Year: 2022

The Arts at Work!

When Graci Horne was a child, her mother produced her first album of Dakota music. It was a good time financially for the family, Horne said, until they learned that the contract her mother had signed with a white woman gave away all of her rights to her music. “All of a sudden, she couldn’t […]

Travelers through the MSP International Airport – some rush to get where they’re going, others get there early and have longer waits, or lay over between flights. The Airport Foundation maintains a vigorous program of both commissioned permanent art and rotating exhibits (Arts@MSP) to make visitors’ experiences welcoming and memorable. The recent “Chroma: A Spectrum […]

November was a great month for Arts District fundraising. Thank-yous are in order: Thanks to distillery partner 45th Parallel for their donation of the spirits for the Basement Speakeasy held the weekend of November 4, 5 and 6. Visit 45th Parallel in Stillwater, MN or New Richmond, WI. Their roots were in Northeast, as their […]

If you need a historical costume or if Santa needs a new suit, The Costume Collective has it all. The Costume Collective is a shop reimagined after COVID-19 closed the theater industry in 2020. Two major players in the costume rental business went dark during this time – The Guthrie’s Costume Rentals Warehouse on East […]

When Amy Heavilin and her husband reinstalled a fireplace in their Queen Anne home, they wanted its tile to echo fish scale accents on the home’s exterior. Their choice, handmade tile from Clay Squared to Infinity of Northeast, was vignetted in a New York Times article by Lia Picard Nov. 10, 2022. Heavilin said the […]

If you like visiting artists’ studios and can write insightfully, Northeast Minneapolis Arts District may have assignments for you. For the Arts Insights page in the Northeaster newspaper, there are themes we have wanted to pursue, involving interviewing several artists on the same or similar subject, but we run short on time. The challenge is […]

Many gallery show to attend by Northeast Minneapolis Arts District artists. Here are three we took note of. When the Water calls me back Embracing the luminous reflections and cyclical transformations of rivers and lakes, Annie Hejny combines collected freshwater sand sediment with acrylic to share the stories of these places. From the Mississippi River […]

Congratulations to Patricia Canney on her “Mojo Coffee Morning,” the front cover of the 2023 Northeast Calendar produced by the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District. With a studio in the California Building, she is devoted to the coffee shop. Calendars will be available free, first-come first-served, starting possibly the weekend of Dec. 3 but for sure […]

The Arts at Work!