The Teen Tech Crew, a new youth crew in the SMM Kitty Andersen Youth Science Center (KAYSC) at the Science Museum of MN is looking for nine high school crew-members to lead workshops to help build new technology skills in their St. Paul neighborhoods. Workshops might range from video and animation to video game design and programming microcontrollers. The exact topics will be determined by the…

• When in 1985, the film Brazil was held from distribution in North America by execs at Universal for being inappropriate, its director, Terry Gilliam, wrote a letter to studio head Sidney Sheinberg asking about its release — which he published as a full-page ad in Variety. It read: “Sidney Sheinberg, When are you going to release my film, ‘Brazil’? Terry Gilliam.” Letters of Note has the story. • SFMOMA’s…

As mnartists.org works towards rebuilding our website in the coming year, we are also in an opportune position to refocus and reappraise how we, as an organization, can best serve artists. When my colleague, Scott Stulen, and I sat down to revisit our mission statement, we agreed benefiting artists will always be central to our mission. As we move forward with planning for the new site (new bells…

Just in time for the holidays the annual Midway Contemporary Art Monster Drawing Rally arrives on December 17th for a night  of community art making (mixed with some gawking) and an amazing opportunity to purchase  art by local artists. For the last three years The Monster Drawing Rally has given artists living in the Twin Cities the opportunity to support Midway while simultaneously gaining…

This isn’t a holiday gift guide with specific suggestions for what to get Mom, Dad, your S.O., the kids, Nana, Grandpa and that coworker-across-the-cubicle-you-chat-with-sometimes-but-don’t-really-know-so-well. (If you’d like ideas, though, you can find a few such guides out already this year, courtesy of the folks at Vita.mn, Minnesota Monthly, METRO magazine, or the Duluth News-Tribune. No doubt more…