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LECTURE
An Evening with Chip Kidd

design by Christina Rimstad

ART
Certified

SPECIAL EVENT
Northeast Movies and Music in the Park

Art by Tom Kaczynski

Photo by R. Janos

MUSIC
Lez Zepplin

SPECIAL EVENT
History of Hip: Comedy vs. Art. Vs Obscenity: Lenny Bruce

 

DANCE

TU Dance

How is your balance these days? I'm asking only because I'm about to take you out on a limb--and who knows how many of us have learned to walk on a tightrope unafraid, arms spread wide; how to fall without getting hurt; and how to lift off and take flight? (Impossible, you say?

Graduates from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design have been changing the world you see since 1886. Names from its lengthy roster of notable alums include Wanda Gag, the brilliant children's book illustrator who graduated in 1917, when the institution was known as the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts; the New York School painter George Morrison (class of 1943); Rob Roy Kelly (1952), who designed the Guthrie logo; Rob Fischer (1993), currently showing at prestigious New York venues like PS 1 and the Whitney