Art Posts

Old Timey Portrait Jamboree at the DPI

On Tuesday, April 12, at the Duluth Photography Institute (halfway between the Brewhouse and Carmody) I’ll be setting up to do a free portrait for anyone* who shows up between 5pm and 7pm.

The awesome point of interest is that I’ll be using a giant wooden camera manufactured about twenty years before the Hindenburg popped. It is guaranteed to be the most authentic modern vintage photo experience you’ll be able to find.

*Disclaimer: Please don’t bring five children and expect a whole set of family portraits. Everyone who you bring that you’d like a photo of gets stuffed into a single frame. If you do bring kids and have been feeding them sugar all day, expect blurry results. This is by no means an instant process.

April in the Paris of the North


Artist’s Reception
Saturday, April 16
From 1 to 4 pm

It goes without saying that there will be lautitious xylotypography! Acrographis amphigory! Tasteful incongruities!

Join us and, like a snowbank melting in July, let your winter-benumbed and color-starved senses begin to thaw in the warmth of our Annual Earth Day show with the salutiferous prints by Rick Allen and works by other brilliant artists of the magical region.

Sivertson Gallery
361 Canal Park Drive
218.723.7877

Lake Superior Surfing … Hang Ten!

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Team Red Bull finds some nice waves on Big Sexy (aka Lake Superior). Never under estimate Big Sexy, she can be a real bitch.

Duluth Photographers Guild Photo Exhibit

Emily Rose photo
(photo by Emily Rose)

Saturday, 5-8pm, come one down and enjoy the more than 40 works from this local photography group as you enjoy refreshments and good company. Exhibit runs through April at the DPI, 405 E Superior St. in Duluth. For more information on the Guild, go to flickr.com/groups/duluthphotographersguild. For more info on the exhibit and the DPI, go to duluthphotographyinstitute.com or call Brian at 393-2468.

Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Concert Band

Sunday, April 17, 2011 – 3 pm
Weber Music Hall

Symphonic Wind Ensemble – Mark Whitlock, director
Concert Band – Daniel W. Eaton, director
Adult $8 – Senior $7 – Student $5 – UMD Student $3
Tickets:  218-726-8877 or tickets.umn.edu (online tickets incur an additional $1 fee.)

UMD Chamber Orchestra

Saturday, April 16, 2011 – 7:30 pm
Weber Music Hall

Chamber Orchestra – Jean R. Perrault, director
Adult $8 – Senior $7 – Student $5 – UMD Student $3

Tickets:  218-726-8877 or tickets.umn.edu (online tickets incur an additional $1 fee.)

Pizza Luce Friday: Zoo Animal, The Half Hearts, Honey Vein (feat. Ariane Norrgard)

Who: Zoo Animal, The Half Hearts, Ariane Norrgard & Honey Vein
Where: Pizza Luce, Duluth
When: April 8, 9:30P.M., $5

New Music Festival: Vocal Music Recital

Friday, April 15, 2011 – 7:30 pm
Weber Music Hall

Regina Zona, coordinator
Adult $8 – Senior $7 – Student $5 – UMD Student $3
Tickets:  218-726-8877 or tickets.umn.edu (online tickets incur an additional $1 fee.)

New Music Festival

Thursday, April 14, 2011 – 7:30 pm
Weber Music Hall

The New Music Festival features the internationally acclaimed Duo Gaetesi-Bezerra return after their stunning concerts at UMD five years ago, which showcased the best of current piano ensemble music from around the globe.

Justin Rubin, coordinator

Adult $8 – Senior $7 – Student $5 – UMD Student $3                  
Tickets:  218-726-8877 or tickets.umn.edu (online tickets incur an additional $1 fee.)

Jazz Combos

Tuesday, April 12, 2011 – 7:30 pm
Weber Music Hall

Combo I – Tom Pfotenhauer, director
Combo II – Ryan Frane, director
Combo III – Billy Barnard, director
Combo IV – Gene Koshinski, director
Adult $8 – Senior $7 – Student $5 – UMD Student $3
Tickets:  218-726-8877 or tickets.umn.edu (online tickets incur an additional $1 fee.)

Homegrown Music Video Festival

Call for music!
Call for filmmakers!

We’re doing another Homegrown Music Video Festival this year. Filmmakers draw a song at random from a beautiful top hat, then make a music video from said song.

Here is the PDD link to last year.

Would you be willing to donate a song or two to the cause?
Would you like to make a music video for a free pass to Homegrown?

Exercises in Style: An art show by Rob K-S

Local artist Rob Kaiser-Schatzlein will be opening his exhibition entitled Exercises in Style on Tuesday, April 5, from 4-6pm. 

Vocal Jazz Cabaret – “Workin’ 9 to 5”

April 7-9, 7:30 pm
Clyde Iron Works
2920 W. Michigan St., Duluth

A new venue serves up hot vocal jazz entertainment with dinner option at Clyde Iron Works. Dinner includes Italian Pasta Bar with homemade penne pasta with alfredo and marinara sauces, Italian sausage, meatballs, and grilled chicken, classic garden salad with balsamic vinaigrette and fresh baguettes. Price includes pasta bar, beverage and gratuity; dessert may be purchased separately at the event (wood-oven baked New York style cheesecake.) If selecting the dinner option, please note dinner seating is general admission with eight per table with dinner served from 5:45 pm – 7 pm.

Lake Effect and Chill Factor
Tina Thielen-Gaffey, director
Concert only: Adult $15, senior/student $10, UMD student $5 Dinner & concert: Adult $35, senior/student $30, UMD student $25
Tickets: 218-726-8877 or tickets.umn.edu (online tickets incur an additional $1 fee.)

“Heaven Nowadays”: Review of the Duluth Playhouse Production of Chicago

The gin may not be cold (or available), but the dancing is certainly hot in the Duluth Playhouse’s production of Chicago. Set in a Prohibition-era Windy City, Chicago is inhabited by irredeemable (yet likable) hucksters and hustlers, all dancing for their lives. The bondage-lite costumes and the spare, gritty set only rarely hint at the Jazz Age, but that’s just as well: the story at the heart of Chicago, about crime, corruption, sensational journalism, the cult of celebrity and all that jazz, feels contemporary and relatable.

Lake Superior Watercolor Society Show “Close Up”

April 1-30
Opening Reception Thursday, April 7, 4-7PM
Just for the Season Gallery
207 W. Superior St. in the Holiday Center

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