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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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April 1, 2023 - Issue 139
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Climate Change is such a large topic that brings about existential thinking about our human purpose. The Art District Newsletter has a goal to have a story about Climate Change every month in 2023. Focusing on how artists are thinking, coping, and creating artwork around this overwhelming subject. We hope to see how art can help us as readers understand how to digest this vast issue.
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Rosy Simas wins $550k Doris Duke award
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Rosy Simas is a transdisciplinary and dance artist who works primarily with movement of the body, image, objects and sound. Think: “installation in which performance happens.” Simas, an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation Heron clan, whose artistic career spans decades, recently received the Doris Duke award of $550,000. This peer-nominated award is for individual artists in the categories of dance, jazz and theater. …
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Telling the stories of climate change through art
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Many of the most famous artists of all time specialized in depictions of nature: think Claude Monet’s lily pads or Vincent Van Gogh’s olive trees. But in addition to a rich history of art inspired by earth’s beauty, artists have long used their craft to draw attention to the plight of our planet and spark environmental action. Two artists in the …
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Art and Nature at Silverwood Park
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Two artists from the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District are currently on exhibit at Silverwood Park: sculptor Marjorie Fedyszyn and painter Toni Gallo (Casket Arts Building and Thorp Building, respectively). Through their powerful explorations of loss and presence, each artist’s work prompts a deeper connection and responsiveness in our relationship to the natural world. In the next ten years, Minnesota stands …
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Arts@MSP - Opportunities available
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Have you seen the fabulous collection of art at the MSP airport? If so, you might be wondering how they chose the artwork that appears in many unique contexts, from the concourses to the rest rooms, and even projections at the baggage carousel. The program is called Arts@MSP. They use an Artist Roster system to pre-qualify artists for future opportunities …
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The Ecology of Artmaking with Emily Donovan
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Concern about the environment is no newer among artists than it is among scientists; climate change is central to the themes and subject matter of a growing movement of artists. But in addition to making art about environmental causes, artists have another, often less obvious way to take environmental action: the artmaking process itself. Every artist’s materials and process have …
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Arts District is a vital system like the body
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There are 80 organs in a human body with six major ones: the heart, brain, kidneys, liver, skin and lungs. The Northeast Minneapolis Arts District also has six major organs. Northrup King Building (350 artists), The Ritz Theater (315 artists), Casket Arts (120 artists), California Building (102 artists), Thorpe Building (53 artists) and Q.arma building (52 artists). These buildings hold …
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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 are 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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