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September 27 - October 26, 2024

2024 RED WING ARTS PLEIN AIR

June 8-22 / Artists Paint Red Wing

June 22, 9-11 am / Quick Paint

June 22, 6-8 pm / First Glimpse & Awards Reception

June 22-Aug 18 / On Exhibit

EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION

Opening reception: Friday,  June 7, 4-7pm

Annual Landscape Show

Featuring: Joshua Cunningham, Jennifer Drinkwater, Dave Gordinier, Emily Milewsky, John P. Moench, and Joseph Theroux

SPRING/ SUMMER

SHOWCASE OPENING

MPAC is a collaboration of Outdoor Painters of Minnesota, Red Wing Arts, and Art of the Lakes Association to mount an annual exhibit in different Minnesota venues to showcase paintings created in the organizations' annual plein air events in Grand Marais, Red Wing, and Battle Lake. MPAC seeks to raise awareness of our plein air events and appreciation of our State's dedicated plein air painters through their depiction of landscapes in the North Shore, Driftless Area, and Prairie Lakes regions.

Groveland Gallery is pleased to present, Time Taken, an exhibition of 20-30 new and recent plein-air and studio paintings by Saint Paul artist Joshua Cunningham.

“Imagine the anticipation, excitement, and anxiousness of not knowing what you were about to see, but knowing the world was going to offer you something you’d either spend the morning painting or the rest of the day kicking yourself for not taking the time to answer the invitation of light, shadow, and air. On my way to these places, I left trails in the snow, slid down riverbanks, and sunk into a drift of polished pebbles along Lake Superior. I took my time picking my path, crossing a stream, and following hunches down dusty roads, trusting I would end up where I was meant to be so that I could share it with you.”

The Almenara Art Prize

2023 Exhibition

September 29 to October 31

The Minnesota Marine Art Museum is proud to be a presenting partner of the River Arts Alliance’s inaugural event, Flora & Fauna - The Plein Air Experience, on September 28 - October 1, 2023, in Winona, MN. Featuring workshops led by renowned artists Fred Somers, Kami Mendlik, and David R. Smith, a weekend-long invitational plein-air exhibition, presentations, and a public opening reception. All centered around the celebration of the Upper Mississippi’s flora and fauna and presented en plein air.

We welcome plein air artists from near and far to take part in Flora & Fauna: The Plein Air Experience, 2023 by spending time painting outdoors in and around the Winona community during these four days. Paint along during one of the demonstrations above, or at a time and place of your choosing.

Each day is unique and subject to the time, place, and weather. In this workshop, Joshua Cunningham will share how some foundational principles of the prismatic palette can deepen our understanding of how light and air reveal the world, helping us see and share in the gift of each day. Adults of all skill levels are welcome. It is my hope for you to have at least started several field studies during your time with me. While you are painting, I will go around offering assistance with the goal of helping and encouraging each of you to navigate the specific scene you chose to paint.

RED WING ARTS

17TH ANNUAL PLEIN AIR

June 10-22 / Artists Paint Red Wing

June 23, 6-9pm / First Glimpse & Awards Reception

June 24-August 20 / On Exhibit

“To promote the appreciation of American Impressionism through exhibitions, workshops, programs and other media.”

American Impressionist Society Inc.

PO Box 27818,

Omaha NE 68127

The Richeson75 competitions are meant to offer a venue in which established and emerging artists may show their latest, best work to a wide and appreciative audience. The 75 finalists for each regular contest will exhibit their work in our beautiful Richeson Gallery and in the online exhibit.

New works will be hung throughout the six-week exhibition. The show will be comprised of many paintings, drawings, watercolors and original prints. Included will be work by well-known Groveland Gallery artists: Michael Banning, William Barnes, Carolyn Brunelle, Gary Bowling, Joseph Byrne, Joshua Cunningham, Greg Graham, Susan Horn, Mark Horton, Stuart Loughridge, Mike Lynch, Charles Lyon, Joyce Lyon, Rod Massey, Jill Michell, Dan O’Kane, Carl Oltvedt, Amy Rice, Larry Welo, and Clara Ueland.

Mary Williams Fine Arts

Boulder, Colorado

September 15-October 22, 2022

Events: July 24-30, 2022
Online Exhibition & Sale: July 31-Aug 14

The Door County Plein Air Festival presented by Peninsula School of Art celebrates the tradition of outdoor painting with some of the finest painters from across the country. 34 artists will put brush to canvas, capturing the summer light over the waters and fields of Door County, Wisconsin. Painting from life and the landscape has long been a Door County tradition, and one that has endured evolving styles. The festival’s painters bring a fresh eye to the changing lights and colors, and a variety of styles that draw from the rich traditions of plein air painting.

Into Nature Reception and Award Ceremony:

Wednesday, June 22, 2022, 6:30-8:30 PM,

Artist Talk with Spencer Meagher at 7:00 PM

All plein air works will be displayed in WBCA's Ford Family gallery until June 24. Selected works will be displayed in the Exhibition Hall until August 25.

Oil Painters of America (OPA) will hold its 31st National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils at the Steamboat Art Museum in Steamboat Springs, Colorado from June 3 through August 27, 2022.

Annual Landscape Show

Opening reception Friday, May 27th, 5-7pm.

Group exhibition featuring

Jeff Baldus, Joshua Cunningham, Barbara Fedeler, Dave Gordinier, and John Moench.

Further In

“If your son is an artist, what’s he doing in a machine shop?”

This was the question folk singer Greg Brown posed to my dad, signing a CD for me, after my dad explained why I couldn’t be at the concert.

It’s a good question, so much so that my dad made sure to pass it on.

I did not storm the gates or charge down the path to be an artist. I was slow, filled with just enough courage to overcome my fears, just enough hope to quell my doubts, just enough grace to grow my gifts.

In this show, you see the paintings born of moving further into a deepening gratitude for all those artists who’ve come before and mentored those who taught me. I am not talking about something as shallow as pedigree, but rather teaching more this year has deepened my gratitude for the sacrifices and energy that my mentors put into my training, their mentors into them, and so it goes back for generations.

In this show are paintings that were started long before I knew how to finish them, waiting for me to return with an answer to their invitation. There are pieces created over half a dozen visits to the same place at the same time, night after night, and still didn’t yield their secret until a year later. Other pieces came off the brush like a balloon, fully formed and as natural as breathing. With each of them, I was invited further in.

This show is not a demonstration of talent or an exploration of theory. It is an open-hearted response to the potential I experienced in the world around us with the aim of sharing it with you.

So, I hope you’ll join me, twenty some years later, as I keep walking Further In.

A Minnesota native from rural Isanti County, Joshua Cunningham currently lives and works in St. Paul. His paintings can be found in private collections throughout the US, and since his last show in March of 2020, his work has been juried into regional and national shows, American Impressionist Society, Oil Painters of America, The American Tonalist Society, Into Nature: International National Plein Air Competition, The Great American Paint In. His work has garnered Best Plein Air from Plein Air Magazine’s Salon Competition, the Paul S Kramer Award at the Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts, 2nd Place Richeson International Landscape Competition, 1st Place in 2021 Door County Plein Air Festival, 2nd Place in Red Wing Arts Association Plein Festival and Best of Show in their Plein Air Autumn Invitational, and 2nd Place for Plein Air in 15th Annual Art Renewal Center International Salon which was exhibited in New York and Spain. You may recognize his voice from MPR Art Hounds, where Joshua has done several spots celebrating his fellow artists. This is Joshua’s fourth solo show since joining Groveland Gallery in 2017.

CLASS DESCRIPTION

Explore painting outside and capture the beauty of summer in Bayfield on your canvas. This two-day retreat is an exploration of the joys of plein air painting, and may also include time inside the Wild Rice Retreat studio and the opportunity to paint the moonrise which is scheduled to occur on Sunday evening.

DOOR COUNTY

PLEIN AIR FESTIVAL

34 Artists - 7 Days - 200 Works of Art

Events: July 25 - 32

Exhibition: August 1-14

The Door County Plein Air Festival presented by Peninsula School of Art celebrates the tradition of outdoor painting with some of the finest painters from across the country. 34 artists will put brush to canvas, capturing the summer light over the waters and fields of Door County, Wisconsin. Painting from life and the landscape has long been a Door County tradition and one that has endured evolving styles. The festival’s painters bring a fresh eye to the changing lights and colors, and a variety of styles that draw from the rich traditions of plein air painting.

Joshua will outline his approach, review equipment, and demonstrate his technique. Students will have ample time to paint and will start three to four studies throughout the course of the weekend.

It is Joshua’s goal to help you deepen your connection to what you are painting by understanding what you are seeing.

Twenty-one of the region’s most recognized Plein air artists (Plein air is French for “outdoors”) are participating in the community event, which opened for painting “recognizable Red Wing” on October 1 and will wrap up on November 15. An exhibition and sale of the scenic artwork will begin November 27 during Red Wing’s Holiday Stroll and will be on display at the RWA Depot Gallery through January 16, 2021.