Matt Yetter - Stacked Deck Brewing
2021-08-21 16:00 - 19:00 UTC
Watch ACW member Matt Yetter perform music.
Stacked Deck Brewing
Saturday, August 21, 2021
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
https://stackeddeckbrewing.com/

Studio 400 TOGETHER - Group Artist Talk
2021-08-24 19:00 - 21:00
STUDIO 400 Show TOGETHER at Homewood Studios
ARTISTS: KOBI, Margaret Vergara, Naila Talmin, Nouf Saleh, Ray Cordes, Satya Varghese Mac
• The show runs from August 6th through August 29th
• Opening Reception – Friday, August 6th from 6 pm to 9 pm
• Group Artists’ Talk – Tuesday, August 24th from 7 pm to 9 pm
• Paper Marbling workshop – Saturday, August 27th from 2 pm to 4 pm
Read More: www.homewoodstudios.com for workshop info
The TOGETHER artists are all members of STUDIO 400, a project of University of Minnesota artists Leslie Barlow.
NOTE
Plymouth Avenue, the street on which Homewood Studios lives, is undergoing a complete renovation. Driving and parking changes from day to day. Please check our website (www.homewoodstudios.com for updated driving and parking directions.)

Forgotten Beacons - Jayson Randall @ Larson Gallery (Opening)
2021-08-26 00:00
Artist: Jayson Randall
Event: Solo Exhibition – “Forgotten Beacons”, The Artwork of Jayson Randall
Date/Time: August 26 thru September 24, 2021
Location: University of Minnesota – Larson Gallery
Event Link: https://www.jaysonrandall.com/events.html
Event Description: In-person – free admission
Title of Artwork Displayed: This is a solo exhibition.
The artwork of Jayson Randall will be displayed throughout the gallery.
Artwork Description:
“When I close my eyes, I see bright colors.”
Through Jayson Randall’s brilliant interplay of light and shadow in art, Forgotten Beacons illustrates the relationship between the useful and forgotten.
Like a beacon in the dark, his work expresses how discarded items call out as they are encountered by the viewer.
He preserves stories and gives new life to those forgotten through the use of interactive technology in his art.
Industrial materials are combined with interactive electronics as the viewer is engaged to participate in the functionality of the finished artwork.
Jayson Randall is an award-winning experimental artist who currently resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
As a recipient of the Director’s Award at the WHAM West Gallery in Surprise, Arizona, and the Best in Show Award at the Re-Purpose Competition and Exhibition in Clear Lake, Iowa, Randall designs and builds complex works of art that fuse technology with illusion.
Whether creating interactive electronic sculptures, making innovative films or attempting a novel method of painting, his work bridges the gap between art and science.
Artist Link: https://www.jaysonrandall.com

ACW Art @ Sociable Cider Werks Opens
2021-09-01
September 1-30
For all of September, see ACW art at Sociable Cider Werks!
Artists left to right: Owen Brown, Barbara Bridges, Catherine Palmer.
As part of the Arts District Palette: Where Neighbors and Artists Mix project with the Huxley Apartment, Sociable Cider Werks is hosting a show in their restaurant until September 30. Check it out! 1500 Fillmore St NE Minneapolis, MN 55413
Layl McDill, Owen Brown, Ashtyn Sibinski, Candy Kuehn , Jodi Janz, Catherine Palmer, Hannah Foster, Jodi Reeb, Barbara Bridges, Cory Favre, Mary Bacon*, Laurie Salmela, Anne Kleinhenz, Judy Ostrowski, Jo-Anne Reske Kirkman, Susan Gainen, Scorpio Rising, Lucienne Schroepfer, Kathryn Greimel, Kris Lange.

Jodi Reeb - Painting Toward Sculpture Reception
2021-09-02 05:00 - 19:00
Moving between two and three-dimensional forms, Reeb is constructing paintings and sculptures layer by layer. There are three main bodies of work in this exhibition where she is exploring the theme of nature’s cycles with image and sculpture. She is working to develop scale, geometry, spatial relationships, texture, and color.

These works challenge the visual properties of paintings and sculptures with translucency and dimensionality. Strong physical elements come from layering and texture using Encaustic paint (beeswax, pigment, and damar resin) while layering photos printed on tissue with oil pigments and elevating the organic paintings from the wall.

Painting Toward Sculpture
August 20–October 10
St. John’s University Main and Target Galleries
Reception: Thursday, September 2, 5:00-7:00 p.m.

First Thursday @ Solar Arts Building
2021-09-02 17:00 - 21:00
Location: Solar Arts Building
711 NE 15th Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55413
See ACW at the Fox Den!
Event Highlights:
Live Music by Matt Yetter- Art Studios open to the public. Enjoy works by ACW members Shawn Lohse, Jodi Janz, Devin Larkins, Catherine Palmer, Kris Lange, Lucienne Schroepfer, Barbara Bridges from their studios, and Judy Ostrowski, and Debra Ripp in the Fox Den.
Judy Ostrowski. Judy O Designs 2021. Henna, Hats & Collages Judy writes, My hats are created to bring joy to the world. The intuitive henna allows you to have Art with you at all times and the collages, well that’s just what came out of the Pandemic. Create Joyful Excitement!
Debra Ripp. Mixed Media Collage, Boxes and Glowpots. Stunning textures and colors to add to every room.
ACW will be supporting ACW Member Solo Shows in the Fox Den starting in October 2021. Post here for an application drb@bridgescreate.com

Opening: "inside my hands: the covid year" - dougie padilla
2021-09-10 18:00 - 21:00
SEPTEMBER’S GALLERY SHOW AT HOMEWOOD STUDIOS

“inside my hands: the covid year”
drawings and poems by dougie padilla
Opening reception – Friday, September 10th from 6pm to 9pm
dougie will offer a poetry reading on Tuesday, September 28th at 7pm.

Our third show since reopening the gallery after Covid continues artwork that expresses itself in vibrant colors, exuberant gestures and inviting vistas. The drawings and poetry broadsides by dougie padilla do just that. As his title suggests, the work presented was produced during our time of covid and seem an antidote to the sequestering and darkness we all experienced.

About his work, padilla writes:
1) during the covid year I went dynamite creative nuts more than ever and painted and drew and wrote poems intensely and incessantly and obsessively about this quite insane and oft delightful world we live in, and

2) this show of drawings and poems are just the tip of that iceberg.
Please note: Plymouth Avenue, where Homewood Studios lives, is currently undergoing a complete rebuilding and is more or less impassable. Please go to our website – www.homewoodstudiods.com – for current driving and parking directions.

California Building Second Saturday Open Studios
2021-09-11 11:00 - 16:00
Sept 11th, 11-4 PM. California Building. 2205 California St NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418.
Six Floors of Creativity! See the process, talk to the makers, find a treasure, discover something new! Learn more at the NE Mpls Arts District website:
https://northeastminneapolisartsdistrict.org/visit/second-saturdays/

Latinx Heritage Month Begins (Sept 15-Oct 15)
2021-09-15 08:00 - 17:00
Guests at the Fiesta Latina, sponsored by CLUES.
Latinx Heritage Month Celebration – Recognize and honor the enduring contributions and importance of LatinX Americans to the U.S. and celebrates the many heritages and cultures of Americans from or with ancestors from Mexico, the Caribbean, Spain and Central and South America. It began in 1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week, but is now officially September 15 to October 15.
Check out events, business and way to support and celebrate our local Latinx community: https://www.minneapolis.org/calendar/holidays/hispanic-heritage-month/
One event we’re excited for is Fiesta Latina – ¡Fiesta Latina es un festival comunitario gratis para toda la familia celebrando la cultura Latina con arte, música, danzas, comida, rifas, regalos y otras actividades divertidas para toda la familia!
Fiesta Latina is a free, family-friendly community festival celebrating Latino culture with arts, music, dance, food, raffles, prizes, and other fun activities for the whole family!
Learn more at the CLUES website: https://clues.org/get-involved/events/fiesta-latina/

Creating Positives: Potekglass Masterclass Begins (Sept. 15-Nov. 17)
2021-09-15 08:00 - 17:00
Potekglass is hosting a master class starting in September.
Description: Join instructors Elizabeth Colemen and Malcom Potek for this unique mold master class. We will cover basic clay skills for creating positive forms, which by the end of the course, you will slump from glass you’ve learned to fuse. On the way, you’ll learn best practices for using plaster in your home studio, how to make a two-part plaster mold of your positive form, how to use clay slip to pour and then fire multiples of that form, and how to prep your slumping mold for the glass kiln. Additionally, this class will teach glass flow principles and reactive glass principles as well as powder painting and pattern making techniques.
Link for more information: https://potekglass.com/classes/master-class/creating-positives-09-15-2021-at-6pm

Forgotten Beacons: Artist Reception and Public Unveiling
2021-09-16 18:00 - 20:00
Artist: Jayson Randall
Event: Artist Reception and public unveiling
Date/Time: Thursday, September 16, 2021, 6-8pm
Location: University of Minnesota – Larson Gallery, 2017 Buford Avenue, #25-A. St Paul, MN 55108
Event Link: https://www.jaysonrandall.com/events.html
Event Description: In-person reception party
Title of Artwork Displayed: Artist reception party and release of two new original interactive works of art
Price: This event is free and open to the public

Artwork Description:
The Paul Whitney Larson Gallery at the University of Minnesota has been transformed to accommodate the interactive artwork of Minnesota based experimental artist Jayson Randall.
The gallery lights have been dimmed to accentuate the illumination of the art and the pieces are spaced out to allow for individual exploration.
Normally, gallery guests are not allowed to touch or interact with the artwork;
Forgotten Beacons is different.
Many of the works of art react to external stimulation.
Jayson Randall encourages guests to interact with his artwork, by pressing buttons on some pieces and by making noises at others.
From August 26 thru September 24, 2021, several of Jayson’s unique works of art will be on display during regular gallery hours as well as for an artist’s reception on September 16, 2021, from 6-8 pm.
This event is free and open to the public.

“When I close my eyes, I see bright colors.”
Through Jayson Randall’s brilliant interplay of light and shadow in art, “Forgotten Beacons” illustrates the relationship between the useful and forgotten. Like beacons in the dark, his work expresses how discarded items call out as they are encountered. He preserves stories and gives new life to those forgotten through the use of technology. Industrial materials are combined with interactive electronics as the viewer is engaged to participate in the functionality of the finished work.
Jayson Randall is an award-winning experimental artist who currently resides in Minnesota.
Awards include the Director’s Award at the WHAM West Gallery in Surprise, Arizona, the Best in Show Award at the Re-Purpose Competition in Clear Lake, Iowa, and the Special Recognition Award at the 2020 Tenth Anniversary Exhibition at the Light Space Time Gallery in Palm Springs, California.
Jayson designs and builds complex works of art that fuse technology with illusion.
Whether creating interactive electronic sculptures, making innovative films, or attempting a novel method of painting, his work bridges the gap between art and science.
More Information:
https://www.jaysonrandall.com/
and
https://sua.umn.edu/events/forgotten-beacons

Solidarity Street Gallery
2021-09-23 08:00 - 2021-09-25 17:00
Solidarity Street Gallery
September 23-25, 2021, Payne Avenue – St Paul, Mni Sota Makoce
A one-of-a-kind arts and cultural festival centered around justice, equity and solidarity.
The SOLIDARITY STREET GALLERY is a three-day art and cultural festival along Payne Avenue, held this year September 23-25. All are invited and encouraged to participate. It aims to bring together artists, performers, poets, entrepreneurs, civic leaders, and the local community for important conversations about justice and equity.

SOLIDARITY STREET GALLERY 2021 follows the success of last year’s event, which sought to unite the community amid the isolation and challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and a national reckoning with racial injustice. We find solidarity in coming together as a neighborhood and business community through art, performance, and poetry, and jointly engaging in the search for solutions to a fractured society. This year’s event will focus on the topics of Indigenous Sovereignty & Environmental Justice, centered on Native voices. The community can participate in the dialogue on these topics through curated art exhibits, music & performances, community and children’s activities, and an eco-park that highlights local environmental innovations.
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SOLIDARITY STREET GALLERY is an open invitation for everyone to celebrate and appreciate the multitude of cultural, racial, and ethnic communities who call the Eastside home. This year’s intentional focus on the Native community is possible through partnership with Oyate Hotanin (“Voice of the People”) who will collaborate on a large-scale art installation, performances, and curating gallery exhibits. The festival will highlight Native sacred sites, history, and traditions, as well as explore modern culture and identity of Dakota and other local Native people. We will explore key ideas of Cognitive Justice and recognize the plurality of knowledge forms which coexist. Our eco-exhibit looks to inspire event visitors to envision a ‘Just Transition’ to responsible and sustainable environmental stewardship as well as preservation of traditional lands and sacred sites.
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Our SOLIDARITY STREET GALLERY 2021 festival welcomes artists from all backgrounds to share their vision in our gallery spaces and performance stages along Payne Ave, in partnership with the Eastside business community. There will be public calls for artists and performers to participate. There will also be a public call for vendors, to sell food as well as arts & crafts in street-side marketplaces. Last but not least, there will a call for volunteers from the community. They will be playing a critical role in making this entire festival possible.
See link for more info: https://www.solidaritystreetgallery.org/

On-Location Drawing Group: Lyndale Park Rose Garden
2021-09-25 11:30 - 13:30
On-Location drawing Group: September 2021
Next Stop: Lyndale Park Rose Garden 1400 W. 42nd St., Mpls,55409
When: Saturday, September 25th
Time: 11:30-1:30
Lyndale Park Rose Garden is a “quiet nature hub with 4 themed gardens, roses, perennials and plants that attract wildlife”
Lunch at The Malt Shop @829 50th St. Mpls, 55419
(Lunch is optional and we all go on our own dime)
On-Location Drawing Group is sponsored by the Art to Change the World organization.
Updates can be found on Facebook/On Location Drawing Group page

Halloween Glow in the Dark Beadmaking
2021-10-02 10:00 - 13:00
Potekglass is having one special Halloween event in the month of October.
Halloween Glow in the Dark Beadmaking:
Beginner Class
Saturday, October 30th, 2021, 10:00am – 1:00pm
Gather your friends for a ghoulishly good time this Halloween season! Create glow-in-the-dark skulls and rave beads. Expect to make between 6 and 12 beads depending on your work style.
Never worked with glass on the torch? You will learn the basics of gathering up the molten glass on the torch and applying it onto a mandrel to make the bead itself.
Read More and Register: https://potekglass.com/classes/try-it/halloween-glow-in-the-dark-skull-and-rave-beads-10-30-2021-at-10am

Pick up for Sociable Cider Works Exhibit
2021-10-02 13:00 - 17:00
Exhibiting artists need to pick up their work from 10:00 to 12:00.

Broadcast Premiere of The Co-Op Wars
2021-10-04 20:00 - 22:00
THE CO-OP WARS has its broadcast premiere on TPT Channel 2. 8 pm, Oct. 4.
The documentary tells the story of the birth of the Twin Cities’ unique food co-op ecosystem and the violent struggle that almost tore it apart.
Minneapolis, MN (Sept. 20, 2021) – In the midst of an era of social tumult in the Twin Cities, a new film tells the little-known story of an earlier moment of political conflict in the metro area, when young radicals went to war with each other over issues of class, race, and food. THE CO-OP WARS documents the tumultuous early years of the Twin Cities’ natural food co-op movement, when young people radicalized by the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War built a thriving alternative economy, only to see it jeopardized by conflicting visions of social change.
THE CO-OP WARS will have its Twin Cities broadcast premiere on Twin Cities Public Television Channel 2 at 8 pm on October 4. The film was directed by Minneapolis filmmaker and ACW member Deacon Warner, produced by cooperative activist and former Minnesotan Erik Esse, and narrated by renowned actor Peter Coyote, known for his work on Ken Burns documentaries such as The Vietnam War.
Many Minnesota residents are unaware of how unique the region’s food cooperative sector is. It’s the largest in the nation, with the Twin Cities alone boasting seventeen locations, tens of thousands of member-owners, and hundreds of millions of dollars in sales. It also has a unique history: Soon after an initial period of explosive growth in the early 1970s, the “Co-op Wars” erupted in the Twin Cities, a heated and sometimes violent conflict initiated by a secretive Marxist group calling itself the Co-op Organization or C.O. THE CO-OP WARS tells this story through interviews with the participants and personal film footage and links it to the more recent controversy around the opening of Seward Co-op’s Friendship store in South Minneapolis.
The soundtrack of THE CO-OP WARS is largely made up of songs from Minnesota music legend Willie Murphy. Murphy, who passed away in 2019, was known for his solo work, his band Willie & the Bees, and his collaborations with Bonnie Raitt and Spider John Koerner. A fixture of the West Bank counterculture of the 1970s, Murphy was the headliner at the “Anti- Terrorism Benefit Boogie” for Bryant-Central Co-op after it was attacked during the Co-op Wars.
In addition to appearing in films such as Erin Brockovich and narrating eight documentaries by Ken Burns, Narrator Peter Coyote was also a leader of the 1960s counterculture that birthed the natural foods co-ops. He was one of the founders of The Diggers, an anarchic San Francisco collective known for their street actions involving free food and performance, which helped inspire the Twin Cities hippies who started the first co-ops.
Producer Erik Esse and Director Deacon Warner were inspired to make THE CO-OP WARS out of their shared love of co-ops, history, and documentary filmmaking. Esse is a long-time cooperator who worked at North Country Cooperative Grocery (the first natural foods co-op in the Twin Cities) and as an organizer of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives. Warner has made many short films that have been screened at festivals around the world, including Peaceful Warriors: On the Road with Vets for Peace. He is a film educator and founder of the youth program at FilmNorth in Minneapolis. Find more information at CoopWars.com.

Fox Den Solo Exhibitions on First Thursdays
2021-10-07
Fox Den Solo Exhibitions will be held on First Thursdays.
General notes for Application for use of Fox Den c/o ACW
We’re excited to have the Fox Den on the second floor of the Solar Arts Building to use for ACW solo or small group exhibitions for special events at the building this coming year. Applications will be evaluated by a team of 5 jurors. Applications are welcomed, and artists notified on a continual basis throughout the year. ACW will actively promote the use exhibition for the public scheduled event. In addition, should the artist choose, ACW will support and promote a special private showing in the space over the weekend lasting up to four hours.
Requirements:

All artists wanting to apply for space must be active ACW members. Applications from non-members will not be considered.
Exhibitions must have an activist/ social justice theme.
Artists can only use space within Fox Den and understands that both doors need to remain unblocked.
Set-up and Tear down dates and times are set (as described below) In general- artists can set-up for their date on either the Tuesday Evening or Wednesday Morning prior. Tear down is the following Sunday before 5 or the following Tuesday/ Wed. Set-up and Tear Down times are decided upon acceptance and cannot be changed.
Artists are responsible for all set-up and tear-down—including carrying works up to space and the the materials needed for hanging works and the woman/man power needed. Clean-up including sweeping the floor and removing all screws is required. (There is access to loading dock if nesc. And with advance notice)
Artists are responsible for point-of-sale details—including the required sales-tax for all sales in Mpls.
ACW asks all artists to donate one work of at least $50 in value to be used for fundraising purposes.
Artists must be present for exhibition.
Though attention has been made to accommodate wedding and reception schedule at solar, no events can be scheduled when a wedding is taking place or being set-up.
Artists will be required to show MN Tax ID for sales purposes.
Artists will be required to sign a contract reviewing the requirements above as well as a hold harmless agreement (Solar and ACW)
Artists will be paid a $50.00 Stipend to help promote and install the event.
Note: If unfamiliar with the Fox Den, Space includes 4 generous wall spaces to use for the hanging of larger works. In addition two wall shelves and a Thin Display Table are available for smaller works. Please contact us ahead of application should you want to see the space in person. Tours of space need one week of advance notice to arrange. They are generally limited to evenings 7-9 M-W, Wednesday morning, or over weekend.

Note: If unfamiliar with the Fox Den, Space includes 4 generous wall spaces to use for the hanging of larger works. In addition two wall shelves and a Thin Display Table are available for smaller works. Please contact us ahead of application should you want to see the space in person. Tours of space need one week of advance notice to arrange. They are generally limited to evenings 7-9 M-W, Wednesday morning, or over weekend.
Please find a copy of the Fox Den Application here.

First Thursday @ Solar Arts Building
2021-10-07 17:00 - 21:00
Location: Solar Arts Building
711 NE 15th Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55413
See ACW at the Fox Den! Join us for a book opening.
Can’t make it today? Find us on these other dates:
*November 4th, 2021

#frameyourrights Art Exhibition - Applications Due
2021-10-10 08:00 - 17:00
#frameyourrights Art Exhibition and Fundraiser
Inspired by ACW member, Natalie McGuire’s, reaction to recent legislation in Texas.
Available to all active ACW members! You are invited to submit an application to the first #frameyourrights Exhibition and Fundraiser at The Fox Den located inside Solar Arts Building on the second floor at 711 15th Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413.
Exhibition dates: November 4th through the 7th
The deadline to apply is October 10th, 2021
Artworks must have a social justice theme. If you need help writing your artwork statement, please reach out to info@arttochangetheworld.com
To apply and for more information about the #FYR fundraiser please check out our ACW project page https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/10781-2/
Due to the limited wall space, the maximum size of wall art is 24x24or 16×20
Will allow matted prints, cards, unmounted art to sell in bins (please keep sizing to a max of 24×24 or 16×20)
Requirements: Must be a current member with ACW, if not a member, and want to be a part of a great social justice nonprofit, please become a member here. https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/mission/
We are asking artists that are accepted to volunteer a few hours over the exhibition dates or donate one piece of art for the fundraiser. ACW is a collective.
Depending on how many applications you may have more than one work of art accepted.
Questions about the #frame your rights event go to Natalie McGuire nmcguirestudio@gmail.com If you have questions about the application contact Lucienne Schroepfer quiltlucy@gmail.com
Logo created by Cory Favre info@coryfavre.com

On Location: Drawing Group-October 2021
2021-10-30 11:30 - 13:30
On-Location is an informal group that meets up at different local sites throughout the Twin Cities to draw whatever inspires them from or about that place.
Next Stop: Lakewood Cemetery, 3600 Hennepin Avenue, Mpls, Mn 55408
When: Saturday, October 30th, 2021, Time:11:30 am-1:30pm
Lakewood Cemetery overlooks Lake Calhoun and is the final resting place of many notable key figures in Minnesota history, including, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Senator Paul Wellstone, and several former governors, from Pillsbury to Rudy Perpich.
Lunch is after the drawing at

824 W.36th, Mpls (Lunch is optional and we all go on our own dime)
On-Location Drawing Group is sponsored by the Art to Change the World organization.
Updates can be found on Facebook/On Location Drawing Group page
https://www.facebook.com/onlocationdrawing
Contact Deb Ripp for rideshare: tobersonstudios@gmail.com

New SWAP Cycle Begins
2021-11-01 08:00 - 17:00
SWAP is almost ready for our upcoming gift-giving season! Our artwork is local and will be perfect to warm the homes of family, friends, and loved ones.
https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/stand-with-artists-project/
Here are some changes we’ve been thinking about:
Sponsors Win a Free Small Work
Our current deal includes a free work of art valued between $75-$100 for every registry (of over 5 works) held with SWAP. We’d like churches to be involved so brides can receive gifts of beautifully unique artwork on their special day. Could your church be involved?
Nov 1st will begin our new SWAP cycle
SWAP artists must be active members of ACW (paid-up memberships and volunteer hours). We are a collective.
SWAP artists must adopt, or cause to be adopted, 1 work before they are listed on the registry -3 works maximum
Before we agree on a new artwork adoption policy, we need your input on what changes you’d like to see. To leave any feedback, please click the link below and type your responses on this anonymous 4 question survey:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdg-Smz67eagyIBeYgg7O2stQMkx7_r_Hxl1nAZkuOc9kctDQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
Please direct questions to Natalia Granquist: granquistnatalia@gmail.com

Blood on The Pavement - Proposals Due
2021-11-01 08:00 - 17:00
“Blood on the Pavement”: An Open Call For Artists
Poet, artist, and Coaching Project for a Better World Project Manager, Ashley Richardson, believes all art has immediate social, political, and cultural power. She also believes in using this power to spark conversation and catalyze change. With help from team members, and funding through ACW’s Coaching Project for a Better World, Richardson will create an art exhibit for the greater Twin Cities area tentatively titled, “Blood on The Pavement.”
The exhibit, scheduled to open May 2022, is seeking artists to collaborate with and feature.
Those interested in exhibiting with “Blood on the Pavement,” or learning more about this project, can email richardson.exhibits@gmail.com.
“Blood on The Pavement” will focus on addressing violence against black bodies, both verbally and physically, from microaggressions to police brutality. However, in its early stages, there is still room to be surprised. A believer that art should never end where it began, Richardson is open to exploring other meanings behind the phrase “blood on the pavement,” with a particular interest in violence against women’s bodies and marginalized communities. Through collaboration with her ACW team and potential exhibiting artists, Richardson hopes to see this project unfold in unexpected new ways.
For this project, Richardson will write a series of 5 to 10 poems exploring the social injustices mentioned above and asks that artists use these poems as a jumping-off point for their artwork. Please note there is no “correct” interpretation of the poems. Richardson is solely interested that artists create pieces (as they see fit) to express the feelings and thoughts inspired by her words. Artists will receive small stipends to help cover and/or offset the costs of materials, with a possibility for additional payments depending on budgets. Richardson is seeking artists from a range of mediums, i.e. sculpture, painting, mixed media, collage, printmaking, sound, and more.
If you would like to learn more about this project, or have leads on potential venues, please email richardson.exhibits@gmail.com. Artists interested in exhibiting with “Blood on the Pavement” should send 3 to 4 sample pieces, along with a brief (4 to 5 sentences) statement of interest by November 1, 2021.

Native American Heritage Month Begins
2021-11-01 08:00 - 17:00
By Laura-Mann-Hill Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator.

I live near Haha Wakpa, the Mississippi River, that connects all waters and all lives where we live.The river is made of many small drops that flow together – like our individual commitments to learning and unlearning can bring us together.

November is Native American Heritage Month. Although one month is never enough time to fully celebrate or honor any cultural heritage, it is always a reminder to celebrate and honor the rich and diverse cultures and traditions, knowledge, and contributions of Indigenous people. Those who call Minnesota home live on the traditional homelands of the Dakota people who have stewarded this place for thousands of years. It has been home to and cared for and by many other Indigenous nations, including the Ojibwe and the HoChunk. I continue my ongoing journey to incorporate more practices into my life that affirm Indigenous sovereignty and Black Liberation. I recently emerged from an experience exploring this topic hosted by Million Artist Movement which included a talk with Dr. Chris Mato Nunpa: https://youtu.be/ppEpVBrgQCo

“Everyone has a responsibility to divest from anti-Blackness and to respect Indigenous sovereignty (and specifically tribal sovereignty). And for those who carry the political, legal, and social currency of whiteness and benefit from these systems that oppress and attempts to stifle the future of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, I believe it is their responsibility to use their currency to dismantle said systems with the intention of forfeiting their privilege and positionality within this hierarchy.”
– Amber Starks
We must acknowledge land theft and genocide; learn more about the land we reside on – learn the names of places that are not colonized. Learn about land reparations and how we can honor treaties – and take action in movements like to Stop Line 3 to protect the river and us all!
(Quilt square created by Friends Mississippi River Youth Council member with Million Artist Movement)
More Resources:
Stop Line 3: tinyurl.com/ResistLine3
Honor Treaties: http://treatiesmatter.org/exhibit/welcome/learn-more/
Mní Wičhóni Mural:
https://fmr.org/stewardship-updates/fmr-fifth-water-quality-mural-celebrates-community-connections-water
All My Relations Arts: biskaabiiyang (returning to ourselves) group exhibition investigating Indigenous Futurism http://www.allmyrelationsarts.com/
Never Homeless Before 1492:
https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/never-homeless-before-1492
Reclaiming Native Truth: https://youtu.be/SW-nYYY89D0
Say It! Sing It! Play It! In Cherokee: https://ordway.org/events/say-it-sing-it-play-it-in-cherokee
Amber Starks: https://usdac.us/news/2021/9/21/envisioning-black-liberation-and-indigenous-sovereignty

We are still seeking interest in forming an ACW Diversity Equity and Inclusion committee via email: blackartistbox@gmail.com

New SWAP Cycle Begins
2021-11-01 08:00 - 17:00
SWAP Has Been Redesigned
by ACW Intern Natalia Granquist
Call for Art! SWAP is almost ready for our upcoming gift-giving season! Artists have no supply chain issues. Put the soul of an artist in your space. Our artwork is local and will be perfect to warm the homes of family, friends, and loved ones.
Sponsors and those adopting a $200 or above artwork will win a Free Small Work
Our current deal includes a free work of art valued between $75-$100 for every bride registry (of over 5 works) held with SWAP. We’d like churches to be involved so brides can receive gifts of beautifully unique artwork on their special day. Could your church be involved?
Nov 1st will begin our new SWAP cycle
SWAP artists must be active members of ACW (paid-up memberships and volunteer hours). We are a collective. SWAP artists must adopt, or cause to be adopted, 1 work before they are listed on the registry -3 works maximum. How to Submit: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/stand-with-artists-project/
A few of the new SWAP artists: Sam Greene, , Linda G Sharpe, Susan Gainen , Natalie McGuire, Deb Ripp, Rebecca David, Lucienne Schroepfer

ACW Solo Exhibitions: First Thursdays @ Fox Den
2021-11-04
ACW members are invited to apply for a solo show in the Fox Den at the Solar Arts Building on First Thursdays. Set up Nov. 2-3, tear down Sunday, Nov. 7th.
Please find application information here.

Frame Your Rights Exhibition
2021-11-04 08:00 - 2021-11-07 17:00
#FrameYourRights Exhibition focusing on Voting, Reproductive Rights, Policing and other social justice topics will be staged.
Committee Layl McDill, Barbara Bridges, Cory Favre, Nina Robinson, Natalie McGuire, not pictured: Deb Ripp, Lucienne Schroepfer

Exhibiting: Cory Favre, Ari Moss, Rebecca David, Natalie McGuire

Nov 4-7, 2021, During Art this Way show Location: Solar Arts Building, Address: 711 NE 15th Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55413
Event hours:
11-4 5-9 pm
11-5 5-9 pm
11-5 noon – 8 pm
11-6 noon – 4 pm Details:
ACW leader, Natalie McGuire, submits her unique photography merging into her mosaic frame works to galleries all over the country. The work, Bridge to Wonder, was accepted into the exhibition at the Arcadia Art Show in Tyler, Texas. When Texas passed the law denying the marginalized their reproductive freedom (the wealthy can travel across state lines), Natalie felt compelled to take action. She wrote to the curator of the exhibit that, respectfully, she could not send her art into a state which would support such a trampling of “the right to choose”. Much to her amazement, the curator of Arcadia Art Show, Dace Kidd, responded that she understood and asked if she could install her statement on a black background, framed, in the place her work would have been hung. This was an encouraging outcome, but then so what? Who is this punishing? ACW is going two steps further to help those who need reproductive services NOW.
ACW is also aware that a boycott of all things Texan punishes all Texans. If you would like to help the women currently in crisis, please send a donation to: The Lilith Fund – supports the right of all Texans to make their own reproductive choices, regardless of income. https://www.lilithfund.org/donate
Read More: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/10781-2/

First Thursday @ Solar Arts Building
2021-11-04 17:00 - 21:00
Location: Solar Arts Building
711 NE 15th Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55413
See ACW at the Fox Den!
Can’t make it today? We’ll have more opportunities in 2022!

Cory Favre: The White Knuckled Project Opening Reception
2021-11-04 18:00 - 20:00
The White Knuckled Project
By Cory Favre
“With this project, I want to spotlight the lengths women and those who experience harassment and assault go through to ensure their personal safety. It is something nearly all of us do on a regular basis. In some of the conversations around this project and with friends, it’s almost become a joke. But, inside of the laughter is a nervousness that we all connect to. This is our reality on these panels.” -Cory Favre
Cory Favre is a visual artist working in NE Minneapolis. She is the recipient of a 2020 Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board for her White Knuckled Project. The White Knuckled Project is an installation of 100 paintings of items women, LGBTQIA and femme identifying folk use to ensure their personal safety while out in the world. Each item is sourced from a real person of the real item or method they use.
The exhibition is on view at The North Suburban Center for the Arts at Banfill-Locke, October 26-December 4.
Opening reception November 4, 6-8pm.
Artist Talk TBD.
North Suburban Center for the Arts, 6666 E River Road, Fridley, MN 55432, 763.574.1850
Questions? Email info@northsuburbanarts.org or info@coryfavre.com
www.coryfavre.com/whiteknuckledproject.
This work was made possible by the voters of Minnesota through the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Minnesota State Legislature, and the National Endowment of the Arts.

Art This Way (Open District) - Polymer Art Guild Lobby Show
2021-11-05 08:00 - 2021-11-07 17:00
(Polymer Art Guild Lobby show)
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
November 5th, 6th 7th, 2021
Stay tuned for more information!

Candy Kuehn: Fall Open Studios @ California Building
2021-11-05 08:00 - 2021-11-07 17:00
Meet ACW’s Instagram Queen – Candy Kuehn! California Building Studio 200C. The most southwest side of 2nd floor. She will be showing / selling hat making supplies, painted Art Yardages, digital prints, (both Archival pigments and toner printed, some framed) cards and some very random upcycling clothes experiments. She will also be selling the overflow of way too many happy houseplants, potted under $5.
