May 2011
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."
Kulture 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).
Contact Kelly at kelly@kultureklub.org.
April 2011
We 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 2010
We 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 2010
It 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 2010
KKC 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!
December 2009
Letter to the community from interim Director Patty Healy McMeans.
October 2009
HOME IS WHERE YOU MAKE IT: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation from Oct. 12 - Oct. 30, 2009
Letter to the community from outgoing Director Mike Hoyt.
July 2009
Please
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 2009
ARTIST 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 Cycle
Elftmann 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 Jones
The 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 2009
KKC 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.
You can see the full exhibit here.
April 2009
KKC 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.
Here are a few samples of jewelry youth are producing.
Kulture Klub Collaborative Presents:
COST: Consider Our Stories True
What: Artwork by youth artists experiencing homelessness
When: Monday, April 20-24, 2009
Where: The State Capitol building in the North Corridor
Invite your Legislative Representative and join us in viewing amazing artwork and to learn more about supporting Homeless Youth and the Arts Community.
December
KKC 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
KKC youth artwork featured in the new TPT/Wilder Research documentary "Homeless Youth: Finding Home" to air Nov. 22, 2008.
Watch the documentary HERE.
ArtWise
images:
ArtWise:Bridging
15 Years of Kulture Klub
images by Linda Brooks.
October
Robin 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
KKC 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.
Artist In Residence Jennifer Arave and our group collecting sound at the Russian Museum.
June 2008
KKC announces our upcoming 15 Year Anniversary Exhibit and Celebration on November 7, 2008. More information HERE.
April 2008
Yes, 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. Here are a few shots of them working away. YUM!
March 2008
In 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 2008
We 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 2008
Salon D'Pugh will host a 2nd annual exhibition of artists Jasmine King and Kelly Brazil with an opening reception on Feb. 2nd, 2008
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December 2007
We 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, 2007
Schedule:
5 pm March and Silent Vigil
Hennepin County Government Center
3rd Avenue South and 5th Street South
The march will follow 5th Street west to Nicollet Avenue and proceed south
to 28th Street.
6:30 pm Service
of Remembrance
Simpson United Methodist Church
2740 1st Avenue South, Minneapolis
Speaker: Steve O'Neil, longtime advocate for people experiencing homelessness and St. Louis County Commissioner
7:30 pm Community
Meal
Simpson Shelter (basement of Simpson Church)
Served by Minnetonka United Methodist Church
Sponsored by Simpson Housing Services, Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless, and the Shelter Providers Action Association.
Parking and Shuttles
Parking is available at the Kmart parking lot located at
10 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 612.455.0858
email
We 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.
You should also view Xavier's amazing artwork at his website.
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.
KKC Will have an exhibition of selected youth artwork at PI Bar & Restaurant during the months of Dec. 2007 and Jan. 2008.
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.
November 2007
The 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.
Engaging Youth
PDF.
OCT 2007
We 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.
Here are some great images of the Archdale bench being installed.
The scary moment when the 3000 lb. stone had to be lifted over the fence and into the Archdale yard.
Sue, Amy and Mey relax on the new bench.
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 2007
Our 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 soon.
The 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.
JUNE 2007
KKC will be one of the featured organizations on MTN's "Access To Art" during the month of July. This episode is shot on location at KKC and focuses on youth arts programs.
You can watch the 30 min. segment on MTN 17 (cable in Minneapolis) Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. starting in July, or watch on-line HERE.
We are super excited to begin workshops on a largescale mural for the exterior of YouthLink. In partnership with Juxtaposition Arts and Intermedia Arts, KKC welcomes muralist Lady Pink from NYC to create a 17' x 33 ' mural on the exterior of Youthlink-Project Offstreets. Check our program schedule for workshop info.
Jasmine working below the scaffolding.
Filling in the large areas. The overall design was created by Lady Pink incorporating sketches and concepts made by KKC youth.
Lady Pink.
More images of the mural project. Look for it in the upcoming City Pages!
Post workshop discussion and critique from across the street.
A great shot of the group working together.
Our FSP bench project is moving along smoothly. Two benches were assembled and we are now waiting for our designs to be sand blasted onto the benches.
MAY 2007
We are busy working away with FSP to design our granite benches. We took a break recently to make some wonderful throwies! This was a super fun one day project that packs a lot of WOW factor.
Throwies being assembled. We made around 150 of varied color.
We took them outside and found a suitable home for them. Many of the Throwie projects online involved "bombing" metal surfaces around different cities. The KKC youth were interested in something a bit more direct. They sent a simple message to the traffic on 394 heading out of Mpls. Look for them on 12th St. and Hawthorne.
This is what they came up with... leave it to teenagers to keep it real.
APRIL 2007
KKC will begin our next large scale collaborative AIR project with Franconia Sculpture Park! KKC youth will team with FSP artists to design and build two stone benches!
FEB. 2007
Jasmine poses with her painting "Adam & Eve", 2007.
Layers: an exploration of race and identity
Reception
and Exhibition
The Minneapolis Foundation
8th Floor, IDS Center
80 South Eighth Street
Minneapolis
Local artists explore the role of race and identity – both how we define ourselves and how others define us.
The works in this exhibit reflect upon the complex layers of race and racism, including history, ancestry, culture, society, science, and appearance. This art exhibit is held at the same time as the Science Museum’s RACE exhibit, of which the Foundation is a sponsor.
View photographs, paintings, prints, quilts, and installations that reconsider race, celebrate difference, and contemplate the roots of identity.
Participating
artists:
Mica Lee Anders Shana Kaplow
Audrey Bernard Fawzia Khan
Felix Hampton Brown Jasmine King
Julaporn Mok Buakaow Jane Kramer
Elissa Cedarleaf Dahl Vanessa Leal
Beverly Cottman Jimmy R. Longoria
Lynn Fellman Kimberlyn Lura
Nancy Gipple Linda Maylish
Cris T. Halverson Peter B. Becker Nelson
Christopher E. Harrison Jenelle Norris
Michael Hoyt Patricia Phillips
Helen C. Jackson Cristina Plaza Ruiz
Carol Jacobson Sean Smuda
KKC made an annual trip to the Art Shanty Projects on Medicine Lake in Plymouth MN.
Artists David Pitman and Peter Thompson led tours of the different shanties on the lake including the postal shanty, the OurBurr, the softshop, the K-ICE radio station, the shanty of misfit toys, The cactus conservatory, the Lincoln Log Shanty, the Norae Shanty, and the Autoethnographic shanty.
The Norae Shanty
We uncovered Lincolns skull on ice.
View outside of the Shanty of misfit toys.
View from inside the Cactus Conservatory.
NOVEMBER 2006
Artists Monica Sheets temporarily installed the "Free Speech Machine" in the drop-in center for two weeks.
The Free Speech Machine explores the interplay between public space, the Internet and free expression. The project is a large wooden soap box with a bright red megaphone. In addition to speaking to the surrounding area, participants will reach a wider audience through recordings of their speeches uploaded to this blog. Future locations and dates will also be announced on the blog.
Its another busy November at KKC! Please mark your calendars for these exciting Kulture Klub events! Follow the links to the right for more information.
The beginning of a new Artist In Residence with Anastasia Ward.
more
creatures from Anastasia Wards AIR project.
KKC visited with master puppeteer Dan Polnau in his NE Mpls. studio.
Images and updates from our Artist In Residence with Anastasia Ward.
Kulture Klub recently completed an Artist-In-Residence Program with artist Peter Haakon Thompson. Selections from this program are being exhibited in a show entitled "Being Seen / In-between." For more information about this exhibit and for traveling exhibition dates, go HERE.
To view the exhibit online go HERE.
The First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis has joined with Frank Theatre to present a one night only reading of THE EXONERATED by Jessica Blank and Eric Jensen as a benefit for Oasis Crisis Intervention Center and Kulture Klub Collaborative. ...MORE
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KKC has launched an exciting Artist In Residence with artist Peter Haakon Thompson. Working through self-portraiture, Thompson is engaging youth in photography workshops that explore intimate personal connections amidst the diverse landscapes of their lives. Homeless youth will partner to create photographic work that represents meaningful and emotional responses to places and spaces they occupy. The spaces our youth occupy are intrinsically emotional and historically charged due to the transient nature and the impact of homelessness. Youth will photograph, explore, journal and engage in dialogue about the lenses with which we see and share spaces in our lives.
More of Thompsons work can be viewed HERE.
We have received a amazing donation from two middle school students whom took it upon themselves to do a fundraiser for KKC! Please go HERE to read more about this project.
We have a really great article about Kulture Klub posted in the Downtown Journal for the week of May 1, 2006.
Be sure to check out the Star tribunes Lifestyle section on Dec. 19th for a great article about KKC!
Kulture Klub Collaborative
Kulture Klub brings dignity and respect to homeless youth and to artists, building value for and between these culturally neglected and separated populations, catalyzing new relationships between art and community.
Kulture Klub is a bridge for at-risk youth to move from isolation to expression,
and for artists' voices to participate in creatively affecting community.
DONATE TODAY!
Nov. 4th, 2006 - KKC artist Jasmine King's first exhibit!
Nov. 17th, 2006 - Frybreadlove benefit concert for Project OffStreets!
Nov. 18th, the 4th Annual Moxie Salon “The Great American Sleep Out” and Cut-A-Thon!
OCTOBER 2006
Kulture Klub recently completed an Artist-In-Residence Program with artist Peter Haakon Thompson. Selections from this program are being exhibited in a show entitled "Being Seen / In-between." For more information about this exhibit and for traveling exhibition dates, go HERE.
August 2006
The First Unitarian
Society of Minneapolis has joined with Frank
Theatre to present a one night only reading of THE EXONERATED
by Jessica Blank and Eric Jensen as a benefit for Oasis Crisis Intervention
Center and Kulture Klub Collaborative. THE EXONERATED will be performed at
The First Unitarian Society, 900 Mount Curve, Mpls. at 7:30 p.m. on
September 9, 2006. There is a pre-show reception at 6:30, and post-show refreshments
from 9:30-10:30 with the opportunity to meet the actors and the staffs of
Oasis and Kulture Klub.
There is a suggested donation of $200 at the Community Hero level, $50 at the Activist level, $25 for Supporter and $20 for Student. For reservations and information, please call Carol Koepp at 952-893-2383. Or visit the Frank Theater web siteHERE for more detailed information.
May 2006
Kulture Klub's Social Service Coordinator Susan Pohl was a guest on "Women on the Move" with Ember Reichgott Junge. Sue joined poet extrordinaire Desdamona, filmmaker and Flaming Film Festival coordinator Lisa Ganser, and host Ember Reichgott Junge to speak on a program focused on helping Americas youth through the arts. This show was broadcast live online at http://www.voice.voiceamerica.com/ and rebroadcast nationally on Air America. You can access this broadcast online HERE.
We have received a amazing donation from two middle school students whom took it upon themselves to do a fundraiser for KKC! Please go HERE to read more about this project.
Check out another fantastic article on KKC in the Downtown Journal (formerly the Skyway News)!
April 2006
We have begun our exciting Artist-In-Residence program with Puppetteer and Director Michael Sommers of the Open Eye Figure Theater, and Wendy Knox of Frank Theater.
Photo by Kathy Easthagen
Working with Sommers and Knox in overlapping residencies KKC youth are working on developing urban side shows using traditional and street theater techniques.
December 2005
Check out Startribune writer Graydon Royce's great story about Kulture Klub in the Dec. 19th Lifestyle section!
Please join us for a exciting evening at the Varsity Theater!
Celebrate Lifestyle Art! Come on out to 'An Aesthetic Affair' raise your glass, jam to the music, and bid on some cool stuff in our lifestyle auction! A chance to mingle with the Twin Cities' current innovators in tattoos and piercings, fashion, make-up and hair, screenprint design, and alternative transportation, but its all to benefit a great cause! All proceeds go to Kulture Klub, a non-profit organization dedicated to giving local homeless teens a creative outlet.
EVENT DETAILS:
Fashion runs wild
Hair and Make-up creations set the mood
Piercings and Tattoos are honored
there's more than one set of Wheels
Screen prints give life to paper
The
Varsity Theater
December 15th
Doors open at 9pm
18+
21 TO DRINK
$5 Minimum Donation at the Door
ENTERTAINMENT
Lili's Burlesque Review
Bands/DJs
Danny Sigelman
Black Blondie Ft. Sarah White
The Keep Aways
Beatrix*JAR
Dred I Dread
November 2005
The 3rd Annual Moxie Salon & Gallery Cut-A-Thon benefiting StreetWorks & Kulture Klub Collaborative!
Kulture Klub Youth Art Exhibition at Moxie Gallery!
Between Oct. 18th & Nov. 20th, Kulture Klub is exhibiting the artwork of 16 talented young people. Photography, drawing, painting, sculpture and mixed media work are on display and available for purchase.
There is an ongoing silent auction for the youth artwork on display in the gallery. If you are interested in purchasing artwork, please make your bid filling out the bid card attached to each piece of art. The person with the highest bid on each piece of artwork on the night of the closing reception will win the auction.
100% of the proceeds from the sale of artwork will go directly to the artist.
Moxie Uptown: 2649 Lyndale
Ave S
Mpls, MN (612)813.0330
Gallery hours:
Monday: 9am to 9pm
Tuesday: closed for education
Wednesday: 9am to 9pm
Thursday: 9am to 9pm
Friday: 9am to 9pm
Saturday: 8am to 8pm
Sunday 10 am to 6pm
July 2005
SWITCHING
GEARS:
ART.MUSIC.FOOD.COMMUNITY
FRIDAY JULY 22ND 4 PM
– 8 PM
@ FULL CYCLE 3515 CHICAGO
Full
Cycle and Kulture Klub will be celebrating their gallery opening with
a barbeque on Friday, July 22 from 4-8 pm.
There will be free food, DJ’s and break dancing, and a free giveaway
of items including art supplies, bikes and more. Stop by 3515 Chicago Avenue
South to check out the art and new gallery space. Amazing artwork by Kulture
Klub youth for sale including paintings, sculptures, black and white photography,
poetry and stenciled t-shirts. 100% of the proceeds from purchased artwork
goes directly back to the youth who made it.
Please call Matt at Full Cycle - 612.718.7521 or Mike at Kulture Klub 612-968-7678
with any questions.
Old News
The Triple Rock Social Club and 770 RadioK will be hosting a benefit concert for KKC and Full Cycle on July 1.
Full Cycle is a program through the Minneapolis Red Cross where homeless and street dependent youth age 23 and under learn how to build and maintain their own free bicycle. Big thanks to all of the participating artists and our MCAD super team (Bethany, Adam, and Eric) for organizaing the event.
The benefits stellar lineup includes: Toki Wright, Big Quarters, and DJ Aaron Money. Hope to see you there!
$7 - All ages at 5 pm
$7 - 21+ at 9 pm.
July 22nd KKC and Full Cycle will be hosting a BBQ, open house, youth art exhibition at the Full Cycle shop on the corner of 35th street and Chicago Ave. S. in Minneapolis (next door to the Pillsbury House). The even kicks off at 4 pm and includes DJs, breakdancers, and food and refreshments. Come back soon for more details.
April 2005
Kulture Klub youth make extraordinary artistic achievements! Two Kulture Klub youth competed for, and won, two spots on the MN Teen Spoken Word Team to travel to the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival in San Francisco in late April, 2005! Related City Pages story HERE.
Former KKC youth Ampavanh Inthisone will exhibit artwork in the upcoming B-GIRL BE Exhibit at Intermedia Arts in collaboration with Juxtaposition Arts. Links are HERE.
http://intermediaarts.org/Pages/Programs/b-girl_be/main.htm
KKC received a prestigious Nimoy Foundation Grant for its Artist In Residence program. KKC was the only Midwestern organization, other than the Walker Art Center, to receive this award. Susan and Leonard Nimoy took time to visit with Kulture Klub youth, staff, and board members while in town attending the opening ceremonies for the Walker Art Center.
November 19-20, 2004
Moxie Salon and Gallery in partnership with The Garage are hosting another fantastic fundraiser for Kulture Klub and Streetworks. Please go HERE for more information.
October, 2004
KKC Youth Art Auction at the Oct. 13th YouthLink Open House. Purchase original artwork by KKC youth. All proceeds go directly back to the youth.
JUNE, 2004
Migrations reviewed in the City Pages!
Hundreds of kids live on the streets of Minnesota. And so does their art. by Peter S. Scholtes
April, 2004
KULTURE KLUB PRESENTS:
MIGRATIONS
A TWIN CITIES PUBLIC ART PROJECT
Migrations is a public art project created by Kulture Klub, an independent nonprofit arts organization that brings together artists and homeless teens.
In 2003, the estimated number of homeless/unaccompanied youth 17 and under in the twin cities every night was 660.* To symbolize this population the youth of Kulture Klub worked with Artist-In-Resident Suzy Greenberg to create pocket sized sculptures, “self-portraits”, representations of themselves. Through the casting process these miniature artworks were duplicated over and over to reach 660 pieces. Distributed throughout the Twin Cities, the objects become small treasures to be found by the public. The pieces have each been marked to lead the audience to kultureklub.org where they can learn about this project. As well, the sites of distribution have been marked on a map, tracking the scope of this mini-large-scale project.
*From the Wilder Research Center MN Statewide Survey. http://www.wilder.org/index.html
http://www.wilder.org/research/reports/pdf/mnkids6-03sum.pdf
October 18, 2002
Kulture Klub on MPR
By Chris Roberts, Minnesota Public Radio
Read the transcript here or listen to the archived broadcast here.
