Cultural Perspectives: My Home, Your Home, Our Home

June 17 to July 31, 2010

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 17, 2010 – 6:00 to 9:00 pm

Artist Meet-and-Greet: Saturday, June 19, 2010 – 3:30 to 5:00 pm

International Festival of Burnsville: Saturday, June 19, 2010 – 3:00 to 9:00 pm

All events are free and open to the public.

The International Festival of Burnsville and Burnsville Performing Arts Center are proud to present Cultural Perspectives: My Home, Your Home, Our Home at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center (BPAC). The exhibit, curated by BPAC Art Gallery Director Alejandra Pelinka, includes two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and textile artwork that explores values, traditions, and meanings of home and community, and which displays a unique insight into the artist’s perspective of home and community. Artwork on display entices viewers to reminisce walks in Minnesota’s forests with loved ones, imagine the fragrance of an Indian feast preparation, empathize with the morning rush in a West African community, view scenes of Ojibwe stories passed down for generations, and more. The objective of this exhibit is to celebrate both the differences and similarities that exist between people and cultures.  

Participating artists include Bounxou Chanthraphone, Steven Edmundson, Marcia Haffmans, Laddavanh Ladda Insixiengmay, Megan Jackson, Smitha Katti, Annette Lee, Mary Lingen, Shakun Maheshwari, Nuwa Nyanzi, Paul Gbolade Omidiran, Dan Petrov, Gera Pobuda, Alison Price, Deborah Ramos, Rabi Sanfo, and William Wilson.

This activity funded, in part, by the Minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.

UPCOMING EXHIBITS:

Stephen Phillip Capiz

Exhibit Dates: August 12 – September 11, 2010

Opening Reception: Thursday, August 12, 6 – 9 PM

www.stephencapiz.com

Minnesota Watercolor Society’s “Illuminated”

Exhibit Dates: September 23 – November 13, 2010

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 14, 6 – 9 PM

www.minnesotawatercolors.com

Fiber Artists Study Group’s “Serendipity”

Exhibit Dates: November 18 through January 8, 2011

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 18, 6 – 9 PM

www.tcfiberartists.com