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March 2021
Doc McStuffins: The Exhibit – Minnesota Children’s Museum
Experience the first children’s museum exhibit based on Disney Junior’s award-winning series, Doc McStuffins. Join the magical storytelling as you help Doc and her friends in the new McStuffins Toy Hospital! Open through May 7 on the 4th floor of Minnesota Children's Museum. Doc McStuffins: The Exhibit is produced by The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and presented by Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health. Disney character live appearances are not part of the exhibit. © Disney
Find out more »March Featured Artists: Ani Kasten, Jamie Lang, Ian Petrie, and Laurie Shaman
Each of March’s featured artists offers a snapshot, sometimes literally, of a life. These explorations can be highly personal, but also familiar within the context of shared human experience. Ani Kasten’s work captures nature, and sometimes grief, through relatable abstraction. Jamie Lang creates adobe bricks small enough to hold in your hand with images and designs that evoke sentimentality. Ian Petrie’s original comic drawings get to the core of our vulnerability, frustration, and self-deprecation. And Laurie Shaman’s expressive imagery on…
Find out more »Virtual KidsJam Event – TAIKO: Get Inside the Beat
TAIKO: Get Inside the Beat TaikoArts Midwest Premieres Tuesday, February 2, 2021 10:30am | CREATE your own Taiko Drum: LEARN how to make your own taiko drum! This instructional video is available one week in advance of the event’s premiere to allow time to make your instruments. Premieres Tuesday, February 9, 2021 10:30am | INTERACTIVE PROGRAM: LISTEN to the thunder of the high energy taiko drums. LEARN about taiko’s Japanese and Asian American roots and history. PLAY the drums and…
Find out more »Border CrosSing: “Latin America a Miracle of Faith” – Virtual Courtroom Concert
Recorded November 2017 An exploration of Latin American history and its people’s relationship with religious faith through sacred choral music from different historical periods.
Find out more »Chione Quintet , Michael Maiorana “Pillars of Air and Light” – Virtual Courtroom Concert
Featuring: Alexandra Berndt, bassoon Bethany Gonella, flute Susan Miranda, oboe Weily Grina-Shay, clarinet Allison Akins, horn About the Program: Recorded February 2020 Twin Cities-based Chione Quintet performs MN composer Michael Maiorana’s “Pillars of Air and Light,” a five-movement piece for woodwind quintet inspired by five paintings of trees by Dutch artist Jacoba van Heemskerck.
Find out more »Community Volunteer Nomination
For the Community Volunteer Nomination, BK Law Group will select one individual who has strengthened our community through volunteerism to win a $500 giftcard to be used as they see fit. Nominations will be accepted now through March 31, 2021. We are looking for people who have demonstrated leadership and innovation through transforming our community. We seek to reward a spirited individual who has displayed a commitment to the community over their lifetime. Lastly, this citizen must embody spirit in…
Find out more »Schubert Revealed: David Finckel, Wu Han & Friends featuring Arnaud Sussman, Benjamin Beilman, Matthew Lipman, & Nicholas Canellakis – Virtual Concert
Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han are Schubert Club’s Featured Artists for the 2020-2021 season. They rank among the most dynamic and influential forces in classical music today. Their performances inspire audiences around the world and have won universal critical acclaim. Partners in music and marriage, they were recipients of Musical America’s prestigious Musicians of the Year award in 2012. David and Wu Han are in their third term as Artistic Directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln…
Find out more »Secret Life of Objects and Mike Norman
In this Secret Life of Objects, our curators bring together artists who imagine the life of a ceramic object beyond the pedestal through drawing, collage, and film. The Secret Life of Objects will share the most compelling clay work crossing material boundaries and will draw in new audiences to engage in the role of voyeuristic observer. The representational object, presented in a frozen moment, will be re-presented through various narrative devices—a non-traditional approach to interrupt our process of perception. Artist…
Find out more »Gao Hong, pipa & Issam Rafea, oud – Virtual Courtroom Concert
About the Program: Gao Hong, leading player of the Pipa, the Chinese pear-shaped lute, and Issam Rafea, a master of the Oud, the Arabic lute, perform a concert of new, improvised works About the Artists: The Issam Rafea and Gao Hong duo performs live improvisations blending Chinese and Arabic techniques. Songlines Magazine in the U.K. called their collaboration “…engaging, deeply contemplative, and culturally resonant.” Each performance is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and audiences have the opportunity to witness singular creations that…
Find out more »Outer Experiences: Black Life in Rural and Suburban Minnesota
In partnership with the African American Interpretive Center of Minnesota (AAICM), Minnesota Museum of American Art presents "Outer Experiences: Black Life in Rural and Suburban Minnesota." This exhibition explores the experience of being Black outside of the Twin Cities and is based on AAICM’s eponymous digital collection featuring interviews that amplify the voices of Black Minnesotans and the history that connects them to their home. This is an outdoor exhibition in the M's window galleries on Robert and 4th streets.
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