The Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio will hold a grand opening open house and sale Saturday, Dec. 5, from noon to 6 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 6, from noon to 5 p.m. Music and spoken word performances will be featured on Sunday afternoon at the studio at 3745 Minnehaha Ave. S.
Levins Morales is well known in the U.S. labor movement and among veteran as well as young activists. His clients include unions, poor people’s organizations, musicians, non-profits religious, educational and activist groups, state agencies and groups representing a great diversity of communities. In his new workspace he will carry on the tradition of community and political art that was the hallmark of the now defunct Northland Poster Collective, of which he was a founding member.
RLM Arts, as the studio is known, shares its facility with River City Buttons, a union button maker, in a building owned by IUE-CWA Local 1140. The open house also celebrates the launch of his Internet store, rlmarts.com, which will distribute the artist’s posters and note cards.
“I don’t recognize a separation between my art and my activism,” says Levins Morales. “I have always drawn what was important to me. When I was a child it was chickens and pirates. Today it is about justice and dignity.”
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The Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio will hold a grand opening open house and sale Saturday, Dec. 5, from noon to 6 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 6, from noon to 5 p.m. Music and spoken word performances will be featured on Sunday afternoon at the studio at 3745 Minnehaha Ave. S.
Levins Morales is well known in the U.S. labor movement and among veteran as well as young activists. His clients include unions, poor people’s organizations, musicians, non-profits religious, educational and activist groups, state agencies and groups representing a great diversity of communities. In his new workspace he will carry on the tradition of community and political art that was the hallmark of the now defunct Northland Poster Collective, of which he was a founding member.
RLM Arts, as the studio is known, shares its facility with River City Buttons, a union button maker, in a building owned by IUE-CWA Local 1140. The open house also celebrates the launch of his Internet store, rlmarts.com, which will distribute the artist’s posters and note cards.
“I don’t recognize a separation between my art and my activism,” says Levins Morales. “I have always drawn what was important to me. When I was a child it was chickens and pirates. Today it is about justice and dignity.”