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.
June 2008
KKC announces our upcoming 15 Year Anniversary Exhibit and Celebration on November 7, 2008. More information HERE.
April 2008
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
More images from the Synergy Project.
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
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 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.
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
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.
Our exhibition BEING SEEN/ IN-BETWEEN will be displayed at the McKnight Foundation Gallery between October 2007 to January 2008.
The foundation is located at: 710 South Second Street, Suite 400 Minneapolis, MN 55401 and is open between 8 am and 5 pm.
Please let your hair grow long for our upcoming fundraiser at Moxie Salon & Gallery on November 18th!
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.
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.
