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Our Mission:
To catalyze the innovative spirit of artists
through generative community arts development.
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Arts District News
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June 29, 2022 - Issue 129
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We are down to the last few days of voting for the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District in USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Travel Awards poll. We are currently in 1st place. But that happened last year, too, and we lost. This month-long saga is important. For our arts community to finish with gusto, we have to give everything we have to make sure we stay #1. The benefits of being seen as #1 will turn art heads all over the country and the world as they search for great art communities to visit. Winning this award is a piece of the puzzle to continue to build the credibility of the arts in the Twin Cities and Minnesota.
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Thank you to all who have been voting and encouraging your friends and family to join you. Please continue to vote daily til the morning of July 4th.
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Siasoco, LeFlore at Walker for Summer Social July 7
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Two local artists from the Four Story Collective will be at the Walker’s Wurtele Upper Garden, Thursday, July 7, from 5 to 8 p.m., free. Join public artist Witt Siasoco in a raucous night of art-making, music, and conversation about issues of land in the Twin Cities. Make a simple kite from a recycled broadsheet and watch it take flight …
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Congratuations, Leslie Barlow, on State Fair commemorative
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Selected in March for the honor of making the Minnesota State Fair commemorative poster, Leslie Barlow unveiled her work June 9, 2022. The happy image, actually a collage of images upon closer inspection, depicts a family of color having fun at the midway, with reflected pinks and greens of neon lights giving it a cosmic feeling. For a comprehensive interview, …
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Discovering Chroma: A Spectrum of Beauty
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The Northeast Minneapolis Arts District’s website has a wonderful catalog of information about individual artists in the new Chroma exhibit at the MSP International Airport. But there’s nothing quite like seeing it accomplishing the exhibit’s original intent – to show a progression of colors, from the blues and purples eventually through a series of earth tones and red (or vice versa).…
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2023 NE Calendar art due Sept. 1, 2022
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Do you have a unique angle on photographing a Northeast Minneapolis landmark? Or a happy and colorful way of showing our changing seasons in a non-photographic medium? Submit up to five of your best Northeast-derived images for consideration in the Northeast Calendar competition. Full submission guidelines and details are posted here: and the email address for inquiries and to send …
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Murals spring up on Central Avenue buildings
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No matter which way you travel Central Avenue, between 23rd and 26th avenues NE, you’ll see fresh mural work. By now, we’re all familiar with the enormous mural on the north side of the Eastside Food Cooperative at 2551 Central Ave. painted by Four Story Collective and Creatives After Curfew. Among the finishing touches: Text reading “Welcome to the Northeast …
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2040 Plan halted, what comes next?
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A recent lawsuit stopped the implementation of Minneapolis’ 2040 Comprehensive Plan, and it’s not clear yet whether officials will contest the ruling or determine the plan’s environmental impacts – the curve ball that this suit threw. In either case, it’ll take time. The plan’s intent, in part, was to promote density, therefore walkability and less dependence on cars. But it …
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Georgette Sosin remembered; art force and mentor
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An accomplished painter and sculptor whose works appear at the Weisman Art Museum, Duluth’s Tweed Museum of Art, local temples, hospitals, and private collections across the country, Georgette Sosin, 87, was remembered at a celebration of her life on the summer solstice. By the time she and husband Henry, who passed away in 2009, landed in Northeast and participated in …
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Vote NE #1 Arts District every day
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Join your State Senator, your newspaper publisher, various tourism promotion staff, and (we hope) hundreds of others in voting EVERY DAY in the USA Today 10Best Readers’ Choice Travel Awards poll. We’ve been in the top spot for a good while, but can’t get complacent. Some of the feedback I heard while tabling at the Northeast Farmers Market June 25: …
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The District is an all volunteer organization. Send us an email letting us know how you would like to help.
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Your contribution will support artists and our Northeast Minneapolis Arts District community. We have become a 501(c)(3) organization.
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The Northeast Minneapolis Arts District (NE-AD) is officially designated as an Arts District by the City of Minneapolis. NE-AD’s Board of Directors was established in 2014 and merged December 30, 2020 with Northeast Community Development Corporation.
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