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JENNY FIELD: RETROSPECTIVEOctober 13 - December 23, 2022, Main Gallery
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Exhibition Details
Field is a rural artist who works from her tiny studio in Maine township near Phelps Mill. Her "life's drive" has been creating art. During the span of her career, she has created more than 500 feet of murals in Minnesota homes and businesses; taught art classes for children and adults; owned and operated a seasonal antiques and art business; and collaborated with other local artists, all while creating art pieces for gallery shows. She is currently focusing on oil and acrylic wall art that evokes emotion and occasional questioning through the use of vibrant color, line, movement, and texture.
This retrospective will include three decades of vivid painted works by area artist Jenny Field. The series of large, colorful works will include expressionistic canvases, early examples of her painted furniture, mixed media pieces, and small decorative items.
This retrospective will include three decades of vivid painted works by area artist Jenny Field. The series of large, colorful works will include expressionistic canvases, early examples of her painted furniture, mixed media pieces, and small decorative items.
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KIMBERLY KENYON: FROM THE MEADOWOctober 13 - December 23, 2022: Studio K
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Exhibition Details
Kimberly Kenyon is a visual artist who, after living and working as a graphic designer in Fargo/Moorhead for many years, has recently moved back to her rural childhood home in the hills near Erhard, Minnesota. From the Meadow is a love note to home and the part of her that never really left there.
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Kandace Creel Falcón: RootsAugust 11 – October 1, 2022
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Exhibition Details
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Kandace Creel Falcón, Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary feminist scholar, writer, and visual artist. Their life’s passion grounds the power of narrative for social transformation. As a Xicanx femme feminist, KCF’s work is driven to disrupt conventional notions related to femininity and domesticity. Drawn to interdisciplinary inquiry and mixed-media methods of painting, fabric arts, and writing KCF brings together various mediums to make sense of the world around them. She lives and works in rural Erhard, MN.
Roots is a contemporary series of narrative paintings which examine the legacy of Mexican born migrant workers who built the Santa Fe Railroad in Falcón’s native state of Kansas during the early part of the 20th century.
www.kjcfalcon.com / IG @ArtofKCF
Kandace Creel Falcón, Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary feminist scholar, writer, and visual artist. Their life’s passion grounds the power of narrative for social transformation. As a Xicanx femme feminist, KCF’s work is driven to disrupt conventional notions related to femininity and domesticity. Drawn to interdisciplinary inquiry and mixed-media methods of painting, fabric arts, and writing KCF brings together various mediums to make sense of the world around them. She lives and works in rural Erhard, MN.
Roots is a contemporary series of narrative paintings which examine the legacy of Mexican born migrant workers who built the Santa Fe Railroad in Falcón’s native state of Kansas during the early part of the 20th century.
www.kjcfalcon.com / IG @ArtofKCF
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Syrian RefugePhotography by David Waage
June 9 – July 30, 2022 |
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David Waage was born and raised in Fergus Falls, and attended Fergus Falls High School and Fergus Falls Community College. He began taking pictures in Fergus Falls, and studied photography and worked as a photographer at California Lutheran University. After obtaining a Master's Degree at London Business School Waage launched a photography studio in New York. He has traveled to 45 countries and published work in the US, Europe, and Japan.
Syrian Refuge is a project Waage worked on for ten years, documenting moments of refuge for a group of Syrian refugees living in Beirut, Lebanon. He hopes to raise awareness and empathy for the plight of refugees by exhibiting this work at Kaddatz Galleries.
David Waage was born and raised in Fergus Falls, and attended Fergus Falls High School and Fergus Falls Community College. He began taking pictures in Fergus Falls, and studied photography and worked as a photographer at California Lutheran University. After obtaining a Master's Degree at London Business School Waage launched a photography studio in New York. He has traveled to 45 countries and published work in the US, Europe, and Japan.
Syrian Refuge is a project Waage worked on for ten years, documenting moments of refuge for a group of Syrian refugees living in Beirut, Lebanon. He hopes to raise awareness and empathy for the plight of refugees by exhibiting this work at Kaddatz Galleries.
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NAM: Now a MemoryArtwork by Jim Fletcher
March 24 – May 28, 2022 |
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NAM: Now a Memory contains artwork created by artist and Vietnam war Veteran, Jim Fletcher. Fletcher’s works are a visual portrayal of memory that are neither intended to criticize nor dramatize the American involvement in Vietnam. There is no political statement, chronological succession or plot. All images are reactions to sudden, spontaneous recollections triggered by experiences in daily life. This exhibit has been shown throughout the U.S. and has opened the eyes for many to the realities, hardships and horrors of war. It has removed the false façade of glory.
Jim Fletcher is a prolific and celebrated local artist, author, musician and retired educator who uses a variety of mediums to illustrate the landscapes and people he sees around him both on his travels and in his local stomping ground of Maplewood State Park near his home in Pelican Rapids.
This exhibition is part of the NEA Big Read program in partnership with the Fergus Falls Public Library.
The NEA Big Read featured book is The Best We Can Do by Thi Bui.
Find full details about local NEA Big Read programming and events @bit.ly/fergusfallsbigread
NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
NAM: Now a Memory contains artwork created by artist and Vietnam war Veteran, Jim Fletcher. Fletcher’s works are a visual portrayal of memory that are neither intended to criticize nor dramatize the American involvement in Vietnam. There is no political statement, chronological succession or plot. All images are reactions to sudden, spontaneous recollections triggered by experiences in daily life. This exhibit has been shown throughout the U.S. and has opened the eyes for many to the realities, hardships and horrors of war. It has removed the false façade of glory.
Jim Fletcher is a prolific and celebrated local artist, author, musician and retired educator who uses a variety of mediums to illustrate the landscapes and people he sees around him both on his travels and in his local stomping ground of Maplewood State Park near his home in Pelican Rapids.
This exhibition is part of the NEA Big Read program in partnership with the Fergus Falls Public Library.
The NEA Big Read featured book is The Best We Can Do by Thi Bui.
Find full details about local NEA Big Read programming and events @bit.ly/fergusfallsbigread
NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
Exhibition Details
Textures of Remembrance: Vietnamese Artists and Writers Reflect on the Vietnamese Diaspora is a new traveling exhibit containing contemporary artwork by emerging artists and writers. Their works explore a date that impacted many Vietnamese Americans: April 30, 1975, the Fall/Liberation of Saigon and end of the Vietnam war. Reflecting on this day through written words, visual creations, and audiovisual components, an intimate perspective of the Vietnamese diasporic/refugee experience is revealed.
Installation of this exhibit was supported by and is part of the NEA Big Read program in partnership with the Fergus Falls Public Library. The NEA Big Read featured book is The Best We Can Do by Thi Bui.
Find full details about local NEA Big Read programming and events @bit.ly/fergusfallsbigread
Textures of Remembrance is a traveling exhibit created in partnership between Exhibit Envoy, the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network and Oakland Asian Cultural Center. This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and California Arts Council, a state agency with a mission to strengthen arts, culture, and creative expression as the tools to cultivate a better California for all.
NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
Installation of this exhibit was supported by and is part of the NEA Big Read program in partnership with the Fergus Falls Public Library. The NEA Big Read featured book is The Best We Can Do by Thi Bui.
Find full details about local NEA Big Read programming and events @bit.ly/fergusfallsbigread
Textures of Remembrance is a traveling exhibit created in partnership between Exhibit Envoy, the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network and Oakland Asian Cultural Center. This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and California Arts Council, a state agency with a mission to strengthen arts, culture, and creative expression as the tools to cultivate a better California for all.
NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.