“Andamento” is the visual movement or rhythm produced by mosaic elements. Similar to the patterns formed by leaves, ridges in a tree’s bark, or a series of clouds in the sky. By leading the viewer through the contours, ebb and flow of the subject, a mosaic artist creates the feeling of a subject through choice of materials, colors and elements. My work is a combination of modern and ancient materials, still using stone, glass, hammer and chisel. I am dedicated to preserving the tradition of mosaic art, along with the techniques and materials used in the past. One must study and remember the past to be informed for the future.

John Marshall high school students collaborated with Stephanie Glaros, Founder & Executive Director of the storytelling nonprofit, Humans of Minneapolis. These advanced students in Graphic Design/Digital Arts worked remotely with Glaros through several virtual workshops over the course of the semester. She trained them in the process and techniques of the compassionate storytelling style she has honed in her eight years of experience. She introduced photography techniques, including portraiture and the active listening skills needed for this type of project. Students learned how to draw out a story and thoughtfully photograph their subjects.

Inspired by a desire to become better acquainted with her choirmates at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Northfield, Minnesota, Michon Weeks invited each choir member into a one-on-one conversation. She asked questions like, “What is important to you? How do you spend your time? What are your prized possessions?” Their answers often included reflections about personal objects of significance. In Weeks’ subsequent paintings and sculptures of those objects, there is a vibrant tension between recognition and abstraction. Hand-drawn grids enforce an imperfect structure that leads to peculiar forms and intriguing distortions. Some objects hover within comprehension. Others — stretched, distorted, flattened, splayed — can be interpreted in multiple ways. Others still elude recognition altogether. - Jane Becker Nelson, Director of Flaten Art Museum, St. Olaf College

Harkening back to his youth spent along the beaches of Miami, Simon Huelsbeck indulges his intuitive side to create expansive canvases filled with frolic, bikinis, pelicans and much more. He gives the viewer a sense of memories emerging and fading, fluctuating and aiming for closure, but lurking in a place of uncertainty and darkness. Come see the new work of one of Rochester’s most beloved painters.

In its 7th year, the Southeast Minnesota High School Art Show showcases the talent of students in grades 7 – 12 in the rural communities surrounding Rochester.

The 6th annual La Mese delle Donne exhibition was held at Rochester Art Center and was a collaboration between Rochester Art Center and Gallery 24 Artist Collaborative.

The mission of this exhibit is to showcase, promote, connect, and collaborate with Minnesota creatives who identify as women. Together we are all stronger. We want all women to have a voice.

"Distress Cycle" is an audio-visual commentary on the ways in which we present ourselves to others, how we are perceived, and how this exchange can alter our sense of self . The work is the result of three artists collaborating through different media with illustration, textiles, and video in conversation with each other. Each component in the installation serves as a subjective perspective on a shared narrative which revolves around a dress as the central figure.

"Driftless" is a series of diptychs exploring how transient artist Alessandra Sulpy responds to her new, permanent residence of Winona, MN. Taking in all the area in and around Winona, Sulpy offers to viewers the area’s alluring past and present in sometimes unusual ways; a house rots around a 55-ton boulder, glass-eyed exotic animals gaze out at bank patrons, classrooms hide equipment from courses not taught in decades. Sulpy is fascinated and charmed by these often bizarre local elements and relates her own experience of settling down in the town and community she has come to think of as home.

Alexa Horochowski is a multi-media artist who weaves together sculpture, video, drawing in dramatic forms and epic displays. "Beautiful Sky" takes land based materials that are used in soil and water preservation and transforms them into abstract but somehow knowable forms. The effect is that the viewer experiences these functional materials in a new way, bringing that perspective then back to the land. In design and material, the objects broach the uneasy relationship between ecological sustainability and the market forces driving industry, farm production, and the politics of environmental stewardship. With sculpture that ranges from monumental to fragile and massive prints created with swirling trash, her art helps us look more closely at the seemingly futile attempts to keep nature from changing due to the Anthropocene era in which we live.

"Fantasy for Eleven Fingers" juxtaposes traditional art making practices with emerging technologies. Reflected in a series of oil paintings and mixed media, Eric Anderson employed image-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, surveillance software, visual encryption and 3D printing in search of prompts for new handmade works. Advances in technology, especially in the field of AI, promise inhuman, if not impossible, perfection. "Fantasy for Eleven Fingers" asks viewers to pause when they are confronted with terms like perfect and imperfect, accurate and flawed. How can a painter translate algorithm-based outputs into something that reaches beyond the preconceived limitations of new technologies as well as the artist’s understanding of their own capacities to create? What inefficiencies, accidents, failures, and physical limitations contribute to creating work that is personal? "Fantasy for Eleven Fingers" considers our uniquely human imperfections as a potential source of freedom.

In "Making it OK: Art, Bravery and Mental Health," four Minnesota artists reveal with honesty and hope what it means to live with mental illness or be affected by close family members struggling with mental health issues. These artists are brave in their ability to creatively reveal what society can often stigmatize or shame. Each of the artists in this exhibition approach the topic of mental health in entirely different ways, reflecting the humanity in how each person finds their own path toward mental health.

During it's second year at Rochester Art Center, "Art(ists) On The Verge 10 (AOV10)" showcased art experimentally practiced at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture, created out of a mentor-based fellowship program for five emerging Minnesota-based artists. From the subtleties of atmosphere to a journey through a mind-palace that seamlessly melds art and technology, AOV10 explores themes of surveillance and conformity, algorithms as AI and time travel.

Art(ists) on the Verge is an annual exhibition program that mentors artists to incorporate more technology into their art practice with the intention of fostering increased audience engagement and participation with their work. In this exhibition art does not sit on the walls but is activated by the viewer. Across all five installations, the art is interactive, immersive, and requires the viewer to engage in order to function as an artwork. Rochester Art Center and Northern Lights are proud to share these innovative works with Southeastern Minnesota and the surrounding community.