State of the Arts Blog

Lanesboro named top ‘small town art place’
ArtPlace chose Lanesboro as one of the top twelve small towns in the nation for its high density of arts organizations and arts-oriented businesses.
Max Raabe, Tim Harmston, and something about a bear in northern Minnesota
This week, the golden age of American jazz as interpreted by a German orchestra, a gut busting Minneapolis comic, and a Russian fairy tale comes ferociously alive in a Minnesota forest.
Creating strange and beautiful images with a smartphone
Photographer Buckner Sutter has gone from taking images with toy cameras and old Polaroids to using software on his smartphone to create a similar, otherworldly feel.
CVA supporters urge board for a second chance
About one hundred students, faculty and alumni gathered on Summit Avenue in Saint Paul this evening to show support for a plan to keep the College of Visual Arts open.
The Executive Director says she's ready to try something new, and wants to make the break while the Festival is in good health.
Poet Heid Erdrich finds herself ‘pre-occupied’
Erdrich has co-created three 'video poems' that will be shown this weekend, including a look at the Occupy movement from the perspective of a Native American.