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.
By Dayna Martinez, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts In the midst of starting construction on the brand new 1,100-seat Concert Hall, which will open in Spring, 2015, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is getting ready for a busy summer! We kick off the summer season with the Flint Hills 2013 International Children’s Festival, [...]
Blank Slate Theatre’s production of the off-Broadway hit, “Columbinus,” created in 2005 by the United States Theatre Project, grabs you by the throat right from the start and doesn’t let go for an uncomfortable two hours. In the tradition of “The Laramie Project,” this two-act play blends fact and fiction to dramatize the events surrounding the [...]
By Meena Mangalvedhekar, Speaking of Home When a public art project like Speaking of Home speaks demands high accuracy, precise quality and innovative solutions to create the design experience, Archetype Signmakers has got our back. This welcoming group of perfectionists is not only extending pro-bono printing solutions but their professional installers will take charge of [...]
By Megen Balda, Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies The Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies (GTCYS) presented its first-ever free family concert to a capacity audience of young children and families at the majestic Ordway Center for Music on April 27. The project marked GTCYS’ first appearance on the Ordway stage in 15 years, giving student [...]
For a fifth season, the flagship Community Supported Art (CSA) program will offer art-box “shares” of original, locally made work by a select group of Minnesota artists. This program takes after the buy-local ethos of the slow food movement and is modeled on the farm share programs of community supported agriculture. CSA is co-presented by [...]
By Peter Legget, Walker West Music Academy In the winter of 2012-2013 Walker West Music Academy held its second offering of the Young Artist Program. Led by Walker West faculty members Felix James, Solomon Parham and Nick Phillips, the Young Artist Program provides high school students with the opportunity to compose, record and produce an [...]
By Elissa Weller, VocalEssence VocalEssence is proud to announce the 2014 performances of WITNESS: Stomp & Sing will feature folksinger and activist Melanie DeMore. The VocalEssence WITNESS Program is an annual celebration of the contributions African Americans have made, and are making, to our shared cultural heritage. The comprehensive school-based program is just one element [...]
The Holocaust looms large in popular literature, film and theater. Nearly 70 years after the end of World War II, the subject is a fully realized genre whose narrative contours are, at this point, widely familiar, thanks to writers like Anne Frank, Primo Levi, Art Spiegelman and Elie Wiesel, not to mention films like Schindler’s [...]
By Shelley Quiala, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts “It’s important for scientists to communicate the key messages of our work to different audiences. We need to keep finding new tools (like dance and film) through which we can share these stories.“ -Chip Small, Biology Professor, University of St. Thomas As a part of the [...]
Penelope Umbrico’s exhibition, “Mountains, Moving: of George C. Poundstone 1926 – 2013,” recently opened at Bethel University’s Olson Gallery. Umbrico’s work is an exercise in meta-photography – laying bare for examination the field’s means of production, the aesthetics of its technologies and processes, by way of repeated iterations of the same mountaintop, originally shot in [...]
