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WBCA Launches Paid High School Internship Program

Inside White Bear Center for the Arts’ administrative office, high schoolers are busy at work, learning how to install exhibits, design promotional materials, and work in arts administration. Seven students from local high schools recently accepted positions as interns at White Bear Center for the Arts through an internship program called “Studio Repose.” The internship…

Chris Scholl Welcomed as White Bear Center for the Arts’ next Executive Director

It is with tremendous enthusiasm that White Bear Center for the Arts (WBCA) announces Chris Scholl will be its next Executive Director, beginning on August 7. In Chris’s words, “I was first an artist myself, and later realized that my gifts as an administrator are greater than as an artist. Since then I’ve used my…

Artist Highlight with Candice Davis

Can you describe your journey as an artist? How did you end up at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD)?I have always been an artist but when I graduated high school, I didn’t recognize art as a viable career. I spent a year in pre-veterinary medicine before I decided that I wanted an education…

Artist Highlight with Laura Berlage

How did you first become interested in fiber art? I’ve always been a very creative spirit—drawing incessantly as a child, making up stories, turning ideas into form. I was fortunate to grow up in a home where textile traditions were still passed from mother to daughter, from sewing to embroidery and beyond. My mom first…

Q&A with Into Nature Judge Marc Hanson

What path did you take to become a professional artist? It was a circuitous beginning, but a straight line to where I am now at the same time. Briefly, I grew up with an outdoor dad who was also a pretty decent artist, mostly a cartoonist and watercolorist, who majored in wildlife biology. We lived…

Q&A with Into Nature Judy Andy Evansen

Watercolor artist Andy Evansen judged the 2021 Into Nature: International Online Plein Air Exhibition. He curated this juried art show along with artists Marc Hanson and Judy Palermo. What path did you take to become an artist? I’ve drawn pretty much my whole life, and went to the University of Minnesota for commercial illustration courses.…