Nestled among the book collection, easel – Experience Art in Southeaster Libraries – is on display at the Hokah Public Library.  The Hokah location is the smallest community on the traveling art exhibit schedule.  The exhibit will be on display from April 5 through May 16 and includes 33 original pieces featuring a wide variety of artistic styles and media formats.  Whether an oil painting, fabric art, and/or a ceramic piece, each depicts the artist’s interpretation of easel’s theme — books, letter or letters, authors, or the library.

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easel is funded in part or in whole with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage fund through a Library Legacy grant to SELCO from the Minnesota Legislature for Library Legacy programs and services.

While winter may seem to be unending in 2013, easel - Experience Art in Southeastern Libraries – adds a spark of brightness in the newly painted Bell Art Room of the Winona Public Library.  The traveling art exhibit will be at the Library from February 21 through April 4.  Stop in!

The works feature the artistic interpretation of easel‘s library-related themes: books, authors, letter or letters, or libraries as presented by artists living in the 11-southeastern Minnesota counties.  The art work was submitted in December 2011 and judge by a select panel.  The easel tour began January 2012 and will conclude June 2013.  After six weeks in Winona, easel will be installed at two remaining public libraries.

As a new addition to this semester’s offerings, easel - Experience Art in Southeastern Libraries – has moved to Crossroads College in Rochester, Minnesota.  SEMVA artists installed the exhibit on Janaury 9.  The easel works of art will be on display through February 20, 2013.  This Arts and Cultural Heritage Library Legacy project was organized on campus by library staff and the college administration.  Members of the public are welcome to visit the College and enjoy the locally created artistic items along with the students and faculty.

The Buckham Memorial Library has posted a YouTube video of the easel exhibit as it was installed in Faribault.  From curbside delivery and unpacking crates through assembling pedestals and the temporary hanging system to final a final transformation of a hallway into an art gallery.

Click here to view the easel video.

For photos of the easel exhibit on location from November 28, 2012 – January 8, 2013 at the Buckham Memorial Library in Faribault, click here.

SELCO’s traveling easel exhibit now graces a corridor of the Buckham Memorial Library in Faribault.  Installed by SEMVA artists on November 28, the collection of artwork created by artists from the 11 southeastern counties is displayed on walls and gallery pedestals between the library and the community center.  The exhibit will remain on site into the new year.  Visit the Buckham Memorial Library between November 28 – January 8 and enjoy!

For more photos taken while easel is at the Buckham Memorial Library, click here.

easel is presented in cooperation with SEMVA – Southeastern Minnesota Visual Artists.

easel is funded in part or in whole with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage fund through a Library Legacy grant to SELCO from the Minnesota Legislature for Library Legacy programs and services.

SELCO’s traveling art exhibit, easel – Experience Art in Southeastern Libraries, has an expanded purpose.  While on display in the school library at the Kasson Mantorville High School the locally produced art pieces will be incorporated into the art curriculum.  Students and faculty members will reflect on their own interpretations of the exhibit’s themes:  books, letter or letters, libraries, authors, or reading, as well as those represented the 33 featured artists.  Publicity for the easel exhibit has been widely distributed throughout the community and even shared among the local Ministers’ Group.

The traveling art exhibit, easel – Experience Art in Southeastern Minnesota Libraries, is on campus at the Rochester Community and Technical College.  The URC Gallery buzzed with students and faculty at a recent gallery talk and reception on September 27, 2012.  Two easel artists, Mari Fleming and Jeff Jacobsen, were featured with their easel submissions.  SEMVA Past President, Richard Hutton, provided an introduction to the exhibit, now it its second biennium.

easel will remain at RCTC through October 14, 2012 with additional locations yet this year at the Kasson Mantorville High School (October 16 – November 27) and Buckham Memorial Library in Faribault from November 28, 2012 – January 8, 2013.

For more photos taken while easel is at the University Center Rochester Gallery at Rochester Community and Technical College, click here.
easel is presented in cooperation with SEMVA – Southeastern Minnesota Visual Artists.

easel is funded in part or in whole with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage fund through a Library Legacy grant to SELCO from the Minnesota Legislature for Library Legacy programs and services.

Just in time for the start of the 2012-2013 fall term, SEMVA representatives installed easel in the University Center Rochester Gallery at Rochester Community and Technical College.  The college art department will use the exhibit as a teachable moment, integrating information about artistic styles and media into instructional information.  On September 27, easel artists will provide a gallery talk and offer specific details about their piece and their depiction easel’s theme of reading, books, letters, authors, or the library within the size limitation of 12 inches by 12 inches.

For more photos taken while easel is at the University Center Rochester Gallery at Rochester Community and Technical College, click here.

easel is presented in cooperation with SEMVA – Southeastern Minnesota Visual Artists.
easel is funded in part or in whole with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage fund through a Library Legacy grant to SELCO from the Minnesota Legislature for Library Legacy programs and services.

Owatonna resident and easel artist, Jean Zamboni, recently visited the Owatonna Art Center.  Jean is one of 33 artists in southeastern Minnesota who met SELCO’s challenge to depict an artistic vision of books, letters, reading, authors, or the library in a 12 inch by 12 inch format.  Together, the artwork selected by a panel of judges makes up easel – Experience Art in Southeastern Libraries.

The Zamboni illustration is titled “Franchino Gaffurio’s Inspiration” and was handset and printed at OZ Press studio in Owatonna.  The silk screen print includes an illustration of an old pipe organ and an original poem about music that once served as a Christmas card.

The easel traveling art exhibit will be on display at the Owatonna Art Center from July 20 through August 31 and is being undertaken in partnership with the Owatonna Public Library.

easel is presented in cooperation with SEMVA – Southeastern Minnesota Visual Artists.

easel is funded in part or in whole with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage fund through a Library Legacy grant to SELCO from the Minnesota Legislature for Library Legacy programs and services.