Newsletter January 2024

In This Issue

​​Regional Makers Showcase: Apply Now!
2024 Studio Tour is Coming
Wanted: Ceramics, Fiber & Reception Equipment
Sunday Socials in Full Swing This Winter
​Members in the News

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Regional Makers Showcase:
​Apply Now!

Submissions Due Jan. 5-6
Exhibition Jan. 12 - Feb. 11
Reception Jan. 13, 4-6 pm

Art of the Lakes is hosting an exhibition of work capturing the amazing talents of our regional residents. We encourage creative people 18 years and older who reside in Battle Lake or the surrounding Lakes Region to apply. You need not be an AOTL member to participate.

​Makers work in all sorts of materials and create all kinds of things. Are you a painter, photographer, sculptor, potter, sewer, quilter, woodworker or something else? Showcase your talent in our gallery in Battle Lake! 

Submit your best work for this non-juried art exhibition by delivering it to the Art of the Lakes gallery on January 5 or 6 from 10-4 pm. 

More information here

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2024 Studio Tour is Coming

Registration opens Feb. 1
Tour dates Jul. 19-21

by Judi Celaschi
It's a new year and time to decide where you want your 'art journey' to take you! As you ponder that thought, be sure to add the 2024 Studio Tour to your journey list. It's time to start preparing - registration opens soon.
 
For the past 15 years, the Art of the Lakes Studio Tour has provided a way for our member artists to increase their art sales and connect with art enthusiasts in the area. Fifteen successful years, thanks to you!

Attendees of the Studio Tour truly value visiting with artists and viewing artwork in their studios. This is why the Studio Tour is so popular. For artists who don't have a suitable home studio in the region but still want to be part of the Tour, we'll find a venue for you.

​Let's make this a record year. Mark your calendars -- registration will open online on February 1. 

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Wanted: Ceramics, Fiber and Reception Equipment

Art of the Lakes is getting ready to build out two new maker studios in the Creative Arts Center -- one for ceramic artists, one for fiber artists -- as well as a reception area.

Can you (or someone you know) contribute items to help us? Tools, furnishings and materials in excellent working order and good condition are needed. 

​Top priority items

• Ceramics: high-quality kiln, potter wheels, clay-working tools, work turntables, clay and glazing supplies
• Fiber: looms, sewing machines, storage bins, shelving, fiber materials
• ​Reception: welcome desk, supportive office chair, visitor seating, coffee & end tables, lamps, area rug

Contact Donna in the gallery at (218) 864-8606 to see if your donations qualify. Donation receipts provided for accepted items.

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Sunday Socials in Full Swing
​This Winter

Every Sunday 2-4 pm
​Art of the Lakes Gallery 

​by Donna Westerling
Sunday Socials are in full swing, now that the holidays are over and winter has really set in. Please join us at the gallery each Sunday from 2-4 pm.

Members and non-members are welcome! Bring your project and join in conversation around the table. It doesn’t matter what your art form is, just bring it and relax with us.

We've had good attendance at the Sunday Social Fiber Group that meets on the 3rd Sunday of each month. We're wondering if each Sunday should have a focus… maybe photography, collage and assemblage, painting, sketching, etc. Would you be interested in helping with a Sunday Social that interests you?

It's a great time to talk about your art, share tips and techniques, and get inspired and motivated. Let me know your thoughts: Donna Westerling, [email protected] or 612-386-2868. 

​See you at the Social!

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Members in the News

​Contained

​Belted Breath

Supple

Mary Williams

Kristi Swee Kuder

Shanna Cramer has a solo show of her 2023 works during January and February 2024 in the Atrium at Essentia Health. The Atrium is open 8-5 weekdays. 

• Essentia Health-South University Clinic (Fargo)        1702 S University Dr, Fargo, ND 58103

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Dar Eckert and Kristi Swee Kuder have created a joint art installation for FLUX - Artists Collaboration Exhibition, at the LRAC Main Gallery in Fergus Falls, MN. 

FLUX draws attention to the artists' interest in the esthetics of the discarded, and how the material world flows in and out of our lives into an everlasting detritus.

The installation will be on display from January 8 - March 14, with a reception Tuesday, January 16 from 5:30-7 pm.

More information here

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Sandra Daulton Shaughnessy is participating in Artist Showcase '24 (A Community Art Exhibit) with two of her coil-built vessels, Contained and  Belted Breath. The exhibit will take place at Brookview in Golden Valley, MN.  There's an opening reception on Friday, January 19 from 5-9 pm.

​More information here

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John Shaw is honored to have had his stoneware / porcelain bowl, Supple, selected for a Harlow Purchase Award at the Watermark Art Center’s recent exhibition, It’s Only Clay. 

​All works selected for a Harlow Purchase Award become a permanent part of Bemidji State University’s prestigious Margaret H. Harlow Ceramics Collection.

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Mary Williams and Kristi Swee Kuder will display work in the Kaddatz Galleries 15 Year Anniversary Group Exhibition.

The exhibition runs from January 23 to March 2, with a free public reception on Thursday, January 25 from 5-7pm.
 
​111 W. Lincoln Avenue, Fergus Falls, MN 56537

More information here

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Got AOTL news? Please send stories and images to Tom Kuder, [email protected]