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Café interior Art-A-Whirl Back-To Maeve's Cafe

The other week at Art-A-Whirl, I (David Reimann) spoke to a woman who was working an iced-coffee stand in a parking lot where a band was playing and people were dancing. She and I spoke, and I learned that she was the owner of the newly opened café named, Maeve's Cafe, located on 13th Ave NE. The following week I decided to pay a visit to the cafe because she told me that they show artists' work and it was the first collection being shown since the opening in September, '11.
old newspaper clipping High School Higher Ed

Since the founding of WAM as the University Gallery in 1934, students at the University have been provided with several opportunities for direct exposure to art. In the early years - after completing their rigorous studies - students could climb the several flights of stairs in Northrop Auditorium to visit the latest exhibit displayed in the gallery or flip through the pages of an artist's biography while relaxing in the Fine Arts Room. They could even return to their own dormitory to gaze upon a print that they rented for 25 cents from the gallery's student loan collection.
newspaper clipping Fully Animated

During the month of May, 1935 the University Gallery was host to some animated visitors. As described in the May 12, 1935 article in the Minneapolis Tribune titled, "Mickey Mouse Goes 'Arty' in University Exhibition," the gallery exhibited 50 black and white drawings and 48 color drawings from the Disney studio in California, which were loaned to the gallery by the College Art Association. The drawings illuminated the process of animation, and showcased celluloid character drawings superimposed over landscape drawings on paper.
A crowd of people outside No White

We had a great time hosting No White, a fashion show and design competition in response to Ballet Prejocaj's production of Snow White. The designs were amazing and the intermission performance by House of John Mark was out-of-control.
University gallery about spring About Spring

The green grass, blooming flowers, and recent temperature increase in Minnesota has me thinking a lot about spring. Thoughts about the season were interpreted at the University Gallery in June of 1955 in an exhibit simply titled, "About Spring."

An exhibition poster promoted the seasonal exhibition: