Images of all paintings copyrighted by Minnesota artist Jim Rataczak © 2012
Recent News:
June 2013---Magazine Cover Double! Jim's paintings featured on two different magazine covers in one month.
September 2013---Jim's sketches included in the "Something Sketchy" Exhibit going on now through December 29, 2013 at the Bell Museum of Natural History, Minneapolis, MN.
June 2013--"Art of the Animal Kingdom" at the Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT. Jim's original oil painting, "The Rising--Northern Hawk Owl" was juried into the annual AAK show.
December 2013---Jim leads "Thursday night Sketch Series" at the Bell Museum Thursday, December 5, 2013
February 2014--Drawing Birds Workshop. University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History. Jim teaches a three-day workshop on drawing birds.
January 11-February 23--Over twenty of Jim's original paintings, plus dozens of his field sketches, were exhibited in "From the Field--Bird Paintings by Jim Rataczak" at the Bell Museum of Natural History, in conjunction with their hugely successful Audubon and the Art of Birds exhibit.
February 16-19, 2017
Jim Rataczak invited artist at Southeastern Wildlife Exposition in
Charleston, SC
