February 2012
We are in the middle of a fantastic music project with local rappers BIG QUARTERS! We hope to release a Kulture Klub CD at the end of April or beginning of May.
Working with Artist-in-Residence Amoke Kubat, young parents got together to discuss the challenges and successes of parenting while creating a rocking chair for YouthLink's drop-in center. We decorated pre-cut wood pieces and it looks great!
In January of this year, we took in a lot of ArtViews. We saw the LION KING LIVE, which was totally amazing. We went to the Walker Art Center's Out There program, which explored challenging interpretations of art, and we also saw Hugo in 3D. This year is starting out great!
November 2011
We have a lot of exciting events and programs coming up this fall! As the weather gets chillier and the sun goes down sooner, come to Kulture Klub to stay warm and creatively engaged! We are starting a music program where we will partner with some local hip hop/spoken word artists to create an album. We also have a book club starting - perfect for the cold weather! At the end of November, we'll be going to see the Wizard of Oz LIVE! at the Children's Theater. Stay tuned with the calendar on the next page or give us a call/email us to ask about our next adventure! info_kultureklub.org or 612-252-1248.
August 2011
Join us for a garden party!
Putting Down Roots - A Kulture Klub Collaborative Art Garden
Tuesday, August 30, 5 - 7:00 pm
Archdale Apartments - 1600 1st Ave S,
Please join the artists, board, staff, and youth of Kulture Klub Collaborative on Tuesday August 30 to help celebrate our first successful growing season at Archdale Apartments! Stop by anytime to enjoy treats from the garden. Artists and youth will share stories of "Putting Down Roots" at 6 pm.
July 2011
The art garden at Archdale Apartments is really taking off! We have a full crew of youth staff that have been working really hard weeding, watering, and planting. The vegetables are growing strong and the flowers are beautiful! Stay tuned for fun community events in our garden!
May 2011
Kulture Klub Collaborative has selected its Artist Fellow for an upcoming Art Garden project. We are happy to announce Kelly Brazil as the fellow for the summer and fall months.
Kelly Brazil is a white, able-bodied, corn-fed genderqueer who was born and raised in Faribault, Minnesota and currently lives in community with other artists and organizers in Powderhorn Park. Kelly is a volunteer Advisory Board Member with Host Home, a program of Avenues for Homeless Youth, and the Trans Youth Support Network (TYSN).
Coming from a youth work background and now embracing a more focused identity as an artist, Kelly strives to create functional art that is made from discarded materials which are often found on the ground.
"I am honored and thrilled to be given the opportunity to work with young, creative individuals again! I look forward to the summer months ahead and what we will celebrate in the fall."
Contact Kelly at kelly_kultureklub.org.
April 2011
We are pleased to welcome Ethan Turcotte as our Arts Administrator. Ethan is originally an East Coast transplant who was falling off surfboards in Los Angeles when he decided to move to the midwest two years ago. He spends the majority of his time organizing in the queer and trans community and volunteering as a clinic escort. He plays guitar and drums, loves dance parties and talking about feelings. Ethan is very excited to join Kulture Klub Collaborative, and embraces the right of everyone to create art out of everything!
Artist Bart Buch and youth experiencing homelessness will collaboratively design, build, and present puppets as part of the In the Heart of the Beast May Day celebration. For our full press release, click this link. Bart will facilitate on site puppet making workshops in Kulture Klub Collaborative's Art Lab during March and April, as well as bringing youth to off-site visits at In The Heart of the Beast Theater and the Walker Art Center. At the end of the program, Kulture Klub Collaborative will present their work in the May Day parade and festival on May 1st in Powderhorn Park!
Oct 2010
We are pleased to bring in Witt Siasoco as our interim Arts Coordinator until the end of 2010. Witt recently stepped down as the Program Manager Teen Programs at the Walker Art Center, where he has led the Teen Arts Council for 12 years.
Artist-In-Residence Swoon leads printmaking workshop based on photos created with Artist-In-Residence Brennan Vance. This program is in partnership with the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council and the University of Minnesota, as part of the Mid-America Printmakers Conference.
Sept 2010
It is with a heavy heart that we congratulate and say farewell to Amy Snyder as she moves on from her longtime position at Kulture Klub Collaborative. Amy has been deeply dedicated to the youth and artists who have worked with Kulture Klub in her impressive 7-year tenure with the organization. Her passion has been essential moving Kulture Klub forward in our 18-year history, particularly as we have transitioned to new leadership. Kulture Klub has worked with over 5000 young people and over 150 artists and Amy has been a leader in much of this great work.
Amy will be taking a fabulous opportunity developing arts programming and creative projects for the City of Santa Barbara, CA and several school districts. Please join us in thanking Amy for her amazing work with Kulture Klub Collaborative, she will be greatly missed.
Artists-in-Residence Oliver Herring and Brennan Vance lead a 10-day intensive video project, working out of the West Bank Social Center. Dozens of KKC youth contribute to creating music, costumes, sets, and performance for a music video. Stay tuned to see the final product.
April 2010
KKC Youth begins projects and field trips to Franconia Sculpture Park to cast iron benches!
KKC begins workshops with local film and video artist Brennan Vance which will culminate in art for the Capitol exhibit in mid-May!
October 2009
HOME IS WHERE YOU MAKE IT: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation from Oct. 12 - Oct. 30, 2009
July 2009
Please Join us for ARTGIVES, A wine-tasting celebration with jazz music by Rick Carlson on July 31.
KKC honored with a first annual MRAC Arts Achievement award!
June 2009
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAMS!
In July we will kick off our summer AIR programs with two exciting projects!
JULY: Art on wheels: Artcar artist Jan Elftmann & Full Cycle
Elftmann will work with youth to create a fleet of unique individualized art-bikes. Youth will learn how to assemble functioning bikes from assorted used parts, how to use hand tools, and how to use a plasma cutter to create intricate designs in sheet metal which will be welded to steel bike frames. KKC will participate in a public ArtCar parade on July 25, 2009. For Art On Wheels, KKC will renew a partnership with Full cycle, a bike program run by Pillsbury United Communities and developed by the Red Cross as a free bike program which helps homeless and street dependent youth age 23 and under learn how to build and maintain their own free bike.
AUGUST: Home Is Where You Make It: photographer Lauri Lyons & poet/spoken word artist Tish Jones
The intention of the Home is Where You Make It project is to increase public awareness and recognition of the homeless youth population within the Twin Cities. Members of Kulture Klub will shoot black and white portraits. The portraits will then be digitally enlarged and mounted onto cardboard to be assembled by the teens into houses on the street. Six individual house structures will be installed in various public locations in the Twin Cities. We are negotiating a temporary installation at the Walker Art Center in partnership with the Walker Art Center Teen Programs.
* Lyons will give a free public lecture at the Walker Art Center about this project.
BAGS!
We are sewing and making super cool messenger bags! We found a few great designs from the vast and bountiful web and have been experimenting with found fabrics and materials.
May 2009
KKC has installed artwork in the office of the Mayor of Minneapolis. We are exhibiting photographic self portraits made by youth during a 2006 Artist In Residence with Peter Haakon Thompson. The exhibit will be up during the months of May and June.
April 2009
KKC super friend Gayle Weigle (Earth Circles/FryBreadLove) is back teaching jewelry workshops. Youth are making (and selling) jewelry at the upcoming RED HOT ART festival, June 6 & 7.
Kulture Klub Collaborative Presents:
COST: Consider Our Stories True
What: Artwork by youth artists experiencing homelessness
When: Monday, April 20-24, 2009
Where: The State Capitol building in the North Corridor
Invite your Legislative Representative and join us in viewing amazing artwork and to learn more about supporting Homeless Youth and the Arts Community.
www.youthmovingforward.org
December 2008
KKC youth, artists and staff will be interviewed live on Fox 9 News on Sunday Dec. 7th between 7 and 10 am.
We are featured in two recent articles. Please visit the Twin Cities Daily Planet and the SouthWest Journal.
November 2008
KKC youth artwork featured in the new TPT/Wilder Research documentary "Homeless Youth: Finding Home" to air Nov. 22, 2008.
Artwise Opens!
ArtWise images:
ArtWise:Bridging 15 Years of Kulture Klub
October 2008
Robin Taple worked with dozens of youth to create some really great collage/assemblage pieces that explore ideas of identy and home.
MOSAICS ARE A HIT!
We are close to completing a third Artist In Residence program in just three short months. We are madly producing some work for our upcoming exhibit ArtWise which opens Nov. 7th.
Connie Cohen is working with large groups of youth to produce really beautiful mosaic pictures that will be assembled into a totem for ArtWise.
We are having a lot of fun making beautiful mosaic projects with our current Artist In Residence Connie Cohen. She has led a half dozen workshops so far and the youth (and staff) are completely hooked. Its great having a project that can teleport your mind away for several hours. This one in particular has really captured the youth and keeps them coming back week after week.
KKC will be partnering with the Art Shanty Projects to do public art workshops during the UnConvention.
Programs will be happening at the Art Shanty Projects base camp at Peavey Plaza in downtown Minneapolis from 5 pm Aug. 31 to 10 pm Sept. 2. Drop by and engage in creative participatory democracy.
July 2008
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
Yes, food is good. In April we had another culinary arts workshop with a very special guest, Sue's mother Mary Jo.
Sue's mother Mary Jo came in for a very special culinary workshop. An handful made handmade ravioli for a drop-in dinner. YUM!
March 2008
In March we visited and collaborated on the Synergy Project, a interactive exhibition by artists Melanie VanHouten and Andrew Macguffie at the College of St. Catharine in St. Paul.
KKC youth and staff helped create symbols, images, text and phrases in response to the question "If you could make one simple change that might make a difference, what would it be?"
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.
December 2007
We brought our projections down to the Simpson Housing Homeless Memorial March to add some flavor and a glimmer of individuals impacted by homelessness. Our group interviewed people whom were marching and displayed portraits of youth from KKC.
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
We are taking our art to the streets!
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.
November 2007
The Moxie Salon Great American Sleep Out & Hair Raising Event returns November 17 & 18, 2007. Please visit our MOXIE page for details about this fantastic fundraising event.
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.
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.
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.
We currently have youth artwork on display at three separate exhibits.
We have some updates for our busy summer of public art projects including an update on the Franconia Bench project and the Spontaneous Storefront partnership with artist Edwin Beylerian through Forecast Public Artworks.
In June we completed a 17 ft by 33 ft mural in partnership with Juxtaposition Arts and master muralist Lady Pink!
The foundation is located at: 710 South Second Street, Suite 400 Minneapolis, MN 55401 and is open between 8 am and 5 pm.
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.
