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  Join us for live daily coverage of one of the most world-class and internationally-renowned events of the season! Tour de France at the Birchwood Cafe * July 7th to July 27th Weekdays at 7:30am * Saturdays at 8am * Sundays at 9am Sit back and enjoy the race with fresh, fair trade cafe au laits, french press coffee, yummy croissants, brioche french toast, and if you're feeling adventourous - belgian ale! + + + Monday Night Music! Join John Devine or Scott Matteo Davis for live jazz and 1/2 price bottles of wine! + + +  NEW COOKBOOKS FOR SALE! The Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook includes three Birchwood recipes and stunning photos! Tastes from Valley to Bluff: The Featherstone Farm Cookbook. Come by the cafe and pick up your copy to get ready for cooking with the best of our local harvest this summer! + ----------- CURRENT ART SHOW ----------- + Works by Kristen Arden will be on display through August 3rd. ARTIST STATEMENT "I’ve explored a number of different facets in the arts world over the past two decades before focusing on metalwork in my studio at the Northrup King Building. I received my undergraduate degree in Painting and Drawing, worked at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, lived in Italy for a year in preparation for graduate school and earned a Master’s Degree in Art History. After my Master’s I moved out to San Francisco where I first started working with metal. While working I took part-time classes at the California College of Arts where I began my focus on sculpture and metalwork. I focused on fabricating and bronze casting, eventually working as a Teaching Assistant at the College and then taught my own Sculpture/Welding classes at The Crucible in Berkeley. I also had the privilege of working for the studios of Marilyn Levine, Clay Jensen and Peter Voulkos during this time." "In mid-2003 I moved to Minneapolis and soon after found my studio in the Northrup King Building. Since then I’ve been developing different series of work, such as the Earthworks and Compartment Series, as well as accepting commissioned work and custom furniture and fabricating jobs. I hope to continue work on my Natural History Museum project in the near future. Since January 2008, I've been teaching Beginning and Advanced Welding for Art Classes at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts."  Kristen Arden, Earthworks Series #36 Earthworks Series "The Earthworks Series began while I was still living in San Francisco. In this series I’ve been exploring the intersection of urban and natural landscape. Metal is an industrial material - hard, rigid and inanimate. However when other elements are introduced to untreated metal - heat, water, or salt, for example - the essence and character of the metal shifts as it begins to take on its own natural and organic life." "The cuts and marks are also representative of this dichotomy. While the patina on the metal’s surface is a more subtle and chemical reaction, the visual rifts created by using an oxy-acetylene torch and other tools are suggestive of a more structural disturbance, such as when the earth’s internal landscape shifts and tectonic plates rend and collide." Compartment Series "In this series I’ve been exploring the idea of the compartment. The definition of ‘compartment’ is “one of the parts into which an enclosed space is divided; a separate division or section.” These pieces are meditations on the idea of compartmentalizing both as a means of keeping something close and insulated but also revealing something that is hidden, and the beauty and rawness of that reality as it’s exposed." www.kristenardenstudio.com ------------------------------------------------------------- All 2008 art shows are reserved. Artists interested in showing in 2009, may contact Nichole for consideration. |
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