NEWS: New Building-Sized Portraits, Coming to Downtown Minneapolis (Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - April 13, 2024April 15, 2024 The Orpheum Theatre in Downtown Minneapolis, one of several historic theatres managed by the Hennepin Theatre Trust. The Hennepin Theatre Trust has announced the latest photographers for It's the People exposition of large-scale public art, highlighting the unique inspirations of humanity. Eight fine art portrait photographers will create portraits that will
NEWS: Jerome Foundation Announces $5.5 Million in Grants Arts Dance Music Theatre Visual Arts by Amy Donahue - April 11, 2024 Minnesota-based Ananya Dance Theatre (2023's We Are The Procession by Michhil Amra pictured) is one of 79 organizations to receive support from the Jerome Foundation in the coming cycle. ADT's award will underwrite its NextGen Choreolab program for early career, Minnesota-based choreographers. Photo by Canaan Mattson Photography. The Jerome Foundation –
PREVIEW: Stages of Equity 2024 Festival (Jan-April 2024) Arts Dance Music Theatre Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - December 23, 2023December 24, 2023 North Hennepin Community College will host the Stages of Equity 2024 festival from January-April 2024. This visual & performing arts festival is marketed as raising up the powerful work of BIPOC visual and performing artists. All festival activities, including exhibits, live performances – notably including the acclaimed ensemble Ten Thousand
NEWS: Jerome Foundation Awards $487,650 in Film-Making Grants Arts Movies Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - November 20, 2023November 20, 2023 The Jerome Foundation has awarded $487,650 in grants to early-career filmmakers in New York City and Minnesota. Six grants totaling $139,650 will be given to early career filmmakers in Minnesota and 12 grants totaling $348,000 to early career filmmakers in New York City. The Jerome Foundation's Minnesota and New York City
NEWS: Minnesota State Arts Board Announces Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre Visual Arts by John Anderson - October 15, 2023October 17, 2023 Common Loons Taking Off (2023), an acrylic on canvas painting by Duluth-based artist Karl Bardon. Bardon is 1 of 99 artists to receive grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board in a recently announced set of awards. Blacksmithing, opera, ballet, novels, screenplays, podcasts, and more. These are just a few of
NEWS: Free Loring Park Art Festival Returns July 29-30 Arts Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - April 20, 2023 The 2021 Loring Park Art Festival. Photo by Jeff Sorenson. The Loring Park Art Festival, a 2-decade family tradition in Minneapolis, returns this summer. This year, line-up includes 140 juried artists, many returning and many new. The 2-day event runs Saturday, July 29 and Sunday, July 30, in Loring Park. “Art-lovers of
NEWS: Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Announces Arts Impact for Groups Recipients Arts Dance Music Theatre Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - March 20, 2023March 30, 2023 On March 28, 2023, the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council voted to award $1,076,356 in funding for 109 groups and organizations. These grant awards, offered through MRAC's Arts Impact for Groups grant program for fiscal year 2023, provide up to $10,000 in funding to help groups create and sustain Minnesotans’ access
NEWS: The Return of Northern Spark Arts Visual Arts by Amy Donahue - June 6, 2022June 6, 2022 Then Northern Spark art festival – an all-night, in-person, summer event in the Twin Cities – returns on Saturday, June 11. This year's festival explores the theme “What the World Needs Now”. This incarnation of Northern Spark will take place along University Avenue and downtown in St. Paul, MN on Saturday, June 11,
NEWS: Emerging Curators Institute Announces New Cohort Arts Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - March 27, 2022 A collage showing the 2022-2023 Emerging Curators Institute Fellows. The Emerging Curators Institute (ECI) has announced the recipients of its latest cohort of early-career fellowships. Recipients receive in-depth research support, professional development, and presentation training to prepare them for careers as museum and other curators. Unusually, the five recipients include two artist-curators
REVIEW: Would You Van Gogh to Yoga? (Lighthouse) Arts Lifestyle Visual Arts by Basil Considine - September 30, 2021September 30, 2021 Opera singer Victoria Erickson of Northfield, MN engaging in yoga practice at the Immersive Van Gogh–Minneapolis exhibit. The Van Gogh immersive art phenomenon is sweeping the world. According to Lighthouse Immersive, the company behind the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit in Minneapolis, those numbers are adding up: some 3.2 million people have