Now through September 18

In this solo multi-media exhibition, artist Christine Baeumler creates an installation that reflects upon the vitality and fragility of the Amazon Rainforest.

Free
www.formandcontent.org
210 North 2nd Street, Minneapolis, MN 55401

Christine Baeumler (detail)

September 3 through September 28
First Friday event: September 3, 5 to 9 p.m.

Hospitality is at the heart of our Midwestern culture and so is contemporary American craft. Put them together and you create warm, intimate, personalized spaces. This show includes work by Dyann Myers, potter; Steve Pflipsen and Katia Pflipsen Olivová, metal and glass artists; Sandra Shaughnessy, potter and Colleen Tabaika, weaver.

Free
www.seasonsonstcroix.com
401 Second Street, Hudson, WI 54016

Now through September 28
Faculty Show Reception: Friday, September 10, 5:30 to 9 p.m.

Works of our classes and workshop faculty members are in the main gallery. Throughout the facility are works by studio artists and other Minnesota artists. Look for anniversary specials in the frame shop and on other select original art.

Free
www.savageartstudios.com
4735 West 123rd Street, Suite 200, Savage, MN 55378

September 1 through September 30
Reception: Sunday, September 12, 1 to 4 p.m.

A group show of work from six accomplished women artists who have critiqued and inspired one another for 10 years. The group ranges in age from 58 to 78. They create work in sculpture, paint, mixed media and drawing. They met through art classes and mutual friends.

Free
www.robbingallery.org
4915 42nd Avenue N., Robbinsdale, MN 55422

Now through September 30
Reception: Friday, September 17, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Artist Gallery Talk: Friday, September 17, 6:30 p.m.

Using pop culture, religion, mythology and folk art as reference points, Sarah Stone’s series portrays objects from these sources as icons, regardless of their original significance. Ranging from the Venus of Willendorf to a Gucci shoe, Stone depicts her re-imagined symbols using centralized compositions, bold colors and decorative patterns.

Free
www.augsburg.edu/galleries
22nd Avenue South at 7 1/2 Street, Minneapolis, MN 55454

September 16 through October 3
Opening reception: Friday, September 17, 5 to 9 p.m.
Special closing event and artist talk: Sunday, October 3, 12 to 4 p.m.

Originally presented as a McKnight fellowship exhibition, Fragilearth was destroyed Friday August 13. Aldo reclaimed some of the small landmark buildings after the destruction and has given them another life as wall pieces. Aldo says “Creation and destruction are the same thing. You can’t create anything without changing something else.”

Free
www.frankstonegallery.com
1224 2nd Street NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413

INEZ GREENBERG GALLERY AT THE BLOOMINGTON THEATRE AND ART CENTER  
WARM Protégé and Mentor Exhibition

September 3 through October 8
Reception: September 17, 6 to 8 p.m.
Artist Talks: September 25 at 10 a.m. and October 7 at 7 p.m.

Since the 1970s, the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM) has provided local women artists with support of their artistic development. The WARM Mentor/Protégé Program pairs a woman artist in the early stage of her career with a professional woman artist who mentors her for two years. This exhibition is the culmination.

Free
www.bloomingtonartcenter.com
1800 W. Old Shakopee Road, Bloomington, MN 55431

GRAND HAND GALLERY  
On & On

September 11 through October 10
Reception: Saturday, September 18, 5 to 8 p.m.

This exhibition features new paintings from Twin Cities’ artist and educator Ta-coumba Aiken, whose work is guided by his statement “I create my art to heal the hearts and souls of people by creating positive energy.” Our potters (Bob Briscoe, Jim Grittner, Butch Holden, Jason Trebs) share this philosophy as well.

Free
www.thegrandhand.com
619 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55102

TYCHMAN SHAPIRO GALLERY  
Punim Licht: Faces of Light

September 13 through October 21
Reception: Sunday, October 10, 2 to 4 p.m.

Punim Licht in Yiddish, or Faces of Light in English, brings together the light of the human face with the inner light embedded in the self, captured as a photographic image. Part of an ongoing project and over the period of six months, Ran Shapira met with approximately 40 Jewish elders in the Twin Cities metro area to produce video interviews and traditional large format film photographs. The interviews included biographical surveys and questions relating to the human face, being, aging and Judaism.

Free
www.sabesjcc.org
4330 South Cedar Lake Road, Minneapolis, MN 55416

SOAP FACTORY  
A Theory of Values: Minnesota Biennial 2010

Now through October 25

The exhibition of cutting-edge contemporary art takes its inspiration and title from a story by Sinclair Lewis, whose protagonist explores personal and cultural value in relation to place. Works in this show explore place, while avoiding regionalism. This exhibition defines present-day commonalities within critical artistic practice and includes a focused group of artists working in a similar conceptual framework.

Free
www.soapfactory.org
518 2nd Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414