Art to Change the World

Maker Space @ YMCA: Project and Artist TBA
2022-11-22 17:00 - 19:00, 2022-11-15 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
Art to Change the World has been contracted to create a Maker Space (art room) in several venues, including several Transformational Housing for Women who have experienced homelessness and Youth Programs at the YMCA. Ten ACW Teaching Artists have been trained by a licensed counselor to create lessons which specially include strategies to reduce trauma. Participants will be experimenting with a variety of media including painting, sculpture, healing body adornment, quilt painting, henna applications, polymer clay, illustration, fabric hat creations and printmaking. Lessons will be offered once a week.
Join us on November 15 at the YMCA, 5:00-7:00
ADDRESS: EMMA B HOWE Northeast YMCA 2304 NE Jackson St, Minneapolis, MN 55418
The artist and project is TBA.
Read about the potential artists: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/13771-2/
Learn more about Restoring Waters: The Emma Norton Project

Tiny Roberts Art Auction @ Lakewood Cemetery
2022-11-20 14:30 - 16:30
ACW member Rebecca Froehlich is organizing an art auction to benefit making Thomas Sadler Roberts Bird Sanctuary more accessible. Bid on tiny Roberts (nature-themed) art and support a great cause!
Join us on:
Sunday, November 20th, 2022
2:30-4:30 PM
In person @ Lakewood Cemetery (Minneapolis, MN)
OR Online via Bidding Owl
All proceeds benefit Friends of Roberts Bird Sanctuary’s terrace project.
Questions? Contact: tinyrobertsauction@gmail.com
Want to donate art? We’re looking for art of all kinds, depicting the nature in Roberts Bird Sanctuary (including ferns, wildflowers, plants, mammals, and birds of all kinds) – contact the same email to arrange a pickup date!
Want to support the cause but don’t want to bid? Donate to the terrace project GoFundMe here.

Give to ACW on Give to the Max Day
2022-11-17 08:00 - 17:00
Donate to ACW this Give To The Max Day (Nov. 17th)!
If we do not pay artists, there will be no artists. This Give to the Max Day (GTMD), we need YOUR support to help fund our projects and the people who make them come to life. We are trying to fundraise at least $2,000 through our GTMD fundraiser. Your contribution will help us pay artists, make artistry more accessible throughout Minnesota, fuel positive social change, and so much more.

A primer on GTMD, for those who might be unfamiliar: GTMD is Minnesota’s annual giving holiday. It is a grassroots giving event that helps Minnesota non-profits (such as ACW) fundraise and continue to pursue/expand their mission in their communities.
Organizations can set up fundraiser pages on GiveMN.org, which is tallying GTMD donations starting from November 1st until midnight on the 17th – and is distributing over $100,000 in prize grants to organizations that are fundraising for GTMD! To emphasize, prize grants will be distributed for early donations as well, so you are welcome to donate early, starting on November 1st! In any case, be sure to bookmark the link on the red Donate button above and set a reminder to donate between November 1st – 17th!
After you make your contribution, you can choose the project(s) that you want to help fund with your donation by commenting at the bottom of our fundraiser page in the Comments section, or by emailing info@arttochangetheworld.org.
If you would prefer to donate via check, please do so by sending it to Art To Change The World, 2323 Monroe St. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418. If you want your donation to go to a specific person or project, please indicate it on the memo line.
The following donors have collectively agreed to split the total raised as a match for GTMD – please consider joining them. To join our matching donor list, contact us at info@arttochangetheworld.org. You are most likely committing to $300 – $400 – according to how much we raise.

Craig Harris
Kelly Frankenberg
Barbara Bridges
Layl McDill
Pat Rogers

Lastly, consider doing a “holiday charity exchange” with friends and family for Give to the Max Day this year! You can support causes that are meaningful to them by agreeing to donate to one another’s fundraisers. Here’s what Layl McDill has to say about it:
“In 2020, I wanted to engage my friends and family in ACW’s Give to the Max Day fundraiser, so I posted to them that I would donate to their charity if they donated to ACW. It was a fun way to spread the love of the organizations that are meaningful in my friends’ and family’s lives and ACW received donations from people outside the organization. My family even decided to do this ‘charity exchange’ instead of giving gifts that year.
Watch for your chance to donate to ACW on Give to the Max day on November 17th and consider how you can invite your friends and family to donate too – maybe you can come up with a creative way that works for you!”
We hope you can help us reach our $2,000 goal this Give to the Max Day – be sure to follow us on social media to keep up with our fundraising campaign communications as GTMD approaches!

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Interference Art Presents: Seed the Dream Legacy Space
2022-11-15 19:00 - 21:00
Interference Arts presents
“Seed the Legacy Dream Space”
by Craig Harris & Candy Kuehn, in collaboration with Kym Longhi & Jim Peitzman
Do you wonder about the Past?
Do you Dream about the Future?
Are you Curious about how our lives create what follows?
The Legacy Dream Space is a multimedia environment and exhibition, designed to explore our past and present and to collaborate to create a legacy for future generations. It is a multi-dimensional story space that incorporates music, performance, art exhibition, and a multimedia installation, to create an environment conducive to experiencing stories and engaging in their unfolding. The story spaces are rich in visual, aural, and thematic content, and evolve through community engagement.
We are preparing this work for exhibition at Owatonna Art Center in the fall of 2023, and are hosting a series of opportunities to explore, capture new content, and integrate community input into future instances of the work.
Join us on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, to Seed the Legacy Dream Space:

to experience;
to participate;
to create what follows.

Where:
The Annex
512 E 24th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55404
When:
November 15, 2022
7:00 PM
RSVP to info@arttochangetheworld.org
Capacity limited to 15.
Read More about the project: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/seed-the-legacy-dream-space

Re (Cover) - Shalee Cole
2022-11-13 19:00
(Re) Cover – A Creative New Work by Shalee Cole
Title: (re) cover: The Campaign
Media: Theatre and a Tabletop Role Playing Game
Written and Performed by: Shalee Cole
Directed by: Lauren Edson
In Collaboration with: The Right Here Showcase
Meadowbrook Guild Bounty Board:
Typically Meadowbrook is a safe and attractive community full of loving families and giggling children. But as of a week ago, a scourge, believed to be magical in nature, has suddenly appeared in our neighborhood. Passersby are reporting radiated debris covering blighted plant life and a revolting stench. Without witnesses or evidence of an inciting event, We cannot say how the scourge appeared in sleepy Meadowbrook. The Guild has researched recent and historical records of the area, but believe magic is affecting the community’s memory, as no one can place what was there before. We fear that the scourge will spread and could cause complete decimation.
Seeking: Two seasoned surveyors with experience investigating unusual and necrotic events.
Mission: Enter the scourge, identify the cause, and report expert recommendations to the guild for immediate action.
(re)cover: The Campaign is a performative role-playing story. Created by Shalee Mae Cole and determined by two new guests every night before a live audience
Join us at the Tek Box at the Cowles Center, 528 Hennepin Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55403 on November 10-12 at 8:00 pm and November 13 at 7:00 pm
Get Your Tickets Here!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-7th-annual-right-here-showcase-tickets-423485365127

(Re) Cover - Shalee Cole
2022-11-12 20:00, 2022-11-11 20:00, 2022-11-10 20:00

Opening Night - MWMO Sculpture @ Homewood Studios
2022-11-11 17:00 - 20:00 | Homewood Studios, 2400 Plymouth Ave N, Minneapolis, MN, 55411
One River’s Trash is the Same River’s Treasure -Unveiling

Title: Mississippi River Pearl 2022
Dimensions : 4’ W X 5’ W x 6’ T
Media: Mixed Media- Mississippi River Trash and objects with a previous history
An Art to Change the World Collaboration: Project Manager Barbara Bridges and group members Frances Bates, Amáda Márquez Simula, Greg Volker, Margo Ashmore, Annie Merrell, Neil Granlund, Katherine Boyce, Alexis Schramel, and Kelly Frankenberg.
Join us at Homewood Studios, 2400 Plymouth Avenue North
Minneapolis, MN 55411 on November 11 from 5:00-8:00 https://homewoodstudios.com
The creation of Pearl was funded by a Mississippi Watershed Management Organization Stewardship Fund Program grant and the project led ten people to meet, collect trash along the Mississippi and participate in an immersive curriculum unit which was collaboratively developed by Barbara and the participants themselves – including a scientist, journalist, mayor, teachers, and artists!
All participants created this elegant artwork using the found river debris and other hand-constructed and found objects. With one of the goals being to educate people about the plastics we find on our waterways, they repurposed objects with a history to create a new narrative. Paper was made by Alexis from the debris collected. The quilted seat was commissioned from ACW quiltmaker, Lucy Schroepfer out of fabric found along the river. John Olson, from River Keepers, helped us forage on the west side of the river in his electric pontoon. The project participants met eight times in September and October.
Open all 21 drawers! Take a memento and research card or two. Sit on the throne, meditate and snap a photo. Post on Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok using #ArtToChangeTheWorld and #MississippiRiverPearl. Send us that photo! Leave us your impressions in the survey drawer for a chance to win an ACW t-shirt.
Read about the project: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/mississippi-watershed-management-organization-project
Mill City Times features MWMO water project and ACW Director, Barbara Bridges.
http://millcitytimes.com/news/changemaker-barbara-bridges-founder-and-director-art-to-chan.html?fbclid=IwAR2Z7Ije-bDPUC6U_D4OBLdECZ9Ht-FS-tO16nr-dHlMNj8mXzAafAHNWMQ
See the TikTok Video created by Amáda Márquez Simula
https://www.instagram.com/p/CkHn3xzA82m/
Read More about the project: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/mississippi-management-and-watershed-project

Maker Space @ Haven Housing - Identity Collage With Frances Bates
2022-11-09 17:30 - 19:30
Art to Change the World has been contracted to create a Maker Space (art room) in several venues, including several Transformational Housing for Women who have experienced homelessness and Youth Programs at the YMCA. Ten ACW Teaching Artists have been trained by a licensed counselor to create lessons which specially include strategies to reduce trauma. Participants will be experimenting with a variety of media including painting, sculpture, healing body adornment, quilt painting, henna applications, polymer clay, illustration, fabric hat creations and printmaking. Lessons will be offered once a week.
Haven Housing is located at: 1803 N Bryant Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55411
At the session on November 9, Frances Bates will instruct making an Identity Collage.
Read about the artists: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/13771-2/

Maker Space @ YMCA: Dyeing T Shirts with Candy Kuehn
2022-11-08 17:00 - 19:00
Art to Change the World has been contracted to create a Maker Space (art room) in several venues, including several Transformational Housing for Women who have experienced homelessness and Youth Programs at the YMCA. Ten ACW Teaching Artists have been trained by a licensed counselor to create lessons which specially include strategies to reduce trauma. Participants will be experimenting with a variety of media including painting, sculpture, healing body adornment, quilt painting, henna applications, polymer clay, illustration, fabric hat creations and printmaking. Lessons will be offered once a week.
Join us on November 8 at the YMCA, 5:00-7:00
ADDRESS: EMMA B HOWE Northeast YMCA 2304 NE Jackson St, Minneapolis, MN 55418
Candy Kuehn will share how to use squeezey bottle procieon dyes on T-shirts.
Read about the artists: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/13771-2/
Learn more about Restoring Waters: The Emma Norton Project

BATS Group Art Show
2022-11-06 12:00 - 17:00, 2022-11-05 12:00 - 20:00, 2022-11-04 17:00 - 22:00
The Glitter Renaissance Group is going to be hosting an art show in the Fox Den at Solar Arts Building. It will be the first weekend in November during the Fall Open Studios event. We came up with the acronym BATS or Brilliant Artists Transforming Society to show that no matter what style of art you create it can make a difference in the world. You will get to see a variety of art from paintings to sculptures to illustrations. Come join the BATS for a weekend of fun!

Solar Arts Building at 711 15 th Ave NE
November 4th (5-10), 5th (12-8), and 6th (12-5)

Artists of the show:
Alkemy Frost
Collin Nelson
Frances Bates
Madalina Kelner
Rose Cooper

Northeast Minneapolis Fall Open Studios
2022-11-06 12:00 - 17:00, 2022-11-05 12:00 - 20:00, 2022-11-04 12:00 - 17:00
Attend the Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association’s Fall Open Studios on these dates:
Friday, Nov. 4th – 5:00 – 10:00 PM
Saturday, Nov. 5th, Noon-8 PM
Sunday, November 6th, Noon-5 PM
LOCATION
Solar Arts Building, 711 15th Ave NE, 2nd Floor

Open Casket Speakeasy Benefit
2022-11-06 12:00 - 16:00, 2022-11-05 14:00 - 20:00
Speakeasy to Benefit NE Mpls Arts District
When studios in Northeast Minneapolis open for the weekend of November 4-5-6, visitors can purchase cocktails at the basement Speakeasy at Casket Arts building, 681 17th Ave. NE during Open Casket. Speakeasy is open 5-10 pm on Friday, Nov. 4, 2-8 pm on Saturday, Nov. 5, and noon-4 pm on Sunday, Nov. 6. Speakeasy profits go to support Northeast Minneapolis Arts District. ACW members Margo Ashmore, Josh Blanc, and others are on the Arts District board, with a mission “to catalyze the innovative spirit of artists through generative community development.” Dedicated to making the geography look more and more like an arts district, increasing the number of artists and arts organizations in the area, and offering artist opportunities such as airport exhibits and the Northeast Calendar. Voted #1 Best Arts District by USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Travel Awards. Find out more during Open Casket!
Thank you,
Margo Ashmore
Volunteer Board Member
Northeast Minneapolis Arts District
My cell phone: 612-867-4874

Cling! Layl McDill @ Art Works
2022-11-06 05:00 - 18:30
Cling!
An image of Layl’s piece “Overloaded with Beginnings and Ends” will be blown up and added to the Artworks gallery walls as “wallpaper”. This will be a very interesting exhibit!
The opening Reception is November 6, 2022, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
November 1- January 20th
Art Works
3795 Pilot Knob
Eagan, MN 55122
https://www.awe.mn/events/gallery/?mc_cid=1b5ecd8fbf&mc_eid=daad009e2f

Open Casket Speakeasy Benefit
2022-11-04 17:00 - 22:00
Speakeasy to Benefit NE Mpls Arts District
When studios in Northeast Minneapolis open for the weekend of November 4-5-6, visitors can purchase cocktails at the basement Speakeasy at Casket Arts building, 681 17th Ave. NE during Open Casket. Speakeasy is open 5-10 pm on Friday, Nov. 4, 2-8 pm on Saturday, Nov. 5, and noon-4 pm on Sunday, Nov. 6. Speakeasy profits go to support Northeast Minneapolis Arts District. ACW members Margo Ashmore, Josh Blanc, and others are on the Arts District board, with a mission “to catalyze the innovative spirit of artists through generative community development.” Dedicated to making the geography look more and more like an arts district, increasing the number of artists and arts organizations in the area, and offering artist opportunities such as airport exhibits and the Northeast Calendar. Voted #1 Best Arts District by USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Travel Awards. Find out more during Open Casket!
Thank you,
Margo Ashmore
Volunteer Board Member
Northeast Minneapolis Arts District
My cell phone: 612-867-4874
northeastminneapolisartsdistrict.org

Natural Henna Pop Up Booth
2022-11-04 17:00 - 22:00
Solar Arts Building at 711 15 th Ave NE

Maker Space @ Haven Housing - Henna With Madalina Kellner
2022-11-02 17:30 - 19:30
Art to Change the World has been contracted to create a Maker Space (art room) in several venues, including several Transformational Housing for Women who have experienced homelessness and Youth Programs at the YMCA. Ten ACW Teaching Artists have been trained by a licensed counselor to create lessons which specially include strategies to reduce trauma. Participants will be experimenting with a variety of media including painting, sculpture, healing body adornment, quilt painting, henna applications, polymer clay, illustration, fabric hat creations and printmaking. Lessons will be offered once a week.
Haven Housing is located at: 1803 N Bryant Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55411
At the session on November 2, Madalina Kellner will instruct making Henna Art.
Read about the artists: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/13771-2/

Maker Space @ YMCA: Block Printing Pillows With Briauna Williams
2022-11-01 17:00 - 19:00
Art to Change the World has been contracted to create a Maker Space (art room) in several venues, including several Transformational Housing for Women who have experienced homelessness and Youth Programs at the YMCA. Ten ACW Teaching Artists have been trained by a licensed counselor to create lessons which specially include strategies to reduce trauma. Participants will be experimenting with a variety of media including painting, sculpture, healing body adornment, quilt painting, henna applications, polymer clay, illustration, fabric hat creations and printmaking. Lessons will be offered once a week.
Join us on November 1 at the YMCA, 5:00-7:00
ADDRESS: EMMA B HOWE Northeast YMCA 2304 NE Jackson St, Minneapolis, MN 55418
Briauna Williams will share how to use block printing to decorate pillows.
Read about the artists: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/13771-2/
Learn more about Restoring Waters: The Emma Norton Project

Native American Heritage Month: Honor Truth Telling
2022-11-01 08:00 - 17:00
Honor Truth Telling
by Laura Mann Hill -ACW D and I Coordinator
Photo by Forrest Hill, shared with permission from Daren Hill, ACW member
“Indigenous people are not relics of the past. We are still here, and we continue to demonstrate our talents and gifts amidst a backdrop of ongoing colonialism and oppression. We are worth celebrating.” —Native Governance Center
When my daughter was 9 years old, we had many conversations about the way Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) were represented in her textbooks, especially as she learned more about American history and colonization. “Mom, this is a lie. They should tell us the truth…we can handle it” she said. My daughter is now 12 and attends a school that centers on a social justice curriculum, but we still have these conversations about text and media she encounters. November is National Native American Heritage Month, offering all of us an opportunity to embrace truth. As people living in, Mni Sota Makoce or Minnesota, we should not only acknowledge that we are on the homeland of the Dakota people; and a home for many other Indigenous nations, including the Anishinaabe and the Ho-Chunk people. We have the responsibility to move beyond acknowledgments towards actions. We must continue to do the work to dismantle racism and white supremacy as artists and community members to repair the harms of colonization and honor truth-telling. What can we do today to radically change the way future generations speak about the past?
A few resources to start exploring this month and all year:
Bdote Memory Map: http://bdotememorymap.org/
Dakota Land Map: https://marlenamyl.es/project/dakota-land-map/
Upcoming Events https://nativegov.org/events/
Reclaiming Native Truth: https://rnt.firstnations.org/
Truthsgiving: https://www.truthsgiving.org/resources
Learn about Treaties: https://mn350.org/campaigns/treatypledge/
Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty: https://usdac.us/news/2021/9/21/envisioning-black-liberation-and-indigenous-sovereignty
Land Reparations: https://resourcegeneration.org/land-reparations-indigenous-solidarity-action-guide/

ACW Annual Retreat (for BOD, Advisory Board, and Interns)
2022-10-29 13:00 - 2022-10-30 15:00
ACW’s Annual Retreat
For Board of Directors, Advisory Board, Interns, and Task Force members.
October 29, 2022, 1 PM through Saturday, October 30 until 3 PM.
Bringing art, planning, fellowship, and fun together into one!
One weekend.
Join us at Mount Olivet Lutheran Church: 5025 Knox Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55419
More info as the date approaches. Want to help with the planning? Post: info@arttochangetheworld.org

Susan Hensel - At Play in the Fields of Color Perception (Opens)
2022-10-27 08:00 - 17:00
Susan Hensel has a solo show. AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF COLOR PERCEPTION, opening at the Hopkins Center for the Art, 10/27/22 through 12/3/22.
Susan Hensel Design,LLC
she/her/hers
https://susanhenselprojects.com
susanhenselgallery.com
https://www.instagram.com/susan_hensel_
multimedia_artist/
Contact:
3441 Cedar Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55407
612 202-9644

Maker Space @ Haven Housing: Creative Clay Creatures with Layl McDill
2022-10-26 17:30 - 19:30
Art to Change the World has been contracted to create a Maker Space (art room) in several venues, including several Transformational Housing for Women who have experienced homelessness and Youth Programs at the YMCA. Ten ACW Teaching Artists have been trained by a licensed counselor to create lessons which specially include strategies to reduce trauma. Participants will be experimenting with a variety of media including painting, sculpture, healing body adornment, quilt painting, henna applications, polymer clay, illustration, fabric hat creations and printmaking. Lessons will be offered once a week.
Haven Housing is located at: 1803 N Bryant Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55411
At the session on October 26, Layl McDill will instruct how to make Creative Clay Creatures.
Read about the artists: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/13771-2/

Submit Copy for ACW Newsletter
2022-10-26
How to Submit Newsletter Copy
Welcome!

The Newsletter is a member benefit and the place where the ACW membership stays informed, builds community and finds opportunities.Each article should have the what, where, when, and who front and center. Always include a hot link for the reader to learn more. Send one picture. Please submit the copy exactly as you would like it to appear. You can do this right on the email to me drb@bridgescreate.com
I know you understand that when we have 15-20 articles…it becomes unmanageable for me to chase for missing elements and hotlinks. Thanks so much for your mercy!!
ALL News welcome. Exhibitions, projects, honors, opportunities, art equipment for swap or sale, editorials welcome!
Barbara
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Example:

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 9pmdougie 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.
