Archive – Watermark Art Center

Portraits – Blair Treuer, Textile Artist

Jan 6, 2020WAC2019, Archive, Exhibits, Kaul Gallery, Virtual Exhibit

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AVAILABLE >> Exhibit: January 10 – March 28, 2020 “I am a storyteller who paints with fabric and draws with thread.” –
An image comes to me first. I feel inspiration channeling through me faster than my fingers can move. When the piece is finished, I ask myself…What does this mean? What was this meant to communicate to me? The decisions I make are not what will the image be, I feel like that is instead decided for me. So the decisions I make are on how to best recreate the image in my head. It’s not until the end that I ask myself, now what does this mean?

Gillian Bedford – Plein Air Landscape Artist

Jan 4, 2020WAC2019, Archive, Artist Meet & Greet, Demonstration, Event, Shop 505, Shop 505 Featured Artist

Shop 505 January Featured Artist. Painting in the style of “plein air,” Bedford leaves the studio behind in exchange for natural light where she can experience transitions found in the outside world.

December Artist Showcases

Dec 6, 2019WAC2019, Archive, Artist Meet & Greet, Classes, Shop 505

Watermark Art Center presents three weekends of December shopping, classes, and Artist Showcases. On Saturdays December 7 & 14 we’ll have our Shop 505 artists stationed throughout the center demonstrating and/or talking about their work and offering new work from 10:30 to 2:30pm. If you miss these special meet-n-greet days, Shop 505 will be open…

Eve Sumsky – Basket Weaver

Nov 10, 2019WAC2019, Archive, Demonstration, Shop 505, Shop 505 Featured Artist

November Shop 505 Featured Artist “One thing that always seemed important to me was that the ‘item’ that I was making would have a use or purpose. Basket weaving makes a great deal of sense to me as it gives me the opportunity to create something not only beautiful but that can be used.”…

Beyond Whiteness – Monika Lawrence

Oct 23, 2019WAC2019, Archive, Artist Reception, Exhibits, Lakeview Gallery, News & Updates

November 1 – January 31, 2020. The world puts on a monochrome blanket, forests become transparent and graphical. Sparse colors seem even more vibrant, a snow-laden sky can appear darker than the snow-covered ground, snowdrifts reshape the landscape, and noises are muted.

Awareness through Action and Education Activities

Oct 22, 2019WAC2019, Activity, Archive, Event, Miikanan Gallery

November 2, in conjunction with the Bring Her Home exhibit, we will have a day of activities designed to increase awareness of the #MMIW movement (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women).

Bring Her Home: Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island

Oct 20, 2019WAC2019, Archive, Artist Reception, Exhibits, Miikanan Gallery, News & Updates

October 11 – November 30, 2019. “Bring Her Home” addresses the epidemic of violence against Native women through paintings, digital work, sculpture, and photography.

The traveling exhibit features original work by 20 Indigenous artists from across the United States and many tribal nations. Through their work, artists tell their own stories and those of the impacted women, families and communities.

Looking East – Japanese and Western Prints and Ceramics

Oct 18, 2019WAC2019, Archive, BSU Harlow | Kleven Gallery, Exhibits

October 7 – January 24, 2020. “Looking East” is a combination of Japanese and Western prints and functional-use ceramics. In the world of ceramics, the humble tea bowl had a profound effect on the evolution of pottery and potters.

Marion Angelica Featured Artist

Oct 14, 2019WAC2019, Archive, IOC Juror, It's Only Clay, Shop 505, Shop 505 Featured Artist

Meet Marion Angelica Marion Angelica is a biology/art major, arts administrator, academic and returned ceramic artist. Although trained to throw on the wheel, she now exclusively hand-builds her work. She feel that hand-building, and in particular using soft slabs and coils, gives her great flexibility in creating form, using texture and reflecting the luscious nature…

Marlon Davidson and Don Knudson Shop 505 Featured Artists

Sep 10, 2019WAC2019, Activity, Archive, Artist Meet & Greet, First Saturday Featured Artist, Shop 505

Don Knudson and Marlon Davidson collaborations began after a summer trip to the south shore of Lake Superior. The artists had spent a day on the beach picking up small pieces of driftwood, feathers, and stones. They carried the items back to their studio then at Hand Lake. Don had been constructing a box-like wall…

Don Knudson & Marlon Davidson 2019 September Featured Artists

Aug 3, 2019WAC2019, Archive, Shop 505, Shop 505 Featured Artist

Butch Holden 2019 July Featured Artist

Jul 3, 2019WAC2019, Archive, News & Updates, Shop 505, Shop 505 Featured Artist

In addition to his frequent service as an exhibition juror and art grant panelist, the artist has shown his work in local, regional, and national competitions, and he has also enjoyed several solo exhibitions. He says, “My inclination toward sculpture and painting find form in clay and glaze. The possibility to use these forms to…

2019 It’s Only Clay National Juried Exhibit & Competition

Oct 16, 2019WAC2019, Archive, Exhibits, It's Only Clay, Kaul Gallery

“It’s Only Clay”, October 4 – December 21, is a National Juried Ceramics Exhibit & Competition focusing on functional ceramics, judged in the following areas: function, form/aesthetic, craftsmanship, and surface design.

Explore Your Creative Side

Aug 13, 2019WAC2019, Activity, Adult Class, Archive, Classes, Kid Class

There’s always something in the works. Check back soon. We list our classes as events on Facebook, too!

Nibikaang Exhibit Closing Reception with Monique Verdin

Aug 29, 2019WAC2019, Activity, Archive, Artist Meet & Greet, Artist Reception, Event, Film, Miikanan Gallery

Nibikaang Exhibit Closing Reception & Events will feature guest artist, Monique Verdin (Louisiana’s United Houma Nation) co-writer/co-producer of the documentary My Louisiana Love. She will share her film regarding her community on the Mississippi Delta on September 21, 3 – 5pm. “My Louisiana Love follows a young Native American woman, Monique Verdin, as she returns…