Arts Off Raymond Art Crawl

Twin Cities, MN

Arts Off Raymond is an art festival now in its 10th year now as a premier studio tour event in the Twin Cities.  This local art community has generously invited the Textile Center and the Weavers Guild to join in the fun for 2007!  

The art crawl takes place on Friday, May 4 from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm and Saturday, May 5 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.  Tours of artist studios are available in the Raymond Avenue area and a 50s era bus will shuttle patrons to and fro between the 12 participating buildings, including the Textile Center.  The Guild will be open to greet patrons and share our own considerable talents with the public.  For more information about the Arts Off Raymond Art Crawl, please contact the director at arts_off_raymond@yahoo.com

 

15th Annual Pottery Studio Tour

MN Potters of the Upper St. Croix River

The Potters of the Upper Saint Croix River Valley Studio Tour invite you to visit all six pottery studios during the 15th annual tour weekend. You will be welcomed by the potters to their unique, rural workshops and you can meet twenty-two guest potters invited especially for this event.  These special guests will present their work for sale alongside the newest work of each host potter.

Using our map, you can drive through the spring landscape of the Saint Croix River Valley. At each studio you will find useful and distinctive pottery. Visit one, or all of the studios during this two-day, self-guided event. Bring friends to share the day with you.

These Minnesota potters have earned a national reputation for quality and integrity. Each potter’s work has a distinct character, is durable and intended for everyday use. From small cups and bowls to large pieces suitable for display, an intriguing range of pottery will be available. You will find earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain for use in cooking and serving, decorating and display. The guest artists are distinguished potters who will personally present their work for sale. This is an opportunity to see a substantial body of work and to meet and talk with these visiting artists. They are coming from nine states, as far as North Carolina, Virginia, Idaho, Nebraska, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvannia, Washington DC, Oregon, and as near as Wisconsin, and other parts of Minnesota. Their work is, in turn: handsome, playful, stunning, contemplative, precious, functional, colorful and subtle.

At every studio you will find the potters themselves welcoming you. Along the way you may find trillium blossoms carpeting the woodlands and warblers exuberantly greeting the spring. Rain or shine, this springtime event is anticipated by all who enjoy handmade pottery.

All the pottery studios are within a one-hour drive of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, located near Hwy. 95 from north of Stillwater to Harris.

Maps are available on this web site, at each studio and at:

Continental Clay Company at I-35W at Stinson Boulevard, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Northern Clay Center at 2424 Franklin Avenue East, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

As a way of saying “thank you” for the enthusiastic support we experienc with this event, a portion of the proceeds each year is donated to a selection of recipients.  In 2006, a helpful sum was donated to the North Branch Middle School Art Department.  In 2007 we will give to a school in the Chisago Lakes Schools district.  In the past, support has been given to the Weisman Art Museum, the U of M, Northern Clay Center, Rochester Arts Center, Potters For Peace, and  the Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF).

 

Willmar - New London - Spicer

The 2nd Annual Studio Hop
will be Saturday & Sunday, June 24th & 25th 2006. The Studio Hop will be 10:00 am to 5 pm Saturday and Noon to 5 pm on Sunday. Twenty-seven area artists will be participating in the event, showcasing their work at 18 studio locations in Willmar, Spicer and New London.

A door prize drawing will be offered to participants who visiting the studios. 1st Prize is $100.00 gift certificate and 2nd Prize is a $50.00 gift certificate - to be used for artwork at any of the Studio Hop studios. To participate, have your card stamped at each Studio you visit. Pick up your card at the first Studio and drop it off at the last. Have 14 stamps to be eligible for the 1st Prize and 9 stamps for the 2nd Prize.

About the Event:
The Studio Hop is an artist studio tour that covers the Willmar, New London & Spicer area of Minnesota. Artists will open their studios to the public to show their workspaces, provide demonstrations and feature works for sale. There are 18 studio locations and 27 artists involved in the Studio Hop.

Follow the map and enjoy a weekend touring the scenic lakes area while enjoying the rich variety of artistic flavor so prevalent in this region.

Get your free Studio Hop brochure mailed to you! Please send an e-mail with your mailing address to: artscouncil@willmar.k12.mn.us
or call 320-231-8560.

 

17th Annual Grand Marais Arts Festival

July 14th and 15th, 2007

Contact the Grand Marais Art Colony
(218) 387-2737 or (800) 385-9585
Grand Marais, MN 55604

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Hospitality Room #14 Open for Exhibitors at the Harbor Inn all weekend.

Friday, July 13th, 2007

3:00pm to 7:00pm - Check in at Hospitality Room

3:00pm to 8:00pm - Set Up

6:00pm to 8:00pm - Artist Gathering (Brat Bash)

 at Grand Marais Art Colony (New Building/Deck)

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

6:30am to 8:00am - Check in and set up

 9:00am to 5:00pm Arts Festival Booths Open

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

10:00am to 4:00pm Arts Festival Booths Open

During the weekend, there will also be Fiber Guild Demonstrations, An Old Fashioned Pie Social at the Johnson Heritage Post, Silent Book Auction at the Senior Center, Musical Performances, and special activities for the kids.

 

Art  of the Lakes' 30th Annual Art & Craft Affair

SATURDAY AUGUST 11, 2007  
9 AM – 4 PM  (Rain or Shine)

RAILROAD PARK ,  BATTLE LAKE, MN

In the interest of customers who attend, and our vendors, we aim to provide original arts and crafts and maintain a reputation of quality and pride in our show. This is a juried show of fine arts and crafts  which must be original in design and final product.  

 

 

Autumn Winds Studio Tour

Moose Lake, MN
www.autumnwindstour.com/

This is the 8th year of the Autumn Winds Studio Tour, from Askov, in Pine County to Barnum, in Carlton County; where the customer can take a leisurely drive north from the Twin Cities, or south from Duluth, stopping at studios along the way and be able to meet the artist, and see where and how the artist creates his art. The customer can find one of a kind original pieces of art, and prints that he may not find in any other place.

Physical Location of the event;
Along the I- 35 corridor from Askov, 55704, Finlayson, 55735 North to Barnum, 55707

Phone # for additional information on the event;
218/485-8913

Crossing Borders Studio Tour

 September 28-October 7, 2007
Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Daily
No passports required at the Canada/US border in 2007.

Crossing Borders Studio tour
Email Contact Crossing Borders

The concept of the Crossing Borders Studio Tour started as a conversation between Fritz Lehmberg and Dick Cooter around the time of their joint show, Same Road, Different Views. The concept was to create a studio tour that would allow buyers to learn about the experience of making art within the environment the creative work takes place. The tour would also help build community among North Shore artists.

Fritz and Dick invited other area artists to participate in the tour, including Michael Tonder and Jody Freij-Tonder. Michael and Jody had experience with studio tours in Red Wing, and had visited the St. Croix Valley Potter's Tour in previous years.

Together, they invited artists they knew: Lee and Dan Ross, Dave Yungner in Minnesota, and Damon Dowbak in Thunder Bay. The group gathered in the spring of 1996 to plan for the tour. Lee came up with the "Crossing Borders" name, and the first Crossing Borders Studio Tour took place in the fall of 1996.

The first year of the tour, six studios and nine individual artists participated and sales managed to just cover expenses. Dick Cooter claimed he was surprised anyone came.

Through the years most of the core group of artists participating in the tour remain. Other artists have joined in the tour and some have dropped out, but sales and visitors have steadily risen.

The group is careful with change. All major decisions are discussed and, unless consensus is reached, no action is taken. Buyer education remains a vital part of the Crossing Borders experience, and only full-time working artists are involved.

In 2005 the group experimented by inviting a visiting artist to participate in the tour at one studio. The experiment was a success, so this, the tenth year of the tour, seven visiting artists have been invited to show their work.

Please join us as we celebrate and continue the tradition of art, education and community along the North Shore at the Crossing Borders Studio Tour.

October 5 - 7

Meander - Upper Minnesota River Art Crawl

(866) 866-5432
www.artsmeander.com/

The Meander Art Crawl is a cooperative effort among the artists in Big Stone, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift and Yellow Medicine Counties and the Western Minnesota Prairie Waters Convention & Visitors Bureau. Many of these studios are open all year round as well as during the Meander weekend. We invite you to visit our area, enjoy our shops, restaurants and natural amenities so that you may appreciate the lifestyle of our area that inspires our artists to produce such fine work of nationally-renowned quality.

The Meander ~ Upper Minnesota River Art Crawl is a self guided tour of artist studios, galleries and shops that features the work of more than 50 local artists and craft workers from Canby to Danvers, Granite Falls to Ortonville and all points in between.