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Art Hounds

Each week three people from the Minnesota arts community talk about a performance, opening, or event they're excited to see or want others to check out.

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Art Hounds: 5 shows to catch at the Minnesota Fringe Festival

This week, Art Hounds is devoted to the Minnesota Fringe Festival. More than 100 individual plays will run on stages across Minneapolis Thursday through August. Fringe is the largest non-juried theater festival in the U.S.; amateur and professional theater makers alike pitch shows that are chosen by lottery. Each show must be fewer than 60 minutes, and there are up to seven slots a day for shows…

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Art Hounds: Opera by the lake, jazz-inspired dance and a graffiti legend

From MPR News, Art Hounds are members of the Minnesota arts community who look beyond their own work to highlight what’s exciting in local art. Want to be an Art Hound? Submit here . A world-class music festival in the Brainerd Lakes Hedy Holmberg spends the summers by Bay Lake in the Brainerd Lakes Region. In the past five years, she's been attending the Lakes Area Music Festival, which she calls…

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Art Hounds: Handmade art, hometown laughs and scenic photography

From MPR News, Art Hounds are members of the Minnesota arts community who look beyond their own work to highlight what’s exciting in local art. Want to be an Art Hound? Submit here . Wheel Appeal Lorrie Kummeth of Maple Grove has been attending the Minnesota Pottery Festival in Hutchinson for the last five years and says it's always a fun event. The festival runs Saturday, July 25 from 10 a.m. to…

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Art Hounds: Shakespeare in Grand Marais, the Jayhawks in Aitkin and dance by the lake

'As You Like It’ puts Shakespeare to music in Grand Marais Scotty Reynolds, producing artistic director of Mixed Precipitation, is shining a light on the Grand Marais Playhouse . The theater is staging a musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s “As You Like It" this summer. Music and lyrics are by Shaina Taub, the creator of the Broadway musical “Suffs.” This local production opens Thursday and runs…

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Art Hounds: Audio story walks, bluegrass and a Broadway favorite

From MPR News, Art Hounds are members of the Minnesota arts community who look beyond their own work to highlight what’s exciting in local art. Want to be an Art Hound? Submit here . Experience immersive audio story walks on the North Shore Art enthusiast Erin Walsh of Minneapolis is looking forward to heading to the North Shore this weekend to attend the launch of Diver Van Avery’s original…

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Art Hounds: Surreal drawings, sculpture strolls and a timely theatrical return

From MPR News, Art Hounds are members of the Minnesota arts community who look beyond their own work to highlight what’s exciting in local art. Want to be an Art Hound? Submit here . A sprawling surrealist exhibit Twin Cities painter David Amdur recommends seeing "The Internal Affairs of Mr. Invincible," an exhibition of more than 100 mixed-media drawings by Lou Ferreri at Hopkins Center for the…

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Art Hounds: A 1967 time capsule, North Shore landscapes and folk dance traditions

From MPR News, Art Hounds are members of the Minnesota arts community who look beyond their own work to highlight what’s exciting in local art. Their recommendations are lightly edited from the audio heard in the player above. Want to be an Art Hound? Submit here . 1967: Summer of Love “Summer of Love-In,” presented by Adventures in Hostessville at the Hive Collective in St Paul runs June 25-28.…

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Art Hounds: West African drumming, Football-meets-Dance and Red Wing Arts Plein Air

From MPR News, Art Hounds are members of the Minnesota arts community who look beyond their own work to highlight what’s exciting in local art. Their recommendations are lightly edited from the audio heard in the player above. Want to be an Art Hound? Submit here . West African Drum & Dance Conference Joshua Gillespie, a Minneapolis drummer and storyteller who performs as Brotha Ase, wants…

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Art Hounds: New SWANA plays, 5-minute films and art meets healthcare

From MPR News, Art Hounds are members of the Minnesota arts community who look beyond their own work to highlight what’s exciting in local art. Their recommendations are lightly edited from the audio heard in the player above. Want to be an Art Hound? Submit here . Six new plays from Arab American Theaterworks Deborah Copperud of Minneapolis hosts the podcast “ Read Minnesota Books .” She’s…

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Art Hounds: A new professional concert band, plein air art and two artists at Vine Arts Center

From MPR News, Art Hounds are members of the Minnesota arts community who look beyond their own work to highlight what’s exciting in local art. Their recommendations are lightly edited from the audio heard in the player above. Want to be an Art Hound? Submit here . A new professional concert band Ross Wolf of Minneapolis is a band director at Spring Lake Park High School and a saxophone player. He…

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