Creatives’ Convening
Friday | April 24 | 5:00-6:00pm www.facebook.com/events/526889007957695/ Winona’s Creative Laureate Sarah Johnson will host a virtual happy hour for creatives of all kinds. The focus of this will be to connect with one another, check in on how creatives are doing, and share some strategies for self-care during this strange time. Sarah will be facilitating…
Read MoreLeela Dance Collective – Virtual SPEAK Residency
April 21 through May 1 pagetheatre.org/project/speak-virtual-residency/ The Page Theatre will offer virtual residency activities with San Francisco’s Leela Dance Collective April 21 through May 1. Leela’s dancers are joined by two of the country’s leading tap artists, Michelle Dorrance and Dormeshia, in their project SPEAK. Throughout their virtual residency, the artists will share about their…
Read MorePoet Artist Collaboration 2020 Event online
Virtual Reception: Friday | April 24 | 7pm redwingarts.org/poet-artist-collaboration This year’s annual Poet Artist Collaboration is happening online, for all the obvious reasons. After 18 years at Crossings in Zumbrota, the show and reading are now hosted by Red Wing Arts, where they are working hard to assure that the virtual event retains its usual…
Read MoreArtist Relief – COVID-19 Grants for Artists
To support artists during the COVID-19 crisis, a coalition of national arts grantmakers have come together to create an emergency initiative to offer financial and informational resources to artists across the United States. Artist Relief will distribute $5,000 grants to artists facing dire financial emergencies due to COVID-19; serve as an ongoing informational resource; and…
Read MoreForecast wants to share hope – New Grants for Artists
A message from Forecast Public Art: Announcing mini-grants for public artists to create messages of hope during this challenging time. The application is now open for 20 grants of $500 each. Forecast asked artists how we can best help them and their communities NOW. In response, we reallocated $10,000 of our own resources to quickly provide…
Read MoreWinona Writers Group – April Virtual Meeting
Friday | April 10 | 3:30-5:30pm Zoom (details below) Feel free to use these prompts below, change them, or ignore them and write your own idea. For this meeting, we will not have copies of each other’s work. We will read aloud, then share verbal comments and suggestions. April Prompts: In this emotional time, most…
Read MoreHappy National Poetry Month!
The team at the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest looks forward to April each year—not just because it means the long Minnesota winter might be coming to an end. April is National Poetry Month! While we are not able to host a community event this year, there are still a lot of ways to celebrate…
Read MoreTuesdays At 2pm Facebook Live Fundraiser
Tuesdays beginning March 24 | 2:00-2:30pm www.facebook.com/events/539181853664314/ Join Amanda Grace in supporting local nonprofits who are facing great needs right now. You can listen, donate to them if you feel you can, on her page on Facebook each Tuesday at 2:00pm Central, for as long as she can manage it. (Direct link will be provided…
Read MoreThe State of the Arts (in Minnesota)
River Arts Alliance is committed to helping our community and members get the word out about the adjustments that we all must make during this time of national uncertainty. We will share information that is provided to us and keep our Facebook feed (www.facebook.com/RiverArtsAlliance/) up-to-date as things progress. A few updates as of today, March…
Read MoreMember Spotlight: Billy X. Curmano
Billy X. Curmano is an award winning former McKnight Foundation Interdisciplinary Art Fellow trained as a painter and sculptor (If, of course, painters and sculptors can be trained). His more traditional objects have been exhibited both here and abroad. Notably, his paintings represented the USA in the III Vienna Graphikbiennale. His works are included in the…
Read More