Give to the Max '23: Help JXTA unlock a $50k gift!

PLEASE MAKE A GIFT DIRECTLY TO JXTA! CLICK HERE TO DONATE. 

Help us UNLOCK an anonymous $50,000 gift! We need to hit our goal with a 50%+ majority of first-time JXTA donors to get an additional $50,000!

How YOU can help: 

• If you've never donated to JXTA, welcome and thank you. We need your help in particular, as the additional 50K won't be UNLOCKED without you! Any size donation will do. 
• If you've previously donated to JXTA, we encourage you to invite a friend or colleague to "match" your own gift, so we stay 50% majority of NEW donors which will help us UNLOCK the additional $50k. Your impact is so very valuable - with your $100 gift - and a friend's - you have the potential to TRIPLE your donation. 

Let's imagine bigger, dig our heels in deeper, and shape a future that fosters and invests in our most valuable assets: the creative thinkers and changemakers of the future.

Raising this money will ensure the sustainability and resilience of the only Black-owned and operated, youth-focused art and design organization in North Minneapolis. It will help us continue to provide top-notch art and design education and employment for young people for many generations to come.

Our youth are the future. Your support directly contributes to their development at Juxtaposition Arts, so they can work towards their goals.

JXTA is the future. A hub for art, design, equity, social justice, and economics in motion. Our model is built on continual evolution and regeneration: sustainability means change. 

Project Highlight: The Community Table at Bde Maka Ska

Client: Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board

Team: Fabrication by Concrete Pig

Services: Design and Fabrication

Year: 2023

Project Summary:

The pavilion at the north end of Bde Maka Ska is an iconic Minneapolis location. After the pavilion burned down in 2019, the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board hired JXTA to design custom outdoor furniture for the rebuilt pavilion.

The Parks Board asked for a “Community Table” where people from all walks of Minneapolis life can share space. The Environmental Design studio developed over a dozen table designs, and the Parks Board ultimately chose a design by apprentice Isaiah Hunter. Isaiah’s angular, wedged-shaped table drew from the unique shape of the site and his own visual vocabulary.

JXTA hired longtime collaborator Keith Wyman of Concrete Pig custom furniture to fabricate the table and Keith hired Isaiah as his assistant. Through Keith’s instruction, Isaiah welded the table’s steel base and meticulously installed wood slats for the tabletop. They finished the table just in time for Isaiah to leave for architecture school at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Set against the lake’s edge, the table will host thousands of people every year as they take in one of Minneapolis’s best-loved spots.

(above) Apprentice Isaiah Hunter resting on table base during install 

(above) Apprentices Julian Hollins, Zavien Neal, and Harmonee Harrison enjoying the table on opening day

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