Thinking Out of the Box
Kingfield’s 5th Annual Community Art Show-March 20-Get tickets here!
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Dec
3
Local Art Holiday Opening
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Make a difference this holiday season!
Support your LOCAL business & artists as you purchase unique, fun & funky gifts in a comfortable & interesting atmosphere.
Featuring the work of local artists; Tammy Ortegon, Westy Copeland & Eileen Espinosa (painting) Amina Harper (illustration) Maya Rose, Brenna Busse, Kristen Treuting, Laura Burlis, Carole Bersin, Rose Shetka (clay, textiles & more)
feminist-shirts by KM Stitchery, fused glass by Lisa Mathieson, plant dyed & hand spun yarns by Swagg biz, plus many more artists, gifts, funny holiday cards, art prints, natural body products, perfume oils, jewelry, angels around the world, funky baby onesies, peace coffee, gypsy tea, Bt McElrath chocolates & unique treasures.
Opening reception:
Saturday, December 12th 6 – 10pm and
Sunday, December 13th 12 – 6pm (yarn spinning demonstration by Kim Christensen 2:oo-4:oo on sunday)
The Color Wheel Gallery
319 W 46th St (46th & Grand)
Minneapolis 612 823 5693
Show runs: December 12- 27 gallery hours: 11-7pm Tues-Sat
Opening event is free & open to the public and will feature wonderful refreshments, unique gifts & great conversation with interesting people.
Nov
25
Thinking Out of the Box: A CALL FOR ARTISTS
Creative solutions, unusual juxtapositions, innovative use of materials…Kingfielders are a revolutionary crowd! This year’s 5th Annual Community Art Show asks local artists and community members to create 2-dimensional or 3D art that expresses their creativity and presents something outside of the ordinary 4-sided straight walls of our regular world.
A twist of words, a repurpose of materials, an invention of sound or sight, an image that leaps off the wall…let your mind go free and think out of the box!
Registration Deadline: March 10, 2009
Artwork Due: March 13 and 14, 2009
Selected pieces hung for predisplay at Anodyne@43rd
All pieces sold by auction Saturday, March 20
To register, visit www.kingfield.org or call 612-823-5980 AFTER December 15,2009!
Nov
19
Holiday Gift Making, Drink Mixing, & Marketing!
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Kingfield E-Notice: 11/18/2009
1. MPS Area C /Zone 3 Meeting, Thursday Nov. 19, 6:30 PM, San Miguel School
2. KFNA Green Committee Meeting, Thursday Nov. 19, 7:00 PM, MLK Park
3. Kingfield Farmers’ Market Holiday Market, Nov. 22, 8:30 AM- 1 PM, Rau+Barber
4. Garfield Holiday Art Bazaar, Dec. 5 and 6, 4017 Garfield Ave
5. Minneapolis Public School Open Houses, various schools at various times
6. Studio Bricolage Holiday Party & Gift Making, Dec. 4 and Mixology Dec. 5
Also…the KFNA Redevelopment Committee Meeting CANCELLED for November due to Thanksgiving. December’s meeting will likely be delayed too, due to Christmas. Read more
Oct
11
A Conversation on Public Art in Minneapolis
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Hosted by The Minneapolis Arts Commission
Tuesday, Oct 13, 6:30
Pohlad Hall, Hennepin County Library – Central, 300 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis
Free and open to the public!
How does Minneapolis select public art? How can artists and communities get involved in the process? Why do the Public Works and Park Board get involved? Learn all about public art in Minneapolis during this conversation with a panel of experts.
Mary Altman, Minneapolis Public Art Administrator
Lonnie Nichols, Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board
Paul Ogren, Minneapolis Public Works
Sarah Linnes-Robinson, Kingfield Neighborhood Association
Wing Young Huie, artist
Moderated by Marianne Combs, Minnesota Public Radio
Sep
12
Calling all Photographers! Think Out of the Box!
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What is great about your Neighborhood? We need you to SHOW US!
We are looking for local professional and amateur photographers to submit photos showing any small detail snapped in the community that defines for you, the Kingfield neighborhood. We are asking for you to submit your photos (limit up to 5 sets), along with a short phrase completing the sentence “Kingfield is….” for each image set, along with the Application Form by October 1, 2009. Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of community members including local fellow-photographers; photographers on the panel will not be restricted from submitting images. Up to 20 images will be selected and used to wrap utility boxes in the Kingfield Neighborhood. This project’s goal is to promote public art in the Kingfield neighborhood and prevent graffiti on the publically owned boxes.
The “Kingfield Utility Box/Thinking Out of the Box” Project:
The Utility boxes sit on our street corners all over the city hiding the wires and triggers that make our phones, and lights, and traffic signals work. Once you start to look for them, you begin to wonder how you ever avoided noticing the often battered and frequently graffitied metal canvases that grace our neighborhood. The Kingfield Neighborhood Association recognized their untapped potential and is piloting a project in the fall of 2009 to wrap the boxes in photographic images.
Selected photos will be formatted to fit on a publically-owned utility box, which will be wrapped on all 4 sides and the top with selected photographic images of our community. The images are printed on an adhesive 3M product and installed on the utility boxes by a professional installer. An example of the pilot project, image provided by John Barber, can be viewed in Attachment A, as well as on the northwest corner of 38th and Nicollet.
Read more about this project and see the full Call for Artists and Images!
Sep
11
Calling all Photographers! What is great about your Neighborhood? We need you to SHOW US!
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We are looking for local professional and amateur photographers to submit photos showing any small detail snapped in the community that defines for you, the Kingfield neighborhood. We are asking for you to submit your photos (limit up to 5 sets), along with a short phrase completing the sentence “Kingfield is….” for each image set, along with the Application Form by October 1, 2009. Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of community members including local fellow-photographers; photographers on the panel will not be restricted from submitting images. Up to 20 images will be selected and used to wrap utility boxes in the Kingfield Neighborhood. This project’s goal is to promote public art in the Kingfield neighborhood and prevent graffiti on the publically owned boxes.
The Project:
Utility boxes sit on our street corners all over the city hiding the wires and triggers that make our phones, and lights, and traffic signals work. Once you start to look for them, you begin to wonder how you ever avoided noticing the often battered and frequently graffitied metal canvases that grace our neighborhood. The Kingfield Neighborhood Association recognized their untapped potential and is piloting a project in the fall of 2009 to wrap the boxes in photographic images.
Selected photos will be formatted to fit on a publically-owned utility box, which will be wrapped on all 4 sides and the top with selected photographic images of our community. The images are printed on an adhesive 3M product and installed on the utility boxes by a professional installer. An example of the pilot project, image provided by John Barber, can be viewed in Attachment A, as well as on the northwest corner of 38th and Nicollet.
The Project Area:
Kingfield is bordered by 36th Street and 46th Street south and 35W and Lyndale Avenue; priority will be given to images captured within this area, but any photo capturing the spirit of our city will also be considered. Photos are not restricted in content or date taken but must be “family-appropriate”.
The Artists:
Anyone with a camera and the ability to send a digital file is qualified to submit a photo for consideration. If you are submitting a historical photo of the neighborhood you must either prove that you are the owner of the photograph or provide us with proof that rights of the photograph belong to you, or can be secured by the Historical society of Hennepin County or another local history center.
The Submissions:
A thumbnail of each photo must be submitted via email to info@kingfield.org along with the Application Form (Attachment B); if photos are submitted as a set, intended as the sides and the top of the box (see attached template), they need to carry the same name and be titled as ‘.top’ and ‘. ’sides’. You must also submit a disc with the high-resolution images on it by October 1 to KFNA, 3754 Pleasant Ave South, Room #101, MPLS, MN 55409 so we can view the final specs of each digital file. Selected images will be expanded up to 5×8 feet so the higher the resolution of the photo the more likely it will work in this format and be selected by the panel. Files should be as large as possible. Please submit TIFF formatted files and use your name as the file name, (i.e. “Ansel_Adams.sides.TIFF”)
The Artist Agreements:
Artists will not receive compensation for their submission nor for selection of their image. Artists must sign a VARA Waiver (Attachment C) releasing rights to the applied image for its life as public art. Artists will have their name included on each artwork that is selected by the panel and is used for application on a utility box. Although this is a project involving an artist’s eye of their community, the digital images are serving the purpose of preventing graffiti in our community. Artists must allow the panel to alter the dimensions, and size of their photographs to fit the size of the box their artwork will be used on; alterations may include cropping, stretching, segmenting, and adding text in the artist’s words.
Artists will be honored at a reception held in their honor at the close of the project at a date to be announced later.
Questions?
Any questions regarding the process, materials, project purpose, should be directed to Sarah Linnes-Robinson, Executive Director of the Kingfield Neighborhood Association at sarah@kingfield.org or 612.823.5980. This project is funded by a Clean City Grant from the City of Minneapolis.
Copies of this Call for Photographers can be downloaded using the link at the top of this page. Images and all the attachments can be found at http://kingfield.org/art-connecting-kingfield/thinking-out-of-the-box/.
Aug
24
Tuesday August 25, 6:30-7:30 PM
Color Wheel Gallery, 319 West 46th Street
Come see the show, enjoy some Nicollet Pothole Icecream, and take home one of the youth-made portraits at this celebration of youth and art!
“Our Youth/Our Future” Public Art Project focuses on youth portraiture, celebrating the diversity of culture, appearance, learning and ideas in our community. All neighbors are invited to see the talent and diversity in our community before the art is spread throughout the city as one-of-a-kind yard-signs which display the faces of our youth and our future! Visit here for more information. Read more