Lowertown Lofts Artist Cooperative is planning to participate during the Lowertown Arts District weekend of the Saint Paul Art Crawl, October 1-3, 2021. Our events will be held indoors at our building following government, medical, and CDC guidelines, and will be organized to ensure the safety of our visitors and our member artists.

Due to the nature of the pandemic, these plans may be subject to change without notice. Keep watching this listing for updates.

Art Crawl Hours at LLAC

Friday, October 1, 5-10pm
Saturday, October 2, 10am-8pm
Sunday, October 3, 10am-5pm

Participating Artists

Third Floor Atrium

Ta-coumba T. Aiken - Paintings

Emma Fitzsimmons & Mariusz Kujawski, with Marc Jaros - Dance & Music Performance (Sat, Oct 2, 5pm and Sun, Oct 3, 1pm)

Marla Gamble - Paintings & Jewelry

Jacqueline Gran - Drawings & Sculptures

April Hanson and Marc Jaros - Singing Performance (Sat, Oct 2, 3pm)

Tim Jennen - Freeze Frame Drawings

Mags Scanlon - Paintings

Matt Vinge - Solo Classical & Freestyle Guitar (Fri & Sat, Oct 2 & 3,12n each day, 20-minute set)

Fourth Floor

Jen Bednarski & Daniel Asfour - Paintings

Liz Carlson & Dan Tomczak - Food Painting/Still Life & Artisan Hot Sauce by Studio 406 Provisions

Ben Krywosz - Stations of the Heart at Nautilus Music-Theater

Justin Terlecki - Paintings & Prints

Fifth Floor

Serena Mira Asta - Prints & Gilded Stones

Gina Dabrowski - Photographs

Wendy Fernstrum - Books & Prints

Mariusz Kujawski - Paintings

Joe Krumpelmann - Paintings & Stained Glass

Gaylord Schanilac - Prints

Tara Tieso - Paintings

Heidi Wagner - Wood Arts

For more information about the Saint Paul Art Crawl, which celebrates 30 years in 2021, and all the artists and events happening across the city from September through December, visit the official website organized by the Saint Paul Art Collective.

LLAC member/owner Patrick Clancy made this Virtual Tour of our Building for the Saint Paul Virtual Art Crawl, April 24-26, 2020. Even though you can’t visit us in person during this pandemic, you can see that our members have kept our spirit alive, filling our building with recent art. Enjoy!

Take the Tour!

More about Clancy

Even though the weekend of the Saint Paul Virtual Art Crawl is over, you can still watch ALL the interviews and special features on our Blog page, forever!

Thank you, everyone, who participated and all who viewed our Facebook interviews and special posts!

You’re invited! Lowertown Lofts Artist Cooperative is opening its virtual doors to the public during the Saint Paul Virtual Art Crawl. See the distinct art – created in a wide variety of media – that the LLAC artists have been working on while sheltering in place. We’ll be live-streaming and posting updates regularly throughout the three days. 

For more than 30 years artists have been working and living in these studios, responding to life’s challenges by making art. In fact, the co-op itself began in response to a difficult situation: lack of affordable studios. Urban redevelopment had forced over 100 artist out of their downtown studios after bringing vitality to an otherwise moribund area. 

Art sustains. Help sustain artists by engaging with our work and, if you’re able, making a purchase. 

All online events during our virtual Art Crawl will be announced on this Events page and all events, videos and special features will be posted as available on our Blog page, so you can watch them whenever you want. You can also visit each of our resident artists’ pages on this site to see more work and learn more about them.

This special online event is in coordination with the Saint Paul Virtual Art Crawl.

Watch Videos and Special Features

Co-op member/owner Justin Terlecki’s colorful depictions of everyday life take the viewer on an intimate tour of the ordinary. Pulling from quiet observation, public spectacle and human relationships, Terlecki’s scenes range from local celebrations and family dynamics to snapshots of the city. As the artist explains, “Travel and my immediate surrounding inspire me to explore the atmosphere and mood of specific places in time. I enjoy the process of building immersive compositions with details of everyday life using the perspective of multiple vantage points and the combination of both the real and the imagined.”