First Thurs. March 7 - New Work Debut!

I know I keep posting about First Thursday. But they keep happening! Every month!

Here we are again, with another First Thursday in the Arts District a little more than a week away.

Q: What’s so special about this one? A: New work debut!

A few months ago I posted a note about receiving an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. With the resources that grant provided, I’ve been able to create some new work that I’m really excited about. I’ve done a ton of new etchings. And, in typical fashion I’ve been working the images into larger paper & stitched collage pieces – lots of color, lots and lots of French knots. I’ll be previewing some of my favorites from this new body of work at First Thursday on March 7th, 5-9pm. Some more details about First Thursday below…

First Thursday Open Studio Crawl is a free monthly exploration of the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District, centralized in the Northrup King Building. During the long history of the building and its hundreds of studios it has served as a haven of creativity and the place to find many famous artists at work. The Art Crawl is an event to help local artists offer their wares and interact directly with the public.

And oh yeah, there’s free parking.

Ingrid Restemayer Studio is studio 401-b, in the Northrup King Building,

1500 Jackson St. NE, Minneapolis -- Enter from Van Buren Street for quickest access.

http://www.northrupkingbuilding.com/ (for directions and a building map)

http://www.northeastminneapolisartsdistrict.com/ (to familiarize yourself with all the cool stuff in the district before you get here)

Ingrid Restemayer is a fiscal year 2012 recipient of an Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Autumn Art Events at Ingrid Restemayer Studio

Upcoming First Thursdays:
October 4, 2012 – 5-9pm
November 1, 2012 – 5-9pm*
December 6, 2012 – 5-9pm
First Thursday Open Studio Crawl is a free monthly exploration of the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District, centralized in the Northrup King Building. During the long history of the building and its hundreds of studios it has served as a haven of creativity and the place to find many famous artists at work. The Art Crawl is an event to help local artists offer their wares and interact directly with the public.
And oh yeah, there’s free parking.

Art Attack Annual Fall Studio Crawl
Art Attack is an annual open studio and gallery crawl only at the Northrup King Building, in the heart of the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District. The weekend-long event features over 200 artists working in painting and drawing, sculpture, photography, custom furniture, fiber arts, metal, ceramics, glass, hand-crafted and custom jewelry, mixed media, mosaics, textiles, and more.
Friday, November 2, 2012 5:00-10:00 PM
Saturday, November 3, 2012 Noon – 8:00 PM
Sunday, November 4, 2012 Noon – 5:00 PM
I’ll be open all three days of the event, as well as the prior Thursday* for First Thursdays, showing a special preview of new work.

Ingrid Restemayer Studio is studio 401-b, in the Northrup King Building
1500 Jackson St. NE, Minneapolis -- Enter from Van Buren Street for quickest access.
http://www.northrupkingbuilding.com/  (for directions and a building map)
http://www.northeastminneapolisartsdistrict.com/ (to familiarize yourself with all the cool stuff in the district before you get here)

Ingrid Restemayer Receives Artist Initiative Grant

Today the Minnesota State Arts Board met to consider and approve the FY 2012 panel recommendations for the Artist Initiative grant program. These grants are given to support artistic development, nurture artistic creativity, and recognize the contributions individual artists make to the creative environment of the state of Minnesota. I am honored to be one of the grantees. My plan is to use the funding for the production of ten to fifteen new pieces of work that incorporate embroidery, dyed papers, and hand-pulled print collages. Once complete, I plan to exhibit this work at a college or university gallery within the state of Minnesota.

The list of those receiving FY 2012 grants is shown in alphabetical order and is now available online at http://www.arts.state.mn.us/grants/2012/index.htm.

Many thanks to the Minnesota State Arts Board and it's supporters.

First Thursday in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District

Upcoming First Thursday in the Arts District dates: Feb. 2, 2012; March 1, 2012; April 5, 2012
Ingrid Restemayer Studio will be open for regular hours, 5-9pm this Thursday, February 2nd, 2012.
Join us as a multitude of painters, sculptors, printmakers, photographers, ceramists, textile and fiber artists, jewelers, furniture showrooms and more open their studios at the Northrup King Building, the largest concentration of art studios in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District. (Ingrid Restemayer studio is on 4th floor, #401-b)
Northrup King Building, 1500 Jackson St. NE, studio 401-b. (Enter from Van Buren Street for quickest access.) http://www.northrupkingbuilding.com/ for directions and a building map; http://www.northeastminneapolisartsdistrict.com/ to familiarize yourself with all the cool stuff in the district before you get there

First Thursday & Art Attack 2011

This week is busy, busy, busy at the Northrup King Building! Ingrid Restemayer Studio will be open for the “First Thursday” monthly art crawl as well as the rest of the weekend for Art Attack!
Art Attack is NKB’s signature autumn art crawl. Studios throughout the buildings will be open, showing over 200 artist's work in one huge and diverse location. Many studios will have invited guest artists on site. 401-B will not only be showing my work, but work by painter, Eric Cornett, who has been sharing the space for the past few months.
Art Attack is a must-do event if you want to get in touch with the local art community. Start your holiday shopping early and feel good about supporting your local artists and craftspeople!
Ingrid Restemayer studio is on the 4th floor, #401-b
Northrup King Buildning, 1500 Jackson St. NE, Minneapolis, MN
Directions can be found at http://www.northrupkingbuilding.com/

Thursday, November 3rd • 5-9pm
Friday, November 4th • 5-10pm
Saturday, November 5th • noon-8pm
Sunday, November 6th • noon-5pm

"I Love Paris in the Springtime..."

In the words of the lovely Ella Fitzgerald, "I love Paris in the sprintime. I love Paris in the fall..." Especially THIS fall. I'm off to France at the end of August, so I will miss September's "First Thursday" open studio event.
If you were planning on coming, please set your alarm one month ahead, and join me for the first Thursday in October (10/6/11), 5-9pm, in Studio 401-b on the 4th floor of the Northrup King Arts Building.
Directions to this hub of the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District can be found at http://www.northrupkingbuilding.com/

Clements, Koop & Restemayer at BPAC

Burnsville Performing Arts Center is proud to present Follow the Muse, featuring the artwork of K. Daphnae Koop, Marc Clements, and Ingrid Restemayer.
Show runs July 29 – September 3, 2011
The opening reception will be held at the Burnsville Performing Art Center’s beautiful 2,000 square foot art gallery on Friday, July 29, from 6 – 8 pm.
Follow the Muse includes intricate artwork by each of these artists, each inspired by unique sources including carved wood, contemporary tribal tattoos, and the plains of North Dakota. The artists utilize mediums such as repurposed wood and glass, stone, and fiber. The commonality in all of the artwork is that each artist celebrates texture in its various forms.
Mark Clements is a painter who finds himself working in stone – more literally on stone. Clements’ 3-dimensional sculptures leave natural stone shapes untouched. His art is in patterned surface treatment, carved relief that is often gilt. His design inspiration is drawn from antique wallpapers, tribal tattoos and even crop circles. The rocks are then stacked into simple Cairns, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression. Delicate curves and florets are often thought of as gentle, temporary images. Clements manages to permanently incorporate them so perfectly with something as hard, heavy and elemental as stone that his sculptures grace the home or garden as easily as a gallery or museum.
K. Daphnae Koop is a painter who finds inspiration in the richly textured surfaces of her hand-carved wood “canvasses”. Layers of paint, color washes, metal leaf, powders, and varnishes create chapters of a theme or story, written as layers are created through build-up. Each repetitive step -- carving, honing, coloring each plank and block is as meditative as it is physically demanding. In Koop’s latest series of paintings, an element of assemblage has come in with the addition of streams of shattered auto glass. The tiny shards glisten and sparkle, while the painted wood catches light like ripples of water. The glittery attraction of the light refraction qualities betrays the sharp glass edges and heavy wooden form. The inherent paradox of light and weight, the marriage of nonrepresentational surface and solid foundation gives these pieces a presence not found in traditional painting.
Ingrid Restemayer is a fiber artist and printmaker whose mixed media work incorporates traditional hand-embroidery techniques, dyed papers and hand-pulled prints combined through collage. Her continual lines of running stitches were born out of inspiration from the Dakota plains’ frozen horizon where one finds excitement and inquiry in the slightest variation. Her work emulates this peaceful beauty in its monotony and conveys calmness through repetition. Intaglio images act as pseudo-illustrations for a kind of narrative when paired with code-like paragraph shapes formed from Restemayer’s hand-embroidery. In this age of instant electronic anything, sustainable tactics in art creation, things made by the human hand often have the power to promote further human interaction.
The vastly different mediums of carved stone, painted wood and stitched paper are exhibited together in this delicious trifecta of haptic surfaces through labor-intensive art making.
Obsessively honed facades are not the only thing these works have in common. The three artists have worked with and around each other for many years – even sharing studio space together. Their work maintains individuality, yet comes together beautifully for this exhibit.

Burnsville Performing Arts Center
12600 Nicollet Avenue, Burnsville, MN 55337
(952) 895-4685
BPAC Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday 9:00 to 5:00 pm, Saturday 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
http://www.burnsvillepac.org/