MARY BOWMAN-CLINE: A Face In The Crowd

Thursday, February 23 – Saturday, March 3

A Face in a Crowd is about the diversity of the human face. Color, shape, lines, expressions and emotions all mold the way our faces look and are seen by others in the world. Also on display, small figures and “Brick People” – ceramic heads and hands attached to bricks turning them into little abstract figures.

Opening Reception: Friday, February 24th from 5 to 9pm [note the earlier than usual start time]

Gallery Talk: Tuesday, February 28th beginning at 7pm

Regular Meetings & Groups

Northside Writers Group

Meetings are on the second Thursday of the month, from 7 to 9pm. New members are always welcome. Any level of skill is acceptable. We are interested in your enthusiasm, in your story, in your willingness to write. For information, please e-mail co-leaders Debra Stone at stone.debra@comcast.net or George Roberts at george@homewoodstudios.com.

Homewood Tai Chi  — Saturdays, 8:30 to 10:30am

Questions, please call Beverly Roberts at 612 588-3723 or e-mail her at beverly@homewoodstudios.com.

Workhouse Theatre presents “Talley’s Folly”

February 24-March 11 | Directed by Mark Hauck

Winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this is the charming, moving love story of Matt, a Jewish refugee, and Sally, black sheep of the prosperous Talley family, on Independence Day, 1944. Matt has come to rural Missouri to woo Sally, but has been run off the place by her anti-Semitic brothers, and has taken refuge in the family’s dilapidated boathouse down by the river. Sally sneaks away to tell Matt to leave her alone, but she may have another agenda. Smart and feisty, Sally doesn’t fit into society much better than Matt does. Over the course of a magical evening, the two of them begin to wonder if perhaps they’ll fit

Visit www.workhousetheatre.org to purchase tickets.

 Authors Christine Stark and Olga Trujillo will be reading from their books, Nickels and The Sum of My Parts, at the Loft Literary Center at 7:00pm on January 18^th, 2012.

Both authors have written books on a timely subject given the Penn State and Syracuse University scandals. Child sexual abuse and its survival through dissociation are the topics of Christine Stark’s novel, Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation, and Olga Trujillo’s memoir, The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor’s Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation follows a biracial girl named Little Miss So And So, from age 4 into adulthood. Told in a series of prose poems, Nickels‘ lyrical and inventive language conveys the dissociative states born of a world formed by persistent and brutal incest and homophobia. The dissociative states enable the child’s survival and, ultimately, the adult’s healing.  The content is both heartbreaking and triumphant.

The Sum of My Parts is the incredible true story of Olga Trujillo, whose childhood was devastated by sexual abuse and violence. This memoir follows Olga as she splits herself into parts and develops dissociative identity disorder to cope with the abuse, and then struggles to merge these parts and overcome the disorder in adulthood.

Christine Stark is an award-winning writer, visual artist, and public speaker. Her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have been published in periodicals, anthologies, and peer reviewed journals. She is a coauthor of the groundbreaking report “Garden of Truth: The Prostitution and Trafficking of Native Women in Minnesota” and a coeditor of Not for Sale, an international anthology about sexual violence. Her poem, “Momma’s Song”, was recorded by Fred Ho and the Afro Asian Ensemble and released as a double CD/manga titled Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon and Momma’s Song. Christine has won awards for her writing, including a Pushcart nomination, a McKnight Award, and a Loft Mentor Series in creative nonfiction, along with others. She lives in Minneapolis with her partner, April.

Olga Trujillo is an attorney who works with communities on issues involving domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, and the impact of trauma. A nationally renowned speaker, she has appeared in several training videos on domestic violence, including Cut it Out and A Survivor’s Story. She has received the Bud Cramer Leadership Award from the National Children’s Alliance and the Sunshine Lady Foundation Peace Award. Olga lives with her partner Casey, dogs, and cats on a small farm in Wisconsin.

Now Showing @ Papa’s Deli Gallery

Robert Johnson — Oil pastel drawings

Papa’s Deli at 4159 Thomas Ave N. in Minneapolis. All are welcome to attend. Find them on the web: www.eatatpapas.com.

Robert Johnson has a fine art degree from St. Cloud State University with an emphasis in painting. He never really did much painting after he was introduced to the medium of oil pastel… Robert’s method for using oil pastels involves, as he calls, “smearing” the colors together and building up layer on layer. He will sometimes scratch thru the layers to reveal buried color. Robert’s color use ranges from candied to ancient earth-tones that compliment the unnamed, yet familiar anthropomorphic shapes.