YOU’RE INVITED:
Thursday May 8, 2008, 7 to 9 p.m.
3440 Belt Line Blvd. ste 206 ST. LOUIS PARK
Artists: John Koch will demonstrate Japanese printmaking. Introducing the Lake Superior pastels of artist Ardell Nelson. More by Derek de Young, Bryan Young and Jack Haines.
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It’s all in the promise — spring, that is. At this writing, it’s near, nuzzling up again the windows, buds on the trees, all that.
Our Chicago and Minneapolis Great Waters Expos are over and put away until next year and we are back with our Thursday Night gallery programming and hope you’ll be here with us. There will be wine, cheese, new and familiar works of art, and some surprises.
If you’ve been with us in the past, or at one of our expos, you’re familiar with woodcut artist John Koch, who lives just about as close to Wisconsin’s Rush River as you can get without getting your feet wet. John will demonstrate the Japanese art of printmaking, something I find fascinating, and I’m sure you will as well.
Bryan Young and Jack Haines also have brought some new paintings by and we’ll have them up in time for this showing. You may have seen Bryan’s stone carvings. His paintings have the same energy and uniqueness. Jack’s watercolors are delightful renderings of fly fishing adventures near and far — well, at least as far as the Big Horn River. |
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Ardell Nelson, new Vermilion artist
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We’ll also be introducing you to St. Paul artist Ardell Nelson and several of her North Shore Abstractions, pastel paintings based on rock formations she has photographed. Her work was recently was featured at a Hopkins Center for the Arts Center.
Stop by May 10, anytime between 7 and 9, purchase a painting or woodcut or two and enjoy the evening.
We’ve heard nothing but praise and appreciation for Steve Kinsella’s appearance at Vermilion to discuss the writing of his new book 900 Miles From Nowhere, a story of the hardships and occasional joys of settling the Great Plains. Steve’s book can be purchased at local bookstores and on Amazon.com.
For those of you who’ve asked: Larry Gavin’s poetry collection, Least Resistance, can be purchased at www.reddragonflypress.org.
The Gallery will be open by appointment (call me anytime at 952.920.9028), and on Saturdays from 1 to 3 p.m.
— Tom Helgeson
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