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July 2021
Northeast Calendar call for art
The call for art is open for the 2022 Northeast Calendar, coordinated by the Northeast CDC d/b/a Minneapolis Arts District. Images are sought that represent Northeast in various ways and seasons. The deadline is Sunday, Sept. 12. All art mediums are welcome, submitted through print-ready digital images. Artists/photographers are invited to include brief background on what inspired the image and where in Northeast it was made. “We are looking for active, colorful, beautiful and/or funny images that bring cheer and…
Find out more »lately ii at CIRCA Gallery
CIRCA Gallery debuts lately ii, the second of CIRCA’s bi-annual group shows featuring work from their roster of artists. The online show is featured until August 25 at circagallery.org. The gallery recommends viewing the show on a large screen such as a computer or tablet for optimal viewing. lately ii includes new and otherwise contemporary artwork from the gallery’s collection. Highlights include new gestural work from Margaret Fitzgerald, precise and vibrant acrylic painting from Ann Ledy (New York, NY), and…
Find out more »Beginner Stained Glass Class – Sun Catcher
Learn how to use glass cutting tools and techniques for cutting glass. Next, choose one of three patterns for your suncatcher and cut the glass pieces for your project (lots of colors and textures to choose). Once you have learned how to apply the copper foil to the glass pieces, you will heat up soldering irons and assemble suncatchers. After soldering, you will apply patina to the solder seams. The class wraps up with polishing our suncatchers. At this point…
Find out more »August 2021
Events at Northrup King Building
First Thursday: Aug. 5: First Thursdays are a particularly good time to visit artists, discuss their creative processes, and take home those pieces you’ve been eyeing. The building will be open from 5-9 pm. NKB Summer Sizzle: A special 10-hour open studio event on Saturday, Aug. 7, 10 am-8 pm. Food trucks will be on site. They are flinging the studio doors wide (got to capture that breeze) and the artists are sharing their newest and hottest work. Jewelry, painting,…
Find out more »Pop Up Palette Party
A wide range of media including Painting, ceramics, photography, wearable art, mixed media, sculpture and fine art quilting will be exhibited and for sale.
Find out more »Immersive Van Gogh
"Immersive Van Gogh" takes the Dutch artist's paintings and projects them on the floors, walls, and ceilings at Lighthouse Minneapolis, 1515 Central Avenue NE. Exhibit visitors will be immersed in 60,600 frames of video, 90,000,000 pixels, and 500,000+ cubic feet of projections, and curated selections from Van Gogh's 2000+ lifetime catalog of masterpieces. Designed and conceived by Massimiliano Siccardi, with soundtrack by Luca Longobardi, who both pioneered immersive digital art experiences in France. Show runs through Oct. 31. Times change weekly.…
Find out more »Hold Your Hand Out in the Dark
Dreamsong, a new contemporary art gallery at 1237 4th St NE, presents "Hold Your Hand Out in the Dark," works by Lee Noble, through Oct. 2; opening reception Aug. 19, 5-8 pm. Littered with masked intruders, retrospectively poetic B-movie titles, and eerily magnified CCTV footage, transitory figures appear in Lee Noble’s paintings like missing person posters on a coin laundromat’s bulletin board. Born in Nashville, Tenn., to a nurse and a songwriter, he is currently based in Minneapolis where he…
Find out more »Karian Amaya: light under the stones
CIRCA Gallery presents light under the stones, Karian Amaya’s first solo show with the gallery. Amaya, Guadalajara, Mexico, explores the delicate condition of matter through an eco-sculptural lens. Using primarily copper and found marble fragments, Amaya reflects on the ecological changes that occur after minerals are extracted from their natural environment. Sculptural forms evoke the setting sun and rising moon; sparsely worded copper engravings emulate pastoral poetic structures. light under the stones can be viewed on the gallery’s website, circagallery.org…
Find out more »Classes at Potek Glass
Finish August with a class in glass. Register at https://potekglass.com/classes/ Free Glass Friday - Open Torch: Friday, Aug. 27, 10 am-1 pm. An open torch session includes 4 hours with a set of student tools and free glass. The glass provided for this session is Effetre Italian soft glass, Pyrex borosilicate glass and Bullseye glass. Students must bring their own mandrels and bead release. $35 non-members / $25 members. Kiln Try-iT: Saturday, Aug. 28, 10 am–1 pm. Simple to start…
Find out more »September 2021
“Absence”
Kolman & Pryor Gallery presents a performance art, painting, and technology installation by its first Project Space grant recipient, James Holmberg. "Absence" includes six canvases that Holmberg painted, scraped off, washed with mineral spirits, and painted again 12 times, while he recorded the process on video. Each canvas is accompanied by a QR code, allowing viewers to use their smartphones to access a time-lapse video of the painting process. By doing so, the process retrieves the images attached to each painting…
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