The Mill Yard at Stonebridge Lofts Announces New Art Show: Outside the Lines
Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 3:26PM
Outside the Lines
Opening Reception Sunday, August 13, 4:00 - 6:00PM
Stonebridge Lofts, 1120 S 2nd Street
Join us at The Mill Yard opening reception to meet the featured artists and engage with beautiful art. Wine, beverages and snacks are served.
Artists featured at this show:
Jim Conaway
Jim Conaway was a productive Minnesota artist while teaching painting and drawing at Hamline University. In 1970 Jim was chosen by the U.S. State Department to participate in the American Embassy program where American artists painted their local landscapes to hang in American Embassies around the world. His paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries across the country including the Walker Art Center, the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis. After Jim’s retirement from Hamline in1996, he became a full-time painter in his studio in the Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art where he is a founding member.
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Gia Gifford
Gia Gifford is a painter and metalsmith who works out of her studio in the Casket Arts Building in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District. Gia holds degrees in studio art and art history, as well as a master’s degree in art education and has taught in a variety of settings over the past fifteen years. Gia’s painterly process employs motion, repetition and rhythm as a form of contemplation. “My layering technique immerses the viewer in the complex shapes and sequences of the painting, producing an experience that is aesthetic, emotional, and therapeutic.”
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Ric Rosow
Ric Rosow is a Minneapolis based photographer who enjoys photographing landscapes, cityscapes, night-time skies, concerts and people. He loves taking photographs of the Minneapolis downtown skyline. His catalogue of photographs includes images from his travels not only in the U.S., but Mexico, Central and South America, South Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the Antarctica Peninsula. His work has been displayed in local galleries and published in Backroads' travel brochures, Hill Town Tours social media sites and more.
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Rita Schaefer-Seaton
Rita Schaefer-Seaton was born and raised in Germany. Her German education afforded her the pursuit of a corporate career in the U.S. Choosing to develop her visual and creative skills, in the late 1980’s she earned a degree in graphic design. To expand from design to fine art she continued to study painting and life drawing. “My work is influenced by my interests in psychology, the archetypical and science fiction.” Rita’s paintings and drawings have been accepted into juried exhibitions including the Minnesota State Fair.
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Robinson Scott
Robinson Scott has been blowing original glass art for 45 years. Having studied in Sweden he uses many Swedish color layering techniques, combined with his is own variations creating a 3-dimensional viewing experience. He is an award-winning glass blower with pieces available in numerous galleries and part of many corporate collections. “I pursue difference and personal perfection in form and design. I enjoy the challenge of change, ever striving to learn new designs, techniques, and approaches in glass. This is my driving force.”
