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

http://www.malmborgsinc.com/_ccLib/attachments/pages/Northside+Arts+Collective.pdf

“Why Man Creates” Monday April 16 at 6:30 pm

Our April Artist Roundtable will be held at Pat Carney’s studio, located at 837 Glenwood  Ave N (corner of Glenwood & Colfax).

This month’s discussion will involve viewing the movie “Why Man Creates” — a 1968 animated short documentary film which discusses the nature of creativity. It was written by Saul Bass.

“Why Man Creates” focuses on the creative process and the different approaches taken to that process. A must-see for the creatives!

Suggested donation: $5, light refreshments will be provided
Please RSVP: info@nacarts.org
May Artist Roundtable: Selling on Ebay & Etsy, presented by Robert Johnson & Meg Corcoran

Workhouse Theatre presents “Talley’s Folly”

Thru March 11th!

Winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this is the charming, moving love story of Matt, a Jewish refugee, and Sally, black sheep of the prosperous Talley family, on Independence Day, 1944. Matt has come to rural Missouri to woo Sally, but has been run off the place by her anti-Semitic brothers, and has taken refuge in the family’s dilapidated boathouse down by the river. Sally sneaks away to tell Matt to leave her alone, but she may have another agenda. Smart and feisty, Sally doesn’t fit into society much better than Matt does. Over the course of a magical evening, the two of them begin to wonder if perhaps they’ll fit

Visit www.workhousetheatre.org to purchase tickets.

Connie Beckers, the Goddess of Glass

Connie Beckers is an award winning glass artist in North Minneapolis, MN. She operates a retail gift shoppe, The Goddess of Glass & Friends, and a glass studio at The Funky Bungalow.

She began her career in 1995 with an introductory stained glass class through Patrick Henry Community Education for her 40th birthday. She has since pursued additional training in stained glass and kiln-working at J Ring Glass Studio in St Paul, MN and Gaytee Glass in NE Minneapolis. She began selling her creations on consignment at local gift and coffee shops. Next were craft fairs and then on to fine art festivals. She even hosted and organized shows of her own to help promote the work of artists she called friends. She cobbled together enough income to support herself by selling her work on consignment and at art fairs, teaching classes and making custom art glass windows for private and public parties.

This window was commissioned by The Friends of Loring Park in 2004 and was completed and installed in August 2009. Jon Olson from the Mpls Park Board introduced the idea to The Friends group to design a 4′ x 4′ quatrefoil window for the Community Arts Building in Loring Park. The design is by Reynaldo Diaz, an artist and resident of the neighborhood. Connie worked with apprentice Sarah Ruehmann and assistant Sherry Nolan to transform Rey’s color pencil drawing into the magnificent window you see today. The artists incorporated both Tiffany-style stained glass and kiln-made glass to stay authentic to the artist’s rendering.

Also during this time, Connie devoted several years helping organize a local arts organization to help build a strong network of artists in North Minneapolis; Artists who would participate in, and be recognized for, their contributions to community enrichment.

When she left the organization in 2009, she opened a gift shoppe in her neighborhood featuring consigned artwork from the the varied and talented people she’d met along the way. Today, The Goddess of Glass & Friends is filled with the work of over 60 local artists and offers custom picture framing. She works with The Lowry Cafe to share exhibitions from local artists and is helping develop The Lowry Corridor Business Association.

The Goddess made her national television debut in November 2011 on the DIY Network. Producers asked her to create a glass tile back splash for a kitchen make over, which you can see by clicking this link.

Penco is located at  718 Washington Ave North, Minneapolis — 612-333-3330

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Pat Carney is the name sake of a Minneapolis creative studio, The Carney Group. He began his career as a photographer and transitioned into graphic arts.

Located at Glenwood Avenue and Colfax, The Carney Group is a rich blend of diverse creative talents that has been in business for over 20 years with a client base that includes Public Radio International, The British Broadcasting Company, Cenex, Tremendous Entertainment Company, Parker Rosen Law Firm, and numerous radio programs such as This American Life, What’d Ya Know and BBC’s Newshour.

Lately, photography has become a larger part of the creative work from The Carney Group. Pat photographs events and personalities in support of the communications work being produced by his firm. His personal commitment has, for the last few years, been the events, scenes and personalities of North Minneapolis.

http://carney.com/galleries/gettingout/

http://carney.com/galleries/redeemer_block_party_2010/

http://carney.com/galleries/interfaith/

http://carney.com/galleries/harrison_gardens/

http://carney.com/galleries/flow/

http://carney.com/galleries/flow2009/

http://carney.com/galleries/flow2010/

Much of his artistic work of the last few years has been large panoramic images. Several are on permanent display and part of the permanent collection at Coloplast in North Minneapolis.

http://carney.com/galleries/horizontally/

 Authors Christine Stark and Olga Trujillo will be reading from their books, Nickels and The Sum of My Parts, at the Loft Literary Center at 7:00pm on January 18^th, 2012.

Both authors have written books on a timely subject given the Penn State and Syracuse University scandals. Child sexual abuse and its survival through dissociation are the topics of Christine Stark’s novel, Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation, and Olga Trujillo’s memoir, The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor’s Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation follows a biracial girl named Little Miss So And So, from age 4 into adulthood. Told in a series of prose poems, Nickels‘ lyrical and inventive language conveys the dissociative states born of a world formed by persistent and brutal incest and homophobia. The dissociative states enable the child’s survival and, ultimately, the adult’s healing.  The content is both heartbreaking and triumphant.

The Sum of My Parts is the incredible true story of Olga Trujillo, whose childhood was devastated by sexual abuse and violence. This memoir follows Olga as she splits herself into parts and develops dissociative identity disorder to cope with the abuse, and then struggles to merge these parts and overcome the disorder in adulthood.

Christine Stark is an award-winning writer, visual artist, and public speaker. Her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have been published in periodicals, anthologies, and peer reviewed journals. She is a coauthor of the groundbreaking report “Garden of Truth: The Prostitution and Trafficking of Native Women in Minnesota” and a coeditor of Not for Sale, an international anthology about sexual violence. Her poem, “Momma’s Song”, was recorded by Fred Ho and the Afro Asian Ensemble and released as a double CD/manga titled Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon and Momma’s Song. Christine has won awards for her writing, including a Pushcart nomination, a McKnight Award, and a Loft Mentor Series in creative nonfiction, along with others. She lives in Minneapolis with her partner, April.

Olga Trujillo is an attorney who works with communities on issues involving domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, and the impact of trauma. A nationally renowned speaker, she has appeared in several training videos on domestic violence, including Cut it Out and A Survivor’s Story. She has received the Bud Cramer Leadership Award from the National Children’s Alliance and the Sunshine Lady Foundation Peace Award. Olga lives with her partner Casey, dogs, and cats on a small farm in Wisconsin.

Now Showing @ Papa’s Deli Gallery

Robert Johnson — Oil pastel drawings

Papa’s Deli at 4159 Thomas Ave N. in Minneapolis. All are welcome to attend. Find them on the web: www.eatatpapas.com.

Robert Johnson has a fine art degree from St. Cloud State University with an emphasis in painting. He never really did much painting after he was introduced to the medium of oil pastel… Robert’s method for using oil pastels involves, as he calls, “smearing” the colors together and building up layer on layer. He will sometimes scratch thru the layers to reveal buried color. Robert’s color use ranges from candied to ancient earth-tones that compliment the unnamed, yet familiar anthropomorphic shapes.