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This exhibit includes work by the art apprentices, who graduated in 2011 and were awarded apprenticeships to work on their portfolios for a year.

 

Flaten Gallery Hours

Monday: 10 am - 5 pm


Tuesday: 10 am - 5 pm


Wednesday: 10 am - 5 pm


Thursday: 10 am - 8 pm


Friday: 10 am - 5 pm


Saturday: 2 pm - 5 pm


Sunday: 2 pm - 5 pm

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Oil paintings by Paul Brokken and Carolyn Hartwell, functional and sculptural ceramics by Juliane Shibata.  The Northfield Arts Guild Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday 10am – 3pm.

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In the Members’ Room, Joyce Francis exhibits her ink and watercolor paintings.  These works on paper are made using the Zentangle technique, a meditative art form that uses repeating patterns.  The Northfield Arts Guild Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday 10am – 3pm.

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Carleton College’s Weitz Center for Creativity is the setting for two new art exhibits opening in January 2012 in the College’s Perlman Teaching Museum.  In the Kaemmer Family Gallery, “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption” presents large but intricate color images based on statistics to visually dramatize aspects of contemporary American culture.  In the adjoining Braucher Gallery, “A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art” reveals the ongoing vitality of the Feminist artist movement with works by 17 contemporary women artists exploring aspects of identity through painting, drawing, needlework, photography and other media. Both exhibits will be on display Friday, January 13 through Sunday, March 11, 2012. Gallery admission is free and open to the public.

 

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Arts Guild Member Fred Gustafson shows a series of large-scale plates influenced by traditional Chinese painting styles, including landscape scenes and bamboo motifs.  The Allina gallery is located near the lab waiting area of the clinic at 1440 Jefferson Road.  Hours are 7am – 8pm Monday through Thursday, 7am –7pm Fridays, and 9am – 3pm Saturdays.

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William Parry, a London-based photojournalist and auther who contributes regularly to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA), is launching his new book, "Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine," with a U.S. book tour.

His stunning book of photos captures the graffiti and street art that has transformed Israel's apartheid wall in the occupied West Bank in to a living canvas of resistance and solidarity.  Featuring the work of International street artists including Banksy, Ron English Swoon, Faile and Blu, as well as Palestinian artists and international grassroots activists, these photos express outrage, compassion, solidarity, peaceful resistance and touching humor.  

On Thursday 23rd February, at 7:00 pm., in Tomson Hall, Room 280, on the campus of St. Olaf College, William Parry will show slides of his photos and tell the stories behind them 

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This exhibit includes work by the art apprentices, who graduated in 2011 and were awarded apprenticeships to work on their portfolios for a year.

 

Flaten Gallery Hours

Monday: 10 am - 5 pm


Tuesday: 10 am - 5 pm


Wednesday: 10 am - 5 pm


Thursday: 10 am - 8 pm


Friday: 10 am - 5 pm


Saturday: 2 pm - 5 pm


Sunday: 2 pm - 5 pm

all day


Oil paintings by Paul Brokken and Carolyn Hartwell, functional and sculptural ceramics by Juliane Shibata.  The Northfield Arts Guild Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday 10am – 3pm.

all day

In the Members’ Room, Joyce Francis exhibits her ink and watercolor paintings.  These works on paper are made using the Zentangle technique, a meditative art form that uses repeating patterns.  The Northfield Arts Guild Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday 10am – 3pm.

all day

Carleton College’s Weitz Center for Creativity is the setting for two new art exhibits opening in January 2012 in the College’s Perlman Teaching Museum.  In the Kaemmer Family Gallery, “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption” presents large but intricate color images based on statistics to visually dramatize aspects of contemporary American culture.  In the adjoining Braucher Gallery, “A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art” reveals the ongoing vitality of the Feminist artist movement with works by 17 contemporary women artists exploring aspects of identity through painting, drawing, needlework, photography and other media. Both exhibits will be on display Friday, January 13 through Sunday, March 11, 2012. Gallery admission is free and open to the public.

 

all day

Arts Guild Member Fred Gustafson shows a series of large-scale plates influenced by traditional Chinese painting styles, including landscape scenes and bamboo motifs.  The Allina gallery is located near the lab waiting area of the clinic at 1440 Jefferson Road.  Hours are 7am – 8pm Monday through Thursday, 7am –7pm Fridays, and 9am – 3pm Saturdays.

all day

William Parry, a London-based photojournalist and auther who contributes regularly to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA), is launching his new book, "Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine," with a U.S. book tour.

His stunning book of photos captures the graffiti and street art that has transformed Israel's apartheid wall in the occupied West Bank in to a living canvas of resistance and solidarity.  Featuring the work of International street artists including Banksy, Ron English Swoon, Faile and Blu, as well as Palestinian artists and international grassroots activists, these photos express outrage, compassion, solidarity, peaceful resistance and touching humor.  

On Thursday 23rd February, at 7:00 pm., in Tomson Hall, Room 280, on the campus of St. Olaf College, William Parry will show slides of his photos and tell the stories behind them 

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all day

 

This exhibit includes work by the art apprentices, who graduated in 2011 and were awarded apprenticeships to work on their portfolios for a year.

 

Flaten Gallery Hours

Monday: 10 am - 5 pm


Tuesday: 10 am - 5 pm


Wednesday: 10 am - 5 pm


Thursday: 10 am - 8 pm


Friday: 10 am - 5 pm


Saturday: 2 pm - 5 pm


Sunday: 2 pm - 5 pm

all day


Oil paintings by Paul Brokken and Carolyn Hartwell, functional and sculptural ceramics by Juliane Shibata.  The Northfield Arts Guild Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday 10am – 3pm.

all day

In the Members’ Room, Joyce Francis exhibits her ink and watercolor paintings.  These works on paper are made using the Zentangle technique, a meditative art form that uses repeating patterns.  The Northfield Arts Guild Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday 10am – 3pm.

all day

Carleton College’s Weitz Center for Creativity is the setting for two new art exhibits opening in January 2012 in the College’s Perlman Teaching Museum.  In the Kaemmer Family Gallery, “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption” presents large but intricate color images based on statistics to visually dramatize aspects of contemporary American culture.  In the adjoining Braucher Gallery, “A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art” reveals the ongoing vitality of the Feminist artist movement with works by 17 contemporary women artists exploring aspects of identity through painting, drawing, needlework, photography and other media. Both exhibits will be on display Friday, January 13 through Sunday, March 11, 2012. Gallery admission is free and open to the public.

 

all day

Arts Guild Member Fred Gustafson shows a series of large-scale plates influenced by traditional Chinese painting styles, including landscape scenes and bamboo motifs.  The Allina gallery is located near the lab waiting area of the clinic at 1440 Jefferson Road.  Hours are 7am – 8pm Monday through Thursday, 7am –7pm Fridays, and 9am – 3pm Saturdays.

all day

William Parry, a London-based photojournalist and auther who contributes regularly to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA), is launching his new book, "Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine," with a U.S. book tour.

His stunning book of photos captures the graffiti and street art that has transformed Israel's apartheid wall in the occupied West Bank in to a living canvas of resistance and solidarity.  Featuring the work of International street artists including Banksy, Ron English Swoon, Faile and Blu, as well as Palestinian artists and international grassroots activists, these photos express outrage, compassion, solidarity, peaceful resistance and touching humor.  

On Thursday 23rd February, at 7:00 pm., in Tomson Hall, Room 280, on the campus of St. Olaf College, William Parry will show slides of his photos and tell the stories behind them 

Start: Feb 7 2012 5:00 pm

Carleton College professor of history William North will present “A Rare Look at Papal Ecumenicism in the Sixteenth Century: He hagia kai oikoumeniké en flõrentia genomene sunodos (1577) in Context” in the Gould Library Athenaeum at 5 p.m. on Tues., Feb. 7. This event is free and open to the public.

 

Educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University, North is a popular professor of medieval history as well as the Director of Carleton’s European Studies program and Co-Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the College. His current research includes a book on the transformation of clerical culture in the Age of Reform (1050-1130), a project on Ricardi Pratellensis’ Opera Omnia Exegetica, and study of the commentaries of Richard Preaux on the Bible. With language abilities in Latin, medieval and classical Greek, Italian, French, German, and Spanish, North has also translated a number of historical texts.

Start: Feb 7 2012 7:00 pm

The Finnish American Brass Band AMERIIKAN POIJAT (Boys of America) will perform and concert and old time dance at Faribault’s Paradise Center of the Arts on Saturday evening January 7, 7:00.  This event will include narrations by  Minnesota folklorist John Berquist and a visual presentations of Minnesota immigrant life. Following a one hour concert program, “Poijat” will roll up the carpets and play traditional social dances, with dancing right on the Paradise stage. This special presentation will be of interest to music lovers, dancers, and history buffs. Young folks are also very welcome. If you have band music in your family history, bring your stories and photos to share after the concert.

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This exhibit includes work by the art apprentices, who graduated in 2011 and were awarded apprenticeships to work on their portfolios for a year.

 

Flaten Gallery Hours

Monday: 10 am - 5 pm


Tuesday: 10 am - 5 pm


Wednesday: 10 am - 5 pm


Thursday: 10 am - 8 pm


Friday: 10 am - 5 pm


Saturday: 2 pm - 5 pm


Sunday: 2 pm - 5 pm

all day


Oil paintings by Paul Brokken and Carolyn Hartwell, functional and sculptural ceramics by Juliane Shibata.  The Northfield Arts Guild Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday 10am – 3pm.

all day

In the Members’ Room, Joyce Francis exhibits her ink and watercolor paintings.  These works on paper are made using the Zentangle technique, a meditative art form that uses repeating patterns.  The Northfield Arts Guild Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday 10am – 3pm.

all day

Carleton College’s Weitz Center for Creativity is the setting for two new art exhibits opening in January 2012 in the College’s Perlman Teaching Museum.  In the Kaemmer Family Gallery, “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption” presents large but intricate color images based on statistics to visually dramatize aspects of contemporary American culture.  In the adjoining Braucher Gallery, “A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art” reveals the ongoing vitality of the Feminist artist movement with works by 17 contemporary women artists exploring aspects of identity through painting, drawing, needlework, photography and other media. Both exhibits will be on display Friday, January 13 through Sunday, March 11, 2012. Gallery admission is free and open to the public.

 

all day

Arts Guild Member Fred Gustafson shows a series of large-scale plates influenced by traditional Chinese painting styles, including landscape scenes and bamboo motifs.  The Allina gallery is located near the lab waiting area of the clinic at 1440 Jefferson Road.  Hours are 7am – 8pm Monday through Thursday, 7am –7pm Fridays, and 9am – 3pm Saturdays.

all day

William Parry, a London-based photojournalist and auther who contributes regularly to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA), is launching his new book, "Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine," with a U.S. book tour.

His stunning book of photos captures the graffiti and street art that has transformed Israel's apartheid wall in the occupied West Bank in to a living canvas of resistance and solidarity.  Featuring the work of International street artists including Banksy, Ron English Swoon, Faile and Blu, as well as Palestinian artists and international grassroots activists, these photos express outrage, compassion, solidarity, peaceful resistance and touching humor.  

On Thursday 23rd February, at 7:00 pm., in Tomson Hall, Room 280, on the campus of St. Olaf College, William Parry will show slides of his photos and tell the stories behind them 

Start: Feb 8 2012 7:30 pm

Lecture: The Roots of Middle Earth; From Beorn the Were-Bear to Aragorn the Healler

Matthew Dickerson has written several books on Tolkien and has spoken on Tolkien's classic The Lord of the Rings around the world. One of these books, Following Gandalf, is especially widely celebrated. Dickerson teaches at Middlebury College, Vermont.

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This exhibit includes work by the art apprentices, who graduated in 2011 and were awarded apprenticeships to work on their portfolios for a year.

 

Flaten Gallery Hours

Monday: 10 am - 5 pm


Tuesday: 10 am - 5 pm


Wednesday: 10 am - 5 pm


Thursday: 10 am - 8 pm


Friday: 10 am - 5 pm


Saturday: 2 pm - 5 pm


Sunday: 2 pm - 5 pm

all day


Oil paintings by Paul Brokken and Carolyn Hartwell, functional and sculptural ceramics by Juliane Shibata.  The Northfield Arts Guild Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday 10am – 3pm.

all day

In the Members’ Room, Joyce Francis exhibits her ink and watercolor paintings.  These works on paper are made using the Zentangle technique, a meditative art form that uses repeating patterns.  The Northfield Arts Guild Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday 10am – 3pm.

all day

Carleton College’s Weitz Center for Creativity is the setting for two new art exhibits opening in January 2012 in the College’s Perlman Teaching Museum.  In the Kaemmer Family Gallery, “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption” presents large but intricate color images based on statistics to visually dramatize aspects of contemporary American culture.  In the adjoining Braucher Gallery, “A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art” reveals the ongoing vitality of the Feminist artist movement with works by 17 contemporary women artists exploring aspects of identity through painting, drawing, needlework, photography and other media. Both exhibits will be on display Friday, January 13 through Sunday, March 11, 2012. Gallery admission is free and open to the public.

 

all day

Arts Guild Member Fred Gustafson shows a series of large-scale plates influenced by traditional Chinese painting styles, including landscape scenes and bamboo motifs.  The Allina gallery is located near the lab waiting area of the clinic at 1440 Jefferson Road.  Hours are 7am – 8pm Monday through Thursday, 7am –7pm Fridays, and 9am – 3pm Saturdays.

all day

William Parry, a London-based photojournalist and auther who contributes regularly to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA), is launching his new book, "Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine," with a U.S. book tour.

His stunning book of photos captures the graffiti and street art that has transformed Israel's apartheid wall in the occupied West Bank in to a living canvas of resistance and solidarity.  Featuring the work of International street artists including Banksy, Ron English Swoon, Faile and Blu, as well as Palestinian artists and international grassroots activists, these photos express outrage, compassion, solidarity, peaceful resistance and touching humor.  

On Thursday 23rd February, at 7:00 pm., in Tomson Hall, Room 280, on the campus of St. Olaf College, William Parry will show slides of his photos and tell the stories behind them 

Start: Feb 9 2012 4:30 pm

Professor Myron Orfield, Executive Director of the Institute on Race & Poverty at the University of Minnesota, will present “Segregation in Schools and Housing in the Twin Cities” on Thursday, Feb. 9 at 4:30 p.m. in the Carleton College Gould Library Athenaeum. This event is free and open to the public.

 

Orfield is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and an affiliate faculty member at the U of M’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Orfield teaches and writes in the fields of civil rights, state and local government, state and local finance, land use, questions of regional governance, and the legislative process.


This event is co-sponsored by the Carleton College Departments of Educational Studies, Political Science, and American Studies. For more information, including disability accommodations, call (507) 222-4012.

Start: Feb 9 2012 7:00 pm

Frank Ackerman, senior research fellow at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University, will speak on how economists put a dollar value on intangible risks and rewards in "Turning Nature Into a Number: The Promise and Perils of the Economics of the Environment" Thursday, February 9, at 7 p.m. in St. Olaf's Buntrock Commons, Viking Theatre.

Start: Feb 9 2012 7:00 pm

 

The five St. Olaf Art Apprentices will talk about their work exhibited in the Flaten Museum. 

Start: Feb 9 2012 7:00 pm
End: Feb 9 2012 8:00 pm

 

Cost: FREE  Presenter: Katie Milbrett

Essential oils have been used for thousands of years as a safe and natural system that is free from synthetic chemicals, toxins, side effects, and addictions. They can safely aid many health issues. By using pure essential oils, we not only address illnesses and discomforts but actually help to build healthy and resilient bodies. Essential oils promote a household of vibrant health and prevention. Katie is a yoga teacher and essential oils enthusiast.
 
Registration is required. Go to www.justfood.coop to register online or stop by the store at least 72 hours before the event.

Start: Feb 9 2012 8:00 pm

Dan Ariely, psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller “Predictably Irrational,” will speak at Carleton College on Thursday, Feb. 9. Entitled “Free Beer: The Honest Truth about Dishonesty, How We Lie To Everyone—Especially Ourselves,” Ariely’s presentation will take place in Olin Hall, Room 141, and is free and open to the public. Copies of Ariely’s popular books will be available for purchase at the event, and in advance at the Carleton Bookstore, at a 15% discount.

 

Start: Feb 9 2012 8:15 pm

From the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater,The Whitewater Piano Trio will preform. Performers: Leanne League, violin Benjamin Whitcomb, cello Myung Hee Chung, piano

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This exhibit includes work by the art apprentices, who graduated in 2011 and were awarded apprenticeships to work on their portfolios for a year.

 

Flaten Gallery Hours

Monday: 10 am - 5 pm


Tuesday: 10 am - 5 pm


Wednesday: 10 am - 5 pm


Thursday: 10 am - 8 pm


Friday: 10 am - 5 pm


Saturday: 2 pm - 5 pm


Sunday: 2 pm - 5 pm

all day


Oil paintings by Paul Brokken and Carolyn Hartwell, functional and sculptural ceramics by Juliane Shibata.  The Northfield Arts Guild Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday 10am – 3pm.

all day

In the Members’ Room, Joyce Francis exhibits her ink and watercolor paintings.  These works on paper are made using the Zentangle technique, a meditative art form that uses repeating patterns.  The Northfield Arts Guild Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday 10am – 3pm.

all day

Carleton College’s Weitz Center for Creativity is the setting for two new art exhibits opening in January 2012 in the College’s Perlman Teaching Museum.  In the Kaemmer Family Gallery, “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption” presents large but intricate color images based on statistics to visually dramatize aspects of contemporary American culture.  In the adjoining Braucher Gallery, “A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art” reveals the ongoing vitality of the Feminist artist movement with works by 17 contemporary women artists exploring aspects of identity through painting, drawing, needlework, photography and other media. Both exhibits will be on display Friday, January 13 through Sunday, March 11, 2012. Gallery admission is free and open to the public.

 

all day

Arts Guild Member Fred Gustafson shows a series of large-scale plates influenced by traditional Chinese painting styles, including landscape scenes and bamboo motifs.  The Allina gallery is located near the lab waiting area of the clinic at 1440 Jefferson Road.  Hours are 7am – 8pm Monday through Thursday, 7am –7pm Fridays, and 9am – 3pm Saturdays.

all day

William Parry, a London-based photojournalist and auther who contributes regularly to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA), is launching his new book, "Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine," with a U.S. book tour.

His stunning book of photos captures the graffiti and street art that has transformed Israel's apartheid wall in the occupied West Bank in to a living canvas of resistance and solidarity.  Featuring the work of International street artists including Banksy, Ron English Swoon, Faile and Blu, as well as Palestinian artists and international grassroots activists, these photos express outrage, compassion, solidarity, peaceful resistance and touching humor.  

On Thursday 23rd February, at 7:00 pm., in Tomson Hall, Room 280, on the campus of St. Olaf College, William Parry will show slides of his photos and tell the stories behind them 

Start: Feb 10 2012 10:50 am

Michelle Alexander, a civil rights lawyer and scholar currently in residence at Ohio State University, will deliver Carleton College’s convocation address on Friday, February 10. Alexander is the author of “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” (New Press, 2010), which will be the subject of her address, focusing on the continued legacy of discrimination against African Americans, particularly through the mass incarceration of black men. Convocation is held from 10:50-11:50 a.m. in the Skinner Memorial Chapel, and it is free and open to the public. A booksigning will follow Alexander’s presentation and copies of “The New Jim Crow” will be available for purchase at the event.

Start: Feb 10 2012 7:30 pm



Noises Off
February 10, 11, 16, 17, 18 at 7:30pm
February 12 at 2:00 pm
Written by Michael Frayn
Directed by Dan Rathbun
Tickets: $13 Adults  and $8 for children 12 and under. Groups of 10 or more, $1.00 off per ticket. (Groups for same performance only, payment in full at time of purchase.)
Sponsored by Faribault Foods
Part of the 2012 Faribault Daily News Theater Season

Called the “funniest farce ever written,” by the New York Post, NOISES OFF is about an ambitious director and his troupe of mediocre actors.

Start: Feb 10 2012 7:30 pm

 

Musical theater production directed by Professor of Theater, Karen Peterson Wilson '77

Start: Feb 10 2012 7:30 pm

 

The sonatas of J.S. Bach and C.F. Abel; Julie Elhard, viola da gamba; Paul Boehnke, harpsichord      

Start: Feb 10 2012 8:00 pm

Carleton College will host a faculty and guest artist concert featuring the Chiarina Piano Quartet on Friday, Feb. 10 at 8 p.m. in the Concert Hall. Performers include Mary Budd Horozaniecki (violin), Nancy Nehring (viola), Mark Rudoff (cello), and David Viscoli (piano). The program will feature Ludwig van Beethoven’s Quartet in C Major, Lee Hoiby’s Dark Rosaleen, Rhapsody on an Air by James Joyce, and Johannes Brahms’s Quartet in C minor.  This concert is free and open to the public.

Mary Budd Horozaniecki is a well-known performer and also teaches at Macalester College and Augsburg College, along with Carleton College. She is frequently invited to present master classes, recitals, and lectures throughout the United States and Canada. Horozaniecki was educated at Indiana University where she studied with Josef Gingold.

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all day

 

This exhibit includes work by the art apprentices, who graduated in 2011 and were awarded apprenticeships to work on their portfolios for a year.

 

Flaten Gallery Hours

Monday: 10 am - 5 pm


Tuesday: 10 am - 5 pm


Wednesday: 10 am - 5 pm


Thursday: 10 am - 8 pm


Friday: 10 am - 5 pm


Saturday: 2 pm - 5 pm


Sunday: 2 pm - 5 pm

all day


Oil paintings by Paul Brokken and Carolyn Hartwell, functional and sculptural ceramics by Juliane Shibata.  The Northfield Arts Guild Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday 10am – 3pm.

all day

In the Members’ Room, Joyce Francis exhibits her ink and watercolor paintings.  These works on paper are made using the Zentangle technique, a meditative art form that uses repeating patterns.  The Northfield Arts Guild Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday 10am – 3pm.

all day

Carleton College’s Weitz Center for Creativity is the setting for two new art exhibits opening in January 2012 in the College’s Perlman Teaching Museum.  In the Kaemmer Family Gallery, “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption” presents large but intricate color images based on statistics to visually dramatize aspects of contemporary American culture.  In the adjoining Braucher Gallery, “A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art” reveals the ongoing vitality of the Feminist artist movement with works by 17 contemporary women artists exploring aspects of identity through painting, drawing, needlework, photography and other media. Both exhibits will be on display Friday, January 13 through Sunday, March 11, 2012. Gallery admission is free and open to the public.

 

all day

Arts Guild Member Fred Gustafson shows a series of large-scale plates influenced by traditional Chinese painting styles, including landscape scenes and bamboo motifs.  The Allina gallery is located near the lab waiting area of the clinic at 1440 Jefferson Road.  Hours are 7am – 8pm Monday through Thursday, 7am –7pm Fridays, and 9am – 3pm Saturdays.

all day

William Parry, a London-based photojournalist and auther who contributes regularly to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA), is launching his new book, "Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine," with a U.S. book tour.

His stunning book of photos captures the graffiti and street art that has transformed Israel's apartheid wall in the occupied West Bank in to a living canvas of resistance and solidarity.  Featuring the work of International street artists including Banksy, Ron English Swoon, Faile and Blu, as well as Palestinian artists and international grassroots activists, these photos express outrage, compassion, solidarity, peaceful resistance and touching humor.  

On Thursday 23rd February, at 7:00 pm., in Tomson Hall, Room 280, on the campus of St. Olaf College, William Parry will show slides of his photos and tell the stories behind them 

Start: Feb 10 2012 7:30 pm
End: Feb 11 2012 7:30 pm

 

Musical theater production directed by Professor of Theater, Karen Peterson Wilson '77

Start: Feb 11 2012 9:00 am
End: Feb 11 2012 12:00 pm

The Northfield Fine Arts Booster Club is seeking donations of new or used band and orchestra instruments for its new “Instruments for All” program.  An instrument drive is set for Saturday, Feb. 11 from 9 a.m. to noon in the Northfield Middle School cafeteria.  Drop off instruments, supplies and gently used lesson books and receive a receipt for your tax-deductible donation.  A matching grant from the Northfield Area Foundation will double the value of the donations.  The booster club also is accepting cash donations to repair donated instruments.

Start: Feb 11 2012 1:00 pm
End: Feb 11 2012 2:30 pm

Cost: $15/$13 owners  Presenter: Joe Gransee-Bowman

How does energy performance fit into designing a residential living system while integrating the needs for shelter, energy, and food? Learn about air sealing, weatherization improvements, safety concerns, and the services energy auditors and insulation crews provide. A possible opportunity to participate in a hands-on session in someone's home will also be discussed. This is optional and will be organized by the instructor. Joe is a local Sustainable Design Consultant.
 
Registration is required. Go to www.justfood.coop to register online or stop by the store at least 72 hours before the event.
Start: Feb 11 2012 1:00 pm

 

Volunteer Network's annual Fly-In is a child-focused event. The aeronautic related activities are designed to educate children about aviation and engineering.   

Start: Feb 11 2012 7:00 pm
End: Feb 11 2012 11:00 pm

 

Interfaith Event Planned in Support of Marriage Equality


Rainbow Community Celebration: Marriage Equality From the Heart
Saturday 7pm February 11, 2012
1st United Church of Christ

Contact: Suzannah Ciernia, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Church, 507-786-3366

Rainbow Community Celebration Interfaith Planning Committee, Northfield, MN
 

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