CURRENTLY ON EXHIBIT:

Jan. 8th-March 14th 2024  
Flux - Artists Collaboration Installation

Reception Tuesday, January 16th - 5:30-7pm

Lake Region Arts Council Gallery Committee announces a new exhibition, “Flux – Artists Collaboration Installation” featuring the work of Kristi Swee Kuder and Dar Eckert. 

This exhibition will be on display in the LRAC Main Gallery and opens Monday, January 8th, 2024. The Artist Reception, with artists talks by Kristi Swee Kuder and Dar Eckert will be held Tuesday, January 16th, 5:30-7pm and there will be snacks and beverages. LRAC Main Gallery is located at the historic River Inn, 133 S. Mill St., Fergus Falls, MN. Receptions are open to the public and are encouraged to come and enjoy visiting with the artists and viewing their installation. The exhibition will run January 8th – March 14th, 2024. 

“Flux” is a collaborative installation between local artists, Kristi Swee Kuder and Dar Eckert that draws attention to their interest in the aesthetics of the discarded, and how the material world flows in and out of our lives into an everlasting detritus. Kuder and Eckert have this to say about their collaborative installation, “Our society is conditioned to consume and ignore the realities of how things come to us and what happens to what we discard. Simultaneously, our work manifests a profound sculptural gesture—one that embodies care and repair, challenging the prevailing ethos of neglect and disposability.”

About the Artists:

Kristi Swee Kuder is a multi-disciplinary artist with a BS degree from Minnesota State University - Moorhead, MN. She has taught workshops and intensives throughout Minnesota and serves as a board member and chair of the Art of the Lakes in Battle Lake. Kristi is an alumnus of St. Catherine University Women’s Art Institute, an LRAC McKnight Fellow and multiple MSAB Artist Initiative Grant recipient. Ms. Kuder's works have been in solo and group exhibitions regionally, nationally, and internationally. A working artist, Ms. Kuder maintains her studio near her residence at Otter Tail Lake, MN. More information about her and her work can be found at her website, kskuder.com.

Dar Eckert, a lifelong Minnesotan, received a BS degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1983 and worked in the environmental field for over thirty years. During that time she raised a family and was active in the arts through classes and art collecting. In 2010, she pursued a new career in sculpture and ceramics and received a BFA in Sculpture from Minnesota State University Moorhead in 2013. Today, Eckert produces raku fired sculpture and art pottery for Art of the Lakes Gallery, Battle Lake, MN and Bridgette’s Main Frame Gallery in Perham, MN. Eckert has participated in many art exhibitions receiving awards from the Minnesota State Fair Fine Art Exhibition, Art in Harmony, and Savage Art Show as well as solo shows at the Kaddatz Gallery in Fergus Falls and at the Evansville Art Center. 

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.