The Faculty Show beautifully displays the talent and expertise available to you in the Art Center’s studios. Come see what your favorite artist-instructors have been creating, and learn about the new talents who have recently joined us. It’s also your chance to bring a piece of their artistic vision home with you – all exhibited works will be for sale.

Purpose: to create a unique shopping experience for art-interested shoppers, while providing a venue for artists to sell their work

Eligibility: open to all fine art and fine craft artists. Submissions will be chosen for the sale considering quality, price, and appropriateness for holiday gift-giving in an upscale, suburban market. Jewelry, glass, functional pottery, and fiber are particularly popular for gift-giving

Audience: Art Center constituents, West Metro residents, and art-interested shoppers from throughout the Metro region attend this show for unique, handmade gifts of fine craft and art

Location: Laura H Miles Gallery, Minnetonka Center for the Arts

Guidelines for applying:

Apply with three images of work representing types of items you’d like to sell, indicating price range, size, and media information. Apply by email to bbowman@minnetonkaarts.org or by sending images and supporting info to: Minnetonka Center for the Arts, ATTN: Arts of the Holidays, 2240 North Shore Drive, Wayzata MN 55391. Images and supporting information emailed as attachments rather than in the body of the email are preferred. Submissions must include information about medium, size, and retail price of each item. Materials sent by mail will be returned only if accompanied by a SSAE.

Media considered includes painting, drawing, sculpture, jewelry, glass, fiber, photography, ceramics, printmaking, wood, and multi-media. Jewelry, pottery, fiber, and glass have proven especially good sellers. 2D work should be framed and ready to hang, or sleeved for display on stands. Price points below $200 sell best. Items that sell can be replenished as artists supply new items.

Not considered: items made primarily from unaltered commercially manufactured components, and offset litho or giclee prints/reproductions.

If selected, you’ll be supplied with inventory sheets and coded stickers for marking your items.

Artists’ commission on sales will be 60%.

Event promotion includes social media postings, postcard mailings, Art Center website and newsletter features, and press releases/event listings in local newspapers. Participating artists will be provided with electronic announcements to share with their mailing lists and post on social media. Links will be provided to the Arts of the Holidays announcement on minnetonkaarts.org and Facebook event.

Questions? Contact Bob Bowman at bbowman@minnetonkaarts.org, 952.473.7361 x.170, or visit the Exhibits page at minnetonkaARTS.org

Due to staffing and time constraints, we have made the difficult decision not to present a members’ show this spring. We look forward to reprising the Members’ Show next year.

Presented by Dakota County Star Quilters, Eagan, MN

September 13 – October 30, 2021

In Celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, giving American women the right to vote, the Dakota County Star Quilters hosted a small (24” square) quilt challenge. Although small in size, the quilts in this exhibit incorporate a rich collage of technique, imagery, and historical references. The thirty-six quilts were created by quilters from 16 states.

These quilts were first displayed in March 2020 at the Dakota County Historical Society building in St Paul, and have been exhibited at various venues since. Enjoy this vivid mix of art, history, and fiber through Saturday, October 30, at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts!

The Wayzata Conservancy, in partnership with the Minnetonka Center for the Arts, is proud to announce a public exhibit featuring the photography of Minnesotans Lisa Poseley, Chris Kern, and Dan Murphy. They bore witness to this horrific act of terrorism, and also to the ways it brought us together in response.

This exhibit is presented in conjunction with the opening and dedication of the Memorial Grove in downtown Wayzata, a memorial park honoring Wayzata native Gordy Aamoth Jr, First Responders, and all other victims of 9/11 on the twentieth anniversary of this tragic event.

The exhibit is free and open to the public. It runs Friday, 9/10, through Saturday, 10/23, at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts, 2240 Northshore Drive, Wayzata, MN.

Visit minnetonkaarts.org for hours and further information

Re-Open, Re-Connect, Re-Create features art created by students and faculty we’re so pleased to see back in the studios this fall, as well as members of MCFTA whose support during the closure was invaluable! We hope you’ll make time to visit the exhibit in person, through October 7th.

September 7 – October 7, 2021
Reception Thursday September 23, 6 to 8 pm (Cancelled)

Intake: Thursday August 26, 10 am – 5 pm

Print and fill out the exhibit contract here to save time during intake.

Celebrate our reopening by exhibiting your art! Current MCFTA members, and all Fall I/Fall II MCFTA Students and Faculty are invited to exhibit in this event. If you’ve been creating art during the closure and would like to share the results, this is your chance! To keep this opportunity available to as many members of our community as possible, we must limit the number of entries to one per artist.

What to Enter:

– Fine art and fine craft, both 2-D and 3-D (no installations or video)

-Work must be original and executed by the artist within the past two years

– Work may be for sale, or NFS. The art center will retain a 40% commission on sales of work by

MCFTA members, 50% on sales of work by non-members

Process:

No prior registration or application is required; deliver artwork to the gallery on August 26 between 10 am and 5 pm to participate. (This intake date is firm! If you cannot deliver your work on this day, arrange with someone to deliver your piece for you.)

Please note! COVID-19 policy in effect: Unvaccinated persons must wear a mask covering the nose and mouth while in the building.

Liability: Work will be insured by the Art Center from the time of delivery through the indicated pick-up day, 10/9/2021.

Delivery and pick-up of artwork is the responsibility of the artist.

Questions? Email bbowman@minnetonkaarts.org or call 952 473 7361 ext. 170 for further information