Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art
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The Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art (TZCVA) is an artist cooperative located in the historic Warehouse District of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Incorporated in 1993 as a Minnesota for-profit corporation, TZCVA was established to create an artist-owned and managed building that provides stable, affordable studio, teaching and exhibition space for mid-career visual artists. TZCVA is a partnership between Artspace Projects, Inc., a Minneapolis-based non-profit real estate developer for the arts, and a cooperative of 23 artist-members.
| Moline, Milburn and Stoddard Company | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location: | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Built/Founded: | 1886 |
| Architect: | Joseph Haley |
| Architectural style(s): | Chicago school |
| Added to NRHP: | February 20, 1975 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 75000986[1] |
| Governing body: | Private |
Formally opened in 1995, TZCVA is housed in a renovated six-story Chicago style limestone warehouse located in the North Loop Neighborhood at 250 Third Avenue North, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401. Built in 1886 for the Moline, Milburn and Stoddard Company as a warehouse for storing farm machinery and implements, the Traffic Zone building is of significant historic and architectural interest and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).[2]
Members of the TZCVA cooperative have included an eclectic, international mix of painters, photographers, printmakers, conceptual artists, sculptors, book artists and ceramicists. Many are past recipients of fellowships and grants from the McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis), the Bush Foundation (Saint Paul), the Jerome Foundation (Saint Paul), the Minnesota State Arts Board (Saint Paul), and the National Endowment for the Arts (Washington, D.C.).
In addition to providing space for artist studios, TZCVA presents quarterly exhibitions of work by painters, photographers, sculptors, and mixed-media, textile and conceptual artists. Organized by co-op members and guest curators, these exhibitions are shown in the Traffic Zone Gallery, the cooperative's on-site exhibition space.
Current Traffic Zone members include Harriet Bart, Bruce Hudson, Kristie Bretzke, Perci Chester, Lisa Colwell, James Conaway, Laura Crosby, Jim Dryden, Bette Globus Goodman, Bonnie Heller, Vesna Kittelson, Paul Kwok, Susan S. McDonald, Lisa Nankivil, John Neuse, Steve Ozone, Rebecca Pavlenko, Jodi Reeb-Myers, Alexandra Rozenman, Wilber H. Schilling, Harold B. Stone, Jantje Visscher, and Kathy Wismar.
[edit] References
- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
- ^ National Register of Historic Places
[edit] External links
- Official website of Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art, Minneapolis
- National Register of Historic Places
- Artspace Projects, Inc., Minneapolis
- North Loop Neighborhood Association, Minneapolis
- Twin Cities Fine Arts Association
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