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.
Monday evening, April 8, Ordway Center for Performing Arts (a Knight Arts grantee) recognized the 2012 Sally Irvine Ordway Award-winners for their achievements in visual, performing and literary arts. Sally Awards are bestowed specifically to honor Minnesota artists and institutions for their efforts on behalf of the arts, arts education and arts access for local [...]
A program of The Schubert Club, Theoroi is a select group of arts ambassadors ages 21-35 who attend a curated series of varied arts events. The program aims to cultivate the next generation of arts audiences by sparking curiosity about the arts and spreading this curiously virally through the use of social media. On Wednesday, [...]
In one of the pieces for her “River Journal” series, now on view in the Grand Hand Gallery, painter Katie Musolff observes, “Amazing, how two things that have so much in common can be so different.” The small watercolor accompanying the text depicts a topside view of a pair of giant swallowtails – side by side, wings spread wide. [...]
This weekend, for the third annual Early Music Festival, Zeitgeist (a Knight Arts grantee) will celebrate the pioneers of electronic music: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Steve Reich, John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Michael Oldfield, Charles Dodge. I spoke with percussionist Heather Barringer by phone yesterday and asked her about the idea behind the ensemble’s mini-festival. “From pop to more [...]
By Elizabeth R. Miller, Knight Foundation From her office in St. Paul, Laura Zabel is creating tools to help artists across the country better connect with their communities and get resources The Community Supported Art program, for example, operates like Farm Share – except that instead of people buying shares of fruits and vegetables they get a bushel of locally-produced art. With a [...]
By Lydia Lui, American Composers Forum On two wintry evenings this past March, Mathew Janczewski’s ARENA DANCES closed out their seventeenth season at The Cowles Center for Dance & Performing Arts in downtown Minneapolis with the world premiere of a new work, entitled version, commissioned by Live Music for Dance Minnesota, sponsored by the American [...]
Despite the surprising news in mid-January that College of Visual Arts would need to close for good in June 2013, the verdict on that is still out, as it turns out, thanks to ongoing efforts by faculty and alumni to raise funds and community support to continue the institution. Given CVA’s persistent and steep budget [...]
By Elissa Weller, VocalEssence For South High School 9th Grader Shameelah Abdullah, apprenticing with the VocalEssence Chorus on the WITNESS Concert is just the challenge she was looking for. 1 of 8 students in the Talented Tenth Apprentice Program (TTAP), a program for urban high school students who may not otherwise have such opportunities to [...]
By Katherine Bergman, Zeitgeist With their third annual Early Music Festival, Zeitgeist examines the profound impact of the electronic signal on music-making, revealing electricity’s transformative power with regard to how we create, how we listen and how we perform. The festival will include influential works from Steve Reich, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Alvin Lucier, John Cage, and [...]
With all the snow on the ground, I’m finding it hard to believe we’ll ever be going outside just in shirtsleeves again— nonetheless, it’s time to start thinking about summer. Indeed, savvy parents of school-aged kids are already deep in the process of cobbling together their plans, aware that spots in many of the plum [...]
