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In this issue: Art in the Margins
This issue’s features explore art that flourishes in the margins – work made at the fertile overlap between forms, like ballet and puppetry, for example, or images documenting lives pursued on the outskirts of society.
- HOMEPAGE: Highlights include an essay on photographer Alec Soth as a chronicler of loneliness, ballet on the verge, and the 2010 miniStories grand prize-winner
- NEWS YOU CAN USE: A current crop of grants and artist opportunities drawn from mnartists.org’s regularly updated community bulletin board
- YOU ARE HERE: Fall arts festivals, spooky celebrations, and the beginning of the holiday art sale season, as well as new performance, film, gallery openings, readings, dance, and more
PLUS: Come and vote at the MAEP Annual Meeting Saturday, October 30
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Artist Opportunities
»CLICK HERE for a daily-updated list of many, many more opportunities for Minnesota artists in every discipline on mnartists.org |
JOB OPENING: Contracted Executive Director for the NE Minneapolis Art Association (part-time position)
Application deadline: November 7
PUBLIC ART GRANTS: Forecast Public Art announces its 2011 annual grant program with expanded funding for five MN regions
Deadline: November 15
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: The Gage Family Art Gallery and the Christensen Center Gallery welcome exhibition proposals from artist at different stages in their careers and working in all types of media to exhibit at Augsburg College
Deadline: Monday, November 15
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: Open Eye Figure Theatre and Walker Art Center are taking artists' proposals for
image/object/puppet driven small-scaled performances that resonate with the traditional form and contemporary approach to toy theatre for Toy Theatre After Dark
Deadline: November 15
CALL FOR ARTISTS: The Minneapolis Photo Center seeks photographers who use alternative processes to create their photographs for their upcoming exhibit, Alternatives: Unconventional and Uncommon Processes
Deadline: Thursday, November 18
UPCOMING ARAC GRANT DEADLINES: The Arrowhead Regional Arts Council has a number of artists grants available
Click through for information workshop dates and deadlines
CALL FOR ARTISTS : The Soap Factory is now accepting submissions from artists for their 2011 Season. Artists should bear in mind the gallery space has no climate control, air-conditioning or permanent heating system and are encouraged to use the entire 12,000 square feet of the space.
Deadline: Tuesday, November 30
CALL FOR CREATIVE WRITERS: Perpich Center for Arts Education is publishing their first annual literary magazine, Saltwater Comet, and they're seeking submissions of original creative writing by area high school students
Deadline: December 1
CALL FOR ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in Troy, New York has a number of opportunities for artists in residence working in theater, music, dance, video, and installation
Deadline: January 13 CALL FOR ART: Susan Hensel Gallery is taking submissions of work for Readers' Art 11: Urban/Urbane
Deadline: January 15 |
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Alec Soth: The Loneliest Man in Minnesota?
Writer Frank Bures reflects on the Walker's new retrospective of work by Twin Cities-based photographer Alec Soth, and on the artist's resonant depiction of a "pervasive, long in coming, and widespread" emptiness at the heart of our culture.
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Related exhibition details:
From Here to There: Alec Soth's America will be on view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis through January 2, 2011.
Credit: Alec Soth, Untitled (from Broken Manual), chromogenic print, 2008. (Courtesy of the artist at Walker Art Center) |
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Dancing on Ballet’s Living Edges
Dance critic Lightsey Darst weighs in on two recent shows - Crystal Pite/Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM's Dark Matters at the Walker, and Minnesota Dance Theatre's ambitious, two-weekend fall dance festival, Enduring Prescience.
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Noted performance details:
Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM in Dark Matters was on stage at the Walker Art Center October 14-16.
Minnesota Dance Theatre's two-weekend, fall dance festival, Enduring Prescience, took place October 15-24 at the Lab Theatre in Minneapolis.
Credit: Production photo for Dark Matters by Crystal Pite/Kidd Pivot (Photo: Dean Buscher) |
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Let’s Hear It for the “Farm Team”
Camille LeFevre weighs in on this month’s performance by American Ballet Theatre's "farm team" - ABT II - at Northrop, and on the split reactions to the dance program evident in the post-show audience response.
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Noted performance details:
American Ballet Theatre's ABT II performed at Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis on October 9.
Credit: Production image for Interplay (Photo: Jim Coleman, courtesy of ABT II) |
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mnLIT presents: 2010 miniStories grand prize-winner, Hillary Wentworth
Read Hillary Wentworth's victorious flash fiction, 146.9 Volts, selected as the 2010 miniStories grand prize-winning submission by our full panel of fiction jurors: Alexander Chee, Daniel Handler, Heather McElhatton, Kevin Larimer, and Dennis Cass.
Read Hillary Wentworth’s winning fiction entry, 146.9 Volts >>
Credit: Photo courtesy of the author
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| Classes and Workshops |
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CLASS: “Design Your Own Yarn”
Weavers Guild of Minnesota, Minneapolis, October 30 – November 10
WORKSHOP: “Beginning Spinning I”
Weavers Guild of Minnesota, Minneapolis, October 30 & 31, 10 am
WORKSHOP: “Building a Successful Writing Business”
Springboard for the Arts, Saint Paul, October 30, 1 pm
WORKSHOP: Bell Museum Sketch Night – “Insects”
Bell Museum of Natural History, Minneapolis, November 4, 6:30 pm
WORKSHOP: Beginning Studio Lighting Minneapolis Photo Center, Minneapolis, November 9, 6:30 pm
Credit: Image courtesy of the Weavers Guild of MN |
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Sundari Aur Nag (Beauty and the Beast) - season opener for Katha Dance Theatre
The O'Shaughnessy, Saint Paul, October 29 – October 31
BLM/Siefer/Flink CREATE The Woyzeck Project*
Southern Theater, Minneapolis, through November 6
we are not platonic, unfortunately, Taja Will
Bryant Lake Bowl Theater, Minneapolis, November 4 & 12
Words to Dead Lips - hand-drawn animation, dance and soundcapes by Aniccha Arts and Intermedia arts
Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, November 5 – 7
Eiko and Koma present Naked - dance and installation
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, November 2 - 30
BodyCartogaphy Project premieres a new work, Symptom
Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, November 11 - 14
Zenon Dance Company presents its fall concert, including two world premieres by Colleen Thomas and luciana achugar
Southern Theater, Minneapolis, November 18 - 28
There is an Elephant in this Dance, by Trisha Brown Dance Co. alumnus Lionel Popkin, featuring dancers
Carolyn Hall, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Lionel Popkin and Morgan Thorson
Southern Theater, Minneapolis, November 12 & 13
Credit:Image courtesy of Aniccha Arts |
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Music | Video | Film |
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Trash Film Debauchery presents a “mystical selection of haunted Kung Fu cinema”
Trylon Microcinema, Minneapolis, through November 24
Double feature horror film screenings: Grinning Faces and The City Screen
Riverview Theater, Minneapolis, October 28, 9:30 pm
Adriana Zabala's Studio Presents Sondheim
U of MN School of Music, Minneapolis, October 28 – November 19
Childish Films: Halloween ‘Toons for Tots
Southdale Library, Edina, October 30, 2:30 pm
Rock the Cause presents Phantasmagoria
Rock the Cause, Minneapolis, October 30, 8 pm
Minnesota Opera's Cinderella
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Saint Paul, October 30 – November 7
Spark: Festival of Electronic Music and Arts
Various Locations, closing October 31
Sara Bareilles with Cary Brothers and Holly Conlan
Pantages Theater, Minneapolis, November 2, 7:30 PM
In Search of Asia: Minneapolis - St. Paul Asian Film Festival
St. Anthony Main Theatre, November 3 – 13
Seeking Wellness, public screening with guests Juhyo
Trylon Microcinema, Minneapolis, November 4, 7:30 pm |
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| Lectures, Symposia & Literary Events |
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Marshall Festival - celebration of of rural writing and culture
Southwest MN State University, Marshall, October 28 - 31
Readings of fiction and poetry by Mai Neng Moua and Marlon James
Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, October 30, 2 pm
Raking Through Books' Dead Poets & Writers Halloween Party - dress as your favorite dead writer
Kieran's Pub, Minneapolis, October 31, 4 - 7 pm
A spooky, Day of the Dead edition of The Works: A Writer's Salon
Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, November 2, 7 pm
Design Conversations: James Victore + Debbie Millman
W Minneapolis – The Foshay, Minneapolis, November 3, 5 pm
Word and Image: First Annual University of St. Thomas Art History Graduate Student Research Symposium
University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, November 4, 6 pm
Pen Pals presents Bill Bryson, author of At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, November 4 & 5
Magers & Quinn presents The Maud Hart Lovelace Society
Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, November 7, 8 pm
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| Festivals & Special Events |
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MAEP Annual Meeting
MIA MAEP Gallery, Minneapolis, October 30, 10:30 am
17th Annual BareBones Halloween Outdoor Puppet Extravaganza: Carnetheria
Hidden Falls Regional Park, Saint Paul, through October 31
OM's “Haunted Ghost Brides” runway show
OM, Minneapolis, October 30, 9 pm
Wing Young Huie's final cabaret and closing ceremony for the University Avenue Project
Project(ion) Space, Saint Paul, October 30 (cabaret, 5:00 pm) & 31
Halloween Sale and Art Show Pre-Party
ROBOTlove, Minneapolis, October 31, 5 pm
Textile Center Holiday Show & Sale
Textile Center, Minneapolis, November 1 – December 30
Taste of Creativity
Edina Art Center, Edina, November 4, 4 pm
Local-to-Global Jewelry Artist Mart
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, November 6 (11 am - 5 pm)
Springboard for the Arts presents a FREE Artists' Health Fair
People's Center Health Services, Minneapolis, November 6, 10 am - 2 pm
Strange Attactors 22 - Festival of Experimental Intermedia
Fine Arts Studio 677, Saint Paul, November 5 - January 3
SCENEaSOTA
Loft 2, Minneapolis, November 6, 8 pm
Credit: Image courtesy of the Textile Center |
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| Theater |
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Weird Tales for Halloween, presented by Hardcover Theater
Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, through October 31
Theatre of Fools' holiday show, A Spirit of Halloween
Jewel Theatre at Twin Cities Magic, Saint Paul, through October 31
Broadway Bound by Neil Simon, presented by Theatre Or
Sabes Jewish Community Center, St. Louis Park, through October 31
Ten Thousand Things presents Life Is a Dream
Open Book, Minneapolis, October 29 – November 21
Open Eye Figure Theatre presents Cabinet of Wonders, written and directed by Kira Oblensky
Open Eye Figure Theatre, Minneapolis, October 29 - November 14
The 39 Steps - a farcical, inventive theatrical send-up to Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller directed by Joel Sass
Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, through December 19
Sandbox Theatre’s new ensemble production, Unspeakable Things: The Wandrei Brothers Project
Sandbox Theatre, Minneapolis, November 5 – 20
The Touring Broadway production of the Tony award-winning musical Spring Awakening
Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis, November 6 & 7
Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company presents My Name is Asher Lev
Hillcrest Center, Saint Paul, closing November 7 The House of the Spirits/La Casa de los Espiritus
Mixed Blood Theatre, Minneapolis, through November 14
Non English Speaking Spoken Here: The Late Nite Series
Pillsbury House Theatre, Minneapolis, through November 13 |
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| Visual Arts |
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Interact Gallery presents Evolution
Interact Gallery, Minneapolis, through November 19
MCAD/Jerome Emerging Artists Fellowship exhibition
MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, through November 6
4th Annual Horizontal Grandeur – annual prairie art exhibition
Stevens County History Museum, Morris, through October 29
Migrasota: work by Arturo Cruz
Shoebox Gallery, Minneapolis, October 29, 6 pm
Masquerade – new work by Nicholas Harper
Rogue Buddha Gallery, Minneapolis, October 29, 7 pm
Gods and Monsters: Part II
Cult Status Gallery, Minneapolis, October 30 – November 27; opening reception October 30, 9 pm – 1 am
Landscapes of the Russian North: Vladimir Lobanov
Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, November 11 – January 6
On the Cusp
Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, November 4 – December 11
O.C.D.
Altered Esthetic Gallery, Minneapolis, November 5 – 25; opening reception November 5, 7 – 10 pm
Alternatives: Uncommon & Unconventional Processes
Minneapolis Photo Center, Minneapolis, November 5 – December 27; opening reception November 5, 7 – 10 pm
Emotional Landscapes and Dream Spaces
The Women's Building, Saint Paul, November 8 – December 31
Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, October 23 – February 13 Credit: Top, artwork by Nicholas Harper. Bottom, Vladimir Lobanov, Early Morning |
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One for the Road: MAEP Annual Meeting |
MAEP Annual Meeting: COME & VOTE
All Minnesota artists are invited to attend the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP) annual meeting on Saturday, October 30, 10:30 am - 1 pm at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Pillsbury Auditorium). It's an opportunity to report on the activities and successes of the past year, to elect three new members to the artist panel which determines each year's exhibition line-up. This yearly event is also a welcome chance to catch up with friends and colleagues in the Minnesota arts community. Registration for the meeting begins at 10:30 am in the Fountain Court.
WHAT: MAEP Annual Meeting
WHERE: Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Pillsbury Auditorium)
WHEN: October 30, 10:30 am - 1 pm
Admission is FREE
The Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program is a curatorial department of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts dedicated to exhibiting and supporting artists living and working in the state of Minnesota. Begun in 1975 as a creative partnership with the MIA, the MAEP was founded by a group of regional artists interested in creating an innovative exhibition and programming space. What began as a year-long agreement has been extended into an ongoing relationship between the Minnesota artist community and the MIA.
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