New Studio News flash!

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It’s official, I have studio space at Solar Arts Building, 2nd-floor #205.  I share this space with fabulous painters, and I just love the art community here at Solar. If you want to learn more about events at Solar, please follow them on Instagram or check out the events section on the website.

https://www.instagram.com/solarartsbuilding

https://solarartsbuilding.com/solar-arts-blog/

Next Event Purple Rain Open Studio June’s 1st Thursday, 2nd floor studios will be open and I will be in attendance, so stop by and say hi and check out my new digs.

Great article for Form + Content

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I was reading Cory Eull’s article on Form + Content, great article by the way, and My artwork Pine Edged Road photographed in Hewig Hotel was featured!  I love surprises like this one!  My day just keeps getting better.  Feeling blessed and humbled.  Thank you Form+ content and Cory Eull.

https://www.mplsart.com/written/2024/03/resonance-and-quietude-form-content-s-open-loop-2024

Show goes through April 6, 2024, great talent and a must-see show.

Website: https://www.formandcontent.org/open-loop

Catalog of artists

https://www.canva.com/design/DAF662najiE/2Ha9eaLYMYm57ZMhh3-0Sw/view?utm_content=DAF662najiE&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=viewer

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2024 art crawl – Schmidt Artist Lofts

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Saint Paul’s Spring Art Crawl- weekend

Dates: April 19th through the 21st.

Times: Friday 6-9 pm, Saturday 12-7 pm and Sunday 12-5 pm

Address: 900 W. 7th Street Saint Paul, MN 55102 (just look for the large smokestack with “Schmidt’s”)

Website: https://stpaulartcollective.org/

I’m blessed to be one of the visiting artists for the 2024 Art Crawl at Schmidt Artists Lofts.  So much talent is located in this historic Brewery!   I will be in the atrium and will be demonstrating my commando photozaics showing my process.  Along with my photozaics both Commando and Formal, I will have canvas-wrapped infrared photos.  I will have matted prints in color and IR in various sizes (these are 50% off). I am introducing my dragonfly ornaments made from wire and various stones that help with, negative energy, prosperity, grounding, and protection!

Samples of my works for this show!

Emma Norton restoring Waters project: Heart + home: Artwork that Heals.

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I am honored to share that I was one of 23 artists chosen to join the Restoring Waters Project at Emma Norton.  The project is titled: Heart + Home: Artwork that Heals (A project of ACW and Emma Norton at Restoring Waters).

The link below for more information about this project: 

Below are the works going into this project. 

About Emma Norton

Vision statement: Emma Norton Services is a trauma-informed organization that promotes healing and recovery, operating at a scale that brings a full array of resources to women, individuals, and families who have experienced homelessness. Housing and services are exemplary, and offered in collaboration with key community partners.

Website: https://emmanorton.org/

Evolution of Fallen Birch

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I’m sharing two works of the same photograph; one completed earlier in my art career and the other is my latest creation.  I love to look back and see how I’ve grown as an artist.  Here you see Fallen Birch in formal (matted and glassed) and commando (metal print matless) photozaics. 

This is one of my last images I was able to photograph with my dad and it holds a special place in my heart I think of him and the day we spent on their lake taking in nature’s beauty.

CheeBah is admiring and finds Fallen Birch Tasty!!

Form + Content Gallery & pop-up locations

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Exhibition Dates: February 29 through April 6, 2024.

Save the Date! Opening Reception: Saturday, March 2, 2024.

Time: 5 pm to 7 pm at the gallery- pop-up locations are within a block of the gallery

Address: 210 N 2nd Street, Minneapolis, MN 55410

Website: https://www.formandcontent.org/open-loop

catalog of artists link-

https://www.canva.com/design/DAF662najiE/2Ha9eaLYMYm57ZMhh3-0Sw/view?utm_content=DAF662najiE&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=viewer

My art will be located at Hewig Hotel

300 N Washington Ave Minneapolis Mn 55401

their website: https://hewinghotel.com/

Meet me in person at the opening reception on March 2nd (FYI this is my birthday, so come and celebrate with me).

Workselected: Pine Edged Road- Commando Photozaic.

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Sometimes the path in life is not clearly defined.  The only thing you can do is breathe deeply, put your faith in the universe, and take the first step.  Life’s road will have curves, enjoy them as they will bring you to wonderful places if you surrender.  Road trips allow my mind to wander and absorb what Mother Nature shows me.  I especially love watching the landscape change from mountains to desert; from city to Rolling country farms; brightly colored flowers to drab gray foggy scenes.  All of these are gifts from her, so give thanks.  Get out in nature and recharge your soul!

Your Work Here 2023, The annual PRC members’ exhibition 

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December 5, 2023 – January 18, 2024
Opening reception: December 6, 6-8 pm

Website: https://www.prcboston.org/

link to view all artwork with pricing

https://www.prcboston.org/product-category/your-work-here-2023/

This year’s photograph Hint of Gold is framed in my Commando Photozaic.

Hint of Gold:

Robert Frost wrote this perfectly:  Nothing Gold Can Stay.  Nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold.  Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then the leaf subsides to leaf So Eden Sank to grief, so dawn goes down today.  Nothing gold can Stay.  This view recharges my soul, I love sitting on my parent’s shoreline watching the sunsets and June didn’t disappoint. There’s no better way to reflect on a beautiful day than watching the sunset, knowing tomorrow is going to be just as amazing.  I enjoy my time spent with Mom especially after Dad passed away a few years back.  It’s funny how life’s perspectives change after you lose a parent.  I know that someday my time witnessing these beautiful sunsets on my parent’s shoreline will end but they will forever be locked inside my heart.

I’m including just the image and framed version.

Winter Solstice 2023

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Various Artists

Exhibit dates: December 13, 2023 – January 7, 2024

Reception for the Artists – Saturday, December 16, 2023, from 4 to 6 pm

Under Exhbitions tab

Image selected this year Little Mechanic

natalie mcguire photography

Just a boy tinkering on his Jeep making sure it’s ready to drive.  Learning that it’s never too early to start working with your hands.

Rock Harbor- Providencetown

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Today’s stop Rock Harbor and Provincetown, also I need to include late yesterday afternoon too I spent time at these two locations.  I will say this morning in Provincetown gave me the best images and met so many kind people, not just other tourists but kind store owners.  Coming from Minnesota, we don’t experience high and low tides like you all on the coast.  I love how the landscape changes due to the tides.  Today is my last day on the Cape and tomorrow I head inland for the rest of my trip.  I feel blessed that I get to have these great opportunities for travel (with CheeBah) and capture these awesome images.  Thank you to all my followers and I love reading your comments- thank you to non-followers who like my work as I post on Social Media.  If interested in collaborating with me, please DM me or email me at nmcguirestudio@gmail.com.  I’ve already received requests and love to work with other artists.  #Thursdayvibes #newengland #massachusetts #capecod #provincetown #fineartphotography #bnw_photography

Kangamangus Highway #112

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Yesterday’s drive along Kangamangus Highway was packed with people and not able to get the images I hoped.  I will say this area the colors were dry and not as vibrant.  I captured better shots last year but still wanted to see what else was around.  I found a few roads not far from Kangamangus Highway that I will explore later today.  As I write this post, I’m blessed to witness fog rolling down the mountain right outside my motel room. This collection of images are both color and infrared (black and white).