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SUSAN MARTIN MEMORIAL MEMBERS SHOW

October 7 – November 14, 2026 (Note: exhibit is extended)

Reception: Friday, October 9, 5-7 p.m.

This is the time to once again celebrate our members’ arts and crafts! It’s also an excellent shopping opportunity for the holidays.

You will be provided with approximately 4 x 8 feet of wall space OR 6 feet of table space. No monthly rental fee will be charged. Our usual 15% commission will be collected on items sold.

Space is limited. If participating, email nwfamn.org@gmail.com by Fri, September 25.

If you are currently exhibiting at the gallery, let us know if you wish to use your current consignment sheet. If you are not a current NWFA exhibitor, complete the attached Member Show Consignment Sheet, print and mail to PO Box 44, Cook, MN 55723, or bring a copy by Friday, September 25 to the gallery at 210 S. River Street, Cook, MN.

Items must be priced, labeled with your name or initials and brought to the gallery on September 30, October 1 or 2 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. You may hang your own exhibit in the space provided. Let us know in your response if you will need assistance displaying your work.

If you have any questions, contact: Jane Kujala 218-404-4430

Gallery hours are Wednesday – Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., or Saturday, 9 a.m.- 1 p.m.

Download the form here!

Each Monday artists are invited to "do art" with others at NWFA gallery from 6 to 8 p.m. No registration required. Hope to see you there!

The popular Wings Mural in Cook City Park by the Library and gazebo, has been duplicated and set back in place! The original was made up of feathers painted by children during NWFA Summer classes . Thanks to Lyn Reed and Lauren Nelson. The mural is up now, go check it out!

MN Public Radio Art Hounds…2025

From July 17 2025 Art Hounds interview MPR:

Live music by the lake

"Jeanne O’Melia, who lives on Lake Vermilion, makes her way to Cook, Minn., every Wednesday evening — often by boat — to enjoy the free live music at the gazebo downtown. Attendees are encouraged to bring chairs and blankets. In the event of rain, concerts move indoors to the VFW.

The music runs from 6–8 p.m. on Wednesdays throughout the summer. Next week, central Minnesota cover band JustUs takes the stage. On July 30, Native American Music Awards Hall of Fame inductee Keith Secola performs.,,,,mprnews.org/podcasts"

https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2025/07/17/art-hounds-shakespeare-music-and-pottery-all-outdoors

ListenMPR News“On fabric, dragons and freedom”

Listen to this broadcast here.  If you select “Cecilia Rolando” online within the article you will see Rolando artwork.

Jan. 16 2025 Art Hounds on MPR News

A stitch in time

Lyn Reed is a former art teacher and a ceramic artist living in Orr, but she made the trip to the Northwoods Friends of the Arts in Cook, Minn., to take in the joyful colors and compositions of fabric artist Cecilia Rolando of Ely.

Entitled “Piecing it Together,” the exhibit runs through Jan. 31. Several small quilts designed and sewn by NWFA’s Round Robin Quilt Group are also on display. 

Lyn Reed offers this look around the gallery, where the colors and textures provide a welcome burst of inspiration in January.

Lyn says: She calls it fabric collage, and that’s exactly what it is. She must have just an incredible resource of fabrics because I notice fabric from Southeast Asia … Japan … she’s used doilies, antique lace, gingham …There’s a piece I really like that’s red and white spiral.

She cuts different pieces of different sizes, and she’s collaged those together. You can see that she’s layered them. She’s using all different types of stitching, and the lines actually look as if they’re in a drawing. The compositions are really beautiful. 

It’s like a cornucopia of all different types of fabrics from around the world. If you love fabrics, you will enjoy Cecilia’s work.

— Lyn Reed

Thank you to artist and NWFA member, Lyn Reed, for volunteering to be interviewed by MPR News “Art Hounds”.