The change of season is bringing new attractions — and a return of popular ones from previous years — to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chanhassen.
A new autumn-themed art exhibit, "Colors of Fall," will run from Sept. 9 to Nov. 26 in the Reedy Gallery at the arboretum's Oswald Visitor Center.
"Sometimes visitors are surprised to learn we have galleries at the arboretum," said Judy Hohmann, the arboretum's marketing and communications manager.
The Reedy typically features fine-art collections, while the Restaurant Gallery usually has photo or mixed-media exhibits. Hohmann said the art also takes shape outdoors, with installations like this summer's "Nature in Glass" sculpture exhibit, which will run until Sept. 10.
"Colors of Fall" will feature more than a dozen artists, with up to 40 oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings.
"There will be a lot of browns and oranges. We hope to get across a message of beauty and warmth that mirrors what visitors will see around them outside," said the exhibit's curator, Keith Wilcock of Wilcock Gallery in Excelsior.
The arboretum has worked with Wilcock on art shows for about four years. He said shows sometimes features artists from around the globe, but he expects this exhibit will focus on Minnesota painters.
The exhibit will include works by well-established artists such as Kairong Lu, a noted watercolorist; Bruce Miller, a landscape and wildlife painter, and the late Olexa Bulavitsky, a Ukrainian émigré who escaped from a Nazi concentration camp. Ashley Dull, a relative newcomer, also will have paintings in the exhibit, as will Brenda Ward, whose paintings will be shown at the arboretum for the first time.
