Artist: Dan Petrov
Title: Tettgouche Pillar
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 37"h x 49"w framed

Description: Dan Petrov, a widely exhibited, classically trained artist with more than 25 years of experience, teaches Renaissance and Flemish oil painting techniques at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts. Dan finds that, as he puts it, "Painting takes us in three directions: inside ourselves, outside into the world, and inside the process of painting itself. Paintings originate from a personal level of memories, dreams, feelings, and ideas." The paintings here demonstrate his mastery of still life, landscape, and figure painting.

Artist: Dan Petrov
Title: Knot
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 37"h x 49"w framed

Description: Dan Petrov, a widely exhibited, classically trained artist with more than 25 years of experience, teaches Renaissance and Flemish oil painting techniques at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts. Dan finds that, as he puts it, "Painting takes us in three directions: inside ourselves, outside into the world, and inside the process of painting itself. Paintings originate from a personal level of memories, dreams, feelings, and ideas." The paintings here demonstrate his mastery of still life, landscape, and figure painting.

Artist: Francene Christianson
Title: The Summer Wind
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 44"h x 60"w

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Description: Francene Christianson is a long-time member and supporter of MCFTA. Her lush paint handling, combined with her talent for capturing the universality in everyday moments has placed her work in exhibitions and private collections across the country. In her own words: "This painting is inspired by a family photo, so it comes by its time-stamped vibe honestly. Sinatra was a favorite in my house growing up, especially for my Dad. The title refers to a favorite song, The Summer Wind; it's a reason I used it for the title. The intense yellow frames the figures and recalls lazy, hot summer days. As I got into the painting, the almost life-size figures allowed me to really describe the fabric and the way the figures were in the frame; it worked almost like a puzzle. The family on the beach is enjoying time together and having fun. This is the thing that makes the painting one of my favorites, especially now, when being together has been taken from us."

Artist: Dan Petrov
Title: Study in Green
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 21.5"w x 25.5"w framed

Description: Dan Petrov, a widely exhibited, classically trained artist with more than 25 years of experience, teaches Renaissance and Flemish oil painting techniques at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts. Dan finds that, as he puts it, "Painting takes us in three directions: inside ourselves, outside into the world, and inside the process of painting itself. Paintings originate from a personal level of memories, dreams, feelings, and ideas." The paintings here demonstrate his mastery of still life, landscape, and figure painting.

Artist: Dan Petrov
Title: Space Divided
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 21.5"h x 25.5"w framed

Description: Dan Petrov, a widely exhibited, classically trained artist with more than 25 years of experience, teaches Renaissance and Flemish oil painting techniques at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts. Dan finds that, as he puts it, "Painting takes us in three directions: inside ourselves, outside into the world, and inside the process of painting itself. Paintings originate from a personal level of memories, dreams, feelings, and ideas." The paintings here demonstrate his mastery of still life, landscape, and figure painting.

Artist: Dan Petrov
Title: French Bread
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 22"h x 25.5"w framed

Description: Dan Petrov, a widely exhibited, classically trained artist with more than 25 years of experience, teaches Renaissance and Flemish oil painting techniques at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts. Dan finds that, as he puts it, "Painting takes us in three directions: inside ourselves, outside into the world, and inside the process of painting itself. Paintings originate from a personal level of memories, dreams, feelings, and ideas." The paintings here demonstrate his mastery of still life, landscape, and figure painting.

Artist: Dan Petrov
Title: Anniversary
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 21.5"h x 25.5"w framed

Description: Dan Petrov, a widely exhibited, classically trained artist with more than 25 years of experience, teaches Renaissance and Flemish oil painting techniques at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts. Dan finds that, as he puts it, "Painting takes us in three directions: inside ourselves, outside into the world, and inside the process of painting itself. Paintings originate from a personal level of memories, dreams, feelings, and ideas." The paintings here demonstrate his mastery of still life, landscape, and figure painting.

Artist: Dan Petrov
Title: Chinese Tea Pot
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 16"h x 19"w framed

Description: Dan Petrov, a widely exhibited, classically trained artist with more than 25 years of experience, teaches Renaissance and Flemish oil painting techniques at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts. Dan finds that, as he puts it, "Painting takes us in three directions: inside ourselves, outside into the world, and inside the process of painting itself. Paintings originate from a personal level of memories, dreams, feelings, and ideas." The paintings here demonstrate his mastery of still life, landscape, and figure painting.

Artist: Dan Petrov
Title: Silver Cup
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 10"h x 12"w framed

Description: Dan Petrov, a widely exhibited, classically trained artist with more than 25 years of experience, teaches Renaissance and Flemish oil painting techniques at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts. Dan finds that, as he puts it, "Painting takes us in three directions: inside ourselves, outside into the world, and inside the process of painting itself. Paintings originate from a personal level of memories, dreams, feelings, and ideas." The paintings here demonstrate his mastery of still life, landscape, and figure painting.

Artist: Dan Petrov
Title: Lemons on Green
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 11.5"h x 13.5"w framed

Description: Dan Petrov, a widely exhibited, classically trained artist with more than 25 years of experience, teaches Renaissance and Flemish oil painting techniques at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts. Dan finds that, as he puts it, "Painting takes us in three directions: inside ourselves, outside into the world, and inside the process of painting itself. Paintings originate from a personal level of memories, dreams, feelings, and ideas." The paintings here demonstrate his mastery of still life, landscape, and figure painting.

Artist: Dan Petrov
Title: Favorite Cup
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 11.5"h x 13.5"w framed

Description: Dan Petrov, a widely exhibited, classically trained artist with more than 25 years of experience, teaches Renaissance and Flemish oil painting techniques at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts. Dan finds that, as he puts it, "Painting takes us in three directions: inside ourselves, outside into the world, and inside the process of painting itself. Paintings originate from a personal level of memories, dreams, feelings, and ideas." The paintings here demonstrate his mastery of still life, landscape, and figure painting.

Artist: Catherine Hearding
Title: Yellowstone Reflections
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 24"h x 19"w framed

Description: Catherine Hearding, an award-winning self-taught artist with more than 40 years of experience in watercolor painting, has been teaching remotely during the pandemic. The pieces offered here began as demonstrations in her very popular virtual classes for MCFTA. Catherine is a past president of the Minnesota Watercolor Society and holds signature status in the American Watercolor Society. She has received many local and national awards, and her work is included in many private and public collections.

Artist: Catherine Hearding
Title: Light on the Ocean
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 24"h x 19.75"w framed

Description: Catherine Hearding, an award-winning self-taught artist with more than 40 years of experience in watercolor painting, has been teaching remotely during the pandemic. The pieces offered here began as demonstrations in her very popular virtual classes for MCFTA. Catherine is a past president of the Minnesota Watercolor Society and holds signature status in the American Watercolor Society. She has received many local and national awards, and her work is included in many private and public collections.

Artist: Crissy Field
Title: Which Way
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 18"h x 24"w

Description: Crissy Field is currently serving her second term on the board of MCFTA. Primarily self-taught as a painter, she explores a variety of styles with her work. She uses color to evoke mood, and embraces the way an artwork can display "An acceptance of the chaos, complexity and amorphous nature of the mind, transferred onto the canvas." She sums it all up perfectly: "Life is better with Art."

Artist: Crissy Field
Title: Sure
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 16"h x 12"w

Description: Crissy Field is currently serving her second term on the board of MCFTA. Primarily self-taught as a painter, she explores a variety of styles with her work. She uses color to evoke mood, and embraces the way an artwork can display "An acceptance of the chaos, complexity and amorphous nature of the mind, transferred onto the canvas." She sums it all up perfectly: "Life is better with Art."

Artist: Cynthia Kath
Title: Aspen Grove
Medium: Pastel
Size: 15.75"h x 18.5"w framed

Description: Cynthia Kath paints in oils, acrylics, and pastel - of which "Aspen Grove" is a fine example, displaying her lush color sense and talent for creating atmosphere and space within her images. Cynthia teaches at numerous venues, including her pastel landscape classes at MCFTA, and has a studio in the Northrup King Building.

Artist: Ellen Richman
Title: Big Sunshine
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 56"h x 56" w

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Description: Ellen Richman's popular Contemporary Abstract Painting classes provided a compelling counterpoint to MCFTA's more traditional curriculum offerings, pulling in students from other departments eager to experience her approach to creating abstract imagery. As she puts it, "I am driven by the exploration of the visual elements: color, form, and space. I develop and reinvent visual language and am inspired to explore new forms and the relationships between them. I give my attention to the opposites of the organic versus the geometric and seek to develop a minimal image. It interests me how color and form are a universally understood language that affects mood, emotion and the subconscious mind."

Artist: Richard Krogstad
Title: Cloud Reflection
Medium: Oil on paper
Size: 21"h x 17"w framed

Description: Well-known for his evocative rural landscape paintings, Richard Krogstad has recently shifted his artistic practice to a more abstract point of view, though his images remain rooted in observations of the landscape. "Cloud Reflections" offers a special opportunity to acquire one of his earlier works.

Artist: Michele Combs
Title: Duluth Poppies
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size:17"h x 14"w framed

Description: Michele Combs teaches plein air and impressionist painting at MCFTA. Her artistic education includes studies in classical realism at the Minnesota River School of Fine Art. She regards each of her paintings as "an invitation to join me in a captured moment in time." She maintains a studio in the Northrup King Building in Minneapolis.

Artist: Kimble Bromley
Title: The Ideal
Medium: Collage
Size: 48"h x 73"w framed

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Description: A professor in the Department of Visual Arts at North Dakota State University, Kim has presented workshops and served as a visiting artist at venues throughout the upper Midwest, Ecuador, and Mexico. His oeuvre includes large-scale collages such as these, as well as more traditional paintings including several landscape series of the North Dakota Plains, and a series of abstracted views of his Minnesota pond, "My own Giverny," as he describes it. The collages here combine the boldness and power of abstract paintings with the subtlety and gesture of figure drawings, simultaneously suggesting stepping back and pulling in closer for a better look?

Artist: Kimble Bromley
Title: Scott
Medium: Collage
Size: 59"h x 49"w framed

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Description: A professor in the Department of Visual Arts at North Dakota State University, Kim has presented workshops and served as a visiting artist at venues throughout the upper Midwest, Ecuador, and Mexico. His oeuvre includes large-scale collages such as these, as well as more traditional paintings including several landscape series of the North Dakota Plains, and a series of abstracted views of his Minnesota pond, "My own Giverny," as he describes it. The collages here combine the boldness and power of abstract paintings with the subtlety and gesture of figure drawings, simultaneously suggesting stepping back and pulling in closer for a better look?