Oct First Friday at a Glance

• Bemidji Community Art Center –  invites you to their October Spoken Word Event – “A Liar and a Thief: Fact and Fiction with Maureen Gibbon”.  Join us from 5 to 7pm for an artist reception and reading.  Maureen will be reading from her new novel “Thief” and discuss the intersection of fact and fiction.  Reading starts promptly 6pm with Q&A to follow.  (This reading is intended for adult audiences.  Guests should be 18 and older.) 
• Bad Cat Creations Gallery & Gifts – October First Friday event is “Threadbare”, a collection of fresh and mature works from Abigail Roland and Deborah Davis.   Join us for the opening reception on Oct. 1st from 4pm to 6pm.
• The Beltrami County Historical Society, in conjunction with Gallery North presents, “Winter Wonderland” opening on Oct 1st and showing through the end of December.  Stop by and enjoy refreshments and Free Admission into the Museum on Friday October 1st and every First Friday from 10 to 4pm. 
• Bemidji Public Library Art Wall – will host a reception 3 to 5pm as a part of the First Friday Art Walk and for the opening of “Booya” by artist and Bemidji native, Michael Miller.  Working with a variety of media including photography, video, drawing, painting and cartooning.
• Brigids Cross Irish Pub and Restaurant - invites the public to meet some of the artists in their collaborative show featuring work by artists for the upcoming First City of the Arts Studio Cruise.  Join us on Friday, October 1st from 4 to 6pm to see a sampling of work by this group of area Studio Artists, enjoy refreshments and learn more about the upcoming Studio Cruise in Oct. 
• Cabin Coffeehouse and Café - presents the “Village of Hope Donated Art Collaborative” featuring works from local, regional, American, and international artists with a common goal.  This goal is to fill the new Family Homeless Shelter, Village of Hope, with inspirational art.   For an opportunity to meet some of the artists, you are invited to the First Friday Artist Reception to be held from 5-7 on Friday October 1st. 
• Dunn Bros Coffee –continues their exhibit featuring work by Terry Honstead for the month of October.  In her exhibit entitled, “Time Gone By”.
• Neilson Place – continues it’s exhibit “The Language of Flowers” by Bemidji Artist Pamela Nelson and work by artist Butch Holden in The Bistro at WoodsEdge.  
• Saarens Productions and the Northwood’s Folk Collective invites you to stop by the Wild Rose Theatre on Friday October 1st starting at 6pm for the Northwoods Folk Collective and opening of their exhibit at the Fleur de Lis Gallery for the Month of October.
• Wild Hare Bistro and Coffee House – will present “The Art of Survival” for Domestic Abuse Awareness Month in October.  The kick off event will be held from 3:00 to 5:00PM on October 1st and feature the poetry and art of Kathryn Anne Lavelle, as well as speakers and advocates for survivors of domestic abuse in our community.   

For more information go to the Upcoming First Friday page.

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October Spoken Word Event features Maureen Gibbon

A Liar and a Thief:  Fact in Fiction with Maureen Gibbon   

Join us at the BCAC on October 1st for a reading by writer and poet Maureen Gibbon as a part of the BCAC’s Spoken Word Series and the Bemidji First Friday Art Walk.  Maureen will be reading  from her new novel Thief and discussing the intersection of fact and fiction.  The event is from 5 to 7pm with the reading starting promptly at 6pm.   

(The reading is intended for adult audience’s only.  Guests should be 18 and older.)   

A graduate of Barnard College and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Gibbon was awarded a Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship in 2001 and Loft McKnight Artist Fellowships in 1992 and 1999.  In 2006, she received a Mill Foundation Artist Residency at the Santa Fe Arts Institute.   

Maureen Gibbon

Maureen Gibbon is the author of Swimming Sweet Arrow, a novel; Magdalena, a collection of prose poems; and a new novel, Thief, published in 2010 in the U.S. by Sarah Crichton Books, an imprint of Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Atlantic Books in the U.K.; and Text in Australia.  Thief  is also forthcoming from Bompiani in Italy.  Magdalena (originally titled Kicking Horse My True Husband) was a finalist for the Yale Series of Younger Poets and National Poetry Series in 1995 and 1996, and the Agnes Starret Lynch/University of Pittsburgh Press prize in 1999.   All three books will be available for purchase on the night of the reading.  

Maureen Gibbon’s writing has been translated into French, German, Norwegian, Spanish and Hungarian. Fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Mail, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Playboy, Psychologies, California Quarterly, Water~Stone Review, and on nerve.com and basenotes.net.  

She lives in northern Minnesota, where she teaches writing.  For more information Website:  http://www.maureengibbon.com

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September First Friday Opening Reception

Standing room only during the First Friday Art Walk.

Over 150 guests visited the BCAC on Friday September 3rd for the opening of “Works In Wood”,  an all wood art exhibit, featuring work by 9 local artisans.    

Artist John Lembi (R) discusses work "Harlequin" with Mike Olson during reception.

Each piece,  unique to its’ creator,  is an expression of the artists aesthetic in the medium of wood.   All of the work is functional and decorative with an emphasis on craftsmanship, quality of materials and shows the depth of ability, by each artist.   

Center of Main Gallery.

Don’t miss the opportunity to see this amazing exhibit of fine handcrafted “Works in Wood”.  The exhibit runs now through October 23rd, 2010.  Artists in the exhibit include Jeff Burger, Allan Habedank, Emelia Hovelsrud,  Don Knudson, John Lembi, Duane Shoup, Gary Thomton, David Towley and Kathleen Towley.

  

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