NAOMI RAMONA SCHLIESMAN: Beautiful ChaosOn view: January 12 - February 25, 2023, Main Gallery
Reception: Tuesday, January 17, 5-7PM
Artist Talks begins at 6PM (in-person; a recording will be available on Youtube) Featuring live music by James Bergman Exhibition sponsored by Zachmann Studios Naomi RaMona Schliesman is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist with over 20 years of experience. She received her BFA with an emphasis in sculpture from Minnesota State University Moorhead (2004), and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2009). Her work has been exhibited nationally in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Pittsburg, Brooklyn, Seattle and across the Midwest. Schliesman has been awarded Fellowships from Ragdale Foundation and Kimmel Hardening Nelson Center for the Arts. Recently she was selected to be one of two Artist Organizers for a project mentoring youth for the development of the multimedia exhibit “Return to Normal? COVID Diaries from Local Youth” funded by CDC Foundation in partnership with Springboard for the Arts, Otter Tail County Historical Society and Otter Tail County Public Health Department. Schliesman has studied art internationally and has participated in artist residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Kimmel Hardening Nelson Center for the Arts, Ragadale, The Traveling Museum and Hospitalfield Arts.
Beautiful CHAOS is a compilation of 2D and 3D sculptural artworks that speak to society’s contemporary struggle of navigating “new normals” amidst the systemic failures of zeitgeist institutions; and how beauty can become the catalyst for joy, collective healing, and forming generative solutions for the future. Naomi RaMona Schliesman is a fiscal year 2022 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. 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. |
C. Beck: Beginnings
On view: January 12, 2023 - April 1, 2023, Studio K
Opening Reception: Tuesday, January 17th from 5-7pm
100th Birthday Celebration: Saturday, January 28th, 2-5pm (remembrances at 3pm)
100th Birthday Celebration: Saturday, January 28th, 2-5pm (remembrances at 3pm)
Throughout 2023, the Kaddatz Galleries is celebrating the rich visual legacy of Charles Beck, Fergus Falls’ acclaimed painter and woodcut printmaker with a series of exhibitions, classes and printmaking workshops, and special events.
In this first exhibition, C. Beck: Beginnings, a wide range of sketches, drawings, paintings, and portraits from Beck’s earliest years as an artist give insight into his creative development. Included are his first painting; envelopes from his letters home, which he adorned with cartoons depicting his life in the service; sketches of Otter Tail County landscapes and farmsteads; portraits of Mexicans he befriended in early visits to the country; figure drawing from his time in graduate school, early abstract paintings, little-known leatherwork pieces, as well as his first woodcut block print, the noteworthy “Holy Family.” Pieces in the exhibit have been drawn from the Beck family and close friends’ personal collections, as well as M State’s and the Kaddatz’s permanent collection. The Kaddatz Galleries' A Year of Beck is made possible, in part, 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; and support from the Frank W. Veden Charitable Trust. |