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Gallery Exhibit: Malena Handeen
- Exhibit runs
- May 11 - June 23, 2017
- SMAC GALLERY
- 114 N Third Street
Marshall, MN 56258 OPEN MONDAY – FRIDAY
8:00 AM – 12:00 NOON
1:00 PM – 4:30 PM*Artist Reception: Join us on Thursday, May 18, 2017 from 5-7 PM — with live jazz music by Ross Anderson & Peter Lothringer
Malena Handeen
Malena received SMAC Individual Artist Development grants in 2000 and 2010, as well as the Prairie Star Award in 2012. These grants and awards went towards developing her visual artistic career as well as her musical career. Through her SMAC grant in 2010, Malena recorded the album "Toothsome Favorites". Malena performed (vocals and accordion) with her family at the 2012 SMAC Annual Celebration and with her father at a SMAC gallery reception for Fred Cogelow in 2012. Her gallery, Loose Tooth Saloon of Art, located at Easy Bean Farm in Milan, is a regular stop on the Upper Minnesota River Art Crawl ("The Meander"). Malena owns and operates the farm with her husband, Michael Jacobs. Through her work farming and balancing her art, she describes herself as an "art farmer." Malena grew up on a farm in Montevideo, but took classes in a variety of places
throughout Minnesota, including Perpich High School for the Arts, U of M Morris, and the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul. She's also traveled around the United States, Mexico, and Europe and says considers that part of her education as well.
When speaking about her visual art, she says, "My portraits, especially of myself and other women, are the pieces I am most proud of along with certain depictions of storms."
Visually, Malena works primarily with oil paintings, charcoal drawings, and block prints but she's also done works with stencil art and hand strung recycled jewelry. In 2015 Malena exhibited her show Good Lookin Out at the K.K. Berge Gallery for the Granite Area Arts Council.
Mark your calendar to visit with Malena and see her work at an Artist Reception from 5-7pm on Thursday, May 18.
When speaking about her visual art, she says, "My portraits, especially of myself and other women, are the pieces I am most proud of along with certain depictions of storms."
Visually, Malena works primarily with oil paintings, charcoal drawings, and block prints but she's also done works with stencil art and hand strung recycled jewelry. In 2015 Malena exhibited her show Good Lookin Out at the K.K. Berge Gallery for the Granite Area Arts Council.
Mark your calendar to visit with Malena and see her work at an Artist Reception from 5-7pm on Thursday, May 18.
