Past Projects of the Northside Arts Collective

Spring Art Party
• 2003, 2004, 2006
Community involvement in Plymouth Avenue Bridge project design
• Northside Writers Group and others suggested possibilities for language on the bridge NAC conducted a community voting on these options. Thirty-seven people came to Homewood Studios to vote; another five voted by e-mail
Public Art-Public Health Partnership with Our Neighborhood Works
• DragonWorks chinese-style dragon in the parks 2003
• Local artist-designed benches 2004, located thru out North Minneapolis
Partnership with Middle Mississippi River Watershed Management
Organization to create “Erosion Piece” for the 2004 Spring Art Party
• The work, by George Roberts, is an interactive, three-dimensional model of the Mississippi riverbank right near the site of the Art Party. Participants could “walk” on the site with little shoes and “rain” on the site using miniature sprinkling cans - and then observed the effectsof erosion in making patterns on the land and in the water.

Bridge of Dreams Project, located in Webber Park Local artist Christopher E. Harrison facilitated a community art project where members of the neighborhood came together to revitalize a old park bridge by decorating it with their dreams for the community. - 2006