Opening this weekend: Talent spotting is a lively sport at Minnesota's Jerome Foundation, which provides career-boosting grants to young artists in myriad fields. For the past seven years its Emerging Printmakers Residency has enabled three recent college grads to try their hands at etching, screenprinting, lithography and other technical processes at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, one of the country's premier professional studios. In a show opening tonight, this year's fellowship winners -- Katinka Galanos, Miles Mendenhall and Justin Terlecki -- show the abstract and figurative images produced during their nine-month residencies. Terlecki, whose work is shown here, transformed travel sketches from India and Spain into scenes evocative of graphic novels; Galanos created literary-dedication pages; Mendenhall produced soft-focus plaid patterns in black-and-white. (Reception 6:30-9 p.m. Fri., free. Highpoint Center for Printmaking, 912 Lake St., Mpls. 612-871-1326 or www.highpointprintmaking.org)
MARY ABBE
