Blogger Mary Aalgaard will teach ‘Blogging for Artists’ from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Franklin Arts Center in Brainerd, as part of the Taste of the Arts Tuesday Sampler series. The class will discuss the basics of blogging, getting started to create your own blog and how blogging can create an outlet for creative expression to promote yourself as an artist in any field. Class fee is $10 or $5 for Crossing Arts Alliance members. Call 833-0416 to register or visit www.crossingarts.org.
Aalgaard is a freelance writer, playwright and blogger. Her inspirational blog, “Play off the Page,” (http://www.maryaalgaard.blogspot.com/), features art, books, theatre, music, kids, quotes and life. Aalgaard writes reviews for theaters including The Guthrie Theater, The Ordway Performing Arts Center and the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis which are featured on her blog as well as the Brainerd Dispatch website.
The Tuesday Sampler: Taste of the Arts Series, presented by The Crossing Arts Alliance, is a literary and visual arts series of classes on Farmer Market Tuesdays at the Franklin Art Center, 1001 Kingwood St, Brainerd. Enjoy the Farmers Market in the parking lot, then come inside and improve your artistic skills with a selection of classes in August and September.
This activity is funded, in part, by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Five Wings Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and grants from Sertoma Winter Wonderland, Brainerd Service League, Mid Minnesota Federal Credit Union and the Anderson Family Legacy Fund.
