Contact: Matt Laible, Communications Department, 612-673-2786
March 6, 2008 (MINNEAPOLIS) As part of Minneapolis’ 150th anniversary, the City is hosting Michael Birawer’s “Our City” exhibit in the City Hall rotunda at 350 S. Fifth St. The display will be available for public viewing throughout March and April.
Birawer uses a combination of graffiti, cartoon, illustration and heavy textures to depict familiar Twin Cities locations in three dimensions. Birawer's art celebrates the sense of community that these buildings and vistas create. Birawer says the memories and emotions these places evoke are part of what unifies us as "Twin Citians.” Michael attended the College of Visual Arts in Saint Paul and was born, raised and currently lives in the Twin Cities.
The exhibit is co-sponsored by the Municipal Building Commission and the City of Minneapolis as part of the City's sesquicentennial celebration. For more information about sesquicentennial events and activities, visit the Minneapolis 150 Web site at http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/150/.
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Communications Department