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“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…
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Weaving the North at the North Suburban Center for the Arts
The North Suburban Center for the Arts in Fridley, Minnesota, is hosting Weaving the North in collaboration with the Scandinavian Weavers Study Group of the Weavers Guild of Minnesota. I recently visited, and these are some of the works displayed. The breadth of styles shown is exciting, and the work is beautiful. The pin loom…
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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…
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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…
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Arts North International 28
Arts North International is an international juried exhibition at the Hopkins Center for the Arts that showcases the work of thirteen different classes of media by artists from the United States and abroad. The Hopkins Center for the Arts in Hopkins, Minnesota, is a vibrant venue that hosts exhibitions, performances, a theater company, and art…