The Drum&Easel Art Intensive:

A 5 day gathering to encourage impacting culture through creativity and validating the expression of individuals and communities. Worship/Teaching gatherings, artist spotlights, roundtables, and time to hangout/interact. The week will conclude with the 6th annual Fallout Art Fest hosted in the most diverse neighborhood in the countery and featuring over 100 artist/performers, 4 stages, and over 1,500 attenders.

Tues-Fri: morning worship/teachings, lunchtime artist spotlights, afternoon creative workshops. Each evening will host a concert/creative gathering to include:
- Drum&Easel shelter interactive art party, concert:
- Tracy Howe – Restoration Project,
- Linnea Spranzy – Visual Artist,
- Film Makers Roundtable, and -
Indie Film Fest.

: Fallout Art Fest (7/19): An interactive neighborhood artistic block party. Each year we block off the streets in front of the Fallout UAC and the FAI Coop to make room for 2,000 attendees, 100 artist and performers, 4 stages, artist booths, interactive art stations, indy film fest, community murals, kids activities, free food, and one incredible lala-palooza worship circle dancing drum jam.

Workshops will include: Visual arts, music/performance, film making, worship and art, art as vocation, interactive/public art, facilitating a coop/urban art center, and more TBA.

You will see and experience the Fallout Urban Art Center and FAI Coop first hand. During the week there will also be opportunity to participate on individual and group art projects as we will be prepping for the Fallout Art Fest at the end of the week.

The Fallout Arts Initiative (FAI) is part of Source. It’s purposes are to 1) resource and equip emerging artist and 2) facilitate creative services that will benefit the poor. The FAI was conceived out a heart to combine creativity, justice, mission, and hospitality. It also allows Source to build relationships and community with the art culture (which is typically highly skeptical of any Christian initiative). Minneapolis has the world’s most theatres per capita and if a very liberal and artistic city. The Fallout Urban Art Center (Gallery, warehouse performance space, prayer room) and the FAI Coop Building (23 different visual and performing studios) is located across the street from the Art Institute/MCAD/Children’s Theatre.

registration: SourceMn@juno.com Cost: $150 if need lodging for whole week ($35/day) – Scholarships available

Speakers, featured artist, special guests:

Tracy Howe, visionary and lead artist of the group, was born in Boulder, CO and now live in a small mountain town called Woodland Park, CO. She loves backpacking and Colorado winters. She was classically trained on the piano and started composing music and writing stories by the age of 12. Her favorite authors are Thomas Merton, Tolkein, Lewis, Nouwen, and Madeleine L’Engle. She listens to all sorts of music and seeks out interesting indie artists. She has a Great Dane. She taught herself Portuguese. She likes espresso. After graduating from Colorado College in 2000, having studied comparative religion and music composition, she spent a year traveling with a missions org through the Southwest United States, Peru and Bolivia. She led worship in churches, schools, prisons, and stayed in over 250 host homes, from San Diego, CA, to indegenous Quechua villages in the Andes Mountains. Since then her dreams of seeing people, communities and nations restored and reconciled to a loving Creator and Father have only grown. She believes that relationship is the primary catalyst for restoration and justice.

Linnea Spransy

Linnea Spransy has been drawing for as long as she could hold a pencil. Her childhood was spent in a Christian common-purse community of 75 members in Oregon. Continuing to draw and paint, she eventually found herself in art school where she earned a Bachelors in Drawing from MIAD. In time, she moved east and earned yet another degree, this time, a Masters from Yale in Painting. As an adult, Linnea still elects to live a shared life. From New Haven she moved to Madison in order to study God and live in community. In rough proportion the years devoted to the study of art, she spent four years in Madison, first as a student, than as staff. In an unanticipated turn of events, she move to Kansas City to help pioneer the establishment of the first US Boiler Room, a community connected with 24-7 Prayer and formated around the principals of Justice, Hospitality, Learning, Prayer, Creativity, and Mission. Occupying a vast loft space in downtown KC, the Boiler Room is the perfect environment for Linnea's studio. She paints constantly and shows occasionally. Over the last few years she has had shows in China and New York, in museums, in living rooms, and the Fallout Urban Art Center.