• Salon @HQ Creative Practice Round Table Discussion

    This session, we will focus on comparing and contrasting creative exploration vs creative production or project implementation. Then we will take some time to think about our individual artistic goals (brainstorming if needed!) and start drafting plans for working towards those goals—as a means of directing and supporting our personal progress. To join the discussion, […]

  • Salon @HQ Sunshine Prints

    In this 2 hour workshop you create mixed media art with cyanotypes; printing with the Sun!

  • Scrap Weaving Salon @ HQ

    Monday, July 6, 2026, from 7 - 9 pm at ACW HQ Would you like to learn how to weave a small bag with recycled materials? The scraps that normally end up in a landfill will be used to make beautiful useful bags. I will teach you the basics of weaving and provide everything you […]

  • ASL for Small Business Owners in the Art World Salon @ HQ

    Come learn basic ASL skills and small talk conversation on Monday, July 20, 2026, from 7 - 9 pm at ACW HQ. The Twin Cities are a Deaf Hub because the states that touch us have very limited resources for the Deaf community.  If you haven’t already, you will encounter Deaf customers looking at your […]

  • ACW Summer Party

    Join us July 28th at 5:00 for the summer party.  Layl McDill and Josh Blanc have a wood fired pizza oven in their backyard and every year we host the ACW Summer Party.   All ACW members are invited and encouraged to bring pizza toppings or side dishes to share.  Everyone gets to make their […]

  • Bird Making Workshop for “Bird Collisions in the Anthropocene”

    August 8, Saturday, @ 6:00pm – 8:30pm at ACW Headquarters, 699 Lowry Ave NE Create small bird sculptures with fabric and other materials to be part of a community project to make nearly 11,000 bird sculptures. This project is to raise awareness about bird collisions and how to prevent them. All the bird sculptures will […]

  • Creative Practice Round Table Discussion: WIP Salon @ HQ

    ACW Salons. @ HQ— Creative Practice Round Table Discussion: WIP August 19th, 2026, 4:00pm – 5:30pm In this session, we will share works in progress. Come prepared to show or tell about something you are currently working on — what you are doing and why (maybe you don't know why—that will be fun to talk […]

  • Aging as An Art Form: Notes From the Far Side of Youth Exhibition and Reading at Open Book

    Mark your Calendars! Exhibition and Reading at Open Book on September 3 starting at  6:00pm https://www.openbookmn.org  1011 Washington Ave S, Minneapolis Exhibition, Food, Beverages, Music, Reading.  FREE! AAAA  empowers and gives  purpose and community to a group of 6-10 author/artists.  They embraced and celebrated their lived experiences both in the past and as they look toward […]