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:

-Collage

-Wax encaustic

-Jewelry

-Fiber Art: Weaving and sewing

-Painting: Acrylic, Oils, Inks, Watercolor

-Drawing

-Printmaking

-Photography

-Metal Sculptures

-Music by Lee Kanten


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-time. I have created everything from painting to quilting. Since 2011, I have participated in the Meander Art Crawl. I have displayed my art in the SMAC Region Juried Exhibit in Hutchinson, the Horizontal Grandeur in Morris, the K.K. Berge Art Gallery in Granite Falls, the Terrace Mill Wheeler Gallery in Terrace, as well as Java River in Montevideo, Java Jules in Ortonville and the Ortonville Courthouse. I am also a SMAC grant recipient.

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-on workshop in making accordion books. Participants will leave with handcrafted books and the skills to create more of their own.

Phyllis will provide beautiful hand-printed papers for students to use in their creations.

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 320-226-8213


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-refundable.

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:

-Kristin Peterson’s painting class: Collage Deconstructed

       or

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-satisfaction. She brought all the material to make the three books in each class and it was all so varied that it was easy to find things that spoke to me. She was patient and kind and very encouraging too. I felt comfortable even though I was not someone who normally does creative things like this.


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

320-226-8213

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 320-226-8213 You can also use messenger on the Face Book page: The Smallest Art Gallery.


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-refundable.

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-taught author and artist. Visit mefuller.com for more information.  




Mary Buckmiller


I have always been on a journey of exploration in on-scene landscape painting (en plein air painting) and in my studio workings. My "retired from work" bones have the time to try many artist mediums, surfaces, and techniques. My artistic sensibilities also like to "take a turn around the dance floor" with traditional, nonrepresentational, and abstract ideas. Not a thing is off limits. It keeps my artwork fresh and my life taking new, adventurous paths.


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-town organizations to support their purposes. It is a win/win for me and community.




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-winning Meander Upper Minnesota River Art Crawl is a free self-guided tour of around 40 local artists in about 30 different individual art studios and art galleries. Patrons are encouraged to visit with the artists in their environments and enjoy the local culture of the area.


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!