The Knight Arts program is now seeking grant opportunities in St. Paul that can create transformational and sustainable change through artistic excellence and collective cultural experiences. If you’re interested in learning more about working with Knight in the arts, please contact Program Director Polly Talen.
This Saturday’s crisp, clear afternoon was especially welcome after a week of cold drizzle – Irrigate Arts certainly couldn’t have asked for more inviting fall day for “Art Happens Here,” a pop-up community carnival celebrating their first year of “creative placemaking” in St. Paul’s Central Corridor neighborhoods. Irrigate, which has facilitated and funded all kinds [...]
It’s official: As of this week, both of the Twin Cities internationally regarded orchestras have cancelled shows and locked their musicians out of the concert halls as a result of increasingly acrimonious, as yet intractable contract negotiations and labor/management disputes. When Minnesota Orchestra’s contract negotiations with its players broke down in late September, after the [...]
Harriet Bart’s “Between Echo and Silence” is the first major exhibition in Macalester College’s new Law Warschaw Gallery, situated in the school’s beautifully renovated Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center. The show is elegant and somber, an uncluttered, utterly deliberate arrangement of just six installations — aesthetically stripped-down sculptural forms and drawings which reflect on loss [...]
By Elizabeth R. Miller, Knight Foundation A restaurant on a construction-filled street is doing more than serving up Vietnamese food in St. Paul. It’s quickly becoming a case study for how the arts can create a sense of place. Mai Village sits squarely at the heart of the bustling five-block area known as “Little Mekong” near Minnesota’s State [...]
By Abdo Sayegh, TU Dance TU Dance performed twice to a full house at the Fall For Dance Festival in New York City. Uri Sands and dancer Yusha Marie Sorzano danced High Heel Blues, a sassy, playful, utterly comedic duet based on a woman’s desire for shoes that she knows are no good for her, and the salesman who [...]
Sun Yung Shin’s second poetry collection, “Rough, and Savage” from Coffeehouse Press, is simultaneously alluring and caustic, lovely and mournful, ambitious in both its moral ambition and literary invention. Shin’s poems deal in pain and love and alienation, but she weaves those well-worn themes into something fresh, a contemporary fairy tale in verse about the [...]
By Laura Zimmerman, The McKnight Foundation Last fall, 120 artists sent me their résumés. They were not applying for a job at the Foundation, nor was I creating a hard copy LinkedIn. Artists agreed to share this career documentation as part of a year-long celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the McKnight Artist Fellowship program. In thinking about the history [...]
For twelve years, “Rain Taxi Review of Books” has hosted the Twin Cities Book Festival. It’s the literary event of the season in these parts, and it’s happening this Saturday. The whole Minnesota books community turns out for this fall showstopper – authors, publishers, lit mags and comics artists, booksellers and bibliophiles of all stripes [...]
By Andriana Abariotes, Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support Coalition I have a colleague who loves to quote this Buffalo Springfield song when he’s trying to explain the shift that is happening in neighborhoods here in the Twin Cities. And, as the song goes–what it is ain’t exactly clear—has been the easiest way to frame what we’re [...]
By Peter Leggett, Walker West Music Academy On Saturday, September 15th, Walker West Music Academy welcomed more than 75 students, family members, faculty, friends and supporters for “A Taste of Music” Open House. The event began with a performance outside of the building from the American History Band Project led by Walker West faculty member [...]
