What Comes First?
An Exploration of Inspiration with Terri Karsten
Thursday, April 18, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8pm | MMAM
MMAM and RAA members free | Non-members, free with MMAM admission
Registration is required, and space is limited to 25 attendees per program.
About the Program
Where do ideas come from? Award winning author Terri Karsten will host the April 18 ArtsXchange in the literary gallery at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum. What comes first? An exploration of inspiration will examine how words and images connect and expand artists’ work in picture books and paintings. Gallery images, slides of historic paintings, and some of her own books will serve as examples of the how ideas may be developed. Participants are encouraged to view the images in the Book Arts Exhibition, Across a Wide Ocean: Remarkable Stories about the Origins of Identity, and look at the books, The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson and illustrated by Nikkolas Smith (Penguin Random House, 2021); and The Most Beautiful Thing by Kao Kalia Yang, illustrated by Khoa Le (Lerner Publishing, Carolrhoda Books, 2020), before the program.
Inspire. Be inspired. Everyone welcome.
About the Artist
Terri Karsten is a retired English teacher and a published author of a variety of fiction and nonfiction pieces. Her work includes historical fiction novels (such as A Mistake of Consequence), steampunk shorts (such as “Calliope” in Under A Brass Moon), picture books (such as Finn McCool and the Giant’s Causeway), and non-fiction (such as Snags and Sawyers: 2000 Miles Down the Arkansas River.) For more information visit her website at www.terrikarsten.com
About artsXchange
The Minnesota Marine Art Museum + River Arts Alliance are coming together to bring you a monthly informal artist exchange - a chance for artists and creatives from across a variety of mediums to gather for inspiration, exploration and exchange at the museum. Each month, a member from River Arts Alliance, a nonprofit that supports and celebrates regional arts and culture, hosts a 90-minute artist meet-up and conversation with an artist, maker, designer, writer, or another creative person.
The event will begin by gathering in the atrium at MMAM and meeting their artist host. The group will then a take a short inspirational tour of the museum (identifying a couple of signature pieces to spark conversation, chosen by your artist guide), and continue with a meet-up in the Oberton Education Room for inspiring conversation that ranges from anything from technique, to who’s making what, to sales strategies, and other opportunities.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.