access+ENGAGE Issue 65.2

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Issue #65.2

In this issue: All Together Now

For this issue, we’re highlighting creative free-for-alls – collaborations, appropriations, interdisciplinary and shared projects. Chris Cloud of MPLS.TV, in a play on the idea of DIY, calls this kind of work DIT, or “do-it-together.” And Minnesota artists in every field are getting in on the act.

PLUS: The MCAD/McKnight 2010/11 Visual Artist Fellows’ exhibition is opening July 8

News You Can Use: a selection of current arts news and opportunities on mnartists.org

Artist Opportunities

»CLICK HERE for a regularly-updated list with many, many more opportunities for Minnesota artists in every discipline on mnartists.org

JOB OPENING: The Duluth Art Institute is accepting applications for a full-time Operations-Development Manager

JOB OPENING: St. Kate’s seeks a Director for The O’Shaughnessy

Apply by July 1

CALL FOR ART: Altered Esthetics gallery seeks submissions of art work in any media for a group exhibition in September on the theme of “Home,” exploring anything to do with finding a place in the world, from immigration to homelessness

Deadline: July 15

CALL FOR ART: Second Harvest seeks proposals from artists for the design and production of an original holiday ornament for use by Second Harvest in their 2011 Itasca Holiday Program (selected artist will receive $3000 compensation)

Deadline: July 15

CALL FOR ARTISTS: Soo Visual Arts Center’s curatorial panel is considering artists’ submissions for the gallery’s 2012 exhibition season

Deadline: July 16

ATTENTION DESIGNERS: To celebrate the new US-Indonesia partnership, Indonesia's Ambassador to the United States is launching an open competition intended to draw from American citizens' diverse talents in fabric, graphic art and fashion design, to put on display new and original designs offer a vision of 'American Batik'

Deadline: August 1

Homepage: Featured arts journalism and online collections from mnartists.org

	Hometown Blues Our music columnist, Jeremy Walker, reflects on his complicated relationship with Minneapolis, his home for 38 years -- about feeling like a "jazz guy in a rock town," and how sometimes you have to move away from home to find your place. Read more >> Credit: Photo by Brody Schmid, "Stone Arch Skyline.” Courtesy of the artist and drawn from the work he's uploaded to mnartists.org. See www.mnartists.org/brody_schmid for more of this artist's photography.
	Beyond DIY to Do-It-Together Regan Smith (Paper Darts magazine) offers a personal accounting of a trend she's noticed among Minnesota artists - a shifting focus away from strictly individual accomplishment, or DIY ethos, in favor of collaborative, interactive, "do-it-together" creative work. Read more >> Credit: “Art Changes Everything” mural at Intermedia Arts. Photo courtesy of the author.
	The Memory Palace Duluth artist and historian Matt Oman lives in his head, literally. He's spent years transforming his otherwise ordinary house into a "machine for mindfulness," a 3-D "materialization of a mind." And Ann Klefstad takes us on a guided tour. Read more >> Credit: Inside Matt Oman’s eccentric, intriguing home – from the stairwell. Photo by Ann Klefstad
	mnLIT presents: Aseem Kaul Read If at first by Aseem Kaul, a poem selected for the 2010 cycle of mnLIT's What Light competition by acclaimed poet Todd Boss. *Read If at first* by Aseem Kaul >> Read all the previously winning What Light poems >> Read all the flash fiction winners from our miniStories series >>** Credit: Photo courtesy of the author
	From the blog: CSA turns 1, a studio visit with artist Mary Giles & meditation on the Open Field Catch up with what’s new on the blog, including posts on the first anniversary of mnartists.org’s wildly popular Community Supported Art program, a Q & A with fiber artist/sculptor Mary Giles, and experiments in artist-led meditation in the Turrell Sky Pesher. Click through to read the mnartists.org blog >> Credit: Photo of a CSA share box courtesy of mnartists.org
	Looking for something to do this weekend? Browse through the huge variety of happenings listed in mnartists.org's DIY, user-driven arts calendar. There you'll find theater and gallery openings, festivals and art crawls, dance, film, music, and more - all going on right now throughout the state. Find a broad assortment of arts events going on in your neck of the woods at mnartists.org/calendar >> Need help spreading the word about your own arts shindig? Here's a step-by-step guide that'll walk you through the simple steps allowing you to promote your events - quickly, easily, and free of charge - on the site's DIY arts calendar.

Walker Art Center

One for the Road

MCAD and the McKnight Foundation present new work by the 2010/11 recipients of the prestigious McKnight Artist Fellowships for Visual Artists: Matthew Bakkom, Cameron Keith Gainer, Aaron Spangler, and Andréa Stanislav.

What: MCAD/McKnight 2010/11 Visual Artists Fellows’ Exhibition

Where: Minneapolis College of Art and Design gallery

When: The show opens July 8 with a reception from 6-8 pm, and will be on view through August 19

Credit: (Top) Cameron Keith Gainer, Luna del Mar, 2011. Film still, duration 18 minutes. Courtesy of the Artist. (Bottom) Matthew Bakkom, Dishonest/Hedonists, 2011. Ink on paper, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.

Editor: Susannah Schouweiler

Project Director: Scott Stulen

Program Assistant: Jehra Patrick

Program Fellow: Katherine Czarniecki

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