Tag Archives: art

Video: Day of the Dead steamroller print creation

ArtOrg Exec. Director Dave Machacek saw my post about art on the walls of local businesses and gave me a heads-up on this 6 minute Google video, created by ArtOrg board member Greg Mattern who works at HDMG, a video post-production house in Eden Prairie.

Click play to watch. 6 minutes.
This video shows the creation [...]

Art on the walls of local businesses

Left: On page 3 of this month’s Northfield Entertainment Guide (NEG), local businesses that display local artists on their walls are listed. Click image to enlarge the screenshot.Right: Fred Somers with some of his paintings currently on display at the James Gang HideAway. Fred’s got a class starting next week, “Instruction in oil and [...]

Challenge for an Arts Town

Thank God, I’m not alone in the universe… There’s at least one other human being out there who thinks like I do. Witness the new design for a cell tower in Oceanside, CA.

Now, if only we had some of our local artists working on new designs for the wind [...]

Holiday reefer madness

Robbie and I stopped by the NAG last night during Winter Walk to check out the Festival of Trees from last Saturday’s event that we missed. I saw that my barber and Hodge Podge Que co-owner Jerry Nord was the creator of one of the trees (left photo, click to enlarge) that ended [...]

Something Else To Do With Sidewalks

We can walk on them, dine on them (well, maybe someday), and we can……create art on them?
Recently, I saw some photos of the Sacramento Chalk-It-Up festival, which brings out the artist in everyone. The Sacramento event is a fund-raiser for education and the arts, and the sidewalk art created over Labor Day weekend is left [...]