TC SIdewalks Live!: Discuss Public Art and Private Space on Hennepin Avenue Tomorrow

[Alice in Wonderland sidewalk.]

If you're around downtown Minneapolis tomorrow over the lunch hour, come on down to the Hennepin Avenue Parklot. I'll be joining Joan Vorderbruggen, one of my favorite public artists, to talk about how to create public art using private space.

Date: Tomorrow August 1st
Time: Noon
Place: Hennepin Avenue between 9th and 10th


Joan has long been interested in shop window design, and over the past few years begun combining that with an interest in temporary and pop-up art installations. She was one of the people working on activating Block E (before the remodel), and is currently working on improving some of the marginal (parking lot) spaces along Hennepin Avenue in downtown Minneapolis. I did an interview with her for the streets.mn podcast, and recently wrote about her for a piece at Minnpost.

We'll be chatting about public art, temporary urbanism, and the challenges of combining private and public interests while sitting in one of her brand new projects, the Parklot! See you there.

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Join us for the second installment of our Lunchtime Parklot Speaker Series with Cultural District Arts Coordinator Joan Vorderbruggen. Joan will discuss the basic steps involved implementing artists work in vacant commercial storefronts, as well as general insights in regards to creating
public art in privately owned commercial space. 

Topolo Tacos will be parked in the Parklot and open for service starting at 11am. Joan will start her talk at noon.

Since creating Artists in Storefronts in 2012, Joan has implemented well over 200 visual displays of MN based creatives work in vacant commercial storefronts, as well as produced and supported 75 live performances in alternative space, six large scale murals, and dozens of community engaging walking and biking tours and activities. She now serves as Cultural District Arts Coordinator for Hennepin Theatre Trust activating the downtown Cultural District with public art and activity. With Made Here, nearly 40 window showcases are currently on display over 15 city blocks downtown.