Wakpa Triennial Art Festival

Overview

Multi-site Art Festival open to the public throughout the TC Metro

Public Art Saint Paul (PASP) and its organizational partners will present the inaugural Wakpa Triennial Art Festival in the Twin Cities. Newly commissioned artworks by more than 30 Minnesota artists, coupled with public programs and tours featuring additional artists, writers, performers, and cultural commentators, will lead viewers to places they may not have known before or will see anew through the eyes of artists. The Wakpa Triennial will offer opportunities for friends and families to experience and to learn more about people, place, neighborhood, land, water, plants, and how these are related.

This multi-site, dispersed exhibition of public space projects and gallery-based installations represents an unprecedented opportunity for Minnesota artists to take center stage, with the majority of artwork created by artists of color living in the Twin Cities. Explore festival locations around the Twin Cities, from downtown St. Paul to downtown Minneapolis, neighborhoods on Lake Street and Franklin Avenue, University Avenue and East 7th Street, and along the Mississippi River itself. Triennial art sites provide a network of connections to place and people, a webbed pathway that invites audiences to build mutuality with artists, history, land, culture, and each other.