Play4min 16secArt Hounds: What would you do with a blank canvas? A small town puts community creativity on displaySeptember 17, 2020 4:00 AMBy Emily BrightCommunity Canvas, an art exhibit at the Jaques Art Center in Aitken, Minn., shows what happens when anyone may contribute to a show.
Play3min 44secArts board announces simplified grant program for MN artists struggling in COVID-19 economyJuly 22, 2020 5:36 AMBy Marianne CombsThe Minnesota State Arts Board has approved a trio of new grants meant to help artists and organizations weather the economic turmoil created by COVID-19. But artists say the new grants don't go far enough to serve historically marginalized communities.
Play8min 15sec'We all have vibrant inner lives': A chat with Minnesota Book Awards-winner Su HwangMay 8, 2020 5:04 PMBy Megan Burks and Tom CrannSu Hwang shares her poetry, what she’s reading for comfort right now, and a little inspiration for quarantine writing.
With floral candles, Hmong sisters honor parents’ farming legacyNovember 8, 2019 4:16 PMEach November, the Hmong American Farmers Association offers artwork people can buy alongside produce grown by Hmong farmers. This year’s art — candles featuring flowers from a Hmong family’s field — comes with a good story.
Play6min 14sec'Sound the Bells' — where Dessa and the Minnesota Orchestra meetNovember 7, 2019 4:03 AMBy Euan KerrYears long collaboration and cross-genre learning results in “Sound the Bells” and some interesting marketing challenges.
Play3min 37secMankato author draws on childhood experience to write YA novel on cultsOctober 4, 2019 4:00 AMBy Euan KerrMegan Cooley Peterson says an experience with her family when she was a teenager spurred her interest in cults, and led to her writing her first young adult novel "The Liar's Daughter."
Play5min 31secArt Hounds: Printmakers in Mni Sota MakoceOctober 3, 2019 5:00 AMBy Marianne CombsHighpoint Center for Printmaking present an exhibition of prints by Native American artists. Plus, Art Hounds recommend Park Square's production of "Aubergine" and the paintings of Frederick Somers.
Minnesota Orchestra appoints its first 'creative partner'September 23, 2019 4:30 PMBy Euan KerrPianist Jon Kimura Parker will spearhead summer programming at Orchestra Hall
$1.5M pledged to finish Minnesota Museum of American Art in St. PaulSeptember 9, 2019 2:18 PMBy Mohamed IbrahimMuseum leaders say the Knight Foundation donation will help complete the museum’s home inside the historic Endicott Building in downtown St. Paul.
Play4min 32secChildren's Theatre Company settles with six survivorsAugust 14, 2019 9:15 AMBy Marianne CombsThe students are all survivors of sexual abuse that occurred at the theater company in the 1970s. A statement from the company did not say how much money was agreed to in the settlement.