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In the Gallery
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All What: Award winning Art Specialist added at WAC
Where: Waseca Art Center, 410 North State St., Waseca
When: now Hours: Art Center Hours: 10 – 4 Tues.-Friday, 10 – 2 Saturdays
Contact: Patricia Beckmann, Kate Peterson, Allison Roberts (507) 835-1701 AWARD WINNING ART SPECIALIST ADDED IN WASECA The Waseca Arts Council has announced the hiring of award winning artist and educator, as Art Education Specialist. This position is made possible by a grant from Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council from general funds approved by the Minnesota State Legislature and in part, by the Minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008. It is the goal of the Waseca Arts Council to improve the quantity and quality of art education in Waseca County with the services of the art education specialist. Roberts will offer Artist-in-residency instruction, including assistance making a residency fit into the school curriculum and assistance with grant writing, plus suggestions for classroom art projects, making art more accessible and offering interested students greater creative challenges. Roberts will also present ideas about how the Arts Council’s Picture Parade Art Appreciation Series can be of great value in the classroom, and assist in bringing the WAC video loan program to the classroom. Roberts is an award winning artist and educator. She holds a Minnesota Teaching License, K—12 in the visual arts. Her academic preparation includes a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts and Journalism from Indiana University; Art Teaching Certification from University of Wisconsin, Madison; and continuing education from the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and California State University Sacramento. She has received several academic awards, including Phi Beta Kappa. She has teaching experience from several schools in Wisconsin, but more recently in the LeSueur-Henderson Middle School. Presently she is also employed part-time as art instructor for RiverBend Academy in Mankato, Minnesota. Ms. Roberts is an award winning professional fiber artist. She has an extensive artist’s resume, including exhibits in New York, Cheshire, UK, and Llangollen, Wales. She has had solo shows of her work at the School of Art, in Mankato and the Waseca Art Center in Waseca. In 2008 she won the PLRAC/McKnight Emerging Artist Grant award. In the fall of 2009 Roberts was awarded a Jerome Fiber Artists Project Grant for 2010 through the Minnesota Textile Center in Minneapolis. She was one of three applicants from the state selected for this award following a jurying and grant review process. This is the second year that the Textile Center has run the program which is designed to expand opportunities for emerging fiber artists in Minnesota and to support the artists by eliminating financial barriers as they undertake specific artistic projects. During the two year program over a hundred artists have applied for the selective grant. This award will enable Roberts to purchase materials for new works exploring AKUA water-based printing inks on fabric and paper, and to attend a workshop in New Mexico in the spring. At the end of the granting period, August 2010, there will be a three person exhibition of the new work created by the three grant award winners at the Textile Center. The Waseca Arts Council, Inc. is a nonprofit organization. Its mission is to provide the people of the greater Waseca County area opportunities to experience diverse creative arts essential to a healthy community. A few of the Arts Council’s ongoing programs are: The Waseca Art Center, the Picture Parade School Art Appreciation program, the Permanent Collection Monthly rotation, Drawing Group, Club Picasso, ArtNews newsletter and other projects. The Waseca Arts Council is regularly supported by grants from Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council from funds appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature. The WAC is further supported by Waseca County, the City of Waseca, E.F. Johnson Foundation. the Waseca Foundation, ADC Corporate Giving Program, and by contributing business and individual donors of the Waseca Arts Council, Inc. Some activities of this organization are made possible by a grant provided by the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council from general funds approved by the Minnesota State Legislature an d in part, by the Minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.
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