Arts Briefs: Waters of history and race at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum
Also: Frogtown art, a diverse arts grant and a chance to meet a sculptor in Rochester
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Arts Briefs is a weekly roundup of Minnesota arts news compiled by the MPR News arts and culture team.
Waves of change
The Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona opened a new exhibition this week: “A Nation Takes Places: Navigating Race and Water in Contemporary Art.”
The exhibition is co-curated by local artist and educator Tia-Simone Gardner and New Orleans artist and researcher Shana M. griffin. It investigates the formation of America and how seafaring connects to “lethal technologies of enslavement, colonialism, genocide, dispossession and extraction.”
Artworks from 38 local and international contemporary artists — including Dyani White Hawk, Dameun Strange, Sky Hopinka and Kara Walker — are juxtaposed with historical works.
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Frogtown’s festive flair
The 10th annual Frogtown Arts Festival is Sunday in the Rondo-Frogtown neighborhood of St. Paul. The fest will include live music from local performers, a Rondo double dutch workshop, an egg roll contest and 20 arts and food vendors.
There will also be the grand opening of 825 Arts, a community art center formerly known as Victoria Theater Arts Center.
It is housed in a historic theater that was built in 1915. More than a decade ago, the Frogtown Neighborhood Association launched an initiative to save the historic theater as a community space.
Memory in the Midwest
Forecast Public Art has announced a new grant to support diverse storytelling through monuments and memorials in rural Midwest communities.
The Midwest Memory Grant will give eight communities $100,000 each, supported by the Mellon Foundation. Project focuses include the voices and experience of people of color and racial justice and Indigenous visibility.
Applications opened Aug. 20 and will continue through Oct. 1. Information is available on the Forecast Public Art website.
Art on the trails
The Art4Trails Program at Rochester Art Center will present an opportunity to meet with artist Jon Kamrath.
The Mahtomedi sculptor created large-scale sculptures made from metal, wood and clay. His sculpture Nidum is installed along the bike trail near the Art Center.
The free event will take place tomorrow at 1 p.m. and will begin in front of the Rochester Art Center.
