Filling in the Blanks: Art-A-Whirl 2015
Thorp Building, 1620 Central Ave. NE Suite #128, Minneapolis, MN
It's our favorite time of year again, and we're celebrating with a Friday night performance and opening in Julie's studio in the Thorp Building. We'll also have an open studio all weekend (Saturday & Sunday 12:30-5) , with music performances, paintings, photographs, and a kids' art table. Come create with us! This year we're featuring collaborations with guest artists Bob Stacke and Eric Struve. Julie Johnson (on flute, bass flute, and live looping pedals) and Eric Struve (upright bass) will play original work created last summer at a residency at Tofte Lake Center in the Boundary Waters, as well as Julie's "Folk Suite for Oboe and Bass." Working with a series of short excerpts from my novel-in-progress, but without reading the whole thing, photographer Bob Stacke is working to create his own pictorial narrative of the book, letting his imagination fill in the blanks. His interactive presentation of the work as a montage of images and text will ask the audience to choose their own combinations and imagine yet another story. We'll open the studio at 6:30 Friday night; presentation and performances begin at 7 pm. I'll be showing new and old paintings as well. We’ll have wine and other refreshments, and everything is free and open to the public … we can’t wait to see you!