The Early Career Artist Exhibition highlights the work of one or more emerging artists each year. The exhibit takes place roughly every other year in the Exhibition Gallery.

The application deadline for the 2025 exhibition is December 9, 2024. Artists chosen for the show will be notified on or before that December 20. The show will run from February 8 through March 30, 2025.

Lanesboro Arts defines “early career artist” as an individual who has great potential in their artistic practice but has not yet received major recognition for their work. All visual arts media are eligible. Artists may be any age, but Lanesboro Arts specifically invites those artists with little to no exhibition experience and encourages students and young artists to apply. All visual arts media are eligible.

Applications for 2025 are open now, and are available on at the Early Career Artist Application page.

The Early Career Artist Exhibition was developed in 2015 to meet the needs of artists with burgeoning new talent; this juried show will give emerging artists an opportunity to display work in a professional gallery setting. Lanesboro Arts is dedicated to supporting the growth of early-career artists as an important function of its mission to serve as a community arts catalyst

The exhibit features pieces in 2D and 3D visual media in a variety of sizes, with a size limit for each piece of 40” wide x 40” high. Pieces chosen for the Early Career Artist Show must be framed and include a hanging wire in the back; all work in the Early Career Artist Exhibition will be for sale as per consignment agreement (40% gallery, 60% artist). Selection by jury will be made by early December, and those artists chosen for the show will be notified on or before December 20.

The deadline for work delivery will be January 31, 2025. The Early Career Artist Exhibition will open on Saturday, February 8, 2025, with an artist reception from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Lanesboro Arts Gallery. Contact Maggie Schwarz with questions or for more information, 507-467-2446 / gallery@lanesboroarts.org.

2023 Exhibit:

• Gabriel Berg, fiber art
• Samantha Bratland, painting
• Lindsey Cherek-Waller, painting
• Lindsey Jorgensen, fiber art
• David Susag, pole lathe wood turning
• Jesus Genis Tlaseca, aka RiPTOE, mixed media
• Carol Weissenborn, mixed media painting

2020 Exhibit:

• Rose Weselmann, painting
• Alan Wiltgen, painting
• Sally Podein, mosaics

2018 Exhibit:

• Jovan Speller, photography
• Kristin Maija Peterson, watercolors
• Anna Segner, painting
• Peyton Woller, photography
• Stephanie Frey, found image and gouache
• Mary Beth Magyar, sculpture
• Emma Knapp, ceramics

2017 Exhibit:

• Ryan Koning, painting
• Joseph Cowan, painting

2016 Exhibit:

• Camille Knutson, jewelry
• Jenie Gao, ink and watercolor paintings and woodcut prints

2015 Exhibit:

• Ellie Schmidt, ceramics
• Michael Cimano, mixed media