Archive | Art Blocks 2017

Photo by Bruce Silcox.

Florence Hill & Blayn Lemke

Florence Hill & Blayn Lemke | Alleys on 31st through 33rd Street between Chicago and Elliot Avenues Florence and Blayn are cutting the trunks of two trees from the neighborhood into discs and holding neighborhood paint days where people can write messages of welcome or celebration onto the disks that will be hung throughout the […]

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Photo by Bruce Silcox.

Zoe Sommers Haas

Zoe Sommers Haas | 32nd and Portland Zoe is holding her third annual Haunted Front Porch on Halloween. Using their puppetry and performance skills, Zoe and her household co-create a spooky, thrilling, all-encompassing front yard and porch haunted extravaganza.

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Photo by Bruce Silcox.

Douglas Ewart

Douglas Ewart | 37th and 17th Ave Douglas will create instruments to contribute sonic joy in the march against gentrification organized by Lacey Prpich Hedtke.

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Photo by Bruce Silcox.

Junauda Petrus

  Junauda Petrus | 32nd and Columbus Ave Junauda will be previewing her film “Sweetness of Wild” at an outdoor screening at Dreamsland. The film is situated in the renaissance of Black Minneapolis defined by Black Lives Matter activism, unrepentant feminism, hood life, queerness, experimental Black music, compelling visual and performance art and urban bike culture.

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Photo by Bruce Silcox.

Xiaolu Wang & Niky Duxburry

Xiaolu Wang & Niky Duxburry | 38th and 40th  and 12th Ave Xiaolu and Niky will create interactive, mosaicked chalkboards that allow for conversation between neighbors to happen in a visual way along their blocks. Prompts on blackboards will be “What does it mean to feel powerful as an agent in our lives, relationships, and communities?”

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