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Homewood Studios Event Calendar
For information about, or to post comments relating to, past events, see our events archive.
Click any thumbnail image to see a larger view of the artwork.
Tuesday, July 1- Thursday, July 31, 2008
REmix: INTERGENERATIONAL HMONG ART EXHIBITION
Following last year's highly successful 12 Hmong Artists: Throwing Pebbles in the Pond, everyone - including participating artists, audiences, HArC staff members and Homewood Studios artistic directors - agreed another show of Hmong artists would be a good idea. Hmong culture is steeped in traditional arts, but its language does not have a word for what contemporary artists are undertaking in their work. Bringing these new forms of art into the public eye is extremely important for encouraging Hmong people themselves to explore what it means to be Hmong in America, and for a wider audience to begin to know these courageous images.
REmix is that follow up show.
Co-presented by the Hmong Arts Connection (HArC), formerly Hmong American Institute for Learning (HAIL), and Homewood Studios, REmix: Intergenerational Hmong Art Exhibition is inspired by the rich art created by our elders - intricate needlework, poetic singing and instrumental music, oral storytelling, carpentry, blacksmithing and silversmithing. REmix bridges the gap between Hmong intergenerational artists of all ages. Elder and younger artists are challenged to rediscover their art by reclaiming, reinterpreting, reinventing, and rejuvenating Hmong arts, from the traditional to the contemporary.
PUBLIC RECEPTION: Friday, July 4, from 6p to 9p
PUBLICATION READING: Saturday, July 19, 6:30pm to 9pm ** Ka Vang reading her newest publication Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers. The event will also feature readings by local author, Shannon Olson, and will be hosted by Hmong actress, Katie Ka Vang.
CLOSING RECEPTION: Friday, July 25, 6pm to 9pm **Featured elder artist to be announced.
PUBLIC WORKSHOP: Saturday, July 26, from 4p to 8p -- making Hmong Story Cloth. **Paj ntaub (pa dow, Hmong needlework) workshop with paj ntaub artist Yer Yang during the Northside Art Flow
(See this review from the Twin Cities Daily Planet: Art note: Intergenerational exhibit REmixes Hmong traditions)
From Richard Amos:
Silent Cry blew me away, while I love the colors of Time of Falling Leaves. And Kingdom's watercolors, oh my God, they touched my soul with vibrant, exploding, rich colors and subject matter.
Sunday, August 3- Sunday, August 31, 2008
WOMEN'S WORK: A group show
Some of you may recall the amazing photography exhibit, Remain, at Homewood Studios two or three years ago. The courageous photographer, Chrys Laramy, is retuning to our gallery, this time as co-curator with Della West, to create a show looking at the issue of women's presence in art, in the world, at this moment...
More details following...
Friday, August 15, 2008
Penny-Cotton Duo: An Evening of Afro-Euro-Latin Jazz
John Penny played a solo concert at Homewood Studios about a year ago. Everyone present then is still vibrating from the evening's sounds. About this new performance, John writes:
Paul Cotton will be joining me in the performance on bass. We will perform some new Euro-Latin textured compositions that have matured since I originally "found them" (composed them). These songs have matured in that during performances, I have taken note of their assertions of new possibilities. The newly asserted possibilities bring some arranged and/or impromptu enhancements to the songs. The addition of Paul Cotton will further flavor these songs I will also sing a combination of Brazilian classics in Portuguese and American classics. The output of this Guitar/Bass Duo could be loosely labeled Afro-Euro-Latin Jazz. Our group name however is, the Penny-Cotton Duo derived from our English surnames. I would like to reserve the right to abandon preplanning and play from real-time inspiration too. I will speak briefly about music and performance, but this night will be as they say, more music, less talk.
The evening begins at 7p. $5 admission to defray the musicians' expenses.
Monday, September 1- Wednesday, September 24, 2008
LUCY YOGERST: New Work (Ceramics)
Lucy Yogerst, Northside artist and resident is a long-time friend of Homewood Studios. Details of her new show will be forthcoming soon...
Monday, September 8, 2008
IMPROVISED MUSIC AT HOMEWOOD STUDIOS
Slide into fall on the sounds of these courageous musicians who are willing to invent new music every time they assume their instruments.
Milo Fine: drum set Scott Newell: tenor sax, voice Jason S. Shapiro: electronic keyboard Stefan Kac: tuba
Music begins at 7p. $5 admission to defray the musicians drumstick, reed, reostate and brass polish expenses.
Saturday, October 4- Friday, October 31, 2008
BILL JETER: Prints or Portraits
Homewood Studios resident artist and teacher at the Perpich High School for the Arts, Bill Jeter, is planning a show either of his own prints or a portion of the fall self-portrait show from his school.
details following...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
IMPROVISED MUSIC AT HOMEWOOD STUDIOS
Perhaps the most inviting concert in this year's Improvised Music at Homewood Studios series. Reeds, strings and voice - with occasional drums. Intriguing...
Milo Fine: drum set, clarinets Davu Seru: cello, violin Viv Corringham: voice
Music exploration begins at 7p. $5 admission to offer the musicians a little walkin' around after the concert money.
Monday, December 1- Wednesday, December 31, 2008
THE NOMADIC ART PROJECT
In the fall of 2006, painter Kristin Abraham and musician/composer Alfonso Llamas drove their little red van up to the gallery doors of Homewood Studios and dropped off Alaska. This was one of fifty stops at galleries in every state in the Union comprising one of the more courageous and ambitions art projects we have encountered.
These two young artists, Kristin and Alfonso, after three years of what-iffing, sold their home and belongings, quit their jobs, and commenced a voyage on which they would create a painting in each of the fifty states, compose accompanying music chronicling this journey, make friends and contacts in the art worlds across the country, and finally, mount shows in as many of the fifty states as possible, showing all fifty paintings and offering music, video productions, a vast web site, and other constructions to further explore and examine their odyssey. (The preceding nearly endless sentence was carefully constructed in honor of their expansive vision.)
In December 2008, The Nomadic Art Project will come to Homewood Studios. We hope to invite classes of school children in to view and discuss the work, to create community conversations around issues raised by the work, connect with other events occurring at the same time, perhaps sell a piece or two, and expose our audience to what a little imagination can do to make life interesting.
Please watch this space for further details, and in the mean time please go to the Nomadic�s web site - http://www.kristinabraham.com/nomadic.html - for many, many more details.
Friday, January 2- Friday, January 30, 2009
MAARS: Bird Show
Midwest Avian Adoption and Rescue Service has invited several artists to create work about its favorite subject, birds - specifically birds imported from foreign countries and then released into our environment.
Details following...
Friday, April 17- Tuesday, May 19, 2009
PEYTON: Homecoming
It is with great pride we announce the first show of work by Peyton in Minneapolis in more than five years. Since he was a vastly promising student at North Community High School, we have watched Peyton grow in his art and in his commitment to North Minneapolis. He is co-founder of Juxtaposition Arts, a stellar organization committed to helping young people find their identity through art-making. Peyton took a sabbatical from art for a few years to become a member of the U.S. Kickboxing team. He returned from his sojourn in North Carolina in late 2007, opened his studio, and has been producing his signature screen prints ever since.
Details concerning public reception, gallery talk and community/family workshop following...
