Artist Kathy Brauds Painting Chosen for Schoolhouse Art Exhibit Purchase Award

Artist Kathy Braud’s Painting Chosen for Schoolhouse Art Exhibit Purchase Award

Kathy Braud’s watermedia entry, Schoolhouse Art, submitted to an art contest in Central Minnesota, was chosen as one of 12 purchase awards to become a part of the permanent art collection at the restored 1906 Chippewa Falls Schoolhouse Exhibit.

Artist Reception and Exhibit Opening is scheduled for June 7, 2014 at 1 pm. The schoolhouse is located on Summit Drive next to the Church.
The exhibit is sponsored by the Terrace Mill Foundation, 27165 Old Mill Pond Road, Terrace, MN – with preparations being made to preserve the history of one room schoolhouses in Minnesota.

Audio recordings of history, interviews with former teachers and students, and with judges and artists will be collected with delivery of artwork for the exhibit and will be used as a part of the permanent collection in the school. A CD Production of the history should be completed by June 21, 2014.

This exhibit activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Lake Region Arts Council, thanks to the legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Reference photos were taken this past summer 2013 by Braud at the Morrison County Fairgrounds, near Little Falls, MN. This is where the rural one room schoolhouse is now located after being moved there from a northern township in the county.
District #1 Schoolhouse was open to the public during fair time, with docents in the building and has an active rural schoolteacher influence still in the community. Kathy chose to design her painting with an indoor classroom scene filled with students setting in their connected wooden desks.

Kathy Braud, who attended a rural school through 6th grade, is looking forward to an interview. She says we really got to know the kids, parents and grandparents who attended school events. Kathy also has a precious memory resource in the form of a scrapbook made yearly by one of her teachers and cared for by her family.

Recess - There were children also having fun riding an unusual old merry-go-round outside in the yard at the fairgrounds - one that you stood up on and the ride was really fast!