Seeking musicians (ages 14 – 18) to score films inspired by Andy Warhol. Selected musicians will work with young filmmakers to compose new original works to be performed live during the screening of the film. To enter, please submit your music sample to teenprograms@walkerart.org by Friday, December 12. Call 612.375.7628 for more info.

I’m no expert on the subject, but my girlfriend recently told me about this 21st century street-art incarnation of the centuries old art of knitting and crocheting, YARN BOMBING. If you are familiar with graffiti slang, bombing is essentially the act of doing graffiti (usually throw ups, tags, straight letters, hollows… you know, the fast, destructive stuff…) Well, groups of young ladies (and perhaps gents…

My main man Nico Berry has been a professional baller since the day he was born, or so I hear. Really, by writing this blog I’m trying to legitimize our friendship so that next time I see him he’ll hook me up with a free t-shirt or something. Nico was the art director over at a little skateboard magazine called Thrasher for a minute, has done countless shirt designs for Timberland, Mecca, Sureshot…

Every once in awhile I find myself rummaging through the CD bargin bin looking for something that might be worth buying.  This time I hit big while I got the CD ‘Excuse Me’ by Kaboose, a Minnesota native.  I was looking at it and the graphics pulled me into buying it, and after listening I fell in love!!! Kaboose’s goal in Hip Hop is simple. “My vision for music is to bring a message of hope to people who…

Every so often we like to take a survey of our readers to see what you think. Our last survey was in March of 2007, so it’s time for a new one. The questions are focused on the blogs and a little demographic information, which you can skip if you like. We’re sweetening the deal this time. If you take the survey, you can enter your name into the pool and we’ll select one person to win a 1GB iPod…

Tomorrow, director Lance Hammer will be screening his new film Ballast.  WACTAC and filmmakers that particpated in last weekend’s All City Youth Film Showcase will get the special opportunity of meeting and talking with him – we are totally excited! There will be a public screening on Wednesday at 7:30 PM at the Walker. Another upcoming film event that we are looking forward to is a screening of I’m…

A couple of weeks ago, a couple WACTAC members and I had the opportunity to go to a dress rehearsal for Eiko and Koma‘s new work titled Hunger. The dress rehearsal intrigued me enough to attend thefull performance on Friday night.  In it’s full form, Hungerstunned the McGuire Theater audience with its heart wrenching, painfully slow movements. Not painful in the way you think however, but more due to…

There are legitimate reasons, both fiscal and philosophical, to resist public funding of the arts. And, certainly, in difficult economic times it is even more difficult to consider an increase, however slight, to our tax burden. After carefully considering the arguments, mnartists.org believes the benefits of The Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment greatly outweigh the costs, even in this uncertain…