Monday, November 5, 2012
The Soo Visual Arts Center comes to SW Minneapolis for the holidays.
Uptown's Soo Visual Arts Center—better known as SooVAC—is opening a pop-up shop and art gallery on the corner of 35th Street and Nicollet Avenue. The temporary store will take the space in between Pat's Tap and Honeycomb Salon left vacant by Yeti Records' departure for a more mobile existence. The shop will feature work by dozens of local artists from Nov. 17 through Dec. 24, according to Executive Director Carolyn Payne. Its doors will be open to the public Thursday and Friday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., and on Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Payne said that the shop will feature a mix of products. "We do have a lot of 2D art, priced and sized to “gift,” but also quite a bit of jewelry and accessories that will be great gifts as …
Friday, September 14, 2012
Anne Damon recently returned from Mexico with over 700 unique pieces of art.
Listening to Anne Damon of Lynnhurst's Zinnia Folk Arts describe the results of her regular buying trips south of the border, you're liable to find yourself lost in descriptions of splendid Mexican cities and art emerging from hidden campesino houses like so much buried treasure. See photos (at right) of some of the folk art Damon found on her recent buying trip to Mexico. She may bracket her tales with comments like "really, I can't think of interesting things that happened," as she did in a recent interview with Patch, but Damon's tales of silversmiths hammering away in whitewashed, hillside cities like Taxco de Alarcon sound like the stuff of great adventures. A Folk Art Bloodhound Perhaps one reason Damon is so modest about the …
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
A biannual show at Burroughs school drew artists from across the Midwest.
Burroughs Community School was transformed into bustling artists' souk this weekend, its hallways glittering with handmade jewelry, fine textiles, lush paintings, and beautiful ceramics. It wasn't quite a dead ringer for "Arabian Nights"—there was a distinct lack of camels and donkeys—but many of the artists displaying their wares had traveled from far away. "I have friends here from Illinois, who I never see outside of the art fairs we do together," jewelry maker and Lynhurst resident Linda Smith said. Smith herself once roamed the country, from Florida to Minnesota, displaying her works with a tight-knit community of jewelry makers from around the country. Since her daughter, a Burroughs student, was born she "only" does shows in the …
Friday, March 9, 2012
Mexican Folk Art Comes To 50th And Bryant.
Anne Damon may be just opening her first brick-and-mortar store, but she’s no newbie to the world of Mexican folk art. At age 16, she went to Mexico City to study Spanish, and fell in love with the country’s crafts, and every year she keeps going back for more. “I’m more interested in the quirks, the handmade pieces,” she said. “I find it more interesting to see pieces that are one-of-a-kind, that are less ‘schooled’ because people have learned their craft from their family or their community, not an art school.” A few years ago, she decided to put her expertise to use, opening a pop-up shop in St Louis Park before settling on the old Kurimay Interiors space as a permanent home for her wares. The new shop, to be called Zinnia Folk Arts, …
