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Please join us this Thursday, December 8 from 6 - 8 PM for the opening receptions of three new exhibitions:
- Greg Lecker "Watershed"
- Joshua Bindewald "Muchness"
- Reveal: Adult Art Students & Their Instructors - Hopkins Community Education
Receptions are free and open to the public, and offer the opportunity to meet the artists in addition to socialize and enjoy the art.
Two of the Member Artist Spotlights will also have artist receptions on December 8th, please see information below for further details.
You're also invited to upcoming Artist Talks:
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Friday, December 9 at 2 PM: Susan Phelps Pearson will speak about her illustrated book, Christmas on Homedale Road in the Community Room.
- Monday, December 12 at 10 AM: Joshua Bindewald
- Monday, December 19 at 10 AM: Greg Lecker
Due to limited seating, reservations are required to attend Artist Talks. If you wish to attend, please email Jim Clark.
In addition to exhibition information, you'll also find information about upcoming concerts. It's a great time to buy tickets for yourself or gifts for the music lovers in your life.
Wishing you greetings of the season. We look forward to seeing you soon,
Lynn Anderson
Executive Director
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Art Exhibitions
December 8, 2022 - January 7, 2023
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 8, 6 - 8 PM
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Greg Lecker
'Watershed'
Greg Lecker’s art transports viewers to natural & inhabited settings filled with motion, emotion, and color. Energetic chaos up close; then coming together as light & objects when viewed from a distance.
This body of work originated during artist residencies Lecker completed on both the Mississippi and St. Croix Rivers. Funded in part by a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, he traveled across Minnesota painting the major watersheds: the Mississippi River, Lake Superior and the Red River of the North while engaging passersby. The resulting paintings embody the physicality of exploring water and its environment.
Artist Talk: Monday, December 19 at 10am. To reserve a seat please email jclark@hopkinsmn.com
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Joshua Bindewald
'Muchness'
Joshua Bindewald creates active, maximal images that reference natural and developed environments.
Approached in playful and intuitive spirit, he composes prints, collages, and paintings that are a distillation of the splendor he finds in the natural world, the need for order imposed by humankind, and the resulting discord. This embedded contradiction reinforces the oft-conflicting emotions informing it. The resulting art contains the power to enchant, intended to separate the viewer from all context and provide an undefinable but beneficial type of nourishment.
Artist Talk: Monday, December 12 at 10am. To reserve a seat please email jclark@hopkinsmn.com
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Reveal: Adult Art Students & Their Instructors - Hopkins Community Education
Reveal features the work of Hopkins Community Education adult students and instructors. Hopkins Community Education, a component of Hopkins Public Schools, strives to create meaningful opportunities for lifelong learning, connection, and engagement within our community.
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Friends’ members are eligible to apply for a Member Spotlight which are displayed at Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins Activity Center, Cream & Amber, and Morrie's Subaru of Minnetonka.
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Mary Ann Rolloff
Cream & Amber
1605 Mainstreet
Artist Statement: My goal in painting is to capture the spirit of the natural landscape. I work in oil and sometimes cold wax on canvas, board, or paper. I usually start with inspiration from a photo of my own, a photo from another source, a memory, or some combination.
I most enjoy the early stages of a painting. I love the blending of the early colors to create the atmosphere that will pervade the finished painting. I am not a detail painter or an accomplished illustrator; I am a painter who wants to produce beauty.
My landscape paintings, including the nearly abstract ones, ask the viewer to fill in a layer of personal reference and possibility. I believe there is a universal comfort in the visual poetry of landscape painting.
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Susan Phelps Pearson
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Susan will be in attendance for receptions on December 8, and will be presenting on her book project Dec. 9.
Christmas on Homedale Road
I started this book 22 years ago. After making a few paintings, I decided to leave the project. When I got an iPad Pro and Procreate in 2020, I started again. Drawing on the iPad was exciting because it was easy to add, delete, restore, and restart from where I had been working.
Pearson has published two other books: 80 for 80: a catalogue of her retrospective exhibit and England & Scotland: A collaboration of paintings and poetry with her husband Doug Pearson.
Susan will speak about Christmas on Homedale Road on Friday, December 9 at 2pm in the Community Room.
To reserve a seat please email jclark@hopkinsmn.com
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Marshall Davis
Hopkins Activity Center
33-14th Avenue N
Marshall will have an artist reception on December 8, from 11am - 1pm at the Hopkins Activity Center.
Artist Statement: I love taking photographs of the world around me as it actually exists. But in addition to that, I love using photography as a medium to manipulate and create images that are out of the ordinary. The work in this collection includes mirror collage images and more traditional photographs. I particularly like capturing the beauty of what exists in nature, and also adding a touch of surrealism and sometimes mystical nature to the images.
All of these creations are from my own original photographs edited in Photoshop.
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Box Office
952-548-6490
Tuesday - Friday: 12 noon - 4 pm
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Farewell Milwaukee
January 12, 2023 at 7pm
A mainstay of the Minneapolis music scene, Farewell Milwaukee has opened for the Lumineers (among others.) Beloved for their authentic lyrics, lush vocal harmonies and an honest sincerity at live shows. Here's your chance to see them up close.
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Kevin Washington & Ra Spirit
January 19, 2023 at 7pm
One of the Twin Cities most versatile musicians, Washington takes his music to a new level, incorporating Afro-Latin, hip hop and R&B beats to jazz from the past. His work captures the spirit of African and African American music, while making it his own.
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Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives
Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 8 PM
Five-time Grammy winner, platinum recording artist, and AMA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Marty Stuart, has long been revered as one of the most accomplished singers in country music. From his beginnings as a 13-year old mandolin player in Lester Flatt’s band, to touring with Johnny Cash and solo country hits in the early 1990s, Stuart has mastered every conceivable musical style from gospel to bluegrass to hillbilly rock. With the talented Fabulous Superlatives along for the ride, this singer-songwriter celebrates American roots music and lights up the stage with rockabilly, honky tonk and traditional country music.
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Ruthie Foster
Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 8 PM
Ruthie Foster is a four-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter who mixes a wide palette of American song forms, from gospel and blues to jazz, folk and soul. Described by Rolling Stone as “pure magic to watch and hear,” her vocal talent was elevated in worship services at her community church. Drawing influence from legendary acts like Mavis Staples and Aretha Franklin, Foster developed a unique sound unable to be contained within a single genre. That uniqueness echoes a common theme in Ruthie’s life and career - marching to the beat of her own drum. Ruthie’s new album “Healing Time” is out November 18th.
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Pure Prairie League
Saturday March 18, 2023 at 8 PM
Country rockers Pure Prairie League took their name from an obscure 19th century Temperance Union mentioned in the 1939 film, “Dodge City.” But this distinctly American band, with it’s 50 year career and long line of top hits, escaped obscurity long ago. Although fan favorites right out of the gate it took a number of years before PPL, formed by vocalist/guitar player Craig Fuller, had their first hit.
They couldn’t have picked a better way to start, and “AIMEE” not only put PPL on the map, but went onto become perhaps the most well-known and beloved country rock song of all time. Somewhere along the line Fuller left to replace Lowell George in Little Feat, but PPL continued to grow and prosper, with Mike Reilly as well as Country superstar Vince Gill, who was part of the band for a short time. Fuller eventually came back, and stayed for over a decade. Although Fuller is retired from full time touring, he sometimes joins the band for occasional shows. PPL continues to tour and treat their legions of loyal fans to music that sounds as good today as it did when it was first performed.
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Box Office
952-548-6490
Tuesday - Friday: 12 noon - 4 pm
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Activities are made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
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