Artwork lover Invoice Adams was delighted to go to the Kaddatz Galleries to see Charles Beck: Rarities and Masterpieces. The Kaddatz and different Fergus Falls venues have been celebrating “A 12 months of Beck” all through 2023, marking what would have been the Minnesota artist’s one hundredth birthday.
Charles Beck (1923 – 2017) created woodcuts, work, and different artworks that always celebrated the panorama of Ottertail County in west central Minnesota.
That is the ultimate present within the sequence, and it runs by Dec. 23. The items on this exhibit embody works from personal collections that may not in any other case be obtainable, spanning from Becks’ school drawings to his closing piece.
“I’d say that Charles Beck’s works are quintessential Minnesota items,” says Adams, who was thrilled to come across new works of Beck’s at this present. “Yesterday once I was driving dwelling from Fergus, I seemed by some naked timber and within the background was a blue sky with white clouds above it, and I assumed to myself, ‘Wow, that appears similar to a Beck piece.’”
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Don Fortner has retired as music director from First Presbyterian Church in St. Cloud. Nonetheless, he desires everybody to know in regards to the fantastic music sequence that Granite Metropolis People Society hosts on the church and at Bo Diddley’s Deli each month.
Fortner was concerned in connecting the Granite Metropolis People Society with the church as a venue throughout Covid, and he’s delighted to see how the First Fridays live performance sequence continues to develop in recognition. He says the 100-year-old church has glorious acoustics.
People artist John Gorka will carry out December’s First Fridays live performance, Dec 1 at 7 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church. Rupert Wates will probably be at Bo Diddley’s on Friday, Dec. 15 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets can be found on the door. Discover the live performance sequence schedule here.
Singer-songwriter John Gorka.
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Oil painter Laura Lindquist of Stillwater says her favourite vacation present every year is “Letters to Santa,” a one-woman present that had her “hooting and hollering” when she first noticed it final yr.
Actor Janelle Ranek transforms into 10 characters, every writing letters to Santa. Sitting within the intimate setting of Bryant Lake Bowl, Lindquist was astounded by Ranek’s versatility and humor. Every year’s present is totally different.
This yr’s model, “Letters to Santa: Shaken, Not Stirred,” runs at Bryant Lake Bowl in Minneapolis from Dec. 2 – 23.
Janelle Ranek in “Letters to Santa: Shaken, Not Stirred” at Bryant-Lake Bowl.
Courtesy of Janelle Ranek
