http://blogs.walkerart.org/mnartists Just another Walker Blogs weblog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:14:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_606" align="alignright" width="288" caption="Benches & Binoculars, Photo by Cameron Wittig"][/caption] 1. Event Horizon and Benches & Binoculars: The much anticipated  reinstallation of the permanent collection opens on Saturday.  Previews of the exhibition are in the local media today, but I suggest reading them after visiting the exhibition...it's more fun that way, personally. ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/mnartists/2009/11/20/ten-this-week-in-local-art-sales-scrap-and-carl-sagen/ Another packed week of artist talks, meetings and writing deadlines and its already the end of the week. Before we get into this week's TEN I have a request.  I am DJing next Friday's Walker After Hours party for the Event Horizon and Benches & Binoculars opening.  I am opening the request line ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/mnartists/2009/11/12/ten-this-week-in-local-art-3/ Another week has flown by so here are another ten picks from what is happening in local art.    1. Franklin Art Works NexTen Benefit: Franklin Artworks turns ten years old with a benefit celebration and auction on Saturday November 7th from 7pm to 11pm. The auction features an impressive lineup of 40 local, national and ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/mnartists/2009/11/06/ten-this-week-in-local-art-2/ It has been the week of artists talks, openings and performances in town.... making for a very busy week in local art.  I have been running all week and think I only hit about 10% of them.  I think that is a good sign for the local art community.  Here ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/mnartists/2009/10/30/ten-this-week-in-local-art/ I have been a bad blogger.  I think everyone has good intentions and high aspirations when they start blogging....particularly as to frequency.  I tend to over-think things...everything simple turns into a long (and probably uninteresting project).  So in an effort to create more frequent posts and compelling reading, I am ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/mnartists/2009/10/23/10-the-week-in-local-art-and-other-bits-of-interest/ [caption id="attachment_460" align="alignright" width="300" caption="mnartists.org Field Day "][/caption] For the past five years mnartists.org had a booth at the Minnesota State Fair.  Hundreds of mnartists.org members generously volunteered their time to hand out buttons, flyers and other materials and talk about mnartists.org to thousands of fair goers each year. Through outreach ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/mnartists/2009/08/21/mnartists-org-field-day-at-the-walker-art-center/ [caption id="attachment_439" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Portrait of Jean Matzke by Chris Felver"][/caption] Early last Friday morning, fiber artist Jean Matzke went out for a stroll in downtown St. Paul with her boxer, Maya, just like she did every morning. As she crossed the street near her condo in Lowertown Artist Lofts, she ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/mnartists/2009/07/01/remembering-jean-matzke/ [caption id="attachment_427" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Kristin Makholm with British artist Graham Rawle and the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow, Dorothy, Toto, and the Tinman in the field of poppies."][/caption] Last week, the Minnesota Museum of American Art (MMAA) announced that the St. Paul museum has hired a new director, Kristin Makholm. In addition ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/mnartists/2009/06/17/q-a-with-kristin-makholm-new-director-of-the-minnesota-museum-of-american-art/ [caption id="attachment_401" align="alignright" width="327" caption="Lookbook performing in the Sky Pesher: Photo by Cameron Wittig"][/caption] Join us this Thursday night for the second Sky Pesher concert as part of  Target Free Thursday Nights: Summer Edition.  Up next is electronic duo Beatrix*JAR (Bianca Pettis-Beatrix and Jacob Aaron Roske -JAR) who create fuzzy sound collages with glitch beatboxes, ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/mnartists/2009/06/15/sky-bender/ It's easy to find writing workshops and how-to sorts of roundtable discussions about the knack of putting words together to construct an effective storyline or to explore the nuts and bolts of working within various and sundry poetic forms. You can easily check the latest offerings at the Loft ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/mnartists/2009/06/02/shop-talk-on-the-art-of-writing-the-works-blb/