//Intermedia Arts is a catalyst that builds understanding among people through art.//
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//Intermedia Arts is a catalyst that builds understanding among people through art.//
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ArtCar Parade: History | |
| ArtCars and ArtCar parades are an evolving art form that began in Houston, Texas. This growing mobile art movement spans from Seattle to Minnesota. The Minneapolis ArtCar Parade, now in its 11th year, is a highly successful annual parade in South Minneapolis organized by a grassroots affiliation of artists who creatively alter cars and other wheeled vehicles for display and everyday use. ArtCars—often humorous, sometimes surprising and always inventive—spark a creative impulse. The ArtCar Parade helps bring people together to create, participate and enjoy as a community. It has become a phenomenon in the Twin Cities and beyond. An ArtCar arouses interest and inspires imagination in people of all ages and backgrounds.
For six years, the ArtCar Parade was a partner in the Lyn-Lake Street Fair. Though the Street Fair was discontinued in 2001, community interest in the ArtCar Parade remained extremely strong and organizers sought another venue for the event. In 2001-2003, Intermedia Arts presented the annual Greenway Parade of Arts in collaboration with Midtown Community Works. This cultural festival, held on the Midtown Greenway, aimed to acquaint the community with the Greenway and celebrate the creative and cultural diversity of neighborhoods adjacent to it. Intermedia Arts, The Midtown Greenway Coalition, and Midtown Community Works invited the ArtCar Parade-with its popularity and history-to become the centerpiece of its event by running the annual ArtCar Parade parallel to the Greenway, along Lake Street. The result was an extraordinary success, with more than 10,000 parade spectators and festival participants. In 2002 and 2003, this collaboration grew, drawing 15,000 spectators as well as ArtCar artists from across the country. The project has expanded in the last three years to include public ArtCar workshops, at which the community is invited to help construct ArtCars, The Cabaret on Wheels, and a pre-parade celebration hosted by Intermedia Arts. The ArtCar Parade features more than 80 wildly decorated cars, bikes, scooters, wheelchairs, and other vehicles. The parade winds through South Minneapolis, passes through the intersection of Lake and Lyndale, and ends at Intermedia Arts. The Art Cars are parked at Salem Church at 28th and Lyndale for public viewing following the parade, allowing parade spectators to view cars up close and interact with the artists. |
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