About the Artist
James N. Wegner

I taught art at the Austin Community College for 28 years and for ten years in the Jr. and Sr. High Schools in Austin, Mn.
I have a Masters Degree from the University of Minnesota with an emphasis in Painting and Art History. Additional graduate work was done at the University of Colorado, Mankato, and St. Cloud State Universities, and I have studied with noted artists Max Weber, Millard Sheets, Dong Kingman, Carl Morris, Richard Diebenkorn, Ralston Crawford and Cheng Kee Chee.
Awards have been received for my work in oil, acrylic, watercolor, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, and fiber.
I have work in a number of private collections on the East and West Coasts, in the Midwest, Canada, and Europe.
He has exhibited at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Art Institute, Tweed Gallery in Duluth, Mason City McNeider Museum,
and Rochester Art Center as well as in Austin Area Art Center,  Albert Lea Art Center and Naeve Hospital.

About the Artist
William Olson

I am a graduate of the Commercial Art and Technical Drawing program at South-central College in North Mankato, Minnesota and have worked for such companies as the Taylor Corporation and National Recognition products.
Over the years I have won numerous prizes including Grand Champion awards at the Mower County Fine Arts competition in both 2006 and 2009, the City Purchase Award at Austin’s Freedom Fest show in 2009, as well as many other prizes at area art shows.  In 2008 I was a judge for the Owatonna Festival of the Arts and was accepted into the Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts exhibit in 2010.
I am an old-fashioned farm boy from rural Minnesota.  My down-home personality and love of nature are reflected in my numerous works of wildlife and country living.  I also have a wild imagination and love to draw fantasy and comic book style art with fantastic characters and lively action.  My favorite mediums are pencil, pen and ink, watercolor and colored pencil.

About the Artist
Tamara "Tammy" Schneider

Tammy Schneider has been drawing since she was old enough to hold a pencil, crayon or whatever was handy.  Her mother was a natural born artist too, and they sat many times at the kitchen table where her mother would encourage her along. Later, Tammy took the full course from Art Instruction Schools of Minneapolis that filled in the blanks with what she needed to know. 
Tammy was very fortunate to take private instruction from Dalton Shourds King in Gulf Port, Mississippi. Shourds taught her how to use color, which at that time, was oil paint. 
Tammy now paints in acrylic, oil and watercolor and does graphite drawing.  She has received many awards over the years, and her paintings are owned in private collections and businesses including Hormel's, JC Hormel Nature Center, Cooperative Response Center (CRC), St. Michael's Lutheran Church, and the City of Austin for their 150th celebration.  The painting for the City of Austin was an oil painting of vignettes of past and present, and showed familiar Austin buildings and sights.
Freeborn-Mower Cooperative Services of Albert Lea has a mural she did which is 6' by 12' of the early days of electricity installation in farms. That hangs in their lobby. Presently she does videos demonstrating drawing and acrylic painting for Ashdown which is for Brushstrokes TV, a website based in the United Kingdom which has many venues of hobbies and crafts that they offer magazine publications and web instruction. 
Tammy’s work can be found locally in Austin Area Art Center,  Lou's Forever Frames and James Krom's Natural Images (subway level under the Marriot in Rochester, Minnesota.

About the Artist
Violet Scott

Gallery Hours
Wednesday Through Sunday
Noon To 4:00pm

(subject to change)


In cooperation with the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council, Inc. through funding from the Minnesota State Legislature
and in cooperation with The Austin Area Foundation and The Hormel Foundation

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