North Shore Arts Scene

Greetings from the North Shore, where, like the rest of the state, we’re cold and snowy one day, warm and balmy the next. So yes, it is March. Artists, meanwhile, are looking at their calendars and ramping up their making. And everyone is looking forward to the first blooms of spring.

On Thursday, the Art Project Counter at Joy and Company will be open for art-making from 3-5:30 pm.

This week, participants will make accordion books from colored papers. The session is free and open to all. Supplies will be provided.

The North Shore Swing Band will play for Jazz Night at Up Yonder on Thursday from 6:30-8:30 pm.

The North Shore Swing Band is a 15-20-piece Big Band featuring talented local players and vocalists. They play every Third Thursday of the month. Free.

On Friday, an artist reception for painter Eric Klepinger will be held at Tettegouche State Park at 7 pm.

Klepinger is exhibiting work in the Great Hall at Tettegouche through the end of March.

On Saturday, the Cook County Potters will hold Who Needs Perfect? a Seconds Pottery Sale to benefit Care Partners at The Hub from 10 am to 2 pm.

Expect to find all kinds of pottery, including mugs, bowls, plates, covered jars, and more. The sale is by donation only. The public is invited.

Also on Saturday, the annual Poplar Plunge will be held on Poplar Lake from noon to 2 pm.

This annual event is a fundraiser for the Gunflint Trail Volunteer Fire Department, which, incidentally, will be deployed on the lake to supervise the cold-water plunging. Afterwards, participants can enjoy a sauna and refreshments at Poplar Haus and White Pine Lodge.  In addition to the plunge festivities, there will be food and drink specials at both locations throughout the day.

 Exhibits:

This is the last weekend to see the Winter Plein Air exhibit at the Johnson Heritage Post. The exhibit features plein air paintings by more than 25 artists who spent a week at YMCA Camp Menogyn painting the beauty outdoors.

 The exhibit ends on Sunday, March 22.

The Heritage Post is open from 10 am to 4 pm Thursday through Saturday, and from 1-4 pm Sunday. Free.

The Duluth Art Institute is currently exhibiting work by Carl Gawboy and a curated exhibit by Wendy Savage. The exhibits continue through April 3.

“All Kinds of People,” an exhibit of portraits, continues at the Tweed Museum of Art.

The Tweed writes:

“All Kinds of People is the first installment in a series of permanent collection rotations that feature works organized within thematic areas. Drawn from the Tweed’s growing collection of about 11,000 objects, this rotation includes artists from the 17th century to the present day who approach portraiture and the depiction of people through the mediums of drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, photography, and printmaking. The title draws its name from a 1968 exhibition organized by influential curator Walter Hopps (1932 – 2005) at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art (Washington, DC). The salon-style exhibition of portraiture and figurative work was organized in response to the overwhelming predominance at the time of abstraction in contemporary culture.”

The exhibit continues through May 9.

The Minneapolis Institute of Art is currently exhibiting “Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945: Masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.”

MIA’s statement about the exhibit:

“In the first half of the 20th century, Germany experienced the last years of the German Empire, World War I and the revolution that followed, the liberal Weimar Republic, the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. Modern art played an important role in the discourse of the period, and politics influenced the arts.

This exhibition features more than 70 paintings and sculptures from the collections of the Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery), the distinguished modern art museum of the Berlin State Museums. It traces the German experience in the visual arts over four decades.

Beginning with the Expressionist reaction and opposition to the conservative artistic regime of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the exhibition moves on to the New Objectivity movement, the modern style of the 1920s. Between the wars, German artists participated in international experiments with abstraction. Painters and sculptors critiqued social currents, but most were silenced under the Nazis. This exhibition concludes with an epilogue that examines the ambiguous aftermath of World War II.”

The exhibit continues through July 19.

Artists at Work:

Online Findings:

The Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa regains 87 acres of historically significant lands, including Paradise Beach

The story includes maps of the returned land. Click here to see more.

Watch this short animated film, “The Girl Who Cried Pearls.” It won an  Oscar this year.

 

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Photographs:

 Here is a selection of photographs we found this week:

Wildlife:

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Landscapes, Skyscapes & Wavescapes: 

 

Have a great weekend, everyone!!!

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