News & Updates – Watermark Art Center

2020 It’s Only Clay

Nov 1, 2020WAC2020, Current, Exhibits, homepage, It's Only Clay, Kaul Gallery, News & Updates

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT>>Exhibit: November 7 – December 23, 2020. This year’s exhibit is dedicated to 2004 IOC juror, Bill Gossman who passed away earlier this year and will include the work of eight additional jurors .

Each year the exhibit is dedicated to functional clay vessels. Work must also meet high standards of form, craftsmanship, and surface design. Multiple pieces from each potter will allow viewers to understand their unique vision and aesthetic. In addition, artists will have work available for immediate purchase.

Show Me a Story – Harlow | Kleven Collection

Nov 1, 2020WAC2020, BSU Harlow | Kleven Gallery, Current, Exhibits, homepage, News & Updates

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT>> Exhibit: November 2, 2020 – January 22, 2021. These selected works from the Harlow/Kleven Collections showcase a collection of ceramic and print work from the BSU collections that focuses on art that “tell“ a story. The objects in the show may illustrate or imply a story that the artist wants the viewer to consider.

Nature Envisioned and The Real Transformed – Karlyn Atkinson Berg

Oct 31, 2020WAC2020, Current, Exhibits, homepage, Lakeview Gallery, News & Updates

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AVAILABLE>> Exhibit through November 20, 2020. This collage series was inspired by the literary genre of magical realism. The goal was to explore the spirit of nature visually and evoke the emotions and mystery humans find there and present another way of seeing nature.

Train of Thought – Quinton Decker

Oct 25, 2020WAC2020, Current, Exhibits, homepage, Miikanan Gallery, News & Updates

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AVAILABLE>> Exhibit extended to mid November, 2020. “Train of Thought” draws from expressionism, graffiti, and diverse characters of all genres. This, combined with the nostalgia of collecting memorobilia as a child and the idea of evolution, captivated Decker and inspired this body of work.

Mashkawiziiwag – Ne-Dah-Ness Rose Greene, Photographer

Oct 24, 2020WAC2020, Exhibits, homepage, Miikanan Gallery, News & Updates, Upcoming

Exhibit: December 3 – February 24, 2021. Ne-Dah-Ness is a well-known photographer in the Indigenous world. She is regularly sought out to photograph important evens and specialized photo shoots. Her imagery prompts a visceral reaction from her viewers, while evoking emotion from the “movements” she captures.

Monarch Butterflies – Young Artists

Oct 7, 2020WAC2020, Archive, Exhibits, homepage, Kaul Gallery, News & Updates

October, 2020. Kaul Gallery. In conjunction with the exhibit “Patient Nature”, Watermark Art Center has on display “Monarch Butterflies” painted by area young artists.

Patient Nature & Traveling Audubon Photography Awards Exhibit

Sep 1, 2020WAC2020, Archive, Exhibits, homepage, Kaul Gallery, News & Updates, Virtual Exhibit

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AVAILABLE >> Exhibit runs September 12 – October 31, 2020. “Patient Nature” is a group exhibit created in memory of area artist and photographer Joyce Kleven (2019). Photographers were asked to submit work depicting birdlife in any form to the categories of Professional, Amateur, Youth or a special fourth category “Birds, Bees & Butterflies – Bemidji” reserved for images of native pollinators interacting with plants native to our area. In addition to submissions, also featured is the “2019 – 2020 Traveling Audubon Photography Awards Exhibit”

Love Bytes aka An Amalgam of Time

Aug 20, 2020Karen2020, BRC-Detour, Continuum, Creative Writing, News & Updates

Love Bytes aka An Amalgam of Time I. I am the whisper of knowing wrapped around stones you have tossed carelessly to skim across water unconcerned about their destiny as they sink into the deep. II. Midnight slipped over the curve of your palms inscribing her wisdom in sharp tongued strokes leaving her language tattooed…

Things I Pray About

Aug 19, 2020Karen2020, BRC-Detour, Creative Writing, News & Updates

Things I Pray About ( just in case it works) Every heart I bumped into without apology hasty and prolonged goodbyes sweet blossoms that give me joy with extra love to the lilacs. Touches that knew me the first time and the last – waters that love me until I heal- every shade…

“Patient Nature” Call for Art

Jul 27, 2020WAC2020, Archive, Call for Art, News & Updates

CALL IS CLOSED. EXHIBIT OPENS SEPT 12. Watermark Art Center announces the call for photography for their exhibit entitled “Patient Nature” in memory of area artist and photographer Joyce Kleven and featuring the “2019 – 2020 Audubon Traveling Awards Exhibition”.

From Line to Form – Harlow | Kleven Collection

Jul 18, 2020WAC2020, Archive, BSU Harlow | Kleven Gallery, Exhibits, homepage, News & Updates

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AVAILABLE>> Exhibit through October 15. On display are selected works from the Harlow/Kleven Collections that showcase the ability of line and form to evoke emotion and develop emphasis through variations and distortions.

Juneteenth

Jun 19, 2020Karen2020, BRC-Detour, Continuum, monique-messages, News & Updates

Monique Verdin: Juneteenth June 19th. Juneteenth, a day of celebration, a day of mourning. Two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, in 1865, news reaches Galveston, Texas informing enslaved peoples working on plantations that they are “free.” One hundred and three years later, Nina Simone said, “I’ll tell you what freedom is to…

Waterscapes

Jun 10, 2020Karen2020, BRC-Detour, Continuum, Field Notes, News & Updates

Waterscapes We humans are grieving and surviving powerful moments and changing days that are moving us forward, by any means possible. We are all survivors of something and some survivors of many things. There will never be a return to what was – and really there never has been that option. The urgency…

Field Notes June 3

Jun 3, 2020Karen2020, BRC-Detour, Continuum, Field Notes, News & Updates@kegoulet, @watermarkartcenter

Field Notes June 3 As of late, going to the water and woods has been more an act of survival than inspiration. The public murder of George Floyd lit tinder to an anger that has been smoldering for centuries in this landscape of the north. The inferno of human rage has ignited the world,…

Invisible Valley – John Pearson, Photographer & Printmaker

May 27, 2020WAC2020, Archive, Exhibits, homepage, Lakeview Gallery, News & Updates

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AVAILABLE >> Exhibit: June 5 – July 31, 2020. “Invisible Valley” presents a selection from the hundreds of photos John Pearson gathered as he explored the Red River Valley area of North Dakota and Minnesota in June of 2016. The resulting photos reveal his persistent fascination with how people establish their place in the environment.