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Out of the Blue Post Card
Spectrum ArtWorks
Out of the Blue
February 20 – March 27, 2009
Gage Family Art Gallery
Augsburg College
Opening reception: Friday, February 20, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Artists’ presentation: Thursday, February 26, 1:30 p.m.
Adeline Johnson Conference Center, Oren Gateway Center
Out of the Blue features a variety of mixed media work by members of
Spectrum ArtWorks. These artists frequently exhibit together, some of
their shows dealing expressly with the experience of living with
mental illness and some not. In Out of the Blue, Spectrum ArtWorks
artists will take the opportunity to each display a significant new
piece of work that highlights their own personal style while finding a
common thread and theme in the blues: blue as a color, the blues as
music and as a state of mind passed through by all.
Several participating artists and Amy Rice, Spectrum ArtWorks Program
Manager, will be discussing the exhibition on Thursday, February 26 at
1:30 p.m.
Spectrum ArtWorks is a non-profit visual art organization in the heart
of Minneapolis that provides studio space and community for artists
living with a mental illness. In addition to producing amazing art
Spectrum ArtWorks Artists work to educate the public about mental
illness and in doing so break down the stigma associated with the
disease.
In 2005 Spectrum ArtWorks received national recognition with the Eli
Lilly “Moving Lives Forward Award”, in 2006 the VSA of Minnesota gave
Spectrum ArtWorks an Arts Accessibility Award for making the arts more
accessible to people with disabilities, and NAMI (National Alliance
for Mental Illness) gave Amy Rice, Spectrum ArtWorks Program Manager
(and Augsburg alumna), the Mental Health Provider of the Year Award.
Spectrum ArtWorks is a division of RESOURCE—a private, nonprofit,
United Way agency that provides services in the areas of employment,
training, chemical health, and mental health. Spectrum services are
funded by Hennepin County, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development, Greater Twin Cities United Way, community foundations,
and private donors.
All events are free and open to the public.
Gage Family Art Gallery
First floor, Oren Gateway Center
22nd Ave S. at Riverside Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55454
612-330-1524
Gallery hours:
Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
(Gallery will be open reduced hours over spring break, March 14-22)
art:
Christi Furnas, Ruth and the Blue River, Oil on Canvas
Frannie Traphagen, Blue Moon Dream (detail)
Audrey Bernard, Blue with Baloon, Mixed media
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