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April 21, 2005
The St. Paul Art Crawl
It's that time of year again! Every Spring and Fall there is an Art
Crawl in Downtown St. Paul where over 200 artists and galleries open
their doors to the public. For the past several years I've been
volunteering in the Lowertown Lofts as a door greeter, giving out maps,
talking to people about the artists, giving directions, telling them
which floors of the building are open, etc. It's been a lot of fun for
me and I've seen a lot of old friends come through that I haven't seen
in a long time.
Because of my weekend job, I can only be there on Friday night. So
tomorrow night I'll be sitting at the door greeting people. In my
opinion, the Lowertown Lofts is one of the greatest artist's buildings
downtown, partly because they have a 3-story atrium gallery in the
center of the building with the artist's studios surrounding it. The
studios are really cool also, with large windows and ceilings.
Also, somewhere in Lowertown, one of my co-volunteers at the Sibley
Bike Depot is going to be selling bike jewelry that she made from old
inner tubes and bike chains. She showed me the bracelet she made and it
looked really interesting, like braided leather with the chain parts woven in. She's using the money she makes to buy a nice bike frame for herself. What a cool way to recycle old junk.
I hope she sells some of them.
Check out http://www.artcrawl.org
Posted by carl1236 at April 21, 2005 10:57 PM | Love your Neighbor