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Former St. Paul art critic Diane Hellekson came out of retirement to rave about Kathryn Nobbe’s exhibition 

“Indelible Vestiges: Mother, Her Mother, Me.”

 The exhibition attempts to capture the the blurred reality between the present and past through memory through a vareity of multimedia elements. 

“There’s old shoes that look like little ghosts walking alongside the gallery.” Hellekson said. “Indelible Vesitages” is open through Sept. 9 at Form + Content Gallery at 210 Second St. N. in Minneapolis. Special performances designed to complement the installations punctuate the run, including a spoken word event 4-6 p.m. on Aug. 19.  

 lives in Eagan, Minn., now, where she uses alcohol-ink and mixed media to turning everyday chaos into something beautiful. No wonder she is drawn to Caponi Art Park’s annual “Hot Art” event, where participants carve sand molds that are then used to create molten metal castings with help from 

“They toss in scrap iron, like radiators, bits of pipe, iron sheets,” Parisi said, “toss it into a huge cauldron and they melt it down to hot, molten lava.”

The 2023 event is Saturday, Aug. 12 at noon at Caponi Art Park in Eagan.

Minneapolis musician Barb Brynstad is in the band 

. The event features mural art, food trucks and hosts a variety of different musical acts.

“Something I really love about this event is that you can actually watch artists creating these unique, beautiful pieces,” Brynstad said. The 2023 Downtown Minneapolis Street Art Festival runs 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 12-13.

Lukas Levin

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This week’s Art Hounds recommend the Downtown Minneapolis Street Art Festival, Caponi Art Park’s “Hot Art” event, and the Kate Nobbe exhibition in Minneapolis’ North Loop.

Art Hounds: murals, molten metal and music memories

Art Hounds: Murals, molten metal and memories

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