Animal Instincts

A few months ago, at a Fitzgerald Theater appearance, poet Gary Snyder explained that he lost interest in religion as a young boy after his Sunday-school teacher told him that “non-human beings aren’t included in the drama of redemption”—a notion he found intolerable. It’s likely that Gary Bastian, Georgia Mrazkova, Ray Rolfe, Carol Strait, Allison Stout, and Dan Toomey feel similarly; in fact, they’ve invited all creatures great and small to attend the closing party for their Animal Instincts exhibition on July 9. Creatures of all kinds, as long as they have acceptable social skills, will mingle among contemporary paintings of cats, dogs, ferrets, roosters, and the other animals that people connect with on a daily basis. 1010 Park Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612-338-3435; www.outsidersandothers.org