My Northeast and Yours (My Place and Yours - Online)

For all the latest on this project, check out the website for My Northeast and Yours.

For the last few years, I have been creating stop motion animated films on a big scale during Northeast Minneapolis' Art-A-Whirl weekend. I have made these films with community collaboration.

I have joined with people dropping by to make paper cut-outs and then animate them on a floor or a table. Here is the video from five years ago, a project that celebrated the first 20 years of Art-A-Whirl.

This year I was planning to do something along those lines and was lucky enough to be awarded a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant to fund my doing it. But I won't be able to create this collaborative movie as planned because of the social distancing necessary to keep COVID-19 from spreading too quickly, so I am going to do it on-line instead.

My Northeast and Yours is an animated film collaged out of photographs and drawings sent to me. During Art-A-Whirl weekend 2020, I created a large-scale stop motion animation by printing out those images and arranging them on a large tabletop. My work creating this animation was livestreamed.

Here is the movie:

https://www.facebook.com/SFAnimationStation/

Check out what we made at Art-A-Whirl 2019:

Here is what happened at Art-A-Whirl 2018:

Here is Art-A-Whirl 2016:

And here is Art-A-Whirl 2014:

John Akre is a fiscal year 2020 recipient of an Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is funded, in part, by the arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the Legacy Amendment vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.