Spring, Summer, and Fall 2023 Season
May:
The Smallest Art Gallery
Is Exhibiting the
Artwork of
Kathleen Marihart
Owner, Artist, and Proprietor
Title of Art Exhibit:
Whimsy with a Splash of Unexpected
Art Exhibit Dates:
Saturday, May 20th
to Sunday, June 11th, 2023
June:
5th Annual
Big Stone Lake Regional Art Crawl
Saturday, June 10th 2023
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Kathleen Marihart
will be located at The Smallest Art Gallery
The 5th Annual Big Stone Lake Regional Art Crawl,
Saturday, June 10th 2023
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
This art crawl will showcase a variety of art and artists from the Big Stone region. The artist will be on hand to meet with visitors and discuss their work. The Big Stone Lake Regional Art Crawl is an event where visitors can mingle, stroll, eat, and shop in downtown Ortonville, Minnesota.
Some of the art showcased:
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Along with being a fun weekend it is also an opportunity to foster relationships between the arts community and the citizens of the surrounding area.
The Smallest Art Gallery
Is Hosting
M. E. Fuller
Title of Art Exhibit:
Small Abstract Works
on Canvas and Paper
In Person Artist Reception:
Wednesday, June 14th
From 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Art Exhibit Dates:
Wednesday, June 14th
to Saturday, July 15th 2023
About me:
My name is Kathleen Marihart. I have purchased and renovated two buildings in downtown Ortonville. This will be an exciting new art location for our region.
The first half of my life I was an elementary school teacher, then after 25 years, I went back to school and received a Masters of Education and a Reading Recovery Certificate. I have been a Reading Recovery and Guided Reading teacher since 2001. My specialty is teaching reading strategies. I retired from teaching in the spring of 2020.
In addition to having a professional life, I have been a life long artist. I have taken many art classes. I am a self taught artist who has explored all types of artistic expression over my life-
I am very excited to offer a variety of art classes during the summer season.
There are a number of very talented artists exhibiting this season at The Smallest Art Gallery. Please stop in the art gallery during the artist reception and meet and visit with the artists.
A number of art classes will be offered this season.
I look forward to having you in the classes! Please feel free to stop by the gallery and introduce yourself.
I am delighted to be the owner of an art gallery in Ortonville, Minnesota!
Please check out the web page:
www.thesmallestartgallery.com
and like us on Facebook!
July:
Accordion Book Making Class with Phyllis Joos
Awesome Adventure in Accordion Book Making
Phyllis Joos is a printmaker and book artist from Hancock, Minnesota. Phyllis will be giving a hands-
Phyllis will provide beautiful hand-
All supplies provided.
Instructor: Phyllis Joos
Class size: Maximum 6 / Minimum 3
Adult’s class information:
Age: 15 years and up
Friday, June 23rd, 2023
Class Fee: $68.00
To register for a class, please contact:
Kathleen Marihart 320-
For class fees payment, please mailing check to:
The Smallest Art Gallery
118 – 2nd Street NW
Ortonville, MN 56278
Please make your check out to:
The Smallest Art Gallery
Please list the class you’re interested in on the memo line.
If you are interested in more than one class
please write a separate check for each class.
Please note: Class fees are non-
If there is a wait list, and I can fill your position,
your class fee will be returned.
If the class is canceled
then I will send you back your check.
Please note:
If you are looking for information about:
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Phyllis Joos’ Awesome Adventures in Accordion Book Making
You will need to scroll down the page.
The Smallest Art Gallery
Is Hosting
Mary Buckmiller
Title of Art Exhibit:
From Here to There and Everywhere in Between
Art Exhibit Dates:
Saturday, July 22nd
to Saturday, September 2nd
In Person Artist Reception:
Saturday, July 22nd, 2023
Time: 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
The Smallest Art Gallery
is proud to announce
this year’s Exhibiting
Artists, Art Instructors, Authors and Illustrator
M. E.
Fuller
Abstract
Visual
Artist
Mary
Buckmiller
Eclectic uses of mediums both traditional and contemporary themed
Artist
Kristin
Peterson
Vintage collage and mixed media
Visiting Artist
in 2023
The Smallest Art Gallery
is excited to have
Phyllis Joos
is back for a 6th year of teaching her Awesome Adventures in Accordion Book Making class!
Date: Friday, June 23rd, 2023
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
June/July
July/August
Visiting Art Instructors
Phyllis
Joos
Bookmaker
Visiting Artist
in 2023
Testimonial:
I took two of Phyllis’ classes on bookmaking and each time I came away with feelings of happiness and self-
Chrisy Krogstad
The Smallest Art Gallery
Is excited to have
Kristin Peterson
She is back in 2023
for a 3rd year of teaching!
Art Workshop:
Feel of Cardboard
Date: Saturday, Aug. 19th
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Art Workshop Location:
Ortonville, Community Center
200 Monroe Avenue, Ortonville, MN
Just one block south of The Smallest Art Gallery
Class Fee: $ 125.00
Registration for Collage Deconstruction Class:
Call: Kathleen Marihart
320-
Your instructor will be mixed media artist, Kristin Peterson. She was published in Cloth Paper Scissor magazine for her mixed media cards and has had several paintings published in the Incite: Best of Mixed Media books. She was also published in Stampington’s Art Journal magazine.
To register for a class, please contact:
Kathleen Marihart 320-
For class payment, please mail to:
The Smallest Art Gallery
118 – 2nd Street NW
Ortonville, MN 56278
Please make your check out to:
The Smallest Art Gallery
and list the class you’re interested in on the memo line.
If you are interested in more than one class
please write a separate check for each class.
Please note: Class fees are non-
If there is a wait list, and I can fill your position,
your class fee will be returned.
If the class is canceled
then your check will be returned
Art Class for 2023
Art Class
6th Annual
Big Stone Lake
Regional
Art Crawl
Saturday, June 10th, 2023
9:00 a.m. to
5:00 p.m.
20th Anniversary
Fri., Sept. 29th
Sat., Sept. 30th
& Sun., Oct. 1st 2023
M E Fuller, Contemporary Artist
In 2021, when I first opened myself to painting in the abstract, I experienced true creative freedom for the first time. Thoughts of audience or client approval were overwhelmed by awe of the images developing on canvas and paper. A storyteller by nature, I discovered the worlds inside of me could be brought forward in the most honest and simple forms. An overthinker, I revel in the state of mindlessness that lets me tell true things without edits, thoughts, or words. It’s not in my head, but out of my hands, that these images emerge.
Artist Bio M E Fuller
M E Fuller Is a Minnesota visual artist working primarily on canvas and paper using acrylics, watercolor, and mixed media. Her most recent works depict abstract and energetic landscapes and mindscapes.
Fuller has shown work in group exhibits at The Watermark Art Center, Bemidji; The Crossing Arts Alliance, Brainerd; The Center for the Arts and the Kaddatz Gallery, Fergus Falls; Hutchinson Center for the Arts, Hutchinson, MN; Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL; and White Bear Center for the Arts, White Bear Lake, MN.
Solo exhibits for 2022 and 2023 include the K. K. Berge Gallery, The Smallest Art Gallery, and the Watermark Art Center. She is the featured artist in the summer 2022 edition of Shark Reef, an online literary and arts magazine.
In 2021 Fuller received an emerging artist support grant and in 2023 she received an artist growth grant from the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council to create new work for upcoming exhibits. Thank you to the Minnesota state legislature for supporting the arts in our state.
Fuller is a former art director and graphic designer. She is a self-
Mary Buckmiller
I have always been on a journey of exploration in on-
Both my art and I need a purpose, so I do not sell my art in the typical sense...for my benefit, as it were. I know my work is not ever going to show at the Louvre in Paris or the Met in New York, so I choose to sell my paintings in the names of worthy, local, sometimes small-
Please note new date for Art Workshop
Saturday, Aug. 19th
May/June
Kathleen
Marihart
Mixed Media
Artist
Kathleen Marihart
Artist Biography
Kathleen is a mixed media artist and enjoys working in a variety of art mediums, such as watercolor, acrylic paints, collage, monoprinting on a gelli plate, and inks.
Since 2011, Kathleen has participated in The Meander Upper Minnesota River Art Crawl and is a member of the Meander Steering Committee. She is also a member of the Big Stone Arts in Ortonville. In 2017, Kathleen was instrumental in developing and creating The Big Stone Lake Regional Art Crawl. This art crawl is an annual event held the second Saturday in June. She is also a SMAC grant recipient.
Kathleen has exhibited in: The Wheeler Gallery in Terrace Mill, the Horizontal Grandeur in Morris, the K.K. Berge Art Gallery in Granite Falls, Java River in Montevideo, Java Jules in Ortonville, as well as the Ortonville Courthouse.
Kathleen has owned The Smallest Art Gallery in downtown Ortonville since 2016. She exhibits regional artist, out of state artists, and her own artwork. Exhibits change on a regular basis. Please refer to the Facebook page (The Smallest Art Gallery) or the webpage for further information and a schedule of events and artist receptions: www.thesmallestartgallery.com .
The Smallest Art Gallery is a seasonal art gallery open in the spring, summer, and fall and closed for the winter months. It is open Thursday through Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Kathleen teaches a number of art classes for beginning students: watercolor, acrylic paint, monoprinting as well a quilting class.
She will be exhibiting her own artwork during the months of May and September, as well as during the Big Stone Regional Art Crawl, in June and the Meander Art Crawl in October.
Supply List
Please bring these items to class
August 19th
The award-
The three day driving tour runs through five counties: Chippewa, Big Stone, Swift, Yellow Medicine, and Lac qui Parle.
Mark your calendar for the 20th year of the Art Meander: Friday, Sept. 29th, Saturday, Sept. 30th, and Sunday, Oct. 1st
Be sure to add The Smallest Art Gallery in Ortonville, Minnesota to your list of art stops during the Art Meander.
See you soon!