JAMESTOWN – The Downtown Arts Market opens for the season on Thursday, July 11, within the Hansen Arts Park.
The annual occasion that options music, artwork and actions for the general public is free and runs from 5:30 to eight:30 p.m. on Thursdays from July 11 via Aug. 29.
“The attendance final yr was phenomenal,” stated Mindi Schmitz, government director of The Arts Heart, which holds the Market. “It simply grows yearly. And I additionally have to thank a lot the assist of … our sponsors. We could not do it with out our sponsors.”
The occasion kicks off with Heather Rae returning for the third time to carry out, headlining on July 11.
“Jamestown is considered one of my favourite exhibits of the yr and I all the time stay up for returning, and this yr’s present would be the finest but,” Rae stated in an e-mail to The Jamestown Solar. “I’ve a handful of surprises ready, together with a model new single ‘Good for Me’ (popping out July 19) which I might be taking part in dwell for the primary time ever with my band. After all of the wonderful welcomes Jamestown has proven me, I can’t watch for them to be the primary to listen to it!”
Rae is a Minot space native and nationwide recording artist based mostly in Nashville. She says she writes music that feels like a mixture of Taylor Swift, Sara Bareilles and KT Tunstall.
“She contacts us yearly and loves the venue and desires to play right here,” Schmitz stated.
Opening for Rae might be Stevie Ok and Pals, Schmitz stated.
“He (Steve Kuykendall) does music classes and so he’ll spotlight his college students on a few nights this summer time,” she stated.
Together with music, a group artwork venture might be featured at every Market and The Arts Heart gallery might be open, Schmitz stated.
The group will get to assist create a brief mural on the west wall of the previous Surprise Bar, which the Jamestown Effective Arts Affiliation bought so as to add school rooms to the prevailing Arts Heart to increase youngsters’s programming. The Jamestown Effective Arts Affiliation continues to lift funds for its $2 million capital marketing campaign, “Elevating the Bar for the Arts,” for the venture.
The general public can have an opportunity to take part in creating this momentary mural on the west wall of the previous Surprise Bar constructing throughout the Downtown Arts Market. The constructing was bought by The Arts Heart and might be renovated to supply school rooms for youngsters’s programming.
Contributed / The Arts Heart
Artist Linda Roesch will spearhead the group mural venture.
“So come and produce your paint garments and create,” Schmitz stated. “It is not going to be a everlasting mural. It is simply to attempt to get the group enthusiastic about our venture, our capital marketing campaign, and allow them to be artistic.”
Anna Jacobson, director of training and exhibitions for The Arts Heart, stated Roesch might be portray the background of the mural and assist information anybody who needs to assist with the venture as properly.
“The group goes to assist by creating both colour patterns or footage or drawing in … the phrases …‘Elevating the Bar’ (within the mural),” Jacobson stated.
The venture is predicted to participate in July.
It simply grows yearly. And I additionally have to thank a lot the assist of … our sponsors. We could not do it with out our sponsors.
Mindi Schmitz, government director, The Arts Heart, on the Downtown Arts Market
Folks even have an opportunity to brighten a bowl, a venture that’s anticipated to run via the Arts Market season and finally elevate funds to assist the mission and packages of The Arts Heart and a group starvation venture, Jacobson stated.
“We’re offering unglazed bowls and we want individuals to come back and glaze the bowl for us and we’ll hearth it after which within the fall there might be a soup feed,” she stated.
The bowl venture might be arrange outdoors the Hansen Arts Studio throughout the Arts Market. Folks can draw or paint on a bowl, which is able to then be fired to complete it. Jacobson stated group participation in portray a bowl is a present to The Arts Heart and the group starvation venture. At a fall fundraiser, individuals will be capable to choose and buy one of many food-safe bowls to take residence and also will be fed with soup.
Extra data on that fundraiser is predicted to be launched later.
Jacobson stated ceramic artists similar to resident artist Anna Brock and Invoice Nybo are anticipated to assist individuals with the method when they’re engaged on their bowls.
Jacobson stated the bowl venture performs into a bigger nationwide venture, Empty Bowls, which is a strategy to carry funds and consciousness to individuals going hungry on this nation. Empty Bowls is a grassroots motion by artist and crafts individuals around the globe to lift cash for food-related charities to assist feed the hungry of their communities, in line with emptybowls.com.
Anna Jacobson, director of training and exhibitions at The Arts Heart, stands with among the bowls that the group will be capable to adorn throughout the Downtown Arts Market this season. The bowls will finally be bought via a fundraiser within the fall, elevating funds for The Arts Heart and a group starvation venture.
Kathy Steiner / The Jamestown Solar
Jacobson stated the venture doesn’t need to be completed in any particular means.
“I believed it could be a enjoyable twist to have our group members as an alternative {of professional} artists …. simply creating design or patterns or footage on bowls,” she stated.
She calls the bowls a three-dimensional canvas and says individuals can do no matter they need on them.
“You’ll be able to paint on it such as you would a canvas or you may simply do stable colours,” she stated. “Otherwise you do one colour on the within and one colour on the skin. That’s the enjoyable half is that it may be just about very open-ended which typically is admittedly intimidating to individuals but in addition typically it opens up that door to only enable individuals to be artistic.”
Different deliberate actions embrace offering markers for individuals to attract, sidewalk chalk artwork and huge bubble wands for individuals to play with, Jacobson stated.
“It ought to be a enjoyable summer time and (we’re) attempting to drag in artists everywhere,” Jacobson stated.
She stated they’re all the time searching for individuals to do some kind of artwork type at The Arts Heart and encourages individuals curious about serving to with Arts Heart actions to contact them.
Different Market performer highlights
On July 18, the Kulm (North Dakota) Neighborhood Band would be the leisure for the night.
“I believed was nice to have one thing completely different and attain out to a distinct group to carry them to Jamestown,” Schmitz stated.
The band and its drum corps will carry out.
Jesse Veeder will carry out on July 25.
“We all the time love Jesse Veeder,” Schmitz stated. “She comes yearly. She loves our venue too. She’s a storyteller, a songwriter. She’s a fan favourite, an area favourite, and she or he brings in individuals from all around the space.”
The opener for Veeder might be a sneak preview of “Seussical, the Musical.” The musical is a collaboration between The Arts Heart and Two River Performing Arts, Schmitz stated, and can characteristic college students in grades 2-12. The musical performances might be at 3 and 6 p.m. July 26-27 at The Arts Heart. Tickets for the musical are $10 for adults and $5 for ages 18 and youthful and could also be bought on-line at jamestownarts.com via Eventbrite.
On Aug. 1, the FM Kicks Band out of Fargo performs.
“They’re bringing their complete band this yr,” Schmitz stated. “It’s an enormous brass band and so they’re simply so enjoyable to have. Only a completely different huge band sound.”
Stevie Ok and Pals will open for the FM Kicks Band.
On Aug. 8, Blue English, a rock band from Fargo, will return to Hansen Arts Park. The opener for Blue English might be Ok-6 college students showcasing their robots together with the tip of a robotics camp held at The Arts Heart. The camp, which is full, is being carried out by Jamestown Excessive College robotics staff members, Schmitz stated
“Our purpose right here, too, is to spotlight our native expertise, and so we finish the Downtown Arts Market season with three native bands: Sugar Gliders, Outdated Pals after which Stick Ponies,” Schmitz stated. “They’re all native Jamestown bands.”
Sugar Gliders, a bunch began by Kuykendall, will headline on Aug. 15 following a efficiency by Peyton Lily Walker of Bismarck, a highschool pupil who performs nation music.
On Aug. 22, Outdated Pals performs. The opener is High O the Stairs Dance Studio and an artwork venture with Anne Carlsen Heart is predicted to have interaction with their college students and the general public, Schmitz stated.
Stick Ponies ends the season on Aug. 29.
The Arts Heart additionally seeks extra artisan distributors for the Arts Market, Schmitz stated. There is not going to be meals vehicles on the occasions however the Stutsman County Human Rights Coalition will promote hotdogs and drinks, she stated.
If there may be inclement climate throughout a Downtown Arts Market, it is going to be canceled, Schmitz stated.
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What: Downtown Arts Market
When: Thursdays, July 11-Aug. 29, 5:30-8:30 p.m.
The place: Hansen Arts Park, nook of First Avenue and 2nd Road
Admission: free
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Downtown Arts Market schedule
(headliner, opening act)
July 11: Heather Rae, Stevie Ok and Pals
July 18: Kulm Neighborhood Band
July 25: Jessie Veeder, sneak preview of ‘Suessical, the Musical’
Aug. 1: FM Kicks Band, Stevie Ok and Pals
Aug. 8: Blue English, JHS Robotics
Aug. 15: Sugar Gliders, Peyton Lily Walker
Aug. 22: Outdated Pals, High O the Stairs Dance, Anne Carlsen Heart group venture
Aug. 29: Stick Ponies
