‘Arts’ Archives
Arts and Culture Spaces in Phillips are Opening Up
By LINDSEY FENNER The Phillips neighborhood”™s wealth of galleries and museums have started opening up for in-person visits. Please go to each organization”™s website or call for most up-to-date information on hours and COVID restrictions. All My Relations Arts: 1414 East Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis Gallery hours Monday-Friday 10 am - 5 pm and Saturdays 10 am - 3 pm. 612-235-4970 www.allmyrelationsarts.com Current Exhibition: Inherent Right, Artist: Peter Williams, April 26 ”“ June 26, 2021 Exhibition Statement: Yup”™ik artist and designer Peter Williams bridges worlds of fashion, art, tradition and innovation. His hand-sewn works from self hunted animals challenges anti-Native policy and viewers who subscribe to mainstream, non-Indigenous views of conservation, believing that we must “preserve” nature by minimizing human interaction with it. This is in contrast to Indigenous perspectives: We must [...]
Movie Corner: Unhoused
By HOWARD MCQUITTER II Howard McQuitter II Adjust your eyes when you see director Chloe Zhao”™s superb road film Nomadland because it has a feel of a documentary and a feel of an arthouse film, yet it”™s a true narrative. The principal star is Fern, played by Frances McDormand, who has recently lost her husband; and the local gypsum and sheetrock factory in Empire, Nevada where she worked, closed shop. The town just disappears, even the zip code doesn”™t show up on the map. Fern decides she will not stay in Empire so she packs up some small possessions and puts them in her beat-up van and takes off on the road. But before she hits the road the townspeople offer her help, even places to stay. She smiles and quietly refuses the offers. What we learn early is Fern is fiercely independent and refuses any help from churches, social services, and charity. Now she”™s a nomad traveling from one nomad community to another meeting various [...]
New Book Casts Loving SPotlight on the “Sistas”
By DWIGHT HOBBES This article first appeared in the February 4, 2021 Minnesota Spokesman Recorder Strive Publishing empowers youth through the enlightening tool of literacy, most recently with “Celebrating the Sistas,” an anthology/workbook showcasing Twin Cities role models for girls. While these are 10 women, it”™s worth noting, young males would do well to heed the examples. The subject said Strive founder Mary Taris, is “women of color making a difference in the fields of education, politics, business, health, and social services. This biography series is building a written legacy for the children while celebrating the strength, determination, care, success, power, and beauty of each sista. “Every child should have the opportunity to learn about the outstanding contributions of these sistas,” Taris said. The concept originated with Taris and entrepreneur Kevin Johnson, founder of the Twin Cities Steppers [...]
