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The St. Paul Art Collective is presenting a series of events in the Fall of 2021.   GALLERY PARTICIPANTS: Check with each gallery for specific dates and times. AZ Gallery LUA/ Lowertown Underground Artists Dow Art Gallery SOLIDARITY STREET GALLERY 2021/ArT at...

posted from TwinCtiies.com  The Magnificent Golden Agers. Who wouldn’t want to see what they’ve created? This group of women elders worked with teaching artists at the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center in St. Paul to create collages, written reflections, poetry and...

The St. Paul Art Collective is filled with sorrow as we report that Tracie Thompson passed away peacefully with her family on November 9, 2020. She fought a tremendous battle with cancer, and held a positive attitude the entire time from the diagnosis late in May 2019...

“If Wishes Were Trees,” on exhibit next month at the Robbin Gallery in Robbinsdale’s “Extremely Minnesota” juried exhibit. Courtesy of Colleen Cosgrove

Instead of opening their homes and studios for a few days in October for the St. Paul Fall Art Crawl, east metro artists are showing off their work all month.
Virtually, of course.

George Floyd’s death colors three-day outdoor Payne Avenue art festival led by artists of color Oct. 1-3

Fall art crawl cancelled but plenty of local artwork is still for sale!

It can be difficult to turn left into the parking lot of Wet Paint Artists’ Materials and Framing — but that shouldn’t be a deterrent.

The theme ties together work dealing with the anxiety of the coronavirus pandemic, the death of Floyd and even brokenness from personal tragedies.

What happens when you connect the ideas and energies of artists with the needs and opportunities of community? Jack Becker is founder of Forecast Public Art, a 40-year old, Minnesota-based nonprofit that connects the ideas and energies of artists with the needs and opportunities of communities.