Folks have through Labor Day to visit the Minnesota State Fair and see Northeast-based and NEMAA-member artists’ work at the Fine Arts Building among the art from all corners of the state, and of course, Leslie Barlow’s poster image.
Many won awards, leading off with Jeannine Spooner Kitzhaber’s “Newest New,” 1st Place in the Oil/Acrylic/Mixed Media category. Pamela Belding’s “Evolution” and Kyle Fokken’s “Purser/Piggybank Series” took HM’s (honorable mentions) in Sculpture, and Fokken also won the White Bear Center for the Arts award. James Nutt’s “If 2020 Was a Pencil” was 2nd in Watercolor and won the Mouacheupao Family Award.
Nutt will also be the featured artist working in Studio: HERE at the Fine Arts Building on September 2. Emily Donovan will be featured August 31.
Suzann Beck’s “There Might Be Dragons” and Russ White’s “The Hand (after Heartfield)” won 1st and 2nd in Drawings/Pastel and Daniel Volenec, who is featured at Studio Pintura, won 3rd with his “Tomorrow” charcoal and pencil on paper; it also won the Minnesota Artists Association Award.
Beth Dorsey’s photogravure “V” was awarded the 1st Place in Prints. In Photography, Nicole Houff’s “Beauty Salon Barbie” got HM, and Howard M. Christopherson takes home the Gareth Albert Award for “The In Crowd” digital print.
Kao Lee Thao’s “Unraveling” acrylic on canvas received the Minnesota Citizens for the Arts Great State of Minnesota Award. Keith Dixon won the Framing Solutions|art barn 52 Award for “Dakota Chief Ta Oyate Dutta.”
Several other Northeast artists had work accepted into the show, including Stephen Capiz, Suzanne Howe, Kathleen Kvern, Joel K. Pieper, Susan Wagner, Jodi Reeb, Lois Rhomberg, Sonja Hutchinson, Kordula Coleman, Lee Persell, Mike Hazard, Walter Horishnyk, Mike Madison, Shelly Mosman, Steve Ozone and August Schwerdfeger.
Photos courtesy of the artists from their Facebook pages, or as found in the State Fair exhibition catalog, which is available here. In the Northrup King Building’s September e-newsletter, several NKB artists were noted for award-winning work in creative competitions in categories outside of the Fine Arts Building. Congratulations to them, too!
Compiled by Margo Ashmore – if we’ve missed anyone, let us know at info@northeastminneapolisartsdistrict.org.
