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Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Arts Center invites the community to view the current exhibit, and to a classical music presentation.
On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 Arts Center Advertising and Public Relations Director, Angela Martini said, artist Deane Colin Fay returns to the gallery with a solo exhibition of his newest work. Fay’s paintings and sculptures portray a prairie landscape constructed of bold fields of color punctuated with a vocabulary of images and forms variously referred to as “icons”. Fay has created a series of very popular monochromatic landscapes. The exhibit runs through November 7th.
Classes include Family Pottery on Saturdays, October 17 and 24, with Bill Nybo.
Adult photography classes with Troy Gunderson will be held, and a two day presentation of Infuse your walls.
Contact the Arts Center in Jamestown at 701-251-2496 on line visit
 The Classical Music Recital features pianist, Geradline Ong and Tenor, Andrew Childs Saturday, October 17, 2015, at 3:00 pmTickets at the door: $10 or $5 for Arts Center Members and Students.For more detailed information on Geraldine Ong or Andrew Childs please visit:www.jamestownarts.com. |
| Angela pointed out the downtown Jamestown Hansen Arts Park continues with improvements. |
The park has been named in memory of generous benefactors, Gordon and Charlotte Hansen. The amount of the donation can not be revealed at this time.
Jo-Ida Hansen, daughter of the late Charlotte and Gordon Hansen, wanted the memory of two very active community members to live on with the park.
The park will have custom-built bike racks, mosaic benches, electrical and data ports and ongoing art displays.
Currently the Hansen Arts Park work consists of installing concrete pathways, and pavers. Grass seeding will also be done before it snows, and tree planting will start in the spring.
Plans are for a snowman-building and ornament-making contests around the time of the Holiday Dazzle Parade.
The process for securing artist/designers to create the pavilion and the signature sculpture is underway. The artists are working on their designs and the finalist for each component will be selected in the upcoming weeks. If all goes as planned, the Park will have its grand opening next September.
Continued construction on the artistic and performance space of the park will start in the spring of 2016 and will be ongoing throughout next summer. A national search resulted in three finalists, all from the Twin Cities area, that will now bid for the architect design work.
The design/architectural firm finalists include Futures North of Minneapolis, PLAAD of Stillwater, Minnesota, and an ad-hoc group being led by Charles Stewart, a Jamestown native now working for Kimley-Horn in St. Paul.
Representatives of the three finalists have visited Jamestown to meet with Hansen Arts Park Board members and to tour the city.
The full proposals are due October 30, 2015.
The Jamestown Fine Arts Association was one of 38 organizations nationwide to receive a $240,000 ArtPlace America grant for the Arts Park in July.
The city of Jamestown provided some additional capital funding for the mosaic benches to help defray costs.
The remaining fundraising is about two-thirds completed.
This fall crews working at the Park are from Scott’s Electric, Ld Concrete and Hebron Brick & Block Supply. Electrical and data conduit work was installed prior to the sidewalk.
For more information, call the Jamestown arts Center at 701-251-2496 or visit jamestownarts.com.
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