to get you motivated.
We encourage you to contact us soon, as these time slots usually fill up quickly.
Don’t have enough new work to fill the halls at SCGC? Consider pairing up with a friend, or contact us and we can see if there is someone else in the same spot.
Heck, that’s four months out, you could have a whole new body of work done by then!
Nothing like a deadline to get you motivated.
Volunteerism
We recently saw information that said that 4 in 10 Minnesotans engage in some form of volunteering over the course of a year. This is one of the highest rates of engagement in the country, and no doubt reflects upon our feelings about the quality of life available for most Minnesotans.
At the Arts Alliance we know the value of volunteers. We had over 100 community volunteers help us develop, work at, and cleanup at ArtSoup, the community arts festival that took place in June.
We have a loyal and dedicated board of directors that donate time, talent, and more time to help insure the arts can be reached by every home in our communities. These community members help insure that when you want to see art, take an arts class, or hear a performance by professional musicians or thespians, you can do so.
We rely upon volunteers to answer our phone and keep our membership list up to date (thank you Carolyn, Ann, and Edith!)
The Arts Alliance is always looking for community members that are interested in helping the Arts Alliance achieve its mission of providing access to the arts in our communities. We have many opportunities for engagement with the Arts Alliance, from helping get our event fliers out, to answering the phone, to becoming a board member and steering the planning for the organization.
We are especially interested in finding members of the community that have experience in business plan development, marketing and interactive web development, and generational transformative engagement (how about that?). If you, your spouse, business partner, or daughter/son are seeking a way to make the community just a little bit more artsy, want to work with fun people, and have time to roll up your sleeves, please give us a call or email us today.
At the Arts Alliance we know the value of volunteers. We had over 100 community volunteers help us develop, work at, and cleanup at ArtSoup, the community arts festival that took place in June.
We have a loyal and dedicated board of directors that donate time, talent, and more time to help insure the arts can be reached by every home in our communities. These community members help insure that when you want to see art, take an arts class, or hear a performance by professional musicians or thespians, you can do so.
We rely upon volunteers to answer our phone and keep our membership list up to date (thank you Carolyn, Ann, and Edith!)
The Arts Alliance is always looking for community members that are interested in helping the Arts Alliance achieve its mission of providing access to the arts in our communities. We have many opportunities for engagement with the Arts Alliance, from helping get our event fliers out, to answering the phone, to becoming a board member and steering the planning for the organization.
We are especially interested in finding members of the community that have experience in business plan development, marketing and interactive web development, and generational transformative engagement (how about that?). If you, your spouse, business partner, or daughter/son are seeking a way to make the community just a little bit more artsy, want to work with fun people, and have time to roll up your sleeves, please give us a call or email us today.
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