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Creative City Challenge

Art(ists) on the Verge

Sarah Nassif, Leaf Trace / Land Trace

Kelley Meister, HOTZONE

A.P. Looze, Heart Strings: A Beading Ritual

Candice Davis, Slave Schedule Peripherals

Spring Howl Telethon 2021

Moira Villiard, Madweyaashkaa: Waves Can Be Heard

Hawona Sullivan Janzen and Kathy McTavish, a coming together

Chris Rackley, Does Your Shoe Have a Boy Inside?

Kathy McTavish, Swarm

Essma Imady, Thoughts and Prayers

Lindsy Halleckson, You Are Sky

Khadijah Muse, In Between

Spring Howl 2019

Creative City Challenge 2018

Mike Hoyt, Dameun Strange, and Molly Van Avery with Ritika Ganguly, Illuminate the Lock: Returning the River

Marina Zurkow and Paul Paradiso, Flight

Pramila Vasudevan: Dancebums, Emily Gastineau, Pedro Lander

Robin Schwartzman, Duck Duck What?

Plus/And, Way Station Warming House

Ben Moren, Watercourse

Daily tous les jours, Score!

Coffee House Press, Words for Winter 2

Eric William Carroll and Wil Natzel, Empty Space

Alyssa Baguss, Vitamin D: A Pep Rally for Spring

Nooshin Hakim Javadi, Violet diaspora

Goodspace Murals, I Am a Water Protector

Sara Fowler, Ben Moren, and Tyler Stefanich, Collective Action!

Clarence White, Green Line Poet

Field Practice, Green Market Movers

Andrea Carlson, Water Is Life

May Lee-Yang, River Stories

Yes Let’s!, Climate Carnival Sideshow

Neighborhood Climate Change

Ziyang Wu, Smarter City 2

Stephanie Lynn Rogers, Security Blanket

Meena Mangalvedhekar, The Shallows

Maxwell Hoaglund

Marina Zurkow with Valentine Cadieux, Aaron Marx, and Sarah Petersen, Making the Best of It: Dandelion

Craig David with Roger Nieboer and lesser mortals, Arboreous

Illuminate the Lock: Aaron Dysart, Surface

Illuminate the Lock: Andrea Carlson, The Uncompromising Hand

Water Bar & Public Studios, Anthropocene Water Stations

Preston Drum, Traffic Jam Scene

Cedarside Coalition, BUILD•NO•BORDERS

Rachel Breen and Nickey Robare, Behind the Seams

Jamestown ArtSpark

Sara Fowler, Ben Moren and Tyler Stefanich, Collective Action, in conversation

Tony the Scribe, just breathe, in conversation

AAA: Climate Trivia!

AAA: Robin Wall Kimmerer

AAA: Creative Protest Workshop w/ MN350.org

AAA: Refugees, Migration and Climate Change

Hicham Berrada, Cao Fei, Diego Lamar, Rebeca Mendez, Michael Najjar, and Adam Sébire, Latitudes: Artists from Six Continents Reflect on Earth’s Changing Environments

Christine Baeumler, Backyard Phenology: Tracking Nature’s Cycles in a Changing Climate

Aniccha Arts, Census

Andrea Carlson, WATER IS LIFE, in conversation

Piotr Szyhalski, Living Banners: in conversation

Northern Spark at B-Lectric festival

Living Banners and Words for Winter on Nicollet Mall

AAA: Words for a Warming Planet

AAA: Emergent Ecologies

AAA: What is the Anthropocene?

AAA: In/Action – Bridging the Science and Art of Change

Creative City Challenge 2015

Creative City Challenge 2014

Creative City Challenge 2013

Creative City Challenge 2017

Creative City Challenge 2016

AAA: Anthropocene Awareness Association

Dylan Redford, Run, Fight, Hide, 2017

Jess Hirsch, Prescription Gardens, 2017

Kelsey Bosch, Hyperbolic Soundscape, 2017

Sarita Zaleha, under/currents, 2017

Fue Yang, Synchronous, 2017

Climate Chaos | Climate Rising Book Club

James Coupe, Metadata and Metanarratives

Aaron Dysart, Celebrate

Ben Garth, The Mobile Creative Outpost

Debora Miller, MURMUR

Marcus Young, and Grace Minnesota, The Lullaby Experiment

Chris Kallmyer, for dawn or dusk // homeward

Piotr Szyhalski, Empty Words (so that we can do our living)

Janaki Ranpura, Egg & Sperm:: Hide & Seek

Diane Willow, beneath a glowing ceiling veil of living light

Ali Momeni and Jenny Schmid, The Battle of Everyouth

ROLU, A Simple Chair (Returning Home)

Eric Avery, Minneapolis³

Discourse and Discord: Architecture of Agonism from the Kitchen Table to the City Street

Piotr Szyhalski, Permanent Labor

Christian Jankowski, Rooftop Routine

John Keston, Instant Cinema: Teleportation Platform X

Chris Larson, Celebration/Love/Loss

Monica Haller, can you listen to the same river twice

The Flightless Bird Brothers & The Shiny Naughty Collective, Razing Minneapolis

Bill Cottman, Kenna Cottman, Lewis Hill, Kevin Obsatz, & Junauda Petrus, beyond the LOOP

Kelley Bell, Garden of Earthly Delights

Benjamin Kelly, Adam Conrad, and Jamie Johnson, Gossip Orchestra

Asia Ward, Electric Hopscotch

Moheb Soliman, Great Lakes Overhead

Roger Nieboer and lesser mortals, Folkalopolis

Nik Nerburn, In the Shadow of Paul Bunyan

Monkey with a Mustache, MysteryPhone: Art of Darkness

Sam Hoolihan and John Marks, City Symphony in 16mm: A New Work for Expanded Cinema

Stefanie Motta, She Lives Free

Jefferson Pinder, Relay

Jess Hirsch and Ginny Sims, Dosha Kitchen

Kate Casanova, Daniel Dean, and Ben Moren, Hotel Hotel

Alex DeArmond and Peter Haakon Thompson, Babies Sleep Tonight

Erin Lavelle and Anthony Chapin, Nighttime Post

Christopher Williams and Andrew Foreman, All Night In C

Piotr Szyhalski, Public Print Works

Wil Natzel, Aura Info Hub

HOTTEA, La Maroma

Ifrah Mansour, Lablaab The Spill

JoAnn Verburg, Untitled (for Robert Wilson), Signe; Untitled (pietà), Ashley and Keegan; Untitled (reflection), Bonnie

Peter Haakon Thompson, House Flags for Alma Lights

Piotr Szyhalski, Malignum Aditum Puncti

Robin Schwartzman, THINK AND WONDER, WONDER AND THINK

Molly Reichert + Sean Higgins, Boolean View

Wil Natzel, Dazzle

Jess Hirsch, Doorway Effect

James Garrett Junior, SCHMO: stratum, surface, time

Aaron Dysart, Second Growth

Laura Bigger, Portal and Threshold

Joshua McGarvey

Jessica Henderson

UCLA Game Lab, Big Phoney Games

Eddo Stern, Vietnam Romance

Northern Spark Guided Bike Tour – SOLD OUT!

Northern Spark 2015 Launch Party

UCLA Game Lab, Game Bar

SocialSculpture, mini_polis

Franziska Pierwoss & SISKA, KINO Holly*ood

Miko Simmons, In Ruins: A History of the Future’s Past

Chris Pennington, Rob Clapp, John Grider, and David Pitman, Tron Human Foosball

Eric William Carroll, Golden Hour

Andy Sturdevant, Footpaths ’92: A Spiritual Health and Psychic Wealth Expo

Body Cartography, CLOSER, Part 1

Richard Mueller and Stefon BIONIK Taylor, You Are Hear

John Kim and Ben Moren, Game Grid

Roger Nieboer and lesser mortals, Marketopia

Kathy McTavish, mill city requiem: for solo instrument & distance

Rebecca Krinke, Dream Window

Skill Share: A Northern Lights.mn Symposium

Ruination: City of Dust

Piotr Szyhalski, Ding an Sich

Daily tous les jours, Amateur Intelligence Radio (AIR)

Aaron Westre, City Fight!

Drew Anderson, Near the Ghosts of Sugarloaf

Anthony Tran, Wire less

Mike Hoyt, Poho Posit

Caly McMorrow, Status Update

tectonic industries, Perhaps this is the only way of knowing if anything was ever important to you

Tyler Stefanich, Re-Presented Narratives

Arlene Birt, Visualizing Grocery Footprints

Kyle Phillips, Indexical Architecture

Emily Stover, General Delivery

Peter Sowinski, Autonomous

Aaron Marx, Builders of the Universe

Alison Hiltner, Survival Tactics

Katie Hargrave, In Poor Tastes Good

Anthony Warnick, The Library

Asia Ward, Subterranean

Mad King Thomas, Phone Dances (colon) Dances for the Telephone

Sarah Julson, This Way

Christopher Houltberg, Profile Cube

Meredith Lynn, West Fargo, MN

Daniel Dean, Center for Advanced Applications

Molly Balcom Raleigh, Personal Appeal

Claire Barber, when you know you know

Ryan Aasen, NSA

Luftwerk, INsite

Jim Campbell, 8 1/2 x 11

Soozin Hirschmugl, sPARKit Mobile Unit

MC Mark Wheat • Mayor Betsy Hodges • Creative City Challenge: Lovelee/Field/Waites/West • Music by Mu Daiko and GRRRL PRTY, Opening Ceremony: Creative City Challenge Launch and Concert

Opening Ceremony: Creative City Challenge Launch and Concert

MNKINO, MNKINO42: Connect the Dots

MakeSh!t, Public Acts of Drawing

Luke Savisky, E/x MN

MINN_LAB, POSTography

The Bachelor Farmer x Al’s Breakfast • DJ Jacquie Fuller • Miwa Matreyek, Northern Spark Pancake Feed 2014

The Bachelor Farmer x Al’s Breakfast • Artists Pierwoss & SISKA, Cole Pulice, Brian Engel, and Others, Northern Spark Pancake Feed 2015

Amanda Lovelee, Christopher Field, Kyle Waites, and Sarah West, Balancing Ground

Justin Heideman, Big Wall of Thanks

Prairie Fire Lady Choir, Songs In The Night

Kjellgren Alkire, Farmers’ Market Review

Vickie Burgett, Urban Aurora

MNKINO, MNKINO38: Arrivals and Departures

David Lefkowitz, Peripatetic

Clarence White, Love Letters in Lowertown

Ben Moren and Daniel Dean, Secret City

Paul Herwig, Working From Home

Jennifer Newcome Carruthers and Tom Carruthers, The World is Rated X

Roger Nieboer and lesser mortals, Existentia

Christopher Field and Sarah West, Give Me A Setting Sun

Angela Olson and Gilberto Vazquez Valle, Who is that Masked Stranger?

Jim Campbell, Material World

Eunsu Kang, Shin’m Piñata

David Rueter, The Kuramoto Model (1000 Fireflies)

Daniel Dean and Ben Moren, Mobile Experiential Cinema

Caly McMorrow, Observation Tape Deck

Christopher Houltberg and Max Harper, Wonder/Think Project

Ben Johnson and Elizabeth Johnson, PixelTron150

Janaki Ranpura, The Peloton

Rosemary Williams, Mom’s Cookies

Keepers, The Owls Are Not What They Seem

David Goldes and Jonathan Bruce Williams, THE Northern Spark

PUNY Entertainment, Sleepers Awake

Jackie Beckey, Psychedelic Art Parade

Leslie Kelman, Night Walk

Mona El Khafif and Marcella del Signore, iLounge

Tamsie Ringler, Car Dreams

Lauren McCarthy and David Wicks, Bumps in the Night

Miriam Simun and Dan Scofield, 21%

Molly Balcom Raleigh, FEED/FEED

Discourse and Discord: A Public Symposium

Michael Murnane, Under Ice

Vanessa Voskull, SHIFT

Bridget Beck and Carissa Samaniego, GLOWaBOUT

Wil Natzel, Night Blooms

Robin Schwartzman, SubPar

Aniccha Arts, In Habit: Living Patterns

Andrea Stanislav, Nightmare

Between Media and Architecture

Daily tous les jours, Giant Sing Along

Michael Murnane and Andrew Saboe, Landmark in a River City

Bicycle Synthesizer Ride

Mike Hallenbeck, Sound Spandrel: Science Museum

Philip Blackburn, Wind-harps and Wind-flutes

Art Shanty Projects, Art Shanties Shanty (Board Shanty)

Emily Darnell, Molly Roth, and Terese Elhard, Snap Shot Shanty

Angela Sprunger, Kaara Nilsson, Julie Kesti, Dana Maiden and Scott Kesti, Art Swap Shanty

Mina Leierwood, and Mike Haeg, ParaDICE

Aaron Marx, Mobile Hot Spot

Angela Olson, wanderlust

Philip Blackburn and ArtCars, Car Horn Fanfare

Ben Garthus, Mobile Creative Outpost

Megan Mertaugh, Diaspora

Osman Khan, Ceil

Leslie Kelman and Mark O’Brien, Domestic Storefront

Works Progress, Mississippi Megalops – A Floating Chautauqua

Rigo 23, Oglala Oyate

Red76, Follow the Light, Let the Light be Your Guide

Marcus Young, and Grace Minnesota, The Lullaby Experiment

Jim Campbell, Scattered Light

Roman Verostko, Three-Story Drawing Machine

Wing Young Huie, Ping Pong Retrospective

Barbara Claussen, Modern Monoliths migrating

Bart Buch, and MAW, nature boy-livedraw research

Christopher Baker, Waste Not

Wing Young Huie, University Avenue Project(ion)

Janaki Ranpura, Egg and Sperm Ride

Stephen Vitellio, aurora borealis

Art-a-Whirl 2009

Aniccha Arts, The Weather Vein Project

Krista Kelley Walsh, Public Eye Action

Kevin Obsatz, Gate to the Enclosure

Avye Alexandres, Once

Andrea Steudel, Mobile Shadow Projection Theater

Christopher Baker, Murmur Study

Symposium: Experimenting with Art in Public Places

Spontaneous Storefronts: Projecting Democracy

Red76, Revolutionary Table

The UnConvention at Peavey Plaza

ligorano/reese, The State of Things

Sharon Hayes, Revolutionary Love 2