The Arts Center of Saint Peter has been serving community artistic needs through offering gallery spaces, local art vending, and creative equipment ranging from sewing machines to podcast radio microphones. The gallery is free to the public where local art is showcased.
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Opening: This is Minnesota’s Legacy: A look at the organizations and people who have benefitted from Minnesota’s unique Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment.
BRITT AAMODT: Fiber. Writing. Clay. Gallery & Shop. Those are the words stenciled on the front windows of the Arts Center of St. Peter. It sits behind a bronze sculpture by noted American artist Paul Granlund, who for many years worked in the area.
ANN ROSENQUIST FEE: Walking into our space, you're walking into a street-level gallery that's wheelchair accessible and free and open 35 hours a week.
AAMODT: Ann Rosenquist Fee is executive director of the center, which opened in 1979 and has since become an epicenter for arts creation along the Minnesota River.
FEE: And part of my charge is to connect the art center with the community and provide the kinds of arts experiences that our community tells us that they need.
AAMODT: The Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund allows the Arts Center to provide experiences from across the arts. There’s a clay studio, performance space, gift store, sewing studio, community writing group, a gallery.
FEE: And always on display is work by either a solo artist or a group or our annual member show. We showcase work that's at a variety of levels of professionalism and experience, which is part of why we exist.
AAMODT: Whether you’re a beginner or professional, the door is always open at the Arts Center of St. Peter.
Closing: Minnesota’s Legacy is a production of AMPERS, with support from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, more at ampers dot org