Xcel Energy Gallery
Local printmaker Anna Johnson works with a variety of media, from watercolor, ink, and collage to various printmaking techniques, to create layers that document her creative process. Through her use of collage, she employs simple texture and natural items, such as birch bark and different fabrics. The imagery used by Johnson often is inspired by the roots in her Turtle Mountain Chippewa culture, as seen in her use of different totem animals and traditional designs.
Artist Talk: Kent Kapplinger and Anna Johnson
Thursday, March 7, 6 – 7 PM
Meet local printmakers Kent Kapplinger and Anna Johnson. Listen as they discuss their exhibitions, Beautiful Recollections: The Changing Seasons and Northern Lights by Kent Kapplinger and Layer by Layer: Recent Works by Anna Johnson.
Free and open to the public
To say that right now is the ideal time to make art that speaks directly to the people about social justice is an understatement. Because the very nature of art is to undertake or assume the role of a healer by shading light on the human condition.
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City Geode, created and installed in May 2019 by students and Professor Josh Zeis from NDSU is the latest creation. In response to the work, the lead artists said, “What is a city? This City Geode incorporates many of the things that we thought a city needs; buildings, streets, electricity, drainage, and above all else, the human spirit.
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Community artist and school art teacher MeLissa Kossick, who guides youth classes at the Museum on art, gardens, and pollinators, has created an enchanting mosaic design in the Creativity Pathway in the Serkland Gallery called Bee in Flight.
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Drawing on his childhood memories of the Great Plains, he created a work that speaks to the wide open spaces, huge vistas, and ocean-like skies of the region.
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While the Tallgrass Prairie is a community made up of a great diversity of species, Fragile Preservation represents a selection of them.
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