Venture Bikes
Art Night
featuring The ARTCRANK Archive
Join us for a night of bikes, posters, music, food, drinks, and community at Venture Bikes Midtown. Free and all ages.
Roll with us
The evening begins with a casual group ride on the Midtown Greenway, led by the Venture Bikes crew and joined by riders from Melanin In Motion. After the ride, stay for music, food, drinks, and a large-scale outdoor projection above the shop after dark.
Group ride departs Venture Bikes Midtown
Led by the Venture Bikes crew · food vendors & doors open.
Uptown pickup · riders join
Melanin In Motion & Uptown Art Fair riders roll in.
Back at Venture Bikes Midtown
Live music · food · drinks · browse the Archive.
The Archive lights up
200 ARTCRANK posters projected onto Venture Bikes Midtown.
Event concludes
Ride home under the streetlights.
Fed by Midtown
Bites and drinks from the vendors of the Midtown Global Market, the international public market just up the block, home to the flavors of the whole neighborhood.
Irie Caribbean
Island flavors and jerk classics
Trio Plant-Based
Vegan comfort food
Culinary Heritage
Heritage recipes and home cooking
Rollin' Nolan's BBQ
Smoked and slow-cooked classics
DJ Q-Bear
Walter Banks keeps the wheels, and the crowd, spinning from the group ride's return until the last poster fades from the wall.
A night for everyone who rides
ARTCRANK events brought every kind of bike person into the same room: roadies and messengers, commuters and mountain bikers, framebuilders and advocates, families on cargo bikes, kids on their first ride.
That same spirit carries into this night, connecting the Greenway to Uptown and welcoming Melanin In Motion's riders into a celebration of bike culture that reflects the whole city. A night for people who ride, people who love art, and everyone who feels at home where the two come together.
Grab a free ticket
Come for the ride, the art, or both. Grab a free ticket on Eventbrite so we know you're coming, and roll with us on August 7.
Free & all ages · reserve your spot on Eventbrite
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The Archive finds a new home
More than 200 original, limited-edition bicycle-themed posters from past ARTCRANK shows are now installed throughout Venture Bikes Midtown, available to browse and buy. On August 7, a large-scale outdoor projection lights up the shop wall after dark to celebrate the collection's new home.
Fourteen years of bikes meeting art
From 2007 to 2021, ARTCRANK brought artists and cyclists together through poster shows celebrating bike culture, introducing thousands of people to handmade, affordable, bike-inspired prints from independent artists, illustrators, and designers across many cities.
The posters now at Venture Bikes are selected works from that history: a one-of-a-kind collection of original bike art living inside a bike shop on the Midtown Greenway. The Archive stays year-round, giving riders, collectors, artists, and neighbors a place to browse and buy.
Get in touch about partnering
A marquee summer night in front of an engaged bike-and-arts community, connecting the Greenway to Uptown. Tell us a little about your brand and we'll follow up with the ways to get involved: visibility across event materials, the outdoor projection, radio, email, and social.
A community collaboration
This night is presented by Melanin In Motion, Venture Bikes Midtown, and the Uptown Art Fair, brought together with community partners across Minneapolis.
Accessing the shop
Venture Bikes Midtown sits directly on the Midtown Greenway and isn't accessible by car. Park on 10th or 11th Avenue and walk down to the Greenway.
From 10th or 11th Ave
- Follow GPS to the 28th St / 10th Ave intersection.
- Park on 10th or 11th Avenue.
- Bike or walk down the park walkway onto the Midtown Greenway.
- Turn right on the Greenway and the main entrance is on your right.
Know before you go
- Free and all ages. Everyone's welcome.
- Bring your bike, a helmet, and lights for the ride.
- All bikes and all paces. It's a social roll, not a race.
- Come for the ride, the art, or both.
- 2834 10th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55407.