VALT is a free introductory and comprehensive drawing course for 12-21 year olds, taught by working artists, which focuses on developing skills in young artists.

Today, come visit Juxtaposition Arts, meet some artists, and learn more about the program.

Join us for Moss Basket Days at Pahl’s Market, a hands-on planting experience and one of our most-loved spring traditions. It’s a sure sign that spring is just around the corner!

Design and plant your own 16” hanging basket or patio pot in the comfort of our greenhouse. Choose from hundreds of plants for sun or shade, and get help from our knowledgeable team along the way. Once planted, we’ll care for your basket in our greenhouse until early May — when it’s full, lush, and ready to take home.

“Sketches of Minnesota: Civic Community Comedy Revue” is a traveling program designed to increase understanding and encourage conversations among people who might not know each other or have differing viewpoints, by bringing neighbors together over a shared meal and improvisational comedy.

These kinds of conversations are more crucial now than ever, and we think that the program can facilitate essential healing within our Minnesota communities.

Mixed Blood continues the popular Equitable Dinners that brings together strangers and friends from diverse backgrounds to experience theatre, share a meal, and talk about complex issues..

These plays are presented in people’s homes across the metro area. Each quarter, we will unveil a new play addressing a new topic: affordable housing, mental health, racial equity, and climate resilience. 

Renowned poet John Berryman won a Pulitzer prize for his greatest achievement, The Dream Songs, even as he careened between artistic triumph and the chasm of depression and drink, leading to a haunting reckoning on a Minneapolis bridge in the dead of winter.

Through songs, visual art, and emotional performance, STRANGE HEART compassionately evokes the life of a gifted artist struggling with his complicated past. Sharing John's journey are his wife Kate and a puppet named Henry who acts as Berryman’s tormentor, drinking buddy, and artistic alter-ego.

Assalamu A’laykum, Minnesota! WE’RE BACK! Alhamdulillah, we’re excited to announce the return of SAVOR THE NIGHT, brought to you by Muslim American Society Minnesota! Join us for an unforgettable night (11:00 PM – 4:00 AM) of Delicious Food & Bazaar, Qiyam (Tahajjud Prayer), and A beautiful night to connect, reflect, eat, and make lasting memories together.

Join us at Foci Minnesota Center for Glass Arts for the reception and artist talk for our solo glass exhibition Streptomyces by MiNHi England. This reception is an opportunity to meet a professional glass artist and hear them speak first-hand about how and why they create their artwork. Light snacks and beverages will be provided.

The Solo Exhibition Streptomyces by MiNHi England explores the paradox of Streptomyces bacteria as a metaphor for grief.

History Matters Day is an annual event for Minnesota citizens to gather together, learn, and advocate for history. Throughout the day participants will meet with their legislators and visit an information fair at the State Capitol.

This is a hybrid event. Opening remarks will be livestreamed via Zoom. If you would like to meet with your elected officials virtually, please select that option on the registration form.

Click here to learn more about how you can advocate for history.

The Quarter Gallery at the Regis Center for Art is proud to present Kelly Wang: Impressed. Wang is a New York-based artist whose work examines and redefines Asian-American identity and considers the reality of being a diasporic artist. The exhibition reflects the ways history presses itself upon our lives to be seen, felt, and heard across cultures, generations, and national borders.

Jazz Nights at Pimento Nicollet. Mondays just got smoother. Live jazz, Caribbean flavors, and good vibes all night long.

Come eat, sip, and let the music move you.

Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined is a traveling exhibition featuring a collection of works inspired by passports and other travel documents. The series of artists’ books reflects on themes of immigration, power, limitation, and belonging through creative depictions of what the passport reimagined looks like to each artist.

Join us for a landmark celebration as The Apollo Club marks 130 years of music, friendship, and community. This noteworthy festival brings together voices old and new, featuring The Minnesota Boychoir, past Apollo Club members, and a Festival Chorus of singers from Minnesota's choral community and beyond.

Queering Indigeneity is a multi-year, multi-generational project that celebrates the vision and diversity of 2-Spirit, Native queer, gender expansive artists in the Upper Midwest. In seeking out and amplifying voices of Indigenous artists and culture bearers, the M, guided by Penny Kagigebi, hopes to influence the types of artists who are supported, seen, and centered at the museum, and to show both Indigenous and non-Indigenous visitors a more comprehensive and complex story of this region’s art and artists.

Join the House of Hope for drop-in projects or fellowship in the church library each Thursday from 1 – 3 p.m. Bring a project, and we will create and visit!

Drum and Dance is being held from AT AN UPDATED TIME FROM 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. due to community safety concerns regarding ongoing ICE activity in the community. Virtual participation is encouraged, but the event also takes place in person.

Dance categories include Hoop Dance, Woman’s Fancy, Women’s Jingle, and Grass Dance. It is a great opportunity to practice, learn, and prepare in community for the powwow season. The event is open to people at all levels and experiences – whether a person regularly travels on the powwow circuit or has never attended a powwow before.

Children and their caregivers discover the joys of movement through games, stories, and songs. These early classes introduce children to group learning environments while using movement to deepen their bonds with their caregivers.

Dancers develop gross and fine motor skills in classes emphasizing play, observation, exploration, manipulation, imitation, and repetition. For ages 1-3.

Blur the line between artist and audience in this unique participatory experience. Led by Kathy Saltzman Romey, InChoir welcomes the community inside our rehearsal process as we prepare Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Gabriela Lena Frank's Pachamama Meets an Ode for March performances with the Minnesota Orchestra. More than just a rehearsal, this is an illuminating musical experience where strangers become friends through the power of choral singing.

Lift your voice and sing for justice as VocalEssence presents songs of resilience and resistance that inspire all to continue the march towards freedom and racial reconciliation. Hear the rhythmic cry for freedom found in The Justice Symphony by Damien Geter, echoing anthems from the Civil Rights Movement and accompanied by a live symphony orchestra. Experience the poignant and beautiful sounds of the Negro spiritual in the world-premiere performance of two newly commissioned works by the multi-talented composer B.E. Boykin. Embrace the unifying spirit of community!

Join the Rondo Community Music Series to enjoy the artistry of pianist, composer, and arranger Kavyesh Kaviraj, a musician with a rich and diverse background. Born into a musical family in Oman, Kavyesh began his journey at age 2 and has since honed his craft through advanced studies at prestigious institutions, including Berklee College’s Global Jazz Institute.

The Cedar Cultural Center presents the fifteenth annual Cedar Commissions, on February 20 and February 21, 2025 featuring all new works by Deeq Abdi, Creekbed Carter Hogan, and Trick Locket (Bryn Battani).

The Cedar Commissions is a celebrated program for local emerging artists made possible by a grant from Jerome Foundation. Since 2011, the Commissions have showcased new work by over 90 Minnesota-based emerging composers and musicians.

Come on over to AIFC on Thursdays from 10AM – 2PM for our Traditional Crafting Group! Feel free to bring crafts you’re already working on, or check out our supplies to start a craft. This group is facilitated by AIFC’s Treatment Coordinator, experienced crafter, and beader, Sasina Samreth (White Earth Nation).

Sort seeds and connect with neighbors every 3rd Wednesday of the month starting February 18th from 5-6pm at the East Side Seed Library! All are welcome to attend.

Metropolitan State University began in 1971 as the university without walls. For many years, there were neither dedicated classroom buildings nor a physical library. Later, as a campus formed on the East Side of Saint Paul, a small library was started in the New Main building. There, staff oversaw a tiny print collection and helped students use electronic resources and acquire computer skills at the same time. 

At the Hmong Cultural Center Museum, our mission is to educate, inspire, and foster a deep appreciation for Hmong culture and history. Through our engaging exhibits, comprehensive resources, and immersive experiences, we strive to bridge the gap between our communities and generations.

Located in the Second Floor Gallery of Coffman Memorial Union, “Between Worlds” blends traditional and modern art, layering emotion and symbolism through bold abstraction, dynamic form, and vibrant color. Featuring works by local artists Vivienne Ly and Halle Rittgers.

Rooted in intergenerational knowledge, Dyani White Hawk’s (Sičáŋǧu Lakota, b. 1976) art centers on connection—between one another, past and present, earth and sky. By foregrounding Lakota forms and motifs, she challenges prevailing histories and practices surrounding abstract art. Featuring multimedia paintings, sculpture, video, and more, Love Language gathers 15 years of the artist’s work in this major survey.

Visitors are encouraged to engage with Love Language as a community space. The galleries offer lounging areas with interpretive materials, educational resources, and cushions and blankets designed by the artist.

Dreamsong is pleased to present Moonlight, a group exhibition featuring artists Tamara Aupaumut, David Goldes, Ilana Harris-Babou, Nicole Havekost, Alexa Horochowski, Kristen Sanders, Rotem Tamir and Michon Weeks. Across distinct cultural backgrounds, their works share a sensibility attuned to deep geological time and forms of knowledge rooted in mythology, spiritual practices, dreams, corporeality and the natural environment. Contemplating the shifting contours of contemporary humanity, the exhibition opens weeks into ICE’s violent occupation of Minnesota.

Letters Aloud presents BE THE CHANGE, a lively and inspiring performance that brings to life over a dozen letters written by young people to their heroes throughout history, the responses they received, and their powerful impact on society.

Among the many letters in this program, Stan Lee makes good on a decades old promise, a 9-year-old hoopster consults NBA superstar Steph Curry on his shoe empire, a teenaged Tom Hanks tries to get “discovered”, and an 11-year-old girl tells Abraham Lincoln to grow a beard. Our production will include letters written by St. Kate’s students and community members.

Develop artistic skills and explore your creative side with Amy Wilderson, a local artist who creates jewelry using metalsmithing, wire-working and knotting techniques, with discarded objects, reclaimed metals and gemstones. Her work taps into memory, culture and heritage to create wearable, living stories. 

Debra J. Stone will join the Dayton’s Bluff Book Club on Wednesday, February 11th, for a discussion of her new book, The House on Rondo. This event is free, but requires advance registration.

It’s 1963, and thirteen-year-old Zenobia’s grandparents’ house on Rondo Avenue in Saint Paul is targeted for demolition to make way for the new interstate highway. As Zenobia learns what can be destroyed and what cannot, her story teaches us that joy, community, and love persist, even amid violence and loss.