Creative Minds Youth art PROGRAM
(9-11 YEARS OLD)
2025 Season
MONDAYS | 3:15-5:00PM
January, February & March
Mondays 3:15 to 5:00 p.m.
4th – 6th grade
Creative Minds is an art experience program. This 4-week art experience encourages creativity using various mediums and techniques. While creativity and medium exploration is a primary goal, this class also focuses on tools of geometry in development of design, especially in perspective drawing. An after-school snack is provided.
Cost: $30.00 per month, materials included due to the generosity of the “Dorothea Paul Legacy Art Fund”.
Open Registration 10 students per month
Organizations serving youth who wish to have a group art experience may do so free of charge – please email birdislandculture@gmail.com to schedule your group event.

Rosemary Glesener
Art Instructor | Cultural Centre Director
Rosemary, a Minnesota native has resided in Renville County for approximately forty years. During this time, she organized art shows in various venues. These three-day exhibitions showcased local, regional and metropolitan artists. As a Cum Laude graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Superior, she designed her own major entitled Integrative Community Wellness which encompassed her belief that art, psychology and health are interconnected. She has been instrumental in the management of the Cultural Centre, her brain child, since its inception in November 2016. As an artist, poet/essayist and entrepreneur she thrives on the creative process. In 2021, Rosemary was selected as the receipent of the Prairie Disciple Award “in recognition of her outstanding commitment and sustained efforts to promote the vitality of the arts in Southwest Minnesota and with appreciation for her significant achievement as an arts advocate for our region and state.”
PAST EXPERIENCES AT THE CULTURAL CENTRE
Creative Minds - January 2025
Children
Creative Minds - February 2025
Children
Matthew and Levi Haubrich - March 2025
Danube
Dona Larkin - April 2025
Renville
Maggie Fuller - May 2025
Montevideo
Doug Peterson - June 2025
Milan
Richard Krogstad - July 2025
Ortonville
ACTS/WCI - August 2025
Olivia
Ana Serrano - September 2025
Willmar
Fred Cogelow - October 2025
Willmar
Katia Andreeva - November 2025
Minneapolis/Montevideo
Address
640 Dogwood Avenue P.O. Box 434
Bird Island, MN 55310
(320) 365-1011
birdislandculture@gmail.com
Gallery Hours
Monday - Friday: 10am - 5pm
Open on Saturdays by request.
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This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board and The Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.