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Art Hounds recommend fall arts festivals, studio tours and dance

Art Hounds recommend fall arts festivals, studio tours and dance

Among the many offerings this weekend, Art Hounds recommend you check out the River Valley Potters Fall Tour in Shafer and Marine in St Croix, the juried art show at the Lakeville Art Festival, and the McKnight Dance Fellows solo performances.
by Emily Bright

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Art Hounds: The fall season of arts begins

Art Hounds: The fall season of arts begins

Missing the State Fair? Check out the wonderful art that didn’t get a space at the Fine Arts show at AZ Gallery’s “Rejected” exhibit in St. Paul. Exposed Brick Theatre premieres two new plays at its “Through Our Eyes Festival” in Minneapolis. The Weisman’s fall show honors three decades of Piotr Szyhalski’s work, including the posters he created daily over eight months of the pandemic.
by Emily Bright

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Art Hounds: It's the end of summer, here's what's happening outside

Art Hounds: It's the end of summer, here's what's happening outside

Mozart’s fantastical opera “The Magic Flute” gets a middle school setting in Mixed Precipitation’s traveling outdoor production in Hastings this weekend. Prairie Fyre draws music lovers for a weekend festival in Wood Lake. Also recommended: Rat Castle Jazz Ensemble.
by Emily Bright and Aron Woldeslassie

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Art Hounds: Otter Tail county teens document return of ‘normal life’; North Mankato painter’s landscapes honor Minnesota 

Art Hounds: Otter Tail county teens document return of ‘normal life’; North Mankato painter’s landscapes honor Minnesota 

Teens ask what it means to “Return to Normal?” in their multimedia show at Otter Tail Historical Society in Fergus Falls, Minn. Northfield-based professors and bandmates mix clever lyrics and sampled styles on their new kids’ album “The Greats.” North Mankato landscape painter Andrew Judkins’ solo show runs through this weekend at Owatonna Arts Center.
by Emily Bright

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Art Hounds: Puppets, song, stories, laughs and clay

Art Hounds: Puppets, song, stories, laughs and clay

Puppetlab celebrates its 10th year with new, experimental work at Open Eye Theatre in Minneapolis. Stop by for “An Evening of Stories, Songs, and Laughs” in International Falls Saturday evening. And next weekend, the Cannon River Clay Tour offers a chance to see 21 potters at four studios around Northfield.
by Emily Bright

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Art Hounds: Mankato gallery highlights art from Scholars Serving Time

Art Hounds: Mankato gallery highlights art from Scholars Serving Time

The Minnesota Fringe festival kicks off Thursday. The 410 Project in Mankato launches its exhibit “Art Inside,” featuring paintings and drawings by art students at the Faribault Men’s Correctional Facility. NDN Way Comedy brings together three Native American stand-up comics for a night of laughs at Rick Bronson’s House of Comedy.
by Emily Bright

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Art Hounds: Art conversations across generations

Art Hounds: Art conversations across generations

There’s still time to catch Art to Change the World’s “Age of Age” exhibit, which asks artists a generation apart to create work together. A concert performance of Janet Preus’s original musical “Water from Snow” draws big Minneapolis names to Puposky, Minn. In Duluth, Ojibwe storytime invites kids of all ages twice a week through August.
by Emily Bright

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Art Hounds celebrate community theater and music

Art Hounds celebrate community theater and music

Theatre 55 stages “Jesus Christ Superstar” in the open-air at Caponi Art Park amphitheater in Eagan. The Minnesota Mandolin Orchestra performs in several upcoming shows around the Twin Cities. Participants make the drama happen in “The Show Must Go On,” an escape room set at Daleko Arts in New Prague.
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Art Hounds: Art that asks 'What does it mean to be ladylike?'

Art Hounds: Art that asks 'What does it mean to be ladylike?'

The interdisciplinary arts show “La.dy.like” investigates what it means to be femme. Artists muse on the act of walking at an international exhibit tucked in and around the Rochester Art Center. “There’s a Crack in Everything” offers an evening of storytelling and song at Bryant Lake Bowl Theatre in Minneapolis.
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