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From Minnesota Public Radio News, Art Hounds are members of the Minnesota arts community who look beyond their own work to highlight what's exciting in local art.

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October 20, 2022 4:00 AM

Art Hounds: Donut look away from a Halloween season fest

The Twin Cities Horror Festival serves up 11 new shows devoted to the horror genre to get you ready for Halloween. Minnesota Bach Ensemble launches its 10th-anniversary season with a collection of baroque classics in Minneapolis. Locally produced podcast “This Queer Book Saved My Life” enters its second season.

by Emily Bright

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October 13, 2022 4:00 AM

Art Hounds: Art that explores the sea, prairie and spiritual realms

“Frontera Liminal” at the Anderson Center in Red Wing pairs the work of two Latino artists exploring where the spiritual and the everyday collide. At Westminster Gallery in Minneapolis, Susan Sperl’s detailed felted sea creatures, paired with comics by two teen artists, connect the health of the Mississippi watershed with the health of ocean life. Dodie Logue’s abstract paintings evoke the color and texture of the summer prairie in Buffalo, Minn.

by Emily Bright

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October 6, 2022 4:00 AM

Art Hounds: St. Paul gallery presents art from three Native artists

The American Craft Made marketplace opens at St. Paul’s RiverCentre, as the new version of the American Craft Council show, on hiatus since 2019. The Art Hounds also suggest you check out a celebration of Indigenous art at Metro State University’s Gordon Parks Gallery and two exhibits at Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis.

by Jacob Aloi and Emily Bright

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September 29, 2022 4:00 AM

Art Hounds: Visual art show celebrates athleticism ahead of Twin Cities Marathon

If you add up the artists featured in studio art tours this weekend alone — 40 in the Meander Art Crawl, plus over 30 in the Fargo-Moorhead Visual Arts Studio Crawl — you get a glimpse of the tremendous wealth of creative talent Minnesota has to offer. Plus, “Journey to Rock Bottom” in Burnsville by artist Annie Young celebrates marathoners who raced in Antarctica.

by Emily Bright

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September 22, 2022 4:00 AM

Art Hounds: Iranian music lights up the Ordway and Lanesboro's history in three plays

Art Hounds recommend the music of The Ensemble Aras in a concert featuring Minnesota musicians. Lanesboro’s History Alive! stages a combination pop-up play and walking tour, and a Minneapolis book launch features well-known authors and a comedian.

by Jacob Aloi and Emily Bright

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September 15, 2022 4:00 AM

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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September 8, 2022 4:00 AM

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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September 1, 2022 4:00 AM

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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August 25, 2022 4:00 AM

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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August 11, 2022 4:00 AM

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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