Exhibitions

The Arts Guild's exhibition gallery is located on the main floor of the Center for the Arts, located in the historical downtown of Northfield, Minnesota. Established in 1959 and located just 45 miles south of Minneapolis, the gallery's purpose is to provide the community with visual art of high artistic quality, and to provide exposure for professional and emerging artists. All exhibits are free and open to the public.

You can see a long way from the Arts Guild Gallery during the current exhibit: it's full of landscapes. The two artists featured in the main gallery are Becky Jokela of Cannon Falls and Douglas House of Eagan. Stop in and leave the snow behind for a bit while you visit fields of flowers, moody sunsets and autumn panoramas of color. Jokela works in pastels, and House in oil. A detail of his work titled Pines at Sunset: Superior National Forest is shown here

Nerstand artist Kirsten Johnson is exhibiting in The Other Room, and her luminous acrylic paintings, also landscape inspired, really gives the gallery a third vision of nature.

Craig Perman's portraits of Arts Guild volunteers and artists have adorned several of the Guild's 50th anniversary celebrations. This exhibit will give us a chance to see some of his other photographic portraits, which display both drama and quirky humor. Ceramicist Monica Rudquist's dramatic porcelain constructions will also be exhibited. Two of her works are pictured at right. A detail from one of Perman's photos is shown in the banner image at the top of this page.

This is a vibrant showcase of Northfield's youngest artists, from grades K-12; their work is exciting and fresh and hung floor to ceiling! The All-School show will run through April 24, so make time to come and see the next generation's creativity in its first blush!

Select St. Olaf and Carleton students are invited to spend a fifth year working as apprentices and interns in their respective art departments, and are given a chance to develop their own work during the year. This exhibit is their first off-campus exhibit, and is sure to be an interesting mixed media show.

Northfield High School students from Katherine Norrie's Honor's Art Class will show their best work from their year of art study.

This exhibition will show a series of Richard Rock's paintings of artifacts and furnishings from the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Painted from life at the MIA beginning in 2001, the paintings are "intimate portraits of the museum and captured remains of times past."

This much anticipated and well loved annual exhibit showcases the work of Northfield Arts Guild members, and features work as diverse and varied as the artists themselves. These pieces make beautiful holiday gifts as well as inspirational viewing; come to look and come to shop. Participate in the Members' Exhibit

La Petit France, Det vakre Norge features the work of two internationally inspired painters, Gary Christenson and Maureen Welter. Christenson, a physician, is a self-taught painter whose muse is the dramatic landscape of Norway. Welter, a former French teacher and expatriate, paints France through the eyes of a child. Both artists evoke the magic of their respective lands with a knowledge born of intimacy. The image at right is River, Lake, Fjord, & Sea by Gary Christenson.

This exhibit will run June 17 through July 18th, with a special reception on June 25 from 6 - 9 pm. The reception will feature our annual Art in Bloom event, with floral arrangements created by members of the Northfield Garden Club (and inspired by the artwork on the walls).

Sixteen talented students who have participated in Katherine Norrie's Honor's Art class at Northfield High School this year will show their best work in a show opening this week. Where the Wild Things are Created will include a wide variety of media and artistic styles from Ruth Amerman, Katie Bakke, Casey Brown, Sadie Fliegel, Nicole Heinricy, Sofie Jokela, Tyler Lebens, Josh Meillier, Brittney Neset, Kaity Paukert, Gabrielle Sacha, Eli Szydlo, Tiffany Wells, Rose Weselmann, Noelle Wolf, and Dan Zenner. The exhibit will be on display through June 13. All are invited to the reception for the artists this Saturday evening, May 23, 7 to 9 pm.

Rosemount artist Stephanie Molstre-Kotz spent childhood summers in the Lake Agassiz Region in northwestern Minnesota. The name of the ancient lake has become, for her, a personal metaphor for childhood. Her striking and intriguing artwork explores the ways in which "children respond to a landscape differently . . . movement and emotion seem to be uninhibited: Spiritual." The image shown here is a detail from the work titled Albrecht and Agassiz".

Jim Haas likes working with clay, and it shows. He doesn't think much of "artist statements", though. His says: "I do not yet know what kind of potter I want to be when I grow up. I hope you like at least some of these pots."

It has been an ongoing wish of the gallery committee to offer an additional space to highlight our member artists throughout the year. This was once offered by a space in the guild called The Other Room.

Thanks to a sponsorship from Steve Schmidt Construction, we now have a moving wall that will create an intimate space within the main gallery, that we are again calling The Other Room.

We are progressing alphabetically through the member artist list contacting artists to exhibit in this space of approximately 10� x 10� x 10�. The artist must meet the following parameters:

The gallery committee is looking forward to working with local artists to display their work in the this newly created space called The Other Room. If you have any questions or comments please contact Felicia Peters at 507-645-8877.

All members of the Arts Guild ages 18 and over are welcome to exhibit their original artwork in the annual members' exhibition. This year's exhibition dates are December 9, 2009 - January 2, 2010.

In order to be included in the Exhibit, artists should bring up to one large or two smaller pieces of their original artwork to the Arts Guild Gallery on Monday, December 7 between 10:00am and 5:00pm. No work can be accepted after this date. Artists should also bring information regarding the title, media, size, date and retail price (including gallery commission, see below) of each piece. (A piece is considered to be large if it is over 4 feet square.)

Work must be ready to hang. Work that is exceptionally fragile or works not ready for hanging might not be able to be included in the exhibit. Please submit your work accordingly.

If you would like your work to be considered for the Exhibit Postcard, please send a digital file to felicia@northfieldartsguild.org by November 9.

This is a good opportunity to sell your work. If an artist chooses to offer exhibited work for sale, the Gallery's commission on the sale will be 40% of the listed price. Artists may also display work that is not for sale.

If you are not currently a member of the Arts Guild, visit our membership page for more information.