Art Hounds: 'Prints on Ice' at Highpoint Center for Printmaking

This week on Art Hounds, Highpoint Center for Printmaking presents its 30th "Prints on Ice," In The Heart of the Beast takes to the streets with "La Natividad," and "The Venetian Twins" travels to Duluth.

Attorney and avid arts consumer Florence Brammer recommends stopping in at Highpoint Center for Printmaking to see "Prints on Ice," its 30th exhibition of works by members of its artists' studio co-op. The exhibition features more than 70 prints by 35 different artists, including lithography, relief, intaglio, screen-printing, monotype and polymer photogravure. On display through Jan. 21, 2017.

Theater professor Harry Waters Jr. is a longtime fan of In The Heart of the Beast, and particularly cherishes its bilingual show "La Natividad." Creating warmth in the cold, In The Heart of the Beast takes its audiences on a journey to four sites in its community as it reenacts "La Posada," in search of shelter for Mary and Joseph and their soon-to-be-born son Jesus. The performance ends with a community meal. Performances run Dec. 15-22.

Attorney Ochen Kaylen saw "The Venetian Twins" earlier this year at The Southern Theater and had a delightful time. So he wants to let the folks in Duluth know that this show is definitely worth seeing when it takes to the Zeitgeist Arts stage on Dec. 16 and 17. Theatre Forever's production of Carlo Goldoni's 18th century comedy is staged in traditional commedia dell'arte style, replete with masks, physical pranks and mistaken identities.