March 24, 2016 by The Journal

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A GUTHRIE FOR ALL A conversation with Joe Haj on his upcoming first full season at Guthrie Theater

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@journalmpls.com Joe Haj is settling into Minneapolis with his family, relieved that their first Minnesota winter was an easy one and preparing for his inaugural season as Guthrie Theater’s new artistic director. Opening in September, the 2016-2017 Guthrie season is the first designed top-to-bottom by Haj, who took over July 1 from former artistic director Joe Dowling. Since he arrived last summer from the PlayMakers Repertory Company at the University of North Carolina, Haj has spent time traveling the state and learning that the Guthrie is beloved by many Minnesotans but for many different reasons. “Everybody wants the Guthrie to be important in their lives, but everybody has a different idea of what the Guthrie ought to be or wants from them,” he said. Haj’s directorial debut on the Wurtele Thrust Stage, “Pericles,” closed in February. He returns to that stage in the upcoming season to direct Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” opening Feb. 11, as well 1984 Stephen Sondheim musical, “Sunday in the Park with George,” opening June 17.

Guthrie Theater artistic director Joseph Haj. Photo courtesy of the Guthrie Theater

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New funding plan emerges for city’s neighborhood parks

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City, park leaders propose tapping existing city dollars to solve growing neighborhood park funding gap

Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com Two veteran City Council members are proposing to allocate a mix of existing city funding sources as an alternative to a fall referendum that would raise money for maintaining neighborhood parks. City Council President Barb Johnson (Ward 4) and Council Member Lisa Goodman (Ward 7) revealed the new plan March 16 that would guarantee, by city ordinance, about $13.5 million annually from various sources for the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to fix aging neighborhood parks, many of which face disrepair. SEE PARK FUNDING / PAGE 10

The Park Board is calling for additional investments in its neighborhood assets like the Bottineau Recreation Center. Photo courtesy of the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board

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COCO launches effort to increase diversity in tech sector By Sarah McKenzie / smckenzie@journalmpls.com Co-working innovator COCO has launched two new programs designed to encourage more diversity in the high-tech workforce. It will offer fellowships for entrepreneurs in communities underrepresented in the tech world, including people of color, the GLBT community, women and people with disabilities, among others. The fellowships will be targeted to individual entrepreneurs and startups for small businesses up to four people. It is also hosting its first entrepreneur-in-residence (EIR) — Alex Rodriguez, co-founder of WorkMand, an on-demand platRodriguez form connecting businesses with local contractors for manual labor services — as part of a partnership with Google for Entrepreneurs and CODE2040, a nonprofit that focuses on increasing the participation of blacks and Latinos in the tech industry. As part of the COCO program, Rodriguez will receive a $40,000 stipend, a COCO membership and a retreat to Googleplex in Silicon Valley for training and networking opportunities as he works on growing his business. Overall, black and Latino students earn about 18 percent of the country’s computer science degrees, according to CODE2040, but they make up only about 5 percent of the workforce in leading tech companies. COCO CEO and co-founder Kyle Coolbroth said the programs are “about opening more doors to everyone.” “Our members have built an unrivaled community of intelligence, experience and support that we want to share broadly and more diversely,” he said. “As COCO grows, we want to foster a community that is inclusive for all entrepreneurs and to make it possible for those with constraints to join us.”

Co-working hub COCO has launched new programs designed to encourage more diversity in high-tech professions.

The fellowship program has attracted sponsor partners, including local companies Sunrise Banks and Clockwork Active Media Systems. “The Twin Cities is a hotbed of innovation but there’s a lack of access for many startups that could really fuel a big part of our state’s future economy,” Coolbroth said. “We believe that the more established members of the Twin Cities business community we can involve, the more we’ll

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be able to fund and foster a rich, diverse business ecosystem.” The City of Minneapolis is also part of the White House’s TechHire initiative, which also focuses on providing training for people of color and women interested in high tech careers. As of February, 285 people have completed accelerated training programs and 135 graduates have landed full-time jobs with salaries averaging $48,364,

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according to a city fact sheet. Thirty-two percent of graduates are women and 24 percent people of color.

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PinKU, a fast-casual Japanese street food concept, is planting roots in the Nicollet Island-East Bank neighborhood with what could be the first of many restaurants around the country. Co-founders Xiaoteng “X” Huang and John Sugimura are planning to open the tiny “finecasual” Japanese restaurant this spring in the former Primrose Park space at 20 University Ave. NE. The two say that PinKU will serve cheap and quick, yet meticulously prepared Japanese street food much like the small shops lining the streets of Osaka or Kyoto. They say they’re starting the chain because of what they see as a lack of fairly priced, everyday restaurants serving authentic Japanese dishes that exist somewhere between fussy establishments and supermarket sushi. “I’d much rather have food with an integrity that might sacrifice a little bit of quality than feel like I’ve been exploited,” Sugimura said. “We’re not trying to make it all fancy. What we’re trying to make it is all real.” On the business side is Huang, a Marshall, Minn. native who previously worked at huge companies like Goldman Sachs, IBM and Target before giving up the high-paying career to join the kitchens of fast-casual chains like Chipotle and Noodles & Company. Growing up in rural Minnesota, Huang and his parents would drive a few hours to Minneapolis just to find authentic ethnic food — it’s this problem that PinKU could solve as it expands. “I’ve always dreamed about becoming an entrepreneur and starting my own company. This is my American dream,” he said. “It’s not about money. It’s about leaving a legacy.” On the cooking side is Sugimura, a Japanese-raised, Minnesota-born private chef. Sugimura, a second-generation sushi chef, learned his skills at the Sushi Institute of America and then under master sushi chef Katsuya Uechi in his California restaurants. A couple years ago, the two met at a sushi class in Stillwater that Sugimura taught and they’ve been working together ever since. Their flagship restaurant will be a tiny 960 square feet, which is exactly what they were looking for. The former apparel store space will have 36 seats and a kitchen with no backroom or storage, forcing them to buy fresh. In a small prep and kitchen area, Sugimura and his staff will be behind the counter cooking a simple 10-item menu, which he’s already cooked in some form for thousands of people in recent years.

“We want to keep it simple, keep it lean. We had a food truck mentality,” Huang said. “It’s about stripping away all the pretense, all the unnecessary stuff. We want to be able to focus our resources on the food. That’s why we only have 10 items, so we can do those 10 items better than anybody that we know.” The items, which will cost between $4–$7 (with no tipping), include ramen, fish and seafood dishes that can be made as sushi rolls or bowls. PinKU will also have a breakfast item based on a traditional Japanese breakfast, likely a bowl with grilled salmon, a poached egg and pickled vegetables. PinKU will serve breakfast, lunch, dinner and a simplified late-night menu. The drink menu features several wines and sakes, including a unique Banzai Bunny sparkling sake and, of course, the 22-ounce cans of Sapporo, a cheaper Japanese beer. “We call it ‘fine casual,’” Huang said. “We’re doing the fast-casual operation in terms of speed, accessibility and price, but we’re doing a fine dining-quality of food.” PinKU, the Japanese word for pink, refers to the restaurant’s logo, based on a mural that Sugimura and an illustrator designed. The heavily stylized fish depicts Sugimura’s family crest, 17th-century kimono fabrics and cherry blossoms for the trees shared between Tokyo and Washington D.C. The fish will grace the space’s long wall close to diners. “We just wanted to create an image that told a story,” he said. The two are already in talks about the next locations, including co-locating in art galleries, hotels and the airport. Huang said it will be easier to replicate their small restaurant in other locations. “We don’t want to become bigger, more full service. If anything we want to go smaller,” Sugimura said. “This is not supposed to be the biggest; this is supposed to be the best.” PinKU Japanese Street Food is projected to open by June 1 at 20 University Ave. NE.

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Young Joni

Pizzeria Lola and Hello Pizza owner Ann Kim has revealed more details on her much-anticipated restaurant in Northeast Minneapolis. The concept, named Young Joni after the owners’ (Kim and Conrad Leifur) mothers, is inspired by the cooking of Kim’s mom Young and the love for craft cocktails of Leifur’s mom Joni. The restaurant is tucked behind Dangerous Man Brewing Company in the Sheridan neighborhood. Young Joni will have two wood-burning ovens and one custom grill, with one pizza oven much like the one at Pizzeria Lola and another clad in hand-made Japanese tile that will churn out shareable plates with an emphasis on vegetables. Kim is planning the wood grill, which will feature similar tile, for Korean-inspired meats served “saam” style (served with lettuce, herbs, saam jang and

kimchi) or “taco” style (served with handmade tortillas, fire-roasted salsas and hot sauce). “The wood fired ovens and grill will be the heart and soul of the restaurant and how the majority of the food will be prepared,” Kim said in a prepared statement. “Cooking with fire is exciting, vibrant, fun, unpredictable and alive... just like life.” A handful of diners will be able to sit around a hearth for a close-up experience. The 140-seat restaurant will also have a 40-seat back bar with a separate alley entrance, a rotating menu of cocktails and, possibly, a piano. Adam Gorski, formerly of La Belle Vie, will lead Young Joni’s cocktail program. The restaurant at 165 13th Ave. NE is expected to open this summer.

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City Works is now open in downtown’s Mayo Clinic Square. The restaurant from Chicago-based Bottleneck Management is one of the first new main-level tenants to join the recently remodeled building. City Works is a contemporary American restaurant and bar concept. The 10,000-square-foot restaurant has entrances at the corner and inside Mayo Clinic Square. It also has an event space for private parties and corporate events. City Works offers more than 90 local and global craft beers on tap, in addition to a unique selection of wines on tap. Paul Katz, corporate executive chef, is handling the menu, which features reinvented

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Assemble, a Chicago-based co-working office space company, has expanded to the 15 Building in downtown Minneapolis. The shared office company opened a 16,000-square-foot space in the historic office building, known for the recently painted Bob Dylan mural on its side, in February. Co-founder Phil Domenico said the expansion to the Twin Cities, its third shared office location, was a natural move given that some of Assemble’s 350 or so members in Chicago already did business here. The company offers its members free access to all Assemble locations. “Minneapolis is just an easy next step,” he told The Journal. The downtown Minneapolis Assemble offers several sizes of co-working spaces from one-person offices at 75 square feet to approximately 400-square-foot offices for larger companies. Assemble also has co-working memberships for open working spaces instead of dedicated offices. Memberships, which start at $350 per month, include networking events at least every other week, access to two conference rooms, 24/7 access to the office, printing and Internet. Jody McGuire, community

manager for the Minneapolis location, said they also offer free coffee from Twin Citiesbased Driven Coffee and food in a shared café and kitchen. Assemble already has seven member companies, including educational, capital and tech firms, in its Minneapolis location, in addition to other individual clients. The company generally caters to businesses of 10 or fewer employees. Elana Centor, a corporate trainer for Chicago-based TrainSmart Inc. and writer, joined Assemble in March after trying out another co-working space and previously working at home for 20 years. Centor likes the floor-to-ceiling glass walls, the space’s “coffee-shop feel” and month-to-month leases. “It’s a really nice deal. One of the things that really sets it apart is that I need conference rooms when I do trainings and that’s included in the package,” she said. Assemble also has private phone booths and basic office furniture for clients. Domenico said he plans to expand Assemble to roughly a dozen other cities across the country, from Milwaukee to Denver. Assemble’s Minneapolis office is now open at 15 S. 5th St.

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Bizzy Coffee co-founders Andrew Healy (left) and Alex French. Submitted photo

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Two entrepreneurs have launched Bizzy Coffee, a cold-brew coffee subscription service, with the hope of pushing coffee past the morning cup of joe. Co-founders Alex French and Andrew Healy of Minneapolis-based Get Bizzy Inc. are branding their shelf-stable coffee concentrate, one of the first of its kind to be offered via a subscription, as a healthier, more natural pickme-up. “We thought this was bigger than just coffee. We saw it really as a way for people to get energy,” Healy said. “This is going to replace energy drinks, carbonated drinks [and] sugary juices.” Healy and French, two friends who grew up in New Brighton, Minn. and live in Minneapolis, say they caught the entrepreneurial bug years ago. They tried a few different ventures, including a fitness company focusing on training runners for intense obstacle courses and races. “We weren’t sleeping much,” Healy laughed. The two first turned to hot coffee for an extra boost for work and workouts, but the acid and the unrefreshing temperature got to them. That’s when they thought to do cold brew. The two started taking brewing classes and making their first batches in Kindred Kitchen in North Minneapolis, eventually moving to a contractor to produce the cold-brew coffee once they locked in a bean blend and recipe. “We devoted all the taste and all the research to the beans to make the best flavor,” Healy said. Bizzy Coffee is an organic cold-brew coffee drink brewed as a concentrate and made from beans with three different origins and roasts. To make a cup of coffee, the two suggest adding two parts water, milk or cream. Healy and French describe its flavor as caramel- or chocolate-like with a smooth finish and natural sweetness (there’s no sugar added and no calories). One 16-ounce bottle makes six cups of coffee. They estimate it has 68 percent less

Bizzy Coffee. Submitted Photo. acid and three times more caffeine than the hot alternative. Because Bizzy Coffee is a concentrate, the two hope it will also be a natural addition for other beverages, from the home to the bar. “Ultimately you can make it any which way. You can mix it with cocktails; you can put it in your smoothies or protein shakes. It’s really kind of an ingredient that allows people to do whatever they want,” French said. Get Bizzy is partnering with food and drink bloggers to release cocktail recipes in the coming months. Their goal? To replace the vodka Red Bull. Their ambition has caught the attention of Kieran Folliard, the entrepreneur who started 2 Gingers and founded the Food Building, a Northeast Minneapolis-based food startup incubator. Folliard has advised and invested in the startup, which is temporarily using the building in the Sheridan neighborhood as a warehouse. Bizzy Coffee is currently available in boxes of four bottles via a subscription service. Coffee drinkers can choose the frequency (1-8 weeks) and pre-pay shipments in advance. The coffee has a yearlong shelf life and is good for about three weeks after breaking the seal. Bizzy Coffee is available now at bizzycoffee. com. The company ships within the continental United States.

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Work group tasked with drafting paid sick time ordinance by May The Minneapolis City Council voted March 18 to create a new work group to respond to recommendations for a mandatory paid sick time policy in the city and report back to the Council by May 5 with a proposed ordinance. The staff directions, authored by Council President Barb Johnson and Council Member Andrew Johnson, also called on the group to develop a plan for implementing and enforcing the ordinance, among other things. The city-appointed, 19-member Workplace Partnership Group presented its final report advocating for a new paid sick time ordinance to the Council on March 16. The partnership group recommended mandating a paid sick time policy for employers with at least four Minneapolis workers. Employees who work at least 80 hours a year in the city would be able to accrue one hour of paid sick time for every 30 hours worked. Employers could establish an annual cap of 48 hours of paid sick time for each worker. The group also suggested small businesses with 24 or fewer employees have an additional six months to implement the policy. They also advised the city to have the ordinance go into effect at least six months after passed by the Council. Several members of the partnership group outlined their support for the proposal before the Council’s Committee of the Whole meeting. Ron Harris, a community organizer with Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, said the group is proud of the process it followed in coming up with its final report. It held 14 community listening sessions and gathered feedback from about 550 people throughout the city.

He said the city has a “golden opportunity” to make a big impact in people’s lives. An estimated 120,000 workers lack access to paid sick days in Minneapolis. “There is still a crisis in this city where 42 percent of the people working in Minneapolis still have to choose between the health of their families or receiving a paycheck,” Harris said. “We are firm believers that this is wrong and this has no place in our city.” Harris shared a story with the partnership group about the impact a policy could have had on his family. He said his mother lost her job caring for him when he was sick as a baby. He had pneumonia twice and nearly died, he said. Minneapolis Downtown Council CEO Steve Cramer voted against the recommendations and said the business leaders he represents had concerns about Minneapolis implementing the policy on its own and the potential impact on small businesses. In a minority statement that will also be submitted to the Council, Cramer outlined several concerns about the proposed policy. He has advocated for a partnership approach that would expand access to paid sick time with a set of goals for employers to strive for rather than establishing a mandate for businesses. “For individuals who told their story, the underlying issue they often described is the effect of poverty compounded by growing income inequality,” Cramer wrote. “These are large and challenging forces for our nation to address. It’s debatable what contribution, if any, a municipal paid sick leave requirement makes in solving them.” Faisal Mohamud Deri, owner of Optuma

MORE ONLINE To read the Workplace Partnership Group’s final report, go to ci.minneapolis.mn.us/ workplacepartnership Health Inc., said he was skeptical about a paid sick time mandate before joining the partnership group. “During the process, I was moved by the stories I heard at listening sessions, testimonies from partnership group members, and the thoughtful approach to compromise,” he said. “In the end, I voted ‘yes’ because my concerns were heard and the product truly reflected a real compromise for everyone. No one walked away with everything they wanted.” The Council’s actions come as the City of St. Paul is also studying a paid sick time ordinance and DFL legislators in the House have proposed legislation for family paid leave by establishing a new insurance program. The conversation about paid sick policies grew out of work spearheaded by Mayor Betsy Hodges and the City Council in early 2015. The Working Families Agenda outlined by city leaders included proposals supporting paid sick time, wage theft prevention, fair scheduling and a minimum wage study. Five states, 22 cities and one county across the country have passed paid sick time laws, according to A Better Balance, a New York-based organization advocating for family-friendly policies in the workplace.

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On the fast track to autonomy Southwest and FAIR jump the queue to become community partnership schools

By Dylan Thomas / dthomas@journalmpls.com Southwest High School and FAIR School Downtown are ready to go all-in on the Minneapolis Public Schools’ offer of autonomy for accountability. Their applications to become the district’s fifth and sixth community partnership schools — gaining greater control over budgets, schedules, hiring and curricula as long as they can show results in the form of improved student outcomes — go before the Board of Education in April. Four other schools applied to become part of the second community partnership school cohort, but the district put Southwest and FAIR on a fast track. Community partnership schools are one of the more dramatic examples of a shift driven by the district’s strategic plan, Acceleration 2020. Instead of being centralized at district headquarters, decision-making power and the responsibility for student success are increasingly migrating to schools. At the core of the community partnership school concept is the idea, supported by research in other districts, that students do better when their teachers feel empowered. The shift to autonomy requires teachers to take an active role in designing the school, creating a shared sense of ownership that is another key ingredient in improving student outcomes. Whether Minneapolis can recreate that magic formula is yet to be seen. The first cohort of community partnership schools are only part-way through their first year

We know it will take time to see the outcomes. — Betsy Ohrn, director of the district’s Office of New Schools

change to the calendar next year, like an early start. But, if approved as a community partnership school, Southwest may begin experimenting with more flexible class scheduling next fall. “(Principal Bill) Smith has talked about having a school that’s open 7 to 7 for years,” Hoffman said. Many Southwest students already earn college credit through AP and IB courses, and if granted autonomy the school plans to make it a goal that every student leaves with 12 college credits. They plan to expand postsecondary enrollment options and partner with local colleges to offer more dual-credit courses, Hoffman said. When they presented the plan to the school board March 8, Board Member Carla Bates, a consistent advocate for high school redesign, was enthusiastic. “I feel like you leapfrogged over the district,” Bates said. But that the specifics of the plan could change. Autonomous schools, by nature, are ongoing and evolving experiments.

Parent Caroline Cochran, left, and staff member Holli Hoffman serve on the Southwest High School community partnership school design team. Photo by Dylan Thomas of autonomy, and in March they were starting a first run through an annual review process led by the district. “We know it will take time to see the outcomes,” said Betsy Ohrn, director of the district’s Office of New Schools, during a March 8 presentation to the school board. “Not every district is equally successful with this type of model, and not every school is equally successful with this type of model,” Ohrn said, adding that autonomous school projects in Chicago, Oakland and the U.K. took two to three years to produce results.

Remodeling inside and out Ringed with construction fences, Southwest High School is in the midst of a

$35-million remodeling project that will add 20 classrooms and a soaring new entrance. Less visible, but potentially even more transformative, is the ongoing design of the school’s community partnership school plan. Holli Hoffman, an International Baccalaureate Programme coordinator at Southwest, said much of the planning for autonomy so far has focused on time, in terms of both the school year calendar and class schedules. There’s talk of adding a special May term, since that’s the time of year when International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement testing is already disrupting student schedules. The school will still be under construction until August, so that limits Southwest’s options for making a more significant

Lessons from L.A. Caroline Cochran, a Southwest parent and member of the community partnership school design team, traveled to Los Angeles recently where she visited three autonomous schools, including Francis Polytechnic Senior High, a large public high school with about 3,000 students that she said looked a lot like Southwest. “What we learned in L.A. is it’s always a work in progress,” Cochran said. “You’re trying things and sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t.” She said it took Francis Polytechnic several years to boost staff buy-in — so critical to autonomous school success — to its current level of 94 percent. At Southwest, teacher support for the community partnership school plan was just 74 percent in a recent survey. SEE AUTONOMY / PAGE 9

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Police and community take a hard look at implicit bias By Michelle Bruch / mbruch@journalmpls.com Minneapolis Police Department officers have begun training in implicit bias and procedural justice. “They really enjoyed the difficult topics,” said Lt. Erick Fors. Officers can be mystified when their professional behavior is met with hostility, he said, and it helps to talk about historical actions of law enforcement related to slavery and Jim Crow laws. They also learn how immigrants might perceive police, given past experience with policing in other countries. “If you don’t understand how we got to where we are, how do we move forward from there?” Fors said. Out of more than 100 cities who sought training through the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice, Minneapolis was one of six cities selected. The training covers three main areas. Procedural justice covers how the public views the fairness of the policing process. Implicit bias covers the unconscious biases people unintentionally apply to characteristics like race, age and gender. Reconciliation involves repairing police-community relationships that have been damaged through historical tension, grievances and mistrust. Staff from within the police department provide the training — one of them is Officer Butch Blauert, recognizable in Uptown as the area’s former day beat officer. Council Member Linea Palmisano recently hosted the instructors at a community forum at Studio 2 to discuss the new training in-depth. “We begin by talking to the officers about what justice is. And we talk about how that doesn’t always mean enforcing the law. We have discretion, and sometimes the greater good is served by that, using our discretion,” said Sgt. Darcy Horn. She said research shows that citizens care more about respectful treatment than the outcome of an interaction with police. As part of the training, police examine arrest rates, which show African Americans and Native Americans in Minneapolis are 8.7 and 8.6 times more likely than whites to be arrested for low-level offenses, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Officers also talk about the idealism they had when they first entered the police force. “This is a 30-year career. And when you go from A to Z, officers get cynical,” said Glenn Burt, multi-strategy project site coordinator in Minneapolis for the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice. “[Police] deal with 3-6 percent of the entire population of Minneapolis — that can fit in about an eight block square radius if you line everybody up — but they get cynical because they’re dealing with, unfortunately, the people who cause the problems. And that cynicism wears, and it creates a form of trauma that sometimes is manifested in their interactions unintentionally. We are working to help officers recognize that, and also help the community recognize that, because it is important. Everybody has bad days, and in our case, that bad day we’re always on stage.” Deputy Chief Medaria Arradondo said the conversations are raw and candid. “It’s a very difficult conversation to have with a colleague, and to admit,” he said. “… There is nothing wrong with admitting you

Instructors who provide implicit bias training for Minneapolis police come from within the department. They include (l to r) Officer Butch Blauert; Sgt. Darcy Horn; Officer Alice White; Lt. Erick Fors, Lt. Arthur Knight; and Glenn Burt, multi-strategy project site coordinator in Minneapolis for the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice. Photo by Michelle Bruch have the bias, what’s wrong is acting upon those and ignoring them and denying that they exist.” Research suggests that biased associations can be gradually unlearned, according to the National Initiative, and it is possible to reduce implicit bias in law enforcement through training and policy change. A long look in the mirror While police have taken heavy scrutiny in recent months, one local blogger is urging Southwest residents to also take a “long look in the mirror.” Fulton resident Mike Spangenberg is a former educator who works as a stay-athome dad and blogs at questionthepremise. org. Spangenberg is a white guy in his 30s who works to question the dominant narratives and question all kinds of assumptions about race and identity. On the blog, he highlights a Minneapolis report on loitering arrests between 2009-2014. Victims or witnesses of loitering were 48 percent white, while arrests for loitering were 84 percent black. “It’s not simply the case that Minneapolis Police officers disproportionately show up to harass Black people for low-level offenses on their own,” he writes. “They go because we call them and ask them to. If we as White people are dispatching the police in a way that causes disproportionate police contact for people of color, we should not feign such surprise or righteous indignation at the resulting disparities in arrests.” Minneapolis police report that arrests for marijuana possession in 2014 were 65.3 percent black and 22.7 percent white, while the ACLU reports that national marijuana use is roughly equal among blacks and whites.

Lt. Erick Fors speaks about the Minneapolis Police Department’s new training in implicit bias and procedural justice at a Feb. 17 community forum at Studio 2. Photo by Michelle Bruch

Spangenberg said that if residents in Fulton thought their own neighborhood was more likely to face arrests for marijuana possession, they would take action and press for instant change. “All of us who remain silent are perpetrating the system,” he said. Spangenberg said he sees instances of implicit bias in casual conversation and in social media chatter about people deemed suspicious. The speakers are well-intentioned liberal white people who do not say anything overtly racist, he said, but there are still undertones when talking about North Minneapolis or bad neighborhoods. “I think a person’s ability to determine something is suspicious by looking at a person is pretty limited,” he said. “…You kind of have to stop yourself — why did I notice that car?” The nonprofit Project Implicit offers 10-minute tests that aim to gauge implicit attitudes at implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ takeatest.html.

Police ask residents not to hesitate in calling 911, and provide complete and specific information during the call. At a 2014 listening session in Kingfield, Police Chief Janeé Harteau heard from a woman who said she’s become too afraid to visit North Minneapolis. The woman said young men on corners appear to be selling drugs, while police drive by and take no action. Harteau said in response that she wants everyone to feel safe. “But we need your help, because there is a person sitting on the corner that’s doing nothing, that I don’t want officers to stop, who are going to be offended,” Harteau said. “…So we need that call from you specifically. What is it they’re doing? It’s about behavior. It’s not about what somebody looks like, but behavior-specific. What are those people doing. What actions, what their description is, that’s the kind of information that we need.” According to a report commissioned by

journalmpls.com / March 24–April 6, 2016 9 the Police Conduct Oversight Commission, the Minneapolis Department of Emergency Communications issued an order defining a suspicious person 911 call as “someone who does not belong, appears out of place, or whose actions are suspect.” 911 operators are instructed to ask and document specifically what the suspect is doing that is suspicious. Deputy Chief Bruce Folkens explained in a recent interview that if an unknown person is walking down the alley behind a caller’s house, police need more information before they can make a stop. The alley is a public area for people to walk, he said. But if the person is carrying a duffel bag, looking in windows or garages, and cutting in between houses, that’s deemed suspicious behavior, he said. 911 dispatchers send the call notes to the squad, and officers determine the tactical response, he said. If a caller can articulate specific suspicious behaviors, officers can use the information as justification to make a stop, he said. The MPD lists other examples of suspicious activity, including alarms, shots fired, the sound of breaking glass, shouts for help, or an unfamiliar person carrying items from a house. Folkens said additional suspicious activity could be a long leather coat worn in July, or many people visiting a house for five minutes at a time throughout the day and night. “We all have that sixth sense,” Folkens said. “If something seems wrong, we really have to take a step back — what about that is causing that feeling?” Folkens said if an unfamiliar vehicle is parked in front of his own house, he might watch to see if they’re looking at a phone or piece of paper, or he might ask them if they need directions. “We never want to tell people not to call police,” he said. “When people do call police, call takers are asking specific questions about what is the behavior they’re seeing.” The City Council voted to repeal spitting and lurking ordinances last year, citing disproportionate citations for people of color. The Council is currently considering repealing a law against congregating on the sidewalk. Tough questions At the community forum in February, resident Bennett Shields mentioned YouTube videos showing bad policing, and millions paid out in lawsuits against Minneapolis police. “If a police officer is having a bad day … can they call in sick?” he asked. Arradondo said a supervisor can always tell an officer to go home for the day. He said they have instituted monthly checkins to talk about personal lives and any citizen complaints. “For a paramilitary organization that has historically been males, oftentimes males coming out of the military, and just in terms of our socialization as males growing up, you keep everything bottled in. You don’t talk about when you’re having a bad day, you don’t talk when you’re emotional, all of these things. We’re trying to change that culture…” he said.

There is always a notorious officer that community members don’t want responding to their call for help, he said. “We know these people. But for years, we’ve just allowed them to continue to do what they’ve been doing. We have to stop them,” he said. Police are working on a new policy they call “duty to intervene.” Such a policy is recommended by the national Police Executive Research forum, and requires officers to intervene if they believe a colleague is about to use excessive or unnecessary force. “That momentary action, that can impact a community for generations,” Arradondo said. “There are people today unfortunately in our community that because their grandfathers were treated unkindly, they have told that to their children, and their children, and we’re a product of that. So we have to have these conversations, and we have to get it right every day.” Several people at the forum praised the police department. “I commend you so much for taking on this effort. It speaks to the motivation, the professionalism that you seek to elevate to the highest level,” said resident Richard Logan. One meeting attendee said he has serious concerns that some of the most inflammatory remarks made throughout the 4th Precinct protests came from a man elected president of the police union, and who has himself been the target of citizen complaints. How do you handle people who don’t see a problem to begin with?, he asked. In response, Lt. Arthur Knight said he remembers fielding a question years ago on whether the police department is racist. “The police department is made up of society. And if we have racism in society, we will have racism in the police department,” he said. He said the country holds 800,000 police officers out of a population of more than 300 million people. “We all have biases. What are we going to do with those biases? … And I can tell you this right here, when I look at the news, and I see a police officer misbehaving … good cops hate bad cops more than any other. You think citizens hate bad cops? Good cops hate bad cops.” One meeting attendee said she can recall past police reform efforts, such as former Police Chief Tony Bouza requiring officers to wear name tags. She said everyone knows how hard it is to get rid of problem officers, and that structure hasn’t changed. Not every officer may want new training, she said. “What’s different this time?” she asked. “… Is it the fact that everyone has cell phones?” Arradondo highlighted the forthcoming body cameras, initially rolling out at Downtown’s 1st Precinct in May. And he mentioned a St. Paul sergeant who recently resigned over comments he made on social media. “You have held us more accountable in this day and age,” he said.

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FROM AUTONOMY / PAGE 7 The district requires a minimum of twothirds teacher support to move forward. Cochran said she was initially apprehensive about moving away from the traditional public school model, and in L.A. she heard from administrators, students and staff that the process can be difficult. But she also saw evidence of strengthened relationships, particularly between students and teachers. “I definitely came away from that thinking this is good for schools,” Cochran said. “It’s good to empower the teachers and the staff, because they understand their (student) populations best.” FAIR school administrators declined an interview request, but their community partnership school application makes clear they view autonomy as a way to preserve a school model that is in many ways unique in the district. Formerly one half of a dualcampus school in the West Metro Education Program, a multi-city integration district, FAIR Downtown was conveyed to Minneapolis Public Schools last year, and its sister campus in Crystal joined Robbinsdale Public Schools. FAIR’s application indicates school leaders aim to enhance the integration model with a new social justice curriculum and additional programming for its black male students. If it’s granted freedom from district rules, FAIR will continue to pursue the partnerships it’s formed with downtown arts and post-secondary institutions. A survey of FAIR staff put support for the shift at 97 percent.

Year one Part of the autonomy-for-accountability deal requires community partnership schools to enter into performance agreements with the district. During the annual review, the schools will be assessed against both their own individual goals and the “5-8-10” performance targets set by the district’s strategic plan: a 5-percent annual increase in students meeting or exceeding state

math and reading standards; a faster 8-percent increase in those areas for lowperforming students; and a 10-percent annual increase in the graduation rate. But those data aren’t available until after students take state standardized tests in the spring. In the meantime, the district is tracking other indicators, like teacher satisfaction, through surveys. Ohrn said, when and where they work, autonomous schools have clear goals, a focus on teaching and learning and supportive central offices that are committed to the experiment. At successful autonomous schools, teacher surveys reflect high levels of empowerment and satisfaction, she said. Principal Amy Janecek of Ramsey Middle School, one of four schools granted community partnership school status in 2015, described autonomy as a way for that school to foster and sustain a spirit of collaboration. Janecek uses budget freedoms to put money into a peer-to-peer teacher observation model that’s different from the system of teacher observations and evaluations used in the rest of the district. “We try to spread that learning throughout all our teachers, because we know getting into classrooms helps teachers learn from one another and helps them grow as a professional,” Janecek said. Before arriving at Ramsey this summer, Janecek was an associate principal at Wayzata High School, a school that follows a much more traditional topdown approach. Asked if it was difficult to take on the responsibility of autonomy, she said the bigger difference is that true collaboration just takes time. “I would say that I walk into meetings and I might have an outcome in my mind, and having the amazing thinking and ideas through collaboration, we have a very, very different outcome,” Janecek said. “ … I do own the outcomes, but I also appreciate tapping into the incredible thinking and the innovative thinking of our staff.”

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10 journalmpls.com / March 24–April 6, 2016 FROM PARK FUNDING / PAGE 1 The option comes as the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board has been campaigning for more than a year around a referendum that would raise roughly $15 million per year for the next 20 years to close a growing $111 million gap to repair neighborhood park assets like wading pools and recreation centers. Park Superintendent Jayne Miller said the plan, which received its first approval from park commissioners on March 16, would bring together the historically separate government bodies. “I think it’s a great compromise,” she told The Journal. “From the very beginning our intent was to work through the issues with the City Council, and doing it through an agreement instead of a referendum I think is better for the community, and it’s better for our two agencies working together.” Beginning in 2017, the proposed ordinances — the same agreement for each agency — would devote an additional $8 million to the board, plus about $2.5 million that the board has historically received from the city. As part of the proposed agreement, the city would also recommend that the Board of Estimate and Taxation increase the board’s annual tax levy by $3 million for the life of the ordinances, in addition to annual increments. The increase, based on a 1 percent increase of the city’s 2016 tax levies, is intended for the board’s operating costs. The new proposal would ramp up a year sooner than a successful referendum with an initial $1.5 million in start-up money from the city’s contingency funds by the end of 2016. The plan would then run through 2036 with joint review from the board and city every five years. The resolution, first publicly presented to Council members during a March 16 Committee of the Whole meeting, doesn’t specify funding sources for the additional $8 million, but authors Johnson and Goodman said there could be several options, including a combination of levy, cash or bond proceeds. Mayor Betsy Hodges had previously vetoed the Park Board’s proposed ballot language regarding the referendum though the board overrode her decision. David Prestwood, a spokesman for the mayor, said Hodges, as she did with the referendum, has concerns with guaranteeing city money to the board, especially given gaps in infrastructure funding. “That guarantee does not exist for the police department, for the fire department or anything else in the city, so it would be very odd to provide a guarantee for the park system without any of these other things,” he said. Hodges has acknowledged a need for consistent investment into parks and previously recommended the board develop its proposed ballot language with more flexibility in spending referendum money on unforeseen fiscal pressures. “Her door is open, and has been open, to the Park Board and the council on this, and some people chose this time to not walk through the door and go it alone,” he said. Park commissioners unanimously voted March 16 to approve the plan and to direct Miller to begin drafting the board’s ordinance in coordination with the city, which will have to draft its own version. Park Board President Liz Wielinski said benefits of the agreement outweigh the fact that it doesn’t cover all of the board’s annual $14-$15 million funding gap. “It’s less money, but it solves a lot of problems,” she told The Journal prior to the vote. “This agreement covers everything so it’s worth giving up a few extra million there to make sure we have everything solved at once.” The agreement puts to rest some of the board’s worries regarding other funding the city could have changed if it had gone forward with a referendum. Under the proposal, the rates the board pays administra-

Park Board says its assets like wading pools, such as the one at Waite Park (left), ball fields like at Harrison Park (top) face disrepair, even closure, without additional investment. Photos courtesy of the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board

tive fees to the city would be tied to the rates the city applies to its own operations. The plan also sets the board’s local government aid to a stable 11.79 percent. The Park Board agrees to cease its referendum efforts as part of the proposal, though if the city significantly reduces the proposed funding for at least three consecutive years, commissioners could once again pursue a ballot measure. Commissioner Scott Vreeland (District 3) emphasized the fact that the funding will begin to chip away at a backlog of maintenance projects and repairs, albeit slowly. “This isn’t going to fix everything, and it’s not going to fix everything right away,” he told commissioners. “I don’t want to overpromise or under deliver.” The proposal drew concern from some City Council members who are worried where the money will come from and where it could potentially be better spent. Earlier this month the Council heard a presentation on an annual $30 million gap in Minneapolis street repairs and reconstruction projects. “I support funding parks, but I also care about funding police and fire services, affordable housing, our investments in racial equity and I am very concerned that we not continue to defer maintenance on our

streets, creating essentially a giant balloon payment for future city councils and tax payers to deal with,” Council Member Lisa Bender (Ward 10) said in statement posted to her Facebook page. The plan also garnered praise from several Council members, including Council Members Andrew Johnson (Ward 12) and Jacob Frey (Ward 3). City leaders said the proposal establishes a newfound relationship between the City of Minneapolis and the semi-autonomous Park Board. “There was a time when the City Council and Park Board did not work together, but this is apparently a very different time, and I’m very happy to see it,” said At-Large Commissioner John Erwin. If successful, Council Member Goodman said the plan would be a “historic step forward” for Minneapolis. “After two years of work, studies, community process and community leadership, the park system has proven there’s a need. They’ve proven that the community is willing to stand up and ask us to resolve this issue, and we are obligated as leaders of the city to do so,” she said. The ordinances, which have yet to be drafted, are expected to be voted on by the City Council on April 15 and the Park board

on April 20. Miller said she still plans to present a five-year plan next month for spending what the board would get if it continued to pursue a referendum. “The good news is that while often times we have conflicting goals with the city, we were able to come together on something that was important to the citizens of Minneapolis and move something forward,” said District 4 Commissioner Anita Tabb.

What’s next ``The City Council’s Ways & Means Committee is expected to review Council President Barb Johnson and Council Member Lisa Goodman’s proposed funding plan for neighborhood parks on Monday, March 28. The full Council will likely vote on the plan April 15.

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County Attorney Mike Freeman won’t use grand jury in Jamar Clark case Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced March 16 that he will not use a grand jury in the Jamar Clark case or in future police shooting cases in Hennepin County — a victory for Clark’s family and many activists who have been calling on Freeman to make that decision. Clark, a 24-year-old black man, was fatally shot by police on Nov. 15 in North Minneapolis. The state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigated the shooting and turned over its findings to the county attorney’s office in midFebruary for review. Grand juries are routinely used in police shooting cases in the state and are up to the discretion of each county attorney. The 23-member jury is a fact finder and determines if there is probable cause to indict or charge an individual with a crime. Its proceedings are private, which has prompted many to criticize them for lack of transparency. “Moreover, in most jurisdictions throughout the U.S., grand juries have also served in these cases, although there is a growing discussion that grand juries may no longer serve the present evolving standards of justice, accountability and transparency,” Freeman wrote in a statement. He said he started a personal review of whether to use grand juries in police shooting cases 16 months ago and had tentatively set a news conference for the Monday after Thanksgiving last year to discuss a new system for handling the cases, but Clark’s shooting death prompted him to hold off on the announcement. Since then, he’s had more discussions with the community about grand juries. Grand juries have been used in Hennepin County for police shooting cases for at least 40 years, he said. “I concluded that the accountability and transparency limitations of a grand jury are too high a hurdle to overcome,” he said. “So, at this point in time, and in a democracy where we continually strive to make our systems fairer, more just and more accountable, we in Hennepin County will not use the grand jury in the Jamar Clark case.” He said he will make the “factual determi-

nation whether there is sufficient evidence to support a criminal charge against the police officers in the tragic death of Jamar Clark.” The FBI is also conducting an investigation into Clark’s shooting death. He was shot during an altercation with police on the 1600 block of Plymouth Avenue North around 12:45 a.m. on Nov. 15. Police say he was interfering with paramedics treating an assault victim and not handcuffed at the time. Witnesses, however, said he was handcuffed. Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau said she respects that Freeman had a challenging decision to make. “The legal standards and thresholds remain the same, whether this case is looked at by a grand jury or reviewed by the County Attorney,” she said. Anthony Newby, executive director of North Minneapolis-based Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, said the decision reflects the power of community organizing. “We thank County Attorney Freeman for taking this important step toward police accountability,” Newby said. “In cities across the Midwest, black-led organizing is leading a movement for more accountability for officerinvolved shootings. This week, Chicago and Cleveland voted out county attorneys who’ve failed to deliver justice for their communities while over policing them. Ferguson, Mo., has accepted important changes from the Department of Justice. Freeman’s decision not to use a grand jury in Minneapolis is the latest example of a shift in power in the Midwest. Organizing works.” Congressman Keith Ellison, a resident of North Minneapolis, has also been outspoken in advocating against using a grand jury in Clark’s case. “This is a victory for transparency,” he said. “Large sections of our community doubt that the grand jury system can yield a fair outcome, and their secretive nature worsens the already strained relations between police and the community they serve. Wherever the facts and law lead in this case, making the prosecution decision in the public light will increase community confidence. ”

Target Center renovation project secures final approval The City Council gave the final approval needed to move ahead with the long-awaited $128.9 million renovation of the city-owned Target Center at its March 18 meeting. The vote was 10-3 with Council Members Andrew Johnson, Lisa Bender and Alondra Cano voting no. Johnson argued that other city priorities, such as funding for ongoing street maintenance and the parks, should be in line ahead of Target Center. City Council Member Lisa Goodman countered that the sales tax authorized to pay for Target Center renovations as part of the Vikings stadium legislation couldn’t be used for those needs and the city is contractually obligated to maintain the facility. The final design for the entertainment

complex will feature a more modern exterior with metal cladding of various shades of brown. There will be a new five-story glassy atrium at the corner of 6th Street & 1st Avenue, a new loading dock, a green wall along 7th Street and several interior improvements, including upgrades for suites and other premium spaces. A new scoreboard will also be installed this summer. The City of Minneapolis has committed $74 million for the project, the Timberwolves/Lynx $49 million and AEG, the arena’s operations manager, $5.9 million. Construction work is scheduled to start in May and wrap up the fall of 2017. The arena will be closed during the summer of 2017.

‘Bring Your Own Bag’ ordinance moves ahead A City Council committee voted March 21 to pass a proposed ban on single-use plastic carryout bags at city retailers after hearing from dozens of supporters of the measure, including a man wearing a costume made of 500 plastic bags. Steve Eberly, the self-described plastic bag monster and member of the Linden Hills Power & Light board of directors, joined several others in testifying before the Council’s Health, Environment and Community Engagement Committee to urge the Council to pass the measure to help reduce litter and the city’s carbon footprint. He noted that the typical shopper uses about 500 plastic bags each year. A few business leaders did speak out against the proposal, including Jamie Pfuhl, president of the Minnesota Grocers Association. She said consumers should be able to choose between plastic, paper or their own reusable bags when shopping. She said many retailers have plastic bag recycling programs in place. The proposed “Bring Your Own Bag” ordinance, authored by Council Members Cam Gordon and Abdi Warsame, bars retailers in the city from offering customers single-use plastic carryout bags. Instead, they are required to offer recyclable paper, compostable or reusable bags for 5 cents.

The proposed ordinance would go into effect April 22, 2017. There are several exemptions, including bags for produce, take-out foods, newspapers, door-hanger, laundry-dry cleaning and bags sold in packages for garbage, pet waste or yard waste. Robin Garwood, a policy aide for Gordon, said the goal is to encourage people to get in the habit of bringing their own bags to the store when shopping. Many of the plastic bags in Minneapolis end up at the downtown garbage burner. They also are a menace to single-sort recycling machines and a big source of litter, ending up in waterways and trees and posing a hazard to birds and other animals. Council Member Andrew Johnson raised concerns that the ordinance would increase the use of paper bags, which have a higher carbon footprint since more energy is required to produce them. He said he planned to work with Gordon and Warsame before the final Council vote to come up with a way to address that issue. The full Council will vote on the proposed ordinance April 1. Many cities, states and countries have enacted laws addressing the environmental impact of plastic carryout bags, including Seattle, Portland, Austin, Dallas, Los Angeles and San Francisco, among others.

Wilder study: Homelessness is down from 2012 Homelessness is trending downward in Minnesota for the first time since 2006, according to a new Wilder Research study. Wilder counted 9,312 people experiencing homelessness on Oct. 22, 2015 — down 9 percent from 2012 — for the single-night study. Wilder Research conducts the count every three years. Still, the number of homeless in Minnesota is up considerably since 1991 when Wilder counted 3,079 people. Study co-director Michelle Gerrard said the latest findings are “encouraging” and suggest the state’s work to prevent and end homelessness is showing promise. “But we have still not shaken the impact of the last decade’s Great Reces-

sion on this population,” she said. Wilder counted people staying in shelters, transitional housing, encampments and drop-in service locations. Children and youth continue to make up more than half of Minnesota’s homeless population. Wilder counted 3,296 children in October, down 7 percent from 2012. Researchers counted 1,542 families — a decrease of 12 percent from the previous study. Researchers also say that the count underestimates the total number of homeless in the state since many people don’t stay in the shelter system, such as teens who often coach hop when experiencing homelessness.

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Legacy Shamrock Development’s Legacy condo development is making progress with an updated design and a discussion before the City Planning Commission Committee of the Whole. The project now features a 17-story condo tower that is now broken up with an eight-story section near 2nd Street South and a 14-story section closer to the Mississippi River side. The 747,000-square-foot building would have 374 condominium units and 703 spaces of proposed parking spread across several levels of enclosed stalls. The more than 4-acre site is home to the now-empty Cenveo building and a 148-stall surface parking lot, according to the plans. The project is the 10th condo project in downtown Minneapolis from developer Jim Stanton.

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Westminster Presbyterian Church on Nicollet Mall plans to raze a mid-rise office building for a two-story addition to the historic church. The 3,100-member church owns the neighboring eightstory office building at 1221 Nicollet Mall, which it bought in 2012. Westminster’s 41,000-square-foot expansion would feature worship spaces, church offices, a classroom and more. The project includes two levels of underground parking for 232 cars and “significant” outdoor plazas and gardens along Nicollet Mall and Marquette Avenue. Westminster also plans to renovate 30,000 square feet of interior space within the 1897 church. Pending church board approval, Westminster plans to break ground and begin demolition in mid-April, according to a church newsletter.

Nye’s Polonaise Room is set to be redeveloped this summer now that plans for a low-rise adaptive reuse project have received final approval from the City Planning Commission. The project from Schafer Richardson features 72 apartments and approximately 8,000 square feet of retail. The developer would demolish two non-historic Nye’s buildings and rehab the other two buildings. The developer is also planning 50 parking spaces, plus an enclosed, semi-automated car-stacking system to allow for 14 additional spaces over seven traditional stalls. The system would be the first of its kind from the developer and possibly the first in the city.

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Everyday Gardener / By Meleah Maynard

SEEDS, SEEDS AND MORE SEEDS

appy almost spring. By the time you read this, the Little Free Seed Library will already be up and running at my house, so please come on over and leave some seeds to share with others. Or take some home for yourself. This season, I’m happy to say that we have a few more items to share thanks to Do It Green! Minnesota (doitgreen.org). The Minneapolis-based nonprofit has long been committed to sustainability and promoting healthy communities, and with support from the Gannett Foundation they started up their own Do It Green! Seed, which provides free native and organic seeds to Twin Cities residents. They also distribute educational information about seed saving and other topics, and when they heard about my seed library, they kindly gave me a variety of seeds to share with you. They also gave me many copies of two handouts: One explains how to choose quality seeds and save seeds, and the other covers the different types of milkweeds home gardeners can plant to help monarch butterflies. Both handouts will be in the library as long as supplies last. Or, you can print your own copy of Do It Green!’s Seed Saving handout by clicking on a link you’ll find on their website (doitgreen. org/resources/seed-library-program.) Their site also offers a link to a very nice seed label that you can print and use on your own envelopes when saving seeds at home. Those of you who visit the library at my house will see that label on the seed packets donated by Do It Green!, which include swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) and organic China rose radish, garlic chives and cilantro. As always, you’ll also find many seeds collected from my garden such as hyacinth bean, gray-headed coneflower, garlic chives, Queen Anne’s lace, swamp milkweed, butterfly milkweed, purple and white cleome, black-eyed Susan and anise hyssop. The library is located on the boulevard on the corner of 45th Street and Washburn Avenue South in Linden Hills. If you’re coming to get seeds, use the small, coin-sized envelopes I’ve provided to take what you need from the larger

envelopes and packets you’ll find in the library. (Ours is a rather informal seedsharing system.) Pencils are in the library, too, so you can jot down the names of what you’re taking home. If you have seeds to share, please bring them in their original packet or an envelope or baggie labeled with the type of seed. Feel free to also include growing tips, such as full sun, if you like. Otherwise, people can look up growing information on the Internet.

Good seed sources Seed sharing is great, but if you’re looking for particular types, you’ll probably need to go shopping at some point. In addition to my local favorite Mother Earth Gardens, as well as area co-ops, here is a list of some trustworthy sources of highquality seeds. Be aware that these places primarily, if not exclusively, sell seeds that are non-GMO, not chemically treated and often organic and/or heirloom. But there may be some conventional offerings too, so read descriptions carefully if you want to avoid those. (I am not suggesting that you should. Conventional seeds are not always chemically treated.) All of these sources are great, so they are not in any particular order: Renee’s Garden, Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company, Seed Savers Exchange, High Country Gardens, Fedco Seeds, Johnny’s Selected Seeds, Ion Exchange and High Mowing Seeds. Happy planting!

Check out Meleah’s blog — everydaygardener.com — for more gardening tips or to email her a question or comment.

Spring gardening tips Winter may stop us from gardening, but it doesn’t stop questions from coming in. So here are answers to a few of the questions I’ve recently received on topics that are probably on a lot of people’s minds.

When should I prune my shrubs so I don’t cut off the blooms? Good question. Most spring-flowering shrubs bloom on “old wood” or the previous year’s stems. So if you get out there early in the spring and start chopping back spring bloomers like lilac, azaleas, pea shrub, honeysuckle, chokeberry, forsythia and mock orange, you won’t get blooms that year because you probably chopped them off. Sometimes you have to do this because a shrub has gotten out of control. But, ideally, to make sure these beauties bloom from year to year, prune them shortly after they finish flowering in the spring or early summer.

How long do lights need to be on when you start seeds indoors? Plants need to get about 12 to 16 hours of light every day when they’re growing under lights, so it’s best to put them on a timer and then you don’t have to remember to flip lights on and off. If you hang your lights from chains like I do, make sure they are 2 to 4 inches above your seedlings, no higher or they won’t get the light they need. And, I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again, cool white fluorescent tube lights are perfectly fine for starting seeds. No need to spend money on expensive grow lights.

How far back should I cut ornamental grasses that have turned brown? Here’s a silly saying that will help you forever remember the answer to this one: If it’s brown, cut it down. So in Minnesota, where all ornamental grasses that are standing or flopping over are brown, feel free to grab a lopper or hedge trimmer and cut grasses back to the ground or to where you see new green growth. Your goal is to once again expose the top of the plant to air and water and sunshine. If you have a compost bin or pile, take a minute to make a few more cuts so you can add manageable-sized pieces of dried grass rather than huge, long stems.

The evergreens in my yard have a lot of brown patches on them. Are they dying? Probably not. It’s common for evergreen shrubs and trees to suffer winter burn in our harsh climate. Damage, which can look like browning and/or bleaching, is usually most noticeable on the south and southwest sides of plants, but can also be on any side that faces stiff winds. Water loss is the main cause of winter burn. So the best thing you can do to protect evergreens is to keep them watered throughout the growing season—all the way up until the ground freezes, often in late November. Wait a little while into spring before deciding that a browned evergreen is dead. Often, new foliage will grow out and all will be well. Even if that doesn’t happen, if the damage isn’t catastrophic and only buds and stems are brown, prune those branches back to about ¼ inch above healthy buds. New growth will likely take over from there.

Do I have to throw my Easter Lily away or can I plant it outside? Traditional Easter lilies aren’t always hardy enough to make it through our winters, but there are many lilies that are sold for Easter that are hardy. If you have one in a pot that you’d like to plant in your garden, go for it. The worst thing that will happen is that it won’t make it. To give your lily the best start possible, pluck off faded flowers and yellowed leaves, and keep it watered and lightly fertilized indoors until mid-May or so when the soil has warmed up. Then, transplant it just a little deeper in the soil that it was in the pot and give it some water. Try not to fret. It could be a season or two before the lily blooms again.

— Meleah Maynard

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Nicollet Mall farmers market will move to Government Center plaza this season The Nicollet Mall Farmers Market will relocate once again this season, this time from Hennepin Avenue to the Hennepin County Government Center’s South Plaza. The market, which is originally hosted on Thursdays on Nicollet Mall, moved to Hennepin Avenue last year due to reconstruction work on Nicollet. This year the market will kick off Thursday, May 5 on the plaza at 300 S. 6th St.

“We’re excited to bring the Farmers Market to a new area of downtown that continues to grow and thrive,” said Pat Nelson, the market’s manager, in a statement. “Hennepin County Government Center’s South Plaza offers a fantastic green space that will allow patrons to gather, browse and shop in a convenient location.” The relocation won’t affect the products available at the weekly farmers market.

Once work is done on Nicollet Mall, the farmers market will return to its original location. In addition to the market, Go Outside with Hennepin County will have summer programming, from food trucks to lawn games, outside the Government Center each Wednesday from June 1 to Aug. 31 from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. “Our programming at Hennepin County

Government Center South Plaza will provide an opportunity where you can grab your own lunch, play games, or bring fresh produce home for your family — all in one nearby spot,” said Hennepin County Administrator David Hough. The farmers market will be open on Thursdays from 6 a.m.-6 p.m. from May 5 through Nov. 10.

— Eric Best

Where We Live

A JOURNAL COMMITMENT TO HIGHLIGHTING GREAT COMMUNITY CAUSES

In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre

 One of the many spectacular large-scale puppets featured in the annual MayDay parade. File photo

Organization inspires, educates through imaginative performances

The power of puppetry

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Every year, thousands of Minneapolitans gather on the first Sunday of May for MayDay, created and Location produced by In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre. 1500 E. Lake St. The event begins with a MayDay Parade down Bloomington Avenue and continues with the “Tree of Life” ceremony marking the arrival of spring. Contact “This is an event that’s really part of the identity of Minneapolis,” said Corrie Zoll, In the Heart of the Beast’s execu612-721-2535 tive director. “It reinforces the best parts of who we are.” Zoll leads a 43-year-old organization that produces the annual event in addition to full-length, original puppet shows Website at its Phillips Neighborhood theater. hobt.org The nonprofit also mentors emerging artists, produces touring puppet shows and weekly shows for kids and provides local youth with no-cost art activities through its Phillips Project. Year Founded “It’s a lot about relationships — the relationship with artists from Heart of the Beast and the relationships with the 1973 other youth,” said Bart Buch, director of youth and community programs. “It fits a certain niche in people’s imaginations and has a real accessible quality about it that makes it ripe for people expressing themselves.” In the Heart of the Beast was founded in 1973 as the Powderhorn Puppet Theatre. It hosted the first MayDay parade and festival in 1975 and changed its name to In the Heart of the Beast four years later. The organization purchased the 300-seat Avalon Theater Auditorium in 1990. That’s where the organization hosts its main stage productions and Saturday-morning kids’ shows. In the Heart of the Beast has been hosting the children’s shows for the past 17 years, giving emerging artists the opportunity to produce a show. The first show of each month is in Spanish. On a recent Saturday, artist Rebekah Crisanta hosted her first show, telling a story based on her dad’s poem about growing up in the countryside. Her mentor, Gustavo Boada, played music as Crisanta glided the puppet characters across the stage while speaking in Spanish. She said she and her dad plan on turning the story into a children’s book. The moral, she said, is that kids should share their toys. “If we use less and give more, there can be more compassion in the world,” she said. In the Heart of the Beast works with about 150 artists like Crisanta each year. They perform touring shows and the main stage shows and work as artists in residence with local schools, churches and day programs. They also work with elementary school students as part of the Phillips Project. Those students were scheduled to host a Phillips History Museum on March 16 at the American Swedish Institute, a project highlighting the history of the Phillips Neighborhood. The students also participate in MayDay, which draws about 50,000 people annually. Planning for the event began in December, but the organization doesn’t choose a theme until about six weeks before the festival. In the Heart of the Beast has not announced this year’s theme yet but planned to continue working on it at a community meeting on March 15. The organization hosted a film-screening event March 21 at Riverview Theater to fundraise for MayDay. Its newest full-length show, a rock opera called “Basement Creatures,” is showing March 11–26 at the Avalon Theater.

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What you can do Participate in a community build workshop for MayDay on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays in April at the Avalon Theater. “Anybody can come in,” Zoll said. “We will find something for anyone.” Attend a showing of the original show “Basement Creatures” March 11–26 at the theater or the MayDay fundraiser March 21 at Riverview Theater. Volunteer as an usher, help with the building of a show or serve as a committee member. Learn more about In the Heart of the Beast’s volunteering opportunities by emailing volunteer@hobt.org or visiting its website.

About the Where We Live project This project is an ongoing series spearheaded by Journals’ publisher Janis Hall showcasing Minneapolis nonprofits doing important work in the community. The editorial team has selected organizations to spotlight. Nate Gotlieb is the writer for the project. To read previous features, go to southwestjournal.com/section/focus/where-we-live.

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What’s been the happiest moment of your life so far?

Photos and interviews by Stephanie Glaros

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5ROSETTA FULLER, MINNEAPOLIS I’d say my new job. I work at a childcare place, Child Garden Montessori School. It was something that I majored in, so I’m really happy I got the job. I love the joy and the happiness that children bring, it gives me energy. I just love working with kids. Right now I’m working with infants, so maybe I’ll just work my way up. It does get challenging because kids are crying, you have to take care of all of them and it’s hard to multitask. Glaros: What’s your goal?

One of my happiest moments is sailing on my dad’s sailboat. He has a 15-foot catamaran, and it’s like flying. It’s the best. We were up by the Apostle Islands and it was a beautiful day, but there was a storm predicted that night. And we went to sail around one of the islands, away from the group of sailboaters we had come with. The wind started to kick up, and we still were on the back side of the island. We were in wetsuits, but the waves started getting higher and higher, and we couldn’t get back, because if we put our sail out to get enough wind, we’d get pushed over by a gust. So we were kinda stranded out there for a while, working our way back, super slowly. But it was getting darker and darker. We had a radio, thank God. So we called the Coast Guard, and they couldn’t find us for a long time, but they eventually did and towed us back in. It was totally dark by then, and the storm was coming, and it was so cold. You would freeze to death if you were in the water. But part of it was amazing. Lake Superior is so beautiful, it’s so clear. The Apostle Islands are like the Caribbean, but fresh water. They’re gorgeous. We just looked at each other, and I was like, ‘If I die right now, it’s the best way to die. Having fun, and being surrounded by this glorious nature, and with someone you love.’

To complete my degree in Early Childhood Education, and probably become a licensed teacher in the future.

3SALANIUS NELLUM, ST. PAUL Finally realizing that I needed help as far as drugs and alcohol. I checked myself into a treatment center October 4th, 2015. Crack cocaine and alcohol. I have a 23-year old and a 20-year old, and my daughter who goes to St. Kate’s found out. So I knew I had to make some adjustments when she found out. It’s weird to be sober. I think a lot clearer. I make better decisions than I’ve ever made in my life. It’s a big change, and the change I’m really making is for myself. I wanna live better, I wanna be happy. I’m not lying, I’m not stealing, I’m not engaging in compulsive behavior. And it’s weird. Glaros: What’s your technique for maintaining your sobriety? I go to the library. I do a lot of reading. I’m doing a lot of things that I used to do, that I didn’t do when I was using. So I’ve changed my whole routine. Meditation works really well for me. I color now, too. I went to Barnes & Noble, and here’s people at a table coloring, and I’m like, ‘Really?’ So I picked up a coloring book, and that helps, it just calms you down. Coloring, and the library, and groups, I go to a lot of meetings. It’s all about staying busy. Lotta times if I’m not busy, I find things to do that I’m not supposed to be doing, or I find myself somewhere where I don’t belong. It’s a big change. You have to change a lot of aspects in your life to stay sober, and that’s what I’m doing.

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Community Viewpoints / By Adit Kalra & Jayson Oswald

WISE BUSINESS INVESTMENTS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY

ecently we sat down at 612Brew in northeast Minneapolis with Minnesota State Sen. Kari Dziedzic to share our story about the positive economic impact of energy conservation in our businesses. In 2007, Minnesota’s Next Generation Energy Act established energy-saving goals through the Conservation Improvement Program (CIP) for electric and gas utilities, overseen by the Department of Commerce. Driven by utility company rebates and incentives that pay for themselves, CIP encourages utilities to promote energy efficiency technologies, help homes and businesses cut energy costs, and reduce harmful emissions while conserving resources. Each CIP strategy aims to strengthen our state’s economy and energy security. But during Minnesota’s last legislative session, an ill-informed bill was introduced to eliminate the CIP framework while weakening other clean energy policies. Had it succeeded, the repeal would have dismantled the most successful energy policy in our state history. Thanks in large part to strong opposition by Minnesotans who recognize CIP’s benefits, the bill’s clean energy rollbacks were not ultimately enacted — but the threat remains. We’re spreading the word about CIP

because we’ve seen its value firsthand, through the One-Stop Efficiency Shop — one of Minnesota’s many CIP-related programs. “One-Stop” is a full-service lighting program that partners with energy contractors like Landmark Electric to help small businesses throughout Xcel Energy’s Minnesota service territory with lighting needs assessments, efficiency recommendations, financing, and guidance toward making improvements. Thanks to CIP rebates and incentives through the One-Stop program since 2001, Senate District 60 alone has invested about $6.7 million in energy efficiency projects. The district’s One-Stop business clients have received over $2.3 million in one-time rebates plus almost $1.6 million in annual cost savings. Local energy contractors like Landmark Electric have earned over 3,508 related workdays. And, while saving energy we didn’t need to generate, we also cut 12,216 megatons of carbon annually — akin to pulling 2,036 cars off our roads. Within the district, 612Brew has its own good story to tell. When the brewhouse and taproom upgraded to energy-efficient lighting, the improvements were implemented by locally owned and operated Landmark Electric and subsidized through CIP-related rebates and incentives. Because

of efficiencies we put in place, 612Brew now saves over $1,000 in energy spending every year. And boosted by rebates from Xcel Energy amounting to nearly $2,300, energy savings quickly covered the cost of upgrades. Businesses work hard to invest wisely because every penny has to count. And when you invest in saving energy, you earn much more than a one-time return on your investment. Through the hard work and expertise of Minnesota’s energy contractors, businesses save tens of thousands of dollars every year after they improve their energy use — money they can reinvest in staffing, customer engagement, and services, much smarter channels for limited resources. The 2015 legislative session made clear that Minnesotans either need to protect CIP or risk losing it. With other pressing issues demanding legislators’ attention, we can’t afford for them to waste time debating about an outstanding program with decades of clear successes. The simple reality about energy efficiency: • It’s a major electric system resource, providing about 14 percent of the state’s energy system resources. • It’s cost-effective, with minimal expense to implement and quick paybacks, saving Minnesota households more than $6 billion dollars since 1995. • It employs nearly 10,000 Minnesotans at more than 445 businesses like Landmark Electric throughout the state. • It cuts carbon while preserving productivity. Through energy efficiency measures implemented because of CIP, the state’s utility customers will avoid almost 100 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. The math isn’t hard. As the state’s energy needs grow, we can either buy more (8 cents per kilowatt-hour), or save more (1.5 cents per kilowatt-hour). Plus the latest data indi-

Energy waste is like a leaky pipe — fix more leaks, stop more waste. cate CIP generates about four dollars in benefits for every dollar invested. CIP opens doors to new technologies in lighting, appliances, heating, ventilation, insulation, architecture, and other strategies to help businesses save energy and money. And while strengthening our economy, it also serves as a powerful mechanism to improve our public health and environment. Energy waste is like a leaky pipe — fix more leaks, stop more waste. District 60’s successes through the One-Stop program represent one local chapter in a statewide story of CIP in action. Savings and wages earned by energy contractors like the team at Landmark Electric offer local proof of CIP’s successes. And the pathways to achieve such successes would disappear without the rebates and incentives enabled through CIP. So we offer our personal experiences to help legislators better understand how CIP benefits local energy consumers and contractors, as well as electric utilities and our economy. To keep CIP safe, businesses statewide would do well to join us and inform your own district’s policymakers about the valuable role the Conservation Improvement Program plays in your own lives and livelihoods.

Adit Kalra is president and co-founder of 612Brew. Jayson Oswald is president of Landmark Electric.

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Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival The Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF) is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year with events from April 7-23 and a takeover of the Uptown Theater. This year’s festival features more than 200 featurelength films, documentaries and more from over 60 countries. Among them is “Remember,” which casts Oscar winners Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau to tell the story of a 90-year-old man living out his finals years. There’ll also be a discussion with an evolutionary biologist following a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic “The Birds.”

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Where: Various venues When: April 7-23 Cost: $13, $7 for students and children under 12, passes available Info: mspfilm.org

By Eric Best / ebest@journalmpls.com

Dog Day at the California Building It turns out the dog days aren’t quite over. The California Building is hosting its own dog-friendly day with an open studio event. The Northeast Minneapolis artist building will have 25 studios open for pups and their owners to wander through, check out local art and meet the artists. Project Pet Rescue, an animal rescue service, will be bringing adoptable dogs to play with and local dog businesses Bone Adventure and Ollu Dog Wash will have booths. There will also be swag bags for attendees with products from local Northeast Minneapolis businesses. Where: California Building, 2205 California St. NE When: Saturday April 9 from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: Free Info: californiabuilding.com

High Wheels!

Community Connections Conference The Community Connections Conference gets neighbors, community leaders and elected officials together to think big about the future of Minneapolis. The conference, with this year’s theme of Big Ideas: Your Minneapolis, has three tracks. First, Your City, will kick off the planning process for Minneapolis 2040, the next 20-year guide for the development of the city. Your Neighborhood allows residents and neighborhood officials to offer their voice to the next 20 years of the Community Participation Program. Lastly, Your Voice focuses on how residents can engage with city leaders and learn how to joins City of Minneapolis boards and commissions. Where: Minneapolis Convention Center, 1301 2nd Ave. S. When: Saturday, April 2 from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: Free, lunch provided Info: minneapolismn.gov/ncr/CommunityConnectionsConference

“High Wheels!,” the Hennepin History Museum’s latest exhibition, focuses on the high wheel bikes that were all the craze when cycling rose to prominence in Minneapolis back in the 19th century. During the time, the city had its first cycling clubs and Minneapolis became nationally known for six-day racing. The towering bikes, seemingly impossible to ride, would later play a pivotal role in developing the bike that are now ubiquitous on the city’s streets today. There will be a free opening reception on Thursday, March 31 from 5-8 p.m. Where: Hennepin History Museum, 2303 3rd Ave. When: March 29 through June 26 Cost: $5, $3 for seniors and students Info: hennepinhistory.org

The King of Skid Row “The King of Skid Row” tells the story of a different Minneapolis. The skid row detailed in the book belongs to John Bacich, otherwise known as Johnny Rex, a former bar and hotel owner in Minneapolis’ Gateway District, who documented his clients and the gritty neighborhood through photos and film in the 1960s. Author James Eli Shiffer will give a talk and sign copies of the book at Mill City Museum, which will also host the “Skid Row Minneapolis” exhibit featuring some of the photos. Shiffer, a journalist and editor at the Star Tribune, brings the story to life based on based on hours of interviews before Bacich’s death in 2012. Where: Mill City Museum, 704 S. 2nd St. When: Thursday, April 7 at 7 p.m. Cost: Free Info: upress.umn.edu

Macro Machines The latest exhibition at the recently located Gamut Gallery, “Macro Machines,” features the work of Minneapolis-based artist Russ White. Through pencil drawings, sculptural installations and photographs, White reflects on childhood stresses and assumption with at once funny and political effect. The large-scale works, a play on the tiny Micro Machine toys of White’s childhood, stand in for larger social institutions like the military, policy and the school system. The exhibition will have an opening reception on April 2 from 7-11 p.m. and a finale on April 23 from 7-10 p.m. with performances from Genre Beast and Ghost Army ($10 entry, $15 with a CD). Where: Gamut Gallery, 717 10th St. S. When: April 2-23 Cost: Free Info: gamutgallery.mpls.com

Theater of Public Policy

Modern Vaudeville

Policy inspired improv comedy show The Theater of Public Policy kicks off its new season with Lt. Governor Tina Smith on April 4. The show, one part political conversation and one part seat-of-thepants comedy, will also feature former Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak (May 9), Reps. Pat Garofalo and Frank Hornstein (May 23), and Ward 6 Council Member Abdi Warsame (May 2), among others, as guests this season. Described as if “C-SPAN were suddenly swarmed by the cast of ‘SNL,’” The Theater of Public Policy will tackle controversial topics like gentrification, building oil pipelines and more this season.

Midwest Emmy-winning comedian and magician David Harris is hosting a variety show of elite Twin Cities performers, from dancers and musicians to magicians and comedians. David Harris (a different David Harris) juggles everything from sheets of paper to shovels and combines it with acrobatics for comedic results. Minneapolis-based musician Hannah von der Hoff will perform her visceral combination of jazz, blues, R&B and roots. Comedian Tommy Thompson, a finalist in the World Series of Comedy in 2010, brings high-energy comedy that will leave you laughing non-stop.

Where: Bryant Lake Bowl, 810 W. Lake St. When: Mondays in April and May Cost: $10 in advance, $12 at door Info: t2p2.net

Where: Bryant Lake Bowl, 810 W. Lake St. When: Saturday, April 9 at 10 p.m. Cost: $8 in advance, $10 day of show Info: bryantlakebowl.com

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Weekend Tourist / By Linda Koutsky

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he original Arts and Crafts Movement of the mid-1800s through the early 1900s was fueled by the machine age. Factories could produce more items less expensively because of advances in technology. But many people didn’t like the uniform, mass-produced products and retaliated by making things by hand. People made tiles, furniture, jewelry, stained glass, books, textiles and household products with glazed pottery, hammered metals, carved wood, and leathercraft. The movement was less of a visual style than a philosophy; natural materials and motifs from nature were prevalent. William Morris, the movement’s figurehead, was known for creating

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elaborately intricate designs with interlocking vines and leaves and flowers. He designed wallpaper patterns and fabrics for Liberty of London that are both highly collectible and still being produced today. The Arts and Crafts Movement spread around the world. Minneapolis became a hotbed thanks to the Handicraft Building where many students, future art teachers, and even Grant Wood took classes. The building still remains at 89 10th St. S., but unfortunately, is soon to be reconfigured in a development project. We’re in a new Arts and Crafts era today. The DIY and Makers movements are alive and well in Minneapolis. You can hardly go through the weekend without hearing about an art show or a new makers’ space. Fine craftsmanship, high quality materials and a human touch are valued again today. While computers have been increasingly integrated into all aspects of our lives, making things by hand has proliferated. Many stores have a local products section but at Minnesota Makers (1526 E. 46th St.) everything is made here. Owners Christa and Jay Kalk opened the store in May 2015. Christa makes beaded earrings and neck-

Make a 360-degree turn in this packed store and see hundreds of Made-in-Minnesota products. Photo by Linda Koutsky laces and sterling silver jewelry. Look for her birthstone of the month display. Jay cuts Lake Superior agates into the shape of the state of Minnesota for pendants. They are the most clever agate jewelry I’ve ever seen! Beautiful lines and sparkling quartz radiate out from the centers. They really show the beauty of nature. In addition to their own prolific work, the store carries handmade items by more than 60 other artisans: turned wood bowls, wool caps, fabric handbags, scented candles, silkscreen prints, pottery, woven baskets,

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