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Raising Creative Kids

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Family Events

Arty Pants: Your Tuesday Playdate

What do hip kids and their (possibly) cooler parents do to spark creativity? Attend Arty Pants: Your Tuesday Playdate, featuring activities for adults and youngsters ages 3–5. Join us each month on the second and fourth Tuesdays for art projects, films, gallery activities, and story time. Free with… More

Target Free Thursday Nights

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Lectures, Talks & Readings

Conversation: In the Kitchen with Keith Edmier and Jennifer Komar Olivarez

Step back to 1971 with Keith Edmier’s full-scale replica of the kitchen from his childhood home—a major artwork in the exhibition Lifelike, opening February 25. The artist, who painstakingly sourced and fabricated the tiles, wallpaper, and furniture… More

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Paul Schmelzer

Ice Land

Uncharted territories, even in a relatively sparsely populated state like Minnesota, are few and far between. But each January, when the average temperature lingers around 7 degrees Fahrenheit, one such place comes into being, briefly, on the frozen surface of… More

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Paul Schmelzer

The Kids Are Alright: Teen Engagement and the Walker

The impact of the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC) on the lives of its participants can be profound. Former members now work in museums, galleries, or their own art studios, although some… More

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Christy DeSmith

Bumper Crop

Inspired by community supported agriculture, in which individuals become shareholders in area farms, the Community Supported Art program returns this spring for a third season with the aim of boosting investment in local creative economies and providing avenues… More

• Art Scare

  Via miller-mccune.com A new study finds we’re more likely to be affected by abstract paintings if we’ve just had a good scare, suggesting that art’s allure may be related to our tendency to be alarmed by environmental factors like “novelty, ambiguity, and the fantastic.”

• “Undue Weight” of Truth

  Via chronicle.com The author of two books on the Haymarket riots of 1886, Bowling Green State professor Timothy Messer-Kruse thought he was sufficiently well-versed in the topic to correct statements about it on Wikipedia. Few “Wiki-cops” agreed.

• Camera-Ready Cartoon

  Via aclu.org The Gregory Brothers (Auto-Tune the News), hitRECord’s Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and the ACLU team up for a Schoolhouse Rock-style animation that has the ghost of Ben Franklin teaching a little girl about photographers’ rights at events like Occupy Wall Street.

• Rebranding Teachers

  Via hyperakt.com Asked by WNYC’s Studio 360 to come up with a way to reflect the multidimensional role of the teacher, Hyperakt came up with a brand system that connects the dots, using imagery that suggests molecular structures, idea maps, and letter tracing.

• Adonis & the Arab Spring

  Via guardian.co.uk“A creator always has to be with what’s revolutionary,” says Syrian poet and Goethe prize winner Adonis, “but he should never be like the revolutionaries. He can’t speak the same language or work in the same political environment.”

• Passings: Dorothea Tanning

  Via galleristny.com The surrealist painter and poet Dorothea Tanning died Tuesday at age 101. In addition to paintings that earned her comparisons to Magritte, she wrote poetry, including two books published by Minnesota’s Graywolf Press.