GaryOsberg.com

In the spring of 1965, I knew I was going to get married in August, but I felt compelled to prove to myself that I wasn’t stupid.  I had failed two quarters at the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology after I graduated Upsala High School in 1961, and it weighed on me.

So, I quit my job at Honeywell and signed up for 4 liberal arts classes at St. Cloud State.  I paid $10 per week for a room off campus. My favorite class was “Art Humanities 121” taught by David Crane.  I still have the textbook, “Purposes of Art” written by Albert E. Elsen.  I did much better at SCSU, mission accomplished.  The love of art stuck with me. 

My daughter teaches art at Upsala High School and both of her daughters are great artists.  So, I have become a collector of artwork.  Most of the artwork on the walls of my cottage are from my daughter, her daughters or her students. I have a niece who was so successful as an interior designer and artist that she retired to Crescent City, California before her 62^nd birthday.  She lives close to the Redwood National Parks.  She sent me a picture of her backpack positioned at the foot of a large Sequoia tree.  The backpack was dwarfed by the tree.  I am very pleased with the painting that I commissioned from Mary.

I have many friends that are artists and one of them is Charles G. Kapsner who lives north of Little Falls.  Next Thursday, the 7^th of November, he is hosting “Odyssey – A 50 Year Artist’s Journey: Not a Still Life.” at Studio Pintura in the NKB Building on Jackson Street NE in Minneapolis. The event starts at 4pm.  Details and pictures of his art are at StudioPintura.com

“Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.”  Leonardo da Vinci