Building on the strong reputation of Anoka-Ramsey Community College as a leader in providing access and opportunity for students and the community to the arts, college Art Faculty member, Mark Lambert received a second Minnesota State Arts Board grant for nearly $50,000 for Minnesota Potters: Sharing the Fire exhibition tour.

The first and current grant includes producing a Minnesota Potters: Sharing the Fire documentary of ceramic artists illustrating how ceramic arts are passed from artist to artist, workshops at Anoka-Ramsey and Normandale Community College, gallery talks, and a documentary preview night and exhibition at Northern Clay Center in March.

The second and most recent grant will fund the Minnesota Potters: Sharing the Fire exhibition tour intended to bring the documentary and profiled artists and their work to four greater Minnesota communities through exhibitions, gallery talks and screenings of the documentary film. The four venues for the tour include Winona State University, MacRostie Art Center in Grand Rapids, Grand Marais Art Colony and Bemidji State University.

The documentary highlights four pairs of Minnesota artists: Warren MacKenzie and Guillermo Cuellar, Robert Briscoe and Jason Trebs, Linda Christianson with Jil Franke, and Richard Bresnahan and Steven Lemke. Each artist is interviewed and filmed at work in their studio. Details about the traveling exhibition, artist workshops and documentary showings in greater Minnesota will be publicized as soon as they are scheduled.

 “We had a wonderful response to the first Minnesota Potters: Sharing the Fire workshop in November 201,” says Lambert. “And our partnership with the Northern Clay Center enhances the opportunities and visibility of this project to attract and inform both artists and patrons of the arts.” 

Upcoming Minnesota Potters: Sharing the Fire Events

Workshop
Featuring Linda Christianson and Jil Franke
Feb. 24, 2012
Normandale Community College
9700 France Ave S, Bloomington, Minn.

Exhibition Opening
March 9, 2012
6 to 8 p.m.
Northern Clay Center
2424 Franklin Ave E, Minneapolis, Minn.  

Documentary Premier
March 10
1 to 3 p.m.
Anoka-Ramsey Community College
Coon Rapids Campus Performing Arts Center
11200 Mississippi Blvd NW, Coon Rapids, Minn.  

To register for the event or for more details on the Minnesota Potters: Sharing the Fire project, visit anokaramsey.edu/Fire.aspx.