Culture thru Art's mission is to create beautiful art in mind, body and spirit. We intend to show art with love for all people, places, and things. We find strength in nature, amazement in reflecting light, and excitement with all the seasons of color.
John Fredrick Heckman was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He studied at the School of Associated Arts in St. Paul, and the College of Art and Design in Minneapolis, Mn. He went on to free lance illustration for several years, later pursuing an interest in fine arts from his studio on Mille Lacs Lake in northern Minnesota. Interested in cultural backgrounds, Heckman has studied the Amish, and Native American plus various other cultures in his pursuit of giving substance and personality to his paintings. Heckman has received honors and awards for his work, which are held in private and corporate collections. Mr. Heckman currently resides in Sauk Rapids, Mn. and is the owner of Culture thru Art Company.
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Jack Wold Art Gallery Mpls Paramount Art Center St. Cloud Landmark Center St. Paul Great River Art Center Little Falls St. Benedict Art Center St. Joseph Cambridge College Cambridge 15th Nat'l Harmony Art Show Elk River 5 County Arts Awards Princeton International Indian Language Conf. MN Historical Museum, Onamia Grand Casino Mille Lacs/Hinckley Grand Marais Plien-Aire Art Exhibit 100 yr Celebration in Harmony MN Essential Arts St. Cloud Tech HS "Mosaic of Cultures & Friends" St. Cloud Art Crawls St. Cloud Hospital Recovery Plus Murals Loft Exhibit. St. Cloud
SELECTED COLLECTIONS St. Cloud Hospital
Technical High School Schumacher Hotel Project Turnabout Hamburg, Germany Powell Family The Thompson’s Seagren family Tim Warnamunde Assoc. Cheryl Froeming The Courteaus McMonigal Family Larry & Gail Borass The Ruhlands Nancy Cekalla Lien Family Burzette Family Journey Home
PUBLICATIONS The Inaajimowin Crosby-Ironton news Mille Lacs Messenger Pierz news St. Cloud Times Sherburne Citizen
UP COMING ART SHOWS
John and Lorraine Heckman Exhibit at the Elk River Arts Alliance Gallery May 12 to June 19, 2010
A reception with refreshments will be held on Saturday, May 22 from 2-5 PM for the artists to meet the public. The Arts Alliance Gallery 716 Main Street, Elk River. For more information call the Gallery at 763 441-4725. The Gallery is Open to the Public Wednesday, Thurdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 11-5PM.
John and Lorraine Heckman Exhibit at the St. Cloud Hospital June 1st to July, 2010
The Heckman's will be exhibiting 25 works of art in a variety of subjects and art mediums. St. Cloud Hospital's main lobby entrance by the Cafe' for interest of purchase please check with The Gift Shop or contact the Artists.
1406 6th Avenue North Saint Cloud, MN 56303 (320) 251-2700
John Heckman will be having a one-man art show at the Great River Arts Association Dec. 10th to Jan. 30th 2011
GRAA Arts Center Gallery 122 1st Street SE, Little Falls, Minnesota (320) 632-0960
Hours: Tuesday-Friday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Saturday 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome! Admission is free.
March 25th, 2010 John Heckman received an award for his Amish Autumn painting at the Elk River Harmony Art Show
Jan. 9th, 2010 The above three paintings entered out of 722 works of art were recently juried into the Elk River Alliance "Arts in Harmony 2010 Show". It is the 15th Annual National Juried Art Show running from Feb 8- March 25th.You can see these works of mine and approximately 204 other artists from all over the country accepted into this show at the Sherburne County Government Center.
Dec 12, 09 Well I hope everyone is enjoying the cold! I myself hate winter and the cold, but as a Artist I love the long winter shadows and the anatomy of the trees without the leaves. Living down by the mighty Mississippi it's beautiful year round and winter is no exception. Currently I am finishing up my last studio class with Joe Paquet. It has been a great learning experience plus the friendships I have developed with Joe and the other painters in the group has been exceptional. Well everyone have a safe and wonderful Xmas and New Years. John
"LOOKING FOR AN ART EXHIBIT OF SOMETHING NEW AND EXCITING COMING IN 2010"
-A DECADE OF RIDING-
PHOTO’S, PAINTINGS AND WRITINGS
BY JOHN FREDRICK HECKMAN
Aug. 23-31, 2009 Albert Handell's Workshop
MASTER PAINTER ALBERT HANDELL was in Grand Marais last week for a mentorship workshop program. My wife and I were fortunate enough to learn more about pastel painting from such an accomplished and humble man. In this photo he was painting the river falls by Lutsen Resort. Two of my paintings are on the right from his workshop.
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Artist John Heckman
Title "Pastel Clouds"
Size 17x23" Price $ 650.00
Information on this painting: I painted this plien-aire on June 13th 2009 location upper Mississippi on Hwy 1 North of Sartell, Mn at an old abandon River Bar. It was a very sunny day in the middle of the afternoon, slight breeze with a temp in the high 70's. I used kitty wallis paper with winsor-newton watercolors and schmincke soft pastels. Lots of people boating and playing in the water that day while my lovely wife Rainy and I painted for a few hours.
Jan. 14th 2009 Last August my wife and I were involved in a plien-aire painting contest in Grand Marais, Minnesota sponsored by the Grand Marais Art Colony. I just want to say it was fabulous and I would highly recommend it to anyone. I have only started painting plien-aire this year so I am by no means an expert, however as always a student I am learning this new experience. It fits with my personality, as I find it is like standing on the edge of a cliff, not that I have done that lately but all kidding aside it is very spontaneous and it helps all of us perfectionists to move along when the sun and shadows tend to change every few hours.
The other thing I want to say about that week was we met a very interesting and humble painter who graciously gave of his time even though he was mentoring many artists in pastel plein-aire painting that week in Grand Marais. We had the chance to enjoy breakfast with him asking many questions plus watch him paint free of charge, well almost free as we insisted on buying breakfast! Anyways it really did prove to be the highlight of many wonderful days of painting.
Finally I want to share what this blog is all about: As they say "following the paintings". Both my wife and I have thrown ourselves into this new method of painting and decided after our experience to take Albert Handell's mentorship painting class this coming August in Grand Marais. To prepare for this we ended up buying two of his books and two of his dvd's on plien-arie pastels and oils. Oh and of course we our doing lots and lots of painting using the methods we our learning in his books and dvds in preparation for our August teaching.
Currently over Christmas and New Years holidays I purchased some Kitty Wallis paper and a nice expensive set of Schmincke pastel landscape colors and started painting!!! Here is what I have done so far:
