June & July in the Galleries | Gendron Jensen: The Burning Years

ON VIEW | June 7 through July 30 The Burning Years presents a retrospective of Gendron Jensen’s work from 1967- 1988, most of which is held in private collections in ...

Executive Director Katie Marshall on “Gendron Jensen: The Burning Years”

  Gendron Jensen lived and worked as an artist in Itasca County for nearly two decades, and the landscape and inhabitants of northern Minnesota have played a significant role in ...

Learn | This Summer: MacRostie Art Suitcase Kickoffs!

SATURDAYS | June 8, July 6, August 3, & September 7 10:30 am-12:00 pm & 1:00-2:30 pm | $5 Join us as we introduce lessons from our new Art Suitcases! ...

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Learn | Summer Classes for Adults & Children

Click here for a PDF document of our youth and adult class ...

Artist Opportunities | 21st Annual Juried Show & 2014 Exhibitions

2013 JURIED SHOW (Deadline, June 7): Application [PDF] One of our most ...

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

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

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June 5-6 | MAC @ RAC Summit!

June 5-6 | Morris, MN This year’s Rural Arts and Culture Summit, “Leveraging Arts and Culture to Build Thriving Communities,” celebrates the transformative power of arts-based community development in rural towns. Hosted by the Center for Small Towns at the University of Minnesota-Morris, this event will gather leaders from all over the country to share [...]

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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 (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and Kielser House to offer free weekly art classes to adults living with mental illness as part of a holistic [...]

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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 artists in miniature. MacRostie Art Center members and friends will submit works in any medium that are no larger than twelve inches in any dimension [...]

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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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