July Arts District Events Roundup
Compiled by Lisa Roy
This month’s highlights include Independence Day resistance printing at the Grainbelt Warehouse, a free weaving workshop at the Flux Arts Building, Birds by Melissa Borman, Snack and Squish at Clay Squared to Infinity, Sway by Alexandra Beaumont, and monthly open studios across the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District.
Independence Day resistance printing at the Grainbelt Building
Art Price studios will be printing resistance based designs all Independence Day weekend in the Grainbelt Warehouse – studio 202. Bring anything you want the prints on, as many as you like. Cotton works best. One garment per pass through the line, to get as many people served as possible. Payment for prints refused, however all donations to the cooperative are accepted. We guarantee only that we will damage the item you give us, as it will get ink on it and then be exposed to high heat. Smears, double-prints, misprints, errors, and scorching may occur.
Friday, July 3 – 10:00am – 6:00pm Saturday, July 4 – 10:00am – 6:00pm Sunday, July 5 – 2:00pm – 7:00pm
Grainbelt Warehouse – 77 – studio 202 77 13th Ave NE Minneapolis, MN 55413
Learn to Weave a Small Bag with Yarn Scraps at the Flux Arts Building July 6th
Would you like to learn how to weave a small bag with recycled materials? We will be doing this on Monday, July 6, 2026, from 7 – 9 pm upstairs in the Flux Building. This is a free event.
The scraps that normally end up in a landfill will be used to make beautiful useful bags. I will teach you the basics of weaving and provide everything you need to make these bags. If you have your own yarn scraps you wish to use, feel free to bring them along. Please RSVP for the event so I know how many weaving boards and other supplies to bring.
Please contact Denise Lau with any questions and to RSVP at MNdreamArt@gmail.com
Monday, July 6 – 7:00pm – 9:00pm – Free. Flux Arts Building – Upstairs 2505 NE Howard St
Birds | Melissa Borman at French Park
Birds explores memory, grief, and resilience through photographs of worn ceramic birds and the objects themselves. Created in the wake of personal loss, the work reflects on fragility, care, and endurance. Together, the images and objects invite viewers to consider how meaning is carried through time.
Gallery Hours:
Daily: 9 am – 5 pm with extended hours until 8 pm from Memorial Day to Labor Day
Dates: July 16–December 31, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 16 from 6–8 PM
Snack and Squish – Thursday Jul 16th 12PM – 1PM
Snack and Squish is a fun way to meet people and learn about two types of clay at Clay Squared to Infinity. Always free and open to the public.
Snack & Squish
“Tortoise and the Hare”
July 16th 12:00pm to 1:00pm
2505 Howard St. NE
Make your lunch break out-of-this-world fun!
Every month Clay Squared invites the community to our studios to learn something new about ceramic clay and polymer clay! And have some snacks!
Our employees take over this month! Join them as they explore making art fast and slow. Glaze some tiles leftover from past projects with some speedy methods. Then learn how to make a turtle in the polymer clay studio!
Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/share/1E47AqJQ9e/
As for snacks – well Tapas of course! Which as we have learned from our trip to Spain can be anything from chips to sardines!
Free as always!
The Clay Squared Gallery
2505 Howard St. NE, Mpls Arts District
Sway | Alexandra Beaumont
Sway is a solo exhibition by Minneapolis-based textile artist and dancer Alexandra Beaumont that celebrates movement as a powerful force for building community and solidarity.
Her textile work focuses on collective movement, social dance, and gathering to reclaim the present through the body, with each stitch and layer reflecting expressions of collective power found in stepping in time together.
Drawing from her personal experience with line dancing and her heritage as the daughter of musicians, Beaumont’s pieces explore the tension of unified bodies moving within structured grids while inviting flourishes of color and swirl. Her practice features large-scale cloth banners—often centering painted, embroidered, and beaded silhouettes of friends and neighbors on sheer cloths—that capture the visual and kinetic joy of the dance floor.
The exhibition uses dance as an allegory for community and mutuality, demonstrating how moving together can be a form of organizing and a means of resistance against forces of isolation. Using materials like dyed silks, sequins, and beads, the works move with the currents of circulating viewers. Sway is an invitation to explore the expansive beauty and power of stepping in rhythm, actualizing collective power, ancestral wisdom, and joy.
Soo Visual Arts Center
2909 Bryant Ave S Suite 101, Mpls
On View – Jul 25th – Aug 30th
Opening Reception – Sat Jul 25th 6PM – 9PM
Monthly Open Studios
Flux Arts Building, Every Saturday from 10am – 5pm
Northrup King Building, every Saturday from 12-4pm
Solar Arts Building, Saturday, July 11th 12-7pm
