LRAC Main Gallery Schedule 2024-25
January 8 - March 14, 2024
Artists Collaboration Installation
Reception Tuesday, January 16 - 5:30-7pm
Two regional artists, Dar Eckert and Kristi Kuder, have used their vision and talents to transform the LRAC Gallery space into a unique visual experience. Their fresh perspective uses the space, lighting, and street presence of the Gallery in a new way. We hope you will enjoy visiting the Gallery and seeing the efforts of the collaborating artists.
Friday, March 15 - Thursday April 12, 2024
Gallery closed for cleaning and painting.
Monday, April 15 - Thursday, May 2, 2024
6A High School Art Competition Exhibition
Reception Saturday, April 27, 2024 10:30-12pm
The Lake Region Arts Council is proud to exhibit selected artwork from this year's High School 6A Minnesota State Visual Arts Exhibition and Competition. This is a yearly competition that showcases the best artwork from high school students throughout the state. Students compete at a regional and then state level. Entries are judged on the quality of the artwork and the student's artist statement. Regional winners will go on to compete at the State 6A statewide competition.
May 6 - June 27, 2024
LRAC Artists Cohort FY22 & FY23 Alumni Exhibition
Reception Tuesday, May 21st - 5:30-7pm
LRAC is celebrating the 7th Anniversary of the Artist Cohort Program. Since 2017, over 30 talented artists have participated in the program. Each Cohort spent 10 months working on their career development goals. We invite the public to visit the LRAC Cohort Alumni Exhibit and enjoy a diversity of artistic styles and disciplines.”
July 8 - September 26, 2024
Guest Juror – DeborahMae Broad
Reception Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 5:30-7pm
The Guest Juror Exhibit is always very popular with reginal artists and gallery guests. The exhibit features the very best work from our regional artists and is a must see for our Gallery visitors. Our guest juror this year is DoborahMae Broad. DeborahMae taught Printmaking, Drawing and Bronze casting at Minnesota State University Moorhead (then Moorhead State University ) from 1982 until 2003 when she retired to be a full time artist.
DeborahMae Broad graduated from Southern Seminary Junior College in Buena Vista Virginia in 1975 with an Equitation Studies Certificate. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia in 1977 and then a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1980. DeborahMae taught Printmaking, Drawing and Bronze casting at Minnesota State University Moorhead (then Moorhead State University) from 1982-2003 when she retired to be a full-time working artist.
As a full-time artist, she attends two national art fairs a year to show and sell her wood engravings and etchings. DeborahMae’s wood engravings are cut by hand in the traditional manner and are printed with screen printed colors on her lithographic press in her studio. She uses screen printed colors under the key plate in her etchings, and most of her wood engravings are large scale, rather than the typical small size of the medium.
Her chosen subjects are animals, mostly domestic. She has a strong interest in the emotional and social lives of animals, and their place in the world. She works in her studio on a 240-acre farm above the Wild Rice River near Twin Valley, MN since 2018. The granary/chicken house studio which was her studio for 23 years was also moved to the new farm property. She is now a farmer and full-time artist.
Call for artists Monday, April 1 - Monday, April 29, 2024
(Check LRAC https://lrac4.org/call-for-artists to apply)
October 7 to December 17, 2024
Surreal Visions
Reception Tuesday, October 15,2024 - 5:30-7pm
Definition of Surreal art…”art that balances a rational vision of life with one that asserts the power of the unconscious and dreams. We asked artists to stretch their imaginations and creative techniques. They responded with an exciting variety of styles and mediums. This is a juried exhibit that has something for everyone.
Call for artists Monday, July 22 - Monday, August 19, 2024
(Check LRAC https://lrac4.org/call-for-artists to apply)
January 13 to March 13, 2025
What is Home?
Reception Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
Artists were asked to create work that defines the concept of “Home” for them. Could be a place, a time, or a feeling. This will be a juried exhibit of work by artists living in Lake Region Arts Council’s 9 county region. The public is invited to visit the Gallery and enjoy this interesting themed show.
Call for artists Monday, October 7 - Thursday, Monday October 28, 5pm, 2024
(Check LRAC https://lrac4.org/call-for-artists to apply)
