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In this Issue: Dreams and Illusions
This issue's featured articles revolve around the surprises that unfold when larger-than-life dreams come true (or almost true, anyway) -- including stories about a local theater with national ambitions, a candid account of what really happened after a city writer moved to the country to find solace and finish her book, and a secret history of a now-you-see-it/now-you-don't disco-era gallery atop the famed IDS building in Minneapolis.
PLUS: a thorough rundown of all the latest goodies rolled out as part of mnartists.org's ongoing site enhancement process
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Dolly Parton Dreams, Reconsidered
Or, "My Dream of Moving to the Country to Write a Book and the Pygmy Goats and Insouciance I Didn’t Get." Writer Sari Gordon shares some hard-won wisdom for other creative-types entertaining the same town-to-country dream.
Read more >> Credit: Cabin in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee, much like Dolly Parton's childhood home (Photo from timlovesbrian's Flickr photostream reproduced here by Creative Commons license)
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Inside the Guthrie's "Kushner Celebration"
Performance critic Jaime Kleiman offers a behind-the-scenes look into the Guthrie's preparations for a three-month-long festival exploring playwright Tony Kushner's body of work, which kicks off April 18 with the musical Caroline, or Change.
Read more >> Related event:
The Kushner Celebration runs from April 18 - June 28, with plays on all three stages of the Guthrie Theater, including the world premiere of a newly commissioned play, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures which opens May 9
Credit: Photo of Tony Kushner by Roy Zipstein, courtesy of the Guthrie Theater |
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Farm Accident: A Secret History
Andy Sturdevant investigates the elusive history of Farm Accident, an ephemeral art gallery which lay at the center of the disco era's elite Minneapolis contemporary art scene, notorious for illicit, star-studded exhibitions in the IDS building downtown.
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Credit: Eric and Rachel Haselbauer at the Longhorn, 1977. (Photo by Kim Scarborough courtesy of Creative Commons license)
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Featured collection: The Sister Kenny International Art Show by Artists With Disabilities - 46 years of celebrating ability
Spectrum ArtWorks director, artist Amy Rice introduces this year's Sister Kenny show and has assembled an online collection of artwork by previous years' Sister Kenny exhibitions' artists.
Click here to see the collection >>
Credit: Subsistence: Girl with Goat by Gail Harbeck
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| Classes and Workshops |
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WORKSHOP: Arts Writing - From Pitch to Publication, co-presented by mnartists.org's editor, Susannah Schouweiler and the Daily Planet's Associate Editor Jay Gabler
Pratt Community School, Minneapolis, May 4 & 11
WORKSHOP: Pricing Your Work
Springboard for the Arts (Boutwells Landing), Oak Park Heights, April 9
CLASS: Intro to Papermaking
Van Brabson Gallery, Minneapolis, April 11 & 12
CLASS: Compleat Scholar Course: Art and Science of Color
U of M Conference Center, St. Paul, April 7, 14, & 21
WORKSHOP: Batik Workshop
Crossings at Carnegie, Zumbrota, April 18 & 19
WORKSHOP: Arrowhead Regional Arts Council grant-writing workshop (individual artist career development grant)
ARAC, Duluth, April 15 |
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Lili's Burlesque Revue presents American Burlycue: A Benefit for Burlesque Legend Toni Elling & Burlesque Hall of Fame
Ritz Theater, Minneapolis, April 10
Zenon Dance Company's 26th spring season, including world premieres by Andrea Miller and Brian Sostek/Megan McClellan
Ritz Theater, Minneapolis, April 16 - 26
Minnesota Dance Theatre presents Odyssey
The Lab Theater, Minneapolis, April 17 - 26
The Infinite Multiverse: a new set of dances by Chris Yon made with and for Taryn Griggs, Justin Jones and Kristin Van Loon
Bryant Lake Bowl Theater, Minneapolis, April 19-26
Shapiro and Smith Dance presents Medea Medea
Southern Theater, Minneapolis, April 9-12
Credit: Production photo by V. Paul Virtucio from Medea Medea |
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Music | Video | Film |
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27th Annual Minneapolis-St. Paul Film Festival
Oak Street Cinema, Minneapolis, April 16 to May 3
Childish Film Festival Finale
Minneapolis Central Library, Minneapolis, April 18
Every Sunday Gigs
Red Stag Supper Club, Minneapolis, April 5 - May 31
Women Drum World Rhythms
Walker Community Church, Minneapolis, April 18
Mother Banjo CD release party with the Roe Family Singers
Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis, April 23
Rift 36-Hour Songwriting Contest
The Beat Coffeehouse, Minneapolis, April 11 |
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Mizna presents "Unfortunately It Was Paradise: A Celebration of the Life of Mahmoud Darwish"
Open Book Center, Minneapolis, April 11
Spirit Lake Poetry series closer: Anishinaabe poet Al Hunter will read from his second book Reckless Love: Dreams & Regrets
Somers Lounge, College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, April 25
Kris Kristofferson
Pantages Theater, Minneapolis, April 14
Post-Baccalaureate MCAD Exhibition
MCAD, Minneapolis, April 10 - 19
Equilibrium: Spoken Word and Hip Hop Showcase
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, April 10
Moderated Conversation with Three Days of Light artists
Vine Arts Center, Minneapolis, April 13
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40th MN Iron Pour Visiting Artists: George Beasley, Laura Griffith, Coral Lambert, Paul McMahil
Regis Center for Art, Minneapolis, April 16
Geek Prom 2009
Great Lakes Aquarium, Duluth, April 18
Disgrace: an experimental collaborative of the stations of the cross
Fallout Urban Art Center, Minneapolis, April 10
Celebrate Ae! Five-year anniversary party and spring fundraiser
Altered Esthetics Gallery, Minneapolis, April 17
BVAS Art Fete Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony
Burnsville Performing Arts Center, Burnsville, April 16
MNfashion Week including the annual festival of fashion and music, Voltage: Fashion Amplified
Various venues (Voltage is at First Ave, April 24), Twin Cities, April 20-26
Suffocate: a solo show of fashions by Mpls designer Laura Fulk, produced by mplsart.com
The Lab Theater, Minneapolis, April 2
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Quilters - a musical drama about frontier life by Theatre Unbound
Paul & Sheila Wellstone Center Performance Space, St. Paul, April 3 - 25
The Seagull Project - wine, food, and a reading of Tom Stoppard's translation of the classic Chekhov play
Jungle Theater, Minneapolis, April 13
Phoenix Theater presents Red Herring
Sheldon Theatre of Performing Arts, Red Wing, April 15 - 19
The Success of Failure (Or, The Failure of Success)
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, April 16 - 18
12th Annual Ibsen Festival
Commonweal Theatre Company, Lanesboro, April 17 - 19
The Kushner Celebration: a 3-month theater festival devoted to the work of Tony Kushner
Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, April 18-June 28
Red Eye's regional premiere of God's Eye by Jenny Schwartz
Red Eye Theater, Minneapolis, April 17 - May 3
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Gamlelandet (Old Country)
Umber Studios, Minneapolis, opening April 11 and on view until April 26
Sacred Steps on the Camino: Pilgrimage to Santiago
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, April 14 - May 29
American Craft Council Show
RiverCentre, St. Paul, April 17 - 19
Deep North by Chris Larson
Burnet Gallery at Chambers, Minneapolis, April 17 - June 19
SCOTT STULEN: Everything you do better than me is stupid
Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, on view through April 26
Rumble on the Southside: Art by Patricia Healy and A. J. Warnick
Art of This, Minneapolis, opening reception April 11, exhibition runs through May 3
George Morrison – Drawings: 1980s and 1990s
Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, April 11 – May 16
Buy/Collect: Arts Patronage in Minnesota (co-curated by Robyne Robinson and Yuri Arajs)
Placement Gallery @ Bookman Stacks, Minneapolis, opens April 11 and on view, with various related symposia scheduled, through April 25 |
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Screenshot of the updated mnartists.org homepage (Justin Heideman)
Under construction: new improvements on mnartists.org
Walker Art Center's New Media designer, Justin Heideman offers a valuable run-down of the newest improvements to the site, in what will be a months-long process of enhancing mnartists.org's tools, access to resources, opportunities for engagement with and sharing of content, and overall navigability.
Read Justin's step-by-step explanation of the latest goodies rolled out on the mnartists.org website in the Walker blogs.
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