From July 27 – August 1, 2006 Northfield will host two concurrent musical events. The first is “The Joint International Wind Music History Symposium” and the second is a “Vintage Band Music Festival.” Both are being organized by Paul Niemisto of the St. Olaf College music faculty. The symposium will bring together members of theContinue reading “Vintage Band Festival Summer 2006”
Category Archives: Arts, Recreation and Culture Committee
Art Centers, Art Groups, and Art Towns
For the August Downtown Forum, as an introduction to the ArtSwirl festival (10 Days of the Arts…August 4th – 14th), the NDDC will be hosting John Potter, Executive Director of the Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson, Wisconsin. The $7 million facility was built and funded by the William H. Phipps Foundation, area individuals,Continue reading “Art Centers, Art Groups, and Art Towns”
Community Resources and the Pursuit of the Art Town
Some of you may have noticed my column in the Wednesday July 6, Northfield News. A few of you may have actually read it. In the column, I reported that there was a group of people proposing to use some of the communty’s resources to create and fund a new position, commission another study andContinue reading “Community Resources and the Pursuit of the Art Town”
Audio and video interview: Making Northfield an Art Town
Here’s a 6-minute MP3 of my “Art Town” interview with Ross Currier that I originally posted to Northfield.org. And here’s a lightly edited video (4 minutes) of the same interview.
More on the Arts Building
As the article in Saturday’s Northfield News indicated, the dream of a community arts facility lives on. Many of the people who were mobilized behind the Artspace effort continue to meet, discuss, plan and implement. The discussions between Mathern, Machacek, Currier and Smith largely focused on the 10,000 square feet of potential studio space, whereContinue reading “More on the Arts Building”