mnartists.org: Upcoming Events

Re-imagined Classics and Other Demons - Solo Show

Thu, 03 May 2012 16:24:42 GMT

[b]Mark Johnson-Pencook presents:[/b] his pen and ink art illustrations and drawings at Robbin Gallery in the month of May. [b]Reception Opening on May 5[/b], from 4 - 8 PM - located at 4915 42nd Ave in Robbinsdale, MN 55422. The Robbin Gallery features monthly shows of emerging and established artists throughout the state of Minnesota and it's own membership artists. Marc Johnson-Pencook is a member of Robbin Gallery, Atelier trained, and a working artist in book illustration and fine art. Please join us to see this body of work which is not only compelling but also entertaining !

Children's Art Show

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:31:57 GMT

The Grand Center for Arts & Culture Children’s Art Show will be hosted from June 1 through July 21, 2012. The art show is open to children ages 0 to 12 years old. Artwork must have been completed in the last year and can be any subject. All forms of art are encouraged from finger painting to oils to sculpture and pottery.

Artwork can be dropped off at the Kiesling House, 220 N. Minnesota St., New Ulm, MN on May 16 and 17 from 1:30 to 4:30 pm or May 18 from 5 to 8 pm. All entries will be accepted. Children are allowed to enter up to two pieces of artwork a $5 cost.

For more information about the upcoming Children’s Art Show, please contact us at grand@thegrandnewulm.com or at 507-359-9222.

The ELEVEN 40 Exhibit

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:17:19 GMT

This collaborative exhibit of 11 award-winning, Twin Cities-area photographers showcases some of their best work. Photographers featured are: Brian Billadeau Cynthia Fleury Michael Gilligan Mark Karney Bradford Kissell Lars Michael John Olson Forrest Pearson John Ringquist Steven Shor Peter Wong

Mark Fox: Deep Seated opening

Mon, 07 May 2012 16:15:11 GMT

Mark Fox opening at Franklin Art Works Wednesday, May 16 Franklin Art Works will present a major series of sculptures by the New York artist Mark Fox. The exhibition opens Wednesday May 16th with a reception from 6 to 8pm. Doors open at 5pm. [b]Mark will be in attendance at the opening.[/b] The New York artist will present a new series of sculptures made by painting text and imagery on paper and then fabricating the paper into corrugated sheets from which the resulting sculptures are built. The honeycombed forms appear from different angles as solid or virtually transparent, revealing the openness of their structure. Mark Fox has exhibited extensively at venues including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo), Detroit Institute of Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, the Museum of Arts and Design (New York), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Fox is represented by Larissa Goldston Gallery (New York). The exhibition will remain on view through July 28, 2012. [i]Mark Fox: Deep Seated [/i]is curated by Franklin Art Works' Director, Tim Peterson. Gallery Hours are Tuesday - Saturday, 12 to 5pm, and by appointment. For school group visits and special tours, please contact the gallery at 612-872-7494 x 3 or [url=mailto:info@franklinartworks.org]info@franklinartworks.org[/url].

Suit Up Ae - May

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:31:31 GMT

Time to suit up! Join us every third Wednesday of the month for an evening of figure drawing…in costume! Everyone is welcome to draw or model--no previous experience is needed. We love to see new faces and new outfits! We will draw a variety of poses, for what is sure to be a pleasurable evening of figure drawing with a twist. Bring your sketchbook & drawing implement of choice. Suggested Donation $3. If you're interested in modeling for this event or any another Suit Up event in the future please contact Cassie at workshops@alteredesthetics.org Thanks and hope to see you there! [i]Altered Esthetics is a nonprofit 501(c)3 community gallery run by artists, for artists. Bringing together dimensional art, music, poetry, performance art, and film, we are one of the most creatively diverse galleries in the Twin Cities. Altered Esthetics holds group-shows so that multiple artists of all backgrounds can display their perspectives on a given theme, and works to sustain the historical role of artists as a true voice of society through exhibits, events, services, workshops, and programs. If you would like more information about Altered Esthetics, please contact Lupi McGinty at press@alteredesthetics.org or visit [url=http://www.alteredesthetics.org/]http://www.alteredesthetics.org[/url][/i] (external link)

L'affaire de Ballet

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:58:24 GMT

The Ritz Theater Presents

[i]L'affaire de Ballet[/i]

a celebration of the beauty, artistry, and love of classical dance

~ [b]5 Performances, May 17 - 20, 2012[/b]~

[i]L’affaire de Ballet[/i] is a dance concert that showcases an extraordinary group of inventive Twin Cities’ choreographers and dancers. Cities Classical Dance Ensemble’s (CCDE) artists push the boundaries of classical ballet as the company’s 14 dancers shift their physicality from lifted classical pointe work, to flowing contemporary ballet with partnering, to grounded modern movement. Whether new to dance or a connoisseur of ballet, [i]L’affaire de Ballet[/i] offers a mixed repertoire which will appeal to any artistic taste.

[i]L’affaire de Ballet[/i] includes the work of guest choreographer and former University of Minnesota dance department faculty member, Ronn Tice. The performance also features the modern choreography of local artist Jesse Neuman-Peterson. More classical works are presented by CCDE co-directors Laura Janson and Katherine Krieser and board member Kari Jensen. The welcome addition of opera singer Teri Karbula and local pianist and vocalist Maria Bensen deliver the excitement of live music to an evening of extraordinary dance.

To purchase tickets visit [/size][url=http://www.ritzdolls.com/2011/11/28/517-520-cities-classical-dance-ensemble/][b]The Ritz Theater[/b][/url]

345 13th Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413

[b]Performance Dates&Times:[/b]

Thursday, May 17 - 8:00pm [i](Preview Performance - discounted tickets)[/i]

Friday, May 18 - 8:00pm

Saturday, May 19 - 2:00pm [i](Youth Performance -17years and underdiscount)[/i]

Saturday, May 19 - 8:00pm

Sunday, May 20 - 2:00pm

Casting Calls - 50 Short Films Project

Sat, 12 May 2012 04:42:40 GMT

Audition Dates:

50 short films project, with various roles to fill. Shot over weekends throughout the remainder of the year. June-January.

All races, all genders. Age Ranges: 18-45.
Unpaid, however, full copies of the 50 shorts to be distributed to each member. Plus lead up to feature film.

Southdale Library
7001 York Ave. S
Edina, 55435
Helen Young Room:
5/20/12: 12-5:00

Minneapolis Library
300 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, 55401
Catherine Ann Forster Huber Conference Room N-304
5/17/12: 12-5:30pm
5/26/12: 12-5pm
5/27/12: 12-5pm

Bring Headshot with resume, or send ahead.
Cold read and bring your own monologue to display your personal strength.

Minnetonka Center for the Arts / Members' Juried Show

Mon, 14 May 2012 14:29:48 GMT

Opening reception May 17 , 6 - 8pm Paintings in the show : " Exposure #3 " " Untitled " (orange)

Try It! Offhand Flourishing with Heather Victoria Held

Tue, 08 May 2012 17:32:10 GMT

Offhand Flourishing is an ornate, non-lettering calligraphic art form based on 19th Century pen techniques. The flourished designs are spontaneous ,meditative and created with very little pre-planning. Designs may vary from the historic such as scrolls, quills and ornamental cartouches to the contemporary floral designs. Heather will demonstrate the essential strokes of these versatile designs as well as coloring and embellishing techniques for added depth and interest. Heather Victoria Held is a lettering artist living in St.George, Ontario. She was introduced to Offhand Flourishing by Master Penman Michael Sull and was later able to study extensively with him. She is a postal member of Brian Walker’s Spencerian Review, CLAS, The copperplate Special Interest Group, past president of the Hamilton Calligraphy Guild and faculty member of Odyssey 2010 Calligraphy Conference and Iampeth 2010 Calligraphy Conference. Her offhand flourishing work has been published in Romantic Homes, Pen World, Bound and Lettered, Somerset Studio, The Penman’s Journal, Scripsit, 1000 Handmade Cards, and Good Mail Day. She teaches guild workshops throughout North America. Visit Heather at her blog, [url=http://www.inkflourishes.blogspot.com]www.inkflourishes.blogspot.com[/url] , or her website, [url=http://www.heathervistoriaheld.com]www.heathervistoriaheld.com[/url] Thursday nights are TRY IT! nights at Wet Paint (5:30-7:30pm): Think of it as a kind of “Open Mic” at Wet Paint, where you can stop by & try your hand at various products or techniques. Some are loose & informal-- we set the theme & you explore! Others bring a special guest to share their expertise. With all of them, you get to try before you buy!

image: Flourishing

Rimon Artist Salon: A Delicate Balance

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:13:13 GMT

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release Contact: David Jordan Harris April 25, 2012 952-381-3449 Rimon Looks through an Environmental Lens MINNETONKA – The Rimon Artist Salon Series concludes it 2011-12 season with A Delicate Balance: The Environment, Sustainability, and an Artist’s Voice on Thursday, May 17, 7 p.m., at Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art (250 Third Avenue North, Studio 204, Minneapolis). The Salon is co-sponsored by the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning at the University of St. Thomas. Curator Roslye Ultan will discuss with artists Lynda Monick-Isenberg and David Feinberg the impact of an environmental sensibility and Jewish tradition on their work. Admission is $8 ($5 for youth under 18). Care for the earth is a core cultural value deeply grounded in Jewish life and in Judaism’s texts. According to Roslye Ultan, “Artists are witnesses, pioneers, and innovators for imaginative ways of perceiving, communicating, and transforming many of the environmental concerns we are faced with today.” Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council has lifted up this encounter with a call for art, inviting visual artists of any background to submit work that responded in an imaginative way to Jewish traditions of sustaining the environment. Roslye Ultan selected three artists--Feinberg, Monick-Isenberg, as well as noted photographer Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin--to receive cash awards from Rimon and an opportunity to exhibit their work in the installation, Senses and Sensibility: Balance Beauty Belief in the Natural World at the Living Green Expo on May 5 and 6 at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds. Images by four artists whom Ultan selected for Honorable Mention (textile artist Sonya Berlovitz, photographer Brenda Litman, glass artist Bonnie Rubinstein, and multimedia artist Rochelle Woldorsky) will also be on view in an online gallery at www.rimonMN.org. Lynda Monick-Isenberg is Professor of Foundation Studies at the College of Visual Art in St. Paul, where she teaches drawing courses and coordinates CVA’s Teaching Artist Program. She is a founding member of Form + Content Gallery, a gallery collective in downtown Minneapolis, and a member of the Jewish Women’s Artist Circle. As a visual artist working in drawing and weaving, she has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions locally and nationally, installing over 100 large-scale tapestry commissions nationwide. Her work is found in the collections of the Weisman Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Walker Art Center. Her most recent collaborative work with partner Jay Isenberg is rooted in the principles of social justice, raising questions of equity, action, and art’s opportunity to address change. David Feinberg is a painter and an Associate Professor of drawing and painting in the Art Department at the University of Minnesota for the past forty years. He is also the director of the “Voice to Vision” documentary project, featuring video documentaries that record the process of survivors of genocide working with an interdisciplinary team of diverse student and professional artists to transform their experiences into works of art. These artworks have been displayed nationally in universities, museums, and art centers since 2003. V2V is currently on display at Clark University, Worcester, MA. Roslye Ultan is Senior Lecturer in the Master of Liberal Studies program at the University of Minnesota as well as Assistant Professor of Art History on the graduate school core faculty and for the M.A. in Graduate Liberal Studies program at Hamline University. Ms. Ultan is an independent curator, consultant, and education lecturer for the tour guide training program at the Walker Art Center. She has curated ten years of the Living Green Expo art exhibition program. A particular area of interest for her is the role of art in environmental education and change. The Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning is a collaborative enterprise of the University of St. Thomas and Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota. After many years of fostering Jewish-Christian relations, the Center has expanded its mission to promote interfaith learning and friendship among people of various religions. The 2011-12 Rimon Artist Salon Series, sponsored by Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council, an initiative of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, presents cutting-edge interactive dialogues that delve into important and provocative issues facing our society and examines the critical role the arts play in understanding our world. The Artist Salon Series is funded in part by the Tychman Shapiro Gallery of the Sabes JCC, the Leo & Lillian Gross Philanthropic Fund, and by appropriations from the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the State’s general fund and from its arts and cultural heritage fund that was created by a vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008. Tickets for the Salon may be reserved by contacting the Rimon office at 952-381-3449, rimon@sabesjcc.org, or online at www.rimonMN.org .

Spiral: The Groundbreaking Premiere of Spiral XIV

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:30:18 GMT

Join Zeitgeist and Cambodian-American composer Chinary Ung for the world premiere of his major new chamber work, Spiral XIV[/i]. Ung’s music weaves together his Cambodian heritage, Western classical training and a powerful sense of purpose born of life’s challenges to create music that is profoundly moving and transformative. His singular approach to color, gesture, timbre and form results in a highly authentic music that sounds unlike anything else being created today. Spiral XIV[/i] incorporates vocalization, chant and several Cambodian percussion instruments in addition to Zeitgeist’s unique instrumentation of two percussion, clarinet and piano.

Orkestar Bez Ime's Third Thursday series at the Black Dog

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:50:44 GMT

Join OBI the 3rd Thursday of every month at the Black Dog Coffee & Wine Bar in Lowertown St. Paul for Balkan party music and occasional guest artists. Dancing welcome and encouraged!

No cover charge, but tips much appreciated, as your donations are what help us continue to do what we do.

Black Water

Mon, 07 May 2012 01:09:07 GMT

[b]Black Water[/b] is a new site-based performance for the inquisitive. Inspired by drone warfare and W.G. Sebald’s novel, [i]Austerlitz[/i], this new work is a comically visceral look at the intersection of remote violence and forgotten history. Created for the lost space of an empty market, this new piece is the final leg of a journey that began with [i]Strange Love(performance)[/i] (2007) and [i]He Woke Up In A Strange Place Called Home And Although Looking For Bed He Kept Finding Death Instead [/i](2009). Due to licensing issues with the city of St Paul, tickets can only be sold to people on our email list. To sign-up for our email list, please [url=http://www.http//skewedvisions.org/performance-list]click here[/url].

Off-Leash Area presents "Rip, Romp & Howl"

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:22:35 GMT
"Rip, Romp & Howl" is a rowdy evening of compelling short works of contemporary dance and performance created by the Twin Cities' most-recognized and longest-running interdiscipiinary dance and theatre company, the Ivey and Sage Award-winning Off-Leash Area. With subjects as distinctive as mythological Tarot characters, cloned human organs, and 80's art star Jean Michel Basquiat, the Off-Leash artistic directors unleash themselves - and nearly 20 of the area's best dancers and movers (including Vanessa Voskuil, Christine Maginnis, Brian Evans and more) - to rip it up, romp around, and howl at the moon! For reservations, call Off-Leash Area at 612-724-7372

Fun With More Structures and Technique

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:03:45 GMT
[b]Fun With More Structures and Technique[/b] Are you looking for inspiration and experience with more structures and techniques? Here is your next step! This class applies all the principles you have learned so far. Now that you have been introduced to reading a draft and warping a loom, you can continue to explore the floor loom and have fun increasing your skills and creativity. Beginning with the drafts provided, the instructor will assist students with planning a project based on plain and twill weave structures, such as Overshot, Log Cabin or Bronson Lace. Techniques for weaving with two shuttles will be presented. Handout fee $10, payable to the instructor. Yarn is available for purchase at the Guild. [url=http://www.weaversguildmn.org/reservation-form/1195.html]Reserve your seat now[/url] [b]1195 [/b]Monday – Thursday, May 14 – 17: 9:30am – 3:00pm Instructor: Donna Hanson | Level: Advanced Beginning | Tuition: $218/$182 Members