Northfield Arts Guild

Artist Reception @ Tandem Bagels
2018-01-31 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Tandem Bagels, 317 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Please join us for an Artist Reception on Wednesday, January 31 from 3:30 – 5 pm
at Tandem Bagels. Riki will have some additional paintings and prints on display; refreshments will be served.

A Few of My Favorite Things
October 4, 2017 – January 31, 2018
Paintings by Riki Kölbl Nelson
Artist Statement
I have been working as an artist for years, taking and giving workshops and classes, and exhibiting my work in personal and group shows here and abroad.
Over the decades of making art I have explored a variety of themes and styles. For this exhibit I have chosen a cross section: from micro close-ups of butterfly wings to memories of dresses. The unifying element is my interest in energy (élan vital, chi) which underlies all things animate and inanimate and in good moments courses through my eye and hand.
I have worked as artist in the schools and have given art lessons to students of all ages in my home/studio. I have taught in the Art Department and the Honor’s Program at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, also in the Split Rock Arts Program, as well as in Elderhostels through St.Olaf College and in the Cannon Valley Elder Collegium.
I have a long, fruitful association with the Northfield Arts Guild and continue to teach a weekly art workshop at the Northfield Retirement Center, open to its residents and to the wider community.
Riki Kölbl Nelson

Tandem Bagels | 317 Division Street S. | Northfield, MN 55057

Family Open House
2018-02-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Join us for the party!
We’re having a Family Open House on Saturday, February 17 (10 am – 12 pm) to celebrate the Foot in the Door exhibition. Refreshments will be served.

Foot in the Door
A community exhibition
Jan 10 – Feb 17, 2018
All artists, all mediums welcomed!
INTENT To encourage emerging and established artists of all ages in Northfield and surrounding communities to exhibit their artwork in a professional style show. This show is open to any age, and any level of experience.

One work per artist
Each work no larger than 12 x 12 x 12″
Featuring hundreds of works by local artists in many media.

Exhibition Sponsor:

2017-18 Gallery Season sponsored by:

Artist Mixer @ The Cow
2018-02-19 17:30 - 19:00
Brand new artist?
Been an artist for a long time?
Embarking on a new technique?
New to Northfield?
Lived here forever?
All of these are great reasons to join us at our next Mixer! Enjoy appetizers & connecting with visual artists from our area. Bring a friend, all visual artists welcome!
Please RSVP by Feb 16 to heather@northfieldartsguild.org, or by calling (507) 645-8877

Artist Conversation
2018-02-22 18:00 - 19:30 | Northfield Library Upstairs Pye Meeting Room, 210 Washington Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Topic for February 22: Writing an Effective Artist Statement
You asked for opportunities to grow as artists, and we listened!
Arts Guild Executive Director, Tim Peterson will lead a conversation focused on useful guidelines for writing an effective artist statement. In addition to his past arts administrative and curatorial positions, Peterson taught this subject for three years as part of a Fine Arts Professional Practice course at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
The conversation will cover:

Conveying your overall artistic practice
Describing your most current or in-process project(s)
Avoiding jargon, empty phrases and common pitfalls
Keeping it brief

During this conversation attendees are encouraged to ask questions and (optional) bring a sample artist statement to edit.
Interested in attending? Please reserve your seat by emailing heather@northfieldartsguild.org or calling (507) 645-8877.

Join us for our monthly Artist Conversations! This is a time (every 4th Thursday from 6-8 pm) for emerging and professional artists to gather in a small group setting to discuss topics relevant to visual artists. These gatherings are free and open to the public, but as space is limited, please reserve your seat by emailing heather@northfieldartsguild.org or calling (507) 645-8877.

Each conversation will focus on one topic such as:

How to price your work
How to regularly show your work
How to create a cohesive body of work
Social Media for artists
Bookkeeping for artists

Have a topic to suggest? Please email your idea to heather@northfieldartsguild.org

Artist Reception
2018-02-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Please join us for an Artist Reception for About Time: Carleton & St. Olaf Colleges Fifth-Year EA Exhibition on Friday Feb 23 (7-9 pm) with Artist Talks at 7:30 pm. Refreshments will be served.
Quinn Batten
Cailan Carpenter
Holland Hardie

Laura Nakasaka
Josh Torkelson
Evan Weselmann

About Time
Carleton & St. Olaf Colleges Fifth-Year EA Exhibition
February 22 – March 17, 2018

Carleton & St. Olaf Colleges Fifth-Year EA Exhibition
Every year following graduation, a select group of senior art majors are invited to continue their studies at Carleton College and St. Olaf College as part of a Fifth-Year Educational Associate/ Emerging Artist program. The Northfield Arts Guild is proud to showcase these up-and-coming artists!
This exhibition features the following artists showing various pieces created during their Fifth-Year experience:

Quinn Batten: Multi-media sculpture
Stand up and walk to the nearest wall. Hold your hand out and move it close to the wall, as close as you can without touching it. Spend a moment on this task, getting even closer. How does it feel to give your entire attention to that distance, that relationship between your hand and the wall?
Coming from a background in photography and moving towards a focus on sculpture, I find myself taking the photographer’s concept of the “frame” and applying it to space that we experience in ways other than sight— the space that we feel through touch and sound, the space we remember, the space we imagine. My art invites viewers to refocus their attention and reframe their experience in compelling new ways.
Cailan Carpenter: Ceramic sculpture
I am a ceramic artist and potter who combines my love for painting and carving with my love for clay to create decorated functional ware. My images are inspired by the nature that surrounded me during my upbringing in the boundary waters of northern Minnesota and the Cascade Mountains of Washington state.
Holland Hardie: Painting and prints
My home in the mountains of West Texas has a long history of human habitation, and each group that occupied this region left their stories painted on the rocks. These stories stretch back over 5,000 years, and as cultures appeared and disappeared over the centuries, so did the knowledge of each culture’s unique symbolism. The abstract designs of the region’s earliest inhabitants had already lost their meaning a thousand years before Jesus was born, replaced by the new symbols of a new culture — symbolism is an inherently transient form of communication. In this piece, I play around with that idea, drawing from more modern symbolism such as Christian iconography to create my own language of symbols. These symbols explore my connection to my home and add a temporary chapter to a 5,000 year story, written in a language that will almost certainly die with me.
Laura Nakasaka: Prints, photography and books
I have spent a lot of time this year thinking about time—how time is deceiving, how time is remembered, and the inescapable question of how time is best spent. My experimentation attempts to visualize the passage of time at this point in my life, mapping memories both reliable and unreliable through prints, drawings, and photographs. Currently I work at Carleton College in the library and art department.
Josh Torkelson: Sculpture
Erratic is inspired by naturally occurring glacial erratics, rocks transported from their native bedrock hundreds of miles by the movement of ancient glaciers. The embedded presence of these rocks in their foreign landscapes mirror their own temporal positions bridging time from their geological formation and later glacial deposition, to our own contemporary human interactions among them. In creating new erratics out of clay, I push us to examine and consider our own place in this history.
Evan Weselmann: Painting
Evan is a painter and illustrator whose work deals with the intersection of digital image making modes in a contemporary analog capacity.

Exhibition Sponsors:

2017-18 Gallery Season sponsored by:

All School Show "Bridging Creativity" Opens
2018-03-21 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Bridging Creativity
Northfield Area All-School Show
March 21 – April 14, 2017

This exhibition features student work from Arcadia Charter School, Area Learning Center, Bridgewater Elementary School, Greenvale Park Community School, Northfield Area Homeschool Classes, Northfield High School, Northfield Middle School, Prairie Creek Community School, Sibley Elementary School, and St. Dominic Catholic School.
The gallery walls are filled top to bottom with 2-D and 3-D artwork from local students grades K-12! See the progression of fantastic arts education here in the Northfield community and be sure to join us for Imagination Celebration on Saturday, April 7 from 10 am- 2 pm!
During Imagination Celebration, the local art teachers will be present to guide visitors through and answer questions regarding the show.

Exhibition Supported by:
Northfield Yarn

2017-18 Gallery Season sponsored by:

Artist Conversation: How to Price Your Artwork
2018-03-22 18:00 - 19:30 | Northfield Public Library Meeting Room, 210 Washington Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Topic for March 22: How To Price Your Artwork
You asked for opportunities to grow as artists, and we listened! Pricing work is an area where many artists tell us they struggle, and we’re here to help! A panel of experts: Colleen Riley (Ceramic artist), Mary Closner (Art gallery owner & writer) and David Lefkowitz (Painting, installation, mixed media artist and Carleton Associate Professor of Art) will lead a conversation focused around how to price artwork. During this conversation attendees are encouraged to ask questions and share their tips and experiences.
Interested in attending? Space is limited, please reserve your seat by emailing heather@northfieldartsguild.org or calling (507) 645-8877.

Join us for our monthly Artist Conversations! This is a time (every 4th Thursday from 6-8 pm) for emerging and professional artists to gather in a small group setting to discuss topics relevant to visual artists. These gatherings are free and open to the public.
Each conversation will focus on one topic such as:

How to regularly show your work
How to create a cohesive body of work
Social Media for artists
Bookkeeping for artists
Websites for artists

Have a topic to suggest? Please email your idea to heather@northfieldartsguild.org

Works in Progress Artist Mixer
2018-03-28 17:30 - 19:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Connect, Share, Grow!
Join us for our “Works in Progress” Show & Tell night!
Bring in your latest work, or pieces that you have been wanting to revisit, and discuss ideas with other like-minded artists in an encouraging, low-pressure environment. Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP by March 25 to heather@northfieldartsguild.org.

Open Art
2018-03-30 10:00 - 14:00
Are you home over Spring Break? Drop in for a minute, or stay for a while and create with your family and friends! You can make a planned craft or let your creativity guide your art making. Supplies will be available for artists of all ages. No registration required.
$3 per person
$10 family group maximum

Craftastic Art Supply Swap & Sale!
2018-03-31 10:00 - 15:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Calling all artists and crafters!
Come find supplies for your next creation at the Guild’s first ever Craftastic Art Supply Swap & Sale! Area makers have cleaned out their studios and will have supplies to give, swap and sell at this event. Held in our upstairs Dance Studio on Saturday, March 31 from 10 am – 3 pm. FREE to attend; get your Guild Goodie Bag – while supplies last! Enjoy treats and coffee while connecting with other area makers. Proceeds benefit the Guild’s Visual Arts Programming.

Tools · Fiber · Paints · Beads Books · Fabric · Card Making Supplies · Stamps · Paper · Yarn Ribbon · Knitting Needles · Shuttles · Glass sheets & Ceramic for Mosaics · Fimo Clay · Kids Crafting Supplies · Supply Storage Solutions…AND MORE!

Have questions or want to donate to the event? Please contact heather@northfieldartsguild.org or 507.645.8877

Artist Mixer...On the Road!
2018-04-05 17:00 - 19:00 | Cheese Cave of Faribault, 318 Central Ave N #6, Faribault, MN, 55021
In collaboration with Fleur de Lis Gallery and the Paradise Center for the Arts the Northfield Arts Guild invites you an Artist Mixer…on the road, in Faribault! Meet and (re)connect with area artists, while enjoying appetizers from the Cheese Cave. Refreshments will be available for purchase.
For more information and to RSVP, please contact Jess at Fleur de Lis Gallery
Fleurdelisgalleryfaribault@gmail.com

Imagination Celebration
2018-04-07 10:00 - 14:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Join us at our annual Imagination Celebration event!
Imagination Celebration is a free day of art and performances on Saturday, April 7, 2018 from 10 am- 2 pm. This family-friendly event features the All-School Show in our Main Gallery, mini performances, demonstrations, and hands-on art activities in our Art Studio, Clay Studio, and Dance Studio.
This celebration of all things great about art is a popular, long-running event drawing hundreds of people to the Northfield Arts Guild’s Center for the Arts. Imagination Celebration will showcase Bridging Creativity: Northfield Area All-School Art Show, an exhibition of colorful 2D and 3D artwork created by K-12 students from Northfield Area schools. Though this exhibition runs March 21 through April 14, and during Imagination Celebration, local art teachers will be present to guide visitors through and answer questions regarding the show.
This exhibition features student work from Arcadia Charter School, Area Learning Center, Bridgewater Elementary School, Greenvale Park Community School, Northfield Area Homeschool Classes, Northfield High School, Northfield Middle School, Prairie Creek Community School, Sibley Elementary School, and St. Dominic Catholic School.
In addition to the Main Gallery exhibition, The Up Gallery in the Center for the Arts features the art exhibit: We Are Your Neighbors a photo exhibition by local Latino youth sharing their lives with our community.
Imagination Celebration is a full day of community celebration of the arts and will take place at the Northfield Arts Guild’s Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street South, Northfield. This is a free event. For more information call our office at 507-645-8877.
Schedule of Events
Dance Studio
10 am – Northfield Youth Choir performance
11 am – Folklorico dancers performance
11:30 am – Belly dancers performance with Kate Southwick
12 pm – Juggling performance with Josiah Simon
12:30 pm – Cannon Valley Region Orchestra Trio performance
1 pm – Octagons performance
1:30 pm – Dance Theater Company performance
Art Studio
10 am – 2 pm: Open Art Making for all ages
Clay Studio
10 am – 2 pm: Demonstrations & try-its with Melissa Henning
Main Gallery
10 am – 2 pm: Art educator-led tours of the exhibition

Artist Reception: The Northfield (Exhibition) Experience
2018-04-20 19:00 - 21:00
The Northfield (Exhibition) Experience

Please join us to learn more about the work and meet the artists at the Opening Reception on Friday, April 20 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm with remarks from the Artistic Director of The Northfield Experience, Stephan Koplowitz at 7:30 pm.
The Guild presents The Northfield (Exhibition) Experience which has been specifically curated in conjunction with The Northfield Experience, April 18 through May 12, 2018, in the Main Gallery of the Center for the Arts,304 Division Street South, Northfield. This exhibition includes paintings, photographs, textiles, collage and ceramics commissioned from nearly 30 area artists.
This exhibition is particularly unique in that it features work generated by each artist’s conceptual vision around an arts event before the event occurs. This exhibition will give viewers a unique entry point into the seven sites being animated as part of The Northfield Experience. This event is a promenade performance in which the audience will take part in a progressive walking tour that begins at The Grand Event Center, Friday-Sunday, May 4 – 6, 2018. The Northfield (Exhibition) Experience offers its own visual journey of both the project and of the city of Northfield. As part of the complete experience, viewers are invited to visit the gallery exhibition both before and after the May performances for differing perspectives.
This project is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts & cultural heritage fund.

2017-18 Gallery Season sponsored by:

Artist Conversation: Preparing for Art Festivals
2018-04-26 18:00 - 19:30 | Northfield Library Upstairs Pye Meeting Room, 210 Washington Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Topic for April 26: Preparing for Art Festivals
You asked for opportunities to grow as artists, and we listened!
Many artists are looking for new ways to show their work, and will be participating in outdoor art festivals this year. For juried festivals, what do successful artists do to get accepted into the festival? Once you’re in, what makes an effective booth set up? And more…
We’re here to help! A panel of experts: Patsy Dew, Angie Ekern and Heather Lawrenz will lead a conversation focused around preparing for art festivals. During this conversation attendees are encouraged to ask questions and share their tips and experiences.
Interested in attending? Space is limited, please reserve your seat by emailing heather@northfieldartsguild.org or calling (507) 645-8877.

Join us for our monthly Artist Conversations! This is a time (every 4th Thursday from 6-7:30 pm) for emerging and professional artists to gather in a small group setting to discuss topics relevant to visual artists. These gatherings are free and open to the public.
Each conversation will focus on one topic such as:

How to regularly show your work
How to create a cohesive body of work
Social Media for artists
Bookkeeping for artists
Websites for artists
Pricing your artwork

Have a topic to suggest? Please email your idea to heather@northfieldartsguild.org

The Northfield Experience
2018-05-05 13:00, 2018-05-05 17:00, 2018-05-06 17:00 | The Grand Event Center, 316 Washington Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Performances:
Fri, May 4, 2018, 6:00pm
Sat, May 5, 2018, 1:00pm
Sat, May 5, 2018, 5:00pm
Sun, May 6, 2018, 1:00pm
Sun, May 6, 2018, 5:00pm
Veteran Site Artist and Director Stephan Koplowitz is producing The Northfield Experience, a site-specific, immersive performance event using the town of Northfield, MN as its canvas and inspiration. Audiences will experience a series of interlaced performances of theater, dance, visual installations, and digital media taking place at several locations throughout Northfield. This performance event is inspired by the history, architecture, and unique community of Northfield. Koplowitz is collaborating with St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges and the greater Northfield community where the spirit of history, industry, and scholarship thrive and will engage students, alumni, and professors from both colleges, in addition to members of specific Northfield institutions and businesses. The Northfield Experience will be a unique, one of a kind performance event and experience, not to be missed!
This is a progressive venue production. Most locations are within walking distance, but an ADA bus is available upon request.
The production begins at The Grand Event Center, 316 Washington Street, Northfield, MN.

Carleton and St. Olaf students may attend the 6pm Thursday night dress rehearsal for free with student id.

Thank you to Northfield Economic Development Authority (EDA) for their support.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowmanet for the Arts grants impact indiduals and communities, visit 222.arts.gov.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

The Northfield Experience
2018-05-06 13:00 | The Grand Event Center, 316 Washington Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Performances:
Fri, May 4, 2018, 6:00pm
Sat, May 5, 2018, 1:00pm
Sat, May 5, 2018, 5:00pm
Sun, May 6, 2018, 1:00pm
Sun, May 6, 2018, 5:00pm
Veteran Director/Choreographer/Media Artist Stephan Koplowitz is producingThe Northfield Experience,a site-specific, immersive performance event in May 2018 using the town of Northfield, MN as its canvas and subject matter. Comprised of a series of inter-laced performances of theater, dance, visual installations, and digital media, this performance event will be inspired by the history, architecture, and unique community of Northfield. Koplowitz is excited to work and collaborate with St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges and the greater Northfield community where the spirit of history, industry, and scholarship still thrive. The Northfield Experience will engage students, alumni, professors and Curriculum from both colleges, in addition to members of specific Northfield institutions and businesses. It aims not only to create a unique artistic experience, but to bring together several academic and public communities united towards the development and creation of this work. An intended outcome is that all involved parties will be more closely aligned and acquainted following this shared collaboration.
This is a progressive venue production. Most locations are within walking distance, but an ADA bus is available upon request.
The production begins at The Grand Event Center, 316 Washington Street, Northfield, MN.

Carleton and St. Olaf students may attend the 6pm Thursday night dress rehearsal for free with student id.

Thank you to Northfield Economic Development Authority (EDA) for their support.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowmanet for the Arts grants impact indiduals and communities, visit 222.arts.gov.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Artist Reception for Honors Art Show
2018-05-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Dep(ART) From the Norm
Northfield High School’s Honors Art Show
May 16-June 9, 2018

Please join us for an Artist Reception on Friday, May 18 from 7 – 9 pm, with Artist Talks at 7:30 pm. Refreshments will be served.
The Northfield Arts Guild is proud to host this annual spring exhibition of Northfield High School Honors Art Students. This year, the exhibition features 15 amazing junior and senior student artists: Elizabeth Acheson, Emma Brezina, Katie Brust, Jack Fox, Anne France, Keaton Garrity, May Hayes, Amy Miller, Jaclyn Mulcahey, Solomon Noble, Emily North, Hanna Schindlbeck, Nikki Schultz, Caelan Stulken, Mallory Tidona. They have each worked tirelessly to prepare cohesive and professional bodies of thematic work. This year’s group includes illustrators, painters, potters, sculptors, mixed media specialists, and computer illustrators.

Dep(ART) from the Norm Sponsored by:
Kevin Ely and Jerry Fox who encourage you to shop at the Northfield Community Action Center’s Clothes Closet

2017-18 Gallery Season sponsored by:

First Friday Art Night at the Guild
2018-06-01 17:00 - 21:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
First Fridays are a popular celebration in many communities–from Phoenix to Boston to Kansas City. The Northfield Downtown Development Corporation is bringing this monthly art experience to Downtown Northfield, beginning June 1, 2018! The fun will continue throughout the year on the first Friday of each month from 5-9 pm.
Join us for (the first) First Friday Art Night on June 1!
From 5-9 pm, the Northfield Arts Guild will feature:

Dep(ART) From the Norm: the Honors Art Student exhibition in our Main Gallery, and
We Are Your Neighbors:a photo exhibition by local Latino youth sharing their lives with our community in our Up Gallery.

Dep(ART) from the Norm Sponsored by:
Kevin Ely and Jerry Fox who encourage you to shop at the Northfield Community Action Center’s Clothes Closet

2017-18 Gallery Season sponsored by:

Free Workshop: Preserving Your Artistic Legacy
2018-06-14 18:00 - 19:30 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Free Workshop: Preserving Your Artistic Legacy
Join with fellow artists and supporters on Thursday, June 14 at 6 pm in The Guild’s Art Studio for a free workshop Preserving Your Artistic Legacy. This panel discussion will address considerations for both artists and collectors for determining how your life’s work is preserved for the future, including how to document your artworks, determine values, and make strategic plans for gifting/bequeathing your artworks to individuals and institutions.
The workshop will be led by panelists Jane Becker Nelson (Director, Flaten Art Museum), Mary Griep (Professor Emerita, Art History, St. Olaf College), Jonathan Reppe (Attorney, Reppe Law Office, PLCC) and Guild Executive Director, Tim Peterson. This special workshop is free and open to the public, made possible by a grant awarded from the Bruce Kramer Collaborative Foundation.
For questions and to secure your space in this workshop, please RSVP to heather@northfieldartsguild.org by June 13, 2018.

Artist Reception for Freeform exhibition
2018-06-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Freeform

June 14-July 14, 2018
An exhibition featuring sculptural work by 19 regional artists:
David Allen, Barbara Bend, Jim Bohnhoff, Paul Briggs, Bud Bullivant, Bob Christy, Christie Clarke, Ruth Crane, Robbin Firth, Mac Gimse, Jim Haas, Tim Lloyd, David Peterson, Claudia Poser, Josh Torkelson, Laura Sathre, Nick Swearer, Rick Swearer, and Jennifer Wolcott.
This exhibition promotes established regional artists working in small and large-scale sculptural and functional works in bronze, ceramic, fiber, mixed media, silver, steel and wood.
Please join us for an Artist Reception on Friday, June 22 from 7 – 9 pm; Refreshments will be served.

Freeform Sponsored by:

2017-18 Gallery Season sponsored by:

Artist Mixer @ Imminent
2018-06-28 17:00 - 18:30 | Imminent Brewing, 519 Division Street S. #2, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Brand new artist?
Been an artist for a long time?
Embarking on a new technique?
New to Northfield?
Lived here forever?
All of these are great reasons to join us at our next Mixer! Enjoy appetizers & connecting with visual artists from our area. Bring a friend, all visual artists welcome!
Please RSVP by June 27 to heather@northfieldartsguild.org, or by calling (507) 645-8877

First Friday Art Night
2018-07-06 17:00 - 21:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
First Fridays are a popular celebration in many communities–from Phoenix to Boston to Kansas City. The Northfield Downtown Development Corporation is bringing this monthly art experience to Downtown Northfield, beginning June 1, 2018! The fun will continue throughout the year on the first Friday of each month from 5-9 pm.

Join us for First Friday Art Night on July 6!
From 5-9 pm, the Northfield Arts Guild will feature:

Freeform in our Main Gallery:An exhibition featuring sculptural work by 19 regional artists:David Allen, Barbara Bend, Jim Bohnhoff, Paul Briggs, Bud Bullivant, Bob Christy, Christie Clarke, Ruth Crane, Robbin Firth, Mac Gimse, Jim Haas, Tim Lloyd, David Peterson, Claudia Poser, Josh Torkelson, Laura Sathre, Nick Swearer, Rick Swearer, and Jennifer Wolcott.
Picture Rice County in our Up Gallery:a photo exhibition by Christopher Casper.
Featured Artists Dale Brown showing art photos and fused glass and Ann Madland showing hand-forged sterling and gemstone jewelry in our Upstairs Studio

Freeform Sponsored by:

2017-18 Gallery Season sponsored by:

Great Shot! at the Cow
2018-07-19 18:00 - 20:00 | The Contented Cow, 302 Division Street B, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Great Shot!
An Artwork Photographing Opportunity and Artist Mixer

Need to have affordable, professional photos taken of your artwork? Here’s your chance! Please join us on Thursday, July 19 from 6-8 pm for Great Shot! an Artwork Photographing Opportunity and Artist Mixer.
Dan Iverson of Anthologie will have his professional setup at the Cow, ready to photograph artwork (measuring up to 60 x 60”) for a super rate of $15 per final, edited photograph.
Space is limited, interested artists must reserved their 15 or 30 minute slots by Monday, July 16 by emailing heather@northfieldartsguild.org, or by calling (507) 645-8877. Don’t have work to photograph, but want to watch the process? That’s great! Artists are encouraged to hang out and network with other artists while Dan is photographing their artwork.

Opening Reception for Woven Lives: Beyond the Classroom
2018-07-20 18:00 - 21:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Woven Lives: Beyond the Classroom
July 19-August 25, 2018
Please join the participating artists on a Talking Tour of the exhibition on Friday, July 20 from 6-7 pm, then stay for the Opening Reception from 7-9 pm. Refreshments will be served.
Featuring Current Northfield Area K-12 Art Educators
John Bade, Angie Ekern, Rafael Estrella, Karna Hauck, Chris Holmquist, Ren Kurtz, Jill Luoma-Overstreet, Erica Ness, Katherine Norrie, Vicki Stanley & Kate Woodstrup.
Students, past and present, will enjoy seeing the artwork of their teachers! In addition to inspiring young people as current K-12 Art Educators in Northfield Schools, the participants in this exhibition are active artists. These colleagues often interact in their professional capacity as art teachers, but this exhibition gives them the platform to showcase the work they create outside of the classroom.
Many of these artists have shown their work independently; this exhibition represents the second time that this particular group of artists has displayed collectively. The intent is that this will exhibition of artwork by a group of current area art educators will happen every three years. Visitors to the exhibition will experience ceramics, prints, drawings, paintings and mixed media.

Collective Artist Statement:
As art teachers, we are GIVERS. We give of our time, our energy, our compassion and our ideas. We are also CREATORS. We value time in the studio considering our own thoughts and passions, and how we want to communicate these ideas through the visual language. The creative process fills our cups, just as we see it fill the cups of many young people on a daily basis.
Our lives are woven together through this show and the many ways that we have the privilege to interact because of our rich history of experience together growing creativity in young people. It is a privilege and an honor for us to do this life work in the classroom and to share this work that we do beyond the classroom with you. Our thanks to the Northfield Arts Guild for creating a space for us to shine and be recognized as the artists that we are.

Woven Lives: Beyond the Classroom Sponsored by:

2017-18 Gallery Season sponsored by:

Crazy Daze @ the Guild
2018-07-26 07:00 - 15:00
The Guild will join the fun once again this year during Northfield’s Crazy Daze on Thursday, July 26, with free Inspiration Station art making from 9:00am to 12:00pm, and Crazy Daze pricing on selected fine art, art supplies, costume hats and theater season tickets throughout the day.

Artist Reception for Creating Connections, artworks by Creating Community Club
2018-07-30 18:30 - 19:30 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
On July 30, from 6:30 – 7:30, come meet the artists, enjoy refreshments, and make art!

Artist Statement:
This body of work was created by participants in Creating Community Club. We create art work individually and collaboratively.
Art prompts connections — Connections between artist and artwork, paint and paper. Connections between the viewer and the artwork, the subject, the artist. Connections between two viewers with different perspectives. Connections between artists. Connections within ourselves, to our perspectives, and our experiences.
Each artist connects with different materials, different subject matter, and different processes. We all connect to one another when we create together.

First Friday Art Night
2018-08-03 17:00 - 21:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
First Fridays are a popular celebration in many communities–from Phoenix to Boston to Kansas City. The Northfield Downtown Development Corporation is bringing this monthly art experience to Downtown Northfield, beginning June 1, 2018! The fun will continue throughout the year on the first Friday of each month from 5-9 pm.

Join us for First Friday Art Night on August 3!
From 5-7 pm, please join us:

At Northfield Dance Academy, for Piano Painting! 640 Water St S.
At KYMN, for their 50th Birthday Party! Make art at the Inspiration Station and watch the Folklorico dancers perform between 5 and 6 pm.

From 6-8 pm, please join us in the Northfield Arts Guild’s upstairs Clay Studio:

Yay for Clay! FREE drop-in wheel throwing demos and try-its with Jim Haas.

From 5-9 pm, the Northfield Arts Guild will feature:

Woven Lives: Beyond the Classroom in our Main Gallery:An exhibition featuring Current Northfield Area K-12 Art Educators: John Bade, Angie Ekern, Rafael Estrella, Karna Hauck, Chris Holmquist, Ren Kurtz, Jill Luoma-Overstreet, Erica Ness, Katherine Norrie, Vicki Stanley & Kate Woodstrup.
Creating Connectionsin ourUp Gallery:an exhibition featuring the artists of Creating Community Club.

Woven Lives: Beyond the Classroom Sponsored by:

2017-18 Gallery Season sponsored by:

Art & Ale 2018
2018-08-18 19:00 - 22:30 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Join us for the 4th annual Art & Ale party that supports creativity at the Northfield Arts Guild!

JOIN US FOR THE PARTY

IT JUST GOT BIGGER…

With CRAFT and ONE-OF-A-KIND BEER by

Gabe Meerts (Rye Pale Ale)
Tad Swedin (British Ale)
Stephen Van (Australian Sparkling Ale w/ Norwegian yeast)
Jay Demas (Belgian single)
Eric Hazlet (Kolsch)
Jake Melby (NEIPA, Brett IPA, Evergreen Norwegian, Wit)
Julie Neiworth
plus

Chapel Brewing (Blood Orange Pale Ale)

Tanzenwald Brewing

And MUSIC by

Arlo Cristofaro
Thea Groth
Daniel Groll
Irish Folk Ensemble
Benson Ramsey
Spare Niche Jazz
with the HOT SPOT HOUSE BAND

PLUS,

one day only to get our first ever

limited edition Art & Ale print by Doug Bratland

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PRICES

Early Entry Tickets: $55 for one, $50 ea. for two+ (includes a commemorative mug per person)
General Admission Tickets: $40 for one, $35 ea. for two+

This is a 21+ event. IDs will be checked at the door.

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Art & Ale Sponsored by

Armory Square

Special thanks to every brewer, artist, musician and volunteer who makes this event possible – and to our event supporters:

Hot Spot music is your local
music incubator!

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!
Early Entry (7-10:30pm):
$55 in advance ($50 each for 2+ tickets)
$60 each at the door
General Admission (8-10:30pm)
$40 in advance ($35 each for 2+ tickets)
$45 each at the door
