Open Book

Specialties

Did you know Open Book rents meeting rooms and the Target Performance Hall? Our creative spaces are great for your next board retreat, staff meeting, training or seminar. We offer onsite catering, convenient downtown Minneapolis location on 2 bus lines (#7 & 22) and 3 blocks from Light rail. Times and dates into the fall and winter are filling up fast. Open Book’s three founding partners are The Loft Literary Center, Milkweed Editions and Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Located at different points along the continuum of the literary arts, they engage with authors and artists to create good writing and beautiful books. Their

programs and purposes are distinctive, but they have important things in common. Each works to uplift the written word as art and to promote the expression of individual creativity. They also are passionately committed to literature as a social good, a tool for the free exchange of ideas so fundamental to democracy.

History

Established in 2000.

Open Book is a cultural and artistic center dedicated to the book. It is the first such center in the nation to serve as a gathering place that celebrates the book community and offers programs to inspire

participation in reading, writing, and book arts. Open Book opened its doors in the spring of 2000 in three renovated 100-​year-​old

buildings at the eastern edge of downtown Minneapolis. Outside, the neighborhood surges with redevelopment of the historic mills and warehouses that stretch along the Mississippi River. Inside, light suffuses open, tranquil spaces. Open Book’s strong aesthetic includes works by local visual artists and intriguing elements such as fragments of original wallpaper and a set of stairs embedded in a wall, now leading nowhere. It is imaginative space. Visitors are warmed by

the colors of original brick and floorboards, by coffee and organic foods

from the café, and over and over again by the pleasures of the book.

Meet the Manager

Joe S.

Manager

I am the building and events manager for Open Book, contact me today to book your next meeting, training or seminar at Open Book, space is very limited and fills up quickly for prime dates. Never been to Open Book? call me and I’ll give you a guided tour of our wonderful building.