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Our appointment model ensures each client and project receives undivided attention. It guarantees the comfort and safety of all customers and staff and offers enhanced virtual design options for the "online era."
How to Make an Appointment:
Call Us: Dial 651-385-0500. If we miss your call, leave a detailed message with your name and project description, and we'll get back to you promptly.
Text Us: Send a detailed message to 651-380-8767, including your full name, phone number, schedule preferences, and project description.
Email Us: Request an appointment via email at redwingframing@gmail.com. Please include your full name, phone number, schedule preferences, and project description.
Online Booking: Visit www.redwingframing.com and follow the instructions to book an appointment. We will contact you to confirm and discuss your project.
Remember, we can assist you in person, via email, text, video, or a combination of these methods.
Custom Framing-Pandemic Style
Reflecting on the past year, we find ourselves overwhelmed with gratitude.
Thank you, Red Wing Framing customers, for making us essential.
This past year, the word "essential" has taken on new meanings. It's become a label for nearly everything—essential workers, essential businesses, essential services, and even essential… custom framing?
Yes, indeed.
Dear customer and friend, by entrusting us with framing, preserving, restoring, and enhancing your cherished items, you have made us essential. We've seen a significant increase in family mementos, treasured photographs, personal crafts, stitchery and needle arts, children's art, sports memorabilia, spiritual art and icons, historical figures and items, political posters, and even "saved" thrift store artworks. Thank you. You are 100% essential to us. Our hearts are full, our shop is bustling, and we proudly continue as dedicated preservers of personal, collective, and public essentials. Make an appointment with us today to preserve and display your treasures.
A few favorites from our team:
Stitchery! Valerie shares, "Stitching is very comforting to me. It's one of my personal passions, and I was able to get some great stitching done this past year. Seeing how others have stitched through the COVID year has been a great joy. Our creative passions help slow down life's craziness and leave treasures for generations. Let's keep creating!"
Florals! Clare adds, "One of my favorite quotes is by Lady Bird Johnson: 'Where flowers bloom, so does hope.' This past year, hope has been in great need and short supply for many, so it makes sense that people want to be surrounded by the simple, timeless beauty of nature. Flowers don't care about pandemics or politics. They simply deliver elegance, grace, and steadfastness. Flowers bring hope of renewal and will always look great in a frame on the wall facing your Zoom webcam!"
Puzzles! John says, "Puzzles have boomed in the pandemic era, and we've had a lot of fun seeing what our customers have put together. Pandemic puzzles will represent various memories of these times. They bring a sense of comfort and maybe even exemplify a 'job well done' while waiting to go back to work. Or maybe a puzzle is just a puzzle!"
What We Did On Our Summer Vacation
Our customers had a busy and fun season, which means so did we! Stop in with your summer vacay projects and keep the smiles of the season going strong all year long.
Welcome Northfield Framing & Fine Art Printing!
We are delighted to present Northfield Framing & Fine Art Printing, established in August 2019!
Since opening Red Wing Framing & Fine Art Printing in 2002, our goal has been to create a triad of certified custom framing shops that are easily accessible to a large portion of south-central Minnesota and western Wisconsin. With the addition of Northfield to our Red Wing (2002) and Rochester (2014) locations, our dream is coming to fruition. We are immensely grateful to our customers, friends, families, and business supporters who have made this possible. Thank YOU!
Our new shop is located in the beautiful Bridge Square of downtown Northfield, MN. The area offers ample parking along the streets and neighboring lots, and our design and retail shop has fantastic mojo. Northfield is a community rich in industry, agriculture, arts and culture, a fantastic foodie scene, and home to two prestigious universities, Carleton College and St. Olaf College.
In addition to our wide selection of custom framing samples and fine printing offerings, we are excited to offer ready-made frames, framed and loose prints, original art, artisan-crafted jewelry, handmade quilts, bags, and notions, pottery and Motawi art tiles, art cards, and fine gift items. Please stop by and see us Thursday (11-7 pm) and Friday/Saturday (11-5 pm)! Shop our wares, design a project with our master framer, take a seat in our comfy chair, and enjoy the opulence and warmth of our brand-new space.
"Come on in, the framing’s fine!"
The 2019 Annual Red Wing Pottery Convention
Exciting News: Sponsoring the Red Wing Collectors Society Annual Convention!
We are thrilled to once again sponsor the Red Wing Collectors Society Annual Convention, taking place this July 11-13 in Red Wing, MN. Collectors from around the world gather in our charming river city to celebrate their shared passion for Red Wing Pottery. This three-day event features auctions, socials, sales, swaps, workshops, education, networking, and more.
Last year, Red Wing Framing & Fine Art Printing presented three framed prints by the beloved local artist Larry Veeder for the Collectors Society auction. Red Wing Framing Owner and MCPF Valerie Becker, along with Red Wing Collectors Society Executive Director Stacy Wegner worked together in preparation for this year’s convention.
This year, Stacy entrusted us with a box of Collectors Society miscellany and said, "Have fun!" And we certainly did! Check out our delightful shadowboxes, filled with an eclectic mix of Collectors Society swag. These charming pieces will be auctioned off to raise funds for the Society's important work in preserving the legacy of Red Wing Pottery.
We extend our heartfelt thanks to the Red Wing Collectors Society and Ms. Wegner for the opportunity to support this wonderful organization and showcase our community pride. Learn more about the Red Wing Collectors Society on their website, and follow the action on their very active Facebook page.
The Art of Buying Art While Traveling (and then getting it framed)
more and more vacationers are celebrating their travels by bringing home art that they purchased while visiting various locales.
At the tail ends of a challenging winter, (tons of snow = tons of shoveling!) February and March are often travel and vacation months for folks here in the north-Midwest. Vacation photos are still relevant, but more and more being stored digitally rather than in print. Thus, more and more vacationers are celebrating their travels by bringing home art that they purchased while visiting various locales. Original artworks and canvases, fine art prints, textiles and weavings, photographs, art postcards, and even art souvenirs can be purchased in galleries, museums, art fairs, gift shops, and street bazaars. We’ve seen customers spend thousands of dollars as well as mere pennies on their special mementos!
Our customer acquired this mint condition antique mini calendar on auction for a hefty sum while visiting Red Wing, MN for the annual Red Wing Collectors Society Convention.
This Chinese palm painting was acquired on our customer's business trip to the region. The street artist sold his work for a mere farthing of its worth. The value to the customer is far beyond monetary cost.
And at the ends of a challenging winter, we are grateful to be able to frame the beautiful works from all over the world (especially the warm places!). Each type of art has special needs, and our expert team is ready to help you both display and preserve your travel tokens.
One type of art we often see from foreign travel is original paintings on paper. These are often matted with non-archival materials for display and purchase, and we will recommend simple ways to #heartyourart such as archival and acid free matting and UV glass. Another common type of travel art is rolled canvas. We generally advise our customers to have these works stretched over an inner frame, with the options to add an outer frame and glass to further enhance the display and defend against fading, dirt, dust, and fingers.
This canvas was acquired in Cuba, and brought back rolled. We stretched it and framed it for display.
These four blocks are textile art from Hong Kong. We used archival mounting methods and framed them with museum glass.
A street scene acquired in Peru. The painting was bled to the edges of the paper, so we used matting methods to display as much of the artwork as possible.
This original acrylic painting by artist Peter Max was purchased on a cruise. Our framing methods will preserve the work for many years.
Beautiful works from Bali, brought back rolled. We stretched and the customer opted to display without a frame.
A poster to remember a great trip to the great city of Chicago merits museum glass and class-act framing!
This tapestry from Egypt was framed with a float mount and a traditional moulding profile to suit the customer's aesthetic.
This Humuhumunukunukuapua`a (yup, that's what its called) is the official state fish of Hawaii. The canvas print was mounted and framed without glass.
When considering "souvenir" purchases, travelers often gravitate toward what they can carry home on a plane. But don’t let that deter you from purchasing the dream piece you find on your wanderings! Gladstone Gallery owner Barbara Gladstone says to ship what you can’t carry. “Most artwork is shipped by plane, but with heavy pieces like furniture or ceramics, you’re better off shipping by boat,” she noted in a 2016 New York Times article. Gladstone also suggests that travelers not be afraid to buy art on the spot, especially at art fairs. “Because if you don’t, it will be gone,” she says. Now, we aren’t the types to encourage unfettered purchase decisions, but travel often arouses inspirations of freedom, peace, growth, rest, joy, and awe. And if an artwork is motivating the feelings that a trip represents, perhaps the “impulse” should be acted upon...
But back to vacation photos. These special snaps and portraits are equally worthy of display. We have many solutions to show your vacation photographs. Our fine art printing and digital department can print your photos on papers for traditional framing, canvas for gallery wrap hangings, high gloss acrylic prints, and we can even engineer custom digital collages. Multiple opening mats, ready-made frames, and easels are other choices for vacay photo presentation.
We printed this customer's safari photo in house, and framed accordingly.
Our customer captured this mama bear on her trip to Alaska. We reproduced the photograph onto an acrylic print, and framed in a fun and fierce moulding.
So come see us with your travel art, vacation photos, or anything really (we're not fussy)! We'd love to hear about your adventures, and help you preserve your mementos and share your stories.
Art is the only way to run
away without leaving home.
-Twyla Tharp
Art Inspires Music
As we prepare for the Big Turn Music Festival in the Red Wing shop (join us!) we are reflecting on the notion that art inspires music. There are examples of this throughout history. Here were a few we found interesting!
Goya and Grenados
Enrique Grenados (1867-1916) was a Spanish composer who’s masterpiece Goyescas was composed as an expression of the paintings of fellow Spaniard Francisco De Goya (1746-1828). Both artists were influenced by the Spanish wars, nationalism, and the Romantic era of art and music. Goyescas was originally written as a piano suite in 1911, and later adapted into an opera which debuted at The Met in New York City in 1916. (Source. Source.)
The Parasol, Francisco De Goya
https://youtu.be/qiFmxPUddco?si=uq5KB8ioEVILoJrQ
Hokusai and Debussy
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is the woodblock artist of the famed Under the Wave off Kanagawa, aka The Great Wave. It is suggested in the art world that this work inspired Claude Debussy’s (1862-1918) also famed La Mer. Author Charlotte Landru-Chandès stated of La Mer, “The work is unquestionably pictorial in nature.” Debussy had actually aspired to be a painter! Though he never took that artistic course, Debussy’s work as an art inspired composer has stood the test of time, as does Hokusai’s Mount Fuji series. (Source.)
The Great Wave, Katsushika Hokusai
https://youtu.be/PNE27TSoJmI?si=uLRqZeHcqdCak_of
Seurat and Sondheim/Lapine
Georges-Pierre Seurat (1859-1891) is noted for his development and application of the pointillism technique, seen in his most famous work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. This painting inspired an entire Tony Award winning musical, Sunday in the Park with George byStephan Sondheim (1930-) and James Lapine (1949-). The entire production focuses on a "fictional" George Seurat and his immersion into both an outer and inner world that shapes the painting. (Source. Source.)
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges-Pierre Seurat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsTcuvuL5l8
Van Gogh and Dutilleux
Henri Dutilleux’s (1916-2013) orchestral work Timbres, espace, mouvement was subtitled La nuit etoilée (The Starry Night). This reflects his inspiration which was drawn directly from Vincent Van Gogh’s (1853-1890) renowned work of the same name. Dutilleux’s choice of prominent solo instruments for his composition (wind and percussion) “represents the movements of the clouds and the light of the stars and the moon.” (Source. Source.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyYJOi3X898
Van Gogh and McLean
Van Gogh had an eclectic 20th century fan club, with Don McLean (1945-) composing a hit song who’s lyrics tell the story of Van Gogh’s struggle with psychosis and society. Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) is somewhat of an ode and certainly a validation of Van Gogh’s under-appreciated brilliance as an artist. The song references a number of Van Gogh’s works as well as his artistic style and process. (Source.)