CURRENTLY ON EXHIBIT:
What is Home
January 13 - March 13, 2025
Opening Artist Reception “What is Home?”
Lake Region Arts Council will be hosting a multi-artist exhibition reception on Tuesday, January 21st, 5:30-7pm that is open to the public and we will have food and drinks. The title of the exhibition is, "What is Home?". Artists were asked to create artwork that defines the concept of “Home” for them. This could be a place, a time, an object or a feeling. The exhibition will open January 13th and will close on March 13th, 2025.
This juried exhibition is work by artists living in the Lake Region Arts Council’s 9 county region. The public is invited to visit the Gallery and enjoy this interesting, themed show based on “Home”. The exhibition features the very best work from our regional artists and is a must see for our Gallery visitors. This year the Lake Region Arts Council Gallery Board Committee chose 17 artists living in the LRAC 9 county region. The artists featured in the exhibition are the following; Keith Schmidt, Maggie Peterson, Laura VonBank, Tricia Couson, Torri Hanna, Lrez, Vanessa Sellner, Katy Olson, Dennis Krull, Erika Frikken, Nancy X. Valentine, Samantha Johnson-Purdie, Noni Bjorklund, Deanna Dahlsad, Kandace Creel Falcón, Kevin Zepper and Mary Williams.
We will have a guest artist for the public reception on Tuesday, January 21st, Su Smallen Love who will be speaking at 6pm that evening. As a visiting writer to our gallery, Su will spend time with the juried artwork in the LRAC Main Gallery and she will create poems based on the artwork in the gallery and share those writings with us the evening of January 13th. Su has presented at several colleges, universities, and arts organizations including Salmon Literary Centre, Ireland; American Space Madrid/Instituto internacional; and across Minnesota, including Hamline University’s series “Poetry as Vocation” with Robert Bly. Love’s five published books of poetry include Weight of Light (Laurel Poetry Collective, 2004), nominated for the Pushcart Editors’ Book Prize, Buddha, Proof (broadcraft press/Red Dragonfly Press, 2013), a Minnesota Book Award finalist, and The Memoir of Mona Lisa (Salmon Poetry, 2019). Su Love is a fiscal year 2024 recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. Su received additional funding from the St. Croix Watershed Research Station and from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council’s Next Step Fund, made possible with support from the McKnight Foundation.
Gallery hours are Monday – Thursday, 9:00AM – 3:00PM. Lake Region Arts Council is closed Friday through Sunday. Please email LRAC4@LRACgrants.org or call us at 1-800-262-2787 or 218-739-5780 before you visit the gallery, to ensure that the gallery is open that day.
These activities are made possible by the voters of Minnesota through Lake Region Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
About Lake Region Arts Council: Lake Region Arts Council is a non-profit organization dedicated to encourage and support the vitality of the arts. LRAC accomplishes this through providing grants to community organizations and individual artists in the region and providing a monthly ArtsNews letter, workshops and technical assistance.
LRAC serves the counties of: Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Pope, Stevens, Traverse and Wilkin Counties in west central Minnesota.
