LAKE MINNETONKA
LAKE MINNETONKA
COMMUNITY GUIDE 2025
Color, creativity coalesce around art center
Since 1952, the Minnetonka Center for the Arts has served as a spot for the Lake Minnetonka communities to spread their artistic wings. The center carries many local artists’ work and continues to teach burgeoning and already professional artists. The Minnetonka Center for the Arts provides it all for its community members, including a space for people to simply take in beautiful art on display.
The center gives aspiring artists the ability to create works in media of all sorts, including drawing, painting, fiber arts, glass, jewelry, sculptures and photography, in the many classes they offer.
Classroom spaces are geared toward creativity and are flexible enough for independent work and collaboration for groups of artists. Big, bright and full of natural light, many in the community have been drawn to its environment.
For young artists, the center offers a Summer Arts Camp, with a robust offering of more than 100 different camps for 5-15-year-olds. All classes are three hours with half- and fullday options available. The classes introduce art media and techniques and explore a wide range of visual arts experiences.
The public is also invited to view art at the center all year long with new exhibits that are free to experience in the Laura
H. Miles Gallery. The facility is fully accessible to ensure that the visual arts are available to everyone. Original artwork by students, instructors or other area artists is also on display throughout the Minnetonka Center for the Arts, with pieces on view and for sale in the retail shop, Murphy Room, café, art wall and in the foyer.
Since 2009, the Minnetonka Center for the Arts has curated and managed Partners in Art, a program of visual art exhibits in the public spaces of Ridgedale Center in Minnetonka, seen by millions of visitors each year. With Ridgedale’ s renovation and expansion, the Partners in Art exhibit program has more than tripled in scale, substantially increasing opportunities for regional artists to display and sell their artwork.
The center is also growing. Minnetonka Center for the Arts is in the midst of solidifying a purchase agreement with Excelsior for 106 Center St., which will serve as the center’ s secondary location. Check out the center’ s online calendar to see what’ s happening, or learn more about current and upcoming exhibits. The arts center is located at 2240 North Shore Drive, Wayzata. Information: minnetonkaarts. org or 952-473-7361
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