Artist Chamindika Wanduragala takes on motherhood and race through puppets
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When Sri Lankan artist Chamindika Wanduragala returned to the Twin Cities arts scene after almost a decade away, it was a much needed rebirth. Continue Reading
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When Sri Lankan artist Chamindika Wanduragala returned to the Twin Cities arts scene after almost a decade away, it was a much needed rebirth. Continue Reading
“Welcome to Water Bar, water is all we have.” Continue Reading
This week: No justice from MPD investigation of officers in the case of Jamar Clark, UMN group Compass advocates for LGBTQIA business students and “Durades Dialogues” at Mia highlight African-American artists. Continue Reading
When Desdamona, Julia Nekessa Opoti, May Lee-Yang and Saymoukda Vongsay, co-founders of the Twin Cities-based Community Artists Leadership Initiative (CALI), are sitting at the same table, ideas fly like shrapnel. Continue Reading
To mark Prince’s legacy in these trying times, we’ve invited local black activists/artists to create original work that deconstructs power, pain, and the fallacy of “Minnesota Nice.” Continue Reading
FOUNDLORE: AMERICAN FOLKART REINVENTEDExhibit runs: April 2 – May 7.The Artists talk about their exhibit: “Foundlore”The collaboration of the new exhibition “Foundlore” at the Vine Arts Center consists of five artists, Matt Flueger, Kristoffer West Johnson, Michael Sweere, Jonathan Sweere and Ryan Sweere (three brothers and two friends), who work together in a St. Paul freeway frontage road house that they converted into art studios with backyard windmill. Studio/House complete with backyard windmill”Foundlore” is American folk art reinvented. It is an imaginative reinterpretation of a media-saturated environment, making use of today’s ever-present overabundance of recycled materials, information and images. From April 2 – May 7th the gallery will be filled with an impressive array of photographs, paintings, drawings, mosaics, hanging mobiles and free standing sculptures -all intermixed to create an assemblage-like installation that draws on the sense of place in which they were created. All five artists will be at the opening reception which will feature projected video collages, art making documentaries, and animations. Continue Reading