Lowertown.info—After a two-year break during the pandemic, Saint Paul’s Saint Patrick’s Day parade is set to return on Thursday, March 17th, 2022. This year’s route is reversed, with the parade beginning at Rice Park at noon and proceeding down East Fifth Street to finish at Mears Park in Lowertown, with the day’s celebrations concluding at CHS Field, home of the minor baseball team, the Saint Paul Saints.
By Nigel Parry, Downtown St. Paul Voice—When COVID-19 forced the cancellation of the Spring Art Crawl, the St. Paul Art Collective—the hard-working, mostly volunteer-run organization that has produced the Capital City’s art crawls since 1977—immediately began exploring new options to assist artists in promoting their work. Now that the in-person Fall Art Crawl is not happening either, the Collective and others are ramping up their efforts to help local artists, who need more help now than ever.
By Nigel Parry, Downtown St. Paul Voice—When Lisa Mathieson moved to Lowertown a dozen years ago, she quickly became involved in the arts community and has since made her presence known. She has served as a community arts organizer and St. Paul Art Crawl liaison for the Tilsner Artists’ Cooperative, a board member of the St. Paul Art Collective, and co-organizer of the Lowertown Drawing Circle, now approaching the end of its first decade of weekly Sunday meetings.
As vice president of community partnerships and customer service for the St. Paul Saints, Annie Huidekoper’s crowning achievement was helping to get Lowertown’s gorgeous CHS Field built. These days, she’s a volunteer and free agent. From Visit Saint Paul. (3:23 mins)
Nigel Parry, Downtown St. Paul Voice—St. Paul native Rachel Wacker is a figure artist who exhibits under the name Dolan Cyr. After receiving a bachelor of arts in studio art from the University of Notre Dame in 1999 she wasted no time establishing a studio practice and has spent the last 18 years developing an extensive resume as both a curator and community art facilitator. She has lived in Lowertown for the last seven years, first in the 262 Building and today in the Northern Warehouse Artist Cooperative.
