Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association
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The Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association (or NEMAA) is an organization of artist
s and allies in Northeast Minneapolis
. Its primary focus is the large visual arts
community in Northeast although it does support and help promote the arts in Northeast in general. The organization was formed as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in 1998 to provide year-round support to the Northeast arts community that presents the Art-A-Whirl event once yearly.
NEMAA's most visible event is still Art-A-Whirl, held annually on the third weekend in May since 1996. During the event hundreds of artists open their workspaces to the public, and other performing, visual and educational groups have special art events all around the neighborhoods of Northeast.
NEMAA also sponsors the Fall Fine Arts Show in November as a way of promoting NEMAA members in the holiday season, and First Thursdays, a monthly year-round open-studio night.
Membership categories are individual artist, professional gallery, non-profit/arts organization, community friend and local business partner.
NEMAA was instrumental in establishing the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District in 2003, the first such officially designated district in the city. The district is bounded by the Mississippi River on the west, Broadway on the south, Central Avenue on the east, and 27th Avenue on the north.
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
s and allies in Northeast Minneapolis
Northeast, Minneapolis
Northeast is a defined community in the U.S. city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, composed of 13 smaller neighborhoods whose street addresses end in "NE". Unofficially it also includes the neighborhoods of the University community which have "NE" addresses, and the entirety of the Old Saint Anthony...
. Its primary focus is the large visual arts
Visual arts
The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...
community in Northeast although it does support and help promote the arts in Northeast in general. The organization was formed as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in 1998 to provide year-round support to the Northeast arts community that presents the Art-A-Whirl event once yearly.
NEMAA's most visible event is still Art-A-Whirl, held annually on the third weekend in May since 1996. During the event hundreds of artists open their workspaces to the public, and other performing, visual and educational groups have special art events all around the neighborhoods of Northeast.
NEMAA also sponsors the Fall Fine Arts Show in November as a way of promoting NEMAA members in the holiday season, and First Thursdays, a monthly year-round open-studio night.
Membership categories are individual artist, professional gallery, non-profit/arts organization, community friend and local business partner.
NEMAA was instrumental in establishing the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District in 2003, the first such officially designated district in the city. The district is bounded by the Mississippi River on the west, Broadway on the south, Central Avenue on the east, and 27th Avenue on the north.