There’s been an explosion of interest in direct-to-consumer, farm-to-table, community supported agriculture in the last couple of decades. I’d lay odds a fair percentage of Knight Arts readers are farmers market regulars, or even subscribe to a CSA and pick up boxes of fresh produce directly from an area farmer through the growing season. A [...]
Minnesota Opera is on a roll. Just a few weeks ago, it was announced that this year’s Pulitzer for music was awarded to Kevin Puts for “Silent Night,” a Minnesota Opera-commissioned work that premiered before sold-out audiences in St. Paul this past November. And now, to close out its critically acclaimed 2011-2012 season, the Knight [...]
This weekend’s a big one for the St. Paul arts scene. The days have turned warmer, lilacs are blooming and the trees are leafing out — all cues that it’s time for another Saint Paul Art Crawl. Friday through Sunday, thousands of visitors will traipse through hundreds of galleries and artist studios, browsing through some [...]
Matt Mauch, the founder and host of a yearly blowout in honor of National Poetry Month, calls the Great Twin Cities Poetry Read a celebration of community and of poetry, “although I’m not sure in what order. It’s what the poet Lucille Clifton called ‘a gathering of the tribe.’” And based on what I saw [...]
Minnesota Opera’s artistic director, Dale Johnson, must be feeling 10 feet tall this week. Composer Kevin Puts was just awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for “Silent Night: An Opera in Two Acts,” which was commissioned and premiered by Minnesota Opera (a Knight Arts grantee) this November as part of company’s New Works Initiative. “Silent [...]
Update: Please click here for videos from the night’s performances Saturday night’s “We Are Here” concert in The Lyric at Carleton Place, off University Avenue, was more than just a rock show. It’s “creative placemaking” in action, part of a program which aims to galvanize artist-led economic development along the city’s six-mile stretch of “Central [...]
For more than two years now, late Thursday afternoon every week I find myself surfing over to “The Rumpus” to see if the lit mag has posted a new “Dear Sugar” column. I convince myself that surely this time, it will be safe to read the thing at work. I mean, those other awkwardly emotional [...]
When the ArtCars go on parade, you can’t miss artist Jan Elftmann’s “Cork Truck”— it’s a whimsical marvel. With the exception of its windows, tires and headlights, the whole vehicle is artfully encrusted with the thousands upon thousands of wine and champagne corks she collected for more than a decade. Tomorrow evening, for the art-and-science [...]
Lowertown’s Air Sweet Air gallery has a new exhibition up — it’s a show with satisfying intellectual heft and conceptual depth. And I have no idea what it all means. Called simply “Δ,” John Fleischer’s multimedia installation is distinguished by both its austerity and deliberateness. As you’d expect from the title, the show is pregnant [...]
Nonprofit, discipline-specific organizations (like the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Northern Clay Center, Textile Center, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, etc…), arts colleges and universities — these are the places I suspect most first think of when they’re in the market for classes and other educational arts opportunities for adults, and rightly so. But what if [...]
