Intermedia Arts

Creative Leadership

SASE Jerome Grants for Emerging Minnesota Writers

SASE Jerome Grants for Writers

Intermedia Arts’ annual SASE/Jerome grant program awards grants of up to $5,000 to emerging Minnesota writers. We define an emerging writer as a writer whose work demonstrates a sustained level of accomplishment and commitment, but who has not yet received recognition/ acknowledgement as an established creator from fellow writers and/or other arts professionals.

The Creative Community Leadership Institute

The Creative Community Leadership Institute is a learning network of pioneering leaders in community development and the arts. We believe that the future health of communities demands innovative, cross-sector leadership at every level. To foster this leadership, The Creative Community Leadership Institute provides comprehensive, professional-level training and support for community-engaged artists, organizers, educators, administrators and developers.

VERVE Grants for Spoken Word Poets

The VERVE grant program is designed for emerging artists who are ready to achieve their next level of artistic success, and who are interested in developing their abilities to become artistic leaders in their communities.

Give and Take

We're excited to introduce Give & Take, a new monthly event series produced by Works Progress and co-presented with Intermedia Arts. Built on a new model for engaging curious people and fostering stronger community links, Give & Take will disrupt the traditional dynamic of short-presentation events where "experts" speak to an audience of "lay-people" about topics selected by event producers.

Arts-Based Civic Engagement

B-Girl Be

No longer just a sideshow and so much more than a freak show, women in hip-hop are THE soothsayers, the vandals, the beat contortionists, the ringleaders and the masters of ceremonies.... at B-Girl Be, we are the main event!

On Saturday, September 4, 2010 you are invited to a new spin on our annual event, the B-Girl Be CARNIVAL-where beauty, passion, mystery, movement, culture and creativity collide in a wild celebration of hip-hop and the feminine divine.

Catalyst Series

The Catalyst Series is a new program dedicated to collaborating with and providing support for artists, arts groups and organizations working as catalysts for change in their communities.

Digital Media Workshops

Since opening our digital media lab and new state-of-the-art editing suite, we have been able to offer onsite and offsite digital media workshops.

Innaviews

featuring international hip-hop icons Rokafella and Kwikstep!
Friday, August 27 - Sunday, August 29; 8:00 PM

Moving Lives

Intermedia Arts in partnership with The Advocates for Human Rights created The Moving Lives Speakers Bureau to foster dialogues about human rights and immigration issues in Twin Cities schools and communities through the artwork and stories of immigrant artists.

Queer Voices: A GLBT Reading Series

Intermedia Arts has partnered with Hamline University to present Queer Voices: A GLBT Reading Series. The reading features some of the finest and award-winning queer writers in the Twin Cities on a monthly basis.

Singing the Legacy of Sekou Sundiata: The America Project

Thursday, October 22, 2009 - Saturday, October 24, 2009

Intermedia Arts is proud to have been the first national host site for The America Project: Singing the Legacy of Sekou Sundiata, a series of community events including Art Treats lunches, citizenship dinners, a film screening, potluck dinner and community sing, all designed to inspire and ignite our passionate ideals around citizenry, civic work, and active engagement in civic life. Together we use art, music, conversation and laughter to discuss what it means to be an American today, and to dream about what it could mean in the future.

What's New? 40 x 5—Phase 3

Exhibit Run: June 30, 2010 - July 28, 2010
Artist Reception: Saturday, July 24, 2010 7-10PM

Past Programming

Explore the wide variety of Intermedia's past programming

Youth Mentorship

Project Girl

Intermedia Arts presents

PROJECT GIRL

Look Critically:: Take Action:: Ask Questions:: Be Real

A day camp for girls ages 10-18
with award winning artists!
June 21 - 24, 2010

Clear skin. White teeth. Red lips. Painted toenails. Flawless bodies ... Is this even real? What are girls supposed to look like.

The G.A.M.E.

Graffiti Art Mentoring & Education
The G.A.M.E. is a structured aerosol/graffiti artist-based program designed to mentor and educate youth and young adult artists on the aerosol/graffiti art culture, history and techniques by allowing them the opportunity to create full-scale murals. Our goal is to bring positive recognition and increase respect for the artists and the culture of the art form, with the hope of breaking down some of the stereotypical barriers within the community that prohibit the acceptance of legal aerosol/graffiti art murals.

WINGS

S.A.S.E. Wings is an innovative mentoring program designed for avid young writers, ages 9-19, desiring more support and guidance than is provided in the traditional school setting. Each participant is matched with an artistic mentor from the creative writing MFA and PhD programs of Hamline University and the University of Minnesota. The mission of Wings is to make the literary arts accessible to a culturally and socio-economically diverse group of young writers eager for artistic development.

Young Writers

Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month
Ages 13-19
$3 Suggested Donation

Young Writers is the place for youth! A twice-monthly gathering of aspiring young poets, novelists, fiction writers, essayists and more. We laugh, work, create, and grow together in a community workshop setting - come check it out! (No registration necessary; this is an ongoing drop-in group). Facilitated by Daniel Muro LaMere.

Youth Media Programs (PCTV)

Through their involvement with PCTV, participants develop skills in media literacy, video production and design, including techniques in camera operation, sound, lighting, and editing. They also gain abilities in photography and web design and layout. Simultaneously, students begin strengthening community ties and educating others on important issues.