Twin Cities Art Week is a celebration of the vibrant local contemporary art scene in 24 venues across Minneapolis and St. Paul. From October 12-16, the Twin Cities Art Week will offer a full calendar of events including a gallery crawl, live performances, exhibition walkthroughs, film screenings, artist talks, parties and more. Spearheaded by Dreamsong, the participants of Twin Cities Art Week include major institutions, small non-profit spaces, commercial galleries, artist-run spaces and university galleries dedicated to the presentation of contemporary art.

Join Twin Cities Art Week at MCAD on Wednesday October 12. TCAW will be walking through the MCAD venue from 6-8pm, with events scheduled as follows:

ARTIST TALK + PERFORMANCE + OPENING RECEPTION 
WED 6-8PM
Artist talk by MFA Visiting Faculty Ziba Rajabi (6-7pm), in gallery performance by MCAD MFA Alum Alondra Garza (7-8pm) in conjunction with the 2022 MCAD Faculty Biennial Exhibition, and Opening Reception at the MCAD Gallery 148 for Hits of Positivity: Wild Life Rescue (7-10pm) featuring work from the Marigolds of Justice, an art collective comprised of MCAD MFAs Abe Shriner, Rosario Parker Gordon, and Emmy E. Smith.

Artist talk
Ziba Rajabi is an interdisciplinary artist whose work revolves primarily around painting, drawing, and fiber-based installation. She will talk about her artistic practice and how spaces and places have influenced her work.

Performance
Connecting to her indigenous roots, artist Alondra Garza will perform with a handmade mask now on view in the 2022 Faculty Biennial exhibition. Connected to certain Mexican festivities, Garza’s performance represents the deep-rooted and innate migration path of indigenous Americans.

Opening Reception
Opening Wednesday Oct 12th, 7-10pm, light refreshments. Located in Gallery 148, MCAD, 2501 Stevens Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55404

The Marigolds of Justice is an artist collective comprised of Abe Shriner, Emmy E. Smith and Rosario Parker Gordon. In their latest project, Hits of Positivity: Wild Life Rescue, life-sized facsimiles and living things oscillate between appearing and being in an immersive gallery exhibition. Paintings and text hesitate to expound on the theme, but maybe the gender reveal cake will show us what we’re made of. Elsewhere, worms pursue their activities in the dark under the radiations of The Virgin Mary’s reign and the Grass Phone waits, a question receiver, an oracle whose wildness is kept safe in the continent of an astroturf sleeve.