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The High School Juried Art Exhibition is held each year at the Paramount Center for the Arts.  The closing reception and Awards Ceremony is tonight.  If you have not already seen the great artwork created by high school students, hopefully, you will get a chance to attend tonight.  The reception starts at 5:30. The Awards Ceremony is at 6:30.  Light refreshments are provided.   

For over 40 years the High School Art show was presented by Visual Arts Minnesota.  My daughter, Kerry Osberg, was the Executive Director for many years and so there is a lot of history with our family and this wonderful event.  Kerry teaches art at Upsala School.  Last year she was teaching at the Swanville school.  One of her students, Courtney Och, entered a drawing of a Jaguar. I had told Kerry to put a sold sign on the painting before it was hung in the gallery. I attended the award ceremony with Courtney, her father, and a friend of Courtneys’. When it was announced that Courtney’s piece was the first-place winner, my reaction was so loud that the MC told the audience “He bought the piece”.  It is not often that the artist is willing to sell their work, but you may find something tonight that you will love. 

Saturday evening, the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra is performing “A New Home” in Ritsche Auditorium on the campus of St. Cloud State University.  “Music is a great storyteller. Sometimes all we need to hear are few notes and we are transported back to a place or felling from the past.” There is a pre-concert discussion at 6:30. The concert starts at 7:30.  Tickets are available at www.stcloudsymphony.com

On Sunday afternoon Great River Chorale,  directed by Mary Kay Geston, is performing “Songs for the People” , American Folksongs and hymns, African American Spirituals and gospel music.  The performance is at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in St. Cloud at 4 PM.  Tickets at www.greatriverchorale.org  and at the door.

“Caution! The left-brained world wants you to “be realistic, quit dreaming, be more like us, get your head out of the clouds and your feet on the ground.”  To advance and prosper, steadfastly ignore that advice.”  Marilyn Grey