Visual Arts — Aug. 17

AITKIN
Ripple River Gallery
27591 Partridge Ave.

For John Pearson, making art is a process of continual discovery. From selecting and photographing a subject, to exploring the ossibilities of polymer photogravure, printmaking allows him to develop the potential of the medium.

His work will be featured at the Ripple River Gallery from Wednesday, Aug. 17 through Sept. 11.

Since 2015, Pearson has been working in the medium of polymer photogravure, aprintmaking process in which digital photos are transferred to photosensitive plates. The plates are then inked, wiped, and printed on a hand-operated intaglio press.

“I am drawn to this medium because it brings the warmth, colors, and textures of intaglio printmaking to theimmediacy and veracity of digital photography. I’m still discovering the full range of expression the medium offers," Pearson stated in a news release.

A graduate of Minneapolis College of Art and Design and a member of Highpoint Printmaking Collective, Pearson has combined his interest in the natural environ- ment with his art practice. He pursued an internship at the Environmental Learning Center in Isabella (now Wolf Ridge Environmental Center).

The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. For more information, call 218-678-2575, email ripplerivergallery@gmail.com or visit www.ripplerivergallery.com .

BRAINERD
Brainerd Public Library
416 S. Fifth St.

A new exhibit of artwork by Nichole Delafield is on display at the Brainerd Public Library through September. The exhibit includes 14 pieces of watercolor prints and one acrylic mixed media artwork.

Delafield was an art teacher for 25 years, and she shares her love for art through private lessons, summer camps and elementary school programs. She is a docent at The Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, Florida.

Her work includes fine art with pastels, watercolor and acrylic. She also enjoys sharing her love of art and design through her signature hand painted silks. Design work for women includes clothing and accessories featuring these distinctive pieces.

Delafield is a graduate of the University of Maryland with a degree in fashion design. Experience includes work in bridal design, children’s wear and clothing for women under her own label. Delafield sells her women’s wear collection exclusively at Jarboe.

Her fine art work includes nature studies in pastel, rendered with the soft richness of pastel chalk. Delafield’s fine art work has been exhibited and sold in galleries and hangs in private collections.

Writing is another form of expression for Delafield. “Gull Lake Memories: A Kayaking Adventure” is a travel journal and memoir sharing stories and paintings from the historic Brainerd lakes area.

The Crossing Arts Alliance
711 Laurel St.

“Wowicakekage: Weaving Realities” is a traveling exhibit of Wicanhpi Iyotan Win (Autumn Cavender)’s explorations and experimental applications of digital and generative art practices within a Dakota context.

This exhibit highlights just one of the generative processes that Autumn has explored and developed and opened earlier at The Crossing Arts Alliance in downtown Brainerd.

Much of her practice is rooted in an exploration of traditional Dakota artistic methodology, centering around quillwork as a method of recording-keeping and encoding data into design. Traditional designs depict and encode cosmological concepts, personal events and connections to land and ancestors.

She explores innovative ways to digitally generate Dakota geometrics and designs that retain their original function as informational carriers. Wowicakekage highlights her process of “generative quillwork” as both a digital and ancestral technology.

From the perspective and principles of Dakota aesthetics, it is a way of depicting how the sounds of songs and stories reverberate through space, and a Dakota sense of direction and visualizations.

And as a quillworking methodology, it is a way of encoding words, songs, and stories into color schemes, patterns and designs.

For more information about the exhibit, which will be on display until Aug. 27, contact Crossing Arts at 218-833-0416 or info@crossingarts.org .

CROSBY
Jessie F. Hallett Memorial Library
101 Main St.

“Nature Perspectives: The Landscape Photography of Donald Phillips” will be on display at the Jessie F. Hallett Memorial Library in Crosby through Aug. 31.

The exhibit highlights 20 black-and-white photographs by Phillips, a former Emily resident, from the Little Pine Route farm, the St. Croix Scenic Waterway and Fort Snelling’s Pike Island.

Library hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

For more information about the library, visit hallettlibrary.org .

LITTLE FALLS
Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum
2151 Lindbergh Drive S.

“Good People: A Photographic Exploration of Morrison County” by Anthony Marchetti will be on display at the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum in Little Falls until Dec. 31.

For more information about the event and Marchetti, call 320-632-4007, email staff@morrisoncountyhistory.org or visit morrisoncountyhistory.org .

Great River Arts
122 First St. SE

The exhibit “30 Countries in 30 years” by Autumn Carolynn and “Phenomenal Consciousness” by Danniella Mortezaee, which will be on display until Aug. 26.

Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays

For more information, call 320-632-0960, email info@greatart.org or visit www.greatart.org .

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