News & Upcoming Events
PleinAir Live is a subscription to three days of live painting demonstrations online, including paint-along happy hours and extended replay with PleinAir swag depending on subscription level.
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OPM Fundraising from PleinAir Live RegistrationsOPM has received an exciting fundraising opportunity for promoting PleinAir Live in April. This could enable one or more additional free members' workshops this year. If you're interested in participating and supporting OPM, you must use the direct links here on our web site to register. The Early Bird Special ends February 28, but our exclusive link is valid until the event begins April 15, 2021. Thanks in advance, and happy painting everyone!
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Inspired to Paint: Finding Peace through Painting
An Online Painting Competition & Exhibit
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OPM announces its first online painting competition, open to anyone (members and non-members). Enter your best 2020-21 plein air/direct-observation painting to participate in the exhibit and compete for Best in Show plus three merit awards. The show will be juried by members of OPM. Cost to enter is $15.
Deadline to Enter: February 28, 2021 at 11:59pm Exhibit Dates: March 1 – June 1, 2021 Awards Announced: Saturday, March 6 at 6:00pm via Zoom |
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Art Materials Scholarship awarded to Avniel Green
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In 2020, OPM initiated an Art Materials Scholarship with Wet Paint and its supplier, Richeson Art Materials. The award for a promising high school senior interested in plein air painting included $350 gift card, $250 in Richeson paintbrushes, a Richeson plein air pochade, and 2021 OPM membership. Please welcome Avniel Green, our inaugural Art Materials Scholarship recipient, to the plein air community!
Many thanks to Wet Paint and Richeson Art Materials for helping expand opportunities for young people in the arts!
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Art Materials Scholarship winner Avniel Green with his mother and nominating high school art teacher Kristin Moeller.
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2021 Summer Members' Show at TractorWorks
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OPM members are invited to exhibit their plein air and field-to-studio paintings in the gallery space at TractorWorks, an office building in the North Loop neighborhood of downtown Minneapolis. The beautifully designed gallery area is monitored by security, and paintings will be insured. Sales are handled by Gallery One, which retains 30% commission. Paintings sold during the exhibit may be replaced by new work by the artist. Large paintings are welcome, but please email the organizers (tractorworks@outdoorpaintersofminnesota.org) to coordinate hanging space and installation/retrieval arrangements if your painting will exceed 48" in any direction. Join or renew for 2021 and apply online to participate.
Sign Up Deadline: April 30, 2021, or when host determines capacity is met based on painting sizes and arrangement. TractorWorks Building 800 N Washington Ave Minneapolis, MN 55401 Note changes to dates: Exhibit Dates: May 1 – August 31, 2021 |
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2021 Fall Members' Show at the Phipps Center for the Arts
Our exhibit dates have been moved later into summer for OPM's 2021 Field-to-Studio exhibit at the Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson, Wisconsin. Paintings must be plein air only or studio exhibited with plein air field study. Studies may be framed or not, the idea being to educate our audience about artists' process when creating paintings from observation and design rather than from photos. Large paintings are welcome, but please email us if your painting is larger than 48" in any direction to confirm available space. The Phipps will handle sales and retain 40% commission.
Phipps Center for the Arts
109 Locust Street
Hudson, WI 54016
Note changes to dates due to building renovation:
Exhibit Dates: October 29 – December 5, 2021
Phipps Center for the Arts
109 Locust Street
Hudson, WI 54016
Note changes to dates due to building renovation:
Exhibit Dates: October 29 – December 5, 2021
Artists Respond | Call for Art
Art makes us human. In these convulsive times, art is being created in crucibles of grief, racial inequity, illness, economic anxiety, and yearning for peace and justice. OPM has created a venue for contemporary and historical protest art to inspire appreciation of the work being created now in context with great works of the past. Please email JPEG images of your art or suggestions for historical artists’ work to events@outdoorpaintersofminnesota.org. We’ll include the artist’s name, artwork title, and link to the artist’s web site or social media handle. With your help the slideshow below will grow. We hope it will inspire support for contemporary artists responding to this moment in history and the creation of more art.