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Monday, March 25, 2013

SooLOCAL Art Gallery Settles in on Nicollet Avenue

Upcoming events include an organizer's talk, films and a performance.

Take off your coat and stay a while at SooLOCAL, the little pop up art gallery that decided to stay put. The gallery's latest show, AIS 123 … 4: An Exhibition Celebrating Artists in Storefronts, opened March 23, 2013, and continues through April 14. Southwest Journal has an article about SooLocal and Joan Vorderbruggen, the Artists in Storefronts organizer responsible for the SooVAC spinoff. Several upcoming events at the gallery the Journal mentions might be a good way to introduce yourself:  Vorderbruggen is scheduled to discuss her brand of entrepreneurial urbanism 6 p.m. April 10 at SooLOCAL. She’ll be joined by Whittier Alliance Executive Director Marian Biehn and several of the collaborating artists, including Outlet performance …

Monday, November 5, 2012

New Pop-Up Shop Coming to Nicollet Ave

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 …

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