Stevens Square Center For The Arts

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We have updated our calender to include our expected exhibitions for 2009. Such future exhibits to look forward to:

Anatomy Show
RHA/Neighborhood show
Minimum Wage
Twin Cities Zinefest
Member's Show

Human, animal, mineral, vegetable, inside, outside or inside out; submit your take on anatomy.

Any medium is accepted. Submit your jpegs online via our online submission form by clicking here or by mail. (CDs preferred; up to 5 images to Stevens Square Center for the Arts, 1905 3rd Ave S, 2nd floor Minneapolis, MN 55404.)

Submission is free.
$25 exhibition fee if accepted.

Submissions must be received by midnight Monday Dec 29th.

Photo by Terrance Davis, taken last winter after the Maxwell's blaze.

Stevens Square Center for the Arts is having its annual Holiday Art Sale on Sat, Dec 6^th from noon to 5 pm.

Reserve a space to sell your art! $20 non-members, free for members. You may sign up for a membership before or at the event ($35 / 1 year) and have no participation fee.

There will also be a bake sale with proceeds to benefit the gallery; if you wish to donate a home baked item, please bring it to the sale and enjoy warm beverages, snacks, and live music!

Click Here to download application.

For more info, email stevensarts@mindspring.com

SSCA is inviting you to come by the gallery on Friday, December 5th from 4 - 8pm.

Bring your sketchbook, canvas or other art materials and join us for "hands-on art". Create art with your fellow artists and then give and receive feedback on it. There will also be open studios and artist demonstrations.

The event will include music by Mississippi Young and Larry Ravenswood.

In our ever expanding world dominance of the internet Stevens Square Center for the Arts has started a FACEBOOK PAGE. We see a bright future for this new technology, and hope you'll join us.

Just go to facebook and plug in our email:  ssca@stevensarts.org

SSCA Member's Show/5th Anniversary Celebration

Opening Reception: Saturday November 8th, 7-10PM

Live Music, Open Studios & Demos and Food.

Also, in honor of our Anniversary, Erik Farseth took up the major task of scanning a number of old photos from SSCA past. Go here to take a look.

(Or go here to see all the SSCA photos at Flickr.)

The latest episode of MTN Access to Art is about this year's Zinefest. Go here to see it on the interweb.

SHOW US YOUR STUFF!
The Annual Members’ Exhibit at Steven’s Square Center for the Arts is revving’ it’s engines to heat up November with Art, Events and Activities.
Submit Your Art and show us what you’ve got!

Deadline is Monday, Oct 27th

Click Here to fill out application online.

Image from the set of the stop motion file "Goomy"
by Donald Van Auken

In springtime, one’s fancy turns toward Love; in the autumn it turns toward … Death?? Join in celebrating the least glamourized of the undead ~ Zombies.

Stevens Square Center for the Arts takes a lighter look at these ghoulish denizens of the grave in The Zombie Carnival. The exhibit opens with a reception Sat, Oct 4th from 7-11pm.

On Saturday the 25th of October, from 7-11 pm, there will be a Dead-Man’s-Ball-closing-party-extravaganza! $3 suggested donation. The party will have creepy carnival games, ghoulish gourmet delights, live (or Dead?) music, prizes for best Zombie costumes, and a wicked Dead-Man’s Punch to kick the life back into you. You can also have a Zombie makeover, or have your Zombie caricature done. So bring a few x-tra bucks to join in the fun! All proceeds will go towards SSCA in hopes that more all-out gala events such as this will continue.

Artists featured:
Faye Buffinton Howell
Don Van Auken
Matt Wells
Cris t Halverson
Eric Mattheis
Richard Strohmeyer
Marcia Haffmans
Patrick Vincent
William Hessian
Christopher Park
Brad Parsons
Trish Brock

SSCA is located at 1905 3rd Ave S (above the 3rd Ave Market) in Minneapolis. SSCA is a non-profit, all volunteer run organization now celebrating its 5th year.

Dreams and Reveries

On Exhibition: September 13-21, 2008

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 13, 2008, 7-11 PM

The Stevens Square Center for the Arts (SSCA) announces "Dreams and Reveries" an exhibition by local artist Eli Zimmerman from September 13-21, 2008. There will be an opening reception Saturday, September 13, 2008 (7-11PM).

Eli's work explores how meaning can be discovered through patterns and the layering of information. By simplifying the complicated structures around us, we are able to view the world around us in ways otherwise unnoticed. There is no correct way of seeing, but rather, there are many different ways of seeing. Through the use of titles, color schemes, etc…a path is created allowing the viewer to interpret the patterns of each piece.

This current series: “Dreams and Reveries,” explores the patterns that are created when the mind exists in both the subconscious world and the real world by utilizing color, shape, and line, along with decorative motifs to create images which meld both worlds.

An opening reception for "Dreams and Reveries" will take place on Saturday, September 13th, from 7-11PM at the SSCA gallery.