Interested in volunteer opportunities, internships, or research residencies with Water Bar & Public Studio?

This meet-up is a chance to learn more, ask questions, bounce your ideas around, and connect with a community of artists, environmental advocates, and neighbors!

Join us at Water Bar & Public Studio between 4 and 6PM on January 10th to learn more, or say hello online!

VOLUNTEERS

We are looking for volunteers with a variety of skills and interests to help sustain Water Bar in 2017! Volunteers tend bar (serving water), assist with ongoing art activities, or take the Water Bar pop-up to events and programs around the Twin Cities.

INTERNSHIPS

Assist Water Bar & Public Studio co-directors with special projects according to your own learning goals and background! Each internship will involve a focused project with individualized learning outcomes and a self-designed schedule. Open to students and anyone interested in a focused learning opportunity. Possible internship projects include: 

PUBLIC PROGRAMS & EXHIBITIONS: Assist with the development and presentation of public programs, events, artist exhibitions, and gatherings at Water Bar in Northeast Minneapolis.

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: Research and develop materials and resources to aid Water Bar "water tenders" and related water advocacy and education efforts of Water Bar & Public Studio. May include travel to greater MN communities.

COMMUNITY CONNECTOR: Develop connections between Water Bar and other communities through relationship-building, listening, and creative collaborations.

SHOPKEEPER: Source and prepare sustainable water-related education products, artwork, artist books, and other learning materials and resources for the Water Bar storefront;

COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT: Assist with Water Bar communication and marketing of Water Bar pop-ups to companies, organizations, and others.

RESEARCH RESIDENCIES

We are also open to "Reciprocal Research Residencies" in our Public Studio. Water Bar will host and support artists, scientists, activists, organizers, or students with self-designed research projects, art projects, public programs, exhibitions, or other activities at Water Bar. 

CONTACT US WITH QUESTIONS

These opportunities are currently unpaid, though we offer the benefits of utilizing shared studio space, art materials, communication platforms, and other resources. Project-based internships and residencies will begin in early 2017.

Use this form or swing by for more info!

As a companion art exhibit to the Smithsonian Water/Ways exhibition in Lanesboro, Lanesboro Arts & the Lanesboro Musuem are proud to present Currents of Change, a mixed media group show on display at the Lanesboro Arts Gallery January 7 through March 5 featuring historical water photos of Lanesboro with artworks interpreting those photos by 15 regional artists. 

The public is invited to this artist reception Saturday, January 7, 4-6 p.m. which will feature our pop-up Water Bar, a unique chance to sample area waters, learn about water quality issues, and chat with staff from Bolton & Menk, an engineering and surveying firm with a strong commitment to water quality. The reception will also include wine and hors d’oeuvres.

Join the University of Minnesota's Center for Changing Landscapes for this free lunchtime event at Water Bar & Public Studio! 

Twin Cities Climate Connections is a series of interactive forums that bring together practitioners, academics, and community leaders to connect and collaborate on efforts addressing climate change in the Twin Cities metro region. Climate + Water is a Climate Connections event featuring artist and University Art Professor Christine Baeumler and artist Shanai Matteson of Works Progress Studio and Water Bar. Both will speak on climate change and water in the Twin Cities, sharing examples of artists working with water resource professionals, advocates, and community residents.

Bring your lunch and join in the conversation, or just listen in! 

The Center for Changing Landscapes is an applied research and outreach center linking assessment, design, and planning for changing landscapes and communities, and is part of the University of Minnesota College of Design.

How do narratives, exchanged using social platforms, give us and others in our community a shared sense of place, and also of purpose? 

Join us for this free workshop on Location-based Technologies (smartphone apps and social platforms) and their potential as tools for gathering and conveying stories of people and place, as well as their potential for these activities to enhance community organizing and other efforts to connect people, place, and purpose.

In this workshop, our partners from the MuseWeb Foundation will share information about the Be Here: Main Street project, an app called izi.Travel, and other open social platforms. Workshop participants will have the chance to experiment with these technologies, and to workshop their utility as tools for place-based storytelling and organizing work. This workshop is free and open to all types of storytellers / gatherers / organizers.

MORE ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP + PARTNERSHIPS

Water Bar & Public Studio is partnering with the MuseWeb Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution's Museums on Mainstreet program, and the partners of We Are Water MN to help facilitate a statewide storytelling project as part of MuseWeb’s Be Here: Main Street project. This storytelling project will focus on water and the ways it connects us to place and each other.  As part of this project, we have the opportunity to learn about a few new location-based technologies, and want to offer that opportunity to other artists and organizers in our local community.

How did treaties between the U.S. government and native nations change the relationships between people and the natural world on this continent?

What are the implications of treaties today for people and water? 

Join scholar Marty Case for a discussion on the social, political, and business connections that drove treaty making, as well as ways that treaties matter today, including connections between treaties and the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota. After a short presentation and questions, we will break into small discussion groups to talk about how treaties, and the narratives behind treaties, influence all of our lives and relationships. This is a free workshop, everyone is welcome. We will have water, water is all we have.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Marty Case researches the networks of people and businesses that represented the U.S. in treaties with American Indian groups. His work challenges the “master narrative” that shapes many assumptions about United States history and identity. He has also worked as Director of Development and Planning for a state-wide arts organization, and as writing and planning consultant to 45 widely diverse organizations in the fields of art, culture, education, social service, religion, and politics.

Join Mystery Spot Books at Water Bar & Public Studio for the Twin Cities launch of Energy Landscapes of St. Louis No. 2: The Forest Gets Away From You, a poster edition printed with Quikrete, a material composed mostly of coal ash gleaned from power plant waste. A short text by energy humanities scholar Emily Roehl accompanies each poster.

The Energy Landscapes of St. Louis is an ongoing multi-publication collaboration between Minneapolis based Mystery Spot Books and scholars, artists and activists in the St. Louis, MO area exploring and interrogating energy infrastructure, history and aesthetics at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.

As a new administration organizes around climate science denial and prepares to double down on the fossil fuel industry, now more than ever is the time to turn art, scholarship and community organizing toward issues of environmental justice.

ABOUT MYSTERY SPOT BOOKS

Mystery Spot Books produces small-run artist books, zines, and other publications that trace the contours and quirks of place-based experience in the human-altered landscape. Named for the tourist trap wonder attractions often encountered on road trips around the United States, Mystery Spot is a project of Minneapolis-based artist Chad Rutter and Austin-based scholar Emily Roehl. Mystery Spot investigates the persistence of place in the face of the abstractions and simplifications of the mass media in a way that resists the easy nostalgia of place-bound identities or mythic unities.

Visit their website.

Who we are is
What we have left behind.
What we will become is
Why we plant the seeds of change.

~ Karen Olson Johnson

Join Northland Sustainable Solutions for the final event in their series, The Circle That Bridges Communities. Our pop-up Water Bar will be there! The event also features presentations from Sharon Day, Executive Director of the Indigenous People's Task Force, polar explorer Ann Bancroft, singer-songwriter Sara Thomson, and a live skype chat with Kandi Mossett from the Standing Rock #NoDAPL water protectors camp in North Dakota. More info about the event and tickets here.

Water Bar will be part of the reception at Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy's annual fundraising gala, Legally Green. More info and tickets here.

We'll be bringing Water Bar to Friends of Mississippi's big event at Nicollet Island Pavilion. For tickets and info about 'An Evening Celebrating the Mississippi River' click here.

Water Bar will be featured alongside other local artist projects at a reception for Macalester's International Roundtable, which this year is themed around Sustainable Cities: Sharing Habitat, Building Resiliency. More info about this convening here.

Water Bar will be featured at the closing reception of the Water Technology Summit, being held at US Bank Stadium. Tickets and more information about the summit here.

We're thrilled to join our friends at Franconia Sculpture Park for this all-day event celebrating their 20th Anniversary! More information about the celebration here.

James Brenner Sculpture Studio, in partnership with Mississippi Watershed Management Organization and the Holland Neighborhood Improvement Association, present the first workshop in the Hydro-lluminata series.

− Learn about watershed stewardship and taste water from locations around Minneapolis
− Meet and work with sculptor and public artist Jim Brenner to create unique, handcrafted sculpture molds of small boats
− See your sculpture cast in iron at Hydro-Illuminata's public cast iron performance event on October 1
− Exhibit your sculpture at Homewood Studios in May, 2017

Limited to 20 participants. Ages 12 and above.
Registration required at: http://www.hydroilluminata.com/get-involved/

In honor of WaterWays, the Arts Center of Saint Peter's annual membership show is water-themed! WaterStories: Work by Members of the Arts Center of Saint Peter will be on display at the Arts Center July 22-Aug. 21, featuring more than 40 pieces by area artists. The public is invited to the reception Friday, Aug. 19, 5-7 p.m. which will feature Water Bar, a unique chance to sample area waters, learn about water quality issues, and chat with staff from Bolton & Menk, an engineering and surveying firm with a strong commitment to water quality. More info here.

We will be bringing Water Bar to this free outdoor festival on the banks of the Mississippi River, celebrating indigenous culture: 

"Owámni means “falling water” in the Dakota language, making it an apt name for a festival beside the only waterfall on the Mississippi River. This free and family-friendly event celebrates indigenous Minnesota culture with music, art, food, and more."

Water Bar will be at Parks on Tap, an event that the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) is hosting at Fulton Brewery here in Northeast Minneapolis. More info here! 

Water Bar will be featured at the International District Energy Association conference in Saint Paul, MN.

We'll be bringing the Water Bar pop-up to Movies in the Park at Jackson Square Park (2214 Jackson St. NE) in Northeast Minneapolis. At dusk, Minneapolis Parks will be playing Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), bring a picnic blanket and stay for the movie!

Water Bar will be featured at this day of learning for Public Health students, employees and community members. More info and tickets available here.