Summer to Winter: How Artists Continue to Reinvent During a Pandemic
Along with their particular creative spark, artists have a certain flair for adaptability and flexibility. For Emilia Mettenbrink, a violinist with the Minnesota Opera Orchestra,...
The Pandemic Has Given Local Artists a Time for Reflection
This summer, local artists explored the impact of COVID-19 through music, art, animation, photography, story, poetry and dance in Hippocrates Cafe: Reflections on the Pandemic,...
Hawona Sullivan Janzen Tells Untold Stories
Hawona Sullivan Janzen has been saved many times by art - and she believes that many people living in the midst of our painful...
Virtual Event: ART IS… In Search Of
Chamindika Wanduragala is a multidisciplinary artist who brought together three artists working in puppetry. Kallie Melvin delves into the complexities of being a transnational adoptee. Andrew Young’s...
Discover the Origins of Minnesota’s Own Grand Racist Opera
This is the weirdest story you'll probably learn for a while. And yet it's all true.
In 1928, Minnesota hosted an original opera performance attended...
Junauda Petrus-Nasah Creates a World of Radical Whimsy in Her Art
For Junauda Petrus-Nasah, our world is at a critical creative moment. Though Junauda’s work has long revolved around her vision for racial equity, she...
Minnesota Portraits: A Conversation with Dominique Serrand
Artist, performer, director, Dominque Serrand discusses the origins and humble beginnings of the renowned company he helped to start, Theatre de la Jeune Lune....
Take a Listen to Reinaldo Moya’s Minnesota-Latino Opera
It was by chance that Reinaldo Moya fell in love with classical music. Growing up in a working-class neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, Moya's two older...
Comic Relief in a Time of Coronavirus Anxiety
When Minneapolis comedian Ali Sultan put out the word on his Facebook feed that he was doing an online open mic comedy hour, I...
A pandemic walks into our lives… But we still need a...
If a certain trace of hopelessness invades some corner of your day, it's no wonder: We are living through a pandemic the likes of...
