Annual Meeting – 2017

Join Executive Director Betsy Roder, the Board of Directors, and staff at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Cultural Center on Monday, April 10th from 5:30 to 6:30pm. All Cultural Center Members are Invited and Encouraged to Attend! Hear about the 2016 year in review....

Arts Retreat Deadline Approaches

Click Here to Apply! Artists! The deadline to submit your application for consideration to visit New York Mills and stay at our Arts Retreat house is Saturday, April 15th. That day fast approaches. Click anywhere on this sentence to go to our application page.   Stay...

Chinese Storytelling & Music

Gao Hong Chinese Storyteller & Pipa Maestro Thursday, March 23 Talk @ 6:30pm, Concert @ 7:30pm Gao Hong, a Chinese musical prodigy and master of the pear-shaped lute, the pipa, began her career as a professional musician at age 12. She graduated with honors from...

Think-Off Essays Due April 1

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Ceramic Tile Class

Ceramic Tile-Making in 2 Easy Sessions: March 16 & 23 @ 5:30pm With Ceramicist, Brad Wegscheid Make ceramic tiles to hang on your wall! Bring natural objects, lace, fabric, rubber scrapbooking stamps, or baby feet to make impressions in your tile. Some items...

Art History Classes

Art Adventures Art History Class with Pam Robinson March 2nd & March 30th 6:30pm Every year the Cultural Center facilitates the ‘Art Adventure’ program in area elementary schools. Community volunteers visit classrooms to teach students about 6 different works of...

Minneapolis Comedian!

Comedian Tommy Ryman Saturday, March 11 @ 8pm Tommy Ryman grew up with a new-age, folksinging mother and a traditional, Lutheran insurance-agent father. This XY equation evidently equals: acclaimed comedian. Ryman has earned the title of Semifinalist on NBC’s Last...

International Women’s Day 2017

Women Are the World – Gallery Show Wednesday, March 8th through Saturday, April 8th Reception / Presentation Friday, March 10th @ 5-7pm From Hypatia to  Zora Neale Hurston to Josephine Baker and Frida Kahlo to Marjane Satrapi, women have been exploring, creating, and...

The Heart of Art Gallery Show

This exhibition highlights the work of Elle Hettinger, a regional artist who lives in Orono, Minnesota. After suffering a series of illnesses years ago, Hettinger took classes at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) in drawing, watercolor, acrylic,...

Painting Class in February 11th

  Acrylic Painting with Aleda Windels Students will complete a still life orchid painting to take home in addition to honing skills. This “Art Rehabilitated” class will help participants utilize the relaxation which comes from creative exercises to de-stress,...