Featured Events 2024

“Uv” - Exhibit

Yang Yang is an Arts Education teacher and photographer.
Yang’s exhibit revolves around the Hmong word “uv” which describes an emotion that one must persist through tough moments.

East Side Arts Council partnered with Art@967 for the past Solidarity 2024 Street Gallery.

This year’s theme was ‘MIGRATION & MEMORIES,’ acknowledging and celebrating that we all came from somewhere. About 60-70 visual artists, musicians, dancers, and poets shared their migration stories and cultural memories, weaving together a one-of-a-kind multi-cultural tapestry of all the people and communities who come together every day to live, work, shop and play in our neighborhood.

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**Showcasing Art by Susan Costello Sepulveda**

This extraordinary exhibition featured the breathtaking artwork of Susan Costello Sepulveda at the East Side Arts Council Gallery. This gallery was a visual feast for art enthusiasts, showcasing Susan's unique talent and creative brilliance. Susan’s pieces were on view from Thursday May 25th - Friday August 25th
Her art is a vibrant mix of colors, textures, and emotions, each piece telling a story that resonates with the soul.

See more about Susan’s work here.

We partnered with artist Tamina Muhammad for our 2023 appearance at Art in the Hollow! Art in the Hollow is an annual celebration of artists and vendors in the Twin Cities Metro at Swede Hollow Park.

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Art @ 967’s 2022 Holiday Pop-Up Market

East Side Arts Council partnered with the 2022 HOLIDAY POP-UP MARKET that brought together high-quality fine-art exhibitions by Art @ 967 Payne resident artists with art displays and vendor tables by 20 to 30 guest artists and artisans in a warm, cheerful and elegantly curated environment.

For more information: https://fb.me/e/2o1mt4PdV

Poetry Reading at

dragon Garden’s Poetry Park

East Side Arts Council presented a poetry reading at the Dragon Garden Park on Sunday, September 25, 2022 at 4:00PM

For more information about our poetry park and our poetry reading opportunities, visit here!

SOLIDARITY STREET GALLERY 2022:
Resilient Generations

East Side Arts Council was a partner of the planning for Solidarity Street Gallery 2022 “Resilient Generations”, focused on the Southeast Asian community and the diaspora of culture and tradition.

This showcase took place on Saturday, Sept 10th, 2022. We partnered with one of our Artmobile artists, Yang Yang, who provided activities in the children section.

Art @ Home

Learn how to make your own Pikachu Fairy Garden with artist Yang Moua Yang! See the video on our Arts at Home Page.

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artmobile 2021

Artmobile 2021 was a success – we were able to bring the arts to 239 youth, teens, and parents on the East Side who do not have access to the arts on a daily basis. Artmobile brought in 4 female artists of color who represented the diversity of the East Side of St. Paul to teach the art sessions throughout the summer. Artmobile 2021’s artists represented backgrounds of African American, Hmong, Japanese, and Indian cultures. Each artist demonstrated an art project for the kids of the community and those in the St. Paul Parks and Rec Rec Check program. Projects included rock painting, lunch box making (kids crafted food they like to eat out of paper and various art supplies to put in their own homemade lunch kit), cyanotype sun printing (a project in the STEAM field that combines a science lesson and art project), mask making, parade wand creating, and a lesson on printmaking. Kids were able to utilize their imagination and creativity in all of these projects rather than sit at home, bored, as kids often are in the summer. Artmobile provided a community, an art lesson, and an entertaining and learning experience for children whose families often cannot afford expensive sports lessons, memberships, and classes in the summertime. Kids continuously asked when Artmobile will be back, evidence that this year’s program did its job providing fun and learning experience to the East Side of St. Paul!

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2021 Virtual Residency at Txuj Ci HMong Language and Culture ELEMENTARY SCHOOL!

Once again, Peter Morrow worked his magic with the kindergartners and first graders at Txuj Ci HMong Language and Culture. A year later still experiencing the effects of the pandemic, Peter worked with the teachers to utilize their virtual learning platform to still provide the classes with their residency. Below are the 6 songs created by the students with the help of Peter and his guitar!

2020 Virtual Residency at Txuj Ci HMong Language and Culture Elementary School!

Everything was all set for the music and songwriting residency for the kindergartners at Txuj Ci, taught by Peter Morrow, when the schools closed due to the pandemic. Luckily, Peter is exceptional with technology and worked with the teachers to utilize their virtual learning platform to still provide the kindergarten classes with their residency. Below are the two songs that came from this work.

For I Water My Plants, students were asked to list three things that grow, draw pictures of those things, and say what they can do to help them grow. For Community Helpers, students were asked to name three community helpers, draw pictures of those helpers, and also say what they can do to help their community.

Our Spring 2020 Residencies:

Poetry and Bookmaking with Marie Olofsdotter

Puppetry with Mark Safford

Music and Songwriting with Peter Morrow

Puppetry with Malia Burkhart

Aztec Dance with Alan and Susana De Leon of Kalpulli Ketzal Coatlicue

Scandinavian Dance with Andrea Conger

Contemporary Indian Dance with Kealoha Ferreira of Ananya Dance Theatre

African Dance with Karla Nweje

Nature Documentaries with Tiana LaPointe

Immersive Theatre with Eric Jones of CAHOOT?! Physical Theatre

Music and Math with Eric Carranza

African Art and Culture with Alanna Morris-Van Tassel