Since the start of the year, I’ve been fortunate to add two new consignment locations where you can find my art at a brick-and-mortar location. Both are pretty near and dear to me and I’m excited for the new opportunities to reach more folks and have my art in the same building as artists I really admire.
You can now find crochet art and gifts made by me for you at the Textile Center in St Paul and Austin Artworks Center in Austin, MN.
I have slightly different inventory at each location - both are stocking greeting cards, select crochet paintings, and earrings. The Textile Center also has the mini frogs and dinos which have been very popular since I stocked them at the Rochester Art Center.
Personally, I’m very excited to have expanded consignment to both these locations because I’m a fan of both!
The Textile Center is an organization I’ve been fangirling about for almost two years, ever since my aunt brought it to my attention. I made my first visit when 2022 McKnight Fellow Blair Treuer from Bemidji had work there. Her fabric portrait series “Becoming: The Transition From Childhood to Womanhood” is so so gorgeous and well worth checking out wherever you can find it being exhibited.
I’ve since visited several more times to see the art in the gallery or attend a fiber art garage sale or even to be a vendor at one of their makers markets - that’s how I kicked off my 2024 market seasons! Generally, I’m just a big old fan of everything the Textile Center does. A whole organization dedicated to teaching about fiber art, textile making and fiber techniques, as well as exhibiting art by fiber creators? What’s not to love!!
Austin Artworks Center is also a really fun location. It’s in an old historical building in downtown Austin, MN.
Yes, that Austin, the home of the Spam Museum. No, I’ve never been. I’ve also never eaten spam. But I HAVE been to the Artworks Center! And I think it’s great!
I really love finding rural art centers and seeing them thriving with classes and artist collaborations and exhibitions, and the Austin Artworks Center is one of those. Everyone in that storefront is a Midwest artist, many of them from rural SE MN or central/northern MN. What an honor to have joined their ranks!
Of note, I have also ended consignment at two former locations where my work used to be found. I'm no longer stocking at Broadway Hive in Spring Valley (cool shop, but not the best fit for my particular work in their inventory). I have also ended my membership and consignment at Threshold Arts in Rochester, so if you're looking for me there, you won't find me. Try Rochester Art Center instead!
Personally, its a great feeling to have stretched beyond the Olmsted/Rochester boundaries with my work and become more plugged in to the wider MN art scene. There are a lot of rural creators, thinkers, and doers out here on the gravel roads and I’m already cooking on some plans for this summer to collaborate with more of these types of folks.
Exciting things are afoot! Let’s go!
Comments