Delphine Hirasuna, author of “Art of Gaman” along with her co-author Kit Hinrichs are speaking on “Transitions and Progressions” on Aug. 19, 2010, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. with a cocktail reception starting at 5:00 p.m. at W Minneapolis – The Foshay, 821 Marquette Avenue, downtown Minneapolis. The event will benefit BrandLab, a nonprofit established to create opportunities in the marketing industry for students with diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.

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In coordination with the first MidCity Fest, IFP Minnesota Center for Media Arts presents “China in Transition,” an exhibit by photographers Dan Dennehy and Priscilla Briggs, running August 6 through September 24, 2010 at 2446 University Ave. West, Suite 100, St. Paul, Minn.

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Chinese calligraphy artists Manzong He and College of Visual Arts President Ann Ledy in front of He’s cursive script interpretations Tung Dynasty poet Bai Gau Yi, which he donated to the CVA gallery.

By TOM LAVENTURE

AAP staff writer

ST. PAUL (July 8, 2010) – The gallery of the College of Visual Arts last month held a special exhibition from Saint Paul’s Sister City Changsha, China, including some of China’s most renowned artists – all from Hunan Province.

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Dan Dennehy, "Miao Girl"

Priscilla Briggs, “Old and New II (Wenzhou)”

In coordination with the first MidCity Fest, IFP Minnesota Center for Media Arts presents “China in Transition,” an exhibit by photographers Dan Dennehy and Priscilla Briggs, running August 6 through September 24, 2010 at 2446 University Ave. West, Suite 100, St. Paul, Minn. A free opening reception will be held Friday, August 6, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The reception will also feature a sneak preview of the short film, “Jerry Schwingle and the Happiness Well” at 6:00, 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. The film is the work of rising indie filmmaker Sarah Jean Kruchowski, winner of IFP’s Fresh Filmmaker Production Grant.

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Few cities in America are feeling the cultural changes of urban immigration as rapidly and intensely as Minnesota’s capital of St. Paul.

The Mexican, Chinese and African American community of Minnesota has been present for over a century, with Japanese and Taiwanese communities emerging in the past half century. However, it has been the past 20 years that the tapestry of St. Paul and Minneapolis has transformed from its largely Irish, German and Scandinavian feel to include a quadrupling of the Asian and Pacific Islander community, particularly the Southeast Asians, and more recently the growing immigrant Africans, Latin Americans and East Europeans.

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By David Zander

Contributing writer

MINNEAPOLIS (April 17, 2010) – Over two hundred Korean Minnesotans, friends and family members gathered to celebrate a book launch and book signing of HERE: A Visual History of Adopted Koreans in Minnesota.

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St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 12, 2010 – Few cities in America are feeling the cultural changes of urban immigration as rapidly and intensely as Minnesota’s capital of St. Paul.

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