Visual Arts

MN VIDEOS | Art-a-Whirl 1996: What the first year looked like

By Jay Gabler, MN Videos

Art-a-Whirl, now the largest art crawl in the country, had its start in 1996. John Akre was then a volunteer at MTN, and created a 40-minute documentary about the new Northeast Minneapolis event. He's now edited the documentary down to a more concise five minutes to provide this peek into the past.

Polaroid moments in a post-Brady world

By Patrice Johnson, Cultural Construct

There are two Americana indulgences I enjoyed earlier this week. The first was an old episode of the Brady Bunch. Remember when the whole gang traveled to the Grand Canyon and got locked up in a ghost town jail by a manic recluse gold prospector, but upon release Mrs. Brady and Alice exclaim that they are having a groovy start to a great vacation? Later they meet a Native American who without any hint of irony or offense uses the term "squaw" to describe the women in Mr. Brady's "tribe."

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Cultural Construct

"Sex and Sugar"...and art, and writing

By Amina Harper, The Art House

This is a photo of sugar cubes (by David Pacey, Creative Commons), not an artwork by Elizabeth Erin Fowler. To see one of those (NSFW), click here.

I took a break from the column last week because I really just needed a little time off. Such a thing probably won’t happen often, but I expect that it will happen from time to time. I’ve been making up for my lack of writing by painting and drawing whenever I get the chance. The work for my upcoming solo show is coming along nicely, but not at the speed I would like. I suppose I’ll never be satisfied until everything is finished, framed and hanging on the Smitten Kitten's walls.

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North Side murals brighten Minneapolis neighborhood

By Tammy Ward, TC Daily Planet

Harrison Neighborhood Mural located on the side of 1900 Glenwood Ave. N. That is the corner of Glenwood and Morgan. (All photos by Tammy Ward)

My name is Tammy Ward and I live in North Minneapolis, in the Harrison Neighborhood. 

I have lived here almost four years and have seen many changes.  Harrison is truly a vibrant and upcoming neighborhood. Change is steadily happening in a positive direction. I decided to show in pictures the eclectic feel of Harrison though murals painted on some of the buildings in the neighborhood.  

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MayDay 2013 moments, part 4

By Alan Wilfahrt

MayDay means making noise. Making our community voice unite and celebrate, criticize, teach together in one world. We share, we mourn and rejoice. We are MayDay cheer.

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MayDay 2013 moments, part 1

By Alan Wilfahrt, The Public Recluse
As anyone who has participated in a MayDay event on the first Sunday of May will testify, a daze often prevails over the following days. The players had practiced and played their parts.
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The Public Recluse

MayDay 2013 moments, part 3

By Alan Wilfahrt

 In my normal photography, I often avoid images with recognizable faces. I am usually trying to capture the essance of the situation and not a specifice individual.

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MayDay 2013 moments, part 2

By Alan Wilfahrt

Powderhorn Park in South Minneapolis is the host location for MayDay.  The over-all-the-park, day-long event is referenced as the MayDay Festival.

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"I’m Not Your Indian Any More": Over 40 years of American Indian Movement history featured in exhibit

By Laura Waterman Wittstock, The Alley

The American Indian Movement will open its first exhibit telling the story of its history on May 10th at the All My Relations Gallery. Planning for the exhibit has been underway for months, as Executive Director Clyde Bellecourt and AIM’s board of directors worked to narrow down thousands of choices to a fraction of the holdings that depict the history of the Movement. They chose a photographic exhibit, featuring the work of Dick Bancroft, long known informally as the “AIM photographer,” and Roger Woo, a photographer who worked in black and white in AIM’s earliest years.

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Photographer Dick Bancroft chronicles American Indian Movement in new book, exhibits

By Staff, American Jewish World

John Fire Lame Deer, a Mineconju-Lakota spiritual leader who was born on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. (Photo: Dick Bancroft, from We Are Still Here)

Dick Bancroft began photographing American Indians in 1971, and became one of the key visual documentarians of the American Indian Movement (AIM), which began as a street patrol against police brutality in Minneapolis and gained global press attention and popularity in the 1970s.

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