Art to Change the World

ACW Open Studios @ Solar Arts Building
2022-04-07 17:00 - 21:00 UTC
Open Studio 4/7, 5-9 PM
Join ACW Members Dr. Barbara Bridges, Lucienne Schroepfer, Catherine A. Palmer, and Shawn Lohse.
Solar Arts Building: Second Floor
Studios 205, 213, and 215!
See New Art – Make Good Conversation – Always lots of fun.
Use 10% coupon for work by all 4 ACW artists and receive a discount!

Task Force: Weekly Social Media Updates
2022-04-08 08:00 - 17:00, 2022-04-15 08:00 - 17:00, 2022-04-22 08:00 - 17:00, 2022-04-29 08:00 - 17:00
If you’re a member of the ACW Task Force, please take this day to check out what’s new on ACW’s social media channels. Like, comment, and share.
ACW Facebook Page
ACW Instagram
ACW Twitter Page
ACW YouTube Channel
ACW LinkedIn

ACW Task Force Meeting
2022-04-10 16:00 - 18:00
Next Task Force meeting will be held April 10th at 4 PM.

Faux Bloom Yarn Bomb @ CHS Field
2022-04-12 08:00 - 17:00
Faux Bloom ’22 Yarn Bomb
ACW artist Rebecca Froehlich will exhibit 50 blooms as part of the Faux Bloom ’22 Yarn Bomb.
Led by Rage to Order Initiative, the people who brought you St. Paul Cozy, Minnesota artist and crafters shared their fiber art skills to create faux “blooms” for display in downtown St. Paul. The project will be on display at CHS Field to celebrate the 30th anniversary season of the St. Paul Saints from April 12th-May 14th, 2022.
The project will get a second showing downtown, summer 2022, in partnership with the St. Paul Downtown Alliance, location TBD.
Location: 360 N Broadway St, St Paul, MN 55101
https://www.facebook.com/rage2order/

Just Try It! Beginner Glass
2022-04-16 08:00 - 17:00, 2022-04-30 08:00 - 17:00
Saturday, April 16th, 23rd, 30th
Just Try-iT! These are beginner glass class sessions intended to introduce a glass-working approach. You will learn basic techniques specific to that approach and the type of glass used with hands-on practice time to get comfortable working with glass and open your eyes to the creative potential of glass! Each class highlights different elements, techniques from each one contribute to a better understanding – and may be applied – to a wide expanse of glass craft techniques.
https://potekglass.com/classes/try-it

Spring Session for Children's Ballet (8 Week Course Begins)
2022-04-16 10:30 - 11:30
Spring Session for Children’s Ballet
Saturday Classes:

Beginning Ballet (Ages 5-10)
10:30-11:30 AM
8 Week Session Begins
Saturday April 16th-June 4th
Ballet Attire: Black leotard & pink or white tights. Pink or Brown ballet shoes.

Registration & Fees

Class Registration: $15
8 Week Session: $145

Beverly Tipton Hammond, Founder/Director, 443-527-6118
Register on PayPal at tiptonhammond@yahoo.com or CashApp $BevTHammond
Location:
Pure Water School of Dance
Northrup King Building
1500 Jackson St. NE, #261
Minneapolis, MN 55413

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

2022-04-20 18:00
Noble Truths Studio Visit Artists for 2022-2023
Dyan Padgett April 20, 2022 6 PM

The Art of the Flower: Why Nature is Better Than Tinder
I seek the remarkable in ordinary objects and everyday life – finding beauty in the quotidian. Nature is often at the forefront of my subject matter as it is all around us and deep within us. I am a classical realist.
My training focuses on skills learned and perfected through the age old Atelier method – artistic instruction passed from master painter to student, melding academic draftsmanship with the color influence of the Boston School.
My studio is located at 1500 Jackson NE, Studio 200
Social Media:
www.dyanpadgett.com
https://www.facebook.com/DyanJPadgettFineArt
https://www.instagram.com/dyanpadgettfineart

Register here!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-art-of-the-flower-why-nature-is-better-than-tinder-art-studio-visit-tickets-274211573197

Noble Truths Studio Visit: Dyan Padgett
2022-04-20 18:00
Noble Truths Studio Visit Artists for 2022-2023
1.Dyan Padgett April 20, 2022 6 PM
The Art of the Flower: Why Nature is Better Than Tinder

I seek the remarkable in ordinary objects and everyday life – finding beauty in the quotidian. Nature is often at the forefront of my subject matter as it is all around us and deep within us. I am a classical realist.
My training focuses on skills learned and perfected through the age-old Atelier method – artistic instruction passed from master painter to student, melding academic draftsmanship with the color influence of the Boston School.
My studio is located at 1500 Jackson NE, Studio 200
Social Media
www.dyanpadgett.com 952 393 3467
https://www.facebook.com/DyanJPadgettFineArt
https://www.instagram.com/dyanpadgettfineart
Register here!!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-art-of-the-flower-why-nature-is-better-than-tinder-art-studio-visit-tickets-274211573197

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/

Call for Art from Susan Gainen
2022-04-25 08:00 - 17:00
Call for Art from Susan Gainen
I was invited to hang a show at the Burnhaven (Burnsville) Library in July & August 2022 which has 150 feet of Walker Display System. I thought about a solo show for about 15 seconds and then decided to invite ACW artists to join me. More artists. More art. More fun.
Theme: Whimsy and Joy: it’s what we need.
Number of Artists: 5 total, each gets 30 feet of Walker display..
To apply: Send an email to susangainen@comcast.net with BURNHAVEN in the subject. Why do you want to join a whimsy/joy show? Attach 3 images.
Deadline: April 25
From the Library Staff: Any art would need to be ready to hang and broadly appropriate for all ages and for a county-owned building. An exhibit could be a collection of work by one artist, or a group show. We can display information about the artist on the walls. The library can’t sell artworks, but we can connect buyers to the artists themselves. Pre-pandemic our library averaged about 600 people per day (and we’re getting busy again), so this would be a great opportunity to expose your work to lots of new eyes in the community.

ACW Board of Directors Meeting
2022-04-27 18:00
ACW Board of Directors Meeting: April 27, 6 PM
Email info@arttochangetheworld.org for more information.

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>

ACW Club Critique Launch
2022-05-04 19:00 - 20:00 | California Building, 2205 California St NE, Ste 201, Minneapolis, MN, 55418, United States
ACW Launches Club Critique
3 FREE SCHOLARSHIPS DONATED!
Introducing Club Critique! ACW will be starting a critique group for all who are interested in a place for safe but rigorous discussion of their work. You will be able to join the CC on the ACW website and once you have become a member you can start taking part in the critiques of others work. You are expected to attend at least three critiques of your fellow artists each year. Locations will vary and will mostly be in the studio of the artist being critiqued but if you are unable to accommodate a visit to your studio we will help set up a location for you. If you have a publicly placed piece you would like critiqued we can go to that location as well.
Club Critique is a $100 a year membership program. Special for 2022. We just received an anonymous donation for three free memberships to Club Critique. To qualify for these funds please click here for more information: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/gritique-minutes/
The first Club Critique meeting will be May 4, 7-8 PM at Greg Volker’s Studio where we will critique one of his pieces and kick off Club Critique in style with some great wine he just brought back from California! Location is studio #612 California Building, 2205 California St. NE, Minneapolis.
You do not need to be an artist to join Club Critique! We encourage art writers and reviewers as well as art lovers to join.
There are 3 main goals of Club Critique:
1- Have a place for honest, open and rigorous critique with the goal of helping each other to make the best work we can.
2- Elevate our ability to write, discuss and articulate our works which will improve our quality of proposals, artist statements, and other areas where we need to verbalize our works.
3- Develop and refine critique methodologies and practices to improve Club Critique’s ability to accomplish goal #1 and #2.
Greg Volker is a sculptor, potter, musician and builder. Born in Stuttgart, Germany and grew up in St Louis Park, Mn. Attended the University of Minnesota for his BFA and left Minneapolis for San Francisco in 1990 to attend graduate school at San Francisco Art Institute. He spent 28 years in SF, Oakland and Sonoma Valley and in 2018 he moved back to Minneapolis.
As well as his own work he has assisted and installed public works for other artists like Andy Goldsworthy, Dawn Freyling, Chuck Splady and John Roloff.
Website: gregvolkerarts.com IG,FB @ Greg Volker Arts Artist, Minneapolis, MN
Members So Far:

Greg Volker
Barbara Bridges
Layl McDill
Deb Ripp
Owen Brown
Hannah Foster
Natalie McGuire

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

Blood on the Pavement @ Art-A-Whirl
2022-05-20 17:00 - 21:00

Art-A-Whirl 2022
2022-05-20 17:00 - 22:00, 2022-05-21 12:00 - 20:00
Art-A-Whirl is the largest open studio tour in the country, which happens annually throughout Northeast Minneapolis the third weekend of May.
Over 1,000 NEMAA member artists, galleries, and businesses participate across all of Northeast Minneapolis at over 60 locations. Art-A-Whirl is a fantastic way to connect with artists in their own spaces, enjoy demonstrations and interactive activities, listen to live music, and enjoy local restaurants and breweries. Art-A-Whirl is free and open to the public.
Dates & Times:
Friday: 5pm – 10pm
Saturday: Noon – 8pm
Sunday: Noon – 5pm
Find Open Studios in the following buildings:

2010 ARTBLOK
2010 E HENNEPIN AVE
CALIFORNIA BUILDING
2205 CALIFORNIA ST NE
CASKET ARTS BUILDING
681 17TH AVE NE
CASKET ARTS CARRIAGE HOUSE
1720 NE MADISON STREET
FLUX ARTS BUILDING
2505 NE HOWARD ST
GRAIN BELT BOTTLING HOUSE – 79
79 13TH AVE NE
GRAIN BELT WAREHOUSE – 77
77 13TH AVE NE
HOLLAND ARTS – EAST BUILDING
639 22ND AVE NE
HOLLAND ARTS – WEST BUILDING
607 22ND AVE NE
JACKSON (JAC) FLATS
901 18 1/2 AVE NE
NORTHRUP KING BUILDING
1500 JACKSON STREET NE
Q.ARMA BUILDING
1224 QUINCY ST NE
SOLAR ARTS BUILDING
711 NE 15TH AVE
THORP BUILDING
1618 NE CENTRAL AVENUE
WATERBURY BUILDING
1121 JACKSON ST NE

Find the full directory of artists here.
Shop Art-A-Whirl artists here.
Learn more about activities during Art-A-Whirl.

Fox Den @ Art-A-Whirl
2022-05-20 17:00 - 22:00
ACW’s art space, the Fox Den, is located in the Solar Arts Building. The Fox Den & Solar Arts will be open for the open studio tour. Visit us and learn more!
https://nemaa.org/sites/solar-arts-building/
ART-A-WHIRL® WEEKEND
May 20 – 22, 2022
Friday: 5pm – 10pm
Saturday: Noon – 8pm
Sunday: Noon – 5pm
