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Greetings from Hopkins Center for the Arts,
Happy Spring!?! Regardless of the weather, Hopkins Center for the Arts invites you to enjoy Hopkins and all it has to offer - our free art exhibits, Member Artist Spotlights at the Center and auxiliary locations, Hopkins ArtStreet sculptures on view throughout downtown, and the many restaurants and independently owned small businesses that make Hopkins so special.
There are just a few more days to see the current exhibitions on view through Saturday, April 1st.
Calling all Member Artists - the registration deadline to exhibit work in the Spring Members' Non-Juried Exhibition is this Friday, March 31! Find all of the information on our website.
In April, we celebrate Member Artists by showcasing their work in all of the galleries at the Center.
We have three upcoming concerts in April and May. And, watch for details about the Sunset Series, free summer concerts in Hopkins Downtown Park very soon!
- Siama's Congo Roots, Thursday, April 6
- Chastity Brown, Saturday, April 22, 2023
- Larry McCray, Saturday, May 13, 2023
Find out more about what's happening at the Center below and on our website.
Thank you for your interest and support. We look forward to seeing you soon,
Lynn Anderson
Executive Director
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Siama's Congo Roots
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Siama is an award-winning artist and his musical curiosity finds him expanding far beyond Soukous. He's become known for his captivating and uplifting guitar style, catchy songs, spirited singing and traditional instruments like balafon and thumb piano. In addition to Soukous, Siama loves exploring the Congolese Rumba and traditional music of his homeland. Siama is usually found teaching in schools these days (for Classical MPR's "Class Notes" and MacPhail) so public appearances are rare.
For this special After Dark Music Lounge concert, Siama has enlisted an incredible jazz band to bring his feel-good songs to life.
Advance Tickets: $12 (at the door: $15)
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Chastity Brown
Saturday, April 22, 2023
As the daughter of a blues musician, Chastity Brown was born with an innate ability to channel wrenching circumstances into beautiful, uplifting songs. But after surviving the isolation of the early pandemic and a global racial reckoning that was set off mere blocks from her South Minneapolis home, even she was surprised to hear the way her latest album was taking shape.
“It’s a love album, in a way I didn’t plan on,” Chastity says. The songs on Sing to the Walls blossom around the ears like a lush garden of flowers, with Chastity’s expressive voice and expansive melodies supported by intertwining, twinkling tendrils of atmospheric sounds. Even the titles hint at the album’s sense of optimistic yearning, from the dreamy opening track “Wonderment” to her ode to healing a broken heart post-breakup, “Curiosity,” to the pulsing promise of “Hope.”
In the same way, her lyrics seek to reach across the great divide. “I will sing to those walls, hope it gets through / And I will sing to your scars, they need healing too,” Chastity sings on the album’s title track, a pandemic love song about breaking through all of the physical, emotional, and social barriers that have been constructed around all of us in recent years. By the next track, “Like the Sun,” she breaks through into a melody that rises like a wide-open prairie sunrise—a heart-rending moment that demonstrates her talent for expressing big, beautiful ideas in her music, and to create songs that radiate bliss.
Standard: $35 Economy: $25
Members: $30/$20
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Larry McCray
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Rust belt blues shouter and guitar slinger Larry McCray was born in 1960 in Magnolia, Ark., about 12 miles from the Louisiana line. He spent his early years on a farm as the second youngest of nine siblings. After trying his hand at saxophone in school, his older (and only) sister, Clara, introduced Larry to the guitar and the transformative music of the three Kings of the blues (B.B., Freddie and Albert).
By the late ’80s, Larry had attracted the attention of Virgin Records executive John Wooler, who had recently started a subsidiary label, Point Blank Records, featuring blues, soul and Americana artists. He signed Larry McCray as his first artist. Larry’s debut album, Ambition—aptly named as it fused elements of blues, rock, and soul to create a contemporary blues sound—was recorded in a friend’s Detroit basement studio and released in 1990 to critical acclaim.
Over the past three decades of nonstop touring and recording, Larry has played and shared the stage with such blues greats as BB King, Buddy Guy, Albert King, John Mayall, Johnny Winter, Robert Cray, Keb Mo, Jimmie Vaughan, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Joe Bonamassa, as well as rock legends the Allman Brothers, Phil Lesh, Jonny Lang, Joe Walsh, Levon Helm, Chris Robinson, Dickey Betts, and countless others.
In 2021, Blues Without You, Larry’s latest, a 12-track release was recorded on famed blues rock guitarist Bonamassa’s Keeping the Blues Alive nonprofit label with producer Josh Smith, a partnership that has also spawned a video (for the upcoming single, “Arkansas”) and a documentary.
Standard: $45 Economy: $35
Members: $40/$30
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Art Exhibitions
On view through April 1, 2023
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Minnesota Artists Association
Formed in 1937, the Minnesota Artists Association is an all-inclusive organization welcoming members working in a variety of mediums. Throughout MAA’s history, their membership has boasted a veritable who’s who of art in our state. Celebrating its 86th year, this exhibition features a juried selection of work by current members.
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Ubah Students Exhibition
Ubah Medical Academy presents work from their Photography, Visual Design, and Sculpture students. Their aim is to show their talent and passion through various mediums. This gallery is a sampling of what the students have accomplished throughout this school year.
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J Pony Allen '... Ampersand Anon'
This body of work examines and explores the delicious friction between organic growth and manufactured disruption. Inspired by discoveries of bush plane wreckage on barren high tundra, intrusive thoughts, F250s abandoned in woodlands, Darth Vader's paternal admission, irritated molluscs birthing nacreous gems, and stick framed barns caved in by giant's feet; these paintings are, in essence, bootleg interior & exterior landscapes. Like unauthorized recordings of Rock Gods, their authenticity is questionable but the spirit of fanaticism is earnest.
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Spring Members' Non-Juried Exhibition
Opening Reception: April 8, 2023
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Please join us in celebration of our Member Artists and their talents at the opening reception of the annual Spring Members' Non-Juried Exhibition on Saturday, April 8 from 6 - 8 pm. There will be an Award presentation at 7pm. All are welcome!
Enjoy art, socializing and meeting Member Artists, music, a cash bar, light refreshments, and vote for your favorite for the People's Choice Award.
Member Artist's Participation Registration Deadline: March 31, 2023
All members are eligible to show 1 to 2 pieces of work in this show.
Online Registration must be completed by Friday, March 31 at 11:59pm.
For more information about participating, please visit: Spring Members' Show
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Interested in learning something new? Check out all of the offerings through Hopkins Community Education and special workshops at The Center: Classes & Workshops | | |
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Activities are made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. | | |
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