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The Northrup King Building on Jackson Street holds hundreds of working artist studios - open studio nights let you wander through and Art-A-Whirl in May turns the whole thing into a neighborhood-wide party worth planning a trip around. Rogue Buddha Gallery runs fever-dream exhibitions on 13th Ave.
3 things to do, 3 shops, all in Northeast Minneapolis.
The art lives in old industrial bones in Northeast Minneapolis: 300-plus studios stacked inside the Northrup King seed warehouse at 14th and Central, Nicholas Harper's pop-surrealist Rogue Buddha holding down 13th Ave since 1999, and Indeed's taproom pouring Day Trippers while freight trains shake the patio.
Ten buildings on 13 acres, hemmed in by two sets of railroad tracks that once shipped seeds out from this 1917 complex. Now over 350 artists work the old warehouse floors. Come during Art Attack in fall or Open Studio Saturdays, when the galleries and boutiques open to walk-ins.
Nicholas Harper's personal vision made permanent since 1999 on 13th Ave NE, specializing in pop surrealism and the beautifully bizarre across a tin-ceilinged storefront. They also host a monthly Twin Cities Death Cafe.
Grab a Day Tripper pale ale on the sunny patio while freight trains rumble past on the adjacent tracks. Pure Nordeast in a pint glass, right in the middle of the Brew District cluster.
Northeast Minneapolis shops earn their floor space by editing hard. The Golden Pearl Vintage stages salmon-pink seashell chairs under a Deco-disco banner, Twelve Vultures keeps taxidermy and mourning jewelry on East Hennepin, and findfurnish turns over its secondhand inventory fast enough that you check it weekly or miss the good stuff.
A cabinet of curiosities on East Hennepin where taxidermied birds share shelf space with Victorian mourning jewelry and wet specimens in antique apothecary jars. The shop feels like raiding a naturalist's estate sale, but everything's for sale and the owner actually wants you to ask questions.
Secondhand furniture and homeware shop in the Northeast Arts District with a tight edit and a quick turnover. Worth checking regularly because the good pieces don't last.
Audra Frizzell calls the aesthetic "Deco disco with a nautical, yacht-rock leisure vibe," which translates to salmon-pink seashell chairs, a chandelier salvaged from a south Minneapolis Holiday Inn, and 15-foot tin ceilings in white and gold. The racks run 1920s through 1990s, mostly sourced from original owners.
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