Coffee Sketch at Como Park Cafesjian's Carousel (9/24) and Awesome October Events!

Hello, Urban Sketchers Twin Cities!

We are looking forward to some great sketching events these next weeks into October. Here's our lineup:

1. Coffee Sketch at Como Park Cafesjian's Carousel, St. Paul

When: Tuesday, September 24th, 10am-12noon.

Co-host and sketcher Jef Inge is organizing this event. Jef is also a volunteer operator for this venue. It opens to the public for rides at 11:00 a.m. Jef has offered free rides at 10:45 am. for the sketchers. Bring your own coffee. If weather is poor, we’ll move the sketch out to the Como Conservatory. See you Tuesday!🎠🎠🎠. To read about the history of his carousel, click here

2. October Sketch Meet at Franconia Sculpture Park and Heart of the Beast Puppets.

When: Saturday, October 19th, 12:45-3:15pm. (Throw-down is 3pm)

Where:  29836 Saint Croix Trl, Shafer, MN 55074-9743

MEET-UP LOCATION: White Gazebo to the left of main parking lot. It is in front of the white house, opposite of gallery building.
-Sketchers welcome to stay for full event 1:00-6:00p.m.
-We are invited to Franconia Sculpture Park for a day of sketching at the October Event: Big Puppets! Big Sculptures! Activities throughout the park! (see link here)
-Franconia has invited Heart of the Beast Theater Company (HOBT) and puppeteers to animate a variety of large-scale puppets to interact with their large-scale sculptures. As well as live dance, music and Halloween hayrides. There should be some wonderfully fun sketch opportunities with these large characters.
-This event will be free to the public, with a suggested donation of $10 per vehicle. Food trucks will sell food and beverages on site.

About Franconia Sculpture Park--
Franconia Sculpture Park is the pre-eminent, artist-centered sculpture park in the Midwest. Founded in 1996, Franconia provides physically and intellectually wide-open spaces that inspire new ways of thinking through access to contemporary sculpture, installation, and land art. Located in the scenic St. Croix River Valley of Minnesota, Franconia operates a 50-acre outdoor museum, active artist residency program, and a depth and breadth of community arts programming for a diverse and engaged public.
 
 
3. "Sketching Penang and Racine" With Kar-Keat Chong
When: Saturday, October 26th, 2-4pm
Save the Date! Don't miss a fun afternoon with Kar-Keat Chong as he re-caps the August AsiaLink sketch symposium in Penang, Malaysia, and Sketch Racine event in Wisconsin. Through Kar-Keat's beautiful sketches, stories, and tips, see how he shares these towns, one drawing at a time.
Where: TBD. You can help us! If attending, please indicate you are "going" by emailing here and then we'll find a location in the metro area based on # of attendees. 

 
4. Metrosketchers At Lakewood Cemetery's Fall Colors Celebration
When: Sunday, October 20th, 12-3pm.
Where:  3600 Hennepin Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55408 
Urban Sketchers Twin Cities has been invited to join our friends at Metrosketchers at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis to sketch at the Fall Colors Celebration! This Fall Colors Celebration open-house style event is free and open to all!
No registration is required. Learn more on Facebook here and join us!

OTHER NEWS...
We enjoyed a fun afternoon sketching at the Milwaukee Avenue Historic District in Minneapolis on September 15th. It was great to see everyone there!



 





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