Public Functionary

NEXT WEEKEND! PF’s biggest event of the year, and we want you there.

Tickets are free with registration; contribute if you can. Come as you are.

The Function is an offering of celebration to our community, we have so much in store for the day!

Beyond an incredibly curated music line-up for the day, PF Studios Artists & Guests will be setting up an art market from 3p-7pm. We’ve got double dutch, games, art installations, kite flying, food trucks, and more.

Register via link in bio.

The Function 2026: Block Party
Saturday, June 13: 3pm - 10pm
Northrup King Building
1500 Jackson St NE, Minneapolis

This Cultural Districts Arts Fund activation is funded, in part, by the City of Minneapolis Arts& Cultural Affairs Department.

Cinema Red programming in collaboration with Cinefilmu continues this Saturday!

Visit the exhibition (open 2pm-6pm) then head to the PF upstairs gallery for the event.

Together We LIght the Future
by Mama Papaya
Saturday, May 30th 6:30 pm
Public Functionary 
1500 Jackson St NE, 247
Minneapolis, MN
•FREE• 
RSVP in bio

An intentional gathering for BIPOC filmmakers and our community to connect, play, and collectively dream of our futures in film and beyond. The gathering includes interactive experiences, gifts, dinner, and opportunities to meet each other with care and co-create our community values.

Mama Papaya will announce the productions supported by MP happening this summer and welcome this year’s cohort of StorySeeds fellows will share the stories for their upcoming screenplays.

We hope attendees leave feeling connected, nourished, and inspired to build futures together.

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LINE UP ANNOUNCEMENT!

Kick off the summer with us and an amazing lineup of artists on June 13th from 3-10 p.m. Music. Food. Games. Art.

Line Up:
MMYYKK (live)
M. Ada Jamison (live)
Papa Mbye (live)
Alexis Rose (DJ)
Awa Mally aka The Mayor (DJ)
Fanaka Nation (Host)
Lenora Magee (Host)
Rondo Double Dutch (Performance and workshop)

The Function “Block Party”
June 13th 3p-10p
Free with Registration!
Register at publicfunctionary.org / or link in bio

This Cultural Districts Arts Fund activation is funded, in part, by the City of Minneapolis Arts & Cultural Affairs Department.

!!! 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.

Dance and stay warm with us this coming Friday night at Public Functionary! ‘How Does it Feel?’ is a 2000s R&B inspired dance party, hosted by Fanaka Nation with DJs MXKENNA and Advance.

MXKENNA comes from a long lineage of DJs that have been sharing music with the Twin Cities community for decades. MXKENNA embodies the music, if you have had a chance to catch a MXKENNA set you know that dancing is a non-negotiable.

ADVANCE is one of the most versatile DJs in the cities, with an uncanny knack for knowing what to play next, even though it may not be what you expected.  Advance also produces and hosts events, check out Love Remedies later this month.

FANAKA NATION is a self proclaimed  “culture rapper” whose music blends East African rhythms with the Minneapolis Sound. Fanaka brings an undeniable energy to the stage.

Tickets are sliding scale starting at $5.
Pay what you can. All proceeds continue to support PF programming in 2026.

Tell your friends

Ticket link in PF’s bio

Friday Dec. 19th 8p-12a
Public Functionary
1500 Jackson St NE Mpls

Gallery views. Silent Fox’s “My Flowers Died so I’ll Bury Them and Plant New Ones” closes out the PF 2025 exhibition season.

Congrats to .studio on the presentation of their newest body of work!

It’s been a successful 6-week run of the 2025 PF Studios Annual Exhibition: Venus Reincarnated.

We appreciate all the visitors to the gallery, the conversations, and reflective time spent with on work by 22 artists in the PF Studios program.

Thank you to Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa for her intentionality and care in working with the artists and offering such thoughtful material to explore.

Participating Artists:

Mohamed Abdalla, Alexandra Beaumont, Katelyn Clemons, Raye Cordes, Philipo Dyauli, Jelani Ellis, Essence Enwere, Grover Hogan, Leeya Rose Jackson, Ashley Koudou, Elyse Lodermeier, Nafyar, Thea Lauren Pineda, BakiBakiBaki Porter, Asha Rowland, Godfree (Free) Spain, Whitney Terrill, Genie Hien Tran, Luca Trujillo, Margaret Vergara, Ivonne Yanez.

Behind the scenes! Credits:

PF Studios Team: Leslie Barlow, Maiya Lea Hartman, Silent Fox
Production Curator: Sati Varghese Mac
PF Team/Install: Tricia Heuring, Mike Bishop, Mica Grimm, Kenichi Thomas
Design & Social: Patricio De Lara & Mariah Hanson
Photos by: Rik Sferra

You’re invited to a year-end celebration at PF!

“How Does it Feel?” is a nod to the artistic legacy of D’Angelo, and we’ve asked two of the best DJ’s in Minneapolis to embody the sound of that era for the night.

Dance parties have always been an important part of PF culture, and it’s been too long since we’ve thrown a proper one. So, in the reflective spirit of the year’s end, and all that lies ahead, we invite our community of artists and dreamers to a sexy shindig at PF.

Tickets are sliding scale starting at: $5.
Pay what you can. All proceeds continue to support PF programming in 2026.

Ticket link in stories. Tell your friends

Artist Talk with Silent Fox

Saturday, Dec 6 at 4PM
PF Upstairs Gallery #247

A closing-day conversation with Silent Fox, moderated by Tricia Heuring. Come spend time with the work and hear from the artist before the exhibition comes down.

Silent Fox is sitting down with us for an artist talk on My flowers died; so I’ll bury them and plant new ones.

We’ll gather in gallery #247 to talk about the stories, grief, & renewal woven through this body of work — and the process behind creating a space for reflection, inheritance, and imagining what we plant next.
studio is a Minnesota-based visual artist, designer, and muralist whose community-rooted practice explores reflection, healing, and the emotional landscapes we inherit. Their debut solo exhibition, My flowers died; so I’ll bury them and plant new ones, uses painting, print, and virtual reality to examine how grief and learned patterns move through families like roots underground—asking what we keep watering, and what we choose to plant anew.

Artist Talk with Silent Fox: Saturday, Dec 6 at 4PM
Location: 1500 Jackson St NE #144, Minneapolis, MN 55413

Don’t forget: both Silent Fox’s My flowers died; so I’ll bury them and plant new ones and PF Studios’ Venus Reincarnated are closing this weekend.

Final Week Gallery Hours:
Thursday 1–5PM
Friday 1–5PM
Saturday 1–5PM