RED WING OPENS A POP UP REGIONAL ARTS GALLERY
Red Wing Downtown Main Street presents:
"ART: The Replacement of Vacancy With Attention"
Twenty-five regional artists and craftspeople have been invited to fill an empty downtown space with fine art, handcrafts and occasional music. Downtown Main Street, charged with driving economic development within Red Wing’ three, historic districts, is trans
forming a vacant, retail space along the main street of Red Wing, Highway 61. The Pop –Up, open three months for only twenty-five days, will be in a space that has been closed, dark and non productive. It will become an art gallery filled with paintings, ceramics, mixed media, photography, handcrafts, jewelry and books. Music will be part of the space, with musicians staged on a raised, front window platform. Artists will also do rare demos in a similar raised space, capturing pedestrian and in –gallery curiosity. Artists include painters Dan Weimer, David Culver, Dan Lager and Art Kenyon, Deaf artist Cynthia Weitzel, book author and illustrator Lauren Stringer, sculptors Al Wadzinski and Richard Spiller, photographers Chap Achen and J. Nathaniel Dicke, bead and found object artist Pat Kraemer, ceramicist Matthew Krousey and Ingrid Rogers, letterpress by Richard Stephens, mixed media artist Mark Abrahamson and fabric artist Maurice Stenerson. Southern Minnesota crafts include felt wool mittens, rug and quilt makers, one-of a kind Red Wing Pottery, and toys from Lark Toys.
“We have a need in this community for both residents and visitors to more fully engage and experience art. Within fifty miles there is a mother lode of artists and craftspeople that normally are not given an opportunity of this sort,” explains Downtown Main Street Executive Director Wendy Ward. The space will offer everything from unique small art gifts, uncommon, regional crafts, large- scale work and pieces that likely will leave a lasting impression on viewers. As important as the making of more space for art is the filling of an empty store with business, a needed, exciting business. The idea to fill one of Red Wing’s vacant spaces revolves around the Pop-Up’s ironic but perfect definition of art being the Replacement of Vacancy with Attention. Pop Up Hours:
OCT 3-12: Fridays 3-7, Saturdays 11-5, Sundays 11-2
GRAND OPENING - OCT 17th , 5-8 pm. OCT 18-NOV 22: Saturdays 11-5
NOV 28-DEC 21: Fridays 3-7, Saturdays 11-5, Sundays 11-2
And, by Appointment
More info please contact [email protected] or (651) 301-0633
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About Downtown Main Street Red Wing: Downtown Main Street’s mission is to tangibly and progressively revitalize the three historic districts of Red Wing.
