!!! The Function is now sliding scale, starting at $0. Pay what you can. Come as you are.
We built THE FUNCTION to celebrate our artists and community, and to help sustain the work we do together year after year. But we kept feeling a tension: all the effort, all the excitement... and a ticket price standing in the way.
So we’re changing it. We believe the joy and the celebration belong to everyone. Public Functionary is committed to throwing a good party for all of us.
Gratitude to the Cultural Districts Arts Fund, administered by the City of Minneapolis Arts & Cultural Affairs Department, for making this shift possible.
More details/line-up coming soon.
We can’t wait to see you there. June 13.
RSVP via link in bio.
Join us for a special edition of Open Screen: Film featuring 3 talented local filmmakers.
Open Screen: Film
Thursday, May 21. 6pm.
PF Studio 247
Free
Spanning genre, style, and stories, Ajuawak Kapashesit, Martín Blanco, and Uzoma Ngwu all have deep experience and insight into filmmaking, from ideation to distribution.
The filmmakers will share work samples, present their process, and connect with the audience through an open community conversation facilitated by Ryan Stopera.
ajuawak
@uzotheartist@martin_a_blanco@ryan_stopera
Link in bio for RSVP
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This Cultural Districts Arts Fund activation is funded, in part, by the City of Minneapolis Arts& Cultural Affairs Department.
NEXT WEEKEND! ART-A-WHIRL IS UPON US!
During the weekend-long art and music festival, find your way to PF's hub in the Northrup King Building.
Collage Party in our upstairs gallery -- a community activity (supplies, music, and artists sharing their stories). Make art, meet new people, and support the PF STUDIOS program through a donation. Family-friendly and open to everyone.
In the main gallery, see CINEMA RED. Cafe pop-ups include BLNCD and PaperBoy.
Collage Party (Studio 247)
BLNCD Lounge & Paperboy (Studio 144)
Cinema Red On View (Studio 144)
PF Studios Open! (400, 471, 306, 285)
Open Screen returns this Thursday, May 7, 6pm-9:30pm.
This event brings together Minnesota photographers to share works in progress and speak about the process behind them. Throughout the evening, artists will show their work and talk through the research, testing, revisions, false starts, and decisions that helped shape it.
The evening will span a wide range of projects, all still in motion, and offers a chance to experience photography as something unfolding rather than fixed.
Come through if you’re a photographer, if you love photography, or if you’re curious about what goes into a project before it feels finished.
RSVP in bio.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
bearBOI, @bearboiphoto
Bhavana Goparaju, @bhavanagoparaju
Collin Mathiason, @collingarymathiason
Dade Mann, @dade_mann
Daniel Acevedo, @danielacevedove
Graciela DeAnda, @gracieladeanda23
Jessica Holleque, @jessicaholleque
Maxwell Mateikis, @getcrunchy
Natalia Salinas, @cowboy__4__cowboy
Nick Luevano, @nickluevano
Nicole Neri, @nicolehneri
Patricia Mutebi, @sanyu.archives
Ranran Hu, @ranran_hu_art
Sawyer Brice, @_soyr
Hosted by Drew Arrieta, @itsdrw
Cinema Red opens this Saturday, May 2nd 5pm-9pm!
Join us in celebrating the opening of a collaborative moving image installation by Wasima Farah and Tiff Tran.
The opening reception kicks off a month-long run of the installation, which will also feature programs by the artists and collectives that organize Open Screen and Cinefilmu.
Full Details via link in bio.
@vvsima@decayingcorpsepose@yayatornado_h.264@cinefilmu_fest@ryan_stopera@itsdrw@tdm5collective@cinefilmufest@mamapapaya.film
This Cultural Districts Arts Fund activation is funded, in part, by the City of Minneapolis Arts & Cultural Affairs Department.
Meet: Tiff Tran!
CINEMA RED opens next Saturday, May 2, with an opening reception from 6pm-9pm. The artists will be in attendance.
Through archived films, light, and spatial design, Cinema Red invites audiences to move through red as a symbol of love and resistance through whimsy + memory.
The exhibition takes color as both a sensorial experience and a conceptual anchor between the work of Wasima Farah and Tiff Tran. Cinema Red asks: Where do we locate ourselves within the primary color, red?
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This Cultural Districts Arts Fund activation is funded, in part, by the City of Minneapolis Arts& Cultural Affairs Department.
Meet: Wasima Farah!
CINEMA RED opens next Saturday, May 2, with an opening reception from 6pm-9pm. The artists will be in attendance.
This program responds to community conversations about the challenges of entering exhibition contexts for moving-image artists, and the emergence of new forms of presentation — by platforming artists who are navigating, or hope to navigate, these overlapping worlds.
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This Cultural Districts Arts Fund activation is funded, in part, by the City of Minneapolis Arts& Cultural Affairs Department.
Cinema Red
Wasima Farah & Tiff Tran
Curated by YAYASAGA
May 2 - June 6
Through archived films, light, and spatial design, Cinema Red invites audiences to move through red as a symbol of love and resistance by way of whimsy + memory. The exhibition takes color as both a sensorial experience and a conceptual anchor between the work of Wasima Farah and Tiff Tran.
Cinema Red is presented by Public Functionary, in partnership with the artists and collectives behind CineFilmu and Open Screen.
During the run of the Cinema Red, a series of gatherings center emerging QTBIPOC, immigrant, and underrepresented voices in film and photography.
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 2. 5pm - 9pm.
PF Main Gallery
PROGRAM SCHEDULE (link in bio for full details):
Open Screen: Photography: May 7
Open Screen: Film: May 21
Gathering with Mamá Papaya: May 30
Workshop with TDM5: June 5
This Cultural Districts Arts Fund activation is funded, in part, by the City of Minneapolis Arts & Cultural Affairs Department.
Public Functionary is pleased to share a preview of upcoming collaborations and presentations for 2026!
We look forward to finding inspiration, truth, and grounding through art in the year ahead.
@body_prayers_practice@dejajoelle@pfstudios.mpls
Public Functionary is pleased to share a preview of upcoming collaborations and presentations for 2026!
We look forward to finding inspiration, truth, and grounding through art in the year ahead.
@pfstudios.mpls@thriftshoptv
