NAC: Sustaining Membership Drive 2021

The Nemeth Art Center has served the Park Rapids, MN community since 1977. Our mission is to provide thoughtful, challenging contemporary art programming to our rural Minnesota audience through exhibitions, classes, discussions, and events. Despite the challenges 2020 presented our organization, we were able to return to a full season of programming in 2021 including a career survey from T.L. Solien, and solo shows from renowned photographer, Alec Soth and emerging mixed media artist, Rachel Collier.


Having the ability to gather also meant that we were able to implement our monthly youth workshops, which provides local kids and teens access to free artist-led classes in a variety of mediums. The pandemic also pushed NAC programming into a digital space including: livestream studio visits and gallery tours from our Instagram page, and a developing series of sonic soundscapes meant to connect us over a sense
of place and memory. Students participating in a wool felting class led by Rachel Collier in September.

Looking toward 2022 and the Nemeth's upcoming season has us ecstatic over the building momentum, and a stellar artist lineup. By offering your support, you will help us continue to provide and expand these art experiences year-round. This campaign seeks any membership level you can afford. Sustaining members will receive an artist-designed t-shirt as a sign of our appreciation; this year's shirt features an image by T.L. Solien.

The Nemeth staff and board recognize the significance of our supporter's investment in our mission to decentralize arts access, and to provide a gathering place for new viewpoints to be shared and expanded upon. We can't wait to continue this journey with you. 

Here's what we have on deck for our 2022 season:

Yunior Rebollar
May 5 – July 2, 2022
Yunior Rebollar is a Cuban-American artist that focuses primarily on mixed media drawing. His rich portraiture will occupy the main gallery at the start of our 2022 season.

Mary Ann Papanek-Miller 
May 5 – July 2, 2022
Mary Ann Papanek-Miller is a mixed media artist working primarily in drawing related works that are woven and layered with images that provoke environmental concerns. Papanek-Miller is on faculty at DePaul University and keeps a studio on Toad Lake, MN. Preparing for Winter, a series of mixed media works on paper, will open our season in the side gallery spaces.

Dana Schutz & Ryan Johnson
July 8 – October 1, 2022
As a continuation of our ongoing Couples Therapy series, the NAC is elated to announce the internationally celebrated, Brooklyn-based Dana Schutz and Ryan Johnson.

Dana Schutz, a painter, grew up in Livonia, Michigan – a suburb of Detroit. She studied art at the Cleveland Art Institute and received her masters at Columbia University in New York City in 2002. Schutz is known for her gestural, figurative paintings that often take on specific subjects or narrative situations as a point of departure. She will be showing a series of new gouache works on paper. 

Ryan Johnson, born in Karachi, Pakistan is a sculptor who uses a variety of materials including wood, medical casting tape and sheet metal to depict fragments of distorted realities that have been described as having, “strange spatial compressions, surreal displacements and quasi-Futurist illusions of movement.” The figure has often held a central role in Johnson’s work, though it naturally varies.

Ginny Sims
July 8 – October 1, 2022
Ginny Sims was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas and now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ginny apprenticed to Mike Dodd in Somerset, England and has worked at potteries in Italy and Scotland. She holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota. In addition to being a working artist and mom, Ginny also teaches ceramics and art history at Minneapolis College. Sims will occupy our side galleries with a combination of installation and ceramic objects.