Arts District News – August 2020
Arts District News
August 2, 2020 – Issue 101
Dear reader,
Since its inception in 2012, the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District e-newsletter has published 100 editions. About a dozen writers, poets and reporters have contributed material about artists and their experiences in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District. More than 240 individuals or institutions have been mentioned or profiled.
The goal has been to get the broadest perspective on what artists create, build and think about. For example, in September 2017, Aldo Moroni wrote about offensive monuments being torn down and his perspective on how to handle the issues at stake. Over the years we have profiled mid-career and full career artists who are making big impacts in society. Recently, artists Leslie Barlow, Peyton Scott Russell, Mary Johnson and artists of the Northeast Sculpture | Gallery Factory have made international news with their art in the context of the coronavirus pandemic and the uprising after George Floyd’s death.
Arts District writers have learned and shared information about city government and how artists can have a voice in issues that they want and need to understand: gentrification, political forums, finding resources in the pandemic, just to name a few. We highlighted a partnership with the Chamber of Commerce studying the impacts of artists in the community.
The writers have found and profiled accomplished artists and told their stories, but there are many more that need to be highlighted.
Our partnership with the Northeaster Newspaper, on the “Arts Insights” page since 2016, has helped accelerate our potential audience to over 50,000 people monthly. The next stage needs an even larger participation of artists and community members, to get a more nuanced perspective of what’s happening in our arts community. We are looking for writers, videographers, poets, and artists who have something to say, and cultural community members wanting to contribute.
Are we missing a perspective that you think we should consider? If you are interested in writing an article, please contact us at: info@northeastminneapolisartsdistrict.org
Arts District artists to showcase at MSP Airport
By: Margo Ashmore
Online submissions open August 15 for three Northeast Minneapolis Arts District exhibit opportunities at MSP International Airport. Arts@MSP Program awarded the proposal sent by Arts District board member Leslie Palmer-Ross and Exhibit Coordinator Denise Tennen. Work will be on display January through December of 2021. “Visitors to the airport may have lots of time to take in the exhibits while …
NE Sculpture | Gallery Factory’s Social Justice Billboard Project
By: Josh Blanc
The first three works of the Social Justice Billboard Project are up! You can see the artworks by William Ransom, Peyton Scott Russell and Melodee Strong on our Instagram and Facebook, or in person at the vigil site on 38th Street and Chicago Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN. A big thank you to all who have supported the Project so far …
NEMAA ＂10×10 Online Shop＂ Call For Art
By: Josh Blanc
Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association’s 10×10 Online Shop will will be launched to the public Saturday, Sept. 26 at 5 p.m. This virtual event will serve as both a fundraiser for NEMAA as well as a promotional and sales opportunity for NEMAA artists who donate work. Deadline September 16, 2020. Artists may donate work through September 16, and those who donate …
Michelle Woster joins the Arts District Board
By: Josh Blanc
We welcome Michelle Woster to the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District Board. She brings a voice of the theater community. Since 2018, Michelle has been the managing director of Theater Latté Da, the entity that owns The Ritz Theater. Before that, Michelle served as the managing director of Ten Thousand Things Theater, where she worked for ten years with the company’s …
Four Painters at Kolman & Pryor Gallery
By: Josh Blanc
Inspired by the Walker Art Center’s Painter Painter exhibition in 2013, and the “epic conversation” they enjoyed afterward, Kolman & Pryor Gallery co-owner, Patrick Pryor, and gallery artist, Betsy Ruth Byers, have co-curated a follow-up exhibition featuring new work by four Minnesota artists, Samuel Bjorgum, Regan Golden, James Holmberg, and Syed Hosain. The exhibition, Four Painters, opens September 12 and runs through October 31. Visitors can view the show in person at the gallery …
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