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Art Experiences at Breaking Ground 2016

Experience a guided tour or art making opportunity at some of the Twin Cities’ most essential art spaces. Choose one of the following:

Practitioners and partners: Artspace evolves Breaking Ground into "idea lab" that celebrates artists

Sep 13, 2016

Do you know why women and girl storytellers are the most powerful innovators in creative industries today—not just as artists, but also as community gatherers, media makers and producers? Or why arts organizations have a responsibility to encourage artists to advocate for themselves? How artists in rural communities are accessing and utilizing their transformative power? Or how nonprofit developers are putting equity and inclusion into practice in today’s complex, politically charged environment?

08//30//2016: Artspace Launches an Idea Lab, Breaking Ground, to Immerse Artists, Community and Civic Leaders, and Non-profit Partners in Creative Placemaking Conversation

So artists can celebrate themselves: Artspace's remarkable work with cultural communities

Aug 9, 2016

For decades, Vicky Holt Takamine—a Kumu Hula (teacher of hula), social activist, community leader and executive director of the PA’I Foundation in Honolulu—has sought creative solutions that would rectify the many wrongs her people, and Native artists in particular, have labored under. “We have a lot of challenges in the Native Hawaiian community,” she explains, citing hotels built in sacred locations and her people’s overall invisibility in their homeland.

Artspace lands site for affordable artist housing in RiNo

Jul 1, 2016

Artspace has narrowed in on a site in Denver’s River North Art District for an 80- to 100-unit project. Artspace has signed an exclusive negotiating rights agreement with Denver-based Westfield Company to start working on a development plan for a portion of a 14-acre site Westfield owns at 40th Street and Brighton Boulevard, said Wendy Holmes, Artspace senior vice president for consulting and strategic partnerships.

Paving The Way For Locally Developed And Owned Projects

Jul 1, 2016

Every week we receive phone calls from those seeking our help in bringing an Artspace model project to their city or town. In response we have advised on the conversion of hard-to-develop historic buildings and brownfield sites, the reuse of decommissioned schools, and the creation of new construction projects. But it’s not always about getting that one affordable artist live/work project. Sometimes it’s bigger. Sometimes it’s about strategies, tools and policies necessary to steer local development and property owners toward serving the creative sector.

06//15//2016: Arizona Tax Credit Award Advances Artspace Mesa Project

Race and housing in the Twin Cities: Don't underestimate the value of building spaces for artists

May 24, 2016

Artspace, the nation’s leading nonprofit developer of affordable housing for artists, was recently included in a study by the University of Minnesota’s Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity titled “The Rise of White-Segregated Subsidized Housing” (“Study finds racial bias in housing for artists,” May 21). The underlying thesis of this study is so far removed from the reality of the work we do at Artspace that I feel compelled to refute it. Since developing our first project in Lowertown St.

Nonprofit group visits Woodstock to help determine use for Old Courthouse, Sheriff's House

May 30, 2016

People in Woodstock are motivated to find a solution on how to use the Old Courthouse and Sheriff’s House, Wendy Holmes said, but the city just needs a little bit of technical assistance to get there. Holmes, senior vice president of consulting and strategic partnerships with Artspace, said the Minneapolis-based nonprofit met with more than 100 community members during the group’s recent trip to the city, and is now writing a report with proposed uses for the historic properties.

El Taller Latino Americano brings students to El Barrio

May 26, 2016

El Taller Latino Americano is proud to be partnering with Medgar Evers College Preparatory School on an all- day workshop on June 2, featuring artists from El Barrio’s Artspace PS109. As a part of their Spanish language studies, students at the Crown Heights school have been learning about the Latin American immigrant experience, and are coming to El Taller to get an immersive experience in El Barrio.

Dancers in a beautiful, bright indoor space with artworks on the wall behind them.

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