Community College Fine Arts Festival 2012 The annual Festival/Conference- offered by the Minnesota State Colleges System- brings together Art Students, Art Faculty, Artist’s and Community Members. The conference changes location every year. Typically there are 8-14 Minnesota Community Colleges attending- 60-140 participants. Event is open to the Public.

A “This year’s theme is Creative Flow. The vision for this year’s conference is an outlet, a way to connect with our deeper selves and other through a basic formula:

Community + Art + Nature + Commitment = Creative Flow / Creative Oneness.

Oneness- one is all and all is one: Oneness is One being, being All, as One.

A variety of creative processes will be discussed, demonstrated, enacted, and reacted upon, including ceramics, glass, kiln firings, jewelry, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and installation. The program will also include creative flow yoga, labyrinth paths, nature hikes, a high ropes course, kayaking, dancing, music, and performance--all set at one of Minnesota’s favorite lodges, Ruttger’s Bay Lake Lodge on Bay Lake, in Deerwood Minnesota.”