Title: Curious Carnivore Connection Tile Tale
Medium: Polymer Clay and Handmade Tile by Josh Blanc
Price: $120
Size: 8″x8″x1″
Artwork statement:
I continue to be fascinated by the ecological systems that keep the earth healthy and diverse. It has been widely studied that when you take a carnivore out of an ecosystem all sectors of that system suffer not just those directly related. I created this piece while thinking about this reality. The tile was created by my husband Josh and was leftover from a project in our own house. I wanted the tile to live on in a new iteration with the additions of my polymer clay pieces.
Lynnette K. Black
Title: The Journey
Medium: intaglio with acrylic.
Size: 14” X 12″
Starting bId: $125
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Artwork Statement:
Today the number of immigrants is overwhelming many countries’ resources and their capacity to support them. Politically, there is a rise in nationalism due to fear and economic uncertainty. Politicians, especially in the United States and Europe, have used this fear to gain power, fanning the flames of division using fear of “the other.”
My piece was developed to counter this fear-mongering and create empathy with refugees. No one wants to leave their home and country unless circumstances have forced them to re-evaluate their life and to seek safety or a better way of life.
Bio:
Lynnette, a native Minnesotan, fell in love with intaglio printmaking at Hamline University while studying under Leo Lasansky. She continued studying with his father Mauricio Lasansky in the MFA Program at the University of Iowa. Lynnette maintained her art practice while pursuing a career in global medical device marketing and raising a family.
Lynnette has actively participated in juried exhibitions locally and nationally, including exhibiting twice at the Katherine Nash Gallery, Regis Center for the Arts, University of Minnesota. In 2018 her print “Wood Nymph” was selected by Juror Crawford Alexander Mann, curator for Prints and Drawings, Smithsonian American Art Museum for exhibition in Stand Out Prints, an International Juried Exhibition, at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, MN. Lynnette’s intaglio prints have been awarded First, Second and Honorable Mention in the printmaking category in the Minnesota State Fair Art Exhibition.
Lynnette is living her dream as a full time artist, coop member of Highpoint Center for Printmaking, member of Art To Change The World and curator/co-chair of the Conn Gallery, Plymouth Congregational Church .
Cathy <millcityquilting@gmail.com>
I made this quilt as an exercise in using one color and one shape. The starting point was a
fabric designed by Kaffe Fassett. He is a master of color and his prints turned the quilting world upside down when he arrived on the scene in the early 90’s. Prior to that, most quilters used fabrics that were mostly reproductions of antique prints or sweet florals in predictable color combinations. Fassett changed all that. He used motifs pulled from cultures around the world and printed them in complex and surprising colors. When I discovered his fabrics, I felt like I’d found what I’d been waiting for. I’ve been using his prints as a starting point for many quilts ever since. This quilt uses the richness of purples, violets, and blues and the simplicity of a simple repeated triangle to showcase the idea of color.
“Trees Talk – Are You Listening?”
Starting bid $15
Leo Fortune (they/them), an emerging Minnesotan based artist, illustrator and author and longtime public school educator, explores the power trees and spirals have to connect us to our authentic selves, to each other and to the world. They began coloring outside of the lines at the age of three. Then, they spent most of their life disconnected from themself and consequently, their art. A year ago, at the age of 41, they came out as a neurodivergent queer trans human. Their art practice reignited and exploded. They know first hand the power that comes with being authentic. Leo harnesses their life story of being painfully disconnected to empower others to keep reconnecting and embracing their true self. They hold space in their art for others to be safely vulnerable. They deeply believe that people truly connected to their own love will change the world for the better.
Catherine Palmer
Face the Nation
24″w x 36″h
Starting bid $150
Artwork Statement:
In this series of paintings, I am responding to the knowledge I have gained about the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls across the North American continent. You can find more information about this cause at https://mmiwusa.org
White Moon
Kelly Frankenberg
Acrylic
16×20
Suggested starting price $150
White Moon is the beginning of my Skychology series, how looking at the sky can boost your mental health and watching the clouds go by calms us and reminds us there are always blue skies. My focus is the full moon in this image that is hardly noticed when the opposite view is a sunset, but just as beautiful, sometimes, if not more. It’s a reminder to see the beauty in all of nature at any moment.
Wings
18” x 80” 5 part Series 2024
Assemblage -Mixed Media
$600 starting Bid $1200 retail
Wings examines the concept of “Love”. Many have tried to define this word. Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotions. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of partner, which differs from the love for food.
As biological human beings, we have a capacity for all different kinds of
LOVE
You have the power to identify your version of love and then to let it take wing.
Bridges has been an artist and a teacher/college professor for over 40 years. Her social practice sculptures have been exhibited in Maine, Miami, the Virgin Islands, Maryland, Chicago, Mexico, Spain, Canada, and throughout Minnesota.
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Private House Concert by Dave Dvorak,
Value $300, starting bid $150
Singer-songwriter Dave Dvorak is widely known in the Twin Cities music scene, both as a solo performer and with his folk-Americana band Zoë Says Go. Dave’s performances are known to connect meaningfully with his audience, inviting their hearts and minds into his songs of social justice, love, struggle and wonder.
Dave would love to play a 1-2 hour private solo acoustic show for you and your friends in your own home or venue of your choice.
Cathy <millcityquilting@gmail.com> This quilt is pieced from hand dyed fabrics made in Minnesota by Cherrywood, a company originally created by Dawn Hall and then taken over by Karla Overland after Dawn’s passing.
Their fabrics have a distinct suede-like texture to them and are very different from typical mass produced printed quilting cottons. They are one of the few companies producing fabric here in the U.S. as most quilting cottons are currently made in Asia. Normally I choose to work with lots of prints and lots of color in my quilts but when I saw these fabrics I was drawn to the quiet, soft look of them. I wanted to keep the piecing of the quilt as simple as possible to highlight the stillness of the colors and the softness of the texture. The pattern is called Fireside and it was designed by SuzyQuilts.