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For more than 40 years, the Nemeth Art Center (NAC) has been providing exceptional art opportunities to the Park Rapids area.

Admission is free to the NAC galleries, which are open and free to the public on

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. May through September.

The NAC’s permanent collection of over 40 European paintings spans six centuries.

NAC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. It is located upstairs in the historic Hubbard County Courthouse, located at 301 Court Ave.

For more information about upcoming exhibits and membership privileges, visit www.nemethartcenter.org. Painter-sculptor couple

From July 7 to Oct. 1, a gallery will be devoted to a two-person show of new works from painter Dana Schutz and sculptor Ryan Johnson. They maintain family connections here in Hubbard County.

An artists’ reception will be held from 4-6 p.m. on Friday, July 8.

“A continuation of our ‘Couples Counseling’ curatorial series that pairs the work of artist-couples, the Nemeth is excited to be the first institution to present their work together,” said NAC Executive Director Tessa Beck. “The Brooklyn-based couple have established reputations for creativity and expressiveness, with work on display in major galleries across the U.S. and internationally. The NAC show is a unique opportunity for art world audiences in the 2022 season.”

Schutz’s “vivid, gestural paintings combine figuration and abstraction and often depict subjects in a fluctuating state of invented and realistic scenarios that plumb the emotional complexities of contemporary life,” according to Beck.

The renowned artist’s work can be found in the Hammer Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.

Johnson’s creations rely on a variety of sculptural media to depict dreamlike subjects that convey both stillness and the potential for action. Recurrent themes include family, mortality, frailty and strength.

Schutz hails originally from Livonia, Mich., and Ryan Johnson grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia. Ceramicist

Ceramicist Ginny Sims’ new work will be at the NAC from July 7 through Oct. 1. The NAC will host an artist reception from 4-6 p.m. on Friday.

Beck said, “Sims creates functional and sculptural objects that are highly narrative. For inspiration, she looks to different moments in ceramic history, and incorporates the cultural information she finds with present day social and political experiences. Pottery is a reflective, invisible, critical and – for millennia – necessary material object of culture whose very existence is testament to human beings in their environment.”

She was born and raised in Little Rock, Ark., and now makes Minneapolis her home. She teaches ceramics and art history at Minneapolis College.