Now Featuring

Boats Will Float and Bumble Bees Will Sting
Jerry Allen Gilmore
June 6 – June 24, 2013
Gallery Celebration: June 20, 5 to 7pm
Steffl Gallery

These series of works reflect the artist’s realization that life’s every movement possesses a humorous bend in the river, where one may be given aid by animals, magicians and shamans or menaced by devils, clowns and bumble bees. Where you go depends upon where you have been, and where you can go depends upon what you can imagine.

My work has always claimed an element of water in it’s narrative, because of the movement and immigration of my Irish family and my being baptized, or my first bath in the columbia river, I have alway’s looked for fresh water. Characteristically all of these works are autobiographical, different chapters and never in order of appearance, markings on my life.

A Strong Experience of Nature
Lee Englund
May 30 – August 18
Gallery Celebration: June 20, 5 to 7pm
Corridor Gallery
Lee Englund has been a steadfast figure and continuing force in the Duluth visual arts scene for over a quarter century. He creates, teaches, and takes inspiration from the Twin Ports community he calls home. This summer the Duluth Art Institute is thrilled to recognize a sampling of Englund’s diverse legacy as a Twin Ports oil painter.