Story City MN’s latest storytelling event, Friday, October 25th at the Black Dog Coffee and Wine Bar in St. Paul, featured stories on the theme “Lost.” Photo: Story City MN Story City’s event at the Black Dog on Friday was the 12th installment of this convivial Twin Cities live storytelling series. This iteration was held in […]
Article · October 28, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler
This weekend’s annual art-and-social justice-themed Creative Time Summit in New York City will be streamed live, free of charge, to some 60 locations around the world and viewed by thousands of people who’ve gathered in their own communities to watch and discuss the proceedings in real time. One of those satellite screening sites will be […]
Article · October 23, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler
Mary Temple, “Half Round” from the “Light Installations” series, 2002 to present. At Bethel University’s Olson Gallery through December 12. Photo by the author At first glance, Bethel University’s Olson Gallery appears, but for a pair of comfortable sitting chairs, simply empty: there aren’t any framed pictures on the walls, no sculptural installations on the […]
Article · October 21, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler
“You are about to see some strong Asian-American woman power up here,” said Mu Performing Arts’ new artistic director, Randy Reyes, as he introduced the Knight Arts grantee theater company’s season opener, “Kung Fu Zombies vs. Cannibals.” He’s not kidding: the play is a marvel, packed with fluid fight sequences (hat-tip to choreographer Allen Malicsi […]
Article · October 16, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler
Osmo Vänskä. Photo by Greg Helgeson There’s been news of two significant losses to the Twin Cities music community in the last week. You’ve likely heard the first: famed Minnesota Orchestra conductor Osmo Vänskä formally announced his resignation; Aaron Jay Kernis, founder of the orchestra’s Composer Institute, is quitting his post as well. (Read the press […]
Article · October 9, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler
2013 Twin Cities Book Festival is Saturday, October 12 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds The Twin Cities Book Festival is coming up this Saturday at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, and organizers expect more than 7,000 area bibliophiles to turn out for the event. This annual, day-long festival hosted by […]
Article · October 7, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler
“The Children’s Crusade” (detail). Courtesy of Alex Kuno Alex Kuno’s body of work hits the same sweet spot for me as the Grimm’s fairy tales I was drawn to as a kid. You know: the sort where happy endings are few and far between, where unlucky children are served up for dinner and eaten with […]
Article · October 2, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler
Greta Sandquist, “Crow.” One of the fall 2013 St. Paul Art Crawl poster contest winners. This weekend, at 24 venues across the city, some 300 of the city’s artists will be showing and selling their work at the Saint Paul Art Crawl. The seasonal artist-driven event happens twice a year, in spring and fall, conceived […]
Article · October 1, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler
A newly installed sculpture by Saya Woolfalk. Photo courtesy of Franconia Sculpture Park The leaves are just beginning to turn now, and while the days still have much of summer’s warmth, the air is dry and evenings are crisp. This is Minnesota at its most ideal and the perfect time of year for a day […]
Article · September 25, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler
“Ordinary Days” runs through October 6 at Nautilus Music-Theater in St. Paul. Nautilus Music Theater is in the midst of moving to a larger, first-floor performance suite in the same Lowertown building where they’ve been housed on the upper floor in recent years. The company is still putting finishing touches on this new space (a […]
Article · September 23, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler
Illustration by Andy Sturdevant for “Ghost Crawl,” courtesy of mnartists.org. A present-day rendering of what used to be the home site of the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM), one of the key arts groups in the 1970s gallery scene. If you have an interest in local art history, you won’t want to miss the […]
Article · September 18, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler