Kingfield Neighborhood Association

Want to Serve on the KFNA Board?

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 Learn more, and apply here!

The Kingfield Neighborhood Association (KFNA) is a community-based nonprofit that covers the area of 36th to 46thStreet and 35W to the middle of Lyndale Avenue. The mission of the organization is “Serving Kingfield by creating connections, building community, and fostering engagement.”

KFNA has spent over 30 years creating community safety by connecting neighbors to each other, building a thriving small business and nonprofit network where our business owners and nonprofit leaders are valued members of our neighborhood, and problem solving with neighbors by being the bridge to the City of Minneapolis regarding projects, planning, and issues. KFNA has created a series of innovative projects that celebrate our residents and their talents including PorchFest, Empty Bowls, Light It Up Kingfield, decades of visual art shows, the conceptualization and testing of the first utility box wraps in the City, stormwater management demonstration sites, the launching and management of the Kingfield Farmers Market, establishment and care of the Donation Garden and Community Orchard, and over seventy pieces of public art including the Walldogs on Nicollet project.

Consider how you can be part of the Kingfield Neighborhood Association by learning more about the Roles and Responsibilities of the Board, and consider applying for a two year term at the link found here.

KFNA thanks Lisa & Scott, outgoing longtime board members

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With KFNA’s Annual Meeting and Celebration canceled we will miss the opportunity to publicly thank two dedicated members of the KFNA Board of Directors, Lisa Skzeczkoski-Bzdusek and Scott Mueller.  Both of these individuals have reached their term limits for serving with KFNA, Lisa with 7 years and Scott with 8.

Lisa has served as Board Secretary for years, an often thankless job that is critical to the functioning and historical knowledge of an organization. She is a champion or planning Family Engagement events and often volunteers at them alongside her children.

Scott’s interest and expertise on the KFNA Board has been in creative engagement, both on the ground and online. He has helped conceptualize and organize the So Alive dance parties benefiting The Aliveness Project and Get Out the Vote Polling Parties and yardsign campaigns.

KFNA thanks them for their years of service and is glad they will continue to be involved in the community on a project level. Acknowledging that they have big shoes to fill, we at KFNA also ask that all neighbors take the time to vote for representatives on the 2020-2021 KFNA Board of Directors. Please review all 8 candidate profiles for the KFNA Board of Directors Election 2020 and VOTE for up to six of them online! https://kingfield.org/board/

 

4th Annual Eating for Art!

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Thursday, September 16th, 2010

At great local restaurants near you including Anodyne, Bryant Lake Bowl, Butter, Café Ena, Cause Spirits & Soundbar, Champion’s Bar and Grill, Crema Café’, Curran’s Family Restaurant, El Paraiso, Grand Cafe, Victor’s, and more!

Once again, Eating for Art brings local restaurants together to raise money for arts programming and public art projects in the Kingfield and Lyndale neighborhoods. In past years, Eating for Art has raised money to support the award-winning Walldogs on Nicollet mural project, Family Arts Programming at Leonardo’s Basement, and Hosmer Library’s World Music and Dance program. 

 What to do? Gather your friends on September 16th, and go Eating for Art! A percentage of your tab at participating restaurants including will be donated to KFNA and LNA to be used for community-based arts programming in each neighborhood.  For a complete listing of participating restaurants, check the KFNA website at www.kingfield.org .

Questions? Contact Sarah Linnes-Robinson at KFNA, or 612-823-5980.

Remember, the more you eat, the better your neighborhood will look!

Minneapolis Arts Commission Presents Walldogs on Nicollet with an Award for Celebrating the City through Public Art!

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The Minneapolis Arts Commission selected three public art projects to be recognized with the first annual MAC Awards.  The projects include a colorful park bench crafted by youth in North Minneapolis, a Nicollet Avenue mural project that increases awareness of the city’s heritage with historic images of the city (yes, our own Walldogs on Nicollet Project!!), and the installation of dramatic photographs in a downtown skyway to give voice to the Minneapolis immigrant community.   [Read more…]

An Evening of Magic & Hypnotism with Franko!

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Saturday January 10, 7 PM

Solomon’s Porch, 100 West 46th Street

 

Some Kingfield neighborhood residents caught Franko’s show during the Walldogs on Nicollet festivities—he is the official Walldogs’ hypnotist, you know!  He’s back for one more show in Kingfield, a benefit show, in fact, for our Walldogs On Nicollet Project Coordinator, Carole Bersin, to help defray the cost of a mission trip with Solomon’s to Guatemala for Carole and her daughter.  So if you know Carole, or simply love magic!, pack some beverages and come enjoy the hospitality of Solomon’s Porch and see a really fantastic show. 

 

Suggested donation $10 per person and $15 per family. Questions? Contact Carole directly at .