Saint Paul Art Crawl

In 1991, the St. Paul Art Collective decided to coordinate a multiple building, open studio event, and the Saint Paul Art Crawl was born. The five buildings that participated in the first Saint Paul Art Crawl in the fall of 1992 were the JAX, 262 Studios, Lowertown Lofts Artist Cooperative, the Tilsner Artists’ Cooperative, and the Northern Warehouse Artists’ Cooperative. The Saint Paul Art Collective has been hosting the Art Crawl ever since, with the number of participating artists now exceeding 400 and the number of visitors averaging around 38,000 for each semi-annual, three-day event. The Spring 2016 Art Crawl boasted twenty nine participating buildings, with locations not only in Lowertown but throughout St. Paul in buildings along University and Grand Avenues as well as in South Como, the East side and West 7th neighborhoods.