FMVA Calendar Monday, March 2 – FMVA Little Show

FMVA Calendar
Critique
Monday, March 2 – FMVA Little Show - Art drop off
and hanging of art.
Monday, March 2
7-9pm
Monday, March 2 – Critique at In The Chips featuring
Barry Kutzer, Larry Longtine & Ruth
Severson
In the Chips Studio
Barry Kutzer
Larry Longtine
Ruth Severson
Thursday, March 22 - Big Show Application deadline
Thursday, March 22 – FMVA’s new event Draw Ins at
HoDo – Stokers Lounge – see page 2
Tuesday, April 21 – Big Show Reception
Thursday, April 23 – Visual Talks – Sarah Brady
Upcoming FMVA Events
303 21 Street N,
Moorhead
Critiques are social
gatherings where
you have the
opportunity to visit
other artists’ studios
and visit about their
work and yours. So
don’t let the word
‘critique’ scare you.
FMVA Little Show 2015
FMVA Big Show 2015
Exhibit Date: March 2 – April 30
Location: Essentia Health’s Atrium, 1702 University
Drive South, Fargo, ND
Art Drop Off: Monday, March 2, 8-5pm
FMVA members will bring one work of art, fill out a tag,
and hang their own artwork with assistant from FMVA. All
work must be able to hang on a wire hook. The FMVA
Little Art Show is an extraordinarily “large” exhibit in the
intimate “small” space of the Essentia Health Atrium. It
is called the Little Show because it only features around
30 FMVA members’ works.
Exhibition Dates: April 14- June 2
Public Reception Tuesday, April 21, 5-7pm
Location: Hjemkomst Center (lower level gallery)
222 1 Avenue North Moorhead
Hosted by: Historical and Cultural Society of Clay
County
Entry Form Deadline: Sunday, March 22
http://fmva.org/events/exhibitions/the-big-art-show/
Art Drop Off: Tuesday, April 7 (Times TBA)
For several weeks each spring, the art of participating
FMVA members fills the lower level gallery at
Moorhead’s Hjemkomst Center-work from arts
educators, emerging artists and established artists.
Statements from the artists describe their inspiration and
techniques, and a reception offers the public an
opportunity to meet and talk with the artists. Participants
are members of FMVA, and each submits one work of
art for the show. Typically, we have 60+ participants with
150+ guests attending the reception.
Restriction: Due to amount of entries, the width of the
art (& frame) can’t exceed 40 inches.
It’s huge – it’s the BIG SHOW!
FMVA’s new event - Draw Ins
Creative Exercise - Sketching Images from poetry
Thursday, March 26 @ 6:30 pm
Stoker’s Lounge, HoDo (lower level)
Draw Ins are social events for our members to venture to
different locations to do various creativity exercises.
Our first Draw In features Kevin Zepper, MSUM
professor and poet, reading poems. During and after the
reading, artists will draw images and thoughts the poem
evoked.
Bring a sketchbook and drawing materials.
6:30 Social - appetizers will be provided and cash bar
7:00 Creativity exercise – sketching images from poetry
Also, this is an opportunity for our members to gather
and have some fun! Please join us.
Here is an example:
T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men – stanza 1 and 2
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass,
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without color,
Paralyzed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
Remember us-if at all-not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
Bring a sketchbook/paper and drawing materials.
Please rsvp for the event around March 18 so we
estimate the food.
All rsvp’s to brendaluthi@cableone.net
or on the facebook event page
https://www.facebook.com/events/847824811958162
Kevin Zepper and Kevin Corrolla, both MSUM English
Professors, are doing a reading of their works on March
4 at 7 pm at Red Raven titled "Two Kevins Face Off”.
Kevin’s poetry links:
Southwest Minnesota State University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB9E8PlI_iA
Audio Reading of his poems http://www.reverbnation.com/kevinzepper
Background - http://ndpol.weebly.com/kevin-zepper.html
Have you been in Stokers Lounge? Check it out!
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death’s dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind’s singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.
Let me be no nearer
In death’s dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field behaving as the wind behaves
In the twilight kingdom
Drawing inspired by T.S. Eliot’s Hollow Men
April Visual Talks with Sarah Brady
FMVA Members News
Ellen Jean Diederich
Ellen’s exhibit “Samson’s Gift” is featured at Taube
Museum of Art, 2 North Main St, Minot, ND from
February 12-March 27. Program “The Making of
Samson’s Gift” is March 26 from 5:30-7:30.
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Eric Johnson
Eric is part of the printmaking exhibit at the Red Door
Gallery in Wahpeton. Show runs through March 31.
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FMVA is in need of some volunteers
Volunteering sometimes can be a little scary when you
don’t know what you are volunteering for or how much
time is involved. So FMVA has narrowed down some
volunteering opportunities below. If you are interested or
need more specifics, email info@fmva.us
Brenda Luthi
Brenda will have
her works on
display at
Edgewood Vista,
4420 37 Ave
South Fargo
from March 3-31.
Do you have 1 hour to spare each month?
 Review the website for corrections and updating. Your
review would assist the content editors on what pages
need attention.
 Review the website directory members’ links on our
website. Your 30 minutes of searching other artists’
sites will save us time verifying site addresses in our
database.
 Maintaining and replenishing membership brochures in
your college’s art department.
 Updating email system with new members.
Do you have 2-3 hours to spare each month?
 Press releases. Would you like to run the press
releases for our organization by forwarding our events
to news organizations through email?
 Be a blog writer for our website. http://fmva.org/blog/
 Take photos. FMVA is always looking for photos to
use for newsletter and website.
 Assist in the production of the monthly newsletter by
gathering members’ news from different sites/sources.
 Join a committee – Professional Practices, Education,
Membership, Program and Communications.
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Jon Offutt
Jon was
accepted to
the Brookside
Show in
Kansas City,
Missouri.
Scott Seiler
Scott Seiler, Fargo, ND, will display his photography
prints and canvas wall art “Sun-Light-Night-Peace” at
Atomic Coffee, 222 Broadway North #100, Fargo, ND,
from March 1-31, 2015.
Scott has his regional collection “Landscape
Photography” on exhibit at Josie’s Corner Café, 524
Broadway, Fargo through March.
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Liz Wahlberg
Liz’s paintings and mixed media art is on display through
April at Luna Coffee, 1545 S University Drive, Fargo.
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Karen Anderson, Sue Morrissey, Donna Kjonaas,
Clare Degerness, Juli Overby, Julie Richardson and
Vicki Kessler
Seven FMVA members have a show at the NDSU
Memorial Union Gallery on second floor. They worked
collectively on the label "Trophy Wife" (first exhibited
during the Constraint Show in the fall). The exhibit will be
up until March 26th, with a closing reception March 24
from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Artists will speak at 5:00.
show of quilts by Karen Boe, Langdon ND, and paint
your pet with Ellen Jean Diederich. As professional
artists, we are all mentors to emerging artists.
Encourage someone to explore a new technique or give
yourself a creative break.
A Woman's Perspective exhibits and events continuing
through March 30 include 'A Woman's Perspective on
Square Multimedia Art Exhibition', 'Remembering When:
Quilted Vintage Linens', and 'By the Square Foot' at the
Hjemkomst Center. Following a multimedia exhibition by
Seven Women of Gallery 4 at Nichole's Fine Pastry are
the 'Ladies of the Lofts' paintings and photographs by
three residents of the Kaddatz Artist Lofts, Fergus Falls
MN, and 'Six Square Foot Paintings' by FMVA member
Marcella Rose, Pelican Rapids MN. Meet the visual
artists and hear the performing artists at a public
reception and music jam by 'Trad & True' who also
perform as part of A Woman's Perspective. Free event is
Thursday, April 9, 5-9 pm at Nichole's Fine Pastry, 13
South 8th Street, Fargo.
FMVA members participating in 'A Woman's Perspective
on SQUARE' include Karen Anderson, Sherbanoo Aziz,
Marit Block, Vicky Jo Bogart, MaryJo Cayley, Donna
Chalimonczyk, Jolene Day, Clare Degerness, Ellen Jean
Diederich, Marcy Dronen, Char-Marie Flood, Lynn
Fundingsland, Kim Jore, Vicki Kessler, Donna Kjonaas,
Cathi Koenig, Gretchen Kottke, Ashley Kunz, Kathryn
Luther, Brenda Luthi, Sandra Miles, Sue Morrissey,
Barbara Benda Nagle, Julianne Overby, Teresa Paul,
Jodi Peterson, Karman Rheault, Julie Richardson,
Marcella Rose, Pamela Sabbia, Elizabeth Schwankl and
Scott Seiler. Thanks to everyone for your willingness to
share your art!
Download a schedule of exhibits, events and classes at
http://awp.handworks.org
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A Women’s Perspective:
Exhibits, Events and Classes
Continue
Take a break to paint, stitch, and
have a glass of wine or a cup of
tea! March classes offered by A
Woman's Perspective artists
include watercolor and wine with
Kim Jore at Rustica, the art of tasting tea with Vicky Jo
Bogart at the Fine Arts Club, hand applique and trunk
Lutheran Social Services Campaign Donor Wall
Local Art Opportunities
The following were submitted to fmvanews@gmail.com
If you have questions on the following art opportunities,
email the following organizations.
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RED RIVER WATERCOLOR SOCIETY
Red River Art Show (formerly 8th Street Show)
Dates: Wednesday June 17 and Thursday, June 18
Location: Moorhead Center Mall
Application deadline – March 31st
More information
http://www.redriverws.org/Wordpress/workshops/
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Lutheran Social Services is looking for artist(s) to paint a
giving tree on a 14’ X 9’- wall
Installation deadline: June 10, 2015
Contact person - Laurie Wigtil LWigtil@lssnd.org
They would like proposals with costs to be submitted.
Number of donor names that will be on the tree- 810
with 500 of those that could be displayed at the base of
the tree or on the trunk and the higher level gifts on and
around the branches.
They want this piece to be a piece that will stand-up over
time. The wall is situated in a hall/walkway space and
has the possibility of being touched or bumped into as
people pass.
They are open to the medium used but the idea of
sealed hemp rope being incorporated in the trunk and
branches of the tree sounds interesting. It would be a
great texture.
Just some examples of what they are thinking of.
RED RIVER WATERCOLOR SOCIETY
22nd Annual National Watermedia Exhibition
The Red River Watercolors Society invites artists who
are 18 years or older to submit work to our 22nd annual
National Exhibition. Prize money is $4500.00 with the
top award of $1250.00 and additional Merchandise
awards.
Deadline: April 1, 2015
RRWS 22 National Watermedia Exhibition
June 21--July 31, 2015, Fargo, ND.
Juror/workshop instructor Anda Styler.
Top Awards: $1250--$1000--$750 plus more.
Prospectus: #10 SASE to:
Michelle Roise, 14229 230th Street South,
Barnesville, MN 56514 or at redriverws.org or
at callforentry.org
Please note that the prospectus is available to
download at redriverws.org but will be available at
callforentry.org at the end of Dec. 2014.
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accomplishments, and other art related materials.
FMVA’s Blog
Did you know that FMVA has a blog on our new website.
Here is a sampling of the articles that are being posted.
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No individual artist or artwork is commenting on the
exact same issue. Dunham states “as people, we all
have very personal points of view and I wanted to be
sure to incorporate as many artworks that covered as
many issues as possible to reflect that we all feel
differently on this issue.”
Bakken Boom!
Posted February 12, 2015 by Dawn Summerall
Article by Jazmyne Reinke
Photos by Annett Marchand
The Plains Art Museum recently held a public reception
for the opening of their current exhibition, Bakken Boom!
Twenty two individual artists responded to the North
Dakota Oil Rush. Many people may find the world of art
and the world of the Bakken oil boom as, possibly, a
clash of ideas. However, the exhibition provides a
dynamic between the two that allows anyone – from
artists to everyday folks – to engage in the artwork as
well as the discussion it provides.
In fact, developing a discussion was one of the primary
goals of exhibition curator Rebecca Dunham. Dunham
handpicked artists for the exhibition in order to help
deliver a wide range of opinions, ideas, and
interpretation of the recent oil boom in Western North
Dakota. Many of the artists are from the Upper Midwest,
offering a local commentary on the ever growing
presence in the state. Dunham made sure to include
artists that have something invested in the boom,
whether it be property, family members, or commentary.
One of the ways she extends this theme and its
commentary to everyone is designing the exhibition as a
formal installation. The exhibition features a wide range
of artistic styles, which can be challenging to effectively
display. Documentary photos and film, paintings,
sculptures, installations, and printmaking are all
included. Instead of clustering different artworks together
based on thematic elements, though, featured works are
organized in a way that promotes an organic vision of
the exhibition’s theme.
The exhibition, located in the Fred J. Donath Memorial
and William and Anna Jane Schlossman Galleries of the
museum, offers a beautiful flow of commentary and
artwork to reflect on. The formal installation approach
engages viewers in a way that a standard exhibition may
not. There are multiple methods of engagement for
viewers as well, such as upcoming Idea Exchange
community conversations, book discussions, and ingallery methods of engagement.
Be sure to check the Plains Art Museum’s blog for
details about upcoming events. The exhibition will be
held at the Plains Art Museum from January 29th to
August 15th.
http://plainsart.org/weblog/
Check out our blog: http://fmva.org/blog/
FMVA Board Members 2015
Brenda Luthi – President
Sarah Dotzenrod – Vice President
Chelsea Odden – Treasurer
MeLissa Kossick - Secretary
Jescia Hopper – Education Committee
McCal Joy – Programming Committee
Annette Marchand – Communications Comm.
Mandel Mertz – Programming Committee
Connie Riedman – Membership Committee
Submitting information for the
Monthly newsletter & Facebook
The newsletter is a new venture for FMVA and we want
to promote our organization and our members. We are
run by volunteers so to make the newsletter run
smoothly, we need all items in one mailbox.
You can send news of your awards, workshops you are
teaching, your exhibits, short articles, etc. Include all the
specifics – name, show info, dates, times, location, etc.
Please include a high resolution jpeg image if you have
one. Also provide label information for the image (name
of person(s), title, etc)
FMVA reserves the right to edit the items and please
condense lengthy articles to pertinent information.
Only the items that are sent to fmvanews@gmail.com
will be guaranteed to be reviewed for the monthly
newsletter and/or facebook posting.
Newsletter Information is due by the 25th of every
month.