Classes for all set for next summer

Friday/Sturday June 17th/18th Summer Solstice Celebration
Pottery Demos, Artist Reception, Pottery Tent sale 10% off all pottery, Raku firing

Monday/Tuesday June 20th & 21st Feltmaking
Class 9am - 4pm Students 14 years old +

Monday/Tuesday June 20th & 21st 2 day Drum Making + Playing Class for Summer Solstice Class 10am - 12:300
1st Grade + $30

Tuesday June 21st Summer Solstice Celebration with Drumming, music and welcoming Summer

Wednesday June 22nd K - 3rd Grade Art Class 10 - 11am $15
Wednesday June 22nd 14 years + Exploring drawing 1-4pm $20

Thursday June 23rd Wall Hanging weaving 2nd Grade + $20

Friday June 24th Gallery Reception for Featured Artist Summer Solstice Celebration Pottery Demos, Artist Reception, Pottery Tent sale 10% off all pottery, Raku firing

Tuesday June 28th 2nd - 7th Grade Clay whistles and rattels class (2 day class with outdoor firing on Thursday 30th. $25 10- noon each day

Wednesday Jun 29th K-3rd Grade Art Class 10-11am $15
Wednesday June 29th 14 years + Exploring drawing 1-4pm $20

Thursday June 30th Outdoor raku firing of whisles and rattels

Tuesday July 5th 2nd - 6th Grade Raku pottery jewelry 10-noon
(2 day class with raku firing on Friday July 8th) $20

Wednesday July 6th K - 3rd Grade Art Class 10am - 11 $15
Wednesday July 6th 14 years + Exploring drawing 1-4pm $20

Thursday July 7th 2nd-5th Grade Art class Dream Catchers
10am - noon $20

Friday July 8th Pottery raku firing 10am - noon

Saturday July 9th, 6pm Gallery clossed for Private Party

Monday/Tuesday July 11th/12th Prehistoric Pottery Making Class 9am - 4pm for students 14+

Wednesday July 13th K-3rd Grade Art Class 10-11am $15
Wednesday July 13th 14 years + Exploring drawing 1-4pm $20

Thursday July 14th Handbuilding with clay 9:30 - noon
2nd Grade + (Firing on Friday weather permitting) $20

Friday July 15th Outdoor pit firing

Tuesday July 19th Fairy house class for children 2nd Grade + 10am noon $20

Wednesday July 20th K-3rd Grade Art class 10am 11am $15
Wednesday July 20th 14 years + Exploring drawing 1-4pm $20

Thursday July 21st Painting class for children 2nd Grade 6th Grade 10am - noon $20

Tuesday July 26th Driftwood mobiles art class for children 2nd Grade 6th Grade, 10am noon $20

Wednesday July 27th K-3rd Grade Art class 10am 11am $15
Wednesday July 27h 14 years + Exploring drawing 1-4pm $20

Thursday July 28th Wall Hanging weaving class for children 2nd Grade 6th Grade, 10am noon $20

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Aug 1st 3rd The Tree of Life: Celebration of the Harvest class for families and kids 9:30 noon

Wednesday August 3rd, K-3rd Grade Art class 10am 11am $15
Wednesday August 3rd ,14 years + Exploring drawing 1-4pm $20

Thursday August 4th Driftwood mobiles class for children 2nd Grade 6th Grade, 10am noon $20

Tuesday August 9th Fairy house class for children 2nd Grade + 10am noon $20

Wednesday August 10th, K-3rd Grade Art class 10am 11am $15
Wednesday August 10th,14 years + Exploring drawing 1-4pm $20

Thursday August 11th Painting class for children 2nd Grade 6th Grade, 10am noon $20

Summer Solstice Celebration at Bell Street Gallery

We enjoyed demos and reception with Potter, Brian and Peggy Lundberg, raku artist Steve Hemingway, saw-dust kiln artist Maryte Allen and pastel artist Denise Bunkert. Enjoy these videos...
http://www.youtube.com/user/BellStreetGallery#g/uhttp:/

Video link with Steve McHugh

Channel 6 TV Station out of Duluth came to Madeline Island and did a small piece about the economy, tourism and the Island. Check it out:
http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/local/95740674.html

Painting by Fredric McCormick

Fredric McCormick is new to Bell Street Gallery, Fred splits his time between Minneapolis, his cabin in Trego, WI and his family's summer cottage on Frenchman Bay, Maine. Fredric's impulse, "to draw things the way they really look," go back to the tender age of seven. Over the years he has worked in a number of media (oil, watercolor, acrylic and pencil) and has taken awards in a large number of national competitions.

New works comes to Bell Street Gallery

Paintings by Fredric McCormick and Terrie Myers, Raku by Steve Hemingway.

New Gallery Look...

Why buy Art?

This is a quote that Holly Tourdot gave me from Liz Simpson,
"The positive emotions and feelings we get from appreciating beautiful things infuses us with a beneficial energy that helps bring our bodies and minds into balance."
What more needs to be said...

New work from Michael Tonder

Michael Tonder – working with recycled plate glass, kilns, and sandblaster- creates one-of-a-kind glass sculptures. Handcut from flat sheets of glass, each creation is carefully assembled, than fired in an electric kiln. After firing, the fused glass forms are than carved and etched to completion.

Within each form, Mike employs internal lines, altered surface textures, and light reflection, refraction, and diffusion to create tension, stimulate curiosity, and engage the eye. His art reflects the many influeneces of his experience as a forester and park manager, and many excursions into Minnesota’s Boundary Waters canoe area.

Brian + Peggy Lundberg's new mugs

Seems we have a theme today, bears.... Brian and Peggy have come up with what has to be the most comfortable mug I've ever held in my hands, lightweight and beautiful.

Porcelain sculptures from Martye Allen

Some of Martye's new work, she uses porcelain clay giving a clay a bonewhite look and than she fires them in a saw-dust kiln for the brown/black marks. You can see these and many others after the 29th of April.

Steve Hemingway doing Raku firing

Here's Steve and his wife Amy firing some of his new "Eggs" at his studio in Minnetonka, MN.

Website is live

We launched the new website on Monday and it's up and looking, checking it out!
http://www.bellstgallery.com