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Art to Change the World (ACW) is a diverse non-profit coalition of change makers employing the arts in service of positive social change.
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Message from the Director
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The Menu Mode
I have been spending some time this August reading about what makes us, as a species, happy.
Famously, humans seem to believe that if they had money, or were thin, or had straight instead of curly hair- then they would be happy. As the old saying goes, “Money Does Not Buy Happiness”. Try to identify simple things which might bring you joy.
My reading, and life experience so far, support the idea that if YOU take responsibility for your happiness - you will be happy! Do not focus on others bringing you happiness. Life changes and evolves. It is a fact. Employ the Menu Mode. When something which brings you joy has to come off your menu - replace it with something even more likely to bring you joy! It works. Let’s build the image above. Send me what makes YOU happy. drb@bridgescreate.com
Barbara
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Congrats to the following people for earning a place in the first Annual ACW Project Management Training event to be held on October 1, 2023.
Chosen by application, these ACW members will be taking the organization to the next level. Much gratitude to them for stepping up to facilitate social justice art projects and events.
Participants
Sarah LaRose-Holland, Lucy Schroepfer, Frances Bates, Sadie Ward, Bronwyn Simmons, Madeline Boemer, KaoLee Vang, Paul Kellett, Margo Ashmore, Rose Cooper, Walter L Chancellor, Phoebe Eisenbeis, Anna Karena, Briauna Williams
Leader Participants
Kelly Frankenberg, Layl McDill, Tom Fulton, Herman Milligan, Barbara Bridges
Pat Rogers
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Our Incredible Leader is Honored with A Vision Award
Join us on Oct. 2nd to celebrate ACW director Barbara Bridges as she is presented with the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District's Vision Award. It's very exciting to see her hard work being recognized with this biannual award that celebrates the dedication and commitment of visionary leaders that have made the NE Minneapolis Arts District the strong arts community that it is.
The Arts District will honor a total of 6 visionary leaders to cover the missed year during the pandemic. We hope you will attend to see who has won the other 5 awards and support Dr. Bridges in her extraordinary achievements as founder and director of Art to Change the World. The award ceremony will take place at the Ritz Theater, 345 13th Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413 on Monday, October 2nd at 6:00pm. This is a free event with no tickets necessary. You are also invited to meet and greet all the winners afterwards with food and beverages two doors down at the Rogue Buddha Gallery.
I hope to see you there!
Layl McDill
Chair of the ACW Board of Directors
Photo is taken in the ACW Fox Den at Solar Arts with interns Frances Bates and Rose Cooper
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Art WILL change the world and it starts with US! “Art Speaks” is written by Kelly Frankenberg and represents her personal viewpoint, not the policies of ACW. For more info about Kelly and her art, go to http://www.kellyfrankenberg.com
Art Speaks: Morbid Beauty
I was in Egypt this past month and toured the tombs of the kings. Seeing all the artistry that goes with death is overwhelming. However, the Egyptians believed in an afterlife and having all those things of value and beauty with you in burial, they would cross over with you to the afterlife. In that sense, they were not so much about making death beautiful as they were about making sure your next part of your life contained all the colorful and valuable beauty from this life.
One of things that stood out to me was how well preserved the art was with the high and low relief carvings and some of the pigments, and paintings on papyrus. There is the art of mumification as well, not just the people but some animals.
I enjoyed learning they ground down malachite into powder, not for eye shadow, but because it reflected the light and acted like sunglasses. The clever artistry of the culture and the appreciation for both life and death, make their tombs less morbid and instead a grandiose celebration of a colorful, god-like life.
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Member Spotlight Natalie McGuire
Natalie McGuire serves ACW in many ways but the most important
duty is coding our monthly Newsletter into MailChimp!
She also manages our ACW database which is approaching 500 people.
Read on to learn how she is spreading her art from coast to coast.
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Natalie’s Patiently Waiting image will be exhibited at Mosesian Center for Arts- Life in Photographs.
Details below:
Mosesian Center for Arts – Life in Photographs exhibition, Dates: September 15 through November 5, 2023, Address: 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, PA 02472
Website: www.mosesianarts.org, Natalie’s website: https://nmcguirestudio.com/
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ACW supports Rhoda Olsen’s Phakamani Picnic!
Join Annie Merrill for Face Painting, Kelly Frankenberg for mini-paintings, and Barbara Bridges with personalized healing cuffs. All Gratis.
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Welcome Sandra Reardon to the ACW Board of Directors
Sandra trains our teaching artists. Art to Change the World has been contracted to create a Maker Space (art room) in several venues, including several Transformational Housing for Women who have experienced homelessness and Youth Programs at the YMCA. Ten ACW Teaching Artists have been trained by a licensed counselor to create lessons which include strategies to reduce trauma. We will be calling for another 10 teaching artists for two new programs launching in the next year. Participants experiment with a variety of media including painting, sculpture, healing body adornment, quilt painting, henna applications, polymer clay, illustration, fabric hat creations and printmaking. Read more about the Maker Space project: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/maker-space-project
From Sandra: “As a therapist, it is an honor to be part of another person’s process in understanding their personal worth. I respect and value my client’s self-determination, therefore, my therapeutic approach is eclectic to correspond with the matter at hand. I am empathetic, patient and respectful, while building a relationship with my client. I believe that progress begins when my client has established trust in our relationship. I have faith that each client has the ability to discover their strengths and to use these strengths to achieve their individual goals.
I specialize in Eating Disorders: Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating Disorder, & Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder, and Depression, Anxiety, Addiction, Life Transitions and Trauma. I work with individuals, couples, families and groups. Parents of loved ones with eating disorders
I integrate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT-E, Family Based Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Sensorimotor Therapy, Expressive arts, mindfulness and strengths-based focus into therapy. I forever feel honored to be a stepping stone on my client’s journey as bit by bit they create the life that is important to them.” sandra@haukomtherapy.com
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Call for Art - Fox Den Gallery
Do you have a piece you think would work for the upcoming spooky session? We are looking for artwork that is related to Halloween, Day of the Dead (Dia De Los Muertos), or just general spookiness. Any medium is accepted.
Contact francesbates22@gmail.com if interested. Submissions are due by September 22nd.
More info: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/fox-den/
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Contributed by Laura-Mann Hill - ACW Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator
This summer I spent three days in Montgomery, Alabama to celebrate a play I wrote, Inspired by Claudette and Rosa. When in Montgomery, we had the good fortunate to have Claudette Colvin’s cousin, Wanda Battle, give us the Civil Rights Tour. By 1860, Montgomery was the capital of the domestic slave trade in Alabama. Alabama was one of the two largest slave-owning states in America and there was so much to unpack throughout our experience. I was reminded how much of our history has been re-written or erased and how many still suppress truth telling. I have sought out these resources my whole life and found there is so much I still don’t know. One of the most powerful parts of the tour was the art exhibit by Michelle Browder. It was both painful and healing. In the mid-1840s, J. Marion Sims performed torturous experimental surgeries on approximately 10 enslaved young Black women, without anesthesia or their consent. Browder’s response to the Sims statue at the capital is a commanding counter-monument called “The Mothers of Gynecology” that immortalizes three of the women — known as Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey. Browder said: “This monument is meant to recognize and amplify the voices of the women used in experiments that have led to breakthroughs in gynecology today.” There is so much work to advance truth and reconciliation in America and I know that art remains central to moving the conversations forward.
Learn more:
The Mothers of Gynecology
https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/mothers-of-gynecology/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/mothers-gynecology-alabama-memorial-statue/2021/10/01/cca0a788-21fd-11ec-8200-5
Sculpture at the Memorial for Peace and Justice
https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/memorial
Claudette Colvin & Rosa Parks
https://www.npr.org/2009/03/15/101719889/before-rosa-parks-there-was-claudette-colvin
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#CommunityTempo is back for its 3rd year of collaborative art-making to music.
Join Art to Change the World member Becca David featuring art makers Kellie G. Hoyt and Donnisha Powell for recycled art adventures and exciting music that’s sure to inspire!
AT THE ROOF DEPOT:
5 - 5:45 pm Richard Van Scoter III
6 -6:45pm Ngange and Themasses
7-7:45 pm #fiddlasbeat (live music)
More information to come at www.beccadavidartist.com
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KFAI 90.3FM Fresh Air Radio presents:
The Hook & Ladder's 7th Anniversary
Free Community Hang with Ngange&Themasses, & The Sex Rays! Friday, September 8th
- Under The Canopy at The Hook and Ladder Theater
- Doors 6pm:: Music 7 pm
- FREE:: Register Online In Advance To WIN Tickets To Upcoming Concerts
- $10 Suggested Donation - Donate At The Gate
- Family Friendly*
- Rain or Shine
Come celebrate 7 years of supporting the arts in our Longfellow neighborhood!
Ngange&Themasses, a Minneapolis-based Rock/Indie band helping humanity overcome racism and sexism through music.
REGISTER HERE https://Hooks-7th-Anniversary.eventbrite.com
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Ngange&Themasses
Ngange&Themasses, is a new 6 - 9 piece Minneapolis-based indie/rock band with a brass and string section delivering eclectic sounds, unique lyrics, and a powerful message. Our mission is to use our music to fight against racism and inequity. We have a growing following and are excited to show the world our music.
https://youtube.com/@NgangeAndTheMasses
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Join Barbara at her unique home and studio for On Location on September 16.
Make Art. 2-D or Sculptures or Neckpieces! FREE.
Lunch is provided from the Holy Land. Limit of 10 people. Register with Deb at tobersonstudios@gmail.com
Read more about Barbara’s Home and Studio.
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Barbara Bridges has been an artist and a teacher/college professor for over 40 years. Her sculptures have been exhibited in Maine, the Virgin Islands, Miami, Maryland, Chicago, Mexico, Spain, Canada and throughout Minnesota. She was voted The Art Teacher of Minnesota -twice.
Barbara creates social practice art from fabricated components in a variety of media and rescued “power objects”. She considers herself an intervener on the journey of the materials and/or objects she uses to create a new artistic narrative. She will provide most supplies OR Bring 2 or 3 of your important objects (or her treasures) and we will engineer them into an artwork. Create healing cuffs, wranklets, neckpieces or SCULPTURES.
Video Tour of Re-Cycle/Upcycle Home and Studio
See more pictures of the unique property: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/art365
Read More: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/bridges-studio-visit/
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Legacy Dream Space Interactive Installation in Owatonna, MN
Legacy Dream Space - an exhibition and multimedia installation by Craig Harris & Candy Kuehn, in collaboration with Kym Longhi & Jim Peitzman.
After several years in development, Legacy Dream Space has its inaugural exhibition at Owatonna Arts Center in Owatonna, Minnesota from September 5 - October 15, 2023.
Owatonna Art Center
435 Garden View Lane
Owatonna, MN 55060
Do you Wonder about the Past?
Do you Dream about the Future?
Are you Curious about how our lives create what follows?
In Legacy Dream Space composer/multimedia artist Craig Harris and visual artist Candy Kuehn continue their long term collaboration with artists Kym Longhi and Jim Peitzman to create the Legacy Dream Space, a multi-dimensional story space designed to explore Loss, Hope and Legacy – wondering about the past, dreaming about the future, and engaging in the future’s unfolding.
Exhibitions include a freestanding multimedia installation, digital illustration prints on walls, hanging painted/printed fabrics, music, soundscapes and performance opportunities, and community gatherings. A series of events provide opportunities to explore the theme, capture new content, and integrate a community’s presence and stories into future instances of the work.
Legacy Dream Space is rich in visual, aural and thematic content, evolves through community engagement, and incorporates what has transpired into the present content. The Legacy Dream Space requires public engagement to realize the project vision. Visitors to the exhibition are invited to engage with the material available, to explore stories and previous engagement, and to make offerings to this living time capsule.
Legacy Dream Space was developed with support from Art to Change the World.
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Intaglio “Turquoise Spirit” by ACW Member
Lynnette Black was awarded Honorable Mention
Printmaking category at the Minnesota State Fair Arts Exhibition.
Lynnette K Black
Plymouth Fine Arts Board /Gallery Committee Co-Chair
Highpoint Center for Printmaking Cooperative Member
Art To Change The World Member
Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA)
International Association of Female Artists (IAFA)
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September 9, 2023, California Building Inside Out Sale
ACW will have a table outside at the California Building from 12:00- 4:00.
Original Art, Supplies, Seconds
Marko Fields will be having live music with Hiptites in the evening starting at 4:00.
Contact Anna Karena if you would like to join the project: annakarena@mac.com
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