Nov 19, 2025
We are going to celebrate nine years of On Location activities with a closing party. We have built a drawing community through the On Location Program and we will be on to other projects!
This will be on November 19th from 6:30-8pm at ACW Headquarters.
Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/88EzlgsRd?mibextid=wwXIfr
Nov 12, 2025
Holiday Ornaments Class
Come make fun holiday ornaments with Catherine “Katie” Palmer and Frances Bates! We will be doing it at ACW Headquarters on November 12th from 6:30-8:30pm.
Oct 24/Nov 5, 2025
Introducing the Linocut Lounge!
A printmaking workshop happening at ACW Headquarters from 2:30-7pm on October 24th and November 5th. Learn how to create easy prints using grainless linograph during these two four and a half-hour courses. Participating artists will receive a meal during as part of the workshop. We will have Revolving prompts for each workshop, with our inaugural theme focusing on Resistance, Resilience, and how we embody The Fight Against Injustice!
There is limited space as each workshop can have up to five artists. RSVP by email project manager Lincoln “Link” Matt at linkottruth@gmail.com.
Oct 22, 2025
Spin Art at Solar
ACW is expanding the Salons@HQ program to be at other locations. Catherine “Katie” Palmer and Frances Bates will be leading a spin art activity at the Solar Arts Building. Find us having fun in Studio 205 between 6:30-8:30pm!
Address: 711 NE 15th Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55413
Oct 5, 2025
Creating What’s In Our Hearts
When: Sunday, October 5th, 5-7pm
Where: 2213 West 54th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55419
A Community art experience to show solidarity and support for and with the Annunciation Community. Free Event Led by Robin Getsug, LMFT, ATR-BC of Heart Space Art Studio Each participant will be given two simple wooden hearts as canvases – a symbol of love, vulnerability, strength, and the unique inner worlds we all carry. One to keep, to remind us of our connection to this community, and one to give as a collective gift to the school as a show of support and community love. Art Heals!
No prior registration required. All ages welcome; 16 and under needs adult with them.
Sept 20, 2025
Join the On Location Drawing Co-op for an in person event at ACW Headquarters. Come to share drawings and techniques or just enjoy the creative atmosphere. Learn more about them at https://www.facebook.com/onlocationdrawing.
May 31, 2025
Voice Explorations Offered by Clif Ware
Saturday, May 31 from 10am – 12pm
This event will involve exploring and possibly discovering participants’ “authentic” (rather than “acquired”) voices, in both speech and singing. Six (minimum) to ten (maximum) participants will experiment in using physical-vocal exercises that help efficiently coordinate the principal voice-producing systems of cognition, respiration, phonation, resonation, registration, articulation, and expression. A couple of simple upbeat songs will be used for group singing, and it should be a positive learning experience for all participants – at least for the instructor!
Available for 6-10 participants. Email Leo to register (the.leo.fortune@gmail.com).
Clif has always been artistically inclined. As a 5-year old, he eagerly drew WWII battle scenes. A few years later he took a year of private lessons in watercolor, followed by an art class in 9th grade. But, when reaching the 10th grade, his choral director-mentor discovered his tenor voice, and that was the beginning of his vocal-music career. Drawing and painting reappeared at times in temporary stints, including his taking art and pottery classes as a college student, and more recently, an acrylics painting class in 2012. Earlier, in 1985, he designed a new family home, with landscaping, that was built in New Brighton, MN.
Clif’s vocal music career spanned 47 years, including 2 years as music-and-youth director in a Methodist Church, 1 year as choral music director, and 43 years of university teaching, the final 37 at the U of MN-TC School of Music. During the early years he also earned graduate degrees, including a D.M. degree in voice performance from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.
Throughout his career he performed extensively as tenor soloist, in recital, opera (55 roles), and oratorio. After retirement, he and his wife, Bettye, a professional pianist, formed a 50s band named The Silvertones, and performed several summer concerts in Salo Park.
As a writer, he’s authored four books—Adventures in Singing (4/e 2008), Basics of Vocal Pedagogy (1998), The Singer’s Life: Goals and Roles (2005), The Aging Challenge: Making the Most of Life After 50 (2009). He has also given numerous professional presentations nationally and internationally at professional meetings and educational institutions.
During early retirement, Clif and Bettye, also composed 36 songs, including Eco Songs, with 13 songs on various aspects of environmental sustainability. Their music collaboration—Bettye as pianist, Clif as instructor—continues with teaching quarterly 5-week Voice Exploration classes at the St. Anthony Village, MN Community Center.
In 2013 Clif and Bettye co-founded Citizens for Sustainability in St. Anthony Village, where they reside. Since 2013, Clif has published a sustainability e-newsletter, currently on hiatus while he focuses on other writing projects related to sustainability.
He and Bettye are interested in promoting the role of arts as a force for moving society toward a more sustainable future, by emphasizing the systemic role of humans as an integral part of Nature, from which all sustenance flows and upon which all life depends.
Dr. Ware’s website (https://clifware.wixsite.com/clifware) is devoted to singing and teaching, integral thought and mind-body connections, and sustainability concerns.
May 10, 2025
A Dark Room
Doors open at 7pm, show starts at 7:30pm. The two short films are Reefer Madness and Night of the Living Dead. Free popcorn and soda.
Originally, I’m a satirical artist, but I have a darker/independent and unusual feel when it comes to films. Directors and genres I like: Aki Kaurismaki, Jim Jarmusch, Yasujiro Ozu, Wong Kar Wai, David Lynch, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Wolf Howard, Amos Poe, Jacques Tourneur, Nicholas Ray, film noir, French and Asian new wave, no-wave cinema, FW Murnau, Bresson, Dreyer, B-movies from the ’40-50’s- especially juvenile delinquent movies and poverty row horror (Monogram Pictures, Republic, etc.) –serials (Spy Smasher), and Hammer horror movies, Jules Dassin’s “Night and the City” from 1950, Joseph H. Lewis’ “Gun Crazy” from 1949…lots more. I also make short films myself. Check out my Vimeo page: vimeo.com/tonyj
I also host independent and obscure films for free in a setting called, A Dark Room. I’ve done this for a few years back in my hometown of New Haven, CT. Now I plan to have a movie night every second Saturday of the month at Art to Change the World in Mpls. Our first show is a double feature on Saturday May 10th. Doors open at 7pm, show starts at 7:30pm. The two short films are Reefer Madness and Night of the Living Dead. Free popcorn and soda.
July 12, 2025
Salvaged Sentiments
A class offered by ACW Director, Barbara Bridges*
Class is at 699 Lowry Ave NE from 9:00-12:00 AM.
Recycle, Repurpose and Re-Create. Mini-wall sculptures: Have you every received a card which is too beautiful to throw away but then what do you do with it? Do you collect pretty papers, beads or other objects but then what do you do with them? Do you have a special object you want to memorialize? This class is your answer!
Materials: Teacher provides objects, papers etc for students to work with and encourages them to bring their own objects. Scissors, papers, glues, epoxy, tooth pics, sinew and beads etc provided.
Activity: Teacher shows at least 6 examples and kicks off with a short elements and principles lesson and then guides students through the construction of their mini wall sculpture. Maximum 6 students…ages 8-92 Contact Barbara to register: drb@bridgescreate.com
- Bridges Bio:
Barbara Rogers Bridges has been an artist and a teacher/college professor for over 40 years. Her social practice sculptures have been exhibited in Maine, Miami, the Virgin Islands, Maryland, Chicago, Mexico, Spain, Canada, and throughout Minnesota. Bridges taught K-12 art in Minnesota, Maine and the Virgin Islands and trained teachers in higher education at the University of Minnesota and Bemidji State University.
Barbara creates social practice art from fabricated components in a variety of media and rescued “power objects.” She manipulates the objects to create meaning and provoke discussions and reflection on a wide variety of social topics.
She is an intervenor. Cambridge educated philosopher, Tim Ingold, holds a unique theory on art making. Dr. Ingold suggests that artists are simply interveners on any particular materials and/or objects the artist manipulates. Any object already has a story, the artist simply recombines these objects to create a new narrative.
Barbara received the Vision Award from the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District in 2023.
Barbara is founder and director of Art to Change the World. Read More Please contact Barbara if you would like to buy any of her art drb@bridgescreate.com
June 21, 2025
Join the On Location Drawing Co-op for an in person event at ACW Headquarters. Come to share drawings and techniques or just enjoy the creative atmosphere. Learn more about them at https://www.facebook.com/onlocationdrawing.
June 18, 2025
699 Lowry – Pour Painting Activity!
Join Katie and Frances at Headquarters for a fluid art activity. Create your very own sparkly and colorful pour paintings!
Date: June 18,2025 Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Pour Painting description: Using fluid paint and mediums to create unique and interesting abstract painting compositions on canvases or panels.
This class will focus on a variety of pour painting techniques. We will go over the basics. Layering (stacking) the paint for pouring in your cup. We will use different methods to create differing results.
We will work on a style of pouring which includes; Flip Cup, Dirty Pour, Ring Pour and the Swipe Method.
June/July
A collage/mixed media class where participants depict on one half of their creation when they were experiencing unhappy or bad times and on the other half of their creation they depict when they have felt their happiest healthiest or their strongest self.
A painting or drawing class where participants create a picture of the happiest day of their life. Participants will draw or paint what they recall as their happiest moment. They can also use these mediums to depict how they feel/felt on their happiest day using colors and or other images in a more abstract way.
March 23, 2025
