WinsteadLeo Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown Arts Center, reports that  this year’s Artist-In-Residents, Leo Winstead has moved to town, from Minneapolis.

On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Arts Center Director, Cyndi Wish said, over the last nine years, Winstead has worked as a freelance illustrator and animator.  His published work includes art for games, medical and editorial illustrations as well as designs for holiday-themed merchandise. Leo recently completed an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design. In 2003, he won an Artist’s Choice award for the painting, St. Jerome at the third Annual Juried Religious Art Show in northeast Minneapolis. In 2009, he illustrated the picture book Weaver of Song about the Christmas carol, “Silent Night.”  View his portfolio and more at: www.lswinstead.com.

Painting classes with Leo are:
Acrylic Landscape Painting, Saturday, August 20th
Watercolor Floral Portraits, Saturday, August 27th

More details and registration: jamestownarts.com

This year’s Oktoberfest is set for Saturday September 17, 2016, starting at 5:30-p.m., at the Stutsman County Fairgrounds.

In addition to the food, there will be beer, music, costumes, along with the Weiner Dog Races.

Tickets are $30 and available at Cork & Barrel, The Jamestown Arts Center, Arts Center Board Members, and at the gate.

Purchasing an Oktoberfest raffle ticket for $75 is the opportunity to win $4,000 (Oktoberfest entry included.

FrittsOwenCyndi again pointed out that sculpture  Owen William Fritts from Flagstaff Arizona is working on his Hansen Arts Park sculptures and the next few months he’s installing the “Prairie Grass Ballet,” aluminum “blades of grass,” in addition to  installing and moving in to place, 65 tons of granite boulders.

She added the work is expected to be finished by the fall.

The grand opening of the Hansen Arts Park, including additional items such as the stage, is coming up in July of 2017.