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DNMI: Metropolitan Ballet Presents ‘Giselle’ – Minneapolis, MN

DNMI: Metropolitan Ballet Presents ‘Giselle’ – Minneapolis, MN

Metropolitan Ballet

Metropolitan Ballet Presents: Giselle starring Daniil Simkin & Skylar Brandt

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see world-renowned ballet dancers Daniil Simkin and Sklyar Brandt perform live in what is considered the most romantic ballet of all time.

Celebrate 25 years with Minneapolis and Saint Paul’s own Metropolitan Ballet and experience the romance and beauty of Giselle—the classical tale of a young peasant girl whose heart breaks when it is unveiled that the man she loves is a nobleman betrothed to marry another. A 19th-century masterpiece, Giselle defines the romantic era, featuring the iconic and passionate dance of the Wilis in Act Two. With live accompaniment by the Kenwood Symphony Orchestra, directed by Dr. Yuri Ivan.

Skylar Brandt of New York is a Principal Dancer at American Ballet Theatre (ABT). In 2022, Brandt was named to the Forbes “30 Under 30” list of influential leaders and entrepreneurs.

Daniil Simkin of Russia is a Principal Dancer at American Ballet Theatre (ABT). Beginning with the 2018-2019 season, he joined Staatsballett Berlin as a Principal Dancer while maintaining his position at ABT. He performs worldwide.

Event

Metropolitan Ballet

Saturday, March 23rd, 7:30 PM

Sunday, March 24th,  2:00 PM

 Prices start at $29

Location

Carlson Family Stage

Northrop
84 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN

Wonderlands: A Stained Glass Exhibition by Michael Lizama – Minneapolis, MN

Wonderlands: A Stained Glass Exhibition by Michael Lizama – Minneapolis, MN

Occupying the Space between Whimsy and Mystery

Groveland Gallery: BWCA by Charles Lyon, William Murray, and Michael Paul

Groveland Gallery: BWCA by Charles Lyon, William Murray, and Michael Paul

BWCA by Charles Lyon, William Murray, and Michael Paul

Groveland Gallery: BWCA, an exhibition of new works by Charles Lyon, William Murray, and Michael Paul opens March 9 at Groveland Gallery. The artists share an affinity for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, each one bringing his own unique approach to capturing the character of the region. Charles Lyon settled in Minnesota in 1994 after spending over a decade living in the Arizona high desert. Lyon’s new work is inspired by a love for the Northern Minnesota wilderness. He states, “Traveling…

Event

Groveland Gallery

Opening Saturday, March 9th, 2:00 pm, exhibit on-view through Saturday April 13th, 5:00 pm
Free

Location

25 Groveland Terrace
Minneapolis, MN

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Minnesota Makers: Charcuterie and Cutting boards by KDS Designs – Excelsior, MN

 

 

Northern Clay Center: Edible Exhibition Opens – Minneapolis, MN

Northern Clay Center: Edible Exhibition Opens – Minneapolis, MN

Edible is an exhibition that explores how Asian-American artists use ceramics incorporating food aesthetics to explore cultural identity, memory, and American society. Our relationship to what we eat is the most intimate possible: the food we consume literally constitutes our bodies, and the ways we consume it link us to each other, our loved ones, and our ancestors. Ceramic sculpture in the form of food has become a way for these artists to explore complex relationships to their identities and bodies.

For artist Anika Hsiung Schneider, representations of food and ordinary kitchen objects are a way of understanding her, “Chineseness through [her] Americanness.” Jacqueline Tse’s porcelain dessert sculptures comment on American consumerism and her own relationship to sugar, while also serving as memento mori through the color white, associated with death in Chinese culture. Schneider, Tse, and other artists, draw on their experiences to make new icons of food that remix historical objects, symbols, and materials. Evocative and playful, potent and bittersweet, Edible includes artists working across the United States who take diverse approaches to understanding identity through ceramics and food.

Participating artists include: Ling Chun, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Cathy Lu, Anika Hsiung Schneider, and Jacqueline Tse.

 

Edible

Exhibition opening Friday, March 1st, 6 – 8 pm

On-view Saturday, March 2nd, through Sunday, April 21st

Free

Location

Northern Clay Center
2424 East Frankin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN
Arctic Highways: Unbounded Indigenous People – Minneapolis, MN

Arctic Highways: Unbounded Indigenous People – Minneapolis, MN

Photo credit: The Evening Covers Everything by Marja Helander

Arctic Highways: Unbounded Indigenous People

This month opened, the American Swedish Institute will host a special traveling exhibition featuring the artwork and duodji handcrafts of 12 Indigenous artists from Sápmi and North America. Arctic Highways shares stories of Indigenous People who live on different continents yet regard themselves as kindred spirits. Each artist tells their own stories, through their own forms of expression, inviting opportunities to explore what it means to be unbounded—not just for Indigenous People, but for all of us.  

Curated by Indigenous artists Tomas Colbengtson, Gunvor Guttorm, Dan Jåma and Britta Marakatt-Labba, Arctic Highways will include their own works alongside those of artists Matti Aikio, Marja Helander, Laila Susanna Kuhmunen, Olof Marsja, Máret Ánne Sara, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Maureen Gruben, and Meryl McMaster.   

“We are indigenous peoples who live in different countries and on different continents, and yet regard ourselves as peoples with kindred spirits. The borders of nation states, arbitrarily drawn without regard to the landscapes of our ancestors, have been used to group the Sámi people, and to set us up to fight against our brothers and sisters living on the other side, fencing in, and silencing our voices and our knowledge.   

With this exhibition we want to tell our own story, through our own experiences, using our own forms of expression. We want to provide opportunities to think broadly about what it means to be unbounded, pointing to the limits that borders set, not just for indigenous people, but for all of us.” —collective artist statement  

Photography, duodji handcraft, sculpture, textile, and moving image works will be on view in ASI’s galleries for Arctic Highways, offering visitors an opportunity to explore what’s happening in the world of Arctic art and Sámi handcraft, deepen their knowledge of local and international indigenous artists, identify contemporary movements and issues at play in Sápmi and the Arctic, and reflect on their own perceptions of Indigenous groups as a contemporary society, not something of the past.   

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Guided exhibition tours and private tours will be available.

Location

American Swedish Institute

2600 Park Avenue
Minneapolis, MN

doitinnorth shop/share gallery

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (ReVisioning History)

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Food Love: Tooties on Lowry is a real neighborhood restaurant and bar! – Minneapolis, MN

 

Mill City Museum in Minneapolis again nominated as one of nation’s best museums!

Mill City Museum in Minneapolis again nominated as one of nation’s best museums!

WCCOA historic museum in downtown Minneapolis is in the running for a national honor for the second year in a row.

On Tuesday, the Mill City Museum announced that it is among 20 nominees for USA Today’s 10 Best Rearders’ Choice travel award for the category of best history museum.

Last year, Mill City Museum won fourth place in the same contest.

“We are doubly honored to receive this nomination as we celebrate 20 years of welcoming visitors to Mill City Museum,” Mill City Museum Site Manager David Stevens said in a release. “We are so grateful for all the support received from Minnesotans last year. This recognition of the great work our staff does to tell the rich history of Minneapolis is tremendous.”

The museum is asking for the public’s support in voting in the online contest. You can vote once per day. The contest ends on February 12th

Photo courtesy of John Cross / Minnesota Historical Society

The museum itself is a piece of history, located in the ruins of the Washburn A Mill on the banks of the Mississippi next to St. Anthony Falls.

From 1880 to 1930, Minneapolis was the flour milling capital of the world. But that story — and the building that currently houses it — was almost lost.

“The mill shut down in 1965 and it sat mostly empty for the years after that. In the winter of 1991, the mill was destroyed — or nearly destroyed — by a massive fire,” Stevens told WCCO after last year’s nomination. “Could have been the end of the building, but civic leaders and the head of the historical society decided to save what was left of the mill, preserve it as a ruin, then create a new museum within the shell of the old.”

Today, visitors of all ages can learn about the history of flour, food production and Minneapolis.

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