2025 Annual High School Invitational Exhibit
The Annual High School Invitational Exhibit is one of the most popular shows each year. The exhibit showcases work from area high school students.
Framed Insight: Learning from Galleries
EXHIBIT Jan 24 – May 19, 2025. A gallery setting fosters deeper emotional connections, inviting viewers to interpret and reflect on the artist’s intent and cultural context. For educators, galleries become living classrooms, where discussions around technique, history, and symbolism come alive.
Inaaband Mitigwaki – Woodland Vision – Robert DesJarlait
EXHIBIT Feb 15 – extended to Apr 25. DesJarlait’s work depicts, documents and defines the life of the Ojibwe people in which he uses cultural diversity as the message.
Writers Workshop & Talk with Kent Nerburn
Feb 8, 2025. Join Kent as he speaks on the layers of cultural and spiritual meaning he found in the north country – how they informed his sensibilities as a writer, and what they have to teach others who practice the arts in Northern Minnesota.
Loaded – Jonathan Thunder and Robb Quisling
RECEPTION Jan 25, 1 – 3pm. ARTISTS CONVERSATION at 2pm. EXHIBIT Jan 21 March 28. The two artists bring their own experiences with alcohol addiction and recovery to bear on the visual imagery of their work, exploring the substance as both a seductive chemical as well as a force of entrapment.
The Rhythm of the Hill Annex Mine
EXHIBIT Jan 10 – Apr 25. In this series he used a steel brush to create his drawings. And in these drawings are his reflections on the old mine and its rhythms of passing away and beginning again.
Mayaadaaboonojig – The Ones Drifting Off on the Current
RECEPTION/STORYTELLING TBD. EXHIBIT through FEB 8. Canoe building is not just building a canoe. It is bringing life into the world and honoring the gifts that the trees give us for life.
It’s Only Clay 2024
RECEPTION Nov 1, 5 – 7pm. AWARDS at 6pm. EXHIBIT Nov 1 – Dec 23.” It’s Only Clay” is a juried ceramics competition focusing on, and dedicated to, functional clay vessels. Submissions are judged in four areas: function, form/aesthetic, craftsmanship, and surface design.
iPhone Artistry – William Petersen, Photography
RECEPTION Oct 4, 5 – 7pm, TALK at 6pm. EXHIBIT Oct 4 – Dec 28. Drawn back into his passion for photography during the advent of electronic cameras, Petersen resisted the departure from traditional film, but quickly realized he could do much more with digital techniques in order to share his vision of “imagery reality”.
Some Pieces Whisper
EXHIBIT Sep 16 – Jan 10, 2025. This exhibition showcases prints and ceramics that, though modest in size and subdued in palette, invite deep reflection and calm.
Smart Wars
EXHIBIT UPDATED through Nov 22, 2024. The costumes share the story of indigenous reality where forces unite to protect what we’ve been given.
2024 Bi-Annual Members Show
Sep 6 Reception. EXHIBIT Sep 6 – Oct 25, 2024. Member artists submit their own work for this juried exhibit. A variety of mediums are featured including photography, textiles, paintings, glass & more!
Weaving Water Workshop with Sarah Nassif
Unleash your imagination in the expanded “Outdoor Family Art Activity Area” with the 2024 Watermark Art Festival hands-on art experience the “Weaving Water Workshop: Landscape of Creativity” with Special Guest Artist Sarah Nasiff.
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Mark Lambert, 2024 IOC Jury & Featured Artist
While creating Iga style vases, Lambert envisions showcasing flowers in the vases. The coarse rough clay, harsh rib marks, dry surfaces dusted with ash, a line of glaze running or pooling, stout forms and heavy clay walls contrast the delicacy of flower petals.
