Museum series pushes regional artists to bigger stage
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“Sometimes cheap canada goose I would have to wait a few hours before Joey would be calm canada goose coats on sale enough to sit for a few moments. The pressure of not knowing when she would move allowed me to put paint on canvas in a very direct, honest manner.
“When she was ready, I was ready. Then I painted and she rested.”
Douthit, 30, a Grand Forks native, moved uk canada goose outlet to Ireland in 2014 to earn a master’s canada goose outlet canada degree in fine arts at Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan. In the past year she was a visiting fellow at Burren College.
Paintings of Joey, the rabbit, and her pal Ginger, a guinea pig, are among the many pieces featured in the “Art Makers Series” on display through July 30 at the North Dakota Museum of Art on the UND campus.
Launched in 2015, the canada goose jacket outlet series introduces museum visitors to regional artists “who seem to be on canada goose black friday sale the edge of a breakthrough in their canada goose outlet shop work,” said Laurel Reuter, director of the NDMOA.
The opportunity to exhibit their work at the NDMOA is a boost to artists’ canada goose outlet black friday careers, she said.
“It’s good for artists to see all of their work cheap canada goose uk on the wall, not just a piece in a show with many other artists. It means they are taken seriously.”
Douthit is the fourth artist, and only Grand Forks native, to be selected for the series.
“Mollie is an artist who is working very hard at developing as a painter,” said Reuter. “She has thrown herself into her work.. She is at a critical point in her development.”
Reuter has acquired two pieces in the Douthit show for the NDMOA permanent collection.
“Mollie has become an artist to pay attention to,” she said.
Douthit’s exhibit is titled “Mollie Douthit: Paintings.”
“It is such a diary,” Douthit commented, as she walked among her paintings recently on the mezzanine of the museum.