The Minneapolis Institute of Arts will host its highly popular Minneapolis Print and Drawing Fair on Saturday and Sunday, April 26–27, 2008, in the museum's Target Wing Reception Hall. This year's fair includes ten prominent dealers from across the United States offering a wide selection of museum-quality prints, drawings, watercolors, pastels, monotypes, and artist's books for sale.

The exhibition Trisha Brown: So That the Audience Does Not Know Whether I Have Stopped Dancing, the centerpiece of a spectrum of programs honoring the 40-year career of this contemporary dance icon, will be on view at the Walker Art Center April 18–July 20. Providing an in-depth look at the visual arts practice of an artist recognized primarily for her work in dance and opera, the exhibition anchors the Year of Trisha festivities.

Families are invited to celebrate suburbia at the Walker Art Center's Free First Saturday event Escape to the Suburbs! from 10 am–3 pm Saturday, April 5, in conjunction with the exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes (through August 17).

"Picturing History: Paintings and Studies of Art, Artifacts, and Architecture from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts" and "Found Voice, Solo Museum": Two new Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP) exhibitions explore the museum experience at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) this spring, running through May 25. This double presentation is the work of artists who use the museum as their medium.

With 26 world premieres in the last decade, the 2008-2009 season continues The Children's Theatre Company's commitment to developing new work that educates, challenges and inspires young people. CTC announces its 43rd season, including four world premieres and two critically-acclaimed international productions.

Inspired by "Thracian Wedding" a 1960's dance production and film created by Philip Koutev, renowned composer, conductor and director of Bulgaria's Koutev Ensemble, "First Love" recalls village life through beautiful staging, dazzling costumes, and a juicy story line—something new to Ethnic Dance Theatre (EDT) performances, on April 18, at 8pm and April 20, at 2pm.

Legendary Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel gives his final performances with the Minnesota Orchestra on March 6 and 7 in concerts conducted by Music Director Osmo Vanska. Brendel, who will play Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto, has announced plans to stop performing at the end of 2008, after six decades of presenting live concerts and recitals.

The Minnesota Orchestra, led by Music Director Osmo Vanska, concludes its third season of "Close-to-Home" concerts in Mahtomedi, Minnesota, on Sunday, March 9, with a preview of highlights from the Orchestra's 2008-09 season.

The Minnesota Orchestra reengages 23-year-old St. Paul pianist Andrew Staupe for four concerts featuring Russian and American music from the 19th and 20th centuries. Associate Conductor Mischa Santora leads the program, which includes Staupe's solo turn in Rachmaninoff's First Piano Concerto, Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony and blue cathedral by contemporary composer Jennifer Higdon.

The Walker Art Center, Northrop Dance Season, and the University of Minnesota Dance Program honor the work of Trisha Brown (b.1936), one of the founding innovators of postmodern dance, with an exhibition of her drawings and performance pieces; presentations of several early site-specific performance works; and an evening of dance.

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) presents selections from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's (SAAM) master set of prints by artist Sean Scully. The Prints of Sean Scully features more than sixty-five works given by the artist to SAAM in 2001 and new works acquired since the original gift.

During March, the Walker Art Center presents Women with Vision 2008: Past/Present, the 15th installment of this renowned film festival that annually celebrates the work of women directors, filmmakers, and artists. Sheryl Mousley, the Walker's film/video curator, often finds thematic threads connecting the films she selects.