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Kulture Klub Collaborative engages art and artistic practice to provide enriching opportunities for youth experiencing homelessness and artists to grow individually and to transform community.

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Kulture Klub Collaborative is an independent nonprofit arts organization that brings together artists and youth experiencing homelessness at YouthLink in the Youth Opportunity Center, a crisis drop-in center located in downtown Minneapolis. Through workshops, open mics, cultural presentations, and "art views," highly mobile young people develop their creative expression, receive exposure to artistic excellence, and enter into a group of peers, supportive adults, and diverse social communities.Established in 1992 by artist Dorit Cypis, KKC has developed and guided interactions and partnerships among homeless youth, professional artists, arts organizations, social service agencies, and funding institutions. In 19 years of history, KKC stands alone in the field of work created by artists and homeless youth. KKC offers artists a rare opportunity to develop a project with a community of young people with a unique perspective. Young people in crisis explore their creative expression, receive exposure to artistic excellence, and interact with a group of peers, supportive adults, and diverse social communities. Kulture Klub has grown in many ways over the past several years. We have transitioned into an independent 501c3 nonprofit organization, developed a hard working Board of Directors, cultivated new funding relationships, and maintained a solid relationship with partnering organization YouthLink and the Youth Opportunity Center. Through all of this growth we have continued to provide innovative programs to increasing numbers of highly mobile young people.Kulture Klub brings dignity and respect to youth experiencing homelessness and to artists, populations that are both culturally neglected and separated. This effort catalyzes new relationships between art and community. Kulture Klub is a bridge for young people experiencing homelessness to move from isolation to expression, towards finding a voice of participation in their communities.Kulture Klub's Board of Directors:Annie Schmidt, PresidentWalker Art CenterEllen GuettlerMinnesota Public RadioKathryn RossGood Will Easter SealsMalik WatkinsTravelers FoundationKulture Klub's Staff:Jeff Hnilicka, DirectorSue Pohl, Social Service CoordinatorEthan Turcotte, Arts Administrator
Produced by MN Original [http://www.mnoriginal.org/art/]: Kulture Klub is an organization that works with youth experiencing homelessness right here in the Twin Cities. They connect these young people with the power of art. They get to work with a lot of artist both locally and nationally. Which is what they were doing at the 2010 Mid-America Print Conference at the University of MN. Street artist Swoon dropped by to show them the technique of wood block printing. The youth took pictures of people and places as their subject matter.

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Kelly Brazil - Putting Down RootsThis project, titled "Putting Down Roots" is a collaboration between Kulture Klub Collaborative and YouthLink. Youth, artist fellow Kelly Brazil, and staff collaboratively designed, tended, and programmed an art garden. Brazil and participating youth created and presented visual and performance artworks in the garden through a series of artist residencies."Putting Down Roots" created community with youth experiencing homelessness. For an entire growing season, youth worked with Kelly Brazil to build Putting Down Roots onsite at an apartment complex that houses formerly homeless youth. Young people incorporated healthy eating and creativity into their daily lives.
Artist BioKelly Brazil is a white, able-bodied, corn-fed genderqueer who was born and raised in Faribault, Minnesota and currently lives in community with other artists and organizers in Powderhorn Park. Kelly is a volunteer Advisory Board Member with Host Home, a program of Avenues for Homeless Youth, and the Trans Youth Support Network (TYSN). Coming from a youth work background and now embracing a more focused identity as an artist, Kelly strives to create functional art that is made from discarded materials which are often found on the ground. "I am honored and thrilled to be given the opportunity to work with young, creative individuals again. I look forward to the summer months ahead and what we will celebrate in the fall."

BART

Photo by Bruce Silcox

Photo by Bruce Silcox

Photo by Bruce Silcox

Photo by Bruce Silcox

Photo by Bruce Silcox

Photo by Bruce Silcox

Photo by Bruce Silcox

Photo by Bruce Silcox

Photo by Bruce Silcox

Photo by Bruce Silcox

Photo by Bruce Silcox

Photo by Bruce Silcox

Photo by Bruce Silcox

Photo by Bruce Silcox

Photo by Bruce Silcox

Bart Buch - PuppetsArtist Bart Buch and youth experiencing homelessness collaboratively designed, built, and presented puppets as part of the In the Heart of the Beast May Day celebration. Bart facilitated on site puppet making workshops in Kulture Klub Collaboratives Art Lab during March and April, as well as brought youth to off-site visits at In The Heart of the Beast Theater and the Walker Art Center. At the end of the program, Kulture Klub Collaborative presented their work in the May Day parade and festival on May 1st in Powderhorn Park!
Artist BioBart Buch is a puppeteer, poet, an teaching artist. His career in puppetry began 15 years ago creating bedtime puppet shows in his backyard for friends and neighbors. He has worked with In The Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre for 12 years as a puppeteer, teacher, puppet designer, and is currently Education Co-Director. Through Heart of the Beast and independently, Bart has worked with a wide variety of populations including churches, small rural towns, elementary schools, homeless shelters, a chorus, queer youth, adults with developmental disabilities, union workers children, and a GLBT families organization, to create puppet parades, ceremonies, community rituals, and performances. He also has been creating his own independent poetry-puppetry performances for 12 years working with the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich, Wendell Berry, Samuel Coleridge, Walt Whitman, Federico Garcia Lorca, his own poetry and others.

SWOON

Photo by KKC

Photo by KKC

Photo by KKC

Photo by KKC

Photo by KKC

Photo by KKC

Photo by KKC

Photo by KKC

Photo by KKC

Photo by KKC

Photo by KKC

Photo by KKC

Swoon - printmaking

Over the course of several weeks, Kulture Klub Collaborative youth worked with Minneapolis-based artist Brennan Vance to photograph portraits, landscapes, patterns found in the urban environment. Over the course of a weekend intensive workshop with New York City-based artist Swoon, these photographs were collaged and turned into linoleum block prints. A full installation of the work created was on view at the Youth Opportunity Center gallery space in downtown Minneapolis.
Artist BioSwoon is a Brooklyn-based street artist who draws from sources as diverse as German Expressionist woodblock prints and Indonesian shadow puppets. Creating stunningly beautiful life-sized character studies from paper cutouts, woodblock prints and linocuts, Swoon is a breath of fresh air to world of street art.Swoon does not make individual works specifically for a gallery environment but rather uses the gallery space to create installations which re-envisage our experiences of urban life.

VIDEOS

VIDEOS

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"Don't you feel it too?" is the practice of freeing our spirit through dancing our inner lives in public places. This video documentation was produced by Allison Herrera and edited by Joel Zimmerman.
Ace Error is a young person supported by Kulture Klub. This is a video he shot himself. It has not been edited, with the exception of opening and closing credits.

COLLABORATING ARTISTS

2005-2011

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2005-2011
2005Jean Humke portable stage/sculptureAndrew MacGuffie portable stage/sculpture2006Michael Sommers shadow puppets & performanceWendy Knox performancePeter Haakon Thompson photographyAnastasia Ward toy sculpture2007Franconia Sculpture Park stone benchesLady Pink/Juxtaposition Arts muralXavier Tavera guerilla cinema2008Dorit Cypis Artwise ExhibitionJennifer Arave Sound Collage ProjectRobin Taple Textile Collage ProjectConnie Cohen Mosaic Totem Project2009Tish Jones Poetry Spoken WordLauri Lyons Photography Public Art2010Brennan Vance photographyOliver Herring, video projectSwoon, printmaking2011Roxane Wallace-Patterson, Dance artistBart Buch, puppet making for May DayKelly Brazil, Art GardenSarah Sandman, paper and print makingLeilani Mendoza and Katrina Knutson, aerosol projectMarcus Young, Don't You Feel it Too?

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1998-2004
1998Michael Hoyt portable muralsRoxane Wallace (2) dance, choreographyDjola Branner dance, choreography, vocalDorit Cypis video anthology1999Alexa Horochowski collage artRoy McBride poetry, spoken wordJoel Sisson sculpture, furniture Ilene Krug Mojsilov amulets & sculpturesArmando Gutierrez shadow box ofrendasWing Young Huie photo journalism2000Andrew Kim puppetry & masksTa-Coumba Aiken muralRick Shiomi taiko drummingOscar Arredondo inflatable installations2001Bao Phi poetry & spoken wordMarti Lufkin digital videoAaron Barnell drumming & digital music2002Kim Brown digital videoJ. Otis Powell! Spoken word & poetry2003Douglas Ewart drum & instrument buildingAlexa Horochowski assemblage Bart Buch float & puppet design

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Artists 1992-2011
Aaron Barnell, MusicianAnastasia Ward, Visual Artist Annie Arrentino, Visual ArtistAnnie Humphry, MusicianAlex Alexander, Performer Alexa Horochowski, Visual ArtistAlexs Pate, WriterAmy Toscani, Sculptor Andrew McGuffie, SculptorAndy Kim, PuppeteerArmando Gutierrez, Visual Artist Bao Phi, PoetBarry McGee, Graffiti Artist Bart Buch, PuppetteerBeth Peterson, PuppetteerBrooke Newmaster, Dancer & DrummerCarrie Phoenix - SculptorCatherine Liu, WriterCharisma (CeCe) Smith, PoetChris Spotted Eagle, Filmmaker Chris Sullivan, Visual Artist Christi Atkinson, Comic Artist Claire Wilson, WriterClarence Morgan, Painter Dan Polnau, PuppetteerDaniel Bergin, Filmmaker Danny Hoch, Performer Dawoud Bey, Photographer David Pitman, Visual ArtistDJ Spooky, Musician Djola Branner, Performer Dorit Cypis, Visual Artist Doug Beasley, Photographer Douglas Ewart, Musician Douglas Padilla, Visual Artist E.G. Bailey, PoetEdward Bok Lee, Poet-PlaywrightElissa Raffa, PoetEungie Joo, CuratorEyenga Bokomba, PoetGayle Weigle/Frybreadlove, Native ElderHarold Fletcher, Visual ArtistHeather Wilson, Performer Herb Grika, Visual Artist Ilene Krug Mojsilov, PainterJ. Otis Powell!, Poet, Performer Jake Rodriguez, Composer Jean Humke, Visual ArtistJere Truer, DrummerJes Schrom, PhotographerJesse Siegel, Visual ArtistJoel Sisson, Sculptor, Public ArtistJohn Hock - Sculptor, Artistic Director, Franconia Sculpture ParkJonas Lindberg, SculptorJudy Kepes, Visual Artist Jugular, BeatboxerKatrina Knutson, Graffiti artistKari Reardon, SculptorKate Maxwell Williams, Photographer Kelly Brazil, Artist, ActivistKevin Linell, ActorKevin Washington, Musician Kim Brown, FilmmakerKimberly Taylor, Writer, JournalistLady Pink, Master MuralistLeah Nelson, Dancer ChoreographerLeilani Mendoza, Graffiti artistLeili Tajadod Pritschet, Dancer, ActivistLeslie Ball, SingerLisa Ganser, VideographerLisa Pogoff, Activist, Visual ArtistLourdes Cue - Multimedia artistMankwe Ndosi, vocalistMargaret Killgalen, PainterMark Tang, FilmmakerMaria Medina de la Smith, DancerMarilyn Habermas Scher, VocalistMarti Lufkin, FilmmakerMasanari Kurahawa, Puppetteer Maureen Koelsch, Dancer Me-K Ahn, Videographer, WriterMelanie Van Houten - SculptorMichael Franti, Singer, Composer of SpearheadMichael Sommers, Director PuppeteerMichelle Gunderson, PhotographerMike Hoyt, PainterMonica Sheets, Public ArtistMorgan Thorson, Dancer, ChoreographerNari Ward, Visual ArtistOscar Arredondo, Visual Artist Pam Belding, Computer Animator Patrick Scully, Performer Patti Hegman, KTCA producer Peter Gaustad, Comic ArtistPeter Gross, Comic ArtistPeter Haakon Thompson, PhotographerPeter Morales - SculptorProject Mobilivre, BookartsReginald Harris, PoetRick Shiomi, Theater DirectorRoger Cummings, Master MuralistRory Sparks, Visual Artist Roxane Wallace-Patterson, Dance artistRoy McBride, Poet Sara Wiener, Architect Sarah Sandman, paper and print makingSatoko Muratake, MuralistSha Cage, Poet & ActressStuart Pimsler, Dancer ChoreographerSuzy Greenberg, Sculptor, Installation ArtistTa-Coumba Aiken, PainterVince Leo, Photographer, Writer Wendy Knox, Theatrer DirectorWing Young Huie, Photographer Zoran Mojsilov, Sculptor

1998-2004

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NEWS / EVENTS

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News
November 2011We have a lot of exciting events and programs coming up this fall! As the weather gets chillier and the sun goes down sooner, come to Kulture Klub to stay warm and creatively engaged! We are starting a music program where we will partner with some local hip hop/spoken word artists to create an album. We also have a book club starting - perfect for the cold weather! At the end of November, we'll be going to see the Wizard of Oz LIVE! at the Children's Theater. Stay tuned with the calendar on the next page or give us a call/email us to ask about our next adventure! info_kultureklub.org or 612-252-1248. August 2011Join us for a garden party!Putting Down Roots - A Kulture Klub Collaborative Art GardenTuesday, August 30, 5 - 7:00 pmArchdale Apartments - 1600 1st Ave S,Please join the artists, board, staff, and youth of Kulture Klub Collaborative on Tuesday August 30 to help celebrate our first successful growing season at Archdale Apartments! Stop by anytime to enjoy treats from the garden. Artists and youth will share stories of "Putting Down Roots" at 6 pm.July 2011The art garden at Archdale Apartments is really taking off! We have a full crew of youth staff that have been working really hard weeding, watering, and planting. The vegetables are growing strong and the flowers are beautiful! Stay tuned for fun community events in our garden!May 2011Kulture Klub Collaborative has selected its Artist Fellow for an upcoming Art Garden project. We are happy to announce Kelly Brazil as the fellow for the summer and fall months.Kelly Brazil is a white, able-bodied, corn-fed genderqueer who was born and raised in Faribault, Minnesota and currently lives in community with other artists and organizers in Powderhorn Park. Kelly is a volunteer Advisory Board Member with Host Home, a program of Avenues for Homeless Youth, and the Trans Youth Support Network (TYSN).Coming from a youth work background and now embracing a more focused identity as an artist, Kelly strives to create functional art that is made from discarded materials which are often found on the ground."I am honored and thrilled to be given the opportunity to work with young, creative individuals again! I look forward to the summer months ahead and what we will celebrate in the fall."Contact Kelly at kelly_kultureklub.org.April 2011We are pleased to welcome Ethan Turcotte as our Arts Administrator. Ethan is originally an East Coast transplant who was falling off surfboards in Los Angeles when he decided to move to the midwest two years ago. He spends the majority of his time organizing in the queer and trans community and volunteering as a clinic escort. He plays guitar and drums, loves dance parties and talking about feelings. Ethan is very excited to join Kulture Klub Collaborative, and embraces the right of everyone to create art out of everything! Artist Bart Buch and youth experiencing homelessness will collaboratively design, build, and present puppets as part of the In the Heart of the Beast May Day celebration. For our full press release, click this link. Bart will facilitate on site puppet making workshops in Kulture Klub Collaborative's Art Lab during March and April, as well as bringing youth to off-site visits at In The Heart of the Beast Theater and the Walker Art Center. At the end of the program, Kulture Klub Collaborative will present their work in the May Day parade and festival on May 1st in Powderhorn Park! Oct 2010We are pleased to bring in Witt Siasoco as our interim Arts Coordinator until the end of 2010. Witt recently stepped down as the Program Manager Teen Programs at the Walker Art Center, where he has led the Teen Arts Council for 12 years.Artist-In-Residence Swoon leads printmaking workshop based on photos created with Artist-In-Residence Brennan Vance. This program is in partnership with the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council and the University of Minnesota, as part of the Mid-America Printmakers Conference.Sept 2010It is with a heavy heart that we congratulate and say farewell to Amy Snyder as she moves on from her longtime position at Kulture Klub Collaborative. Amy has been deeply dedicated to the youth and artists who have worked with Kulture Klub in her impressive 7-year tenure with the organization. Her passion has been essential moving Kulture Klub forward in our 18-year history, particularly as we have transitioned to new leadership. Kulture Klub has worked with over 5000 young people and over 150 artists and Amy has been a leader in much of this great work.Amy will be taking a fabulous opportunity developing arts programming and creative projects for the City of Santa Barbara, CA and several school districts. Please join us in thanking Amy for her amazing work with Kulture Klub Collaborative, she will be greatly missed.Artists-in-Residence Oliver Herring and Brennan Vance lead a 10-day intensive video project, working out of the West Bank Social Center. Dozens of KKC youth contribute to creating music, costumes, sets, and performance for a music video. Stay tuned to see the final product.April 2010KKC Youth begins projects and field trips to Franconia Sculpture Park to cast iron benches!KKC begins workshops with local film and video artist Brennan Vance which will culminate in art for the Capitol exhibit in mid-May!October 2009HOME IS WHERE YOU MAKE IT: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation from Oct. 12 - Oct. 30, 2009July 2009Please Join us for ARTGIVES, A wine-tasting celebration with jazz music by Rick Carlson on July 31.KKC honored with a first annual MRAC Arts Achievement award!June 2009ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAMS!In July we will kick off our summer AIR programs with two exciting projects!JULY: Art on wheels: Artcar artist Jan Elftmann & Full CycleElftmann will work with youth to create a fleet of unique individualized art-bikes. Youth will learn how to assemble functioning bikes from assorted used parts, how to use hand tools, and how to use a plasma cutter to create intricate designs in sheet metal which will be welded to steel bike frames. KKC will participate in a public ArtCar parade on July 25, 2009. For Art On Wheels, KKC will renew a partnership with Full cycle, a bike program run by Pillsbury United Communities and developed by the Red Cross as a free bike program which helps homeless and street dependent youth age 23 and under learn how to build and maintain their own free bike.AUGUST: Home Is Where You Make It: photographer Lauri Lyons & poet/spoken word artist Tish JonesThe intention of the Home is Where You Make It project is to increase public awareness and recognition of the homeless youth population within the Twin Cities. Members of Kulture Klub will shoot black and white portraits. The portraits will then be digitally enlarged and mounted onto cardboard to be assembled by the teens into houses on the street. Six individual house structures will be installed in various public locations in the Twin Cities. We are negotiating a temporary installation at the Walker Art Center in partnership with the Walker Art Center Teen Programs.* Lyons will give a free public lecture at the Walker Art Center about this project.BAGS!We are sewing and making super cool messenger bags! We found a few great designs from the vast and bountiful web and have been experimenting with found fabrics and materials.May 2009KKC has installed artwork in the office of the Mayor of Minneapolis. We are exhibiting photographic self portraits made by youth during a 2006 Artist In Residence with Peter Haakon Thompson. The exhibit will be up during the months of May and June.April 2009KKC super friend Gayle Weigle (Earth Circles/FryBreadLove) is back teaching jewelry workshops. Youth are making (and selling) jewelry at the upcoming RED HOT ART festival, June 6 & 7.Kulture Klub Collaborative Presents:COST: Consider Our Stories TrueWhat: Artwork by youth artists experiencing homelessnessWhen: Monday, April 20-24, 2009Where: The State Capitol building in the North CorridorInvite your Legislative Representative and join us in viewing amazing artwork and to learn more about supporting Homeless Youth and the Arts Community.www.youthmovingforward.orgDecember 2008KKC youth, artists and staff will be interviewed live on Fox 9 News on Sunday Dec. 7th between 7 and 10 am.We are featured in two recent articles. Please visit the Twin Cities Daily Planet and the SouthWest Journal.November 2008KKC youth artwork featured in the new TPT/Wilder Research documentary "Homeless Youth: Finding Home" to air Nov. 22, 2008.Artwise Opens!ArtWise images:ArtWise:Bridging 15 Years of Kulture KlubOctober 2008Robin Taple worked with dozens of youth to create some really great collage/assemblage pieces that explore ideas of identy and home.MOSAICS ARE A HIT!We are close to completing a third Artist In Residence program in just three short months. We are madly producing some work for our upcoming exhibit ArtWise which opens Nov. 7th.Connie Cohen is working with large groups of youth to produce really beautiful mosaic pictures that will be assembled into a totem for ArtWise.We are having a lot of fun making beautiful mosaic projects with our current Artist In Residence Connie Cohen. She has led a half dozen workshops so far and the youth (and staff) are completely hooked. Its great having a project that can teleport your mind away for several hours. This one in particular has really captured the youth and keeps them coming back week after week.KKC will be partnering with the Art Shanty Projects to do public art workshops during the UnConvention.Programs will be happening at the Art Shanty Projects base camp at Peavey Plaza in downtown Minneapolis from 5 pm Aug. 31 to 10 pm Sept. 2. Drop by and engage in creative participatory democracy.July 2008KKC is working with Artist In Residence Jennifer Arave developing sound collages. Arave is leading workshops where youth are creating multi-layered sound projects by collecting audio samples (foraging in the public domain) and editing on the computer.June 2008KKC announces our upcoming 15 Year Anniversary Exhibit and Celebration on November 7, 2008. More information HERE.April 2008Yes, food is good. In April we had another culinary arts workshop with a very special guest, Sue's mother Mary Jo.Sue's mother Mary Jo came in for a very special culinary workshop. An handful made handmade ravioli for a drop-in dinner. YUM!March 2008In March we visited and collaborated on the Synergy Project, a interactive exhibition by artists Melanie VanHouten and Andrew Macguffie at the College of St. Catharine in St. Paul.KKC youth and staff helped create symbols, images, text and phrases in response to the question "If you could make one simple change that might make a difference, what would it be?" February 2008We had our annual Black History Month Open Mic and Feast prepared by our amazing chef Carl Hoke.We just completed a two part Khadar Elders Program on Sri Lanka.Four guests prepared a feast in January and did a photo lecture about Sri Lanka, and spoke about the current struggles with both the impact of the tsunami and the ongoing battle between the government and the Tamil Tiger Rebels.They returned two weeks later and did a Henna artlab in the drop-in which was wildly popular and Carl cooked a 2nd Sri Lankan feast.January 2008Salon D'Pugh will host a 2nd annual exhibition of artists Jasmine King and Kelly Brazil with an opening reception on Feb. 2nd, 2008.December 2007We brought our projections down to the Simpson Housing Homeless Memorial March to add some flavor and a glimmer of individuals impacted by homelessness. Our group interviewed people whom were marching and displayed portraits of youth from KKC.Please join us at the 2007 Homeless Memorial March and Service.To honor and remember those who have died while homeless in Minnesota.Kulture Klub will be projecting youth artwork and videos on the street, along the march, and all throughout the event.Thursday, December 20, 2007Schedule:5 pm March and Silent VigilHennepin County Government Center3rd Avenue South and 5th Street SouthThe march will follow 5th Street west to Nicollet Avenue and proceed south to 28th Street.6:30 pm Service of RemembranceSimpson United Methodist Church2740 1st Avenue South, MinneapolisSpeaker: Steve O'Neil, longtime advocate for people experiencing homelessness and St. Louis County Commissioner7:30 pm Community MealSimpson Shelter (basement of Simpson Church)Served by Minnetonka United Methodist ChurchSponsored by Simpson Housing Services, Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless, and the Shelter Providers Action Association.Parking and ShuttlesParking is available at the Kmart parking lot located at10 West Lake Street, Minneapolis (the corner of Lake Street & First Avenue). Kmart is a short walk from Simpson UMC and the Simpson Men's Shelter.Shuttle Buses will depart from Kmart, at the corner of Lake Street & First Avenue at 4:20 and 4:30 pm.For more information contact:Eric Johnson 612.455.0858We are taking our art to the streets!We are currently uploading artwork from our current 2007 Artist In Residence program Guerrilla Cinema with Xavier Tavera.KKC Will have an exhibition of selected youth artwork at PI Bar & Restaurant during the months of Dec. 2007 and Jan. 2008.November 2007The Moxie Salon Great American Sleep Out & Hair Raising Event returns November 17 & 18, 2007. Please visit our MOXIE page for details about this fantastic fundraising event.Opening reception will be Thursday Dec. 6th from 5 pm - 8 pm. Some great artwork will be for sale and all proceeds will go directly to youth artists. These would make very special holiday gifts for friends or family.Its the return of the MOXIE SALON Great American Sleepout & Hair Raising Event to raise awareness of homelessness. Please visit our Moxie page for event details and how to get involved.Kulture Klub is highlighted in a recently published guide produced by the Healthy Teen network entitled ENGAGING YOUTH ON THEIR TURF; Creative Approaches to Connecting Youth through Community.OCT 2007We have just released a request for proposals for our 15 Year Anniversary Artist In Residence Program. Please click on the green button to the right to view and download the RFP.Here is the Avenues bench being installed by MacGuffie Rigging and John Hock. This bench weighed in at 15,000 lbs. That will be the heaviest project KKC will ever be involved in.We currently have youth artwork on display at three separate exhibits.We have some updates for our busy summer of public art projects including an update on the Franconia Bench project and the Spontaneous Storefront partnership with artist Edwin Beylerian through Forecast Public Artworks.In June we completed a 17 ft by 33 ft mural in partnership with Juxtaposition Arts and master muralist Lady Pink!The foundation is located at: 710 South Second Street, Suite 400 Minneapolis, MN 55401 and is open between 8 am and 5 pm.SEPT 2007Our storefront project was installed this past week. Youth artwork is on display in street level windows for a few months in windows on 2nd Ave. S. between 10th & 11th streets at a Metro transit station. There will be an announcement/release from Forecast Public Artworks in the next few weeks. We will be posting pictures of the exhibit soonThe benches are finished at Franconia and now await installation at our two sites (Avenues for homeless youth and Archdale). They can be seen at FSP as part of their huge year-end opening and reception on Sat. Sept. 15th.They look pretty impressive at the park and will be really great once they are installed.The Being Seen/In-between exhibit will be moving to the McKnight Foundation gallery sometime in Sept. or Oct. and we will be having a public reception for this show. A formal announcement is pending.

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Events

All events and programs you see are for young people ages 16-21 who are currently, have recently, or are at risk of experiencing homelessness. This includes couch surfing, crashing at friend's places, staying in shelters, or other ways to be out of home and highly mobile.We want you to join us!At every program:

Events are free!

We'll drop you off anywhere in downtown Minneapolis

You'll get a bus token.

We have childcare subsides for young parents.

Free dinner!

You'll be in a fun, safe environment!

We want everyone to feel welcome at Kulture Klub. If you have any questions or have ideas of how to make Kulture Klub easier to be a part of, give us a call at 612-252-1248 or email us at info_kultureklub.org

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FUNDING

FUNDING

Kulture Klub Collaborative is made possible with financial support from:
Foundations & Government:McKnight FoundationTarget FoundationCOMPAS - United Arts FundBenefactors:Susan & Leonard NimoyGovernment Grants/ContractsMetropolitan Regional Arts Counsel through an appropriation from the MN State LegislatureMinnesota State Arts BoardYouthLinkCountless generous community partners and individuals.

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Kulture Klub Collaborative can always use donated items for our Art Lab. One way to do this is to host an Art Supply Drive at your school or place of work! Items we often need are:
MarkersPaintNotebooksPens/PencilsFabricBeads/Jewelery itemsCanvasesJournalsSketch padsPaint brushesBack packsCharcoalWater colorsAcrylicsWater color paperClayArtist paperSewing Machine (and supplies)Spray PaintBook Binding SuppliesArtist TapePortfolio materials

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