Tag Archive: art


Celebrate Spring with RAW Minneapolis at the May 16 EXPRESSIONS Showcase! With 5 live musicians, a hilarious comedian, 2 runways shows, 15 visual artists, gruesome costume makeup and much more, you are guaranteed an eventful THREE Hours!

Once again, RAW Minneapolis continues to show some of the best Indie art in the Twin Cities, ALL are hand picked to create unique monthly collaborative and interactive showcases!

Featuring DJ Robert James, Photos by Marc Jame Photography and Videography by Bryan Blumenshein!

Cocktail Attire Encouraged, Have fun & Dress Up!

Thursday, May 16, 2013
8 pm – 11 pm
Fine Line Music Cafe
Minneapolis
21+
Tickets: $10 pre-sale, $15 at the door

 

 

To buy tickets, support a local artist here: http://www.rawartists.org/minneapolis/expressions

 

RAW events are multi-faceted artistic showcases. Each event features a multiple musical performances, fashion shows, an art gallery, performance art and a featured hairstylists, makeup artists and models. These artists are all local, hand-picked talent who have been chosen to feature at RAW.

GET HIP to homebrew with tips from the pros at Summit and Northern Brewer.

CHECK OUT equipment and get your brewing questions answered.

SIDLE UP to the bar for a special flight of Summit beers or enjoy your favorite bottle.

BE CRAFTY with some DIY beer crafts.

PUB CRAWL on a (dry!) drinking tour of the galleries.

FREE WHEEL to the alt country sounds of Charlie Parr.

Thursday, May, 16, 2013
6-9pm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Free; refreshments for sale.

Art-A-Whirl

Art-A-Whirl is a highly anticipated annual event that welcomes local and regional visitors to Northeast Minneapolis to see the art being made in this area and to meet the artists.  This free event features 500 artists including potters, tile makers, painters, sculptors, musicians, photographers, glass blowers, printmakers, and textile designers. They showcase their art in warehouses, galleries, homes, storefronts and cafes.

As visitors come to see the art over the three-day weekend they also experience the unique and welcoming community of Northeast Minneapolis.

Be sure to start your day with a visit to one of the welcome booths at the California Building, Casket Arts Buliding, Keg House, Northrup King Building and the Thorp Building for maps and information.  Maps can also be downloaded by clicking this link.  

DEAL ALERT: Click here to print your free metro transit pass.

Friday, May 17th -  5:00-10:00 p.m.
Saturday,  May 18th -  Noon-8:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 19th -   Noon-5:00 p.m.

Flowers After Hours: Music and Stars

Celebrate the opening of Art in Bloom with FLOWERS AFTER HOURS: Music and Stars.  This event features a cash bar, musical performances by Pavel Jany and The Talking Strings trio and Wind & String featuring Kay Miller and Joe Haus, and viewing of 6QUEJ5, the new MIA digital installation by Hurdy Gurdy Man (Chrysanthemums) artist Jennifer Steinkamp.

Thursday, April 25, 21013
5:30-9pm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Target Wing Rotunda
Free

RAW Natural Born Artists: Marvel

RAW Minneapolis will break your Spring Fever with the line up they have planned for the April 18, MARVEL Showcase! With FOUR runway shows, 12 visual artists, 2 bands, a hip hop performer, body painting, a comedian musician, frightening costume makeup and much more, you are guaranteed an eventful THREE Hours!

Thursday, April 18, 2013
8-11:30pm
Fine Line Music Cafe
Minneapolis, MN
21+
Tickets: $10 presale, $15 at the door

Third Thursday: More Real? Part 2

The next Third Thursday event at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts sounds like one hell of a good time!

UNCOVER the mysteries that make up “More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness.”

HEAR TALL TALES in the galleries from deceitful docents.

TAKE A PICTURE in our Stephen Colbert “Truthiness” Photobooth.

MANUFACTURE TRUTH by making headlines, literally.

PERCEIVE REALITY with close-up casual magic by The Amazing Hondo.

JOIN THE CLUB and learn the handshake of the Real Engineer’s Club.

CLEAR YOUR HEAD to musical acts: Kaiser Cartel and Lisa Germano.

Thursday, April 18, 2013
6-9pm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Free; refreshments for sale.

More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness

photo courtesy of Artsmia

UPDATE:  Score 50% off tickets with this Living Social deal.  Perfect if you can’t make one of the free days.

Seeing is disbelieving at the new Minneapolis Institute of Arts exhibit More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness.

Over the past century, a period of unprecedented technological change and global social upheaval, once agreed-upon beliefs, or “truths,” have been cast into doubt, changing and shaping our understanding and experience of reality. More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness features work by 28 of today’s most accomplished and promising international artists, including Ai Weiwei, Vik Muniz and Thomas Demand, who explore our shifting experience of reality.

Exhibit runs March 21–June 9, 2013
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Regularly, tickets to this exhibit are $12 weekday/$14 weekend.  However, you can obtain FREE ADMISSION during Family Days on April 14 and May 12!  UPDATE: You can also receive free admission on May 18th if you photograph & share your visit on social media.

The Pancakes & Booze Art Show

ARTCRANK MSP will feature hand-made, bike-inspired posters created by Twin Cities area artists. Limited edition, signed and numbered copies of all posters will be available for $40 each. Admission is free. This year’s show will open on Saturday, April 6 at Grain Belt Studios in Northeast Minneapolis, moving to One On One Bicycle Studio in the Minneapolis Warehouse District for an extended run from Thursday, April 11 – Saturday, May 4.

The Opening Night Party Saturday, April 6 from 5pm – 11pm at the Grain Belt Studios 79 13th Ave. NE Minneapolis, MN 55413.

Andy Warhol in Minneapolis

Aria is proud to host “Andy Warhol in Minneapolis” from March 16-23.  It is the first Private Sales Exhibition in the United States for “Andy Warhol at Christie’s,” a partnership between Christie’s and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.  The week-long selling exhibition will make available to the public a curated group of more than 50 paintings, photographs, prints and works on paper by the Pop Art superstar, including a selection of works originally featured in Warhol’s last show in Minneapolis organized by the Locksley Shea Gallery in 1974.  Highlights of the exhibition will include self-portraits by Andy Warhol, a screen print of Marilyn Monroe, and portraits of local socialites.

Of the 1974 show at his gallery, Gordon Locksley said, “When Andy Warhol came to Minneapolis, it was as if someone had picked up the entire New York art scene and, in the blink of an eye, transported it to Minneapolis.  Minneapolis instantly became the center of the world.”  Almost 40 years later, Aria is excited to recreate that memorable exhibit for the deeply creative community of the Twin Cities.

Please join us in experiencing the work of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century and seeing how our beloved Twin Cities inspired many of his pieces.  Admission to the exhibition is free and open to the public.  All works are drawn from the collection of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, with proceeds benefitting the Foundation’s grant making programs.

March 16-23, 2013
Open Daily from 10am – 6pm
Aria
105 North First Street
March 16-23, 2013
Free Admission