Many Worlds. One Day.

Minneapolis is known for its vibrant and diverse cultural scene and Minneapolis MOSAIC celebrates all of the ways we express ourselves and our cultural traditions through the arts.

Presented by the City of Minneapolis, the eighth annual Minneapolis MOSAIC festival partners with Twin Cities World Refugee Day to bring out the best live entertainment. Be sure to join us on opening day, Saturday, June 5, for an evening of fantastic FREE entertainment. Events take place off Hennepin Avenue between 7th and 8th Street.

With over 40 live entertainment acts, ready-to-eat food from Midtown Global Market, interactive kid's activities, and the premier of the 2010 Collaborative Performance Commission exhibit, it's a day you can't miss!

MPLS TLNT SHW!

Minneapolis MOSAIC presents the first annual MPLS TLNT SHW! (Minneapolis Talent Show!). Minneapolis teen finalists will have the opportunity to showcase a variety of performing art acts at a final event held at Hennepin Stages on June 5 at 7:30pm. Admission is FREE!

TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE FINAL TALENT SHOW:

PARTICIPANTS MUST HAVE PARTICIPATED IN ONE OF THE JUDGED PRELIMINARIES (EDISON, SOUTHWEST & CENTRAL LIBRARY).

 

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BROWSE BY CATAGORY
  • Dance (7)
  • Film (4)
  • Literary (1)
  • Music (11)
  • Theater (5)
  • Visual Arts (12)


BROWSE BY ETHNICITY
  • African (1)
  • African American (1)
  • American Indian (1)
  • Caucasian (1)
  • French (1)
  • Indonesian (1)
  • International (1)
  • Japanese (1)
  • Latin American (4)
  • Multicultural (2)
  • Multi-Cultural (21)
  • Open (1)
  • Russian (3)
  • Variety (1)
Current and upcoming Mosaic events.

Guillermo Kuitca: Everything—Paintings and Works on Paper, 1980–2008
June 26 - September 19
11AM - 5PM

Walker Art Center 1750 Hennepin Avenue Minneapolis
612-375-7684
http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=4672
Painter Guillermo Kuitca incorporates references from architecture, theater, literature, film, and sculpture. See 70 works from the internationally acclaimed Argentinean artist. Gallery hours: Tuesday–Sunday, 11 am–5 pm; Thursday, 11 am–9 pm
Walker Open Field
June 03 - September 05
11AM - 5PM

Walker Art Center 1750 Hennepin Avenue Minneapolis
612-375-7684
http://walkerart.org/openfield
This summer, the Walker transforms its big green back yard into a cultural commons, a park celebrating the creative assets and collective knowledge that abound in the Twin Cities. Hours: Tuesday–Sunday, 11 am –5 pm; Thursday, 11 am–9 pm
Original Green
May 20 - November 21
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Mill City Museum, Mill Commons 704 South 2nd St Minneapolis
612-874-0459
http://events.mnhs.org/calendar/Results.cfm?EventID=4240
Features work by Carolyn Lee Anderson, Gordon Coons, Gwen Westerman and Bobby Wilson that highlights the St. Anthony Falls area and its stories, especially in relationship of people to the environment. Free and open to the public.
A Homespun Life: Textiles of Old Russia
March 15 - December 19
See tmora.org for gallery hours

5500 Stevens Ave S Minneapolis
612-821-9045
http://www.tmora.org/current.html
This original exhibition presents over one hundred artifacts revealing the rich peasant culture of northern and central Russia in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featured are towels, bed skirts, area rugs, and pillow covers, along with spinning tools, garments, and costumes produced by peasant spinners, weavers and dressmakers. Designs and patterns were specific to regional centers of production, such as the Vologda, Riazan and Nizhnii Novgorod regions represented in this exhibition.