Homewood Studios - North High Graduate Show (April 1-30)
2022-03-31 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
ARTWORK BY NORTH HIGH GRADUATES
April 1-30
Our scheduled show for April, new work in fabrics and weaving by Tressa Sularz, has been postponed for a year because of Covid-19 concerns. (Look for this show in April 2023.) Instead, we are pulling out a few pieces from our permanent collection, all by former students of ours at North High School.
We are also taking a break from regular gallery hours to attend the CODEX Book Fair (https://www.codexfoundation.org/codex-2022), a gathering of the finest book artists and designers from around the world, in San Francisco.
With these two items in mind, we are not holding regular gallery hours during April. Should you want to drop by to view the permeant collection work, please phone (612 587-0230) or e-mail (george@homewoodsstudios.com) for an appointment.
Homewood Studios
2400 Plymouth Avenue
Minneapolis 55411
612 587-0230
www.homewoodsrudios.com

Connection: A Community Exhibit & Collaboration (Opening)
2022-04-01 08:00 - 17:00
Works by Lucienne Schroepfer and Catherine Palmer will be featured in an exhibit on Connection: A community exhibit and collaboration between the Bakken Museum and the Show Gallery of Saint Paul.
Works will be on display 4/1-7/31.
The Bakken Museum is located at 3537 Zenith Ave South, Minneapolis, MN 55416

What Were You Wearing - A Response Show (Reception)
2022-04-03 17:00 - 18:30
Exhibit Series @ ArtWorks
What Were You Wearing – A Response Show
Opening Reception: Free! April 3, 5:00-6:30 PM
ArtWorks Eagan: 3795 Pilot Knob Rd, Eagan, MN 55122
Exhibit Runs April 1-April 22
Two ACW artists are exhibiting in the “What Were You Wearing” Response show at ArtWorks Eagan.
Featured Artist is Cory Favre, who is installation the White Knuckled Project, an installation of 100+ paintings showcasing all the ways folx, mostly women, female identifying, and LGBTQIA+ people plan and think about how to keep themselves safe while out of the home.
Rebecca Froehlich will exhibit her chalk pastel painting, “Medusa”.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. 360 Communities believes that eliminating sexual violence starts with an engaged community. 360 Communities and Art Works are partnering for a live exhibition of the “What Were You Wearing?” project that will run through the month. Please consider attending this free event to support violence prevention and raise awareness about sexual violence.
24/7 Violence Prevention Services:
Lewis House, Eagan: 651 452 7288
Lewis House, Hastings: 651 437 1291
Sexual Assault Services: 651 405 1500

The Waves
2022-04-03 17:00 - 20:00
Sunday, April 3rd at the Center for Performing Arts
The Waves
A monthly gathering of poets and musicians performing a vibrant mix of astonishing, mysterious, beautiful new work!
April 3rd show features: Danika Stegeman LeMay, Haley Olson, Jeff Johnson, Maura Bosch, Ngange & TheMasses, Paula Cisewski, RayCurt Lemuel, Sagirah Shahid, and more…

Doors open at 4:45
Performances from 5:00 until 8:00
$10 admission
Beverage and snacks available
Proof of vaccination required

The Center for Performing Arts
3754 Pleasant Avenue South Minneapolis

First Thursday @ Fox Den: Natalie McGuire
2022-04-07 17:00 - 21:00
ACW FOX DEN FIRST THURSDAY
Natalie McGuire is exhibiting at the Fox Den located in the Solar Arts Building as part of the 1st Thursday.
Come check out her hybrid exhibition One last road trip leads to Sanctuary for the Soul.
This Exhibition is a mixer of her Photozaics framed art in color and infrared photograph images with a sprinkle of her black and white infrared photos.
Solar Arts Building
711 15th Ave NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413
Date: April 7th, 2022
Time: 5 pm to 9 pm
https://solarartsbuilding.com/

For more details about her hybrid exhibition, check out her website for more information. https://nmcguirestudio.com/

On Location Drawing Co-Op: St. Anthony Park Branch Library
2022-04-16 11:30 - 13:30
On Location
Next Stop: St. Anthony Park Branch Library
2245 Como Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108
Saturday, April 16, 2022
11:30 am-1:30pm
We will gather inside the library to draw and browse.
Lunch will be at Nico’s Tacos across the street. Lunch is optional and on your dime.
Please check for updates on our On Location Facebook page: www.facebook.com/onlocationdrawing
This event is sponsored by Art to Change the World
Contact Deb Ripp with Questions: Debra Ripp at tobersonstudios@gmail.com

St. Paul Art Crawl - Art on the Hill
2022-04-22 08:00 - 2022-04-24 17:00
Don’t forget to Art Crawl in Saint Paul this Spring!
Areas of the city all featured on different dates. Art work by Lucienne Schroepfer and 20+ Artists at Art on the Hill, Cathedral Hill District.
Virginia Street Church
170 Virginia Street, St Paul
April 22-24.
Fine Artists- Cheese, Wine, Music each day!

Mississippi River Stories Open House - Barbara Bridges
2022-04-23 13:00 - 15:00
Mississippi River Stories Open House
Saturday, April 23, 1-3pm
Mississippi Watershed Management Organization
2522 Marshall St., NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418
https://www.mwmo.org/learn/visit-us/exhibits/mississippi-river-stories/
https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/barbara-bridges/

St. Paul Art Crawl - Schmidt Artists' Lofts
2022-04-29 08:00 - 2022-05-01 17:00
St. Paul Art Crawl – Schmidt Artists’ Lofts
ACW Artist Natalie McGuire: April 29-May 1st
Address: 900 W 7th Place Saint Paul, MN 55102
More information at Saint Paul Art Crawl’s website: https://stpaulartcollective.org/
My personal website https://nmcguirestudio.com/
Natalie McGuire creates multi-sensory wall art that engages your curiosity of what lies beyond; what you see is personal to you. The art she creates allows her to connect with you, making you feel as if you were there with Natalie. They entice you to reach out and touch my art, so you can view and feel at the same time. She calls these works photozaics. They are a perfect mixture of Van Gogh meets Ansel Adams and Bob Ross.

Euphoria Short Works Festival
2022-04-30 19:30
Team Euphoria
Art to Change the World’s Coaching Project Team Euphoria proudly presents the Euphoria Short Works Festival!
Project Manager Lauren Edson and Coaches Susan Hensel and Mark Jelinek have worked together to create a festival focused on celebrating all forms of gender expression. This festival will feature local Minnesota artists, sharing what gender means to them. From poets to comedians to short films, there will be a wide variety of unique voices and stories to share with you all. As a gender queer artist, Project Manager Lauren knows the importance of creating a safe space where one can feel accepted and celebrated for their identity. They hope that this festival will encourage people to learn more about the gender spectrum and embrace the uniqueness and euphoria that comes with expressing one’s truest self. Participants are TBA.
The festival will be taking place on April 30th at the Capri Theater at 7:30 PM. We hope to see you there!
Address: 2027 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55411
More information: Lauren Edson <laureneedson@gmail.com>

Blood on the Pavement - Opening Night
2022-05-05 17:00 - 21:00
Think, Discuss, and Disrupt!
The upcoming Art To Change the World art exhibit, “Blood on the Pavement,” aims to help Minnesota communities think, discuss, and disrupt! The group show is scheduled to have Opening Night activities during First Thursday, May 5, 2022 from 5:00 – 9:00 PM at the Northrup King Building third floor gallery (studio 332). Open Mike for poets starts at 5:PM with a short talk about Brothers Keeper by Nikki McComb at 6:00 PM. At 7:00, poets TBA will read selected works.
The show will combine the poetry of Ashley Richardson and visual art responses to her poems. The intention is to spark conversations about violence against Black bodies, both verbally and physically, from micro aggressions to police brutality; as well as violence against trans bodies, women’s bodies, and other intersections of the Black identity. With a deep belief that Black lives, voices, and narratives matter, poet and curator, Ashley Richardson, has organized “Blood on the Pavement” as a month-long exhibit (May 5 – May 25).
Closing Night is May 25. At 6:30 the silent auction for noted painter, Owen Brown’s, response to the George Floyd murder, called On George Floyd will end. The proceeds from the auction will be donated to a nonprofit TBA.
The show will feature the following local artists responding to Richardson’s poems. They will be providing remarks on May 25 at 7:00: Drew Hammond, Azania Tripp, Briauna Williams, Lyle Ferguson, Sebastian Rivera Cintron, Ariana Carbajal, Cory Favre with unique appearances of works by Nikki McComb and Owen Brown. It is imperative that Black stories take up space!
Dates to Know
Opening: Thursday, May 5th (5:00 – 9:00 PM)
Saturday, May 7th (Noon to 4:00 PM)
Saturday, May 14th (Noon to 4:00 PM)
Art-A-Whirl: Friday, May 20th, (5:00 – 9:00 PM)
Saturday, May 21st (Noon to 8:00 PM)
Sunday, May 22nd, (Noon to 4:00 PM)
Closing: Saturday, May 28th, (5:00 – 8:00 PM)

Blood On the Pavement
2022-05-07 12:00 - 16:00, 2022-05-14 12:00 - 16:00
Think, Discuss, and Disrupt!
The upcoming Art To Change the World art exhibit, “Blood on the Pavement,” aims to help Minnesota communities think, discuss, and disrupt! The group show is scheduled to have Opening Night activities during First Thursday, May 5, 2022 from 5:00 – 9:00 PM at the Northrup King Building third floor gallery (studio 332). Open Mike for poets starts at 5:00 PM with a short talk about Brothers Keeper by Nikki McComb at 6:00 PM. At 7:00, poets TBA will read selected works.
The show will combine the poetry of Ashley Richardson and visual art responses to her poems. The intention is to spark conversations about violence against Black bodies, both verbally and physically, from micro aggressions to police brutality; as well as violence against trans bodies, women’s bodies, and other intersections of the Black identity. With a deep belief that Black lives, voices, and narratives matter, poet and curator, Ashley Richardson, has organized “Blood on the Pavement” as a month-long exhibit (May 5 – May 25).
Closing Night is May 25. At 6:30 the silent auction for noted painter, Owen Brown’s, response to the George Floyd murder, called On George Floyd will end. The proceeds from the auction will be donated to a nonprofit TBA.
The show will feature the following local artists responding to Richardson’s poems. They will be providing remarks on May 25 at 7:00: Drew Hammond, Azania Tripp, Briauna Williams, Lyle Ferguson, Sebastian Rivera Cintron, Ariana Carbajal, Cory Favre with unique appearances of works by Nikki McComb and Owen Brown. It is imperative that Black stories take up space!
Dates to Know
Opening: Thursday, May 5th (5:00 – 9:00 PM)
Saturday, May 7th (Noon to 4:00 PM)
Saturday, May 14th (Noon to 4:00 PM)
Art-A-Whirl: Friday, May 20th, (5:00 – 9:00 PM)
Saturday, May 21st (Noon to 8:00 PM)
Sunday, May 22nd, (Noon to 4:00 PM)
Closing: Saturday, May 28th, (5:00 – 8:00 PM)

Home: Nostalgia & Chaos - Chris Cinque (Opening)
2022-05-07 17:00 - 20:00
Home: Nostalgia & Chaos

Home: Nostalgia and Chao

New collages and paintings by Chris Cinque
May 4-31
Opening Reception – Saturday, May 7th from 5 pm to 8 pm
We have known Chris Cinque for several years. She has endured, along with all of us, the delay of this show due to Covid-19. We are pleased the hiatus is over and we are able to offer her work to the community. About her current paintings, Chris writes:
I had to leave my southern home when I was nineteen because I came out as a lesbian to my Catholic family. I headed to the far north where I had never been and no one in my family really knew where I was. I wrote about this in my trilogy of one-woman plays called “Growing Up Queer in America. One of the passages said this:
Exiles know what I know, what you know too
For when we leave our country’s borders and sweet fields
We are outcasts from our country
We are outcasts from our families
We are outcasts from ourselves
I taught English for almost twenty years to immigrants and refugees and I felt a kinship with many of my students hearing their stories of being forced to leave their homelands. It is an unfortunate and all too common part of the human condition: people being uprooted from all that is familiar for whatever reason: war, natural catastrophe, racial violence, domestic abuse, poverty.
One of the definitions of nostalgia is “homesickness”. When my father, at age nineteen, went off to Bootcamp during World War II, it was the first time he’d ever been away from home. He became physically ill but eventually recovered enough to get shipped off to Europe so he could walk across France shooting Nazis.
When my great-grandparents, Salvatore and Rosina, were forced to move to America because of poverty, Rosina died at forty-two from a brain hemorrhage and, I suspect, domestic violence leaving behind a large family of motherless children.
My family’s stories are magnified and repeated worldwide and throughout history in the endless migrations, people have been forced into. We are so many of us refugees, but we are resilient. And that is part of the story as well. Wherever we end up, we create homes and families and the satisfaction that comes from overcoming hardships and creating better lives for our descendants.
This show attempts to document, reflect upon, and honor what it means to have a home, to lose it, and to make another to take its place.
We will offer a hybrid Gallery Talk [in person and remote] beginning at 7 pm on Tuesday, May 17th. Nearer the date of this event, we will post a link on our website page.

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Breathe (a ritual to undo) - Opening
2022-05-13 18:30 - 19:30
Breathe (a ritual to undo)

Breathe: A Ritual to Undo, a new play by Ashawnti Sakina Ford.

About this event

Join us for the world premiere of Ashawnti Sakina Ford’s ritual performance piece, Breathe: A Ritual to Undo.
Directed by Antonio Duke.
Performed by Alexis Camille, Sterling Miller & Dana Lee Thompson.
Original Music by Umar Malik
Designers: Mitchell Frazier & Bayou Bay; Stage Manager: Arianna Diaz-Celon
Performed at the Paradise Community Hall at the Capri Theater.
This performance was commissioned in 2020 as part of Exposed Brick Theatre’s Through Our Eyes series. Ford described it this way: A moment of pause, a collective breath, a call to shake things up (in our bodies) so that we can continue a fight that was started long ago and may continue long after us. This ritual is intended to heal by allowing all of our emotions to flow in, out, and around us. A renewed sense of fight is what I hope can emerge by listening and performing this piece.
Million Artist Movement will partner with Exposed Brick Theatre at each performance to provide Power Tree Quilting starting one hour prior to the performance.
Schedule is:
Friday, May 13: Quilting begins at 6:30; Performance at 7:30
Saturday, May 14: Quilting begins at 6:30; Performance at 7:30
Sunday, May 15: Quilting begins at 1:00; Performance at 2:00
The performance is approximatley 45 minutes.
This current Covid Policy at the Capri Theater is as follows:Masks are required at all indoor events at the Capri, except while actively eating or drinking. Non-cloth masks, such as N95, KN95, KF94 and surgical masks, are recommended.

Healing the Breach - Opening Reception
2022-05-17 18:30 - 20:30
Healing the Breach Exhibition
AHHA! (Artistry, Honest, Healing Action)
White Bear Center for the Arts
Runs April 25-June 9, 2022
Opening Reception: Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
6:30-8:30 PM

On Location Drawing Group - Minneapolis Public Library
2022-05-28 11:30 - 13:30
On-Location Drawing Group
Next Stop: Minneapolis Public Library: Downtown branch – 300 Nicollet Mall, Mpls 55401
May 28th– Meet us in the lobby @ 11:30.
We will draw until 1:30.
Lunch @ Whole Foods Market,222 Hennepin Ave ( @ the corner of Hennepin and Washington Ave. 1 &1/2 blocks east of the library)
Lunch is always optional and on your dime.
Check the On Location Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/onlocationdrawing/ for more information/updates.
This group event is sponsored by Art to Change the World organization.
* We are meeting at a later date this month due to the scheduling of Art A Whirl.

Blood on the Pavement - Closing Night
2022-05-28 17:00 - 20:00
Think, Discuss, and Disrupt!
The upcoming Art To Change the World art exhibit, “Blood on the Pavement,” aims to help Minnesota communities think, discuss, and disrupt! The group show is scheduled to have Opening Night activities during First Thursday, May 5, 2022 from 5:00 – 9:00 PM at the Northrup King Building third floor gallery (studio 332). Open Mike for poets starts at 5:PM with a short talk about Brothers Keeper by Nikki McComb at 6:00 PM. At 7:00, poets TBA will read selected works.
The show will combine the poetry of Ashley Richardson and visual art responses to her poems. The intention is to spark conversations about violence against Black bodies, both verbally and physically, from micro aggressions to police brutality; as well as violence against trans bodies, women’s bodies, and other intersections of the Black identity. With a deep belief that Black lives, voices, and narratives matter, poet and curator, Ashley Richardson, has organized “Blood on the Pavement” as a month-long exhibit (May 5 – May 25).
Closing Night is May 25. At 6:30 the silent auction for noted painter, Owen Brown’s, response to the George Floyd murder, called On George Floyd will end. The proceeds from the auction will be donated to a nonprofit TBA.
The show will feature the following local artists responding to Richardson’s poems. They will be providing remarks on May 25 at 7:00: Drew Hammond, Azania Tripp, Briauna Williams, Lyle Ferguson, Sebastian Rivera Cintron, Ariana Carbajal, Cory Favre with unique appearances of works by Nikki McComb and Owen Brown. It is imperative that Black stories take up space!
Dates to Know
Opening: Thursday, May 5th (5:00 – 9:00 PM)
Saturday, May 7th (Noon to 4:00 PM)
Saturday, May 14th (Noon to 4:00 PM)
Art-A-Whirl: Friday, May 20th, (5:00 – 9:00 PM)
Saturday, May 21st (Noon to 8:00 PM)
Sunday, May 22nd, (Noon to 4:00 PM)
Closing: Saturday, May 28th, (5:00 – 8:00 PM)

SILENT AUCTION FOR TODAY’S DECISIONS (George Floyd), a work by noted painter Owen Brown, will end at 6:30 PM. Auction proceeds will be donated to a non-profit chosen by the winning bidder from a pre-selected list of organizations serving the Twin Cities’ BIPOC community.
This work is valued at $5,000.00. The opening bid is $900. Email info@arttochangetheworld.org
to make a bid. Read more about the work: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/todays-decisions-george-floyd/

Solo Show Opening: Becca David
2022-06-02 17:00 - 20:00
Becca David
June 2, 2022, Solar Arts Building
Fox Den Gallery
2nd Floor
5:00 PM-8:00 PM
711 NE 15th Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55413
Solo Show
Join Art to Change the World Artist Becca David in the Fox Den Gallery where she will explore the natural world as it is and how it could be. This work serves to remind us of the delicate balance between humanity’s in self declared stewardship of Earth and humankind’s propensity for destruction.
For updates and notifications, stay tuned to: www.justbeceramics.com
IG: @justbeceramics

Opening Reception @ Homewood Studios
2022-06-03 19:00 - 21:00
Homewood Studios
Entertainment/recreation: distraction, pastime, pleasure, gratification, relaxation
the alteration, digression, turning, variation
Changing course: departure, detour, deviation,
Diversion: Definitions and synonyms
Laura DuFrane Murphey, Judith Jopp, John Stumme, Debra Ripp, Linda Snoufffer, and Shirl Chouinard
June 3-25 Opening Reception – Friday, June 3, from 5:00 to 7:30 pm
Gallery/Artists’ Talk – Tuesday, June 21 beginning at 7 pm

2400 Plymouth Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55411
To open our summer season of shows, we offer an enticing and diverse group of artists who, after meeting each other in a class taught by artist Deborah Foutch, have continued to work with, encourage and support each other for several years. One of the groups, Laura DuFrane Murphy, is one of our resident studio artists.
About their work, they write:
Our individual visual art is diverse—we all have different visions even at times when we use similar mediums or explore similar subjects. Through these years, we have grown in our abilities, sometimes altered artistic direction, or just learned to explore new ideas as we shared our creative process with one another.
This exhibit celebrates our long-term connection with one another. These works illustrate how art was a diversion from the pandemic stresses as we retreated into studios to work alone. Some of us focused on adhering to the artistic paths on which we began; others deviated into a new artistic direction. We all have been fed by the creative force and continue to honor our connection to it and to one another.

Opening Reception: Children of Nature - Find Your Wonderland
2022-06-05 13:00 - 16:00
JOIN US SUNDAY JUNE 5, 2022 FOR “CHILDREN OF NATURE: FIND YOUR WONDERLAND”
OPENING ARTIST’S RECEPTION: 1:00 to 4:00 pm
Meet the Artist: 1:00 to 4:00 pm
Artist’s Talk: 2:30 pm
Raffle Drawing follows Artist’s Talk

On Location: Boom Island Park
2022-06-18 11:30 - 14:00
Please join us for a drawing session at Boom Island Park @ 724 Sibley St. N.E. from 11:30-1:30 and lunch @ Elsie’s. Lunch is optional and on your own dime): 729 Marshall St. N.E. Mpls 55413.
This information is posted and updated on our On Location Facebook page. For further ?’s Email: tobersonstudios@gmail.com.

Lobster Chowdah Feed / Thank You Party
2022-06-18 16:00 - 19:00
The Power of Maine Chowdah

Lobster Chowdah Thank You Party on June 18. Join us!
ACW Director, Barbara Bridges, is a Maine native. She makes a famous seafood chowder with seafood she flies in from Maine. It is her Grammy LeBlanc’s recipe. Cheesy biscuits often accompany the traditional whoopie pies! There will be a Seafood Chowdah feed in June 2022 at her unique home and studio for all ACW Patrons who have contributed $500 and above.
Eligible Attendees for 2022:
Thomas Fulton, Lynn Olson, Josh Blanc, Layl McDill, Harlan Luxenberg, Nina Robinson, Sally Gibson, Rhoda Olson, Lucienne Schroepfer, Pat Rogers, Herman Milligan, Lucy Schroepfer. Marko Fields, Mike Vennewitz, DAvid O’Fallon
Read More: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/chowdah-feed-june-2022/

Owen Brown @ Sabes Center
2022-06-30 19:00 - 21:00
Owen Brown will be showing a quadriptych, “Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow,” at the Sabes Center
The opening is June 30th, 7 to 9, and the show will be on for over a month.
4330 S. Cedar Lake Road
Minneapolis, MN 55416
The current Hebrew year, 5782, is a Shmita year. Shmita means “release” in Hebrew and refers to the seventh year in a seven-year cycle (like the seven-day cycle culminating in Shabbat). According to the Torah, during the seventh year, God commands us to let the land rest, release debts, resolve disputes, and open our hands and hearts to those in need. The Shmita Project asks us to consider how do we bring this tradition alive in an era when we no longer rely on the rhythms and harvest of our fields to survive. Featuring submissions to Hazon’s Shmita Project, this multimedia exhibit showcases artwork from all over the country with related programming that will engage the community with the art and provide opportunities to gain their own personal insights about shmita. Read More: https://www.sabesjcc.org/about/jcc-collaboration/

Age of Age
2022-07-08 17:30 - 20:30
ACW hosts a Social Justice Art Exhibit at Homewood Studios on the Theme of Ageism.
No matter your age you probably think about age. Do you feel old one day and then young another? Are you treated differently because of your age or your “perceived age”?
Join us at Art to Change the World’s Age of Age Exhibition at Homewood Studios, 2400 Plymouth Ave. N, Minneapolis, MN. Opening Night is July 8 starting at 5:30. Comedians Karen Williams and Khadijah Cooper will perform. This exhibit will include ten teams with up to a 50-year age difference. Ages 25-103. Each participant earns $200.
Bronwyn Waid 25 and Rebecca David 54
Madalina Kelner 25 and Layl McDill 51
Cory Favre 39 and Nina Martine Robinson 60
Catherine Palmer 53 and Marie Sipe 72
George Roberts 78 and Nora Poole 29
Emily Wolahan 44 and Owen Brown 67
Candy Kuehn 69 and Suzanne Simmalavong 31
Kelly Frankenberg 41 and Jacqueline Swanson 75
Barbara Bridges 71 and Scorpio 25 (Brian Serrano)
Linda Sharpe 70ish and Rose Jean Sharpe 103
Read More: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/age-of-age/
A of A Exhibition Donations. Needs $6,200
Donations:
Barbara $500
Layl $200
Kelly $2,000
Mojo’s Coffee Gallery $1,000
Still Need: $2400

Insomniac - Nina Martine Robinson
2022-07-20 08:00 - 17:00
“INSOMNIAC” by Nina Martine Robinson
Opens at Susan Hensel Gallery
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Susan Hensel Gallery welcomes back fiber artist Nina Martine Robinson for her latest solo exhibition INSOMNIAC.
The show opens in the windows at 3441 Cedar Ave S, Minneapolis, and online on July 20 and runs through September 15, 2022, celebrating neurodivergence through crocheted figures. The brightly colored pieces represent various aspects and experiences on the spectrum, uncovering and celebrating the inner lives of people with autism.
Of particular interest to the artist is the idea of “masking” — a prevalent behavior among young girls with autism where they hide their symptomatic traits to appear neurotypical. “Masking” leads many girls to go misdiagnosed or not diagnosed at all.
The crocheted pieces in INSOMNIAC uphold and celebrate the odd, unexpected, and surprising forms it uses to explore this hidden interior life for neurodivergent people. The balance between the figurative and the abstract makes the work a captivating example of fiber art.
INSOMNIAC seeks to express inner states and casts of emotions. This is a universe filled with cartoon-like characters in three dimensions, happy and optimistic representations of a set of feelings and a way of experiencing the world. The effervescence of the art makes it a highly positive experience, focused on the delight in and acknowledgment of our neurodiversity. This has been a mission for the artist since she began researching autism spectrum disorders after her son was diagnosed. She now uses her textile art as a way to create awareness and greater acceptance of neurodivergent people.
A St. Paul artist, Robinson has a long history with the world of sewing, one that runs like a thread through her own experience of family. She was taught by her mother as a young girl, but after leaving school, she wouldn’t sew again until her first son was born. This included making stuffed animals and dolls — the first bud of Robinson’s journey into fiber arts.
She eventually returned to school to get a BA in 2011, and since then she has appeared in many selected exhibitions and collaborative projects. This includes a 2020 appearance at Susan Hensel Gallery with her window exhibit Neurotangle.
The Susan Hensel Gallery is excited to welcome back Robinson and her fascinating work. The gallery focuses on compelling objects, meaningful use of materials, and engaging sculpture. It is a gallery where experimental ideas and works of the hand join to create unique sensory experiences.
Visit Artsy.net/susan-hensel-gallery to view Robinson’s INSOMNIAC beginning July 20 through September 15, 2022.

Art is My Weapon Presents: Healing Heart's Exhibition Volume 1 Grand Opening
2022-07-22 17:00 - 19:30
Sounds by: DJ Miss Brit
5:00-7:30 PM, @CEO The Center for Change. Hosted by: Andre ‘Debonaire’ McNeal.
Purchase artwork produced by youth. Led by Art Is My Weapon & abstract artist, Sean Garrison, using trauma informed care approach.
Open beer and wine bar. Food and snacks provided. 100% of all purchased work proceeds goes to artists.

On Location Drawing Co-Op - Bde Maka Ska
2022-07-23 11:30 - 14:00
Photo by Rebecca Froehlich
On Location
Next Stop – Bde Maka Ska Park
32nd Street Beach, 3200 East Bde Maka Ska Parkway, Minneapolis, 55408
July 23, 2022 – 11:30am-2:00pm & Lunch (Optional) @ Urban Eatery Minneapolis – 2730 W. Lake Street.
Lunch is optional and on your dime.
Please join us for a fun and relaxing drawing session!
This information is posted on our On Location Drawing Group Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/onlocationdrawing/
For further ?’s Email: tobersonstudios@gmail.com

Dave Dvorak @ Minnesota Fringe Festival
2022-08-13 19:00
Dave Dvorak
ACW member and songwriter Dave Dvorak will play a special solo show on August 13th as part of the Minnesota Fringe Festival. He’ll be performing his original songs alongside the talented Local Music Scene improv troupe, who will be creating original improv scenes based on the lyrics of Dave’s songs. It will be a unique and terrifically fun show. There is limited seating at the Bryant Lake Bowl cabaret, so best to get your tickets today!

Learn more here: https://minnesotafringe.org/2022-show-information/the-local-music-scene

Walter Chancellor @ Art and All That Jazz Festival
2022-08-20
Walter Chancellor, Jr
On Saturday, August 20th, The 30-Day Foundation puts on Art and All that Jazz Festival from 11:30-10 pm at Nicollet Commons Park in Burnsville. They know how well a little jazz and a little art mix well together.
For more info go to: www.artandallthatjazzfestival.com
Walter is now an ACW member and performs at events. For more info on Walter Chancellor, Jr. go to: www.walterchancellorjr.com
