Light Grey Art Lab

Light Grey Art Lab is a gallery, travel organization, art classroom located in Minneapolis, MN. Our goal is to connect creatives and make it easy to collaborate. Visit lightgreyartlab.com

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We’ve got big news! We just launched two new call for arts on the blog – check out the details and apply here!

A MYSTERIOUS SNAIL MAIL SWAP

PANDORA’S BOX: This chest is filled with secrets, creepy crawlies, magical talismans, baubles, spells, spirits, poisons, potions, amulets, demons, dark and deadly items.

THE TOMB: This chest is filled with treasures, artifacts, maps, codes, ancient relics, weapons, items for the afterlife, lore, and relics from days gone by.

About once a year, Light Grey hosts a themed call for artists where each artist makes an edition of a work. Once at the gallery, we distribute one of each artist’s work into amazing packages containing ONE OF EACH OF THE ARTWORKS IN THE ENTIRE COLLECTION. Every participant gets the whole stash and gets to open a magical box full of mysterious goodies at home!!

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Just one more week to apply! 

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We’ve got big news! We just launched two new call for arts on the blog -- check out the details and apply here!

A MYSTERIOUS SNAIL MAIL SWAP

PANDORA’S BOX: This chest is filled with secrets, creepy crawlies, magical talismans, baubles, spells, spirits, poisons, potions, amulets, demons, dark and deadly items.

THE TOMB: This chest is filled with treasures, artifacts, maps, codes, ancient relics, weapons, items for the afterlife, lore, and relics from days gone by.

About once a year, Light Grey hosts a themed call for artists where each artist makes an edition of a work. Once at the gallery, we distribute one of each artist’s work into amazing packages containing ONE OF EACH OF THE ARTWORKS IN THE ENTIRE COLLECTION. Every participant gets the whole stash and gets to open a magical box full of mysterious goodies at home!!

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Spring sale happening now on the LGAL Shop!

We are raising funds for the next creative project, call for art, and exhibit! If you want to support the cause and get some fun artwork in the process we would appreciate it:

https://shop.lightgreyartlab.com/collections/sale-items

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Just a few more days to sign-up for this weekend’s course!  Join us Saturday morning for a lecture and conversation with guest artist @jessicaroux as we discuss her recent book about the art of flower language, the Victorian Era, memento mori, and symbolism of the day!

Check out all of the details here: https://shop.lightgreyartlab.com/collections/light-grey-workshops

And a special discount code for followers: FLORAL20 for 20% off this class :)

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Heroes with 1000 Faces: The Universality of Story in Folklore & Legend With Guest Speaker, Yoshi Yoshitani A Young Mystics Online Course-- March 27 @ 11am- 12:30pm CST

CHECK OUT THE DETAILS HERE

Heroes with 1000 Faces: The Universality of Story in Folklore & Legend We are drawn to stories. Inside each tale, we see familiar figures-- archetypes that we've grown to understand intimately as not only reflections of ourselves, but characters portraying aspects of what it means to be human. Our desires, our flaws, our trials, and our victories are illustrated in the expansive collection of myths, legends, folklore, and fable. In this workshop, Light Grey Art Lab's Lindsay Nohl & Jenny Wells, and Yoshi Yoshitani, creator of the Tarot of the Divine and Beneath the Moon, explore the 12 archetypes, stories from around the globe, and the origins of the tales we love and how these stories help us manage the journey of being human. 

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The Mysterious Symbols of the Victorian Era with Guest Speaker, Jessica Roux, Author / Illustrator of Floriography, An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers Join us online Saturday, March 20 @ 11am - 12:30pm CST

Join Light Grey Art Lab instructors Lindsay Nohl & Jenny Wells and guest speaker Jessica Roux, Author / Illustrator of Floriography, An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers, for an insightful workshop that wanders through the Victorian Era's mysterious, romantic, ornamental, and symbolic icons.

The Mysterious Symbols of the Victorian Era The Victorian Era inspires thoughts of dark fabrics, top hats, corsets , and bustles, strict codes of courtship and romance, of arsenic-laced wallpapers with ornate patterns, of days when mediumship and alternative forms of spirituality spurred some of the most intriguing esoteric communities and how death was memorialized in photos, memento-mori, and monuments to the lost. And amongst all of these aspects of living, a language of symbols pervaded every aspect of life -- from love to loss, hope to despair. In this course, we will cover some of our favorite Victorian symbols and their connection to the time, and speak with author/illustrator Jessica Roux about the stories behind her new book, Floriography, An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers.

Want to attend with a friend? Now there is a friend pack discount on the shop :)

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Join us tomorrow morning for a special guest lecture with artist Teagan White teaganwhite.com (last registration 3/13 at 10am CST) 

Teagan White is an artist and outsider naturalist devoted to the flora and fauna of a planet in decline. Their delicate gouache and watercolor paintings and intricate line drawings lament the fraught relationship between humans and the rest of the Earth, and explore the tenderness and brutality that coexist in all of Nature.

Teagan’s work is influenced by years of living in the bleak Midwest and Great Lakes region, burying roadkill, traveling by bike, and working with wildlife. They recently relocated to the Pacific Northwest, where savage coasts lined with dead seabirds and mossy old growth forests are creeping into their paintings.

The workshop is about the connection between one's muse, and the eternal quest for connection to our creative inspirations in authentic, inspiring, and respectful ways. We hope to see you online :)

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Join Light Grey Art Lab and guest speaker Jessica Roux, Author / Illustrator of Floriography, An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers, for an insightful workshop that wanders through the Victorian Era's mysterious, romantic, ornamental, and symbolic icons.

The Mysterious Symbols of the Victorian Era <- check out the details here! The Victorian Era inspires thoughts of dark fabrics, top hats, corsets , and bustles, strict codes of courtship and romance, of arsenic-laced wallpapers with ornate patterns, of days when mediumship and alternative forms of spirituality spurred some of the most intriguing esoteric communities and how death was memorialized in photos, memento-mori, and monuments to the lost. And amongst all of these aspects of living, a language of symbols pervaded every aspect of life -- from love to loss, hope to despair.

 In this course, we will cover some of our favorite Victorian symbols and their connection to the time, and speak with author/illustrator Jessica Roux about the stories behind her new book, Floriography, An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers.

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We are incredibly excited to announce a big series of online Young Mystics Classes coming to Light Grey Art Lab! 

Join us for the first class Botanical Symbols of the Tarot and Their Origin Stories with Guest Speaker, Kevin Jay Stanton, Creator of the Botanica Tarot Saturday, March 6 @ 11am - 12:30pm CST

From ancient artwork to modern times, humankind has relied on a symbolic shorthand featuring flowers, leaves, and plant life to represent our pain, our passions, and our power. This online workshop brings forth a variety of sources for some of the flora that has been surrounding us for millennia and sheds light on its usage in the modern context of the Tarot we know and love. We will be discussing stories, symbols, and science behind why we have identified them to represent our human qualities.

Find out more details and follow along here: https://shop.lightgreyartlab.com/collections/light-grey-workshops

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Over the last few weeks, we have been working hard to put together a brand new series of interactive online courses for tarot readers of all experience, plant lovers, and makers alike. Keep an eye out on our Young Mystics Classes over the next week or so -- a new class will be listed almost every day!  

If you've been looking for an opportunity to connect with other creatives, tarot readers, or dive into something new, these classes may be for you! Participants will learn about a variety of topics such as secret symbols of the tarot, regional mythology, ancient history, herbalism, the metaphysical and beyond! Classes will include interactive discussions, Q&A's with special guests, and lectures by Light Grey Art Lab.

Young Mystics Classes and Guest Lectures will be found here!

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Feeling this today! Poster by instagram.com/jennafreimuth 

Now available here!

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COSMOS is back at Light Grey Art Lab!

COSMOS Tarot & Oracle Deck brings life to the night sky, depicting all 88 modern constellations, as well as planets, zodiacal symbols, and astral bodies through a series of 78 tarot cards and 22 oracle cards. 

You can find the project and all of the artists involved here. 

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Residency Exhibition

It is a snowy day here in Minneapolis, and we definitely wish we were traveling to faraway lands. If you have a sense of wanderlust at the moment, you can check out the residency exhibition on display and the online shop. It features beautiful, big photographs, needlepoint, zines, prints, and more. 

#iceland #lighgreyicelandresidency #icelandtravel #travel #botanicalgardens #flowers #pleinair #sketching

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The Together Residency Exhibition

The Together Residency Exhibition, brings the Iceland and Norway Creative Residents back together (in spirit) to make work in response to their experience of travel and togetherness. The exhibition includes large format photographs, limited edition prints, original paintings, art zines, and books. The diversity of style, use of color, and format is a perfect representation of the residency dynamics -- bridging artists together from seemingly different worlds.

You can check out or purchase these amazing pieces on our shop! The link is in our bio, and at the bottom of this post as well! Thank you for supporting small business's (o:

Link: https://shop.lightgreyartlab.com/collections/together-residency-exhibition

#lightgreyartlab #shoplightgreyartlab #illustration #design #artshow #lightgreyicelandresidency #lightgreynorwayresidency #norway #iceland #travel #travelillustration #design

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Enamel Pins for World Roulette

We've been slowly trying to fulfill kickstarter orders from our amazing World Roulette Kickstarter! Here's a nice close up of our book pin that was designed by the lovely @/paperbicycle !

We can't wait for these pins to reach your doors so you can enjoy it in it's shiny glory! :o)

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Together Exhibition

An amazing zine by @chrissycurtin​ , a freelance illustrator from Ireland, that is featured in our current show TOGETHER exhibition by Light Grey! The show celebrates the meaningful moments, scenes, and experiences by some of the artists from the Norway and Iceland Program.

Their website: https://www.chrissycurtin.com/

The Together Exhibition is currently being displayed at Light Grey. The show is available for viewing starting December 4th, and you can now safely see them online as well!

#lightgreyartlab #shoplightgreyartlab #illustration #design #artshow #lightgreyicelandresidency #lightgreynorwayresidency #norway #iceland #travel #travelillustration #design

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Visually Stunning Preview by Nick Peters

This visually stunning preview by Nick Peters @moustachelazors will be featured in our upcoming TOGETHER exhibition by Light Grey! The show celebrates the meaningful moments, scenes, and experiences by some of the artists from the Norway and Iceland Program. ⠀

Nick Peters is a designer/illustrator who lives in a small house with his wife, his dog named Gravy and a grumpy cat named Knives. He loves cartoons, horror movies, pizza and has a large collection of ninja turtles. His work reflects his love of pop culture and fun.

The Together Exhibition is displayed alongside Quiet Places and Daydreams -- all three beautiful shows with originals and handcrafted pieces about nostalgia, feelings, and interactions with space. The shows are available for viewing starting December 4th, and you can safely see them online as well!