Banner image: Alex Kuno, We Grow Our Roots At Night (detail)

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The Saint Paul Art Crawl is upon us &mdash; October 4, 5, &amp; 6 in venues all over town &mdash; and when we planned this series of articles&nbsp;about it all, our&nbsp;intention was to save&nbsp;Downtown and Lowertown&nbsp;for last, to have fun bopping from place to place, highlighting a few&nbsp;artists and helping you all have a blast meandering around looking at art.&nbsp;

And then the Lowertown arts community suffered a shocking tragedy in the loss of Carrie Kwok, the artist who was killed while working on a mural outside the Lowertown Lofts Artists Cooperative.&nbsp;

&ldquo;You know it&rsquo;s going to take a lot of healing for our building, our members, but for the whole community,&quot;&nbsp;Lowertown artist Ta-coumba Aiken told <a href="https://kstp.com/kstp-news/local-news/investigators-used-car-records-surveillance-video-to-identify-suspect-in-lowertown-homicide-court-docs-state/" target="_blank">KSTP</a>.&nbsp;&quot;Hopefully people will remember the goodness of her and the goodness of artists, how they want to give art for free.&rdquo;

So we will keep our focus on Lowertown&nbsp;this week but with some extra love in our hearts for everyone grieving this loss, even as they prepare to open their doors and show their work. There&#39;s plenty to see and celebrate (and support) this weekend &mdash; and while you&#39;re planning your route, don&#39;t forget&nbsp;last week&#39;s <a href="https://www.mplsart.com/written/2024/09/saint-paul-art-crawl-fall-round-up">Round Up</a> of spots elsewhere in the city.&nbsp;

Gallery hours vary by location, but the official&nbsp;Crawling&nbsp;hours are&nbsp;Friday,&nbsp;5 - 9 pm; Saturday, 12 - 8 pm;&nbsp;and&nbsp;Sunday,&nbsp;12 - 5 pm.

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Let&#39;s start with a couple of the stand-alone spots and save&nbsp;the big studio buildings for last:

<h2>Northern Light Art Studio</h2>

218 7th St E

<a href="https://www.nlasmn.com" target="_blank">NLASMN</a>&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/nlas.mn/" target="_blank">@nlas.mn</a>

&quot;Northern Light Art Studio at the St. Paul Fall Art Crawl 2024 is a vibrant showcase of local art, pottery demonstrations, drop-in workshops, and more!

&quot;Make sure to visit Northern Light Art Studio during the Fall Art Crawl for two days full of art and activities. Located in the heart of downtown St Paul, NLAS is a must-see on your Art Crawl route. Here&#39;s what you can look forward to:

&bull; Shop local art &bull;&nbsp;Drop-in workshops and games &bull;&nbsp;Live art demonstrations &bull;&nbsp;Studio tours

&quot;Open&nbsp;Saturday, Oct 5, from 12 &ndash; 6pm&nbsp;and&nbsp;Sunday, Oct 6, from 12-5pm. This event is free and open to the public.&quot;

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<img alt="Smiling blonde clerk greets shoppers at a pottery display." class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/08c88a0f-0ee3-46b6-8724-148cb8d31171/08c88a0f-0ee3-46b6-8724-148cb8d31171.full.jpg" />Ceramicist Mathis shares pottery at the Spring St. Paul Art Crawl. Photo courtesy of NLAS.

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<h2>Calendula Gallery</h2>

275 East 4th St,&nbsp;Suite 130

<a href="https://calendulagallery.com" target="_blank">Calendula Gallery</a> &bull; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/calendula_gallery/" target="_blank">@calendula_gallery</a>

In their Poppy Room, Calendula Gallery will be showing <a href="https://www.mplsart.com/events/everything-everything-everything-stuart-raymond" target="_blank">Everything Everything Everything</a> by Stuart Raymond.

&quot;Stuart Raymond has been creating his entire life. Trained in art, design and print his artistic&nbsp;roots reach into many mediums as he mines inspiration from the things that move us: culture,&nbsp;politics, war, rebellion, labor, love, sadness, anxiety, consumerism, alcohol, death, and&nbsp;birth. These are the perceptions of the outsider artist. No rules exist.&quot;

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<img alt="Pop collage of two women with red and blue beehives surrounded by clipped headlines." class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/57704edf-d4a7-45ef-a2e0-80548735bbf4/57704edf-d4a7-45ef-a2e0-80548735bbf4.full.jpg" />Stuart Raymond, I&#39;m A Pieces, mixed media. Image courtesy of Calendula Gallery.

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<h2>The M</h2>

350 Robert St N

<a href="https://mmaa.org" target="_blank">mmaa.org</a> &bull; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mnmuseum/" target="_blank">@mnmuseum</a>

You&#39;ll have to wait a few more weeks into spooky season to get a peak at The Minnesota Museum of American Art&#39;s <a href="https://mmaa.org/mevent/new-wing-open-house/" target="_blank">New Wing</a>, finally nearing completion after years of renovation and opening October 26. But in the meantime, crawl through The M to check out a couple of great exhibits &mdash; including one with art you can literally crawl through:

<h3>Hilo&nbsp;de la Sangre (Thread&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Blood)</h3>

<a href="https://mmaa.org/hilo-de-la-sangre-thread-of-blood/" target="_blank">Hilo de la Sangre</a>, curated by Xavier Tavera and Dougie Padilla, brings together fifteen Latine visual artists from across the diaspora to consider the significance of blood as a material foundation of life, a carrier of complex lineages, a signal of violence and death, and a cultural and spiritual symbol of sacrifice and atonement. Despite its potency, its concealed fluidity in our bodies helps us disregard its significance.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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<img alt="Bronze decapitated head covered in orange, red, and black patterned beadwork." class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/27ecd481-461b-40b6-a761-25f883b4d57f/27ecd481-461b-40b6-a761-25f883b4d57f.full.jpg" />Carlos Castro Arias, T&iacute;o (Uncle) Fragment of a Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada sculpture, intervened with beads using symbols of the Inga culture from Putumayo, Colombia, 2021. Resin and plastic beads. Photo by Xavier Tavera, courtesy of The M.

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<h3>Together</h3>

<a href="https://mmaa.org/together/" target="_blank">Together</a>&nbsp;is a mixed media art exhibition featuring artwork from ten Minnesota artist families of diverse ages and family structures who have created individual and communal work for the exhibition. Artists Emmett and Kit Ramstad conceived this project to elevate children&rsquo;s artwork and provide a space for parent artists to support each other as they fulfill the roles of parents and artists while raising a new generation of makers.&nbsp;Together&nbsp;uplifts mixed generational creativity by showcasing artists who have contributed hugely to Minnesota&rsquo;s artistic community and their children who are integral influences to their practice. Closing October 27!

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<img alt="A child crawls out of the mouth of a large red cardboard dog." class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/d778059a-2bda-4618-adb7-4d7eed92d108/d778059a-2bda-4618-adb7-4d7eed92d108.full.jpg" />A visitor enjoys the sculptural installation by Preston, Elvis, and Leroy Drum. Photo courtesy of The M.

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Okay, you ready to do the Art Crawl the way nature intended? Into Lowertown&#39;s big studio buildings we go:

<h2>Tilsner Artist Cooperative</h2>

300 Broadway St

<a href="https://tilsnerartistscooperative.weebly.com" target="_blank">Tilsner Artist Co-Op</a> &bull; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tilsner_artist_lofts/" target="_blank">@tilsner_artist_lofts</a>

Standing side-by-side between Kellogg and Prince St, the big brick&nbsp;behemoths of Tilsner and Northern Warehouse are a good place to spend a few hours and a few bucks supporting local artists, makers, and creatives of all stripes. We reached out to a handful at each building to give you a small sampler:

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<h3>Jeffrey Hansen</h3>

<a href="http://jhansenartist.com" target="_blank">jhansenartist.com</a> &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/jeffhansenart/" target="_blank">@jeffhansenart</a>

<img alt="Abstract geometric painting in reds and grays" class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/99679982-d777-4a59-8d3e-2bc649969ea0/99679982-d777-4a59-8d3e-2bc649969ea0.full.jpg" />Jeffrey Hansen,&nbsp;Non-Zero-Sum Counterweight No.2 w/Linework, 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60&quot;. Image courtesy of the artist.

&ldquo;This is my 30th year of both being in the Tilsner and taking part as an artist in every Art Crawl during that time.

&ldquo;I enjoy creating visual structures that include circles for the idea of how the shape of a circle is used as a symbol for infinity. I believe art, in itself, is infinite. I&#39;m using the circle as a infinite motif to create my art in an infinite universe of artistic possibilities. I tend to use color, form, texture, and lines to convey emotions, ideas, and concepts within simplified geometric construction. Tied together with the term and title of &lsquo;Non-Zero-Sum&rsquo; carries with it another, not so familiar term, for infinite possibilities. A Non-Zero-Sum theory, as it were, has balance of both complementary and completely opposed motives that are perceived as never-ending, or infinite.&rdquo;

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<h3>Boo Studios</h3>

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/booculturestudios/" target="_blank">@booculturestudios</a>

<img alt="Painting of flowers in a vase on white background" class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/a5ec518d-a536-41fa-824b-0e1ae283116b/a5ec518d-a536-41fa-824b-0e1ae283116b.full.jpg" />Boo Studios, Farmers Market Flowers #1, 2024.

&quot;This weekend at the Tilsner Artist Lofts during the St. Paul Art Crawl, my work&nbsp;will be featured in the 3rd-floor hallways. Visitors can expect a bold showcase of vibrant mixed media and wearable arts, including new floral-inspired pieces and my upcycled clothing collection, The Royal Apocalypse. As a multidisciplinary artist, I blend visual art with fashion, creating dynamic, thought-provoking works that explore themes of identity, trauma, and empowerment, with a strong focus on LGBTQIA voices.&nbsp;Each piece, whether on canvas or in fabric, challenges societal norms and invites introspection.

&quot;This weekend, along with free giveaways with every purchase, I&rsquo;ll be hosting a silent auction of older works, offering a unique opportunity to engage with my journey as an artist!&quot;

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<h3>Kyle Rennell</h3>

<a href="https://www.kylerenell.com/" target="_blank">kylerenell.com</a>&nbsp;&bull; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kylerenell/" target="_blank">@kylerenell</a>

<img alt="Purple painting of a smiling cartoon face" class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/1ac4820f-bb17-45ee-8795-015b8be48eb0/1ac4820f-bb17-45ee-8795-015b8be48eb0.full.jpg" />Work by Kyle Rennell, courtesy of the artist.

&quot;My work is a mixed bag of painting and drawing, primarily acrylic painting and graphite drawing. Most of my work is abstract, however, I also do images based on dream interpretation and politics.&quot;

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<h2>Northern Warehouse</h2>

308 Prince St

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/nwac_stp/" target="_blank">@nwac_stp</a>

This may be my favorite spot of the whole Crawl &mdash; tons of great artists, so let&#39;s get to it:

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<h3>La.dy.like Art</h3>

<a href="https://www.ladylikeart.com" target="_blank">Ladylikeart.com</a> &bull; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/la.dy.like/" target="_blank">@la.dy.like</a>

<img alt="Blurry film image of frilly pink platform shoes" class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/31945dcf-69fe-47d4-9cef-38d1d26ded0c/31945dcf-69fe-47d4-9cef-38d1d26ded0c.full.jpg" /> 
Film still courtesy of the artists.

&quot;La.dy.like Art Project Co-Founders Andrea Bagdon and Spencer Legendre-Gillespie are excited to have the opportunity to connect with the community during the St. Paul Art Crawl at the Northern Warehouse Artist Lofts, Studio 310. They will be sharing their latest projects and offering a curated selection of artworks from both new and previous collections for sale.&quot;

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<h3>Burl Gallery (formerly AZ Gallery)</h3>

<a href="https://www.theazgallery.org" target="_blank">Burl Gallery</a> &bull;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/burlartgallery/" target="_blank">@burlartgallery</a>

<img alt="Painting of a Black woman with butterfly wings, a white woman rooting into the ground, and wooden cow" class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/5c4350cc-3606-4e1d-87e0-837bc015f5c3/5c4350cc-3606-4e1d-87e0-837bc015f5c3.full.jpg" />Clockwise from top left: Brit Sigh, Ascension; Kathryn Blommel, Entangled in my Roots; Seth Peter, Furn the Furniture Cow.&nbsp;Images courtesy of Burl Gallery

&quot;Our current exhibit is the 4th in our 2024 Curatorial Series:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.theazgallery.org/exhibits/collective%20alchemy-h355b-2m6x4" target="_blank">Collective ALCHEMY IV</a>, featuring&nbsp;an incredibly diverse body of work from 57 artists.

&quot;We also have a gift shop of artisan wares (candles, soaps, cards, prints, ceramics, etc.).&quot;

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<h3>Alex Kuno</h3>

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/alexkuno/" target="_blank">@alexkuno</a>

<img alt="Painting of conjoined twin women cutting their belly open and guts spilling out." class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/968a972e-c935-472b-b17b-43c40b0653b3/968a972e-c935-472b-b17b-43c40b0653b3.full.jpg" />Alex Kuno, The Riot, courtesy of the artist.

&quot;I&#39;ll be showing some original gouache and oil paintings and my newest allotments of band and artist signed Tool posters will be available, but mostly I&#39;ll be featuring over 30 prints mounted on ready-to-hang wood panels that will be sealed in wax. I&#39;ll also be trying something new this Fall, by opening an 18+ Only little gallery space in my studio to show additional mounted prints of my more NSFW images. It&#39;s an experiment so I&#39;m interested to see if it&#39;ll be worth developing for&nbsp;future Crawls.&quot;

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<h2>Lowertown Lofts Artist Cooperative</h2>

255 East Kellogg Blvd

<a href="https://www.lowertownlofts.org/artists-byname" target="_blank">lowertownlofts.org</a> &bull; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/llartistcoop/" target="_blank">@llartistcoop</a>

And we will end our long, meandering journey through Saint Paul &mdash;&nbsp;which has veered wildly off-brand and proven to be not&nbsp;at all&nbsp;<a href="https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/breaking-the-news/keep-st-paul-boring-slogan-born-out-of-love/89-441281174" target="_blank">boring</a>&nbsp;&mdash; at the&nbsp;Lowertown Lofts Artist Co-Op (not to be confused with the apartment building at 5th &amp; Wacouta). Let&#39;s show up and show them some love.

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<h3>Liz Carlson</h3>

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/lizcarlsonart/" target="_blank">@lizcarlsonart</a>

<img alt="Drawing of fruit in a bowl" class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/fd253684-165e-43d4-b7a7-bc1b1987ad90/fd253684-165e-43d4-b7a7-bc1b1987ad90.full.jpg" />Artwork by Liz Carlson, courtesy of the artist

&quot;This summer I completed over seventy illustrations for the upcoming tweens cookbook Fresh, Food Science written by local author and educator, Dr. Megan Oliva Hall. A selection of the original&nbsp;gouache paintings will be on view during the weekend art crawl. The book release party will be October 24th at the Lowertown Lofts Artist Cooperative. &quot;

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<h3>Nancy Robinson</h3>

<a href="https://www.nancyrobinson.com" target="_blank">nancyrobinson.com</a>&nbsp;&bull; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nancy_robinson_artist/" target="_blank">@nancy_robinson_artist</a>

<img alt="Painting of a purple-haired mermaid in a bathtub" class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/5d59bb5e-cffb-403d-a08d-46b16b6d1b3c/5d59bb5e-cffb-403d-a08d-46b16b6d1b3c.full.jpg" />Nancy Robinson, Mermaid Self-Portrait, 2022. Oil on canvas, 30 x 40&quot;. Image courtesy of the artist

&quot;I&rsquo;m a surrealistic painter. I&rsquo;ll be showing self-portraits which are based on my daily life as a woman.&quot;

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I know that was&nbsp;a lot, but believe me, we&#39;ve barely scratched the surface.&nbsp;Happy crawling, y&#39;all!&nbsp;◼︎&nbsp;

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The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mplsart.com/events/st-paul-fall-art-crawl-2024" target="_blank">Saint Paul Art Crawl</a>&nbsp;happens twice a year and is presented by the&nbsp;<a href="https://stpaulartcollective.org" target="_blank">Saint Paul Art Collective</a>, a network of creatives first started in 1977. This is the third&nbsp;in a series of articles promoting the Fall Crawl; the first is a Q&amp;A with SPAC&#39;s new Executive Director&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mplsart.com/written/2024/09/spac-mariusz-kujawski" target="_blank">Mariusz Kujawski</a>, and the second is <a href="https://www.mplsart.com/written/2024/09/saint-paul-art-crawl-fall-round-up">a round-up of artists and venues</a> in greater Saint Paul.

This weekend's Crawl will take you all over Saint Paul, and here we zoom in on what you can find in Downtown & Lowertown

Saint Paul Art Crawl Fall Round-Up (Round 2)

Banner image:&nbsp;Ziba Rajabi,&nbsp;Tear and Blood (detail),&nbsp;acrylic on muslin and canvas, thread,&nbsp;48 x 60&quot;

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The <a href="https://www.mplsart.com/events/st-paul-fall-art-crawl-2024" target="_blank">Saint Paul Art Crawl</a> is coming up October 4, 5, and 6 in venues all across town, so if we&#39;re going to see it all, what we need is a plan. We reached out to a few of the many, many spots on the Crawl map to see what they had happening so we could help you (and us) plan accordingly. I kid you not when I say there are over two dozen&nbsp;locations across ten neighborhoods, featuring hundreds of artists &mdash; what you see below is a mere smattering.&nbsp;This week we&#39;re starting with folks on and around both&nbsp;University and West Seventh Aves&nbsp;&mdash; next week, we&#39;ll zoom in a bit closer&nbsp;on the denser conclave of artists in Downtown and&nbsp;Lowertown.&nbsp;

But for now, let&rsquo;s start on the west side of town and work our way across, like true Minneapolis folk crossing the river for a look&nbsp;around.

Gallery hours vary by location, but the official&nbsp;Crawling&nbsp;hours are&nbsp;Friday,&nbsp;5 - 9 pm; Saturday, 12 - 8 pm;&nbsp;and&nbsp;Sunday,&nbsp;12 - 5 pm.

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Okay, first stop:

<h2>Spatial Effects Gallery</h2>

1759 Selby Avenue

<a href="https://www.spatialeffectsgallery.com" target="_blank">Spatial Effects</a>&nbsp;&bull; <a href="http://www.instagram.com/spatialeffects/" target="_blank">@spatialeffects</a>

&ldquo;Spatial Effects Gallery showcases Furniture by Third Street Studios and Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Ceramics, Metal Work and unusual crafts such as Carved Gourds and Fused Glass works, all by Minnesota Artists. Besides our beautiful artwork we&#39;ll have refreshments and a special sale.&rdquo;

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<img alt="Artworks on display in a commercial art gallery" class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/c8a9bbbe-25a4-4ce7-aed3-5a9685fdfb29/c8a9bbbe-25a4-4ce7-aed3-5a9685fdfb29.full.jpg" />Photo courtesy of Spatial Effects Gallery.

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<h2>Midway Clay</h2>

1708 University Ave

<a href="https://www.midwayclay.com" target="_blank">Midway Clay </a>&nbsp;&bull; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/midwayclay/" target="_blank">@midwayclay</a>

Midway Clay bills themselves as a community ceramics maker space, offering studio, kiln, &amp; gallery rentals along with classes on wheel-throwing and tile-making and of course, during the Crawl, work from several local ceramicists.

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<img alt="Four ceramic photos from four different potters in a grid of 4 photos" class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/9a90a85e-f952-484b-8dbc-503325baa312/9a90a85e-f952-484b-8dbc-503325baa312.full.jpg" />Pots by (clockwise from top left)&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/george.moore.pottery/" target="_blank">George Moore</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/prairie.olive/" target="_blank">Prairie Olive Ceramics</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/barefoot.potter.mn/" target="_blank">Lei Washington</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/wadespottery/" target="_blank">Wade Scheel</a>.

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<h2>825 Arts</h2>

825 University Ave W

<a href="https://www.victoriatheater.org" target="_blank">825 Arts</a> &bull; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/825arts/" target="_blank">@825arts</a>

Formerly the&nbsp;Victoria Theater Arts Center, 825 Arts serves Frogtown and Rondo with community-focused arts programming, from theater to visual art to Minecraft meet-ups.

&quot;Stop in on the crawl for <a href="https://zamyatheater.org/about">zAmya Theater Project</a>&#39;s A Prairie Homeless Companion and artist exhibitions in our Flex Space alongside our regular programming. Explore our space, enjoy some cool art, and experience a great show!&quot;

Performances:

Oct 4 - 6:30pm &bull;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-prairie-homeless-companion-oct-4-saint-paul-tickets-1005131263667" target="_blank">Registration encouraged</a>

Oct 5 - 4:00pm &bull;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-prairie-homeless-companion-sat-oct-5-saint-paul-tickets-1007820166247" target="_blank">Registration encouraged</a>&nbsp;*ASL interpreted*

<img alt="Theater poster for &quot;A Prairie Homeless Companion&quot; with actors in circles around a grassy hill under a blue cloudy sky." class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/79a611f0-77ba-4a2d-b903-30530ae3f6c8/79a611f0-77ba-4a2d-b903-30530ae3f6c8.full.jpg" />

Tickets are sliding scale from $0-40. Pay what you can. No one turned away.&nbsp;All ages are welcome but parental discretion is advised. Content includes mature themes such as substance use and domestic abuse.

825 Arts is wheelchair accessible. (A full accessibility document is available on their website, or by emailing <a href="mailto:communications@85arts.org">communications@85arts.org</a>).&nbsp;For questions about accessibility accommodations, please contact zAmya&#39;s Company Manager, Esther Ouray, at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:esther@zamyatheater.org">esther@zamyatheater.org</a> or 612-760-4804.

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<h2>Schmidt Artist Lofts</h2>

900 West 7th St

<a href="https://www.schmidtartists.com" target="_blank">Schmidt Artists</a> &bull; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/schmidtartists/" target="_blank">@schmidtartists</a>

West 7th Ave has a lot to offer: Great River Gallery, Friedli Gallery, and&nbsp;The Schmidt Lofts, which are the biggest draw on the block&nbsp;by volume &mdash; over 70 artists will be showing work, along with food trucks, live music, and Open Palette on the Rooftop, which is &ldquo;like an open mic for visual artists. New art is created each hour.&rdquo; <a href="https://form.jotform.com/241674439091158" target="_blank">Artists can sign up for a time slot here</a>.

We talked with a handful of artists at Schmidt to get a preview of what they&rsquo;re showing:

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<h3>Tony Santoyo</h3>

<img alt="Four ceramic cups with brightly colored abstract designs" class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/25633039-be96-4bba-b489-b5d3e7f45084/25633039-be96-4bba-b489-b5d3e7f45084.full.jpg" /><a href="https://tonysantoyo.com" target="_blank">tonysantoyo.com</a> &bull; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tonz.santoyo/" target="_blank">@tonz.santoyo</a>

&quot;I am Tony Santoyo, a Mexican-American from St. Paul, MN. I enjoy movement and many times that is in the form of dancing. My artwork is a dance, with ceramics, painting, and paper. It is a conversation or storytelling that mirrors the way I communicate; movement follows form or form movement. In 2023, I&nbsp; finished a fellowship at Penland School of Craft in the mountains of North Carolina and this fall will be my first time showcasing my pottery and craft at the St. Paul Art Crawl at Schmidt!&rdquo;

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<h3>BriiNoir - Briauna Williams</h3>

<img alt="Painting of Andre 3000 playing a flute while standing in a tree." class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/88a56708-ebae-4fc9-b09d-59313a332dd5/88a56708-ebae-4fc9-b09d-59313a332dd5.full.jpg" /><a href="https://briinoir.com" target="_blank">briinoir.com</a>&nbsp;&bull; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/briauna.williams/" target="_blank">@briauna.williams</a>

&ldquo;I will be at The Schmidt Artist Lofts within the Brew house Clubroom. I will have my original acrylic paintings, prints of both digital and other works, I will be doing henna all weekend as well as having my handmade shea butter and oil. Visitors can expect an awesome host of creatives, good energy, time to flow, connect, and recharge.&rdquo;

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<h3>Aisling Jelinski</h3>

<a href="https://www.aislingjelinski.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="Painting of a cracked marble head on rusty orange background." class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/34394b9b-6695-4837-9dd1-e45b67b7c811/34394b9b-6695-4837-9dd1-e45b67b7c811.full.jpg" />aislingjelinski.com</a>&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/aislingjelinski.art" target="_blank">@aislingjelinski.art</a>

&ldquo;I&#39;m thrilled to be participating in my first art crawl since moving back home to Minnesota. The Schmidt Artist Lofts will have a wide array of things to enjoy, including live music, demonstrations, food trucks, and as many visual art mediums as you can imagine. My table will have a variety of original paintings, hand pulled lino prints, and giclee prints of murals and paintings available for purchase/order &ndash; I will also have some work at the Northern Lights Art Studio downtown!&rdquo;

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<h3>Ron Brown</h3>

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/afroanimeillustrator_ronbrown/" target="_blank"><img alt="Green line drawing of a crowd of angry zombies." class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/d407e1f6-5206-44e3-a90a-812cbeb6f3b6/d407e1f6-5206-44e3-a90a-812cbeb6f3b6.full.jpg" />@afroanimeillustrator_ronbrown</a>

Also look for guest artist Ron Brown, an amazing painter, illustrator, comic book artist, and collage artist, whom we profiled during the <a href="https://www.mplsart.com/written/2021/01/sketchbook-artist-profile-ron-brown" target="_blank">2020&nbsp;Sketchbook Project</a> and who will be working a table creating zombie portraits live and in person.

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<h2>Solidarity Street Gallery</h2>

967 Payne Ave

<a href="https://www.solidaritystreetgallery.org" target="_blank">Solidarity Street Gallery</a> &bull;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/solidaritystreetgallery/" target="_blank">@solidaritystreetgallery</a>

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We&#39;re going to end on a Must-See for sure: for one weekend only, ArT@967 Payne is turning Payne Avenue into an outdoor art gallery featuring a ton of work from a ton of great artists, like Addis Alemu, allison anne, L&rsquo;Andrae&rsquo; Bradley, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Nhat Dang, Carmen Gutierrez-Bolger, Meher Khan, Moira Villiard, and many more.&nbsp;

&ldquo;65 visual artists respond in very powerful and personal ways to our theme of &lsquo;Migration and Memories&rsquo; &ndash; showcasing works that capture their unique migration stories;&nbsp;portray the place and culture the artists and their people are from; commemorate their cultural heritage; and speak to the resilience and adjustments in the new homeland.&rdquo;

Stephan Kistler, the artist who runs ArT@967 Payne, passed along a selection of some of the work on display with the following descriptions:

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<h3>Addis Alemu</h3>

<img alt="Beige serving vessel printed with old photographs and &quot;Mom gets citizenship&quot; in red paint" class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/0976cc45-ecf5-4cb5-a45f-d379c2c3d8b5/0976cc45-ecf5-4cb5-a45f-d379c2c3d8b5.full.jpg" />&nbsp;ታሪክ (Tarik). <a href="https://www.instagram.com/addiiiissss/" target="_blank">@addiiiissss</a>&quot;The pieces on display in the exhibition explore the journey of Addis&rsquo; family through migration and adaptation to the United States.&nbsp; Central to this collection is their mother&rsquo;s transition, illustrated through key moments in her life, including her senior year photo and the milestone of gaining U.S. citizenship. These works vividly recount the shifts and transformations that have defined their family&rsquo;s story, and, by extension, Addis&rsquo; own.&quot;

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<h3>Marvin Wise</h3>

<img alt="Painting of a raised fist holding stems of cotton between its fingers next to white outlines of figures in a dark blue sky." class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/80a145d6-2484-4027-a517-57eab6d50997/80a145d6-2484-4027-a517-57eab6d50997.full.jpg" />Strength and Endurance, oil on Canvas, 40 x 60&quot;.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/wisemarvin55/" target="_blank">@wisemarvin55</a>

&quot;Marvin Wise&#39;s pieces deal with his ancestors, who were enslaved cotton-pickers in the South, and all the burdens they carried over the years, to make his life possible.&quot;

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<h3>Ziba Rajabi</h3>

<img alt="Quilted artwork of red blood drops in a grid on tie-dyed pinks and greens" class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/7b3ec9dc-33ce-4f67-84c7-bcede12fee7f/7b3ec9dc-33ce-4f67-84c7-bcede12fee7f.full.jpg" />Tear and Blood, acrylic on muslin and canvas, thread, 60&nbsp;x&nbsp;48&quot; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/zibarajabi/" target="_blank">@zibarajabi&nbsp;</a>

&quot;Ziba&#39;s work echoes the theme &lsquo;Migration &amp; Memories&rsquo; as it revolves around the desire to reconcile a relationship with two distinctive spaces: Iran (her native land) and the US (where she resides now).&quot;

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<h3>Penny Kagigebi</h3>

<img alt="Small handwoven basket with blue and beige beadwork on yellow" class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/6da4ffdc-fee9-43d8-8269-a41129232d15/6da4ffdc-fee9-43d8-8269-a41129232d15.full.jpg" />Anishinaabeg Descend,&nbsp;Contemporary Ojibwe&nbsp;basketry with porcupine quillwork and appliqu&eacute;&nbsp;beadwork.

&quot;Penny uses her contemporary approach to birchbark basketry, carefully evolved from traditional, endangered art forms and teachings, to draw her audience into conversations about how her Anishinaabeg ancestors descended from the stars &ndash; and the stories and memories of migration and the presence of people here back to time immemorial.&quot;

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Woo, that was a lot! Don&#39;t let its elbow-patch image fool you,&nbsp;Saint Paul&#39;s got a ton of funk if you know where to look. Start planning your Crawl now; we&#39;ll be back next week with even more from the big studio buildings down by the river. Stay tuned!&nbsp;◼︎&nbsp;

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The <a href="https://www.mplsart.com/events/st-paul-fall-art-crawl-2024" target="_blank">Saint Paul Art Crawl</a> happens twice a year and is presented by the <a href="https://stpaulartcollective.org" target="_blank">Saint Paul Art Collective</a>, a network of creatives first started in 1977. This is the second in a series of articles promoting the Fall Crawl; the first is a Q&amp;A with SPAC&#39;s new Executive Director <a href="https://www.mplsart.com/written/2024/09/spac-mariusz-kujawski" target="_blank">Mariusz Kujawski</a>.

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The Crawl is packing October 4, 5, and 6 with a whole city map's worth of art venues to visit; here, we highlight just a few in our first of two.

Saint Paul Art Crawl Fall Round-Up (Round 1)

Banner image:&nbsp;Madison Elyse Rubenstein,&nbsp;Your Survival and Mine Are Intertwined (detail), 2021.

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The exhibition <a href="https://disabilityjusticeart.com" target="_blank">The Art of Disability Justice Now</a>, on view through January 5, 2025,&nbsp;at the Mill City Museum, is an expansive array of work that highlights various experiences of disability. The work included in this exhibition ranges from highly abstract to blatantly direct, from the ephemeral to the immensely physical. According to the exhibition statement, the show is &quot;Inspired by the principles of the Disability Justice Movement,&quot; the curatorial statement reads, &quot;this exhibition deliberately centers the narratives and leadership of individuals who have historically been most marginalized within the mainstream Disability Rights Movement, including BIPOC, queer, trans, and immigrant disabled people.&quot;

The first pieces in this exhibition are two quilts by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/emmamakesit/" target="_blank">Emma MacLean</a>, Resting No. 1 and I Am Deserving Of Rest. Both of these quilts play with negative space, with a curled up figure laying in the center of the quilt. In I Am Deserving Of Rest, an abstracted figurative shape filled with flowers sits in the middle of a black sheet, with the title text overlayed on top. Materially, this piece relates to rest in multiple ways &mdash; it is a bedsheet with direct relationship to the resting body, and it also requires a lot of work in stitching and quilting this piece.&nbsp;

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<img alt="Two quilts – one white, the other green with a blob shape in flower patterned fabric and the phrase &quot;I am deserving of rest&quot; hang on a brick wall under metal letters &quot;Rail corridor&quot;." class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/7de1192b-8f81-4cd4-a0f8-b718d1684caf/7de1192b-8f81-4cd4-a0f8-b718d1684caf.full.jpg" />Resting No. 1 and I Am Deserving Of Rest by Emma MacLean. Photo by Chris Juhn.

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I&rsquo;m interested in the way this work evokes a complex notion of rest &mdash; in America, rest is not as simple as taking a nap or laying down when you feel you need to. Physical rest can be nearly impossible depending on the physical nature of specific disability, navigating the healthcare system that is supposed to help you is extremely discouraging and difficult for many disabled people (particularly those who have immigrated from other parts of the world and may be withheld services to alleviate these processes), and if your disability is invisible, you may need to constantly advocate for your needs to other people as well as the state to justify your needs in existence. How are these difficulties alleviated? Through community and care networks, as the exhibition points out.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Even something as personal as rest is never solely personal &mdash; a core aspect of disability justice is this idea of interconnectedness, that we are all connected all the time, despite what popular Western notions of hyperindividualism and personal responsibility tell us.&nbsp;

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<img alt="A smiling disabled woman in a floral sundress stands in front of an art display of three sensual photos of couples." class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/9109ed14-3b53-4d5a-9a86-2e28acd53f7e/9109ed14-3b53-4d5a-9a86-2e28acd53f7e.full.jpg" />Trista Marie McGovern with their work in the exhibition. Photo by&nbsp;Chris Juhn.

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Interconnectedness brings me to the work of <a href="https://www.tristamarie.com" target="_blank">Trista Marie McGovern</a>, whose modeling and writing in the exhibition speaks to intimacy and desire. Their writing is beautifully vivid and metaphorical:&nbsp;

&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve dismantled the machine to rebuild it correctly, and discarded the parts not useful to me. I&rsquo;ve translated the twisted ingrained language so I could decipher what&rsquo;s

real and what&rsquo;s not. I&rsquo;ve walked across coals and consoled you for watching.&rdquo;&nbsp;

As well as extremely blunt:&nbsp;

&ldquo;People do not, at the core, realize that humans who do not look or function like them are still actually very much like them.&rdquo;

Trista Marie McGovern&rsquo;s modeling in the three photos showcases something that is so often left out of the narratives of disability, intimacy, sexuality and desire.&nbsp;

Elsewhere in the exhibition, two painters reflect on embodiment in much different ways. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/_rubenstein/" target="_blank">Madison Elyse Rubenstein</a>, whose work I&rsquo;ve covered before, exhibits Your Survival and Mine Are Intertwined, a thickly textured painting of abstract forms entangled within each other. Knotted up, these forms have no beginning or end separate from one another, a beautiful abstract representation of the deep connection between people. The paint is applied with a piping tool, popping off of the surface. The form that is being entangled in this painting is rendered with multiple different planes of varying colors, treated with different levels of textures and brushwork. The form is dense and bodily, yet there&rsquo;s a weightlessness in the way the object sits just a few inches away from the bottom of the panel, surrounded by white.&nbsp;

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<img alt="Abstract painting of white spaghetti-like coils on top of a multi-colored rock on a thick white background." class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/dbd343f9-31c3-48e8-b95d-b7face19a011/dbd343f9-31c3-48e8-b95d-b7face19a011.full.jpg" />Madison Elyse Rubenstein,&nbsp;Your Survival and Mine Are Intertwined, 2021. Oil paint, gold leaf, color pencil and graphite on clayboard, 36 x 36&rdquo;

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Next to Rubenstein&rsquo;s work is a series of acrylic paintings by <a href="https://www.maylingkopecky.com" target="_blank">May Ling Kopecky</a>. Kopecky&rsquo;s paintings of medical spaces sit in between an anticipatory space and a reflective space. These pieces are rendered with such a deeply felt amount of care &mdash; I can feel the rubber ball the nurse asks me to hold in Blood Work, I can smell the sanitary air and non-latex gloves, I feel the cold hand on my forearm as I look away from the needle. If I feel this much as a viewer, I wonder how the process was for Kopecky&nbsp;&mdash; painting these environments with such attention and care&nbsp;can have the power to be comforting or harrowingly confrontational. The beauty of these pieces is that they feel both of these ways at the same time, and that&rsquo;s how these spaces usually feel.&nbsp;

<a href="https://cinelzoe.myportfolio.com" target="_blank">Zoe Cinel</a>&rsquo;s inkjet photo titled Natura Morta with Adalimubab&nbsp;is a photograph of decaying flowers in a jar alongside a pen of Humira, also known as Adalimubab. This is an injection pen of an immunosuppressive drug that helps treat conditions like arthritis, hidradenitis suppurativa, and Crohn&rsquo;s disease. The pen, with its cap off, rests in the glass jar alongside the flowers after being used. There are multiple contrasts here between a soft surface that the jar rests on, the hard plastic pen and glass, the organic dying flowers and the sterility of injection.

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<img alt="A display of dying flowers in a glass jar with a white and red Humira applicator" class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/3f10188e-e9d3-4197-963f-f1f37ab8a26d/3f10188e-e9d3-4197-963f-f1f37ab8a26d.full.jpg" />Zoe Cinel,&nbsp;Natura Morta and Adalimubab, photograph.

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I spent a few years taking Humira in my late teens. I remember rewarding myself for successfully giving myself an injection &mdash; going to the record store afterward, ordering takeout, or renting a movie I&rsquo;d been wanting to see. It was my way of convincing myself to take the drug, going through the experience of pressing a cold, refrigerated plastic tube against my belly and quickly injecting medicine in, holding it beneath my skin for 10 seconds for the medicine to dissipate.&nbsp;

If someone uses Humira, they likely have to take it every week or two,&nbsp;indefinitely. Cinel&rsquo;s piece speaks to me about this idea of the futility of reward and the experience of endless treatment, the decaying flowers marking how much time has passed, as another injection passes by.&nbsp;

This exhibition is very rewarding in its ability to evoke so many different feelings, through a multitude of media and scale. The show can be viewed in person at the Mill City Museum until January 5, 2025, and can also be viewed online&nbsp;<a href="https://disabilityjusticeart.com/virtual-tour/" target="_blank">in their online 3-D tour</a>.&nbsp;◼︎&nbsp;

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<img alt="A woman in a wheelchair with computer screen and wearing a red dress next to a display of paintings and carved spoons." class="img-responsive" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/mplsart-cdn-central/FileContainers/a856b3d9-de4e-4590-840d-1ed4373fdd7e/a856b3d9-de4e-4590-840d-1ed4373fdd7e.full.jpg" />A visitor with the work of Janice Essick (left) and Donna Ray. Photo by Chris Juhn.

<a href="https://disabilityjusticeart.com" target="_blank">The Art of Disability Justice Now</a> is on view at the <a href="https://www.mnhs.org/millcity/activities/exhibits" target="_blank">Mill City Museum</a> through January 5, 2025, featuring the work of 14 artists. Gallery hours: Thursday &amp; Friday, 10am &ndash; 4pm; Saturday &amp; Sunday, 10am &ndash; 5pm. Admission to the exhibit is free.

Banner image ID:&nbsp;Abstract painting of white spaghetti-like coils on top of a multi-colored rock on a thick white background.

'The Art of Disability Justice Now' surveys a wide variety of disabled experiences — the mundane, the sensual, the frustrating, and the deeply interconnected 

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