Finlandia Gallery Exhibit Opening Reception

The Finlandia Art Gallery will present Foretelling the Future, Reflecting the Past, a textile exhibit by Laura Foster Nicholson. 
The exhibit will be held at The Finlandia Art Gallery, located in the Finnish American Heritage Center in Hancock from September 26 to November 13, 2024. 
A reception for the artist will take place at the gallery, Thursday, September 26, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public, refreshments will be served.
Foster Nicholson is of Scottish and English heritage and had strong support from her family to study art. Her education led her first to Kansas City Art Institute where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts, but it was her graduate education at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield, Michigan that made her a life-long friend of Finland.
Foster Nicholson’s artwork is in a number of museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the archives of the Venice Biennale, Racine Art Museum, Reading Public Museum, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Cotsent Collection of the Textile Museum, Washington, DC, as well as many private and corporate collections.
The Finlandia Art Gallery is located in the Finnish American Heritage Center, 435 Quincy Street, Hancock. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm. Please call 906-487-7309 or email gallery@finlandiafoundation.org for more information.