Along the Rum River in Anoka, a brick building decorated with art stands. It houses the Rumriver Art Center, which provides creative workshops, gallery spaces, studio spaces, community events and more.
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Opening: This is Minnesota’s Legacy: A look at the organizations and people who have benefitted from Minnesota’s unique Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment
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Amira Warren-Yearby: If you’re planning your next road trip, you may not have to travel far…
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Makliyn Koep: it's really beautiful to have people come out and experience something new.
Warren-Yearby: That’s Mak Koep, Executive Director of the Rum River Art Center in Anoka, Minnesota, 2 hours south of Duluth and 25 miles north of the Twin Cities.
Koep: We have about 6,000 square feet of whimsical spaces…there’s so many nooks and crannies
Warren-Yearby: Mak says their community art workshops have become a tradition for many families.
Koep: there was an older mother and daughter that continuously came. There is also a group of cousins that I got to know. They kind of made it a little traveling adventure for their cousins to try to go to each one of our classes.
Warren-Yearby: Each class is taught by a teaching artist hosted at different libraries in the Anoka County and Great River Regional Library systems.
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Koep: And we really push the process over the product.
Warren-Yearby: Funding from the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund Keeps these art activities free and accessible to Minnesotans across the Metro.
Koep: I just want people to get messy every once in a while.
Warren-Yearby: Find more information at Rum River Art dot com.
Closing: Minnesota’s Legacy is a production of AMPERS, with support from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, more at ampers dot org.