Walker Teen Programs are also supported by the Surdna Foundation and a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Canvas put together a 3 day workshop to help artists ages 16-21 with the business side of art.
Day 1 of the 3 day workshop has already passed, but you can still check out the other 2 days. You can either drop in the day of the workshop or you can RSVP (and check out he full description) here.
Every year up to 150 of the nation’s most talented 17-18 year old artists, spanning nine disciplines, converge in Miami for YoungArts Week. Selected from up to 7,000 applicants from across the country, this week long gathering provides gifted young artists with life-changing artistic enrichment experiences. Master classes with internationally renowned artists, workshops, interdisciplinary activities, performances and exhibitions, YoungArts Week has it all. It is designed to support students at a critical juncture in their lives, and encourage their decision to pursue a career in the arts. Benefits include: $500,000 in total monetary awards $10,000 Gold Awards, $5,000 Silver Awards [...]
Some of the best Bboys and Bgirls in the Midwest will be at this battle. Wether you are a seasoned Bboy/Bgirl or just someone who wants to see some epic breakin, Check it out! Click the image for full view.
“The Scottsboro Boys, A Musical” closes at the Guthrie this weekend. If you have the opportunity to go see it (Project Success, wink wink), you should! It’s a grrreat show with historical aspects and significance. It’s a new musical and actually opened at the Guthrie, so you could be one of the first people in the nation to see it! Whoo! If you dont know who or what the Scottsboro Boys are; The Scottsboro Boys were nine black defendants in a 1931 Scottsboro, Alabama rape case, which was heard by the United States Supreme Court twice in Powell v. Alabama and Norris v. Alabama. The [...]
Yeah, next summer seems so far away, but now’s the best time to start planning on what to do to keep your skills up! Lots of colleges offer summer camps where you live on the school’s campus, make art, AND earn college credit! Here are two that i found pretty interesting… NYU Tisch: New York, NY – http://specialprograms.tisch.nyu.edu/page/hsStudents.html MCAD, Minneapolis, MN – http://www.mcad.edu/showPage.php?pageID=1144 Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA – http://www.academyart.edu/degrees/summer_artexperience.html A lot of these kind of programs can be a stress on your (or your parents’ wallets), but scholarships and grants are available for those three listed above. [...]
And so begins the first official meeting of WACTAC, Marielle speaking. With Jake as our Honorable Moderator, we kicked off this first meeting with the fun fact that today was, in fact 90210 (if you write out the date) and so we all looked to our resident Californian, Miss California (known to us as Cali). After admiring our new spiffy badges, the big topic of the day was rolled out, meeting FUTURE FARMERS. Who are awesome, by the way. We watched some Top 5 videos (Top 5 Ways To Get Arrested with artist Paul Chan, anyone?), and brainstormed some questions. [...]
DJs, dancing, food and zombie movie making. Probably the best mathematical equation for a good time I’ve ever heard. Zombie movie making and dance move making starts at 6 and the video is premiered at 8:30. It’s this friday! Sept. 24, if you’re too excited to wait that long, lock yourself in a freezer and have one of your (most trusted) friends get you out Friday afternoon. You would have the spookiest zombie costume of anyone there! DATE: September 24 TIME: 6 – 9pm LOCATION: Intermedia Arts 2822 Lyndale Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55408 oh, and its FREE!!!
The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts offers summer workshops for adults ages 18-90. Courses include pottery, glass blowing, welding, fibers, wood and much more. Students reside on the campus of the school in beautiful northern Maine. If you are a high school grad like myself and think there aren’t any more sweet opportunities to make art with others, think again. For more info check out http://www.haystack-mtn.org/index.php.
UnReserved: Emerging Arts Station strengthens ties between local schools and libraries and has been creating some great opportunities for local teens artists. Next weekend at the Ramsey County Library in Maplewood, world renown local artists from The BodyCartography Project who use dance, video and installation in their work, will lead beginning filmmakers in capturing the movement and stillness of their environment, their performers, and the movement and stillness of the camera itself. Check out the video of their work. you’re interested in learning more about camera techniques and non-traditional methods of moviemaking, come to this free workshop for teens! For [...]
This Saturday and all Saturdays to come, me and some friends of mine from Main Street School of Performing Arts in Hopkis are planning music shows every weekend in Minnetonka at the Living Waters Market. The Venue serves delicious food, including some of the best pizza I have ever tasted. Anyone can come and anyone can play. Admission is free to every show, and every show is an all ages show. We are going on our third week this week, and it has been a great success, all we need are musicians, so if you are interested email livingwatersmarket@comcast.net or call 952.938.1929 about details on [...]
There are two new shows opening at the Soo Visual Arts Center next weekend!! -”Systematics” and “Alternative Futures.” The shows, featuring work by Liz Miller + R. Justin Stewart, Allen Brewer + Palmer Valfer, explore concepts ranging from visual overstimulation to language, abandonment to future histories. “Systematics” focuses on how society communicates and consumes information. The work in the show (image above) seems balance the chaotic with logic and order. “Alternative Futures” (below) is inspired by abandonment and discarded objects, and explores the past, present, and future. There is an opening reception on Saturday, September 18th from 6 – 9pm. [...]
In my Sociology class today my teacher showed us this website and i thought it was pretty cool. What they do is, instead of like regular news stories and broadcasts where they have information read to you by a journalist or newscaster with the occasional audio inserts from the interviewee, they give the audio recorders to their subjects. They essentially let them tell their story first hand and you only hear the interviewer’s voice when introducing the posed question and closing the story. It comes off as audio-diary even. The technique has now become more popular, but Sound Portraits is one [...]
The Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC) presents the 2010 Student Open House: Street Level. Thursday, October 14 From posters and graffiti to stencils and wheat pasting, this year’s Student Open House draws on the open air galleries of the streets. Stop in to check out a film, artist talk, or to create your own mud graffiti at the Walker! Art-Making: Mobile Murals Star Tribune Foundation Art Lab, 5-9 Juxtaposition Arts, a non-profit arts organization for youth based in North Minneapolis, will be leading a graffiti-inspired activity with t-shirts and stencils. Come check out this cool organization, and take [...]