Mother & Daughter Generational Gallery Show

BIO – Andrea (Andi) Curley – Mixed Medium

Art has always been in my life. In 1974 I attended Wisconsin State University River Falls as an Art Major. For an art assignment I painted Grim Hall RD’s office walls with a Salvador Dali surrealistic style with melting clocks.  For another art project, an artist friend and I organized painting a mural on the second floor corridor walls of Crabtree Hall that we were residents. During the summer of my second year, I had gotten a job testing and debugging on an IBM Mainframe and my career shifted to IT.  My free time was spent painting murals on walls, garage doors, garden chairs, tools, dirt bike tanks and acrylic paintings on request.  While working for Northwest Airlines, I painted a wall mural in the area I worked as a Mainframe Operator and another mural down a long corridor of a plane and the ports we flew to worldwide. I was one of 4 artist the airline selected to show their work for a weekend during an employee party in Camp Snoopy at the MOA.  2010 I received a ribbon on a watercolor I submitted to the Minneapolis Institute of Art Foot in the Door event for local Minnesota Artists, which hung at MIA for 5 weeks. 

We lost our Mom in 2011 and wanted to share her work with all of you.

BIO – My Mom Eddene Bakker – Mixed Medium

My Mom was my teacher and mentor in the Arts. 1950’s she held art classes in our home growing up.  She also ran a gallery with her artist friends, above a bakery on Robert Street in West St. Paul. We would sometimes run down to the movie theater while she was with customers.  In the 1960’s she was taking classes at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design.  I spent many summer weekends with her setting up at Art Fairs throughout the city parks and town squares just north in White Bear, Hugo, North Branch….  Later in life, we continued to attend many classes