GRAND FORKS -- Visitors to the Grand Cities Art Fest June 12-13 can watch creativity happen as select artists demonstrate how they make their artwork in Arts in Action.
The demonstrations will feature John Crahen, glass; Larry Froehlich, wood; Gary Rowley and Melissa Carroll (Earth Elements), jewelry; Sue Rowe (Susan Rowe Studios), drawing; Jenn Steinbrink (The Krazy Kiln), ceramics; and Elliot Silberman (Portraits in 5 Minutes), drawing.
Arts in Action artists were selected from nearly 200 artist applications. During the Art Fest in downtown Grand Forks and East Grand Forks, you can find them under the red or yellow canopied booths in Town Square, or on the path from Town Square to the Greenway. Event hours will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 12 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 13.
Arts in Action, an addition this year to the Grand Cities Art Fest, will demonstrate techniques used in a variety of media.
Silberman, an artist from Duluth, has been drawing live portraits for 33 years and will draw portraits on-site. Steinbrink, of Crookston, will throw clay on a potter's wheel and demonstrate how she infuses her personality in her ceramic work.
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Rowley and Carroll, owners of Earth Elements in Peirpoint, S.D., will create creative, intricate jewelry. Crahen, an artist from Baraboo, Wis., plans to demonstrate the creation of decorative and functional colored glass artwork. Rowe, Stillwater, Minn., will create whimsical, colorful drawings, and Froehlich, Crookston, will demonstrate wood lathe turning techniques.
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