Gap and the Whitney Museum of American Art have teamed with some of my favorite artists to create some cool Tee’s for Men and Women. I am very excited that today I went to the Walker Art Center instead of ordering offline or dragging myself into my local gap store to purchase my Marilyn Minter Tee.

Featured artists tees are :

Hanna Liden

Chuck Close

Jeff Koons

Marylin Minter

Kenny Scharf

Glenn Ligon

Sarah Sze

Kiki Smith

Barbara Kruger

I must admit I am not one to usually enjoy art and retail or art and advertising but after I heard the Walker was selling the shirts and it benefited the museum, I was on board. All the shirts sold at the Walker benefit the museum, and they are the same exact price as Gap!The shirts are 100% cotton,they run kinda large..and they are super soft.$28 dollars and you can have your favorite art on a shirt.

Substance presents…

Justice Jam Day long festival celebrating activism at the U and around the Twin Cities Saturday, May 3rd, 2008, 2pm-10pm Gateway Plaza, McNamara Alumni Center front plaza, U of M (outdoors, 200 Oak St. SE, Mpls, MN)

Featuring: Heiruspecs and White Light Riot With: Kanser w/More than Lights, Truthmaze (Tru Ruts), Indigo, St. Paul Slim, Muja Messiah, Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles, GENA, plus poetry by MN Spoken Word Association Street Skateboard demo by 3rd Lair and Cal Surf Concessions provided by Duffy’s Pizza (Dinkytown) – Vegan options A “ Green” Event Free and open to all Part of Actifest – www.actifest.org

Also :

They will also be providing paint and assembling a free standing wall for YOU to come paint on! They are planning on putting up several 4×8 plywood panels(in a row), of which artists will be able to keep if they so wish.

If you’re at all interested, please e-mail ASAP info@livewithsubstance.org, so they know how big a wall and how much paint to buy.

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Photo Exhibit by David L. Parker

Before Their Time: Child Labor Around the World

Artist’s reception and book signing

Thursday, April 10, 5-8 p.m.

Exhibit runs Monday, March 31 - Friday, May 2, Hours 12-5 p.m.

The Nina Bliese Gallery is located on the ground floor of the 225 South 6th St. Building in Minneapolis, MN. Parking in 225 South Sixth Street is available for $5.00 with a Gallery Coupon.

I was once told that after you make $60,000 a year your level of happiness goes up. Now I don’t make $60,000 a year … but I had a hard time agreeing with this. I also was recently shopping at the Wedge and I brought my own bags when I was checking out they informed me that if you bring your own bags you can

1. get money off your purchase

or

2. Donate that saved money to the community garden

I decided to donate to the community garden and as I was walking home I couldn’t help but thinking about someone being able to plant seeds that my possible contribution helped. Which I thought was really interesting when I stumbled across an article today about how people who donate or buy gifts for others are happier.

So the old saying, “it’s better to give than to receive” is correct. Click for full article

Go to the Rush Creek Studio and make some glass art .. for an affordable price.. bling.

You will design your own bowl, plate, platter, sushi dish, etc. and create it in class. We’ll fire it, and then slump it into the shape you have chosen from our many molds. The firing fee includes the two kiln firings of your project (fuse & slump).

After you have taken a glass class, you are welcome to work in our Studio anytime designing more glass projects, at just the regular Studio rates of $6 per hour (plus any glass you purchase).

Time and Date:

Monday, March 17th from 7 - 9 pm

Cost: $24 Class Fee, $10 firing & materials, + additional glass

Class offered at The Studio at Rush Creek

(763) 315-3001

www.studio-rush.com

9481 Garland Lane North

Maple Grove, MN 55311

Walk in art studio & coffee house! Hand-crafting the finest coffee and espresso drinks,

come for a class, open studio time or just to shop!

Yesterday night the Walker screened Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks , 2 Days a film portraying the harrowing story of a young woman living in Romania in 1987 and her story of undergoing and illegal abortion. Based on an actual story of a friend of Mungiu’s the film is an in depth look at actual life under the Communist rule. “ In 1966, a law than banned abortion was imposed in Romania. The effect was immediate: up to 1970 there were four huge generations of children, a few times more numerous that the generations before 1966. The number of children in a classroom increased from 28 to 36… By the end of communism sources say that more than 500,000 women had died because of …” trying to receive illegal abortions.

4 Months, 3 Weeks , 2 Days is apart of the New Wave movement in Romania. The stylistic elements that are defining this movement are “ long takes , fixed camera positions, a taste for plain lighting and everyday décor.” Many of the stories have a tendency to follow everyday ordinary lives. If you are bummed you were unable to attend the film you still have time to go and see other Romanian new wave director Cristian Nemescu’s film California Dreamin’(Endless) on Febuary 8th at 7:30 ( In “ one of the best films about how America is perceived abroad ever made”–Washington Post and winner of Un Certain Regard at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, a Romanian bureaucrat delays an American NATO train on its way to Kosovo as a way to avenge the arrogance and neglect he feels the United States displayed toward Romanians after World War II) or Free Thursday, Febuary 7th at 7:30 you can see an early short by him called Marilena from P7 which follows a juvenile who befriends a prostitute. Make sure if you go to the free film on Thursday you reserve your tickets.

Obama is the Democratic Nominee

Volunteers Needed: The G.A.M.E.

Graffiti Art Mentoring and Education

The G.A.M.E. is seeking volunteers for the 2008 summer mural production season. Volunteers will work with Program Coordinator/Artist-in-Residence JoJo throughout the summer to prepare and paint the walls, organize paint, promote the program as a street team member and maintain the Intermedia Arts’ parking lot, walls and property. Volunteers can receive school credit and/or community service hours with proper paperwork. All volunteers will be on-call throughout the summer for up to 5 hours/week.

Contact thegame@intermediaarts.org for more information!

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Wishes for the Sky 2008

Free event

Sunday, April 20, 11am-4pm

Harriet Island, St. Paul

Rain or Shine

FREE KITE FLYING!

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Recently, in Philly,the sales of Obama t-shirts helped fund OBEY created bus shelter ads of Sentor Barack Obama.

Obey’s site says “You might be saying… “ supporting a political candidate, paying for ads, what is Obey thinking?” Well, we’re thinking that helping to put Obama in office is one of the most subversive things we could be doing. To see for yourself, check out his policies at barackobama.com“

They are also featuring posters for purchase similarly on their site.

This summer’s CrimethInc. convergence will occur July 16 to 20, in or near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

I wanted to attended the convergence in 2007 which I think took place in Winona but was in the BWCA. Has anyone ever attended one or know someone who has attended? Sounds interesting. For more info check their website and for more info on past events check this article

Do people still like Afternoon Records bands?

http://www.afternoonrecords.com/releases.html

Women accounted for only 7 percent of directors in 2005. In the history of the Academy Awards only three women have been nominated and none have won. The Walker Art Center is having their 15th Women With Vision International Film Festival throughout March.

Next time you are at the Walker for FREE Thursdays (wink wink nudge nudge) pick up their booklet on the International Festival, or check out their website for possible films you would want to check out. A few are free if not films are only $8. But if you want to see 4 you can order tickets for 3 and the get the 4th free for $24.

Also March 1st is the Girls in the Directors Chair Curated by Whitney Garner and Erica Hungerford. (At the Walker)This showcase is in its 13th year the goal is to provide a community of young female directors with a quality screening room and connections to professional women filmmakers.

The event starts at 11am on March 1st with the first program which will be played twice again at 1:30,the second program is for 13 years and older and will be shown at 3pm.

Be sure to come out and support women filmmakers in March.

The final 20 under 20 event is today at the Walker Art Center

(1750 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Event starts at 7 and is FREE!!

Come see the best.

Well, last night we began hanging all the beautiful artwork for the 1st preliminary in St.Paul.

I am so excited about the show all of the work looks so amazing.

Come down on Saturday to be amazed and see and meet some amazing young artists!

This Saturday May 10th from Noon-7 Performance at 5

Northern WareHouse(Level 2,careful the elevator is broken)

308 Prince Street

Mothlight is an animation of “found foliage” Stan Brakhage used insects,leaves, and sandwiched them between two strips of perforated tape to create this masterpiece.

See a complete version here

Pikapika is inspiring artists all over the world to create there own flashlight animation

all it takes is a few friends

some flashlights.. (maybe some cool bulb colors)

darkness

and a digital still camera

… and maybe quicktime

.. when is the Walker going to have them over from Japan to do a workshop?

In less than a year on February 17 ,2009 I will no longer have the pleasure of using my antenna to try to get TPT…

The move to digital gets me down.. I love analog..

Anyways here is what I am going to try to tune into tonight…

St. Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN 15) viewers: “Our World In Depth” cablecasts in St. Paul on Tuesday evenings at 5pm, after Democracy Now!, and midnight and Wednesday mornings at 10am. All

households with basic cable may watch.

My friend and I made a zine awhile back

Called Bittersweet

And we have a few laying around

So if you want one

You should send an e-mail to

Bittersweetmpls@gmail.com

with your address and I’ll send you a copy.

Which I would LOVE to do.

In case you missed The Violin by Francisco Vargas the first time at the Walker, it is now playing at The Parkway Theater in Minneapolis. From Today until March 1st it plays everyday at 3:00 and 7:30.

And in case you don’t remember this was the best film of 2007 besides No Country for Old Men.

Writer-director Francisco Vargas’s first feature, an evocation of the 1970s Guerrero peasant revolt, is a solemn, suspenseful, extremely well-shot political drama. The movie opens…

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