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ART-A-WHIRL 2008
AT
THE THORP AND CENTRAL BUSINESS CENTER
1618-1620 Central Ave NE, Minneapolis MN
Fri. May 16th, 5-10pm Sat. May 17th,
noon-8pm Sun. May 18th, noon-5pm
A BIT
OF WHIRL HISTORY
About 13 years ago Dave
Felcker and a group of Northeast Minneapolis artists held meetings in
his then International Gallery space located on the second floor of the historic Thorp Building on
Central Ave NE, with the intent of starting an art crawl that would
include all of Northeast Minneapolis. The name Art-A-Whirl was
stumbled upon one night when one of the meeting attendees returned from the 2nd
floor Thorp restroom, where at the time located across the street was
a business that went by the name Whirl Air Flow.
The Whirl Air Flow sign, complete with tornado
logo, visible from the restroom window sparked the name of what has
now become one of the Midwest's largest open studio art crawls with
more than 400 participating artists, drawing in more than 35,000
visitors each May. Visitors from all over flood
Minneapolis to experience the art and culture of the Northeast
Minneapolis Arts District.
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