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Capstone Events – Artists

Features upcoming capstone events for the SEMAC-funded grant activities of individual artists. To update your event details, email communications(at)semac.org with information.

January 2025

  • 1/16/25 – Stephanie Cox, Comic book about Zulu-S. MN connection, Northfield Public Library, Northfield
  • 1/18/25: Wendy Placko, table read for DS Birch Carlson Eps. 2, The Northfield Depot, Northfield
  • 1/19/25 – Gao Hong, New Composition for Pipa and Cello, with guest cellist Tony Ross, 3pm, Carleton College, Northfield
  • 1/19/25: Peter Mutschler, artist reception and reading for The River Connects Us, Winona Art Center, Winona (exchibit 1/19-3/2/25, then online 3/3/25)

Febuary 2025

  • 2/1/225 – Arlo Cristofaro, Gate by the Garden – An Ecosystem of Song, Northfield Depot, Northfield
  • 2/6/25: Andrew Mazariegos-Ovalle, artist reception for Conservar es Celebrar, Northfield Arts Guild, Northfield (exhibit 1/9-2/6/25)
  • 2/9/25 – Oliver Books, artist reception for Rochester Musician Collaboration Album, Treedome, Rochester
  • 2/10/25 – Marie Maher, Journaling the Senior Experience, Shorewood Senior Campus, Rochester
  • 2/10/25: Suzanne Szucs, artist reception for Photographic Printing and Framing, 125 Live Gallery, Rochester (1/8-3/23/25, then 6/6-7/25/25 James Wegner Gallery)
  • 2/10/25: Cassandra Buck, artist reception for Emergence, 125 Live Gallery, Rochester (exhibit 1/5-3/23/25)
  • 2/14/25: Trina Brunk, Remembering Our Connections, Northfield Depot, Northfield
  • 2/16/25: Logan Johnson, Album Release Performance & Listening Event, Thesis Beer Project, Rochester
  • 2/22/25: Rachel Pauli, Unveiling of community-created gourd mosaic, Winona Public Library, Winona

March 2025

  • 3/4/25 – John Sievers, Jazz Composition, Recording, Performance, Threshold Arts, Rochester
  • 3/28/25: Kevin Dobbe, New Media Opera Scenes, Rochester Civic Theatre, Rochester (performances 3/27-3/29/25)
  • 3/31/25 – Lindsay Krage, Quilting the Minnesota Barn Quilt Trail, Anthem Skatepark, Winona (exhibit and online launch hosted by Mainspring)

April 2025

  • 4/5/25: Kathleen Hawkes, artist reception for The Cherry Blossoms You Missed, Rochester Art Center, Rochester (exhibit 3/29-8/31/25)
  • 4/18/25: Samantha Reiter-Johnson, artist reception for Through Bees’ Eyes: Floral Perspectives, Quarry Hill Nature Center, Rochester (exhibit 4/18-6/10/25)

May 2025

  • 5/1/25: Steve Harris, grand opening Talking Trails for Lanesboro, Lanesboro History Museum, Lanesboro (ongoing thereafter)
  • 5/16/25: Lane Powell, premier of Welded Steel – Celebrating Manufacturing, Stewartville High School Spring Band Concert, Stewartville

June 2025

  • 6/5/25: Nathaniel Nelson, Untitled Narrative Short Film, Threshold Arts, Rochester
  • 6/14/25: Espoir DelMain, Driftless Water Dance Performance, National Eagle Center Amphitheatre, Wabasha
  • 6/17/25: Rocky Casillas Aguirre, opening date for U are the Universe Art Exhibition, Northfield Arts Guild and Mercado Local, Northfield (exhibit 6/17- 7/26/25)

July 2025

  • 7/12/25: Stena Lieb, Fibers from the Forest and Farm, Lanesboro Arts, Lanesboro

August 2025

  • 8/9/25: Heidi Bacon, Paving the Way for Pollinators, 1-3pm, The Artist Sanctuary, Red Wing
  • 8/15/25: Judy Saye-Willis, Sharing the Knowledge, Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault (exhibit 8/11-9/27/25)
  • 8/21/25: Julie Yost, artist reception for Always Leaving: There Must be 50 Ways to Love Your Leaves, Gallery 24, Rochester (exhibit 8/19-8/30/25)

September 2025

  • 9/9/25: Jonny Weaver, (How) Can Cartoons Make You Feel? Film Screening and Q&A, Northfield Arts Guild, Northfield
  • 9/18/25: Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo, The way of tenderness (work in progress), Northfield Public Library, Northfield
  • 9/19/25: Sarah Vanasse Miles, Chiaroscuro Chronicles: Reinterpreting Narratives of Antiquity through Film Aesthetics, Rochester Beacon Academy, Rochester
  • 9/27/25: Paul LeDuc, Painting with water mixable oils, Chatfield Center for the Arts, Chatfield

October 2025

  • 10/1/25: Natasha Roozen, A Spiritual Dive into Hahawakpa and Land of My Oyate: Explorations in Native Material Culture, Red Wing Arts, Red Wing (exhibit 10/1-10/31/25)
  • 10/3/25: Kate Langlais, artist reception for I Am Minnesota (part 3), Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault (exhibit 9/29-11/15/25)
  • 10/4/25: Susan Waughtal, A Brush With Life, Squash Blossom Farm, Oronoco
  • 10/24/25: Margaret Shaw Johnson, premier of Mallory’s Ghost, Historic Masonic Theater, Winona (performances 10/24-11/1/25)
  • 10/30/25: Carla Gallina, artist reception for Dances in Nature, Chatfield Center for the Arts, Chatfield (exhibit 11/1-11/30/25)

April 2026

  • 4/30/2026: Louis Epstein, premier of The Odyssey: The Musical, St Olaf College, Northfield (performances 4/30-5/2/2026)