Visual Arts

I grew up in Minneapolis, and then a few years ago I spent two years at an art school in Portland, Oregon. Though I was told on numerous occasions that this school was a community of loving and attentive creators that were more like a family than a bunch of future career competitors, the feeling of community this school claimed to offer was contradictory to the feelings of loneliness I was experiencing daily. I left the school in Portland and came back to Minneapolis with a new resolve to become an artist without a degree (out of spite more than anything else).

Twin Cities artist KimyiBo Lee displayed her most recent creation at the Gage Family Art Gallery on Riverside Avenue at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, in an exhibit that ran from mid-May through mid-July, entitled Blessings II.

Move over, Mall of America: there's a new Black Friday tradition emerging for culture vultures in the Twin Towns. Museum stores are jumping into the mix offering unique seasonal shopping events on the day after Thanksgiving. Think of it as a “Cool-To-Wear-Black Friday”—we are talking museums, after all. The Minnesota History Center (MHC) and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) are both hosting big Black Friday events, with specials that go beyond the gift shops and into the galleries.