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Features, In Performance, Performing Arts

Dance writer Lightsey Darst offers her thoughts on James Sewell Ballet's winter performance, "Ballet Works Project" at the Southern. It's an exploration, she says, "in which what to move, how, and why are all up for debate."

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Design & Architecture, Features

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Camille LeFevre addresses the "critical regionalism" in Minnesota architecture -- building design marked less by a common style than by its "material, formal restraint, attention to craftsmanship and horizontality" in honor of our prairie landscapes.

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Features, Visual Arts

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Andy Sturdevant offers his thoughts on what makes for a Minnesota tradition in the visual arts, arguing that the distinguishing characteristics of art made here are inextricably linked to an "outpost" ethos.

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miniStories

This week's miniStories winner, "The Apartment" by Alison Morse, was selected by novelist David Oppegaard for the 2009 cycle of mnLIT.

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Features, In Performance, Performing Arts

Writer Eva Apelqvist previews the upcoming performance of selections from Kevin McMullin's "One Nation" - a symphonic marriage of orchestral music, by Minnesota Youth Symphonies, and the Native American drum songs of the Pipestone group.

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In Performance, Performing Arts

Lightsey Darst talks about the art of the striptease with two of the performers behind the crowd-pleasing Best of the Midwest Burlesk Festival, on stage at the Ritz Theater in Minneapolis January 28-30.

Announcement: Artist Pass Program

The Walker Art Center and mnartists.org are excited to offer a new program to provide access, recognition, and benefits to local artists.

Click here to learn more about the Artist Pass!

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Calendar

Multicolor Japanese Water-Based Woodblock Printing
January 19, 2010 - February 23, 2010
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis

2/9: Landscape Painting Impressionistic Style
February 9, 2010
The Studio at Rush Creek, Maple Grove

The Hobbit
February 9, 2010
Saint Mary's Page Theatre, Winona

ACCORDING TO COYOTE- Children’s Theatre Company
February 9, 2010 - March 21, 2010
Children's Theatre, Minneapolis

Live@Blake
September 22, 2009 - April 27, 2010
THE BLAKE SCHOOL, MINNEAPOLIS

News / Opportunities

mnartist.org / Walker Art Center Artist Pass Program
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Announcing our 2009 mnLIT-winning MN poets and writers
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C.F.A. ART OPPORTUNITIES NEWSLETTER
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CWDC presents ONE LONG RIGHT NOW
Christopher Watson Dance Company

XHIBITION OF SCULPTURES BY PERCI CHESTER AND PAINTINGS BY JON NEUSE MARCH 25, 2010
Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art

Carleton College to Screen “Lucia”
Carleton College Art Gallery

Call for Artists
Franconia Sculpture Park

Call for Submissions
The Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project

6x6x2010: Huge Exhibition of Small Artwork - Call for Submissions
Rochester Contemporary Art Center

Opening this Friday, January 29: Megan Vossler, Saul Chernick, and Kwabena Slaughter
Franklin Art Works

Recent Video/Music/Writing

Yo Soy Installation

NEVER WRITE A POEM AFTER THE VIKINGS BLOW ANOTHER BIG GAME

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