Free Wine Tasting
Join The Swirl Team for a complimentary Free Wine Tasting Every Friday Night from 6:00pm - 8:00pm! We would love to have you!
Free Family Day
Free Family Days
Select Sundays in 2024, 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
January 28 | Celebrating Chronicles of the Chronic
February 25 | Celebrating Youth Art
March 24 | Women in the Arts
April 28 | Celebrating Dreaming Our Futures
Explore, Create, and Celebrate at our Free Family Day!
"Franklin: The Legacy of Peanuts' First Black Character" Panel Discussion
Join JumpStart cartoonist Robb Armstrong, animator and director Raymond Persi, and Peanuts Worldwide Senior Vice President Melissa Menta for a program about the historical significance and contemporary legacy of Franklin, the first Black character in Peanuts.
Firstlings Exhibition
Firstlings is an ongoing investigation of ceramic sculptures and ink wash drawings that seeks to address the predicament of the human form’s fragility and endless struggle to adapt to life’s ever-changing circumstances. Terry Suhre writes, in his catalogue essay for the first iteration of this exhibition at Bruno David Gallery in 2020, “The ‘predicament’ Nadler refers to in statements on his work is the uneasy, existential awareness of an unsympathetic, and likely hostile, existence that is not predisposed to human wants or needs.
Festival of Cultures
The 2nd annual TCGIS Festival of Cultures celebrates the diversity of our school community by sharing our unique cultures through music, art, storytelling, dance, food, and community. Cultural performers include: TCGIS Liederkranz Choir, Henna Artists, Native American drum group, Balkan Jamboree, Taiko Arts Midwest Japanese drumming, Peruvian Dance Group, Jawaahir Arab Dance Group, Columbia Live, SG Edelweiss Bavarian Dance Group, Minnesänger German American Institute Choir.
Exploring Cultural Heritage Through Artistic Practice: A Conversation with asmaa al-issa
We are lucky to have artist asmaa al-issa joining us in Minnesota next month! For those of you in the Twin Cities, join us Thursday, February 1, for a conversation with asmaa, exploring cultural heritage through artistic practice. The conversation between asmaa and Shaymaa Khalil, Director of IARP, begins at 6 p.m. at Open Book's Performance Hall (Open Book). This will be followed by an intimate reception with Iraqi tea and sweets running from 7 – 7:45 p.m. The event is free and open to all!
Exhibition opening: Members Exhibition
In the summer of 2024, NCC will once again turn its exhibition spotlight on our incredibly talented members (comprising students, educators, professional artists, and novices) with a juried exhibition. Membership is the only requirement for application. In addition to Members Exhibition in the main gallery, 2024 brings the return of the special opportunity to amplify the critical and highly-impactful work by the K-12 educators and students in our community. Much like the show in the main gallery, Members Exhibition: K-12 Educators and Students will be juried.
Exhibition opening: Edible and Firstlings
Edible is an exhibition that explores how Asian-American artists use ceramics incorporating food aesthetics to explore cultural identity, memory, and American society. Our relationship to what we eat is the most intimate possible: the food we consume literally constitutes our bodies, and the ways we consume it link us to each other, our loved ones, and our ancestors. Ceramic sculpture in the form of food has become a way for these artists to explore complex relationships to their identities and bodies.
The Effect - Preview
When Connie and Tristan meet as patients in a clinical trial, they are pulled together by magnetic chemistry, skyrocketing dopamine, and a rush of endorphins. As their relationship develops at break-neck speed, the validity of their feelings for each other comes into question. Is their connection organic, or can it be attributed to a side effect within the antidepressant? The pharmaceutical team controlling the trial debate the illicit nature of Connie and Tristan's relationship, leading them to examine the ethics of the trial itself.
The Effect
When Connie and Tristan meet as patients in a clinical trial, they are pulled together by magnetic chemistry, skyrocketing dopamine, and a rush of endorphins. As their relationship develops at break-neck speed, the validity of their feelings for each other comes into question. Is their connection organic, or can it be attributed to a side effect within their antidepressant? The pharmaceutical team controlling the trial debate the illicit nature of Connie and Tristan's relationship, leading them to examine the ethics of the trial itself.