April Target Free Thursday Nights feature Life Drawing & Writing Workshop, Plus Citizenship Series
Target Free Thursday Nights
April 4, 11, 18, & 25
5–9pm
Start the weekend early with a healthy dose of art gazing and pop-up activities, all for free.
Citizenship Series Spring 2019: Filling the Void
Thursday, April 4, 6:30pm
Walker Art Center, Free
In the third iteration of this series, a new group of local artists will step inside Carey Young’s Declared Void II (2013), part of I am you, you are too, and respond to the piece through performance and discussion. Each artist will have ten minutes to “fill the void,” addressing issues of immigration, citizenship, and nationalism.
Participating artists:
Peng Wu is a design activist and interdisciplinary artist dedicated to creating socially engaged art. His work has been shown internationally in group and solo exhibitions in US, China, and France. Wu combines the power of design with avant-garde contemporary art strategies to address various issues including social justice, modern medicine, and environmental sustainability. He currently works for Robert Bosch GmbH as a senior graphic designer.
Jonathan Herrera Soto is a Minneapolis- and Chicago-based artist working in print-based media. Recent solo exhibitions include Querida Presencia at the Duluth Art Institute and Entre Rios y Montañas at Annex Gallery, Chicago. He has participated in numerous artist residencies including 33 Officia Creativia (Italy), Spudnik Press Cooperative (Chicago), High Point Center for Printmaking (Minneapolis), and Epicenter (Utah), among others. In 2018, Herrera Soto was the recipient of a Santo Foundation Individual Artist Award and a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. He has a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2017).
Pedram Baldari and Nooshin Hakim are Iranian artists who have been collaborating since 2014. Their work reflects on the social environment, restriction, and the body expressed through sculpture and performance. They explore the space between the body and the space within and around that body. They have shown nationally and internationally in places such as Museum für Neue Kunst, Germany, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Life Drawing with Leslie Barlow
Thursday, April 18, 6pm
Walker Art Center, Free
Try your hand at life drawing from a nude model. All levels are welcome at these monthly, self-directed workshops, hosted by artist and educator Leslie Barlow. The Walker will provide art materials, chairs, tables, lightweight easels, and a limited number of drawing horses.
Please note: This workshop is not drop-in, participants must show up on time before doors are closed to the public.
Leslie Barlow is a Minneapolis-based visual artist. Barlow has exhibited locally and nationally, and recently she has presented solo exhibitions at Public Functionary in Minneapolis and the Catherine G. Murphy Gallery at St. Catherine’s University in S.t Paul. In addition to her studio practice, she also teaches at the University of Minnesota, Metro State University, and Juxtaposition Arts, serves on Made Here’s artist advisory panel, and helps run the newly founded organization MidWest Mixed. She received her BFA in studio art from the University of Wisconsin–Stout (2011) and her MFA with an emphasis in drawing and painting from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2016).
Loft Literary Center Writing Workshops
Thursday, April 25, 6pm
Walker Art Center, Free
This spring, the Loft’s writers-in-residence will guide you through a new creative writing activity every month, each inspired by works and themes from Five Ways In. No previous writing experience required; all materials provided. Just bring your creativity and an open mind. The Loft writers-in-residence will be joined by writer and Walker educator Diane Mullen.
April 25: Nneka Onwuzurike is a creative nonfiction writer living in Minneapolis. She is a 2017 Intermedia Arts Beyond the Pure fellow, a 2016 Givens Foundation for African American Literature Emerging Writers fellow, and a Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation workshop alum. Onwuzurike is currently working on a memoir that explores the joys and pains of being a first-generation Nigerian American through a series of lyric essays.
Diane C. Mullen is a Minneapolis-based writer and arts educator. She is the author of the young adult novel TAGGED and a picture book to be released in 2020. Mullen holds a MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University.
OTHER FREE EVENTS IN APRIL
Film in the Cities: A History and Legacy
Thursdays, April 11–25
Walker Cinema, Free
Film in the Cities (FITC) was a landmark media arts center that helped shape the film community in the Twin Cities from 1971 to 1993. It began as a place for high school students to tell their stories and soon evolved into an accredited college program with a faculty of leading filmmakers, artists’ grants, equipment access, a screenwriting lab, and renowned photo program and gallery. One of the first such centers devoted to the teaching and creation of moving image work, FITC led the nation in advanced film training and supporting artists. Stay tuned for April programs by students and artists as well as films produced by FITC.
FITC: Early Years
April 11
FITC: Films by Artists
April 18
Produced by FITC
April 25
Teen Workshop: Zines + Teens
Saturday, April 13, 1pm
Walker Art Center, Free
Learn how to make an original zine with guidance from local artist Z Akhmetova. Swap with fellow participants or submit your work to the MCTC Zine Library.
Talking Dance with Meg Stuart
Saturday, April 13, 1pm
McGuire Theater, Free with gallery admission
Join Meg Stuart, one of the most acclaimed contemporary choreographers of our time, for an intimate conversation within the immersive onstage installation of Celestial Sorrow, a new interdisciplinary work made with visual artist Jompet Kuswidananto. Stuart, a US-born, Berlin/Brussels-based artist, will discuss her multipart engagement at the Walker as well as the greater expanse of her three-decade artistic career.
The conversation is moderated by leading dance scholar and performer Thomas F. DeFrantz, a professor of dance and chair of the African and African American Studies Program at Duke University and the director of SLIPPAGE, an interdisciplinary research group that creates innovative interfaces for the telling of alternative histories.
Talking Dance with Meg Stuart is presented as part of the Gertrude Lippincott Talking Dance Series, made possible by generous support from Judith Brin Ingber.