Upcoming Events

  • Gino Carlo Markocs presents Echoes of the Labyrinth, a series of paintings of minotaurs living and interacting made with gold joss paper on canvas. The minotaur symbolizes the unification of primal and civilized – masculine and feminine – the human and natural world. The Minotaur is a misunderstood being - in Greek mythology, the minotaur was born from the unnatural union of Pasiphae and the Cretan Bull, as a means of revenge against King Minos by Poseidon, for the king's hubris and unwillingness to pay sacrifice to Poseidon. The minotaur was then imprisoned in the labyrinth. The Minotaur committed no sins but was punished for his existence and the sins of his father. Humanity faces a similar struggle to the Minotaur, being stuck in a labyrinth that is unnatural to our way of being and forced to suffer for actions out of our control.

  • Join us at the Northwestern Building for Lowertown First Fridays, our monthly art crawl. Start at Calendula Gallery where 30 artists are always on display, and many more set up tables of special items just for the monthly event.

    Then, explore the rest of the Northwestern Building and visit 17+ artist studios and grab a brioche donut at Soyen desserts.

    Finally explore the many other artist lofts and galleries Lowertown has to offer right across the street, including the AZ gallery, Lowertown Underground Artists and much more.

    It's a great way to spend a Friday night, supporting local artists and exploring the great neighborhood of Lowertown St. Paul.

  • Calendula Gallery (Queer owned) is pleased to host a safe space for queer women and nonbinary people to meet and be themselves. Bring a friend, make a friend, rent a U-Haul. And yes, trans women are women.

    Socialize in our very friendly art gallery, play a board game, DANCE!, and enjoy.

    (Generally) The third Thursday of the month, 6PM – 9PM (or whenever the party ends)

    Please bring your own beverage (alcohol is fine for adults only). Snacks to share are welcome.

  • Join us at the Northwestern Building for Lowertown First Fridays, our monthly art crawl. Start at Calendula Gallery where 30 artists are always on display, and many more set up tables of special items just for the monthly event.

    Then, explore the rest of the Northwestern Building and visit 17+ artist studios and grab a brioche donut at Soyen desserts.

    Finally explore the many other artist lofts and galleries Lowertown has to offer right across the street, including the AZ gallery, Lowertown Underground Artists and much more.

    It's a great way to spend a Friday night, supporting local artists and exploring the great neighborhood of Lowertown St. Paul.

  • Calendula Gallery (Queer owned) is pleased to host a safe space for queer women and nonbinary people to meet and be themselves. Bring a friend, make a friend, rent a U-Haul. And yes, trans women are women.

    Socialize in our very friendly art gallery, play a board game, DANCE!, and enjoy.

    (Generally) The third Thursday of the month, 6PM – 9PM (or whenever the party ends)

    Please bring your own beverage (alcohol is fine for adults only). Snacks to share are welcome.

  • Artist Reception & Lowertown Spring Art Crawl: Saturday, April 27th; 5 –8 PM, in conjunction with the Lowertown Spring Crawl, meet the artists and peruse the open art studios of Lowertown’s historic and vibrant art community.

    Mother’s Day Artist Reception and Tasting: Sunday, May 12, 2024; 4 – 8 PM, Join us on Mother’s Day to meet the artists and enjoy tasting samples of the recipes.

    Location: Calendula Gallery; the Poppy Room, Northwestern Building, 275 East 4th Street, Suite 110, St. Paul, MN, 55101.

    The talented artists of the Saint Paul Underground Artists League have created a cookbook and corresponding collection of visual art that will tempt your senses. Calendula Gallery is pleased to host this diverse group of 30 local artists and their love of food and art.

    The league was formed in the winter of 2014 by two friends, Marty Owings and Larry Ehrlich. What started as a small gathering of people interested in drawing, painting and sketching quickly grew to more than sixty Artists within the first year. In those early days of the League, local members would gather at coffee shops, parks and other places of interest to create and commune.

    The cookbook, A Collection of Art and Recipes, serves as a small historical artifact, a snapshot in time of members' work and the styles of artistic expression from the period in which we live. This book is a fragment of a much larger, unexpressed narrative about who we are, the lives we lead and what we love to do.

  • Join us at the Northwestern Building for Lowertown First Fridays, our monthly art crawl. Start at Calendula Gallery where 30 artists are always on display, and many more set up tables of special items just for the monthly event.

    Then, explore the rest of the Northwestern Building and visit 17+ artist studios and grab a brioche donut at Soyen desserts.

    Finally explore the many other artist lofts and galleries Lowertown has to offer right across the street, including the AZ gallery, Lowertown Underground Artists and much more.

    It's a great way to spend a Friday night, supporting local artists and exploring the great neighborhood of Lowertown St. Paul.

  • Join us to meet and purchase a signed copy of A Million Little Miracles by Lisa Kentner. Lisa Kentner is a Marketing Instigator, a mom to an overachieving brainiac and provides a boot in the butt to her small business clients to create consistent, simple to use marketing plans. She is a late bloomer, married at 39, had her daughter at 42, started her business at 50 and got divorced and wrote her first book at 60. Through all of that she became a true believer and practitioner in the law of attraction.

    Lisa made a conscious decision to get better (not bitter) as she was thrown the curveball of a divorce after 19 years of marriage. She manifested a series of things and people into her life while going through her divorce. She strives to help people learn to love themselves, find joy and learn how to think positively while navigating through difficult times in their lives.

    A Million Little Miracles: A Common Sense Intro to the Law of Attraction seeks to guide you in creating the life of your dreams. Author Lisa Kentner shares stories of how she manifested things and people into her life while going through an unplanned divorce. She provides exercises to help train your brain to look at things from a positive mindset, and details how she was able to navigate her divorce and come out better on the other side.

    In this book you will:

    • Learn how to focus on the positive.

    • Redirect your thoughts and perspective in potentially negative situations.

    • Manifest things and people

    • Improve your love of yourself.

    • Learn to create and live the life of your dreams.

  • Mother’s Day Artist Reception and Tasting: Sunday, May 12, 2024; 4 – 8 PM, Join us on Mother’s Day to meet the artists and enjoy tasting samples of the recipes.

    Location: Calendula Gallery; the Poppy Room, Northwestern Building, 275 East 4th Street, Suite 110, St. Paul, MN, 55101.

    The talented artists of the Saint Paul Underground Artists League have created a cookbook and corresponding collection of visual art that will tempt your senses. Calendula Gallery is pleased to host this diverse group of 30 local artists and their love of food and art.

    The league was formed in the winter of 2014 by two friends, Marty Owings and Larry Ehrlich. What started as a small gathering of people interested in drawing, painting and sketching quickly grew to more than sixty Artists within the first year. In those early days of the League, local members would gather at coffee shops, parks and other places of interest to create and commune.

    The cookbook, A Collection of Art and Recipes, serves as a small historical artifact, a snapshot in time of members' work and the styles of artistic expression from the period in which we live. This book is a fragment of a much larger, unexpressed narrative about who we are, the lives we lead and what we love to do.

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  • Calendula Gallery (Queer owned) is pleased to host a safe space for queer women and nonbinary people to meet and be themselves. Bring a friend, make a friend, rent a U-Haul. And yes, trans women are women.

    Socialize in our very friendly art gallery, play a board game, DANCE!, and enjoy.

    (Generally) The third Thursday of the month, 6PM – 9PM (or whenever the party ends)

    Please bring your own beverage (alcohol is fine for adults only). Snacks to share are welcome.

  • Join us at the Northwestern Building for Lowertown First Fridays, our monthly art crawl. Start at Calendula Gallery where 30 artists are always on display, and many more set up tables of special items just for the monthly event.

    Then, explore the rest of the Northwestern Building and visit 17+ artist studios and grab a brioche donut at Soyen desserts.

    Finally explore the many other artist lofts and galleries Lowertown has to offer right across the street, including the AZ gallery, Lowertown Underground Artists and much more.

    It's a great way to spend a Friday night, supporting local artists and exploring the great neighborhood of Lowertown St. Paul.

  • Calendula Gallery (Queer owned) is pleased to host a safe space for queer women and nonbinary people to meet and be themselves. Bring a friend, make a friend, rent a U-Haul. And yes, trans women are women.

    Socialize in our very friendly art gallery, play a board game, DANCE!, and enjoy.

    (Generally) The third Thursday of the month, 6PM – 9PM (or whenever the party ends)

    Please bring your own beverage (alcohol is fine for adults only). Snacks to share are welcome.

  • On view: June 1, 2024 – July 28, 2024.

    In collaboration with members of the creative arts therapy communities (Art, Dance, Music Drama, Poetry, etc.), Calendula Gallery presents a juried art exhibit created by psychotherapists. The American Art Therapy Association defines creative arts therapy as a type of psychotherapy that allows the expression of emotions and experiences not easily expressed in words. It is not about the final product but focused on healing that occurs through the making of art or expression.

    What do creative arts psychotherapists create? How does guiding creativity to healing and wellness impact one’s own art? Art, Science, and the Worlds in Between gives us insight into how these unique therapists view this work and the world. Calendula Gallery seeks 2D and 3D, video or projection art from eligible applicants for the juried exhibition, Art, Science, and the Worlds in Between: Art by Creative Arts Therapists.

    JURORS

    Sean Plunkett, MPS, LCAT, ATR-BC

    Sean Saint Aubyn Plunkett is a multimedia artist and licensed Creative Arts Therapist. Born in Saint Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, Sean’s family later moved to the U.S. in 1985. He received his BA in psychology from Binghamton University in 2002 and his Masters of Professional studies in Art Therapy and Creativity Development from Pratt institute in 2013.

    Since graduation Sean has attained his license, board certification, and a teaching position at Pratt Institute, where he teaches various classes that focus on the intersection of therapy and creativity.

    In his clinical work, he has worked with various populations, ranging from children to geriatric populations with diverse backgrounds and diagnosis. He has worked with populations ranging from clients managing HIV, adults dealing with chemical dependence, children and adults on the autism spectrum and/or with developmental disabilities, LGBTQ populations, populations facing incarceration, and many other groups.

    Overall, Sean works within the framework of a humanistic, client-centered perspective, which emphasizes the inherent goodness of all humans and works improve client resilience, independence, decision-making, and life competence, while gaining self-awareness.

    In his free time, Sean is a painter, writer, and curator. He has participated and curated numerous art exhibitions in NY and abroad. Sean views his role as a juror as an opportunity to use his background and experiences to open doors for others and to allow for emotion-centered creative expression, which he feels is a major pathway towards growth & healing for all.

    Eve Chalom, MS, DMTCB

    Eve Chalom is a board-certified dance movement therapist who received her M.S. in Dance Movement Therapy from Pratt Institute. She holds undergraduate degrees in English and Philosophy from the University of Michigan and was a professional figure skater and coach for many years. She also performed in several skating companies and modern dance companies while living in New York City. She has been a dance therapist for 10 years, and has worked in a hospital, a nonprofit day program, and outpatient addiction recovery programs. She currently has a private practice in the West Town neighborhood of Chicago and also sees clients via telehealth. She also has certifications as a brain injury specialist and a yoga teacher, and has had a lot of training in Qigong and other bodywork modalities. For more information, see her website: website at www.healingthroughmovement.squarespace.com.

    Phyllis C. Solon, PsyD, LP

    from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Phyllis is a founding member of the Adaptive Internal Relational (AIR) Network Model and was involved with developing the Doctoral program of counseling psychology at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota.

    She photographs the natural world to remember that there is always profound beauty even in the midst’s of trauma and pain, seeing the miracle in the mundane. She also build multilevel gardens incorporating mosaic and other forms of outdoor art. Phyllis excels at creative, out-of-the-box thinking and brings a stance of shared dignity as a therapist, supervisor, consultant, educator, and world community member. She is involved in everyday practices to bring peace, justice, and freedom into the world in personal, professional, community and intercultural spaces. For more information about Phyllis C. Solon please visit: https://www.phylliscsolonpsyd.com.

  • Join us at the Northwestern Building for Lowertown First Fridays, our monthly art crawl. Start at Calendula Gallery where 30 artists are always on display, and many more set up tables of special items just for the monthly event.

    Then, explore the rest of the Northwestern Building and visit 17+ artist studios and grab a brioche donut at Soyen desserts.

    Finally explore the many other artist lofts and galleries Lowertown has to offer right across the street, including the AZ gallery, Lowertown Underground Artists and much more.

    It's a great way to spend a Friday night, supporting local artists and exploring the great neighborhood of Lowertown St. Paul.