Harper Group Weaving Exhibit
EXHIBIT May 3. Participants of Watermark’s lastest traditional weaving workshops display work including finger weaving, cedar mats with basswood cordage and baskets made from birch bark and black ash.
NEOTECTONIC PERIOD by Susan Hensel
EXHIBIT May 9 – July 26. RECEPTION May 9. Neotectonic Period deals metaphorically with the effects and affects of climate change, globally and universally. It seeks to provide moments of contemplation and pause for the viewer to consider how they feel and to rest in the possibility of a world that is healed.
2025 Annual Middle School Exhibit
EXHIBIT May 2. Watermark Art Center presents the Annual Middle School Exhibit featuring artworks of local young artists.
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.