"Let Me Tell You a Story," works by mixed media artist Amy Rice, of Minneapolis, is the first exhibit of the academic year at Central Lakes College, Brainerd.
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Mixed media artist Amy Rice and her dog, Ella, in her Minneapolis studio.
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The artwork will be displayed in the CLC Gallery through Sept. 23 during regular campus hours.
A 1993 graduate of Augsburg in Minneapolis, Rice founded Spectrum ArtWorks in 2003. It is an award-winning, non-profit fine arts organization dedicated to assisting adult artists living with a mental illness integrate into the larger arts community.
Since 2000 she has been visual arts coordinator for Spectrum Community Mental Health in Minneapolis.
Her art has graced group and solo exhibits across the country, from San Francisco, Seattle and Portland to New York and Philadelphia, as well as the UK.
Rice is a founding member of Ministry of Art, an arts collective formed with a mission to "organize and work together to promote each other's creative endeavors and improve our community through the collective process."
She is also affiliated with Rosalux Gallery, an artist collective located in the beautifully restored Open Book building in Minneapolis' Riverfront District. Its mission is to provide a commercial exhibition space for its member artists.
Rice uses nontraditional print-making methods, including hand cut stencils and a Japanese screen printing toy called a Gocco printer, as a starting point for original mixed media pieces.
