Visit the free Opening Reception and meet the artists on Friday January 19th 5-7pm

The show will be on display: January 19 - March 29, 2-24

About the artists:

Inkpa Mani is a multidisciplinary artist who works in stone, wood and painting. He  grew up in the lands now knowns as Chihuahua, Mexico and Minnesota.  His work uses social engagement to share the many injustices faced by Indigenous people of the Americas. He will earned his BFA with an emphasis in paining at the University of South Dakota in 2019. He is working to be a Fine Arts Professor. His process involves oral histories, institutional research, and critical theory to highlight the concerns of his people and family. Inkpa’s artistic practice also involves speaking engagements and community sharing circles to share his work. Inkpa has worked on projects addressing sexual assault of Indigenous people and its effect on communities, cross generational trauma and how to address it in a culturally competent manner, health disparities in mental and physical health, and many other areas of research for his art. Inkpa also engages in social activism for human rights to share his Indigenous concerns. 

Ron Davison started drawing in the margins of newspapers from a young age. His love of art only grew from there. After leaving the Army, he started work for a design studio and ad agency in Colorado as an art director and staff designer/illustrator. Following his time there, he moved to San Diego, where he became vice president of corporate art at Bond Industries. Later, he worked as a freelance artist where he worked for the San Diego Padres baseball team among other companies. After retirement, he and his wife moved to northern California before settling in Fairmont. Davison described himself as not having a definitive style or communicating a particular message, but his preferred medium is acrylics. Ron now has a diverse portfolio which runs from detailed imaginative machinery art to collage and contemporary abstract art. In the past few years, Ron was rewarded for his work by repeated juried selection to exhibit at the Carnegie Art Center Annual Event and recently won two Fine Art awards at the 2023 MN State Fair.