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Stephen Nesser, MFA News

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Tettagouche Park, added one of my paintings to their collection in August 2012.

The Queensland Museum, (the State Museum of Queensland) Brisbane, Australia, added one of my paintings to their collection in July 2012.

The Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame awarded me the 2012 Minnesota Aviation Artist of the Year Award on April 28, 2012.

I will be teaching a watercolor class at the Minneapolis Community and Technical College from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Mondays starting on January 30 and ending on March 12, 2012.  Contact 612.659.6500 or www.minneapolis.edu/continuinged to enroll.  Hope you can attend.

I will be exhibiting in a two-person show at the Coffman Art Gallery, University of Minnesota from December 7, 2011 to January 26, 2012.  The opening is from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on December 9.  Please come.

On October 29, 2011, The Minnesota Historical Society added one of my paintings to their permanent collection.

In the last three months I've visited many of the world's greatest museums including the Louvre, Orsay, Musée de l'Orangerie, Centre Georges Pompidou, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Art Boston, The Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, Uffizi Center Art Gallery, and The Vatican Art Museum, among others.  I have learned much, but perhaps most importantly that all art movements were inevitable and we all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us.  I am deeply grateful to those who came before me, they have rock-solid shoulders.

I'll be teaching a watercolor painting class with the Minneapolis Community & Technical College Continuing Education from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Tuesdays from October 4 to November 8.  The cost is $129.  You'll learn how to correct mistakes in watercolor as well as the fourth method (after washes, wet on dry, and drybrush)  for painting in watercolor.  To register go to: https://webproc.mnscu.edu/registration/search/detail.html?campusid=305&courseid=001941&yrtr=20115&rcid=0305&localrcid=0305&partnered=false&parent=search

January 10 - February 18, 2010 My Wabi-Sabi Journey, a solo exhibition of my painting and drawings at the Ylvisaker Fine Arts Center at Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, Minnesota.   I will give a one-hour lecture entitled "The Ten Most Important Things I Learned About Art Since Graduating," at 7:00 p.m. on January 13 in the Ylvisaker Fine Arts Center.

August 3, 2010 WCCO television and KARE 11 television report on my paintings in the evening news.

September 27 - 30, 2010 I'll teach an advanced class in watercolor techniques at the Bloomington Art Center.  Cost is $295 for BAC members and $325 non-members.  Class is from 9:30 to 4:30 each day.  Come learn to paint realistically.  For more info and to register 952-563-8575 or bloomingtonartacenter.com.

May 2010 Park Bugle (www.parkbugle.org) does cover story about my painting, Jim Hard: Diamond in the Rough.

March 2010 Soaring and Motorgliding Magazine spotlights my painting, Jim Hard: Diamond in the Rough.

March 5, 2010 The Saint Paul Pioneer Press does a story on my painting, Jim Hard: Diamond in the Rough.

February 23, 2010 The Roseville & Little Canada Review features my painting Jim Hard: Diamond in the Rough on the cover of their newspaper.

February 10, 2010 The South Washington County Bulletin features my painting, Jim Hard: Diamond in the Rough on the cover of their newspaper.

January 25, 2010 The National Air & Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution adds my painting, Jim Hard: Diamond  in the Rough to their permanent collection.

November 30, 2009 The International Women's Air & Space Museum adds my painting The Land of 10,000 Lakes:  Laura Hohanshelt Flies a Schweizer 1-23 to their permanent collection.