Event
The Downtown Minneapolis Street Art Festival
Saturday, August 12th & Sunday, August 13th
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Location
Nicollet and Hennepin Avenue in downtown Minneapolis
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The Downtown Minneapolis Street Art Festival Returns
2023 Marks the 30th Anniversary of the Minnesota Fringe Festival!
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The Minnesota Fringe Festival has grown from featuring 52 shows in 1994 to showcasing nearly 600 performances of over 110 shows in 2022. Amidst many changes over the past quarter century, Minnesota Fringe remains steadfastly committed to it’s core principles: producing opportunities for artists of a wide variety of backgrounds, abilities and experience levels; creating novel ways of engaging with the performing arts; and a continuing commitment to accessibility for artists and audiences.
To celebrate three decades of adventurous achievements, Minnesota Fringe is planning a few special events over the next year to highlight the variety of talent that has graced our stages!
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About
Ways to Support Minnesota Fringe in our 30th Year!
Volunteer
Volunteers make the fest go ’round—plus, you can earn perks like free show admission, an exclusive button, a sick t-shirt, and more!
Join Fringe with Benefits
Our members help support the Fringe year-round, and have access to exclusive perks like a members-only Facebook group, show passes, and more!
Subscribe to the Fringe File
Our newsletter contains Festival updates, as well as artist resources, show postings, and more!
Follow the Fringe
You can find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
Donate
Minnesota Fringe is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, and your donations support our mission of supporting adventurous art.
From our humble beginnings, Fringe has steadfastly remained committed to its core principles:
- producing and performances opportunities for artists of a wide variety of backgrounds, abilities, and experience levels;
- providing novel ways of engaging with the performing arts; and
- committing to financial accessibility for both artists and audiences through low-cost tickets and lean producing models.
Fringe has paid local, national, and international artists more than $2.5 Million from ticket revenues over the past decade, has a $1.2 Million annual economic impact on our community, and continues to experiment with year-round programming that champions adventurous artists to adventurous audiences.
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ICYMI
Opera On The Lake: Como Lakeside Pavilion for Die Csárdásfürstin (The Csardas Princess) – St. Paul, MN
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Join us this summer at the Como Lakeside Pavilion for Die Csárdásfürstin (The Csardas Princess) !
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This absolute gem of a piece tells the story of Sylva Varescu, a successful cabaret performer who falls in love with a nobleman. Can their love survive the pressures of society? Full of lush melodies, humor, emotion and wit, you’ll see and hear why Die Csárdásfürstin (The Csardas Princess) remains an enduring hit of the operetta genre.
This production features a completely original English dialogue libretto crafted by Creative Director, Anne Wieben, as well as a brand new chamber orchestra arrangement by our conductor and Musical Director, Marco Real d’Arbelles.
Join us for an evening full of gorgeous music, top-notch performances from local and international opera stars, and a whole lot of fun!
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Cast & Schedule
If you’re interested in seeing a particular performer, please note their performance dates!
Sylva Varescu:
Anne Wieben: July 26, 28, August 4
Ariana Strahl: July 29, August 1, 3
Edwin Lippert-Weyersheim:
David Walton: July 28, 29, August 1, 3, 4
Wesley Frye: July 26
Count Boni Káncsiánu:
Justin Spenner: July 26, 28, 29, August 1, 3
Trevor Lemon-Todd: August 4
Countess Stasi:
Melanie Long: all dates
Feri von Kerekes:
Michelle Monroe: all dates
Gräfin Lippert-Weyersheim:
Amy Wolf : all dates
Chorus:
Maggie Burr, Wesley Frye, Anna Maher, Blanka Melbostad, Eryn Tvete, Trevor Lemon-Todd, Amy Wolf
Musical Director: Marco Real d’Arbelles
Director/Producer/Libretto: Anne Wieben
Rehearsal and pit pianist: Jordan Buchholtz
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Historic Map : Map of The City of Saint Paul Capital of The State of Minnesota Done in The Old Style
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Location
Como Lakeside Pavilion
1360 Lexington Pkwy North
St Paul, MN
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ICYMI
Kerfoot Canopy Tour – Minnesota Adventure Park’s Zipline Tour & High Ropes Course – Henderson, MN
Among Friends: The Generosity of Judy and Ken Dayton – Minneapolis, MN
Andy Warhol, Flowers, 1964. Gift of Judy and Kenneth Dayton, 2022. Courtesy Walker Art Center
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Walker Art Center: Those who have spent time in the Walker Art Center’s galleries or the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden will have encountered major works of art gifted to the Walker’s collection by Judy and Kenneth Dayton, patrons who made a profound impact on the cultural institutions they supported, helping to make Minnesota a national hub for the arts. Together, the Daytons assembled a distinctive collection of American art. Their approach to collecting was driven by curiosity, passion, and lasting relationships: some of the artists whose works had pride of place in their home—such as Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, and Claes Oldenburg—became their close friends.
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This exhibition pays tribute to the generosity of the Daytons, who over the decades enabled more than 550 artworks to enter the Walker’s collection, including many sculptures in the Garden. In 2000 the Daytons made headlines when they announced their intention to gift their personal collection to the Walker, a bequest fully realized in 2021 following Judy’s passing. On view in the current exhibition are significant paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints by artists including Alexander Calder, Sam Gilliam, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Agnes Martin, Barnett Newman, Louise Nevelson, Martin Puryear, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol.
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Kenneth Dayton (1923–2003) was one of five brothers who inherited Dayton’s department store, growing the family company into a retail powerhouse that included present-day Target Corporation. In the 1940s, the Dayton family committed their business to a standard of giving 5 percent of its pretax profits to the community, a philosophy soon adopted by other Minnesota corporations. Judy Dayton (1927–2021) became a member of the Walker’s Board of Trustees in 1966 at age 39. She assumed the role of board president in the early 1970s—making her one of the first women to lead the board of a major cultural organization in Minnesota—and ultimately served as a trustee with distinction for 55 years.
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At the Walker, Judy and Kenneth Dayton’s philanthropic legacy is second only to that of founder T. B. Walker, who opened his art collection to the public 143 years ago. One of the Daytons greatest gifts was a trust, established in 1998 in support of Walker operations and programs. This has made possible—among many other things—impactful visual arts exhibitions; major new dance, music, and theater performances; hundreds of film screenings; and innovative educational and community programs. While the Daytons steadfastly declined public recognition of this foundational support, their legacy is one that has unequivocally transformed the Walker, and one that will shape the experiences of its visitors for generations.
ICYMI: The first WAKPA Triennial Art Festival takes over Minneapolis and St. Paul
Photo Gallery – The first WAKPA Triennial Art Festival takes over Minneapolis and St. Paul
New York has the Whitney Biennial, Los Angeles has the biennial Made in L.A. at the Hammer Museum, and now Minnesota has the WAKPA Triennial Art Festival.
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StarTrib: But there’s one big difference. The new WAKPA Triennial Art Festival takes a different approach to the popular artworld biennial and triennial models. Instead of being museum- or gallery-based, this event takes place at more than 25 arts organizations across the Twin Cities.
WAKPA kicks off on Saturday, runs for nearly three months and includes more than 110 artists.
“We’re going big and bold in the WAKPA Triennial, with a lot of projects that have been commissioned that will be in outdoor environments and public spaces,” Public Art Saint Paul President and Executive Director Colleen Sheehy said.
Public Art Saint Paul, the lead on this project, will work with about 35 organizational partners. Exhibitions and site-specific projects mostly will take place in smaller art galleries and cultural centers, but there also will be events or shows at museums.
“Wakpa is the source of life,” writes Dakota writer, educator and artist Gwen Westerman in her essay for the triennial. “Rivers carry our first medicine, mni, that can nourish and heal us. To be near a river can be soothing, and to hear the sounds of water flowing, sounds of water filling, sounds of water falling.”
Artist Seitu Jones’ project “artARK” takes place at the Watergate Marina on the Mississippi and other locations, and he also will show work at Dreamsong Gallery.
The river shaped some projects, while the uprising shaped others.
Xavier Tavera’s “Evocation of a Latin Dance Club” commemorates El Nuevo Rodeo, a Latin dance club formerly at 27th Avenue S. and E. Lake Street. in Minneapolis. It burned to the ground during the uprising following George Floyd’s killing, and today only a ghostly Facebook page lingers.
Tavera’s project visualizes nine archetypes of the Latino community on the side of a 42-foot shipping container. Because the club was on the second floor, the containers will be elevated 8-10 feet high on metal structures.
“The nine or so characters will be lining up, but they’re not inside having a blast,” he said. “They’re essentially lining up to get in, and I’m doing this because the Latino community lines up for everything… there’s the notion of lining up for immigration purposes, for services, for pretty much everything. And one of these lines of course is to get into the club.”
Artist Angela Two Stars, whose public artwork often involves community participation, will present phase two of her 2021 project “The Transition Stage,” a space for holding community hopes, dreams and sorrows following the murder of George Floyd.
Pre-pandemic beginnings
Although planning for the WAKPA Triennial Art Festival started before 2020, the pandemic and the uprising greatly shaped how it has come together.
This is not, however, the first triennial or biennial to come to the Twin Cities or the region.
Last year, Ginger Porcella, the former Franconia Sculpture Park executive director and chief curator, launched the 4Ground Biennial, an ambitious, two-month-long, multistate land art biennial.
In 2021, the Minnesota Museum of American Art (known as “the M”) invited 50 artists from the region to participate in “Many Waters: A Minnesota Biennial,” which took place in the window galleries of the M, at NewStudio Gallery in St. Paul, and the Q.arma Building in Minneapolis.
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Tin Sign, Vintage Saint Paul Typography Neighborhood Map
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For Public Art Saint Paul, an art triennial that works with multiple organizations across different locations with a highly collaborative approach is, as Sheehy said, “just the way we work… there’s almost nothing we do solo.”
Sheehy spoke with Porcella as she was developing the 4Ground Biennial, which was similarly spread out, but even more so across four states and with a focus on rural areas. Throughout the process, Sheehy received input from Indigenous people who were on various committees and the ideas that came from those conversations.
“In Toronto they call it the Toronto Biennial, or the Liverpool Biennial, and in Cleveland they have the Front International,” she said. “And then Prospect in New Orleans or Desert X in the Coachella Valley.”
They wanted to have more than just a name and the place.
“It adds to the poetics of the whole endeavor,” she said. “When the possibility of a Dakota word came up, that was what people gravitated to.”
Will this triennial stick around?
Two Stars used to live in Grand Rapids, Mich., and remembers how ArtPrize, the annual 18-day, citywide art competition, changed the city’s landscape.
“These festivals have the potential to give a community access to artists, and then also just gets people out in the community,” Two Stars said. “I think it’d be nice if WAKPA does continue, and with this being a pilot, it’s kind of the guinea pig.”
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Now through – September 16th
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Minnesota State Fair: The 2023 Minnesota State Fair Official Commemorative Art
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The 2023 Minnesota State Fair Official Commemorative Art by Minneapolis crop artist Liz Schreiber is here!
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Schreiber’s artwork is made with 29 different types of seeds. To create crop art, she uses a toothpick and Elmer’s glue to affix each seed individually in areas with a lot of detail. For the background, she usually deploys a ‘glitter’ method, where glue is applied and then seeds are tossed on top, with the excess shaken off. The crop art competition has been a Minnesota State Fair tradition since 1965.
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About
The 2023 Minnesota State Fair’s Official Commemorative Art was unveiled at the State Fairgrounds on Thursday, June 8, by Minneapolis crop artist Liz Schreiber. Surrounded by State Fair enthusiasts, she presented her richly detailed mosaic of iconic State Fair imagery made entirely from seeds. Her 22” by 30” crop art with an original frame will be on display in the Fine Arts Center during the 2023 Great Minnesota Get-Together, August 24th through Labor Day, September 4th.
Over the years, the chosen official commemorative artist has worked in many different mediums from photography to watercolor to screen printing and now, for 2023, the medium is seeds. Crop art is an intricate and unique art form and is thought to have originated on farms, where people had an abundance of seeds and were less busy in the winter, so they glued seeds to boards to make pictures. The crop art competition has been a Minnesota State Fair tradition since 1965.
Schreiber’s artwork is made with 29 different types of seeds. Although the Minnesota State Fair crop art competition requires the use of only seeds that can be grown in Minnesota, she opted to use one non-Minnesota seed since the artwork is not for competition. “I was given a giant jug of palm seeds by my friend’s mom who had saved them for me and labeled them ‘for Nancy’s friend,’” said Schreiber. “I thought that was really sweet, and that this would be a good opportunity to use them.”
Schreiber focused on her favorite aspects of the fair when deciding what to depict in the artwork. “Looking at the piece, you’ll see that ‘corn’ is a big theme: roasted corn, corn dogs,” she said. “Plus, I always loved the antique tractors (Old Iron Show) on Machinery Hill. Cattle and all the animals are also a huge draw for me. And the Ferris wheel is such an iconic symbol of the fair.”
To create crop art, Schreiber uses a toothpick and Elmer’s glue to affix each seed individually in areas with a lot of detail. For the background, she usually deploys a ‘glitter’ method, where glue is applied and then seeds are tossed on top, with the excess shaken off. “This year I figured out a new process,” she said. “Because the piece was so big and difficult to shake out, I used a mini Dustbuster vacuum to remove the excess seeds. It worked really well.” She added, “I worked on this piece full time for six weeks, seven days per week. It took me approximately 300 hours total.”
Schreiber has been entering the State Fair crop art competition each year since 2004 and has won 26 ribbons, including seven blue ribbons and one reserve champion ribbon. Her crop art has been featured in several local publications, including Vita.mn Magazine, Edible Twin Cities, Growler Magazine and others. She has taught crop art workshops and classes at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Hennepin History Museum and Marine Mills Folk School. She worked with the University of Minnesota College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) to design and create an interactive crop art map in the Agriculture Horticulture Building during the 2022 State Fair. She works in a variety of other mediums and her artwork has been included in gallery shows locally at VeVang MPLS, Hennepin History Museum’s Homegrown exhibit, and most recently, Rosalux Gallery. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she studied sculpture and printmaking, and a Master of Fine Arts in costume and set design from the University of Minnesota.
The commemorative poster and a limited number of signed prints featuring the art are currently available for purchase. During the State Fair, posters will also be available during the fair at State FairWear Gift Shops, Fine Arts Center, J.V. Bailey House and Bargain Book and State Fair Poster Carts around the fairgrounds. Proceeds will support the Minnesota State Fair Foundation 501(c)(3) mission to preserve and improve State Fair buildings, fairgrounds and educational programs.
The 2023 Minnesota State Fair Official Commemorative Art is the 19th in a series of artwork created annually by Minnesota artists for the Great Minnesota Get-Together. In past years, artists have included: Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher (2004), Mary GrandPré (2005), Nancy Carlson (2006), Michael Birawer (2007), Edie Abnet (2008), Leo Stans (2009), Deborah Voyda Rogers (2010), Steve Thomas (2011), Joe Heffron (2012), Marie Olofsdotter (2013), Emily L. Taylor (2014), Adam Turman (2015), Michael Sweere (2016), Ta-coumba Aiken (2017), Kristi Abbott (2018), R. J. Kern (2019), Kevin Cannon (2021) and Leslie Barlow (2022). Check out gallery of past artwork.
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Liz Schreiber, 2023 Commemorative Artist, photo by Ruby Sakes
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For more examples of Schreiber’s crop art work, visit: cropartcreations
Purchase a signed print: A limited number of signed 2023 prints
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Purchase a poster: The 2023 poster is on sale now online. These posters will also be available at State FairWear Gift Shops and Bargain Book & State Fair Poster Carts during the State Fair. Posters are 18” x 24”.
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