It’s Only Clay 2025
Exhibit Opening and Reception Nov 7, 5 – 7pm. Award Presentations at 6pm. Exhibit Nov 7 – Dec 23, 2025
Refugia: Organisms
Back to “Refugia” Exhibit Clam Shrimp Listen to the description Your browser does not support the audio tag. Collector Filterer Clam shrimp look like small clams.They swim upside-down in open…
Refugia: the Seasonal Pond Project – Kristen Anderson
RECEPTION: OCT 3. Exhibit: OCT 3 – JAN 30. Just as pockets of rich memory may emerge amid a human mind in cognitive decline, remnants of ecosystem diversity that retain resilience amid changing conditions are referred to as ecological “refugia.
Joy and Magic in Saturated Color
EXHIBIT SEP 29 – JAN 23: Color is more than just visual: it’s emotional. There is magic in color; a kind of spell woven through light and perception. Saturated colors (bright, vivid, and pure) don’t just catch the eye- they uplift the soul. Whether it’s the golden glow of a deep yellow or the bold intensity of crimson red, colors often evoke joy, excitement, and vitality.
Festival Map
Watermark Art Festival Map 2025 ← Back to Festival info This map will be posted throughout the festival grounds. Festival Questions? Inquire at the Watermark Info Tent for Artist, Music…
Nick DeVries, 2025 IOC Jury & Featured Artist
IOC 2025 juror Nick Devries current body of work is made with porcelain and white stoneware. He works in a reductive fashion, throwing heavier pieces, then altering, rasping, and carving the pots to reveal the final forms.
Sean Hill, Poet & Author
Sean Hill, poet and author, will lead a workshop for the Spoken Word series on Thursday, June 26 from 11:00 AM till 12:30PM at Watermark Art Center
Protected: 2025 Disability Awareness Presentation
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Weaving Our Community- Art as a conversation
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.
2025 Annual Middle School Exhibit
EXHIBIT & Opening Reception May 2. Runs through May 23. Watermark Art Center presents the Annual Middle School Exhibit featuring artworks of local young artists.
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.
