Northfield Arts Guild

CVRO Concert: That's Entertainment
2016-05-15 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Northfield Middle School Auditorium, 2200 Division St S, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
The Cannon Valley Regional Orchestra showcases pop culture favorites in That’s Entertainment: Music from Film and Broadway! This concert will feature the Symphony Orchestra with guest vocalist Paula Lammers.
The first performance will take place on Saturday, May 14 at 7:00 pm at the Kenyon-Wanamingo High School Auditorium.
The second performance will take place on Sunday, May 15 at 3:00 pm at the Northfield Middle School in Northfield.
Advanced purchase tickets are available online (click on the “Buy Tickets” button below), calling 507-645-8877, or stopping at the Northfield Arts Guild (304 Division St.).

“Pay-what-you-want” tickets will also be available at the door. Patrons are encouraged to support CVRO through a suggested admission of $15 for adults, $10 for students and seniors.
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Northfield HS Honors Exhibition Opens
2016-05-18 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
See the stellar work of Katherine Norrie’s students in the Northfield High School’s Honors Art class. Work submitted to the show comes in a variety of media.
Exhibition Sponsor:

2015-16 Gallery Season sponsored by:

Stephane Wrembel
2016-05-18 19:30 | Northfield Arts Guild Theater, 411 West Third Street, Northfield, MN, 55057
Giants of Gypsy Jazz
Featuring:
Stephane Wrembel on Wednesday, May 18
Harmonious Wail / Robin Nolan Trio on Saturday, May 21
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit: http://hotspotmusic.org/giants

Latino Play Festival
2016-05-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Arts Guild Theater, 411 West Third Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
The 6th Annual Latino (and friends) Play Festival. All proceeds benefit the Latino Performing Arts Class at Northfield High School.

May 20, 27, and 28: 7 pm show at Northfield Arts Guild Theater, 411 West Third Street
May 21: 7 pm show at Northfield High School Auditorium, 1400 Division Street South

Artist Reception: High School Honors Art Exhibition
2016-05-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Meet the artists and see their stellar work from 7-9 pm.
This exhibition features Katherine Norrie’s students in the Northfield High School’s Honors Art class. Work exhibited in the show comes in a variety of media.
Exhibition Sponsor:

2015-16 Gallery Season sponsored by:

Latino Play Festival
2016-05-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2016-05-27 19:00 - 21:00, 2016-05-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Northfield Arts Guild Theater, 411 West Third Street, Northfield, MN, 55057

Harmonious Wail / Robin Nolan Trio
2016-05-21 19:30 | Northfield Arts Guild Theater, 411 West Third Street, Northfield, MN, 55057

Northfield HS Honors Exhibition Closes
2016-06-11 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States

Main Gallery & Member Gallery Exhibits Open
2016-06-16 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
“Color in Common”
New work by Lisa Anderson & Susan Feigenbaum

June 16 – July 16, 2016
This exhibit features paintings by Lisa Anderson and sculptures by Susan Feigenbaum. Meet the artists and learn more about their work at the Artist Reception on Friday, June 24 from 7-9 pm.

Lisa Anderson Artist Statement:
I love the process of putting paint on a canvas; I work in acrylics because I can quickly achieve multiple layers. I am infatuated with squares and rectangles reminiscent of windows and doors, and find sunlight through a window incredibly inspiring. I’m intrigued and indirectly guided, in my work, by shapes and shadows cast at different times of the day.
I am happiest when standing in my studio, burst in hand about to start a new piece; those first few brush stokes are so exciting and full of hope. As layers, colors, and shapes take form, I experience love, hate, awe, frustration anxiety, obsession, and finally satisfaction and completion. I don’t love everything that I finish, sometimes it seems I’ve simply liberated an idea. The resulting painting are chapters in my life’s story.
Susan Feigenbaum Artist Statement:
My ceramic sculpture connects the world of our everyday perceptions with the subconscious world. I handbuild my forms from earthenware clay. Crackling with color and tactile surfaces, my work is inspired by the unseen, creating an uneasy balance between innocence and darkness. Inspired by an archive of life experience, memory, and the mystery of the subconscious, my sculptural forms straddle the boundaries between the human, the animal, and the imagined.

Members Gallery
“Out And About”
New work by Elaine Schaffner
June 16 – July 16, 2016

A View For Miles

Artist Statement
The outdoors is an integral part of who I am. I aim to commemorate the beauty and serenity found in nature. I feel it is important to pause and appreciate our natural surroundings and remove ourselves from our manmade distractions. By putting these places and views on canvas, I allow them to be appreciated again and again. Nostalgia brings me back to the rural landscapes that I took for granted as a child growing up on the family farm in northeast Iowa. More and more, I am trekking out into nature with my plein air easel and oil paints to take on the challenge of painting outside and each time, I am humbled by the task of capturing the immenseness of our big, open spaces.”
Exhibition Sponsors:

2015-16 Gallery Season sponsored by:

"Out and About" Gallery Opening
2016-06-16 12:00 - 18:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Members Gallery
“Out and About”
New work by Elaine Schaffner
June 16 – July 16, 2016

A View For Miles

Elaine Schaffner Artist Statement:
“The outdoors is an integral part of who I am. I aim to commemorate the beauty and serenity found in nature. I feel it is important to pause and appreciate our natural surroundings and remove ourselves from our manmade distractions. By putting these places and views on canvas, I allow them to be appreciated again and again.Nostalgia brings me back to the rural landscapes that I took for granted as a child growing up on the family farm in northeast Iowa. More and more, I am trekking out into nature with my plein air easel and oil paints to take on the challenge of painting outside and each time, I am humbled by the task of capturing the immenseness of our big, open spaces.”

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
2016-06-17 19:30, 2016-06-18 19:30, 2016-06-19 19:30 | Arts Guild Theater, 411 West Third Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
“If everyone took anti-depressants, Chekhov would have had nothing to write about.”

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
The 2013 Tony Award Best Play and hilarious comedy by Christopher Durang
Directed by Michelle Schwantes
June 17-25, 2016 @ 7:30pm
Includes a touch of naughty: recommended for mature audiences
This show will now play in the Northfield Arts Guild Theater,
411 Third Street West (not Central Park).
Sponsored by

2015-16 Theater Season Sponsors

Decoding Famous Minnesotans
2016-06-21 19:30 - 21:30 | Northfield Arts Guild Theater, 411 West Third Street, Northfield, MN, 55057
Face Time: Decoding Famous Minnesotans
June 21, 7:30 p.m. Northfield Arts Guild Theater, 411 Third Street West
Tickets at the door cost $10
The mystery surrounding Prince’s sudden, early death adds a final chapter to a life where the border between public persona and private person was often fuzzy. But in that respect, the shy, very private Prince isn’t entirely unique as many a celebrity only sparingly offers clues as to who they really are. Minnesota has been historically blessed with many instances of world-class talent, from the equally shy and private Charles Lindbergh – arguably the world’s first media celebrity and certainly Time magazine’s first Man of the Year – to Bob Dylan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the deliberately elusive Coen Brothers, among other state-wide achievers.
Here’s an opportunity to respectfully, appreciatively pull back the curtain and better understand the personalities of a top 10 list of Minnesota greats thanks to the unique skills of locally-based, internationally-renowned facial coding expert Dan Hill. His two Twin Cities performances, entitled “Face Time: Decoding Famous Minnesotans,” will feature the signature expressions – and related emotions – that provide a deeper, surer grasp of these local celebrities and how they fit or don’t fit the state’s identity. The show will include select video and audio clips that help illustrate Hill’s observations.
The performer, Dan Hill, grew up in Northfield (class of 1978, St. Olaf College class of ’82) and is the president of Twin-Cities based Sensory Logic, Inc., a firm that specializes in capturing and analyzing emotional dynamics through the facial coding tool made famous by Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller Blink and Fox’s primetime hit TV series, “Lie to Me.” Last year, facial coding and the emotions it captures was the underlying basis for Pixar’s Inside Out movie, which featured the feelings of a hockey-playing young girl from Minnesota. Hill has analyzed famous in-the-news people ranging from presidential contenders to white-collar criminals like Bernie Madoff for CNN, Fox, MSNBC, NBC’s “The Today Show,” The New York Times, WSJ, Politico, Reuters Fast Company, Inc., The Village Voice, USA Today, and Allure among other media outlets.
Hill’s business clients have included over 40% of the world’s top 100 consumer-oriented companies. One of Hill’s five books, Emotionomics, features a foreword by Sam Simon, co-creator of “The Simpsons” and was chosen by Advertising Age as one of the top 10 must-read books of 2009. The book has been translated into over a dozen languages, and Hill has spoken from coast-to-coast nationally as well as in more than 20 countries. In late 2014, Hill’s use of facial coding to evaluate professional athletes for NBA and other sports teams was given front-page coverage in The New York Times.
For anybody who would like to become a better intuitive judge of people and situations, “Face Time: Decoding Famous Minnesotans” is a must-see. Small clues known as micro-expressions reveal big truths about who people really are. Hidden in plain sight, these tell-tale clues will be shared as tips in a fascinating, enjoyable, cutting- edge show that will enable audience members to hone their own powers of observation to improve their professional and private lives. After the show, a brief question and answer period will provide a further opportunity for audience members to learn still more about how their fellow Minnesotans often, oh so subtly emote!

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
2016-06-23 19:30 | Arts Guild Theater, 411 West Third Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
“If everyone took anti-depressants, Chekhov would have had nothing to write about.”

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
The 2013 Tony Award Best Play and hilarious comedy by Christopher Durang
Directed by Michelle Schwantes
June 17-25, 2016 @ 7:30pm
Includes a touch of naughty: recommended for mature audiences
This show will now play in the Northfield Arts Guild Theater,
411 Third Street West (not Central Park).
Sponsored by

"Color in Common" Artist Reception
2016-06-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
“Color in Common”
New work by Lisa Anderson & Susan Feigenbaum

June 16 – July 16, 2016
This exhibit features paintings by Lisa Anderson and sculptures by Susan Feigenbaum. Meet the artists and learn more about their work at the Artist Reception from 7-9 pm.

YPTW Performance: Passages
2016-06-29 17:30 - 19:30, 2016-07-01 10:00 - 12:00 | Arcadia Charter School, 1719 Cannon Rd, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Participants in The Young People’s Theater Workshop take part in writing, rehearsing, and performing an original script after three weeks of preparation in creative drama and dance classes led by a staff of theater artists. The program culminates with live performances for the public on the last three days of each session.
Cost: $5.00 adults, $3.00 students
Performances:
Wednesday, June 29, 5:30pm
Thursday, June 30, 5:30pm
Friday, July 1, 10am

Show Your Colors Chalk Art Challenge
2016-07-02 09:00 - 2016-07-05 18:00 | Bridge Square, 12 Bridge Square, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
The Northfield Arts Guild invites you to:
of our “Show Your Colors“ Chalk Art Challenge
Create a sidewalk chalk masterpiece,
share it on Facebook and you could win!
July 2-5, 2016
Two fun ways to be a part:
1. Join us at the Riverwalk Market Fair on July 2nd between 9am & 1 pm
or
2. Create your sidewalk art wherever you are!
Then just snap a picture, post it on your Facebook page and tag the Northfield Arts Guild.
Be sure to like and follow the Northfield Arts Guild on Facebook
We’ll award prizes to one winner in each category:
ages 7 and under
ages 8-12
ages 13-18
ages 19-99
Family/ Group

Enter by July 5th, 2016 and then check the Northfield Arts Guild Facebook page to see if you won!

Baile Folklorico
2016-07-09 10:45 - 13:00 | Bridge Square, 12 Bridge Square, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Baile Folklorico will perform at Riverwalk Market on Saturday, July 9 at 10:45, 11:45, and 12:45. Riverwalk Market is located in Northfield’s Bridge Square.
This wonderful type of dance is taught during the school year at the Northfield Arts Guild. Check the Education page of our website beginning in August for more information.

Main Gallery & Member Gallery Exhibitions Close
2016-07-16 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States

"Small Comforts" Exhibit Opens
2016-07-21 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
The 2015-16 Gallery Season finishes with the “tiny” works of two Northfield Arts Guild members, fiber artist Peggy Hanson and ceramic sculpturist Emily Haskell.

“Small Comforts”
New work by Peggy Hanson & Emily Haskell

July 21 – Aug 20, 2016
Meet the artists and learn more about their work at the Artist Reception on Friday, Aug 5 from 7-9 pm.

Peggy Hanson Artist Statement:
I enjoy looking at the world in terms of images I can create with embroidery floss. Once an idea occurs, I search for drawings of the image I have envisioned. After sizing it appropriately, I transfer the image onto the linen and begin stitching. Embroidery is very forgiving and that’s one of the many things I love about it.
Emily Haskell Artist Statement:
I love to play with texture and color using carving, underglazes, and glazes to alter the surface of my work. The not quite predictable results in firing keep me intrigued and delighted; if a glaze crawls, crackles or has a weird texture-I seek to incorporate it into my work. My work since college has revealed that I have a bit of an obsession with things that provide shelter (boxes, umbrellas, blanket, etc.). These tiny abodes in this exhibition allow me to indulge that infatuation, while also playing with surface texture and color.

Members Gallery
New work by Karna Hauck & Katherine Norrie

July 21 – Aug 20, 2016

Karna Hauck Artist Statement:
The concept of mindfulness challenges us to focus, without distraction, on whatever is right before us. My intention is to be mindful whenever I am engaged with my art. As a public school art teacher, intentionality is a practice that I often get to observe in young people. There is both a beauty and vulnerability in these moments and our teacher/student roles at times reverse. I become the learner of what I observe to be an uninhibited creative act. This open approach to creativity is delightfully familiar to me as an artist and informs my art making process.
However, mindfulness can be difficult to achieve. When creating this series, I found myself naturally drawn to birds. This seems to be a recurrent theme in my life. For me, birds symbolize a curious freedom with the physical space they occupy. They enjoy a vantage point that is not my own and I imbue their world with limitless discovery. I see a kinship between my students’ unfettered approach to artwork and my imagined life of birds. And with their lesson, now I fly.
Katherine Norrie Artist Statement:
Katherine Norrie has been a visual art teacher at Northfield High School for the past 17 years. Norrie grew up on a farm just outside of Hector, Minnesota (roughly 85 miles west of the Twin Cities). Norrie went to St. Olaf and graduated in 1999 with a studio art major and a K-12 art education license. Norrie finished her Masters degree in education in 2005 at Hamline University. Norrie enjoys printmaking, jewelry design and mixed media pieces that incorporate pen, watercolor and acrylic paint. Norrie focuses on her love of flowers, the ideas around raising two young boys, as well as her rural Minnesota upbringing to create her current pieces. She lives in Northfield with her husband Jonathan and their two young sons: Emmett (9) and Wyatt (6).
Being a teacher is a wonderful thing. I get to help young people find their path and passion and I help to steer them in the directions of their dreams. I am often amazed at how many students are touched by visual art and it is often the only part of their hectic teenage lives that gives them pleasure and focus. At the end of the school day it is hard to find my own creative drive because I feel like I have just given it away to 100+ students for nine months. It is during the summer months that I am able to focus on my artwork and really recharge my batteries for the next school year. I have taken week-long art classes at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design for the past five years and these classes have been an amazing opportunity for me to explore what my own art making is all about. I have been able to explore printmaking, digital art and mixed media collage which have all found their way into my current ideas
I am excited to show you what I have been up to for the past few years. I have been busy raising two boys and much of my work has been inspired by the tangled-mess that motherhood has brought into my life. Before I had children I had a much more defined and clean-cut view of what my life would be, and since having a family with small people I realize that nothing can be planned or perfect. I guess that fact of life being a roller coaster of changes was always true and always present, but having a young son up in the middle of the night with a stomach ache or a summer deer tick infection are things that can’t be planned for or comprehended before it is part of your life. My pieces are soft, beautiful, meditative, tangled, messy, intricate, and colorful which I believe is all part of motherhood and my life at this point!

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2015-16 Gallery Season sponsored by:

Crazy Daze @ NAG
2016-07-28 07:00 - 15:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
The Northfield Arts Guild will feature free and fun kids’ art activities (9 – 11 am), and great deals on artwork, gift shop purchases and theater tickets during Northfield’s Crazy Daze celebration from 7:00 am to 3:00 pm on Thursday, July 28.

Dance Theater Company
2016-07-28 18:00 - 18:30 | Bridge Square, 12 Bridge Square, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Celebrating its 7th season, Dance Theater Company performs at 6 pm in Bridge Square. Dancers will perform two pieces that showcase their summer workshop in ballet, jazz, and modern. The performance will begin in Bridge Square and will travel to the 4th St. Pedestrian Bridge. Dance pieces were choreographed by instructors Kathleen Pender and Shari Setchell.

Grease
2016-07-29 19:30 | Arts Guild Theater, 411 West Third Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
“Why, this car is auto-matic. It’s system-matic. Its hydro-matic. Why, it’s greased lightning!”
Grease
General admission tickets are SOLD OUT for all performances; however, a limited number of jump seats will be available for purchase at the door prior to each performance.
A Tony award nominated Musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey (School Version)
Directed by Joe Jorgensen
July 29-August 14, 2016
Sponsored by

2015-16 Theater Season Sponsors

Summer Art Mart
2016-07-30 09:00 - 13:00 | Bridge Square, 12 Bridge Square, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Come meet and support the Summer Art Mart class participants as they help run a booth and sell their wares at Riverwalk Market Fair!
Art Mart is a six-week summer program of the Northfield Arts Guild that gives participants the opportunity to develop and create artful objects for the marketplace. The focus is to provide a well-structured, safe social environment for teens and young adults on the autism spectrum. The program meets twice per week, and local area artists provide instruction and support to develop artistic and entrepreneurial skills.

Grease
2016-07-30 19:30, 2016-07-31 14:00 | Arts Guild Theater, 411 West Third Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
“Why, this car is auto-matic. It’s system-matic. Its hydro-matic. Why, it’s greased lightning!”
Grease
A Tony award nominated Musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey (School Version)
Directed by Joe Jorgensen
July 29-August 14, 2016
General admission tickets are SOLD OUT for all performances; however, a limited number of jump seats will be available for purchase at the door prior to each performance.
Sponsored by

2015-16 Theater Season Sponsors
