Yeah, next summer seems so far away, but now’s the best time to start planning on what to do to keep your skills up! Lots of colleges offer summer camps where you live on the school’s campus, make art, AND earn college credit! Here are two that i found pretty interesting… A lot of these kind of programs can be a stress on your (or your parents’ wallets), but scholarships and grants are available  for…

And so begins the first official meeting of WACTAC, Marielle speaking. With Jake as our Honorable Moderator, we kicked off this first meeting with the fun fact that today was, in fact 90210 (if you write out the date) and so we all looked to our resident Californian, Miss California (known to us as Cali). After admiring our new spiffy badges, the big topic of the day was rolled out, meeting FUTURE FARMERS…

I recently moved to Minneapolis from Northfield (Cows, Colleges, and Contentment!), forty miles south of the Cities. I’m fortunate enough to have a car, but having had to deal more with cattle crossing than heavy, downtown traffic and confusing one-ways, city traffic can be a little overwhelming. Adding that to the fact that my bike is falling apart (that’s what $40 on Craigslist gets you), getting around…

What I love most about mnartists.org’s literary contests (What Light and miniStories) is the rich diversity of our state’s writerly talent they reveal each year. After the jurors read through their anonymous piles of poetry and flash fiction, without fail, the resulting assortment of winners always astounds me. Emerging writers show up on the finalist lists, side by side with established writers…

UnReserved: Emerging Arts Stationstrengthens ties between local schools and libraries and has been creating some great opportunities for local teens artists. Next weekend at the Ramsey County Library in Maplewood, world renown local artists from The BodyCartography Projectwho use dance, video and installation in their work, will lead beginning filmmakers in capturing the movement and stillness of…

This Saturday and all Saturdays to come, me and some friends of mine from Main Street School of Performing Arts in Hopkis are planning music shows every weekend  in Minnetonka at the Living Waters Market. The Venue serves delicious food, including some of the best pizza I have ever tasted. Anyone can come and anyone can play. Admission is free to every show, and every show is an all ages show. We are…

There are two new shows opening at the Soo Visual Arts Center next weekend!! -”Systematics” and “Alternative Futures.” The shows, featuring work by Liz Miller + R. Justin Stewart, Allen Brewer + Palmer Valfer, explore concepts ranging from visual overstimulation to language, abandonment to future histories. “Systematics” focuses on how society communicates and consumes information. The work in the show (image above…