Local Art Seen: Snapshot of Last Saturday's Opening @ Karin Kraemer's Duluth Pottery

Two new galleries opened in Duluth last Saturday, the Joseph Nease Gallery and Karin Kraemer's much anticipated Duluth Pottery. If I have my facts straight, Kraemer's cramped studio had been located adjacent to the Red Mug Coffeehouse in Superior for the past two decades. The opportunity to expand and other factors enabled the ever industrious and cheerful Kraemer took advantage of the opportunity.

The renovation of the former P&J Paints space was a major undertaking but what they've done here is turned the building into a real Duluth asset. When you look at the other businesses that have appeared on this block recently -- OCM Smokehouse, Bent Paddle, Frost River, the Duluth Folk School, etc. -- one senses that the Lincoln District has moved another step closer to the community upgrade that began when the abandoned Clyde Iron Works became the object of investment and given a second life.

To learn more, check out Samantha Church's story in Perfect Duluth Day, Duluth Pottery Is Back In Duluth. What follows are photos from the opening reception and works by many of the artists represented here on the 1900 block in Duluth's West End, which is now being called the Lincoln Park Craft District.

Kraemer's pottery designs are the "bees knees."

Inside looking out...

...and outside looking in.

Meantime, art goes on all around you. Get into it.