Best of Twin Cities Fine Arts Organization Award Winners

Best of Twin Cities Fine Arts Organization Award Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the first ever Best of Twin Cities Fine Arts Awards! Voter turnout was excellent with people standing strongly behind their favorite galleries. The winners are:

Outstanding Art Gift Shop:
The Shop at Textile Center

Outstanding Curator:
Betty Bright and Jeff Rathermel (Minnesota Center for Book Arts) for Fine and Dirty: Contemporary Letterpress Art

Outstanding Reception:
Anita Sue Kolman Gallery for their grand opening

Outstanding Artist Talk:
Mark Allen of Machine Project (Soap Factory) for “Conversation with Mark Allen”

Most Memorable:
A Reasonable Facsimile at Christensen Center Art Gallery at Augsburg College

Most Inspiring: A tie!
I Am a Link: Pictorial Rugs by Dorothy Sauber at Textile Center
Convergence at Traffic Zone Gallery

People’s Choice:
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Thank you all for your votes! See a gallery on the list you aren’t familiar with? Go check it out! Find hours and addresses on our website.

Five Days Left!

We are already halfway through Art on the Town but there is so much more yet to do! There are lots of great events to attend this week from opening receptions to demonstrations and more.

Don’t forget to vote for your favorite galleries for the Best of Twin Cities Fine Arts Organization awards! There are tons of great shows, curators, shops and galleries to choose from so make sure your voice is heard. Go online to vote now.

Planning to attend an Art on the Town event? Attended on already? You qualify to be entered to win prizes! Once you attend an event, simply tell us what the event was and you could win a print of the 2011 Art on the Town poster designed and screenprinted by Adam Turman or gift cards and memberships to local museums and galleries. Go online to enter!

For more information, visit www.artonthetown.org.

Vote for Your Favorite Galleries in the Best of Awards

The Twin Cities Fine Arts Organization (TCFAO) announced the finalists for the first ever Best of Awards. The awards recognize outstanding work in the arts from among the more than fifty TCFAO member organizations. The winners will be announced at the close of the Art on the Town ten-day event. Voting ends noon CST October 14th, 2011.

VOTE HERE>>

(One vote per person)

Outstanding Art Gift Shop finalists are:
The Shop at MCBA
Northfield Arts Guild Gift Shop
Northern Clay Center Sales Gallery
Textile Center Shop
Minneapolis Institute of Arts Museum Shop

Outstanding Reception finalists are:
Grand opening of Anita Sue Kolman Gallery
Winter Carnival Children’s Art Show at AZ Gallery
The Waiting Room at Catherine G. Murphy Gallery at St. Catherine University
Book Art Biennial—MCBA Prize gala and award ceremony
Low Brow, High Octane at Northfield Arts Guild

Outstanding Curator finalists are:
Betty Bright and Jeff Rathermel (MCBA) for Fine and Dirty: Contemporary Letterpress Art
Kathy Daniels (Catherine G. Murphy Gallery at St. Catherine University) for The Waiting Room
Rex Mhiripiri (Mhiripiri Gallery) for African Sculpture at Bloomington Theatre and Art Center
Anastasia Shartin (The Phipps Center for the Arts) for The Artful Rain Garden
Jan Shoger (Northfield Arts Guild) for New Impressions Print Invitational

Most Memorable finalists are:
A Reasonable Facsimile at Christensen Center Art Gallery at Augsburg College
Belfast Print Workshop: Celebrating 35 years of Prints at Highpoint Center for Printmaking
Many-Fold Manifolds at Hillstrom Museum of Art
Three Jerome Artists at Northern Clay Center
Rosemary Williams’ Belongings at The Soap Factory

Outstanding Artist Talks finalists are:
Mark Allen of Machine Project (The Soap Factory) for “Conversation with Mark Allen”
Richard Amos (Homewood Studios) for “Reaching Ancient Connections—from Modern America to Africa”
Brett Kallusky (Bethel University Galleries) for “Witness”
Julie L’Enfant, Ph.D. (Minnetonka Center for the Arts) “The Changing Face of Portraiture”

Most Inspiring finalists are:
Esperanza at Gordon Parks Gallery
1x1xOne at Homewood Studios
Made in Her Image at Robbin Gallery
I Am a Link: Pictorial Rugs by Dorothy Sauber at Textile Center
Convergence at Traffic Zone Gallery

People’s Choice finalists are:
AAW Gallery of Wood Art
Anita Sue Kolman Gallery
Form + Content
Groveland Gallery
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

VOTE HERE>>

(One vote per person)

Meet Our Members: Hopkins Center for the Arts

1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN 55343
(952) 979-1100 | www.hopkinsartscenter.com

Hopkins Center for the Arts presents a year-round calendar of exhibitions in two galleries, the Charles D. Redepenning Gallery and the two-level Lobby Gallery. The 14 exhibitions per year showcase local and regional artists working in a variety of media. In addition, the Hopkins School District mounts two to three exhibitions a year featuring both student and faculty work, and the Friends of Hopkins Center for the Arts presents an annual fine art and craft fair. The Center, along with its partners, serves more than 210,000 visitors each year.

Hours: Mon–Fri 8 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sat 10 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sun 12–5 p.m. (may be closed on some
national holidays).

TONIGHT: Opening Reception and Member Show at Open Book!

Art on the Town kicks off tonight, Thursday, October 6th, from 7 to 10 p.m.

Enjoy art, wine and music with your friends in the art community. 

Open Book building
1011 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis

Get directions!

Participating members:
AAW Gallery of Wood Art • Anita Sue Kolman Gallery • AZ Gallery • Bloomington Theatre and Art Center • The FrameWorks Gallery • Form + Content Gallery •The Grand Hand Gallery •Katherine E. Nash Gallery • MCAD Gallery • Mhiripiri Gallery • Minnesota Center for Book Arts • NEMAA • Northern Clay Center • Northfield Arts Guild • Savage Art Studios & Gallery •Textile Center • Traffic Zone • Tychman Shapiro Gallery at Sabes JCC • University of St. Thomas • The Westminster Gallery

Meet Our Members: Homewood Studios

Kristen Treuting, Rocks and Water, painted gourd

 2400 Plymouth Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55411
(612) 587-0230 | info@homewoodstudios.com | www.homewoodstudios.com

Homewood Studios, an artists’ workspace and gallery/meeting space in North Minneapolis, is designed for local artists and their neighbors in the belief that the visible presence of working artists contributes to the vitality, self-image and coherence of the community. Gallery shows change every three to four weeks. Other events and services include music concerts, a writers group and Tai Chi classes plus occasional workshops by exhibiting artists.

Hours: Tue 5–9 p.m.; Wed, Thu 1–6 p.m.; Sat 1–4 p.m. and by appointment.

Meet Our Members: Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association (NEMAA)

2205 California Street NE, Suite 118, Minneapolis, MN 55418
(612) 788-1679 | office@nemaa.org | www.nemaa.org

Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association (NEMAA) is a nonprofit arts organization with the mission of promoting and supporting the quality and diversity of artistic resources based in Northeast Minneapolis to benefit the greater community. NEMAA coordinates Art-A-Whirl and the Fall Fine Arts Show and promotes monthly open studio events in Northeast Minneapolis such as First Thursdays in the Arts District, First Fridays at the Q.Arma Building and Second Saturdays at the California Building.