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Family Housing Fund Selects Minnetonka Campus for Home Sweet Home Exhibit
MINNETONKA, MN -- December 2003 -- Rasmussen College's Minnetonka campus is proud to host the "Home Sweet Home: An Affordable Housing Art Exhibit," created and sponsored by The Family Housing Fund. The Family Housing Fund is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to preserve and expand quality and affordable housing for families with low and moderate incomes in seven-county metropolitan area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The Fund was established in 1980 by the McKnight Foundation and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
In order to raise consciousness of the growing need for affordable housing and to celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Family Housing Fund is sponsoring "Home Sweet Home: An Affordable Housing Art Exhibit. "Through the work of 23 local artists, the art exhibit portrays a wide range of housing situations and circumstances-from the stark images of homelessness to the celebration of a family moving into its first home. The Fund also sponsored a poetry/essay contest for residents and children living in affordable housing. The winning entries are displayed throughout the exhibit as well.
This traveling exhibit will be on campus for approximately three months in addition to two special events including an introduction by Shawna Nelsen Tobechukwu on December 2, 2003 at 11:30 am and 5:30 pm and a "Lunch and Learn" during Winter Quarter which will include some featured artists.
Rasmussen College honored to be chosen as a host of the exhibit and is inviting all students, faculty, and staff to visit campus and explore this exhibit throughout the halls and classrooms of the Minnetonka Campus. If you would like more information on the exhibit, please visit www.fhfund.org. We hope this will expand the awareness and knowledge of the growing need for housing assistance and educate our students on the importance of affordable housing and the challenges some of our students face regarding this issue.
Click here to view the Visual Art Section of the Family Housing Fund's website, and see a sampling of the artwork that will be on display at Rasmussen Minnetonka.
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