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Spring 2008 Season:
Think Local

March 14th to May 30th, 2008

In 1994, Intermedia Arts purchased the Bee-Line Automotive building on Lyndale Avenue in Minneapolis. Seeking the highest concentration of artists in the city, we found the 55408 neighborhood to be the most natural habitat for our growing organization.

While our neighborhood has changed over the last 14 years, our commitment to being a home for local artists and local dialogue is strong as ever. We continue to prove that incubating creativity in our own backyard is a key to a thriving neighborhood.

Join us this spring in celebrating the creativity in our neighbors and in ourselves by participating in classes, workshops, events, performances and dialogues that tap into the power each of us has to creatively contribute to our neighborhoods and communities. Think Local!

2008 Highlights

Political Theatre Festival

February 14—March 2, 2008

In the tradition of Latin American theatre, Teatro del Pueblo once again joins forces with Intermedia Arts and the University of Minnesota to co-present Teatro’s Political Theatre Festival! This festival brings political issues and theatre together to create a forum where ideas and information are exchanged through performance and dialogue.

NEW this year, we focus on the issue of Latino identity; bringing seven new plays to the stage, including two all-new interactive pieces and a world premiere exhibit of the political paintings of Santiago Zarzosa. [more]

MPLS 55408

March 13—May 9, 2008

Opening Night: March 14, 2008 • 7-11:30 PM

This exhibit supports over 50 artists right in our own backyard every year making 55408 one of the most creative neighborhoods in the Twin Cities. This year we take the local conversation to another level, bringing in political leaders and arts advocates to inform and inspire you to get active in 2008 and support your local arts community. Don’t miss our opening night community dialogue and karaoke blowout on March 14th! [more]

Evidence of Real Bodies
Kelly Parks Snider

Project Girl

June 5-August 16, 2008

Opening Night: June 6, 2008 • 7-10 PM

Project Girl is Wisconsin’s first girl-led arts-based initiative created to take action toward becoming better informed critical consumers of mass media advertising and entertainment. In partnership with the Walker Art Center and Perpich Center for Arts Education, Intermedia Arts continues its commitment to providing women and girls a positive and empowering space for change-making. While taking a year off from the B-Girl Be Summit, we invite artists Kelly Parks Snider and Jane Bartell from Madison, Wisconsin, to bring their powerful Project Girl exhibit to our gallery. [more]

The UnConvention

Through November 2, 2008

With emphasis on the Republican National Convention,
taking place in the Twin Cities September 1-4, 2008

The UnConvention is a non-partisan collective of citizens who have come together to create a forum in which to promote the democratic and free exchange of ideas on important issues. It exists as a counterpoint to the highly scripted and predetermined nature of the contemporary presidential nomination process and convention. Intermedia Arts along with The Walker Art Center, Carleton College and others will provide an umbrella for the myriad artistic and educational activities (exhibitions, lectures, performances, etc.) that will take place in the Twin Cities during the lead-up and staging of the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.

[ read more at theunconvention.com ]

Exhibits

Minneapolis 55408

The Intersection of Art and Community

March 13—May 9, 2008

Main Gallery

Intermedia Arts proudly presents the 12th annual installment of MINNEAPOLIS 55408, the multimedia, multi-artist exhibition that displays new works from Minneapolis’ most creative zip code!

W(e are )here: Mapping the Human Experience

March 31—May 9, 2008

Sandy Agustín Gallery

Intermedia Arts and Solutions Twin Cities team up to creatively explore the intersections of communication, technology, and aesthetics. This unique multi-media exhibit invites you to explore and interact with the information around you through data visualization, artistic expression, and interactive installations.

Solutions Twin Cities, founded by young designers Troy Gallas and Colin Kloecker, creates spaces for exploring new ideas & drawing awareness to existing solutions.

Evidence of Real Bodies
Kelly Parks Snider

Project Girl

June 5-August 16, 2008

Opening Night: June 6, 2008 • 7-11 PM

Project Girl is Wisconsin’s first girl-led arts-based initiative created to take action toward becoming better informed critical consumers of mass media advertising and entertainment. In partnership with the Walker Art Center and Perpich Center for Arts Education, Intermedia Arts continues its commitment to providing women and girls a positive and empowering space for change-making. While taking a year off from the B-Girl Be Summit, we invite artists Kelly Parks Snider and Jane Bartell from Madison, Wisconsin, to bring their powerful Project Girl exhibit to our gallery.

Performing Arts

Political Theatre Festival

February 14—March 2, 2008

Politics join forces with the theatre for a three-weekend exploration of Latino identity on stage! In the true tradition of Latin American theatre, Teatro del Pueblo collaborates with Intermedia Arts, The Resource Center of the Americas, and the University of Minnesota to bring seven new plays to the stage that take a fresh look at the politics of identity among the Latino community here, in the United States, and abroad. Using interactive theatre techniques unique to Teatro, audiences are engulfed within play subject matter and are engaged into in-depth conversations regarding hot topics affecting both the Latino and non-Latino community today.

Also, Teatro brings two brand-new interactive pieces to life, including the return of the very popular 2007 piece American Immigrant!, based on American Idol, American Latino!