Tuesday, September 23 2008

Fantastically enlarged snapshot portrait images of Twin Cities immigrants are part of a temporary public art installation this summer in Minneapolis.

The UnConventional Gathering Place
August 31st – November 7th, 2008
Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55408

Intermedia Arts presents
The UnConventional Gathering Place!
Intermedia Arts Becomes Hangout for Artists, Educators, Alternative Journalists During the 2008 Republican National Convention

Gallery hours: Monday- Friday 12pm-7pm, Saturday 12pm-5pm
Suggested $5 donation

Main Gallery
Landing In America
By John Obrien
A multi-media installation reflecting on the compelling experiences with or related challenges to our basic liberties.

Beginning on Labor Day, Water and Oil Art Gallery will host the exhibit “Hands On: People at Work.” Selected works will offer tribute to the sweat equity earned through hard work, artisanship and craftsmanship. Featured artist Judy Westergard will be displaying her series “A Show of Hands—Hands as Portraiture.” Evocative of their owners’ personal narratives, Westergard describes the inspiration that led to these works:

“I grew up in historic northeast Minneapolis in a blue-collar environment. I studied my mom’s hands as she hung clothes and rolled dough for pierogi.

Celebrities portrayed as Lego figures: a show by the wannabe Warhol, Plasticgod. Click here for the official site and here to read Jay Gabler’s blog entry on the show.

Bethel University’s Olson Gallery pleased to present new works by Bethel University Associate Professor of Art Jeff Wetzig.

Jeff Wetzig’s collection of prints transform their traditional roots in Japanese woodblock prints to explore the medium as a means of installation. He investigates the idea of boundaries and borders as they relate to themes such as mass communication, repetition, and fear. The delicate nature of line and color in his woodblock prints are an interesting contrast to their subject matter.

“Conceived on the banks of the Mississippi River in 1983, Tickled Pink, serves up the old familiar with three men playing to the best of their abilities, both rare and well done.“



Hurricanes: The Politics of Disaster Response in Cuba, Haiti and the United States

Two years ago, the images of devastation in the wake of hurricane
Katrina, particularly in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward, raised questions
about the U.S. government’s preparedness to respond to disasters in low-income communities of color.

Contact: Victor Valens 612 327-6723, arte537@yahoo.com

HURRICANE AT THE AVENUE; EMERGENCY RELIEF FOR CUBA
7:00 pm, Tuesday, September 23
First Avenue/7th Street Entry
7th Street and 1st Avenue North in downtown Minneapolis
Donation: $10

On September 23, First Avenue/7th Street Entry nightclub in
Minneapolis will be the venue for a star-studded musical and dance
benefit for Cuban hurricane relief.

In the past weeks, Cuba has suffered tremendous damage from Hurricanes
Gustav and Ike.

Walker Church
16TH Avenue South at 32nd St.,Minneapolis

A panel forum sponsored by the North East Suburban Greens regarding the police tactics during the RNC in the Twin Cities. The presenters on the panel are people directly involved in the peace marches and who had direct contact with the police during that time.

Members of the panel:

Charley Underwood publishes the Peace Calendar on the internet. He is a Quaker, a progressive Democrat and a kindergarten teacher with the St Paul Public Schools.

Author Reading, at Magers & Quinn
7:30 PM, William Kent Krueger will read from his new novel Red Knife.“The newest book in William Kent Krueger’s award-winning Corcoran O’Connor series finds the charismatic private investigator caught in the middle of a racial gang war that’s turning picturesque Tamarack County, Minnesota, into a bloody battlefield.“