May in the MacRostie Gallery | Outside Voices: Mental Health Month Show

ON VIEW | MacRostie Gallery | May 3-31 Sponsored by North Homes Children and Family Services In May of 2012, MacRostie Art Center partnered with the local chapter of NAMI ...

May in the Minnesota Gallery | Little Big Show: 6th Annual Miniatures Invitational

ON VIEW | Minnesota Gallery | May 3-31 Sponsored by Kristina Gaalaas of Edward Jones Now in its sixth year, this popular show presents the work of local and regional ...

Artist Opportunities | 21st Annual Juried Show & 2014 Exhibitions

2013 JURIED SHOW (Deadline, June 7): Application [PDF] One of our most popular annual events, The 21st Juried Show — taking place in August — is open to artists working ...

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Learn | July 13-14: Spoon Carving with Jarrod StoneDahl

Spoon Carving: Decorated Swedish Eating Saturday and Sunday July 13th-14th, 9:00 am- ...

MCBA “On the Road” Thanks its Partners — Including the MAC!

Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) is dedicated to nurturing artists engaged ...

From Minnesota to Japan: MAC’s Artist-in-Residence Embarks on Residency in Tokyo

In September of 2012, MacRostie Art Center contracted with Minnesota-based artist, animator, ...

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April in the MacRostie Gallery | Revisiting Twain’s Mississippi: Chris Faust

ON VIEW | MacRostie Gallery | April 5-30 Sponsored by Bill and Diane Rutherford St. Paul photographer Chris Faust has been carefully re-photographing the same views that US Army Corps mapmaker and photographer Henry Peter Bosse recorded from 1883-1893 in his historic book Views on the Mississippi River. Faust’s contemporary photographs, when paired with Bosse’s [...]

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April in the Minnesota Gallery | Flyover: Laura Brown

ON VIEW | Minnesota Gallery | April 5-30 Sponsored by Bill and Diane Rutherford In Flyover, Minneapolis printmaker Laura Brown will debut her latest work investigating geographic spaces. Using colorful, abstracted, and often map-like images Brown explores the ways geography connects and separates human beings. “Recently, I had the opportunity to make an artist’s book [...]

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March in the MacRostie Gallery | New Growth: Regional Printmaking

ON VIEW | MacRostie Gallery | March 1-31 Sponsored by Miskovich Dental Clinic The third annual printmaking exhibition at MacRostie Art Center will showcase the work of local and regional artists working in an art form that encompasses a wide range of tools and techniques from silkscreens to woodblocks and linocuts to lithographs. This year’s [...]

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March in the Minnesota Gallery | Molecular Reason: Lisa Koch

ON VIEW | Minnesota Gallery | March 1-31 Sponsored by Anderson Family Dental Lisa Koch uses the reflective properties of float glass and mirrors to suggest the passage of time. In Molecular Reason, Koch considers the movement of water as it travels around the earth. Clouds and individual molecules rendered in clear and mirrored glass [...]

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Itasca County Empty Bowls 2013 Community Glazing Sessions

The Itasca County Empty Bowls fundraiser is now in its 11th year. As the annual event will be held on March 28, 2013, there is currently a lot of work going on behind the scenes. Each year, the event planners look for ways to involve the community in not just attending the event, but helping [...]

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February in the Minnesota Gallery | Marie Westerman: Northern Light

ON VIEW | Minnesota Gallery | Feb 1-28 Sponsored by MacRostie Art Center Board of Directors Marie Westerman is a professional hand weaver who has developed her own approach to multi-layer pick-up. This particular weaving type is an adaptation of an ancient type of weaving associated with the Scandinavian countries as well as other cultures [...]

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