After school programs for youth at Minneapolis Public Schools locations
Promoting families healthy growth and development through education, support and community building.
Minneapolis Kids provides year-round, fee-based, school-age childcare for families with youth enrolled in High Five/Minneapolis Kids Jr through 5th grade during the school year (entering grades K-7 during the summer).
Teen Parent Services is dedicated to keeping teen parents on the track to graduation by providing them with parenting education and supports while providing high-quality early childhood education services to their children.
Adult Enrichment Academics
Adult Enrichment Health, Wellness & Safety
Adult Enrichment Writing
Adult Enrichment Yoga & Mind-Body Practices
Adult Aquatics
See the best of our Minneapolis outdoor athletic facilities as we offer summer sports camps for youth. Young athletes will get a taste of a high school field experience. Don’t miss it as it comes through your neighborhood.
Spend quality time with your child learning and playing together. Parent discussion will examine topics through the lens of fatherhood. Explore the joys and challenges of being a dad.
An opportunity to provide a culturally and linguistically specific ECFE experience to families from Afghanistan.
An opportunity to provide a culturally and linguistically specific ECFE experience to families from India.
Here's your chance to spend some uninterrupted time together participating in toddler-friendly activities that support growth and development.
Join us at the Gamut Gallery for the newly-opened solo show by Brooke Bartholomew. Brooke will be with us at the gallery to meet us and present an Artist Talk. Talk will begin around 6:15.
Brooke's solo show will be up in the gallery September 12 - October 4.
Gamut Gallery is proud to present Emergence, a solo exhibition of new figurative oil paintings by Minneapolis-based artist, registered nurse, and community organizer Brooke Bartholomew. In this series, Bartholomew constructs a visceral allegory of liberation: hands burst through the cracks of a concrete prison, dismantling its oppressive architecture piece by piece. The crumbling walls stand as a metaphor for capitalism, fascism, and ecological destruction forces that feel immovable until collective struggle chips away at their foundation.
The paintings capture the tension between entrapment and freedom. Some works show only hands, multiplying as they tear through concrete, pull others upward, or press against a dam holding back the river. Others reveal cropped or full nude figures raw and vulnerable emerging into light and air. While the series begins in darkness, its arc is one of resilience and rebirth. New roots push into the fractured stone; seeds of mutual aid and solidarity sprout where once there was only ruin.
At its heart, Emergence is a story of collective power: the act of breaking free not as an individual triumph, but as a shared uprising. Bartholomew reminds us that liberation is not only possible, it is already underway quietly, insistently, in the cracks beneath our feet.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Brooke Bartholomew (b. Houston, TX) is a figurative oil painter whose work merges a classical approach to the human form with urgent socio political commentary. A pediatric cardiac ICU nurse for nearly a decade, Bartholomew’s perspective as both healer and community organizer permeates her practice. She earned her BS in Nursing from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 2015 and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the Academy of Art University in 2023.
Her work has been exhibited in Minneapolis, Chicago, and New Orleans, engaging themes of ecological collapse, patriarchy, and systems of violence. In her own words: “If my anger at these injustices is expressed in the marks of paint on canvas, then my enduring hope is the brush which sets them in place. I believe change will happen, if only we act and lean on one another in solidarity.”
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Brooke Bartholomew
