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The Goddess of Glass & Friends 2nd Anniversary Celebration – Wed, June 6th!

@ THE STUDIO
The next Introduction to Stained Glass begins Tuesday May 8th for four weeks. This is a great opportunity to try your hand at Tiffany stained glass. You will make two projects using my tools, patterns and glass so your financial risk or investment is minimal. If you want to go further, there are additional classes to help build your skills until you can make your own custom windows.

If you don’t want to take the years to develop your skills, let the Goddess make your stained glass windows!

Visit our website for fused glass classes. NAC members are invited to take any glass fusing workshop for half-price. Simply enter NACMember in the voucher code space

NOMI CSArt
NOMI CSArt shares are now available for purchase at far less than the estimated value for a new collection of 10 unique pieces of art. And the artists are all residents of North Minneapolis! Visit www.goddessofglass.com/nomi-csart for more details and to make your secure purchase via PayPal. Visit The Shoppe to see the wonderful boxes Bill Moore is making to hold your art shares!

The Goddess of Glass & Friends
unique gifts + fine art + custom framing
Connie M. Beckers, Proprietor
2205 Lowry Ave N, Mpls MN 55411
612.521.0399 | www.goddessofglass.com

Shoppe Hours
Thursday 11am-6pm + Friday Noon-7pm
Saturday 10am-6pm + Sunday 10am-4pm

The Funky Bungalow Glass Studio
3243 Girard Ave N, Mpls MN 55412
Open by Appointment Only
612.327.0283

Saturday-Sunday, May 19-20, 10-4pm
Location: Minneapolis
Teacher: Steve Sklar
Cost: $100 for either Sat., $175 for both days*

Online Throat-Singing Lessons are on sale! http://khoomei.com/lessons.htm

Do you want to learn how to throat-sing? Try Steve’s popular, fun, and effective online throat-singing lessons! They’re a great way to begin singing khoomei, kargyraa, and sygyt. All lessons are on sale through April 30 for $20 each, all three for $50.00. Thousands of khoo-maniacs can’t be wrong. Also, Steve gives real-time lessons both in person and to anyone any in the world via Skype. His Skype name is throatsinger1

Monday May 21 at 6:30 pm

Our May Artist Roundtable will be held at Folwell Park Rec Center, 1618 Dowling Ave N, we’ll be in the multi-purpose room.

Artists and small business people, find out tips and tricks-of-the-trade for “Selling on Ebay & Etsy” with members Robert Johnson and Meg Corcoran presenting this month.

Learn the basics from the pros of how to set up and run your online store! Both Johnson and Corcoran are long time successful online sellers.

Suggested donation: $5

Please RSVP: info@nacarts.org

June Artist Roundtable:

“Marketing via Social Media”, presented by Connie Beckers, the Goddess of Glass

Click the link below to begin the download:
Northside Arts News — May 2012 Edition

If you have an item you’d like to place in the next issue of the Northside Arts News, please send it to jeanne.fish@nacarts.orgby the 27th of each month Read the latest news from our members as well as the numerous of offerings from our northside arts organizations. Make plans to attend our annual community potluck and membership drive!
Here are some of the highlights from this months newsletter:

• SPRING THING! Our annual community potluck and membership drive on May 19th
• May Artist Roundtable — Selling Online: Ebay & Etsy
• Help us find a new home!
• Malmborg plant fundraiser to benefit NAC
• Exciting news from our members!
• Many, many announcements from our northside arts organization & businesses
• New opportunities on the back page – Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater: opportunities to tell your tornado story

Mpls Photo Center offers a range educational opportunities:

Unique New Classes & Workshops
Talks, Lectures & Events
F•Stop Group at MPC
One on One Education

Please visit mplsphotocenter.com for full details.

New Exhibitions
Black & White: The Absence of Color
Opening Reception: March 9th, 2012 Mpls Photo Center Second Floor Gallery

On Exhibit: March 9th through April 22nd, 2012
Ross Andersson: Persona – Selected Works
Opening Reception: March 9th, 2012 Mpls Photo Center Photo Coop Gallery
On Exhibit: March 9th through April 22nd, 2012

Ten NOMI artists have been selected to create a special collection of works for the 1st Annual NOMI Community Support Art program. Shareholders will receive these special creations at three events designed for artists and collectors to meet. Selected artists are:

• Bill Cottman – five photos and poems from his book “Surface Tensions”
• Angela Davis – signed and numbered paintings of NOMI businesses and festivals
• David Hoffmann – his signature 3-D paintings
• Dan Hylton – his new CD, signed, signed poster and VIP Admission to his CD release event with a backstage tour
• Tia Salmela Keobunphang – a set of six acrylic coasters
• Valeri Luepke – a pair of sculpted ceramic puppies
• Michael Mcgraw – a tiny desk meditation of close-cropped nature scenes photographed in NOMI.
• Johnna Morrow – matted and framed landscape paintings PLUS a Skysong Sampler CD
• Sarah Ruehmann – fused glass pendants with a nature theme
• Lucy Yogerst – tiny bowls and tumblers made from clay unearthed from her yard by the May Tornado.

NOMI CSArt shares are now available for purchase at far less than the estimated value for a new collection of 10 unique pieces of art. And the artists are all residents of North Minneapolis! Visit www.goddessofglass.com/nomi-csart for more details and to make your secure purchase via PayPal. Sales will close on April 30, 2012.

Make The Goddess of Glass & Friends your #1 stop for unique gifts made by your neighbors and artist friends! Administrative Professionals Day is April 25th and you have Bridal Showers and Easter hostess gifts to think of!

The Goddess of Glass & Friends

unique gifts + fine art + custom framing
Connie M. Beckers, Proprietor
2205 Lowry Ave N, Mpls MN 55411
612.521.0399 | www.goddessofglass.com

Shoppe Hours

Thursday 11am-6pm + Friday Noon-7pm
Saturday 10am-6pm + Sunday 10am-4pm

The Funky Bungalow Glass Studio

3243 Girard Ave N, Mpls MN 55412
Open by Appointment Only
612.327.0283

Barbara Harman

Date: March 17-18, 2012
Hours: 10-5 each day
Tuition: $160
Materials fee: $25 covers all materials except individual printing papers

This introductory workshop in monotype explores new ways of making marks by using inks mixed to varying degrees of fluidity. Ink knives and other drawing instruments, along with brushwork, brayers, and stencils, allow you to create prints that reflect your personal mark-making. Monotype’s enormous versatility encourages rapid development of images that easily build on one another, resulting in a series of prints related in subject matter, color, and marks. Reusable mylar plates cut to any size or shape enable you to create complex imagery in multiple colors, supported by great detail. In this collaborative workshop we will be focused on exchanging visual ideas and techniques, problem-solving and fun! You should expect to produce 5-10 prints during the weekend. Enrollment is limited to 4 students.

Barbara Harman has used monotype as a major part of her studio work for more than 20 years. To see some of her work, please go to her website, www.barbaraharman.com.

To register and pay using PayPal, go to www.barbaraharman.com and click on the link for www.gotopaperworks.com

Our March Artist Roundtable will be held at Neighborhood HealthSource’s Fremont Clinic, located at 3300 Fremont Ave N.

This month’s topic will be “HealthCare Access” and would include information about the clinic and services (including a sliding fee scale for uninsured), as well as information on public health insurance options presented by Fremont’s Patient Advocate and a tour of the facilities.

Please RSVP:
slevine@neighborhoodhealthsource.org or info@nacarts.org

Northside Arts Collective members are invited to exhibit their visual art in a juried show at UROC in March. Electronic submissions are due January 27.

UROC is the University of Minnesota’s Urban Outreach/Engagement Center, where hundreds of community and regional movers and shakers meet, on Plymouth near Penn (across from Urban League). Work in the main gallery also gets exposure to the many academic professionals who office or meet at the facility. Hawona Sullivan Janzen, curator, reports that some sales have resulted from past exhibits.

NAC is also seeking music (non-amplified) and other performance art for short programs during the opening which might also be captured in some form to be included in the March exhibit.

Early visual submissions will have the best chance of being used in the printed, media, and on-line promotion of the show.

The gallery can accommodate small items such as jewelry, and large sculptural items, as well as anything that can hang from a rod system. Work is insured while at UROC.

To submit your work: Send email with images (no larger than 1 MB), or with a link to your online gallery identifying the images you’re submitting. Label the email with your name and “UROC” in the subject line. Provide the dimensions, medium, and price, and your contact information. Up to six submissions per member. Deadline: January 27. Email: connect@nacarts.org.

Work will be juried from electronic images and ultimately, in person during installation, by Hawona Sullivan Janzen. Work chosen will need to be on site in late February; artists are responsible for delivering. Receiving dates and times will be announced later.

FAQ’s:

Q: Do I have to be a current NAC member to submit work?
A: Yes. You may join or renew and pay the $35 individual membership with your submission by mailing to: Northside Arts Collective, P.O. Box 11995, Minneapolis, MN 55411. Household memberships are $55 and cover all members of the household. Students are $25, businesses and organizations $85.

Q: I’m not sure if I’m a member already, who can I check with?
A: Send an email to jeanne.fish@nacarts.org.

Q: Is this a themed show?
A: Only in that if a piece makes an obvious geographic reference, the scene should be in North Minneapolis (Camden and Near North as defined by City of Minneapolis). Subjects can be abstract or concrete, simply the art of people living, working, or otherwise connected with this area and members of Northside Arts Collective).

Q: What are the framing requirements?
A: Framing must be serviceable, glass is not required. Canvases may be self-finished (the image wraps around). Photos may be mounted frameless on foamcore. No sawtooth hooks.

Q: Are there minimum or maximum size limitations?
A: Not at this time.

Q: I don’t have photos of my work, can I still submit?
A: Other NAC members have offered to photograph work for current members. A place and schedule will be posted; sign up ahead. If you cannot make one of those times, have a friend bring your work to one of the posted times.

Q: I have a triptych. Does that count as one submission?
A: Yes. Other linked but separate works, such as poetry that accompanies a painting, can be considered a single submission. If the jury has any questions or challenges, you will be contacted.

Q: How many artists will be chosen?
A: It depends on the number of submissions. Our goal is to show multiple works from each artist, and would like to have several artists showing.

Q: Is there anything else I have to do?
A: Artists chosen are expected to forward UROC’s promotional materials for the show, to their email lists, to attend the opening, and to pick up after the show ends.

Q: Is this a one-time thing or will there be other opportunities at UROC?
A: It depends on how this show goes. NAC may be able to hang on a few walls in the interior office area after the March show is done. UROC has offered this opportunity as a way to give experience to emerging artists, curators, teachers and leaders.

Q: What if someone wants to buy my artwork, does NAC expect a percentage of the sale?
A: Yes, 15 percent of the sale of artwork goes to NAC to defray operating expenses.

2012-2013 mnartists.org/McKnight Artist Fellowships for Photographers

Mnartists.org is excited to announce the opening of the 2012-2013 application cycle for McKnight Artist Fellowships for Photographers.

Application deadline is 5pm on Friday, March 30, 2012.
For full details or to apply please visit www.mcknightphoto.org

Information and Tech Sessions

Informational and Technical Sessions will be combined in three separate sessions throughout Minnesota. These sessions are conducted by Program Director, Scott Stulen and Program Assistant, Jehra Patrick. The first half of each presentation will inform potential applicants about the history of the fellowship program, crafting proposals, fellowship eligibility requirements, and the format of the second round of panel reviews. The second half of each session will include information on the online submission process and feature demonstrations on how to format and prepare application materials.

Questions regarding either the structure of the fellowship program or advice on how to best prepare and submit your application materials will be fielded at the end of the session.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Mpls Photo Center
6:30 pm

The session will last about an hour and a half, with time allotted for questions. This event is free, but please phone ahead to reserve your spot by calling 651.252.1137 or emailing mcknightphoto@mnartists.org. Past sessions have been cancelled due to insufficient RSVPs.

For more information or to apply, please visit www.mcknightphoto.org.

Visit Mnartists.org for fresh, new opportunities for artists of all mediums.