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801 Washington Lofts presents art openings three times a year. The three-story atrium and public space is a gallery to local and national artists.

04/17/2026

Join us for the 801 Gallery Artist Talk
Sunday, April 19th, 2026 2pm-4pm

Featuring the TOGS Quilt Artists
Mary Brady, Mickey Coppage, Susan Eaton, Bev Everson, Marcy Huggins, Iris Karow, Margret Olson, Sarah Olson, Sarah Parker, Lia Peterson, Julie Rainey and Jane Wlazlo

Come to meet the artists and enjoy complimentary wine, beverages and chocolate.

Location: 801 Washington Avenue North in the North Loop Neighborhood in Minneapolis, MN

Exhibition extended through May 16th, 2026

TOGS Quilt group began in 2008, with the goal of being a group of quilters and friends who wanted to enjoy and improve their quilting skills. They meet monthly to discuss and support each other on projects. Many quilts can take a month, and some more than a year to complete.

Fifty-five wonderful quilts were created for the show at 801 Gallery in the 801 Washington Lofts. Some of the styles of quilts you will see are Round Robin, Row by Row, Medallion, One Block Wonders, Block Exchanges, Farmer’s Wife, a variety of 1800’s reproduction quilts, and "mom’s quilts' made by two sisters as a tribute to their mother.

They are featuring twelve quilts made to support Avivo Village, an indoor community of 100 tiny homes that provides shelter and services to people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. The Avivo quilts on the first floor are for sale. All money raised will go entirely to Avivo Village.

Services at Avivo Village are designed with the goal of moving people into permanent housing and taking the next steps toward their well-being. Avivo Village is located at 1251 North Washington in Minneapolis. The TOGS quilt group is one of several quilting groups that make quilts for the residents to offer them comfort and warmth. The quilt is theirs to keep and take with them when they leave the Village. For more information about the Avivo Village, please go to avivomn.org.

801 Gallery is located in the North Loop Neighborhood in Downtown Minneapolis in the 801 Washington Lofts. We have been curating three art shows a year featuring local artists since 2005.

Parking:

Be sure to pay for parking on Washington Avenue North and on side streets.

North 3rd Street Parking Ramp
728 North 3rd Street Parking (behind Freehouse)

North Loop Parking
300 North 10th Avenue

Website: http://www.801washingtonlofts.org/art-at-801/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Artat801Gallery

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artat801gallery/

Gallery showings by appointment:
Contact Jan Elftmann 612-747-2313

01/02/2026

801 Gallery Art Opening Saturday, January 10th, 2026 5pm-8pm
Join us for the 801 Gallery Opening Reception
Saturday, January 10th, 2026 5pm-8pm

Featuring The TOGS Quilt Artists
Mary Brady, Mickey Coppage, Susan Eaton, Bev Everson, Marcy Huggins, Iris Karow, Margret Olson, Sarah Olson, Sarah Parker, Lia Peterson, Julie Rainey and Jane Wlazlo

Come to enjoy art, live music, and complimentary wine, beverages and chocolate.
Opening night is an opportunity for people to meet the artists and to view this wonderful show.

Acoustic Music on opening night
by Meat Raffle featuring Alex Parsons and Nate Uri

Exhibition Dates: January 10th, 2026 - April 26th 2026
Artist Talk Sunday, April 19th, 2026

Location: 801 Washington Avenue North in the North Loop Neighborhood in Minneapolis, MN

TOGS Quilt group began in 2008, with the goal of being a group of quilters and friends who wanted to enjoy and improve their quilting skills. They meet monthly to discuss and support each other on projects. Many quilts can take a month, and some more than a year to complete.

Fifty-five wonderful quilts were created for the show at 801 Gallery in the 801 Washington Lofts. Some of the styles of quilts you will see are Round Robin, Row by Row, Medallion, One Block Wonders, Block Exchanges, Farmer’s Wife, a variety of 1800’s reproduction quilts, and "mom’s quilts' made by two sisters as a tribute to their mother.

They are featuring twelve quilts made to support Avivo Village, an indoor community of 100 tiny homes that provides shelter and services to people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. The Avivo quilts on the first floor are for sale. All money raised will go entirely to Avivo Village.

Services at Avivo Village are designed with the goal of moving people into permanent housing and taking the next steps toward their well-being. Avivo Village is located at 1251 North Washington in Minneapolis. The TOGS quilt group is one of several quilting groups that make quilts for the residents to offer them comfort and warmth. The quilt is theirs to keep and take with them when they leave the Village. For more information about the Avivo Village, please go to avivomn.org.

801 Gallery is located in the North Loop Neighborhood in Downtown Minneapolis in the 801 Washington Lofts. We have been curating three art shows a year featuring local artists since 2005.

Gallery hours by appointment: [email protected]
Website: http://www.801washingtonlofts.org/art-at-801/
Instagram:

11/11/2025

Join us for the 801 Gallery Artist Talk on
Sunday, November 16th, 2025 2-4pm
Featuring Artists Mary Johnson, Mark Hirte, Ellen Thomson

801 Gallery location: 801 Washington Avenue North
in the North Loop Neighborhood in Minneapolis, MN

Come to enjoy art, live music, complimentary wine, beverages and chocolate.

Exhibition up through December 14th, 2025

Artists
Mary Johnson

Mary Johnson is a Minnesota sculptor, whose work transforms and reassembles found materials, considering their material histories and narrative potentials. Following a recent injury, she has adapted her sculptural aesthetics to painting, utilizing repurposed industrial foam as both surface and form. By investing time, labor, and personal reflection into the handling of this seemingly disposable material, she re-animates our intimate relationship with the aesthetics, natural and industrial processes, and objecthood of our culture’s cast-offs, honoring the complexities which go hand-in-hand with our consumption.

MaryJohnsonart.com

Mark Hirte

Mark makes compositions to be visually arresting. They are painted to be graphic and dynamic as they are traversed as they need to compete in our flooded visual environment. The subject matter, color, and texture can be the reflection of the floor of a well used paint booth, or the glossy flash of a fluorescent fishing lure, or an ocean pacific tshirt from his childhood, or a direct homage to a western mesa landscape. Or all of it at once.

Ellen Thomson

Ellen Thomson’s paintings draw on memory, intuition, and emotion, unfolding through layered patterns, shifting forms, and recurring imagery. Moving fluidly between the figurative and the landscape, her work resists fixed meaning and instead embraces openness and transformation. This ambiguity invites viewers to bring their own interpretations, creating a dialogue between artist and audience.

ellenart.com

09/27/2025

801 Gallery opening tonight, Saturday, September 27th from 5-8pm
Open to all!

We are a part of the North Loop Gallery Walk
801 Washington Avenue North, Minneapolis, In the North Loop

09/15/2025

Join us for the 801 Gallery Opening
Saturday, September 27th, 2025 5pm-8pm
Featuring Artists Mary Johnson, Mark Hirte, Ellen Thomson

Opening Reception is a part of the Fall North Loop Gallery Walk
(see map below)
801 Gallery location: 801 Washington Avenue North
in the North Loop Neighborhood in Minneapolis, MN

Come to enjoy art, live music, complimentary wine, beverages and chocolate.

Opening night is an opportunity for people to meet the artists, to view this wonderful show and listen to live music.

Music opening night Spirit House Quartet featuring
Gary Waryan on tablas, Dalyce Elliot Young on violin, Jeff Waryan on guitar and Michelle Kinney on cello.

Exhibition Dates: September 27th, 2025 - December 14th, 2025

Artists
Mary Johnson

Mary Johnson is a Minnesota sculptor, whose work transforms and reassembles found materials, considering their material histories and narrative potentials. Following a recent injury, she has adapted her sculptural aesthetics to painting, utilizing repurposed industrial foam as both surface and form. By investing time, labor, and personal reflection into the handling of this seemingly disposable material, she re-animates our intimate relationship with the aesthetics, natural and industrial processes, and objecthood of our culture’s cast-offs, honoring the complexities which go hand-in-hand with our consumption.

MaryJohnsonart.com

Mark Hirte

Mark makes compositions to be visually arresting. They are painted to be graphic and dynamic as they are traversed as they need to compete in our flooded visual environment. The subject matter, color, and texture can be the reflection of the floor of a well used paint booth, or the glossy flash of a fluorescent fishing lure, or an ocean pacific tshirt from his childhood, or a direct homage to a western mesa landscape. Or all of it at once.

Ellen Thomson

Ellen Thomson’s paintings draw on memory, intuition, and emotion, unfolding through layered patterns, shifting forms, and recurring imagery. Moving fluidly between the figurative and the landscape, her work resists fixed meaning and instead embraces openness and transformation. This ambiguity invites viewers to bring their own interpretations, creating a dialogue between artist and audience.

ellenart.com

Make a night of it and enjoy dinner and art!

Restaurants on Washington Avenue North near 801 Gallery is

Bar LaGrasse https://www.barlagrassa.com/

Parlor https://www.parlourbar.com/

Borough https://www.boroughmpls.com/

Freehouse Restaurant https://www.freehousempls.com/

Black Sheep Pizza https://www.blacksheeppizza.com/

801 Gallery is located in the North Loop Neighborhood in Downtown Minneapolis in the 801 Washington Lofts. We have been curating three art shows a year featuring local artists since 2005.

Website: http://www.801washingtonlofts.org/art-at-801/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Artat801Gallery

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artat801gallery/

Gallery showings by appointment:
Contact Jan Elftmann
[email protected]

Parking:

Be sure to pay for parking on Washington Avenue North and on side streets.

North 3rd Street Parking Ramp
728 North 3rd Street Parking (behind Freehouse)

North Loop Parking
300 North 10th Avenue

08/28/2025

Join us for the 801 Gallery Artist Talk
Sunday, September 7th, 2025 2:00 - 4:00pm
Featuring Artists
Roosevelt Mansfield, Nicole H. Neri, Kraig Thayer Rasmussen

The Artist Talk is an opportunity for people to meet and listen to the artists, to view this wonderful show. Come to enjoy art and complimentary wine, beverages and chocolate.

Exhibition ends September 8th, 2025

Address

801 Washington Lofts, 801 Washington Avenue North
Minneapolis, MN
55401

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	12pm - 5pm

Telephone

+16127472313

Website

http://www.801washingtonlofts.org/art-at-801/

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