Best Contemporary Art Classes Minneapolis Near Me

4worldlovers: Studio Seven offers a fine arts program for students aged 7 to 17. The program focuses on the development of technical skills, as well as the creative expansion of individual ideas, through the ardent study of nature and form.


Learning in a studio environment, rather than a classroom, is a very old idea. As a child, Leonardo Da Vinci began his studies in the studio of Andrea del Verrocchio. Being brought at a young age to study in an artist’s studio was an experience which comprised the artistic foundation of almost every historical painting master. The belief was that art students should begin young and be taken seriously. It is a belief those of us at Studio Seven share.

Parents who bring their children to Studio Seven typically do so because their child has exhibited a true passion for drawing. Drawing is almost always the first method of expression because it is the only medium easily accessed within a child’s environment (it’s not hard to find a pencil and a piece of paper).

The Studio Seven program begins in September and ends with our annual Student Exhibition in June. Classes are 2 ½ hours long and each group meets once a week. Registration begins in February.

The program at Studio Seven explores many mediums and opens up many new forms of expression for students. Painting is our most popular unit – we do it twice, seven weeks in the fall and eight weeks in the spring. We start the year with drawing, still life, landscape, and the human figure. Mask making, clay sculpture, and print making are our winter units.

Eighty percent of all students return the following year and many students stay and work in the studio until they graduate from high school. This creates an excellent learning environment. There is a sense of community at Studio Seven. Parents begin to know one another and students make friendships that span over years. My assistants and I are able to work with students in a unique way because we actually know our students. We have watched them develop and have participated in their artistic growth over long periods of time. The result is an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect.

During the summer, there is an art program that is separate from the school year program. I offer three, one-week painting and drawing camps. Each week runs from Monday through Friday, 8:30am to 5:00pm.

The early morning is dedicated to working on the composition of their choice. Each day, from 10:30am-12:30pm, students paint or draw outside at different landscape locations. After lunch, we swim at different lakes and pools around the Twin Cities. After swimming, we visit galleries and museums. We return to the studio in the late afternoon, have a snack, and then students have more studio time to work on their pieces.

Summer groups are kept very small and accompanied by myself and an assistant. Many students come from out of state to participate in this program.

4worldlovers: The American Pottery Festival is Northern Clay Center’s annual fundraiser. All contributions support NCC’s mission of advancement of the ceramic arts for artists, learners, and the community through education, exhibitions, scholarships, and grant programs.

It serves as a mindfully-forged platform to bring together makers, clay lovers, learners, collectors, and simply the curious, to play and be inspired.

We offer virtual and in person (as safety allows) classes for clay lovers of all ages and aptitudes. Never touched clay before? Try Land of Round Pots. Long-time ceramic artist looking for new skills? Check out our Special Topics Classes. Is a kid in your life missing after school programs? Yep, we’ve got a class for that too.

We add new pots from the country’s most exciting makers to our online sales gallery every week so that you can keep your collection current and find great handmade gifts for your loved ones.

The American Pottery Festival Preview is your first chance to see and buy work by our visiting APF artists

4worldlovers: Expanding on the nautical relationships found in Allan Sekula’s Fish Story, this collection of moving image works maneuver between globalized infrastructure and our associations with the physical and metaphorical world.

Friend, Collaborator, Life-Changer: 70 Birthday Wishes for John Zorn at 70 (Part I)

Unfiltered well-wishes from over 70 collaborators, colleagues, and friends—including actor and director Mathieu Amalric and Founder of Eastside Sound Lou Holtzman—on the eve of John Zorn’s 70th birthday.

Like a Net: Diving into the Political in Allan Sekula's Fish Story


How does living in a sea of information shift the ways artworks can be political? Curator William Hernández Luege explores this question through Allan Sekula’s Fish Story.

40 years after the groundbreaking work of Howardena Pindell and Guerrilla Girls, Laurel Rand-Lewis, the Walker’s Curatorial Fellow for Collections, explores how the data of Museum collections continues to be a tool for change.

Learning through Care at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Museum of Contemporary Art

Explore the unique models for participatory, responsive learning found at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Museum of Contemporary Art (KSMoCA).

Free the Land, Free the People: Alanis Obomsawin’s Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

Writer and researcher Yasmina Price explores Alanis Obomsawin’s 1993 film Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Fourth Cinema, and using the camera as an emancipatory weapon.

4worldlovers: Juxtaposition Arts is a non-profit youth art and design education center, gallery, retail shop, and artists’ studio space in North Minneapolis.

Thank you for attending our grand opening! It was a pleasure being able to ring in our new campus with you all. It is because of your support that we are able to inspire and elevate the next generation of artists.

For those who missed our grand opening JXTA will be having an open house on Thursday August 24th. Check out our events page for more information.

We’ve launched the largest initiative in our history: a $14 million Capital & Legacy Campaign to build a state-of-the-art facility at our current location.

JXTALabs paid apprenticeships are available for young artists ages 14-21 who have completed the Visual Arts Literacy Training program. JXTALabs offers advanced training in six artistic areas of study as well as real paid client projects.

25 years since our inception in 1995, we’re celebrating successes and reflecting on lessons learned. Join us as we look ahead to the future with clear eyes and a set intention.